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  1. Re:Why do CS grads become lowly programmers? on Ask Slashdot: "Real" Computer Scientists vs. Modern Curriculum? · · Score: 1, Funny

    Software "engineering" can't be considered real engineering until it can produce work output that has the same level of reliability as a properly engineered bridge using repeatable, proven processes. Until then it has as much relation to engineering as a certification mill.

  2. Re: Wayback Machine on Hack an Oscilloscope, Get a DMCA Take-Down Notice From Tektronix · · Score: 1

    Copyright law seems more applicable.

    You can't copyright non-creative information like data. The SKU is used as a key to enable the option already stored in the firmware. That is why they are invoking the DMCA.

  3. Re:yelp is deleting negative reviews?! on Hotel Charges Guests $500 For Bad Online Reviews · · Score: 1

    That's Yelp's entire business model: pay to remove bad reviews. They win the more bad reviews they collect.

  4. Re:minutes to midnight on Putin Government Moves To Take Control of Russia's largest space company Energia · · Score: 1

    Since those powerful companies _own_ congress, they would do it to their weaker competition.

    FTFY

  5. Watermark your DVDs Lionsgate on Lionsgate Sues Limetorrents, Played.to, and Others Over Expendables 3 Leak · · Score: 1

    If they had applied a unique digital watermark to each of the DVDs they could track down the person who uploaded their copy and prosecute him. Applied consistently, this policy would be far more effective in stamping out unauthorized release of screeners.

  6. But Quatar is our friend on The High-Tech Warfare Behind the Israel - Hamas Conflict · · Score: 0

    That won't stop us from sucking Quatari dick to maintain access to their ports. Besides, it never hurts to be the arms dealer in a proxy war.

  7. Re:will be pontless if it sticks on Cell Phone Unlocking Is Legal -- For Now · · Score: 1

    If you have a Verizon worldphone with GSM support you have more options. I'm switching over to a GSM provider soon and will be curious to see what happens when a different SIM is used in the US.

  8. Re:And no one will go to jail on CIA Director Brennan Admits He Was Lying: CIA Really Did Spy On Congress · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well we can all sleep safely knowing that at least baseball players will be smacked down for daring to lie to Congress.

  9. Re:RACIST! on Jesse Jackson: Tech Diversity Is Next Civil Rights Step · · Score: 1

    There is a legitimate problem, though, that a disproportionate number of degree holding blacks aren't working in their field. The CEO of McDonald's is an EE. He's not doing bad for himself these days but you have to wonder why he couldn't establish a career as an engineer.

  10. Re:Time Shifting? on Ford, GM Sued Over Vehicles' Ability To Rip CD Music To Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    The AHRA requires the use of serial copy management for digital copying. You aren't protected by the act if you don't follow that provision which presumably no hardware manufacturer does these days since most CD audio is handled by generic CD-ROM assemblies to permit more flexible data usage.

  11. Re:Here's a novel idea on Raspberry Pi-Compatible Development Board Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    BeagleBone Black is that board. Better GPIO, no broken USB stack and other Broadcom SOC BS.

    Without Ethernet, I don't see how this is supposed to be competitive against RPi considering that TI has the nice EK-TM4C1294XL Tiva C Series Connected Launchpad for $20.

  12. Re:Methane Anyone? on Satellite Images Show Russians Shelling Ukraine · · Score: 1

    even some commercial interests have satellites that can see the same thing.

    This imagery is from one of those commercial interests - Digital Globe. The US hasn't released the significantly better imagery they have from their military satellites.

    The little known "secret" is that the last generation of commercial imagery satellites was all funded by the US taxpayer to serve as a stopgap against a hole in their coverage from the classified units and to avoid having to purchase any imagery from the commercial operators in the future as was needed during Iraq 2.

  13. Re:Funny on Satellite Images Show Russians Shelling Ukraine · · Score: 2

    This imagery is from unclassified civilian satellites. The early-warning satellites that detect IR emissions from rockets and explosions a) don't produce sexy high-res imagery, and b) releasing said imagery would expose our capabilities.

  14. Re:Weakest US President ever on Satellite Images Show Russians Shelling Ukraine · · Score: 1

    Well you see, the scheduling's all wrong. We have to wait another 10 to 15 years before we can start another major offensive to prop up our MIC. Until then we have to depend on our proxies to use up the ordinance we sell them.

  15. Re:The problem is the other way round... on The Daily Harassment of Women In the Game Industry · · Score: 0

    The first generation of Disney Princesses are now in the work force demanding to be respected, and catered to by all slovenly men who would dare to gaze upon them.

  16. Re:Time will tell on Netflix Reduces Physical-Disc Processing, Keeps Prices the Same · · Score: 1

    There's also the little matter that the CEO made many public statements about the disc side of the business remaining strongly supported. Then two years later they tried to dump it.

  17. Political move on Verizon Boosts FiOS Uploads To Match Downloads · · Score: 1

    This is just a political move because Verizon didn't like all the obvious holes poked in their argument that Netflix/Level3 should carry balanced traffic when that is impossible considering that their customer base is almost all on asymmetric links.

    Now Verizon can lie to Congress when they pull out the charts and graphs that conveniently show how Level3 isn't holding up their end to receive 50Mbps uploads from their entire customer base simultaneously over the four 10GB Ethernet links they share. Never mind that consumers have little need to upload high volumes of traffic and private servers are still officially banned on residential.

  18. Re:Crazy on States That Raised Minimum Wage See No Slow-Down In Job Growth · · Score: 1

    The people who lose out are those just above the minimum wage floor who see their less skilled/experienced/tenured coworkers elevated to a higher wage while theirs remains stagnant.

    That isn't losing out on anything. Your economic power remains the same. What you lose is the ability to sneer at those making significantly less than you.

    Humans judge their happiness by evaluating themselves relative to the local population. That is why people in poorer nations with fewer resources then your typical homeless American are generally happier than those under similar circumstances in a developed nation. You just didn't like the perception of being in the bottom of the heap even though your position hadn't changed.

  19. Re:Manager on New Microsoft CEO Vows To Shake Up Corporate Culture · · Score: 1

    Gerund the Destroyer? Weren't you doing a FPS last year? All new leaders flap their wings. Let's see him fly before we shoot him down. Besides, what if he pulls it off?

    No. I came up with this sig on my own 10+ years ago but I see other people using variants of it from time to time. I enjoy the grammar nazis who occasionally point out that becoming isn't a gerund, missing the inner joke.

  20. Way to Striesand yourself on $10 Million Lawsuit Against Wikipedia Editors "Stragetically" Withdrawn · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I never heard of Yank Barry before but now I know all about his extensive criminal record.

  21. Re:And? on The Improbable Story of the 184 MPH Jet Train · · Score: 1

    Wind resistance follows a square law. It is impressive to get 47% more speed.

  22. Bank accounts for the poor on Predicting a Future Free of Dollar Bills · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Cashless only works if the poor can get bank accounts without having to pay hefty fees if they can even qualify at all.

  23. Re:very cool on Rocket Scientist Designs "Flare" Pot That Cooks Food 40% Faster · · Score: 1

    The basic concept isn't rocket science. Optimizing the shape to maximize heat transfer is.

  24. Re:srm -v -z on Want To Ensure Your Personal Android Data Is Truly Wiped? Turn On Encryption · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The "special values" were from Guttmann's paper on wiping MFM/RLL drives. It is pointless on any modern magnetic drive or solid state memory. He points out in his newer paper on solid-state memories that multi-level flash (now used everywhere other than the most performance critical applications) is particularly hard to recover data from. Furthermore, the wear-leveling strategies used in flash mass storage devices negates any attempt to securely wipe them short of physical destruction. You're just practicing cult cargo voodoo.

  25. Re:It works quite well. on A Skeptical View of Israel's Iron Dome Rocket Defense System · · Score: 1

    Sadly Israel really needs to be allowed to take more offensive action or else things will simply continue in this steady-state for the foreseeable future.

    Their quarry is systematically marginalized and trapped in a small area. A concentration camp if you will. The only thing that can be done to "take more offensive action" is to ramp up the current extermination program.