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  1. My Shop uses... on Ask Slashdot: It's 2014 -- Which New Technologies Should I Learn? · · Score: 2

    My Shop uses (in order of importance):
    C#
    Java
    ASP.NET
    All popular versions of SQL (recommend learning MYSQL or PL/SQL first and then the rest of them will be cake)
    Office/VBA (I know this sounds stupid, but you get a lot of requests from office managers with no clue what they are doing in the form of word Docs, Excel spreadsheets, etc... etc... Knowing all the ins and outs of these programs will save you a lot of time. Like how the Excel Average function converts nulls to 0s by default)
    PHP
    VB

    Hope that helps.

    Oh, and I think VM is the way of the future (for good or ill) so I'd get used to using VMs.

  2. Re:WTF is this actually about? on CES 2014: A Bedbug Detector that Looks Interesting but has Detractors (Video) · · Score: 2

    The more I think about it, I have to admit that your post makes a lot more sense than the actual article. In regards to the eels, I recommend Fa-breeze.

  3. Re:Confusing copy. on CES 2014: A Bedbug Detector that Looks Interesting but has Detractors (Video) · · Score: 1

    Buahahahhaaha

  4. Re:Ignorant to their own research on Who Makes the Best Hard Disk Drives? · · Score: 2

    Right... if you can get 50 drives from Hitachi with a 5% failure rate or 100 drives from seagate with a 25% failure rate, it's still cheaper to go with seagate. If you're only buying 1 drive and have no backup, clearly steer away from them.

  5. Re:5% of false positive on Microsoft Researchers Slash Skype Fraud By 68% · · Score: 1

    I really doubt they're going to send a SWAT team in for an Internet post... hold on, someones at the door.

  6. Re:Don't want a legitimate account on Microsoft Researchers Slash Skype Fraud By 68% · · Score: 1

    I'm a loner and a loser and my credit score is 830. So I don't think your reasoning will hold out.

  7. You don't on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Convince an ISP To Bury Cable In Your Neighborhood? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I work for a phone company. The only way to do it is pay for it yourself. Which is actually an option. We get businesses that will move into an area and want larger data-pipes and they just end up paying to have the cable laid. I think though, that after you get the estimates on the costs, you'll quickly realize why they have no desire to upgrade your trunking. It's upwards of a million dollars a mile... then take the number of people in your neighborhood, multiply that times what you pay per month, then divide the cost of laying the cable by that, and I bet you're looking at 40yrs before it pays itself off. By then there will be a new technology that you'll be bitching at them for not installing.

  8. Re:Auto-Tune on Kim Dotcom Just Launched His New Music Service With His Own Album · · Score: 1

    Correction, very few "Artists" use autotune... lots of attractive people hired by music producers to pretend to be artists find it very handy however.

  9. Re:RTG? on Comet-Chasing Probe Wakes Up On Monday · · Score: 1

    as well as, nearly every other spacecraft we've put up.

  10. Re:Not neccesairly on In Greece, 10 Months In Prison For "Blasphemous" Facebook Page · · Score: 1

    I disagree there as well. Shout fire all you want as far as I'm concerned. As is said often: Those trading freedom for safety deserve neither.

  11. Re:Enhanced reality on New Object Recognition Algorithm Learns On the Fly · · Score: 1

    Governments are already building them into weapons. The question is, are we going to have the same arsenal? All this tech is coming, we can't just stick our heads in the sand and hope for sane competent leadership when it does arrive.

  12. Re:Decaf at Starbucks? on A Data Scientist Visits The Magic Kingdom, Sans Privacy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Next you'll be wanting smokers to get the same health insurance premiums as non-smokers.

    I do. Insurance shouldn't be about finding people devoid of risk and only insuring them.

  13. Re:Not neccesairly on In Greece, 10 Months In Prison For "Blasphemous" Facebook Page · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Denying the Holocaust is illegal here in Germany not because of opinion but because it is a false statement, clearly and irrefutably documented.

    Careful with that there.... some future benevolent leader may get elected and questioning their authority maybe considered illegal due to a clearly and irrefutably documented "election process." Stipulations in Freedom of Speech rarely turn out well. Freedom of any and all speech should be a fundamental human right.

  14. communication on U.S. Teenagers Are Driving Much Less: 4 Theories About Why · · Score: 3

    When I was just out of highschool we'd drive around looking for a party. Spent half the night doing that... stopping by this house or that house... We couldn't call from the car as there were no cellphones and even if we did land line phones were often not picked up at a loud party. With modern texting/tweeting etc, teens know where the party's immediately. If it changes venue they know right away. It's just one more activity computers have made more efficient.

  15. RTG? on Comet-Chasing Probe Wakes Up On Monday · · Score: 1
  16. Re:ummm on Mystery Rock 'Appears' In Front of Mars Rover · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's a common weathering pattern in certain kinds of rock. You find the same sorts of thing on earth and amateurs often think they've found ancient steps or something.

  17. Re:Unless laws change on Obama Announces Surveillance Reforms · · Score: 1

    It's not a law, it's a constitutional right. If they're willing to ignore the constitution, what makes you think they'll care about your new law?

  18. Re:Unless laws change on Obama Announces Surveillance Reforms · · Score: 5, Informative

    Laws don't need to change. Most of this is already unconstitutional. They've just been using their "State secrets" argument to keep it from getting to the supreme court to get ruled on.

  19. ah... on Why the Major Labels Love (and Artists Hate) Music Streaming · · Score: 1

    Artists with music label contracts hate streaming because their record deals are so ridiculous they'd likely be illegal in any other industry. Artists that are too small to have a label or have simply chosen not to have one, love streaming. I've found more unique and interesting artists via streaming radio that I ever could have otherwise.

  20. Re:Who the hell needs this? on BitTorrent's Bram Cohen Unveils New Steganography Tool DissidentX · · Score: 1

    Today, that's pretty much all of them.

  21. TextSecure on NSA Collects 200 Million Text Messages Per Day · · Score: 1
  22. Re:Apple "devices"? on Apple Devices To Reach Parity With Windows PCs In 2014 · · Score: 1

    If it were a fair comparison, where's Android/Linux? Android alone is on over 500 MILLION devices. Microsoft AND Apple will be dead within a decade. This is just a fluff piece to make Apple look like it's getting somewhere.

  23. Re:PHB's strike again on Previously-Unseen Photos of Challenger Disaster Appear Online · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Actually, with Columbia's mission I watched the launch and they immediately questioned the impact. Then a few days into the mission NASA was talking about how they wanted to inspect the damage after they landed. I was thinking the whole time "That looked pretty bad!"

    Then it blew up and NASA pretended it was all news to them. I didn't really get it.

  24. Apple "devices"? on Apple Devices To Reach Parity With Windows PCs In 2014 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Apple "devices"? So they're including iPods and phones in this? lol

    Apple marketing at its best.

  25. Hold on there... on FISA Judges Oppose Intelligence Reform Proposals Aimed At Court · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Everyones screaming at the Judges, but read what they're saying:
    "the participation of an advocate would neither create a truly adversarial process nor constructively assist the courts in assessing the facts, as the advocate would be unable to communicate with the target or conduct an independent investigation."

    REALLY read that. I read it as saying "You're trying to send an advocate to make this appear like it's an adversarial process. But it's not. This will still be a rubber stamping process until you send in a REAL advocate."

    i.e. If there are going to be reforms, then they need to be real. Reforms like this (that achieve nothing but make the people think somethings been done) will only increase their workload. With no added benefit to the target of the NSA.