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  1. Ha on Samsung Sets New Guidelines For Alcoholic Beverages · · Score: 4, Funny

    For Asians, the Koreans can out drink them all, but as a big white guy trying to wash down god knows what food was put in front of me, I literally drank them under the table. You see, its impolite to pour your own drink, if you want some, you fill some other persons glass and they fill yours. The food was terrible, and I did not want to be impolite and not eat it, so with every bite came a sip. It got to the point there some of the people at the business dinner could not get up out of their chairs.

    I was told at the end of the night, "You drink very well!"

  2. Re:99% of CS grads are Software Engineers on Computer Science vs. Software Engineering · · Score: 1

    Thats the problem. The market needs Software Engineers that were trained as Software Engineers, not Software Engineers trained as Scientists. The why both approach and solve problems are completely different. I'm not saying CS people can't solve problems, but its the SE that know what problems the solutions create.

  3. I'm not sure on Computer Science vs. Software Engineering · · Score: 1

    But,
    I think the difference should be similar to a physicist and a engineer. When the engineer specializes in practical application of the science, and the physicist researches the science.

    A computer scientist researches and develops sorting algorithms. A software engineer knows which one to use when.

  4. Re:Who could have foreseen it? on Amid Fiscal Uncertainty, Venture Capital Is Way Down In Silicon Valley · · Score: 3, Informative

    Hows austerity working for England, or Europe in general?

    http://www.businessinsider.com/chart-of-the-day-us-vs-uk-growth-2012-4

  5. What? on UK's 'Unallocated' IPv4 Block Actually In Use, Not For Sale · · Score: 0

    Why are they using public IPs for an internal network. Thats kinda retarded.

  6. Re:Taxes on Ask Slashdot: When Is It a Good Idea To Incorporate? · · Score: 2

    A salary is not the only way to take income in as an S-Corp. Yes, you do have to take a salary, and pay income and FICA, but you can also take profit distributions that don't have FICA. You can also pay your salary once a year to reduce the paperwork.

    But compared to a 1099 there are way more filings. Federal, State, and Local for personal and business, for taxes, unemployment, FICA. Most are quarterly. So yea, I do know what I'm talking about.

    Your right, you don't need an accountant, but if you screw up a filling your going to be dealing with the tax problems forever.

  7. Taxes on Ask Slashdot: When Is It a Good Idea To Incorporate? · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'm an S-corp and there are huge benefits in tax write offs compared to filing as a 1099, but filing as an S-corp sucks, an you will need an accountant. I would go to an S-corp as soon as you think you are making enough to pay and accountant about $1k a year or are buying or spending good money on anything that could be considered work related, i.e. computers, cell phones, car expenses.
    You may just want to consult an accountant on the decision as they can tell you the exact benefits after looking at your situation.

  8. Re:Uhhh... the Constitution? on Why Juries Have No Place In the Patent System · · Score: 1

    Any one can wave their right to a trial by jury. Having a jury decide a patent is like throwing the dice. Companies perhaps wouldn't mind a sophisticated arbiter.

  9. Internet Freedom is not what you think on Republican Platform To Include Internet Freedom Plank · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Republican internet freedom is freedom for large corporations to do what ever they want, with the citizens getting the shaft. You can forget net neutrality out of them.

  10. They shouldnt have facebook accounts on Ask Slashdot: How To Best Setup a School Internet Filter? · · Score: 1, Informative

    I'm assuming its not a university or a college. If thats the case you need to be 18 to have a facaebook account acording to their ToS. So, no kids should need to get to facebook.

  11. Job Security on Three Arrests In China Over Baidu Post-Deleting Services · · Score: 2

    They were immediately hired by the Chinese State internet filtering unit.

  12. Re:Just like Microsoft? on Google Delays Nexus Q Launch, Pre-Orders Get It Free · · Score: 2

    That because the don't give out release dates until the product is finished and being manufactured in mass quantities.

  13. Fast Lane on MIT Creates Car Co-Pilot That Only Interferes If You're About To Crash · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I would be all for this if the computer would take over once it determines you are driving too slow in the fast lane and blocking traffic. Maybe there can be 2 modes, emergency take over, and 'Nag' mode for when the computer determines your acting like a selfish asshole.

  14. Re:Much better than Google's approach on MIT Creates Car Co-Pilot That Only Interferes If You're About To Crash · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm not certain but I'm pretty sure computers are landing airplanes with the pilots overseeing the process.

    I also find it hard to believe that a computer cannot get better at driving a car the most people. Sure there are emergency situations the require extreme skill and judgement calls, but how many people are good in those situations? I have seen many drivers who react 100% wrong in dangerous situations. They don't understand the dynamics of the car and get confused in a panic. Computers don't have this problem.

  15. 2001 on MIT Creates Car Co-Pilot That Only Interferes If You're About To Crash · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm sorry David, I cannot allow you to pass that car.

  16. LTE? on RIM CEO On What Went Wrong · · Score: 5, Informative

    Its not being ready for LTE that kill them, it was the lack of modernizing the user interface and modern phones that killed them.

  17. Camera on HP Releases More WebOS Components for the TouchPad · · Score: 5, Informative

    Will this help the Android guys get the camera to work?

  18. Some one better get it up on Tor and the Pirate Bay ASAP.

  19. $90 for 1GB on Verizon Wireless Goes Ahead With 'Bucket' Data Plans · · Score: 1

    Wow, what a deal! Thats only $9 a device for 100MB each!

  20. Re:It's not all black and white on 2013 H-1B Visa Supply Nearly Exhausted · · Score: 1

    Microsoft was caught rehanded laying off americans and replacing them directly with H1-Bs.

  21. Re:Immigration increases the demand for skilled IT on 2013 H-1B Visa Supply Nearly Exhausted · · Score: 1

    I have been in many start-ups, inside and outside of the valley. I have never seen an H1-B in a start up. They are the domain of large corps like Microsoft or IBM.

  22. Good on 2013 H-1B Visa Supply Nearly Exhausted · · Score: 1

    The H1-B visa program is BS. Its point is to provide sub market price labor to large companies. Every one of those jobs could be filled by americans, but they would cost more.

  23. Why? on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Test Storage Media? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Even if your storage passes the test, it could fail the next day. What you should be doing is designing your storage to gracefully handle failure, like RAID 5 with spares.

  24. 3 layers on Ask Slashdot: It's World Backup Day; How Do You Back Up? · · Score: 1

    Rsync to a local Drobo with Drobo RAID, a Local fiber channel array with RAID 5, and to a remote NAS with RAID 5, every night.

  25. More on In Your Face, Critics! Red Hat Passes $1 Billion In Revenue · · Score: 1

    I wonder how much more they would have made if Oracle didn't rip them off. I dont count CentOS though. The vast majority of people using CentOS either can't afford Redhat or will move up when they can.