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  1. Re:And yet on Judge Rejects $324.5 Million Settlement For Tech Workers, Argues For More · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    In USA labour cost is expensive while what the employee gets after taxes into his hands is not much. For example to pay somebody 18K after tax, employer has to pay what, 28K at least? So where is the delta going? Because it's not going towards the employee and it's not available to hire more employees or to invest in business otherwise. Well, it's going towards the government, preventing employees from having savings (31% of Americans have 0 savings, 19 of those between 55 and 64 have 0 savings) preventing Americans from starting their own companies because they have no savings and from so much more. Imposing enormous costs on the employers as well.

    My point is, this 324.5 Million settlement is yet another cost on employment, higher labour costs, lower output. Companies are ran by people, governments shouldn't have any authority whatsoever to prevent people from coming to agreements, even if the agreement is not to hire from each other or whatever. This is another nonsensical grab of unauthorised power of-course by the government.

  2. to sum it up on How Facebook Is Saving Power By 10-15% Through Better Load Balancing · · Score: 3, Informative

    to sum it up, if a FB server is idle it consumes 60 watts, if CPU is minimally utilised it consumes 130 watts and if it's utilised more it consumes 150 watts.

    Instead of round robin use an algorithm that pushes requests to the servers that are already processing other requests, thus allowing many CPUs to remain at 60 watts, while some CPUs to hit 150 watts of power consumption and so instead of doubling or almost trippling power consumption of all servers due to round robin distribution of requests, tripple power consumption of fewer CPUs and let many CPUs to stay at 60 watts.

    Sure, it's an interesting thing to optimise, but unless you are running dozens or maybe hundreds and even thousands of servers in a data centre you won't care about this much at all.

  3. Re:Nobody kills Java on Oracle Hasn't Killed Java -- But There's Still Time · · Score: 1

    All of the complaints about Java (and I have my own) actually show that it is not the language or the runtime that is annoying to use, it is people that are now in it who are annoying like hell.

    In my company I dictate the rules of how we code and we use the bare minimum that needs to be used at any moment in time and no more than that. Basically make it as simple as possible to achieve your goal but not simpler than that.

    Given this, I prevent people here from using newer syntactic sugar that was added from about version 1.5 (with minor variations), I prevent people from using gigantic libraries, where a tiny method would do the trick without adding 50 million classes and processors and factories and configuration files.

    Simplicity and standardisation of code in terms of structure and of process and data flow is the key to being able to release a project successfully into production (at least when it comes to a small team working on large, complex projects).

    One thing that we use here that I built and we develop further that TRULY ads value to coding, reduces time it takes to create a new piece of code that can be added to the project is code generation. I built a number of code generators and put them into a single tool that we now have online and it takes a page of Meta Data and provides 80% of code for a standard use case. This includes database code, stubbing for business logic delegates, front end action and form and bean code, jsps even with some rudimentary HTML in it. Our code generators produce vertical stacks, use cases that can be generated from a page of meta code and imported into the project, modified for an hour and become part of the project. This reduces amount of time something like that takes from 4-5 days (with debugging and possible bugs) to 2-4 hours.

    This just may be what is actually needed - helping developers to create standard use cases and import them into existing or new projects rather than developing 5 more ways to write the same 'for' loop.

  4. Re:Ahhh ... large corporations ... on Oracle Hasn't Killed Java -- But There's Still Time · · Score: 1

    Sun could be visionaries, but Oracle not so much apparently.

    - Sun is dead and Oracle is as rich as ever.

    Personally I do not allow my developers to use language features that prevent easier debugging, prevent reuse of objects, prevent knowing what iteration of the loop is running currently in the debugger.

    So I do not allow autoboxing, I do not allow 'for each' java constructs, I do not allow generics, things of that nature. They are destructive to the language, not constructive, they allow people to write SHITTIER CODE.

    AFAIC Java doesn't need more syntax sugar, it only needs to add new libraries to support missing functionality and to develop better, faster runtime environment.

    How about a built in way to talk to USB and other serial ports without installing extra libraries and using JNI? How about more support for different types of hardware? There is so much that can be done to make the environment more productive, but instead people are looking at making programming less efficient and buggier.

  5. Re:to save others googling on IBM Creates Custom-Made Brain-Like Chip · · Score: 1

    You can simulate this guy by 2030 then.

  6. Re:Oh, god on Yahoo To Add PGP Encryption For Email · · Score: 2

    I disagree, didn't improve for me, ofcourse I run older Ubuntu and FF 16. The only saving grace is their smtp server and lets hope PGP is for that only or at least has the disable option. If they add it as a js file to online mail, I cant even imagine the horror show that will ensue.

  7. Oh, god on Yahoo To Add PGP Encryption For Email · · Score: 1

    Whenever I hear that Yahoo is working on yet another great idea for their email, I cannot help but cringe at yet another incoming disaster to hit that half dead, half alive, halfassed half service. It is one of those situations where every next release is worsd than the one before. Things become less usable every time they touch something. It is a pitty too, could be an actual Google competitor, but no, not with that rotten carcas of a management and development team. Why not just acquire a porn service and milm that on a side? I mean cannot go wrong with another social media type 1000000000 dollar purchase. Oh maybe it will be better this time? Haaaa!

  8. Cannot spell 'hypervisor' without 'hype' on Facebook Acquires Server-Focused Security Startup · · Score: 1

    You can't spell 'hypervisor' without 'hype'. Before I even clicked on TFS link (sorry, /.) I knew I was going to see that this has something to do with VMWare and lo and behold:

    PrivateCore was founded in 2011 by security industry veterans from the IDF, VMware and Google. In June 2014, the company raised $2.25 million in seed funding from Foundation Capital.

    so you can encrypt your virtual machine... Ok, great, an extra level of encryption, but doesn't it still have to decrypt whatever it is trying to run on the processor, eventually an unencrypted instruction has to be read and executed, or do they now allow encrypted instructions to run within a virtual machine player? I don't think so. This is not about security, this is about Facebook getting into the VMWare hype. More acquisition for the sake of acquisition, to keep FB in the news, to try and boost the stock higher.

  9. Re:A question on this on 2D To 3D Object Manipulation Software Lends Depth to Photographs · · Score: 1

    Removing objects from images and filling in the missing space with some other content from the rest of the image based on 'awareness' has been available for some time now, it is called 'content awareness' in Photoshop and 'Resynth' in Gimp.

  10. here is one on Ask Slashdot: Best PDF Handling Library? · · Score: 1

    itext may be one of those. It comes under AGPL and under a commercial license if you buy support from the company.

  11. Well that's a surprise. on Expensive Hotels Really Do Have Faster Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    In other news most Porsches have better acceleration and handling than most Fords, a large cruise liner fits more people than your dinky boat and a nuclear bomb has more 'bang' in it than a firework would.

  12. Re:That's a garbage lawsuit on California Man Sues Sony Because Killzone: Shadowfall Isn't Really 1080 · · Score: 1

    Well, are the pixels that are 'filling up' the lines between the actual stretched lines are not just the same pixels from 320x240, then aren't those pixels unique in themselves?

    Here is what I mean, take a 2x2 image, 2 lines total, have a 2x3 screen (3 lines total), output the first line from 2x2 image on the top, the last line from 2x2 image on the bottom and then fill the middle with pixels that are not even from this image itself. So now the question: how is that not giving you are 2x3 image? I mean the middle line there is not necessarily derived from information in the 2 lines in the 2x2 image. It's outputted onto the screen, the screen is filled with pixels.

    The output is there, how the pixels were produced, by rendering a scene or by mixing and matching pixels somehow, technically that's a 2x3 image. It maybe that you don't like the resulting picture, but that's a different question.

    Starting a class action lawsuit for not liking the product as much as you expected.... I don't think Sony should lose on this one, I mean they may lose, because in today's society you can sue and win for feeling offended, but other than nonsense like that, on the merits itself Sony shouldn't lose.

    I mean if you don't like the product you can return it.

  13. That's a garbage lawsuit on California Man Sues Sony Because Killzone: Shadowfall Isn't Really 1080 · · Score: 0

    Killzone's multiplayer mode actually outputs natively in 960x1080 resolution, half of the 1920x1080 standard for "1080p." To output full 1080p graphics, this source image is fixed with a "temporal upscale" that fills in gaps with a horizontal interlace made up of pixels from the previous frame. The result is graphical performance that the lawsuit (and many reviews) call "blurry to the point of distraction."

    Sony and developer Guerrilla Games addressed these complaints in a blog post at the time, laying out the details of this "temporal projection" pixel filling and arguing that it indeed provides "subjectively similar results" to native 1080p rendering. Ladore's lawsuit isn't satisfied by this argument. "While this reconstruction technique might be novel, it is decidedly not the 'native 1080p' Sony promised," the complaint argues.

    - so every second line consists of pixels from previous frames, but those are still pixels that are not the same as the ones in the current frame, the output has all of the 1920x1080 pixels in it, it's not like 2 lines of pixels are just 1 line stretched vertically. Technically Sony should win this.

    Practically I hate the 1080p standard. Whatever happened to 1920x1200? When I need another monitor for the office, I always look for these, they are harder to come by nowadays.

  14. Should images even be admissible in court anymore? on 2D To 3D Object Manipulation Software Lends Depth to Photographs · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How can images be admissible in court in our modern technological age of 3d manipulation of 2d images? Sure, they still have visual artifacts (like in the video presentation for this technology, when the airplanes are turned into 3d, their propellers are not changed, the same image of a propeller is kept for 3d model as was on the original 2d picture) but eventually all of these will go away, it may become impossible to detect that an image in front of you was manipulated at all.

    Eventually this will also apply to video footage.

    Add the digital augmentation of reality into the mix (Google Glass, etc.) and you can't rely even on the recorded information. We know that people are not good at remembering the details of what they saw, but if cannot be sure of images and video (and obviously audio) either, then this type of data becomes useless in courts. That's an interesting development in itself, never mind the fact that you can now turn a picture into a movie if you want.

  15. Re:Yes, but no on Ask Slashdot: "Real" Computer Scientists vs. Modern Curriculum? · · Score: 1

    Databases and by extension transactions, sql, relational model, dataviews, connection, statement, result set, pool handling, holistic approach to debugging (including db logs). Communucation skills, as you said, networking, protocols, leaving optimization for later, when the business problem is solved and performance starts to matter, logging data, thinking beyond the immediate, source control, working in a team. This and much more is what I end up teaching all of the students and new grads I hire, they are basically empty before they come in here. In 3 weeks they learn all of this and are put to productive use. AFAIC college is a waste of time for vast majority of them, I don't see difference between them and any novice atraight from the street, except somebody from the street may not have a crushing debt hanging above their heads due to the government backee student loans . If you come and ask me to work for me and you know nothing but are willing to learn, I do not care what your education is as long as you are interested, have the right attitude and can learn.

  16. Re:Not this again. on Ask Slashdot: "Real" Computer Scientists vs. Modern Curriculum? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Nonsense, real CS people should have a year studying butterflies.

    As to Java or Assembler, neither are computer science. CS is about algorithms, run time, data models, paradigms, approaches. BTW, without understanding memory management, you will have memory management problems regardless of the language used. It is just the degree of how bad the problems are, whether they cause program to terminate only or also may become attack vectors.

  17. Re:Old News on Researchers Make Fruit Flies Perform Aerobatics Like Spitfire Pilots · · Score: 2

    Exactly, also there was this one, from April 11. /. is in love with flies, maybe /. has flies for editors, that would explain the attention span...

  18. Re:No worries on PayPal's Two-Factor Authentication Can Be Bypassed Using eBay Bug · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'll see your story and raise you mine. I bought a video card on eBay back in December, paid 1200 for it and waited for it to arrive to a pick up centre, but the seller used a wrong name on the package and so the package was returned. From POV of eBay the shipping was 'completed' because the tracking number was there, showing 'delivered', but the address of the delivery was back in New York, not my destination address. Then the 'seller' supposedly sent the package to me the second time, but this time wouldn't provide the tracking number, and the package never arrived. Talking to eBay appeared to be fruitless (as a side note, the 'seller' put the same item back for sale, and since she doesn't normally sell computer parts, I assume it was the same video card that was put for sale once again). I contacted eBay and PayPal, nothing. Eventually I worked it out through my credit card, they pressed on PayPal I guess, I got the money back but not thanks to eBay or PayPal. AFAIC (and I told them that) they continued working with somebody selling stolen property, but it didn't matter to them.

  19. Re:Need to hire more H1b's on LinkedIn Busted In Wage Theft Investigation · · Score: 0

    Actually I would say it is time to move more work into other countries.

  20. Re:"to take control" on Putin Government Moves To Take Control of Russia's largest space company Energia · · Score: -1

    No, you are not adults, you are a bunch of propaganda filled wimps, who will echo the nonsense thrown at you from the earliest age, telling you that your government knows what is best for you and that you should rely on it for everything rather than on yourself, that you should allow it to steal property, to murder, because you think your idea of 'society' so much more important than individual humans.

    AFAIC you are embarrassing yourself with your pro-government brainwashed stance. A car manufacturer built the factory to manufacture cars not tanks. It is his property and obviously he will not profit from a war (unlike politicians) because during war people's resources are rationed, the economy switches to war economy, there isn't a way to sell as many cars as during non-war times, so instead of losing a business to war economy a car manufacturer would produce your tanks. Your problem is of-course that you want theft, that you believe government theft of private property is justified and I am here to tell you that there are no circumstances where it is so. Even if a gigantic meteor is coming towards the planet, no government should be able to steal private property to convert it into anti-meteor production. It is in the best interest of individual humans to do so under those conditions, and the society then must choose to pay or not to pay for this switch, and society means actions of all individuals in it, not of a centralised government of any kind. Your thinking is too primitive to seriously take into account.

    As to being 'compensated' for this theft (so called 'nationalisation'), that's irrelevant. No individual human should be compelled to do what he is unwilling to do under normal free market conditions. Our individual freedoms are more important than your ideology of government control even during difficult times. Nationalisation under all circumstances is theft, otherwise it wouldn't be required, because otherwise market forces would be allowed to work and individual choices would dictate the direction, not some politicians.

  21. Re:"to take control" on Putin Government Moves To Take Control of Russia's largest space company Energia · · Score: 0

    /. must be full of welfare recepients with mod points, there is no other reason to mod the parent comment 'troll' unless your lifestyle depends on a large government stealing on your behalf.

  22. Re:"to take control" on Putin Government Moves To Take Control of Russia's largest space company Energia · · Score: 0, Troll

    By the way, theft by government for war is also just theft and there is nothing "in public interest" about it. If the public is so interested in using a factory to produce tanks rather than automobiles, the public then shouldn't use mafia tactics to steal the factory and call it 'nationalization', but it should make it worthwhile for the factory owner to produce tanks rather than cars. Everything else is theft. You want your war and your tanks? You didn't build that factory to take it, but you may provide the owner of the factory with a contract big enough to have him build your tanks, but then you actually have to pay for war, rather than steal for it from the market. Maybe people would be less inclined to start wars if they actually had to pay for them.

  23. Re:"to take control" on Putin Government Moves To Take Control of Russia's largest space company Energia · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It is called theft, it is a very simple concept really. When property is taken away by force of government it is even worse than if a small time crook does it, the justifications are plenty, the law was broken, the morality pushed into dirt and stepped all over, war or no war, irrelevant. It is theft, nothing else.

  24. "to take control" on Putin Government Moves To Take Control of Russia's largest space company Energia · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I like the "to take control" euphemism for steal.

    Putin is stealing private property, that's the actual headline here. There can be no real economic development if private property rights are not protected, specifically not protected from government theft. This wouldn't be the first time Putin stole something, by the way, even before Crimea I mean. Of-course he basically stole democratic elections in Russia, I guess nothing can beat that.

  25. Re:Sorry, but... why? on How Many Members of Congress Does It Take To Pass a $400MM CS Bill? · · Score: 1

    Sure, ppl are confused at 20 because they haven't tried anything yet, they already have all that school debt by 20 and no idea what to do. Starting with some job at 14 would give people direction and would provide them with valuable experience.