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  1. Re:God bless and keep you, Yeoman Rand on Actress Grace Lee Whitney, Star Trek's Yeoman Janice Rand, Has Died · · Score: 1

    She did a good work, and she did other moviers, but his character at Start Trek becomes unique too. A great merit.
    Wish she rest in piece with the stars.

  2. Just simple physics explains the obvious on Astrophysicists Find "Impossible" Planet · · Score: 1

    The planet will remains for more time.
    It just does not burn because turning so FAST around of the sun, it is is cooled by the wind.

  3. Re:Short answer on Repairing / Establishing Online Reputation? · · Score: 1

    I agree that anyone who does this is an idiot. But, in this day and age, many people have no choice but to work for idiots.

    (...while this, in a far, far, farway land...)

    I guess you won't believe how high the "idiot recruiting level" are in my country... LOL

    If at least they use Google, here would be a luxury. Most of times they just ask to their desk neighbour if you are friend from someone.
    A personal/profissional homepage is most of times ignored even by the tecnical IT staff who will interview the candidate.

    Reading the CV here??? Well, at leat the first three lines hoping to your name, phone number and salary you (dream) looking for...

    P.S. (sorry bad english)
    P.S. (and no, there's no snakes in streets here).

  4. Re:Two differences on Texas Judge Orders Identification of Topix Trolls · · Score: 1

    I second that.
    IMHO, you are free to be responsible by your acts. This is freedom.

  5. Re:Memento Mori on Bill Gates Unleashes Swarm of Mosquitoes · · Score: 1

    Crusade against anyone else seeking to drain their own swamps.

    Offer extremely expensive anti-malarial drugs for sale.

    Completely fail to understand why poor third-world countries have a malaria problem.

    ??

    Profit!

    From my point of view, I guess this is absolutely right. IMHO

    Greetings from Brazil. (No, there are no snakes in the streets.)

  6. Love or Hate, but the job is done on Don't Count Cobol Out · · Score: 1

    The Python version is a good example, but I would note to the REXX sample for the same purpose, short, clear and very elegant:
    http://99-bottles-of-beer.net/language-rexx-493.html

    I programmed Cobol up to 25 years, and until today, I learned some +25 diferent languages. These, almost 10-12 I've used for +10 years.

    My opinion (IMHO) is: COBOL is a great language for batch processing, to larger data volumes and for calculations performance.

    In the punched paper card era, coding by hand with a pencil in the program listing, and waiting hours to some cards being punched and processed, was a kind boring to do anything in ANY language.

    Today, we have graphical interfaces, say "real time editors", witch are hundreds of times faster to work.

    So, IMHO, I see no trouble in writing some lines of code as this appears to be very fast and easy. I'm not lazy to that.

    And NO, I don't like to expend hours programming.
    I think computers must do all the work, so I code hardly to do better software, for human use. I work harder for a time, then I have a high performance program and if possible, with an elegant solution, easy-to-use.

    This is a personal approach of my job.
    I lack some COBOL features very often, mainly, the possibility of control memory use and the short object code, very suitable for performance optimization.

    And more than all, I think there's no one language for all thinks. I trust about mixing languages, using what is better for in case. In the 80's, I developed software for CICS, mixing COBOL, CSP/AD (a IBM L4G), Assembler, RPG II and REXX, all in the same system running under VM.

    Then came to Clipper, VB, Access VBA, and many modern tools. They are very good for sure each one for each case.

    Today I work with a legacy system done Unify-Accell (an older L4G) and Sybase Adaptative Enterpise Server for a larger retailer company.
    The system is migrating to a new one, and some partes of the new main core are done with (guess...) COBOL!

    (sorry bad english)

  7. REXX on Best Reference Site For Each Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    From mainframe to PC. I used this language a lot: IBM REXX: http://www-01.ibm.com/software/awdtools/rexx/ The Rexx Language Association: http://www.rexxla.org/ Regina Rexx Interpreter: http://regina-rexx.sourceforge.net/

  8. In case of doubt see if there's a blood matter on Software Quality In a Non-Software Company? · · Score: 1

    May be, there's another (dark) side and I hope this is not your case. You may ask to yourself if there's a real desire for the company to solve this matter. I explain myself: I worked for a major reseller of a great medical products industry. There are tons of non-regular procedures (in the reseller), starting with fraud, selling outdated products, reuse of disposable surgical products, payments for doctors, nurses, administrators and others to "help for good sales". And the main managers from the industry for our region know about this. I talked with some of then and I read a lot of e-mails very explicit. Including one of then left the industry to become a happy kind of "co-proprietary" in the reseller. The result: any try to make some system work was fired, including myself (LOL). Now they got a student who do nice Excel sheets with the numbers written as they want. And until I know, the data still are exposed as anyone can find all this info in few minutes. Is a really shame. So always ask if people want to change something and see if this is something that can be attached.

  9. Reduced for me too =) on Where Has All My Spam Gone? · · Score: 1

    From >150-200/day to 5-15/day. This includes Yahoo, Gmail and Hotmail (two accounts in each). I found interesting the China and Russia botnets idea. Meanwhile, where I found a do-it-yourself-ready-kit to create my own worldwide botnet?

  10. Igor, the creature refuses to obbey on Slashdot Announces Idle Section · · Score: 1

    Slashdot is a great tech reference to me, thanks to all good open eyes people submiting interesting stuff. Idle area can be fun, as an coffe area, but kept faraway from main Slashdot. When I want some geeks and interesting ideas on what people can do in their lives I visit: http://www.geekologie.com/

  11. The Creature lives Igor on Home Science Under Attack In Massachusetts · · Score: 1

    Dr Frankenstein, why are that village people in front of our door again?

  12. Re:Other Considerations on USAF Enlists Shrinks To Help Drone Pilots Cope · · Score: 1

    The old war ways was: eye to eye. This means to be really evolved with the act. I guess the stress because the modern remote camera is faraway from that times. Unless you are walking in the front...

  13. Optional abuse on Net Shoppers Bullied Into "Verified By Visa" Program · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I was a costumer in my country, from a major nation bank who used these kind of "optional" verification service. If you don't accept the web service don't work to you. In this case, their site installed a java plugin and because this ALL my web urls was sent to the bank main server (!!!) to check if I was entering an "insecure site". I sent this info to the federal police and the Central Bank, and claimed as being a ilegal sniff processes and they (the bank) sent a group of lawyers to my house trying to force me to sign a paper where I must agree to won't use the site (the unique way to not install the plugin again) or migrating to Firefox with all kind of firewall (at my own effort) setings to lock the back IPs... When I read this kind of service happening, I just wander what kind of CEO that company has.

  14. Re:Why be a hacker... on Chipped Passport Cloned In Minutes · · Score: 1

    Easier and cheaper. If they can forge some docs by cents, why spent millions on some also-easy-to-forge-chips or something so?

  15. Re:Why be a hacker... on Chipped Passport Cloned In Minutes · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Sometimes to be a "espectable "computer researcher" means being part of the same social club. About the passport, what's wrong with the paper docs ?

  16. Re:Sorry on "Clear" Laptop Found, In the Same Locked Office · · Score: 1

    The two passwords was: 123456 and 654321.

  17. Re:Quote of the Day on "Clear" Laptop Found, In the Same Locked Office · · Score: 1

    They took 9 days to restore the machine because took 9 days laughing on floor because the strong afraid of the two level passwords.

  18. Browse the history on "Clear" Laptop Found, In the Same Locked Office · · Score: 1

    I guess what are the loggings in the internet browser history during these 9 days. Uhm, well, probably some high double-password-secured visits for some popular xxx sites and some not so popular. No, I'm not talking about horses ans penguins, this must be weird. But leaving the ironic side, I ask what USA border police may comment about such thing. Would this machine be arrested in frontier or they prefer to take some teenagers laptops?

  19. 93, 93/93 on Knights Templar Sue the Pope · · Score: 1

    Well, I a M.Mason and a G.'.D.'. and I know personaly people in Knights Templars. For sure there's a modern organization, nothing related with some comic movies. I guess the notice is more related to pope just to remove some old words "not currently in use", like many vatican rules. For example, they don't tell anymore in public to burn women, gipsyes, homossexuals (priests not included LOL), etc, despiste what they do. It's a political act despiste anything else. Next time pope will recognize Ozzy Osbourne as a fictional character only, devoted to the the church and family.

  20. Re:Gordon "Gordo" Cooper on Scotty's Final Mission · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I agree with you, but I have gone faraway with "Scotty" and the other actors interpretation. And as a software developer, "Scotty" always was a inspiration point where look to a good quality job. Or to find something that solved the problem, with or without physics laws (computer users ignore the most basic principles...)

  21. RIP James Doohan on Scotty's Final Mission · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Well, I hope he's have a final mission anyways. The current enginner may be afraid on giving excuses to Scotty personaly. Gordon Cooper, astronaut from the original Mercury 7 was there too. Now, they are anywhere, "lost in space" Will... (sorry bad english).

  22. Re:USENET is doing just fine on R.I.P Usenet: 1980-2008 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    As a programmer, the programming-related newsgroups are the first place where I go after tips and share info about solving the most dificult issues for years. I agree with a previous comment, you can't take someone blog as a law about anything. Usenet have some problems like any other area, but is a direct way to many. If you don't want spam, just don't open that post, most of times they have an clear (and stupid) subject.

  23. Good Spam filter on Spam King and Family Dead In Murder-Suicide · · Score: 1

    Someone know what anti-spam software was used to kill the bastard? Of course, someone missed to configure: Tools=> Options=> Innocents in Family not included.

  24. I think this guy is Ok. on Man Really Loves His Car · · Score: 1

    I would mind if was a Caterpillar lover.

  25. Re:Don't burn bridges, and transfer knowledge on Getting Rid of Staff With High Access? · · Score: 1

    I second that. Being professional with a good "well done job" and a polite public relationship is always a good profile. And of course, relax, you can do the things in your moto, and take some time to interact with the friends and people in the company.