Comment Re:Bullshit (Score 1) 2219
Mod parent up!
Comment Re:Tempest in a teapot (Score 1) 2219
Exactly. The reason no-one RTFA is because it's usually shit, and they probably read it two days ago anyway. The comments are the interesting bit. Slashdot isn't a news site, it's a debate site.
And when you do read the comments a lot of the time you end up seeing well reasoned arguments by people who are knowledgeable about TFA but can explain it without needing to water down the information.
EXACTLY!
Comment Programming Language Warning (Score 1, Funny) 232
If your using a programming language, but your language is not enough, then you should consult your doctor.
Call your doctor if your application worsens, or if you have unusual changes in mood, behavior, or thoughts of suicide.
See a doctor if you have high fever, stiff muscles, confusion, or having trouble swallowing.
Some adverse affects are: diarrhea, seizures, and flatulence.
Comment Threatning the midwest! (Score 5, Funny) 684
OMG! We're all going to die!
Submission + - Headhunters can't tell anything from Facebook profiles (forbes.com)
sfcat writes: Companies, headhunters and recruiters increasingly are using social media sites like Facebook to evaluate potential employees. Most of this is due to a 2012 paper from Northern Illinois Univ. that claimed that employee performance could be effectively evaluated from their social media profiles. Now a series of papers from other institutions reveal exactly the opposite result. “Recruiter ratings of Facebook profiles correlate essentially zero with job performance,” write the researchers, led by Chad H. Van Iddekinge of FSU. Not only did the research show the ineffectiveness of using social media in evaluating potential employees, it also showed a measurable biases of the recruiters against minorities (African-American and Latino) and against men in general.
Comment Re:Ah (Score 1) 191
The Amiga existed in 1993 and the Video Toaster was 3 years old at that point. So tell me, what technology *did* you think would exist in 2013? Flying cars for all? Jet belts and anti gravity and warp drives? About the only thing you *can* expect to get better is information processing, everything else has plateaued decades ago.
Please post a link to a video with special effects created decades ago that a grocery store employee made.
Comment Re:Ah (Score 2) 191
I think I know why he was suspended -- half of the clip is the same couple of scenes remixed, and the typography is unoriginal. If I were the manager, I'd have yelled at him too for the low quality of the parody. It really just demonstrates a lack of dedication and attention to detail that I've come to expect from minimum wage workers in this country. I mean, if you're going to half-ass a parody, what else are you half-assing in your life, mmm?
Disclaimer: Snarky. If you take this post seriously, there's something wrong with you.
Twenty years ago I would have never ever thought a grocery store worker being able to produce a SciFi clip with special effects to this degree would have been possible. Technology in the hands of the masses is also a great testament to our hard work.
Submission + - USA Today names Edward Snowden tech person of the year (usatoday.com)
An anonymous reader writes: "In the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the American people, through their elected representatives in Washington, chose to exchange a significant amount of freedom for safety. But until a lone information-technology contractor named Edward Snowden leaked a trove of National Security Agency documents to the media this summer, we didn't know just how much we'd surrendered. Now that we do, our nation can have a healthy debate — out in the open, as a democracy should debate — about how good a bargain we got in that exchange.
For facilitating that debate, at great risk to his own personal liberty, Snowden is this column's technology person of the year for 2013."
For facilitating that debate, at great risk to his own personal liberty, Snowden is this column's technology person of the year for 2013."
Comment Re:Same rules apply (Score 0) 303
If a brick and mortar left a sign up in their windows advertising X percent off consumers would expect it. Just because they are online doesn't give them a pass for sloppy practices.
Your analogy is wrong. It is true the customer would get X percent off the advertised price. What happens if the cash register malfunctions and gives an additional discount? Don't forget that you agreed to the EULA contract upon checkout which protects the seller.
Comment I bought my Mom a Mac Pro (Score 5, Funny) 804
I bought my Mom a Mac Pro for Christmas.
She says GMail runs so much faster now.
Comment Re:WTF?! (Score 2) 349
Compare this to US involvement in WWII where 418 thousand Americans died and managed to free France, Scandinavia, the Low Countries, South Korea and some of South East Asia (just over 200 million people all up), with the rest being taken by equally-oppressive Communism and it sounds like incredibly good value for human life.
Weapons are great for the people who own them.
Using your WWII analogy, imagine Adolf Hitler have the powers of the NSA today!
Comment The Physics of the Aerobie (Score 3, Interesting) 76
The Aerobie Pro Ring is one of the best skill toy inventions ever created.
Can you tell us about the physics and engineering challenges that you had to overcome to break the world record?
Comment Re:make it illegal - all of it (Score 2) 75
The market is what regulates privacy. When companies overstep, there will be consequences, but so far the market has said consumers are more than willing to trade data for amazing free tools online.
Comment Give up our security? (Score 3, Funny) 293
Are they nuts? My Senator says "these tools are required to intercept and obstruct terrorism". He goes on to say that "we must never allow the terrorists to alter the freedoms that define our country and make us the greatest nation in the world". If we stop these programs then the terrorists win!
Comment Greetings, Professor Falken (Score 3, Funny) 46
I'm disappointed they do not have the game 'Global Thermonuclear War'.
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