Oh, bullshit. I'm sure it's exhilarating to push the +1 Insightful moderation, but I live in an actual police state. If I went to city hall with a group of people waving signs, we'd have the People's Armed Police up in our grill faster than you can say "Jiminy Cricket". I just cringe when Americans make idiot statements like yours.

You mean.. like this?

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0407-06.htm http://brainz.org/30-cases-extreme-police-brutality-and-blatant-misconduct/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbfA5q0QaNI http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwN-t3A_044 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxRcvHqbIZc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkBdOaR871o http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vW36qt1SbE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeYg0qCn11U http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwkVMT6m7zg

The list goes on and on and on and I don't have all damned night to educate you (assuming you're capable of learning). Maybe next time you should keep your ignorant mouth shut. When it comes to America have no clue what you're talking about.

It's growing more and more apparent every day. It's a shame that when we start doing something about it we'll be completely unarmed, defenseless, and powerless.

And judging by your post we immediately know you've never surfed the web with a single core PC side by side with a dual core PC. (See... browsers have these things called threads, yea, threads... that's what we call 'em. And when they run on separate CPUs that make web page go faster.)

My frustration is generally with how my Garmin always tries to route me directly through downtown Seattle whenever I want to go to the Northern part of the city (such as the Toyota dealership on 8th Ave). It'll do this during rush hour ignoring a much faster route of zipping up Boren Ave, which has far less waiting on traffic lights. Trip time for veering off into downtown can be 15 to 30 minutes depending on time of day. The Boren Ave route can be 10 to 15 minutes. The Garmin seems to weight city blocks inaccurately for calculating true trip time.

After the start date, maybe. Before, no. Do you really think successful logins would go unnoticed on pre-launch servers? The servers will be idle and the back-end administration tools will have all sorts of dashboard reports showing metrics so sooner or later some admin would notice. Also, if their admins have half a brain they would merely block external connections at the firewall until launch day.

When philosophy was brought up my first thought was imagining a bearded guy kicking back in a chair philosophizing and chatting all day. It's not a subject one associates with cranking out code and getting things done. I can imagine how it would be a negative on the resume.

Not to mention that setting up a single node LAMP system is bonehead simple given the ease of Linux installation and package management these days. Any boob can set that up on an old desktop lying around.

And, if it's a home system there's not likely to be any code on the box that would be interesting to a recruiting developer. If it's a corporate system, then it would be highly unprofessional and illegal to provide that kind of access.

designing a fail-back plan for a BOP failure is like designing a plan for what to do if North America suddenly sank into the ocean

How about we start with forcing BP to comply with their own safety procedures and maybe US federal regulations too, which are intended to prevent failures in the first place.

Even with recent/modern creative endeavors, the question is stupid. If you're creating a work of (art, music, or similar) just for the money, that creation is almost guaranteed to suck. See also the products of Britney Spears (...remember her? no worries if you don't), "Lady Gaga", or whatever manufactured 'star' of the moment you care to name

Lady Gaga does it all for the money? You've got to be the biggest blistering idiot I've seen on slashdot. She went to NYU, performed in burlesque shows, and writes the songs she performs--not to mention she came from humble beginnings. And for Britney Spears, she has averaged 1 album every 2 years so she is definitely not "forgotten". You don't know anything about the stars you've mentioned and you don't know anything about the performance art of Lady Gaga. You're just another jackass blathering on about how much he hates a certain genre of music. It's very easy throw out bullshit and get a crowd of idiots to agree with you as you've so wonderfully demonstrated. Well, I'm here to tell you that you're an ignorant buffoon and you don't know anything about the artists you've listed. Maybe you should mind your own business and listen to whatever it is you listen to--probably a chest full of 8-track's of the Bee Gees, Chicago, and Styx.

Also one more thing. EVERYONE DOES IT FOR THE MONEY. If you're going to hold artists to the money standard, then I want to see you go to work and refuse to accept your paycheck. Go ahead. DO IT. Stop being a hypocrite.

Creative--yet fraudulent--financial or tax accounting are federal crimes punishable by jail time (ala Enron, Bernie Madoff, Michael Milken, Kenneth Lay, Jim Bakker, John Gotti, Al Capone). I don't understand why Hollywood gets a free pass, particularly when the corporate shell games are so obvious.

First, your post was a not a troll. Second, that $2k could go into advertising or ISP costs for a year (assuming a low volume website) or Adobe Creative Suite. I mention Adobe only because the OSS alternatives don't compare. If they did, that'd be another great way to save $1k. Throwing $2k around here and there would cripple most 1 man startups particularly when you're trying to create something from nothing. A whole lotta people are starting from nothing these days.

A long time ago I was working on a simple CGI to output a table on a test intranet site. I had a hard to see typo in the code which prevented the right data in the cells from showing up, so after getting royally pissed off I used "Fuck You" to substitute as fake data. The table read "Fuck you, Fuck you, Fuck you, .." for a few dozen or so rows. Later that day my project manager walks in a very serious and somber mood. He was concerned about what I was working on because the VP of sales called him and mentioned he saw a page with nothing but Fuck Yous. I was stymied because this was a pre-prod test site (it used a copy of production data) and no one but a developer should be touching it. Apparently, months ago the VP had been given a peak at a new feature in development and got a link to the test site. He bookmarked it and had been using that for months for running his reports. He had long wondered why the site seemed so flakey and buggy because sometimes it would fail to load or emit some file not found error (presumably because a developer was fiddling with it). When my manager and I met up with the VP, we were expecting a royal chewing out. Chuckling, the VP said although the Fuck Yous were funny, he really needed to see that data. I just gave him the production URL he should be using and had him remove the old bookmark.

According to the video he bought them at the store so they were neither recycled nor reused.

I'd prefer to keep our battery containers free of bsod, drm, genuine advantage, malware, IE, and office ribbons. Thank you very much.

...flooding the market? There are already too many lousy candidates calling themselves Software Engineer after reading "Programming for Dummies".