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  1. Re:But HE bring in H1B Workers... on Trump Gives Displaced IT Workers Attention, and He's Not Alone (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Those 30 beauty models are obviously discouraging thousands of obese American women from becoming models.

    Trump bringing in a few exceptional beauties is the type of H1-B that even Paul Graham endorsed; limit H1-B for top tier world-class talent, not for the kind of grunts that displace natives.

  2. newLISP is the future of Perl on Perl 5.22 Released · · Score: 1

    Ruby was built from an insecure and crash-prone mindset. newLISP is like Perl... but readable!

  3. Re:The FBI is not your friend. on FBI Releases Its Files On DEF CON: Not Amused By Spot-the-Fed · · Score: 1

    Pffft, everyone knows they use WHITE minivans.

  4. Re:What am I doing wrong? on The Great IT Hiring He-Said / She-Said · · Score: 1

    Craigslist. But most Craigslist postings are BS, then we give up and just wait for the recruiters to call us. If you have a posting, link it here, or send it to me in a private message.

  5. Re:Bah, character-set ignorance. on Iceland Raises Volcano Aviation Alert Again · · Score: 1

    Baurtharbunka is a better transliteration.

  6. Re:Happy to let someone else test it on First Release of LibreSSL Portable Is Available · · Score: 1

    So donate to the OpenBSD Foundation, and in your donation leave a note that you want LibreSSL to work on Windows. If enough people do that, guess what... it is pretty likely. Or find out who is on the porting team, and pay them DIRECTLY to put a little extra effort in to make it run on Windows. Put your money where your mouth is.

  7. 5 of them for a virtual keyboard on Intelligent Thimble Could Replace the Mouse In 3D Virtual Reality Worlds · · Score: 1

    Now, put one on each finger, and we can make virtual keyboards, and have all sorts of fun with the UI. 8 fingers.... 8 bits per byte... we could have each finger represent a bit, on or off. Then without moving the hands or stretching the fingers, each key on the keyboard is represented by which the fingers being lowered or not. Saves the thumbs, one for mouse positioning, the other for enabling mouse mode. In mouse mode, the rest of the fingers would do things like Ctrl-Alt-Shift-Super-Meta on one hand, and left click, right click, middle click on the other hand.

  8. Re:Summary is disingenuous on Canada Poised To Buy 65 Lockheed Martin F-35 JSFs · · Score: 1

    Why can't Canada buy some of those cheap Russian and Chinese fighter planes? Seems like a good investment to me.

  9. Re:Real Reasons Thorium is Being Held Up on Thorium: The Wonder Fuel That Wasn't · · Score: 1

    Fixed.

  10. Appreciation for the VA Research IPO on Interviews: Ask Larry Augustin What You Will · · Score: 2

    Larry, I just want to express my appreciation for the way you handled the IPO. I've never made much money from doing software. Your gift of VA shares to many open source developers paid off my student loans, got me out of debt, and there was enough left over to buy a bunch of O'Reilly books. Very classy. Hope you've done well in all your endeavors over the past years since then.

  11. Plays like a dog; 1 thumb down. on Terminus Demo Released · · Score: 3

    Playing with the mouse sensitivity setting didn't help; the mouse is jumpy and erratic. The game overall is not smooth. If this is anything like the final version will be, I'm not buying it. I tried it on two Pentium II class systems, each with over 100M ram and running nothing but X. One had a Mach64 video card, and the other a Trident975. I suppose its *possible* the video card is at fault, but why would that affect the mouse?

  12. Needs libstdc++2.8 on Terminus Demo Released · · Score: 1

    Oh woe is me, I'm not a Redhat/SuSE/Mandrake user; I can't even see the demo. *sigh*

    $ ./terminus
    ./terminus: error in loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.2.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

  13. Please moderate this up on What are Share Options Worth? · · Score: 1

    Very good url there, EVERYONE should read it.

  14. Re:Pyramid Scheme on Bonus Interview: VA Linux CEO Larry Augustin · · Score: 0

    What, you haven't realized yet that the whole stock market is a Ponzi scheme? The Fed doles out the money to whoever it wants, and that has no basis in real concrete terms. Whoever gives Greenspan the best blowjob gets the kinks.

  15. When are you going to buy SGI? on Bonus Interview: VA Linux CEO Larry Augustin · · Score: 1

    The move seems to make sense at this level. Whats the inside scoop?

  16. Wells and Orwell... the conspiracy on The Timekeeper · · Score: 1

    H G Wells devoted his life to the concept of an "open conspiracy", one of whose aims was the reduction in population down to 1 or 2 billion, and to keep it there. He had many influential friends who agreed with his views but took more subtle approaches to supporting him. Wells comes off very bland and trite.

    Orwell on the other hand, saw human nature for what it was. HG Wells sought to turn humans into something they weren't. Orwell merely pointed out the consequences of allowing yourself to lose your humanity. I believe Orwell and Wells visions of the future were but two faces of the same coin; Orwell warned us, Wells actively wanted to bring such a future about.

    I would give up all technology anyday, if it meant I could have true liberty. In the meantime, since thats not possible, technology is the greatest means by which the individual can empower himself against the forces that try to oppress him from all sides

  17. cheap bandwidth, 24 hour food and shopping on On Keeping Geeks in a Metropolitan Area · · Score: 1

    We need decent housing for cheap, high quality adsl or cable for cheap, cheap telephone access, really good public transit for reasonable prices, and a thriving downtown where stuff HAPPENS.

    Being close to the heart of things is the most crucial one. Being able to meet the faces you talk to behind the screen is important. So is having lunch, and bumping into people that are doing things related... cross-polination of ideas between companies happens a lot in Silicon Valley because its so thick with geeks. We go where other geeks are.

    We need a place where people understand us, and preferably, ARE us.

    Oh, and we need a Fries. Fries is our lifeline. And we need decent computer bookshops. And who has not had a hacking session that lasted till 4 in the morning, and not felt like going to Dennys for food? We need grocery stores and restaurants that are open 24 hours, as well as other stores and entertainment places. Any city that caters to this will attract geeks.

  18. with all the money Andover gave you guys... on The Geek Compound Prepares for Y2k · · Score: 1

    you'd think you'd have no problem buying a power generator and lots of backup gasoline :-)

  19. Please reply to this! (Re:IPv6) on Interviews: We Have 2! 1st, L0pht Heavy Industries · · Score: 1

    Good question. I have heard that IPv6 is as insecure as IPv4; I'd like to know more about that.