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  1. That $2.2m per employee though would be over a long period, some of this dates to 1991 I think. Apple established in Ireland in 1980 with 60 employees, and ramped up to 700 within a few years, and have expanded their workforce ever since. They have been a centrepiece in the IDA's showcase trying to attract FDI which Ireland have build their economy around.

  2. Robustness principle on Ask Slashdot: Terminally Ill - What Wisdom Should I Pass On To My Geek Daughter? · · Score: 1

    If you want to look to a 'geeky' principle as a guide to living life, look no further than the Robustness Principe - treat others with patience and tolerance, and anything you do, do it right.

  3. Re:The ALGORITHM solves the cube... on Lego Robot Solves Bigger and Harder Rubik's Cubes · · Score: 1

    I'm good.

  4. The ALGORITHM solves the cube... on Lego Robot Solves Bigger and Harder Rubik's Cubes · · Score: 1

    ...the laptop only implements the algorithm.

  5. Re:Horribly misleading on New Speed Cameras Catch You From Space · · Score: 1

    Do not worry. It appears the satellites are only used to fix the coordinates of the cameras. All you need do is pinch off the parts of your journey which pass the cameras.

  6. Re:Horribly misleading on New Speed Cameras Catch You From Space · · Score: 1

    I'm usually quite prescriptive normally so I'm grateful that you brought it to my attention and am thankful that you pointed it out to me. Suffice to say, I ain't gonna write so uncarelessly again, and I don't think I need say any more.

  7. Re:Horribly misleading on New Speed Cameras Catch You From Space · · Score: 2, Informative

    They don't have to know what route was taken. All they need to know is the fastest time you can possibly make the journey between points A and B without exceeding the speed limit, irregardless of routes. Sure, if somebody takes a few detours at twice the speed limit the system might not catch them.

    They don't have to have a solid number for your velocity. All they need is to show is that it was not possible to make the journey you made in the time you did without speeding. For the system to work as an effective deterrent it would make sense that the cameras are at regular intervals. Otherwise a driver might get away with doing 100mph for a period after being stuck behind a tractor for some of the journey. I expect to see apps for sale that will tell you what speed will keep you within the average allowed on your route.

  8. Re:Finally on Intel and Nokia Provide First MeeGo Release · · Score: 1

    I thought FreeMSD and the other MSD variants were more popular out that way.

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  9. Finally on Intel and Nokia Provide First MeeGo Release · · Score: 1

    It has been a long time coming but this is proof that Linux has matured as an OS. Let me be the first to declare that 2010 will be the year of Linux on the brain cylinder.

  10. Re:"barely scientific"? Not even that. on 6 Smartphone Keyboards Compared · · Score: 1

    It tells us how quickly one person adapts to a sample new input systems. It's a data point, and he even described the methodology allowing others to repeat, so yeah, I think it counts as barely scientific.

  11. Re:Confused? I certainly am... on Opera For iPhone To Test Apple's Resolve · · Score: 1

    I think the implied missing word is 'yet'.

    They intend to submit it, and are making it very clear that they will stand up to Apple if, when they *do* submit it, it gets rejected. It's a shot across the bows.

  12. Re:Is 99% enough? on Scientists To Breed the Auroch From Extinction · · Score: 1

    Surely there's some raptor DNA available; what could possibly go wrong?

  13. Re:Bike to work on How Do Geeks Exercise? · · Score: 1

    I can appreciate how stifling being introverted is.

    However, I'd suggest that training with a good martial arts school would be quite beneficial. To recognise a good school, find one with a fair gender and age mix with lots of beginners classes.

    Although you would be in a group, most of the time there's very little interaction actually required as you are all just practising the same moves. Being shown how to stretch or adopt a particular stance doesn't require much more than a nod from you.

    In fact, I started Capoeira a while ago, and the Brazilian instructors barely have a sentence of English between them. There are of course other members who are quite sociable, and seem to enjoy chatting amongst themselves, but they seem happy to allow me to be a quiet one. I think I know the names of one of them.

    I find it very hard to motivate myself so I'd fail horribly if I tried a home-exercise program. In a martial arts class (and I'm sure in others too), this problem goes away. Also, I find the specificity of movements and techniques holds my attention enough that I enjoy trying to get it right. I've tried gym classes and haven't enjoyed them nearly as much.

  14. Fuzzy meters on Your Computer and Cell Phone Are Lying To You · · Score: 1

    I've stopped treating battery indicators as linear displays some time ago, instead I read them as:

    3 bars - Abundant;
    2 bars - Sufficient;
    1 bar - Low.

    Perhaps the phone makers should ditch the bar symbols with fuzzier symbols.

  15. Sir Patrick Moore's Scott Saunders series on Sci-Fi Books For Pre-Teens? · · Score: 1

    When I was a kid I *loved" the Scott Saunders stories written by Patrick Moore. Back then, I didn't know who Patrick Moore was, but it was his books, along with Asimov's short stories which gave me my love and enthusiasm for space exploration and astrophysics.

    The bibliography of his writings mentions some other books aimed at kids. I don't know how much they've aged, and I'm not making any reference to literary quality, all I know is when I was eight, I thought they were the best books ever. Except for the Hobbit.

  16. Re:silently dropping is not unexpected on Gmail, SPF, and Broken Email Forwarding? · · Score: 1

    However, what it does have is [b]reliable delivery status information[/b]. If the email you sent was not delivered, you would *know* about it.

    That simply isn't true. After all, if you could reliably transmit an accepted/rejected acknowledgement, you could reliably transmit an e-mail in the first place, couldn't you?

    Granted if, immediately after your mailserver fails to find a server to accept your message, it then goes down, then yes, you will not receive notification of the the failed delivery. Once your mailserver comes back though, you will.

    The reason you can not guarantee delivery, is quite simply, when you send the email, there is no knowledge about the state of the path to the recipient. SMTP is designed so that, if during the journey the path becomes impassable, then the email will return back. If kind of assumes the path behind doesn't disappear along the way. When people start silently dropping messages though, this is what can happen.

    As for the backscatter you are seeing, are they actually originating from your ISP? If so, tell them about it. I would guess that it is other ISPs doing accept-then-reject that are the cause.

  17. Re:silently dropping is not unexpected on Gmail, SPF, and Broken Email Forwarding? · · Score: 1

    [i]E-mail has never had useful reliability of delivery (another thing a replacement standard should deal with) so you can't count on it anyway.[/i]

    It was never meant to have reliability of delivery. However, what it does have is [b]reliable delivery status information[/b]. If the email you sent was not delivered, you would *know* about it.

    I'd like to see you ideas of a replacement standard that can [b]guarantee[/b] delivery. So would the court services, I'm sure. What email reliably offered was that if you sent and email, it would either get there, or come back to you. Emails should never "get lost", and in all my years of running mailservers, I have never seen emails get lost in transit.

    Silently dropping emails breaks this, and renders email unreliable.

    The back-scatter is caused by anti-spam solutions that do not reject the email during the SMTP conversation, instead accepting the email and ending the SMTP transaction, and [i]only then[/i] decide to reject the message by starting a whole new email delivery. If gmail rejected the email during the SMTP transaction, they would not cause any backscatter.

    Backscatter now outnumbers direct spam in my mailbox; ta very much to all those techs out there who thought delayed rejection was a good idea.

  18. Re:Opera 9.5 released today on Firefox 3 Release On Tuesday · · Score: 1

    Their strategy is to sell it to the mobile and embedded strategy, and give it away free on the Desktop to increase their potential customer base. They had previously offered an ad-supported version, or you could pay to avoid the ads.

    I've been using it heavily for the last seven years, and everytime I try Firefox, it has never matched up.

  19. For the record on Six Degrees of Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    Shortest path from Server to Meltdown:
    Server
    Web server
    1989
    Pan Am Flight 103
    Meltdown
    4 clicks needed

  20. It's not ironic. on The Shadow Space Race · · Score: 1

    Really, it's not. Hypocritical, a change of policy, call it what you will, just not ironic.

  21. Re:Not sure how "secure" this scheme is... on 'Extreme Security' Web Browsing · · Score: 1

    Sigh... it's called security in layers.

    He is quite clearly talking in the context of XSS and CSRF attacks. His so-called strategy is a reasonable precaution to take in this instance.

    Security is not a go/no-go.

  22. Re:dangerous on Genetic Discrimination in the IT Workplace · · Score: 1

    when they find the long hair smelly's gene, we are all screwed

  23. There can no longer be any doubt on FreeBSD Ported to XBox · · Score: -1, Troll

    BSDNews confirms it, the Xbox is dying...

    Well somebody was going to say it, may as well be me.

  24. Re:Mod parent DOWN on Kodak To Stop Making Black and White Paper · · Score: 1
    To do the same with film requires various gradient filters and eitehr blind luck (me) or lots of knowledge (photo pro)
    That's the fun of it all! Some people gamble on horses, I gamble on photos.
  25. Ha ha, you guys are hilarious. on Your Digital Photos Are Too Professional · · Score: 1

    You in the US, please tell the rest of us so that maybe we can avoid it - how on earth did you screw up your legal system to the extent that people who have absolutely no means whatsoever of identifying who holds the copyright on an image can be held liable for their customer's actions?

    Beyond asking the customer to declare that the images do not infringe copyright, there is absolutely nothing that Walmart can reasonably be expected to do, other than to shut up shop.

    Seriously, how did it get his bad?