Comment Hold on while I reboot my browser (Score 1) 116
> reboot the software
*eye twitch*
*eye twitch*
Comment 360 degrees of obsolescence (Score 5, Informative) 216
Mint has now come full circle: It was originally rolled up when Ubuntu stopped distributing codecs, now it has a codec free version. In other words, it's a distro based on a distro based on a distro that no longer has a purpose. Contribute upstream.
Submission + - SAP to buy Ariba for $4.5B - Meanwhile, Lego Thief (ap.org)
ourlovecanlastforeve writes: In an astounding coincidence today two stories broke about SAP with their $4.5 billion purchase of Ariba and news that their sticky-fingered VP software engineer Langenbach, who has been with the company since 1988, was arrested recently in a Lego barcode scam.
Comment War - it's baked right in! (Score 1) 212
It's funny how the US thinks they're going to waltz in and shut down a conflict that has been going on for as long as people have lived.
Really all they're doing is stroking the clitoris of conflict.
You can't stop conflict in a culture where misogyny and racism are limbic functions.
Comment just cut my arms and legs off (Score 1) 515
Promotes efficiency in the same way that cutting out someone's tongue would prevent them from eating too much ice cream.
Submission + - Ask Slashdot: When Will Our (US) Own Needs be More Important than Afghanistan's? (ap.org)
ourlovecanlastforeve writes: "AP reports that NATO's big players have settled on a leisurely date of 2014 to stop killing our children, "affirming they will close the largely stalemated conflict at the end of 2014 but keep their troops fighting and dying there for two more years in the meantime." So my question is, at what point does it become important to stop throwing human lives and trillions of dollars at Afghanistan's problems when we can't afford to pay our own bills? Where is the altruism in this proceeding; why are we really wasting all these resources, when there are plenty of other nations that would be grateful for our aide that we could easily throw just as much money we don't have at?"
Comment Bringing sweat shops to California (Score 1) 295
Another angle on this opportunity that we may not be addressing is the working conditions at Amazon fulfillment centers.
Workers in Amazon's fulfillment centers often complain that they are "held to unreasonable metrics" and that they are "worked to death and then fired."
Employees are required to work through burning heat and freezing cold with hand held computers constantly nagging them that they're moving too slow. They have to run from pick job to pick job all day long.
One report claimed that:
"So many ambulances responded to medical assistance calls at the warehouse during a heat wave in May...that the retailer paid Cetronia Ambulance Corps to have paramedics and ambulances stationed outside the warehouse during several days of excess heat over the summer. About 15 people were taken to hospitals, while 20 or 30 more were treated right there, the ambulance chief told The Call."
There are numerous blogs and news stories on the matter, I'll share just a few.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2017901782_amazonwarehouse04.html
http://heizerrenderom.wordpress.com/2012/04/06/om-in-the-news-amazon-warehouse-jobs-push-workers-to-the-limit/
http://www.ohioworkerscompattorneys.com/2012/04/amazon-warehouse-employees-instructed-to-misreport-work-injuries.shtml
Workers in Amazon's fulfillment centers often complain that they are "held to unreasonable metrics" and that they are "worked to death and then fired."
Employees are required to work through burning heat and freezing cold with hand held computers constantly nagging them that they're moving too slow. They have to run from pick job to pick job all day long.
One report claimed that:
"So many ambulances responded to medical assistance calls at the warehouse during a heat wave in May...that the retailer paid Cetronia Ambulance Corps to have paramedics and ambulances stationed outside the warehouse during several days of excess heat over the summer. About 15 people were taken to hospitals, while 20 or 30 more were treated right there, the ambulance chief told The Call."
There are numerous blogs and news stories on the matter, I'll share just a few.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2017901782_amazonwarehouse04.html
http://heizerrenderom.wordpress.com/2012/04/06/om-in-the-news-amazon-warehouse-jobs-push-workers-to-the-limit/
http://www.ohioworkerscompattorneys.com/2012/04/amazon-warehouse-employees-instructed-to-misreport-work-injuries.shtml
Comment That should be a given (Score 1) 1
That a web 2.0 company is coming out to the press as supporting Do Not Track indicates that they are an outlyer and that you should be suspicious of everyone else. Facbook, Google I'm talking about you.
Submission + - Jaguar and Land Rover to be built in China (autoblog.com)
ourlovecanlastforeve writes: "Those of you still hanging on to Jaguar and Land Rover as the last vestiges of the truly British automobile in the States may find yourselves grasping at straws as Chery announces a nearly two billion dollar joint effort with the auto brand to move production to Changsu in China."
Submission + - How NASA and SpaceX get along together (npr.org)
mblase writes: SpaceX and NASA have been working hard to make this weekend's launch happen--and that has meant navigating the cultural differences between this small, young startup and the huge veteran space agency. The relationship involves daily calls and emails between people who live in two different worlds: age versus youth, bureaucracy versus a flat startup-like structure, and a sense of caution versus a desire to move forward quickly. But they both have an almost religious belief in the need for humans to venture forth into space, a geeky love for rockets, technical know-how--plus, they both need each other to succeed.
Comment Re:TokyoFlash (Score 1) 466
They're only beautiful for a few seconds after you push a button.
The rest of the time they're hideous lumps of plastic or metal.
Comment It is inversely proportional (Score 1) 466
I have noticed that the smarter someone is the simpler their watch is.
The most brilliant minds I know in Silicon Valley have cheap Cassio or Timex watches.
When I ask them why they say "it's a watch, it tells time."
Comment Re:Mandriva Directory Server (Score 1) 88
> I modified libuser myself to enumerate LDAP accounts.
Please submit a patch.
Please submit a patch.
Comment TL;DR (Score 1) 88
"This costs too much, here you do it."
Comment Guess we can't compete with child slave labor (Score 1) 345
We can't offer lower prices on a superior product because our laborers have frivolous things like "health care" and "vacations" and "eight hour work days."
