Comment Re:WTF == nothing but a stupid comment???? (Score 1) 82
Me too. Tried it in Chrome, Firefox and IE. Nothing.
Comment Re:editorialize much? (Score 1) 1277
"from the only-two-of-three-wives-agree dept" is also not cool. There are some polygamists around somewhere I hear but I've never seen one and I've lived in Utah for 20 years. And Utah doesn't have a monopoly on them - they are also found in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Canada, Montana, South Dakota... Zero members of the LDS church are polygamists because it's against church doctrine and has been for over a century. Further, only 60% of Utahns are reportedly LDS of which who knows what percent are active church goers. Yeah the state legislature are a bunch of nut jobs but with the most national parks of any state (7) and the greatest snow on Earth, there's a lot to like about Utah.
Comment Re:These are people who still believe Joseph Smith (Score 2) 1277
Luke 4:17-20
And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and, as his custom was, he went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up for to read. And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written,The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,To preach the acceptable year of the Lord. And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down.
Submission + - What do you do while you're compiling at work? (poll-whatdoyoudowhileyourecompilingatwork)
unjedai writes: Poll: What do you do while you're compiling at work?
a. Write more code
b. Work on non-programming tasks
c. Check email
d. Check Facebook
e. Read Slashdot
f. Surf the web
g. Play games
h. Look at porn
i. I never compile while at work
j. Nothing — humans aren't meant for multitasking
a. Write more code
b. Work on non-programming tasks
c. Check email
d. Check Facebook
e. Read Slashdot
f. Surf the web
g. Play games
h. Look at porn
i. I never compile while at work
j. Nothing — humans aren't meant for multitasking
Comment Re:Sh (Score 2) 429
I see you've invoked the dual powers of slashdot-shame-on-you and I-dare-you-to-mod-down, a virtually undefeatable combination. Well played.
Comment Inconceivable!!! (Score 1, Troll) 78
What?!!! A Slashdot summary was wrong? A sensationalist headline was wrong? No one did any fact checking?!!!! Inconceivable!
This is why Slashdot (News for Nerds) is "news" like Fox News is "news" - it's not. There's no journalistic ethics applied. It's entertainment and maybe occasionally informational.
Submission + - Man Records TSA Ejection After Refusing Body Scan (signonsandiego.com) 3
bonch writes: A man refusing a full-body scan and 'groin check' was ejected from the San Diego International Airport by the TSA as he recorded the incident with a cell phone sitting on his luggage. John Tyner, who posted his account of events along with the video on his blog, refused to pass through a full-body scanner, citing privacy and health concerns. Tyner was escorted to a security area for a patdown but, after hearing a description of the procedure, told the agent, 'You touch my junk and I'm going to have you arrested.' This led to a series of encounters with supervisors as well as a visit from a local police officer. Tyner was told that he was not being detained against his will, but that if he left the area, he would be hit with a civil suit and a $10,000 fine. He walked out the airport anyway, posting his account two hours later. The new TSA procedures have generated criticism from both passengers and airline crew, and one activist has proposed a National Opt-Out Day.
Comment Re:so much for being open (Score 3, Informative) 415
That is, "correct your damned English."
Comment Re:Clueless (Score 1) 549
By reading this comment you agree by contract to pay me $1,000,000.
New York To Spend $27.5 Million Uncapitalizing Street Signs 322
250,000 street signs in New York City feature street names in capital letters only, which is not the national standard. Having no other issues on the table, The New York City Department of Transportation has decided to fix the problem and put up proper signs featuring both capital and lower-case letters at a cost of $27.5 million. The Transportation Department hopes to have the job completed by 2018 with 11,000 of the most important improperly capitaled signs fixed by the end of the year. Catastrophe averted.
Comment Don't forget 1984 and Animal Farm (Score 5, Insightful) 437
With a paper book, no one is going to take it from you unless you get mugged, and then, what kind of mugger takes your books? Maybe I'll start spending money on ebooks when I'm guaranteed they're really mine. But that will never happen.
Comment Re:Cane toads (Score 1) 343
From the Wikipedia article
Insects are mostly sterilized with radiation
What could possibly go wrong?
Stand-Alone Antivirus Software? 159
An anonymous reader writes "I work for a company that repairs specialty devices that have an embedded Mini-ATX motherboard without a CD-ROM drive and run Windows XP Home. And while the USB flash drives we insert into them have a physical write-protect tab, we still encounter a (rather annoying) display dialog from malware/viruses to remove the write-protect so the malware can infect the flash drive. We don't remove the write-protect, obviously, but would like to offer our customers the option of removing the malware/virus without having to install any software. We would rather not install/uninstall antivirus software even for one-time use, due to various licensing issues, nor do we want to connect to the Internet to use web-based online scanners. Is there any stand-alone anti-virus/anti-malware software for Windows that can be run directly from the write-protected flash drive itself?"
Comment Re:Yeah - but does the reasoning make sense? (Score 2, Insightful) 691
but the question still remains. Does his ruling make sense?
No, the question is, is the moratorium illegal. Not, does it make sense economically, or, is it fair, or, is it logical. Those are not the questions the judge should be deciding. Judges rule on what the law is, so I ask, what law did Obama break when he initiated the moratorium?
Comment Re:Why are we supposed to be angry again? (Score 1) 439
I am sorry if I seem to misunderstand something, but... who are you?
Not sure how to answer that. I prefer my limited privacy.
And who gave you "+3, Insightful"?
No clue.
Yes. They buy a search term, to try and put a spin on the news. Of course this is irritating. And no, we're not interested in news from them as we know that they have a very large and currently exceptionally busy PR department, making news from them quite worthless.
Again, sorry if I seem paranoid or something, but... who are you? I keep finding very positive entries, protecting BP, writing positively about them. Seems a bit weird, especially seeing that they're trying to keep 3rd-person data away from this.
I'm a computer programmer, not a BP employee or apologist. I just think this whole story is upside down. I'm a skeptic by nature and although I love Slashdot I hate groupthink and a lot of Slashdot postings qualify as groupthink in my opinion. I think it's appalling what BP has done to the Gulf, but if I was a responsible company I would do just what they are doing with the Google ads.
