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Comment Re:I'm seeing the New York Post headline now... (Score 2) 96

Radioactivity occurs naturally in the sea and everywhere in nature so this could make sense. I guess it's a matter of how fast it will be released and the levels implicated. Why not have one or several independent entities supervise the release? Even environmentalists could be part of that supervision.

It might be better to dissipate it than to keep it all concentrated in one spot. The more transparent the process will be the better. If they keep everything hidden behind closed doors than I guess it gives a good reason for everybody to be suspicious.

That radioactivity came from nature in the first place by concentrating it so, it is just a matter of returning to nature in a safe way, unless there is solid particles it the water which they say have been filtered out. It's not like dumping used radioactive fuel rods into the ocean.

Comment Re:Not good enough... (Score 1) 99

One way to make yourself indispensable is doing the jobs of five people.

Why do 100 times more code when you can do 500 times more code and be the hero of the department?

Copy and paste exist for a reason. ;)

functions that take parameters, (also called methods in some languages) exist for a reason as well; so you don't have to produce 500 times the amount of code by copy pasting since this leads to unmaintainable source code!

Comment Re: Power loss protection? (Score 1) 78

When will the San Francisco AMC Metreon reopen? Can I bring in a bottle of water since there will be no concessions available?

I was talking with them yesterday and they say they don't allow plastic bottles because they aren't green enough and they don't want to risk a health hazard for their employees picking up the trash left behind by viewers.

They say 2 big old camp 50 ounce mugs full of black cherry soda is OK although so there you go!

Comment Re:Here's one that doesn't need batteries (Score 1) 83

You forgot to include the tech graphic.

You also seem to think that YouTube as forgotten you!:

Hey, @TeamYouTube
! I still can't set a one-line caption (song title by band name) on two of my music only videos. Your new system can't generate the time settings and I can't manually set the captions. This is my third tweet about the issue and sent feedback on both videos.

Don't worry, my friend who works at YouTube told me that since you enjoy posting the same thing over and over all over the Internet, they will wait until your 64th tweet about this issue to reply to you.

Also, I was on the phone with Casey last night and funnily enough, he told me that he hasn't got time to answer all the no names like yourself who try to gain visibility by pretending they are buddies on Tweeter.

Comment Re: This doesn't belong on Slashdot (Score 1) 203

[...] written for a bunch of idiots.

You must be new to Slashdot.

One thing is for sure, you aren't new on Slashdot! This must be like your 512th account on Slashdot, I have lost count...
https://slashdot.org/~That+You...
https://slashdot.org/~Baby+Yod...
https://slashdot.org/~cdreimer...
https://slashdot.org/~cdreimer
https://slashdot.org/~The+Orig...
https://slashdot.org/~real%20d...
https://slashdot.org/~Crash+Du...
https://slashdot.org/~Anonymou...
https://slashdot.org/~__aaclcg...
etc. etc. etc.

Comment Re:Completely Off Topic, But ... (Score 1) 69

Please stop spamming links to your irrelevant content. This has been going on for more than 4 years now and it's about time it stops!

Along with APK, you are the main reason Slashdot needed to block anonymous posts thus hurting oppressed people all over the world who can't post anymore without being afraid that their oppressing government will get to them.

And now you are trying to profit from it by spamming links about it. Sad, so sad...

Comment Re:Misread Title (Score 1) 52

You can have amber, green, or white for your text color. But the terminal background is ALWAYS black

Unless you're one of those Microsoft weenies who want white text on a blue background.

You obviously never typed the command "xterm &" in an X11 environment, it gives you a white background xterm with black text by default and it has been like that since the 90s and even before that. Whoosh...

Wednesday's #YouTube video is almost done. Need a few final tweaks and a thumbnail before uploading tomorrow. After that, I'll pencil in video ideas for October.

Maybe you should "pencil" some cells and thumbnails in that empty brain instead:
http://ibb.co/mRVSaG
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just my humble 2 cents

Comment Re:ummm (Score 1) 127

Many engineers and MBAs in the US are doing IT support. Some aspects, say, building out a data center, is very much manual labor.

In your dreams, you wish you were an "engineer and a MBA" doing IT support as you really do for a living. Oh well, as an engineer for IBM, I used to also do level 7 support so if you meant that, you would be correct. Nevertheless, I doubt you are even level 2.

I never did any IT support but level 7, I have to admit although that IT support is an interesting field of activities when you know what you are talking about.
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