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  1. Re:Passwords are property of the employer on Withhold Passwords From Your Employer, Go To Jail? · · Score: 1

    So if your last job was being an accountant with access to bank accounts, you left, then later your ex-boss contacts you and tell you to give the account information to the janitors. You see no problem with this?

    Hi, I'm your ex-boss. I want you to give secret information to people who should not have that information. Just trust me, nothing fishy going on here.

  2. Re:Passwords are property of the employer on Withhold Passwords From Your Employer, Go To Jail? · · Score: 1

    This is also what I remembered from the many stories a long while back. Not to say it's correct, but it was repeated many times and sounds like any normal policy.

  3. Re:Passwords are property of the employer on Withhold Passwords From Your Employer, Go To Jail? · · Score: 1

    If the network policy was to NEVER give access to people who should not have access, then he was only following policy.

    The issue at hand is they were asking him to do stuff that could have landed him in jail if he was still employed with them. So why should it be any different that he was no longer employed?

    Example: If you were security guard that had the responsibility to only give access to a building, people who should have access, then you get fired, then afterwards, asked to give access to the building people who should not have access.

  4. Re: The big question... on Lockheed Martin Developing Successor To the SR-71 Blackbird · · Score: 1

    Only to accelerate. If you're skimming the top of the atmosphere, you don't need more thrust to compensate for the nearly-non-existent friction.

  5. Re:thorium OR ??? on 4 Prominent Scientists Say Renewables Aren't Enough, Urge Support For Nuclear · · Score: 1

    I think you have a few zeros misplaced. You can get a 7.5MW windturbine for $17.56mil. That is 14GW for about $32.7bil. Even if they only had 10% average generation, that's only $327b, not $400tril.

  6. Re:Legal? on You're Only As Hirable As Your Google+ Circles · · Score: 1

    First you have to hire them, and that's what this is about.

  7. Re:But I'm awesome at what I do... on You're Only As Hirable As Your Google+ Circles · · Score: 1

    G+ is the best RSS feed I've ever used. You're missing out.

  8. Re:Remind me on You're Only As Hirable As Your Google+ Circles · · Score: 1

    Google+ is a social media website with 300m active monthly accounts. About 1/4th the size of Facebook.

  9. Re:OpenBSD Rocks. on OpenBSD 5.4 Released · · Score: 1

    Just the way sysadmins like it.

  10. Re:How hard can that possibly be? on A Math Test That's Rotten To the Common Core · · Score: 1

    I was turning in book reports all written in cursive at 6. I should hope 6 year olds have basic reading skills. The actual math question people are talking about is still horribly written.

  11. Re:Why reinvent the wheel? on A Math Test That's Rotten To the Common Core · · Score: 1, Insightful

    $70k of student debt, $35k/year income, got 30 kids to watch during the day, and spend all night scoring their stuff. Fun times! Maybe they'll have their debt paid off by the time they retire.

  12. Re:Failure is expected result on A Math Test That's Rotten To the Common Core · · Score: 1

    I expect kids to know calculus by the time they're in pre-school.

  13. Re:Error. on How Earth's Biosignature Will Change As the Planet Dies · · Score: 1

    I assume they mean indirectly absorb CO2, but good catch.

  14. Re:And this is why... on Comcast Donates Heavily To Defeat Mayor Who Is Bringing Gigabit Fiber To Seattle · · Score: 1

    Capitalism is driven by greed, it is the basic underpinning of the theory.

  15. Re:my eyes can on GPUs Keep Getting Faster, But Your Eyes Can't Tell · · Score: 1

    Most modern GPUs have final outputs of 16bits per channel because of pixel shaders, which is 48bits. They just convert it back into 24bit.

  16. Re:Author's poor interpretation of performance on GPUs Keep Getting Faster, But Your Eyes Can't Tell · · Score: 1

    "it appears to shimmer" - I actually see bars scrolling. I can usually hear 60hz monitors.

  17. Re:FTFY on U.S. Will Not Provide Financing For New International Coal-Fired Power Plants · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not quite, but very close. Nuclear power plants consume about 8 tons of Uranium per GW/year, Coal power produces about 5 tons of uranium per GW/year. But once you include the 12 tons of thorium produced, that's another 500MW of power.

    So, yes, a 1GW coal power plant will have enough radioactive waste to generate another 1.1GW of power. Not only that, those nuclear power plants would consume a large portion of the radioactivity by converting it into power. So the total output of radioactive waste of a coal power plant is more than that of a nuclear power plant. Now add in CO2, mercury, sulfur, and lots of other nasty stuff. Coal is horrible.

  18. Lets not get these emerging nations hook on coal also. We're trying really hard to switch off of coal and our biggest issue is the amount of waste we have with energy in the first place. We're addicted to having large amounts of cheap power to drive our economy, but because we need that much power, but because we want to be able to leave our lights on all day long or place an electric heater into a cold room and crack the window open to get fresh air.

  19. Re: Telco oligopoly on Why Is Broadband More Expensive In the US Than Elsewhere? · · Score: 1

    You mean like the many 20k/km2 cities in the USA? If you look at the top 80% of the USA, we can compete with Japan and South Korea on population densities.

  20. Re:Telco oligopoly on Why Is Broadband More Expensive In the US Than Elsewhere? · · Score: 1

    From what I've read, suburban USA is the optimal density. Super high densities like Seoul make it more expensive. This is why all new buildings are required to have fiber so they don't need to retrofit it.

  21. Re:Eminent Domain, land rights etc. on Why Is Broadband More Expensive In the US Than Elsewhere? · · Score: 1

    Unless you plan to use the monopoly rights granted via right of ways, then yes.

    Right of ways are the cause of legal monopolies. If you don't want monopolies, then you need to get permission. At least around here, if someone is on your land and refuse to leave, you can treat them as a threat against your life.

  22. Re:Not sure why this would be controversial. on Did Snakes Help Build the Primate Brain? · · Score: 2

    it's not much comfort knowing the snake shit itself more than I did

    Animals that are afraid of me scare me, they're more likely to attack me when I pose no real threat. Except large animals, like bears. Those can be scared of me.

  23. Re:The myth of the natural monopoly. on Why Is Broadband More Expensive In the US Than Elsewhere? · · Score: 1

    A natural monopoly arises where a limited resources can only effectively have a few owners. In the real world, one person with a shotgun not letting you tear up his lawn will stop an ISP from being able to install to the other 100k users. Unless an ISP plans to purchase the land of the entire town, it's going to be SOL.

  24. Re:Telco oligopoly on Why Is Broadband More Expensive In the US Than Elsewhere? · · Score: 1

    If you only look at the top 80% of the USA by density, the USA has less land to cover per capita.

  25. Re:Telco oligopoly on Why Is Broadband More Expensive In the US Than Elsewhere? · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, fiber has a 49mile signal range for 1gb.