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  1. Its in there. on IT Workers Training Their Foreign Replacements 'Troubling,' Says White House · · Score: 1

    They know what's in it. What they may not know is how it will be applied.

    However, they know how it is applied, because it has been done for years. They know that employers will specify impossible and non-existent job requirements so that they can justify H1B hires. IN 1988 a recruiter contacted me looking for a programmer with 10 years of experience with PC DOS.

  2. Lawsuits on A Welcome Shift: Spam Now Constitutes Less Than Half of All Email · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Lawsuits against companies for illegal spam also reduces spam.

    in 2003, I filed a spam lawsuit against a drug spammer in Florida. Shortly after I settled, the amount of spam I received went down by about 50%.

    I filed several spam lawsuits between 2013 and 2014. The e-mail load on my mail server went down by 75%.

    Between May 27 2013 and Sat Jul 18 2015 (782 days) my server processed 4,801,196 e-mails (6,1397/day).

    In 2012, my server typically processed between 20k-22k e-mails per day.

    Between Aug 11 2008 and Nov 29 2008 (110 days) my served processed 1,419,128 e-mails. (12,901/day) But In 2011 I more than doubled the number of e-mail users.

    When you sue the advertisers, they may terminate some of the spammer and the advertisers get some of the money from the spam networks that they use. At the very least, spam lawsuits get you on the spammer's suppression lists.

  3. Re:Still too much on A Welcome Shift: Spam Now Constitutes Less Than Half of All Email · · Score: 1

    First, it is not spam if you have a relationship.

    How is it getting easier to filter? It is not easy, you as an end user just does not see it because providers do most of the work for you.

  4. They did copy and paste! on SCOTUS Denies Google's Request To Appeal Oracle API Case · · Score: 2

    They did copy and paste 37 lines of code, the rangecheck function. The court ruled it diminimus and therefore non-infringing. So, Oracle's lawyers took another tact.

    They claimed that this copying gave Google a big advantage and allowed them to get to market sooner. Alsup responded to this argument with ""I couldn't have told you the first thing about Java before this problem. I have done, and still do, a significant amount of programming in other languages. I've written blocks of code like rangeCheck a hundred times before. I could do it, you could do it. The idea that someone would copy that when they could do it themselves just as fast, it was an accident. There's no way you could say that was speeding them along to the marketplace. You're one of the best lawyers in America, how could you even make that kind of argument?"

  5. You are all idiots! on ICANN Seeks Comment On Limiting Anonymized Domain Registration · · Score: 1

    The current rules do not permit anonymous information! These anonymous proxy services are the actually owners of the domains which licenses the domains back to the customers. See Balsam v. Trancos and Solid Host v. NameCheap.

    ICANN simply does not really enforces its rules, they never have. The only time ICANN gets off their ass is when they are really publicly embarrassed, trying to get rid of Karl Auerbach, or Registrar meltdown.

    In its recent rules, ICANN has adopted definitions for privacy services which recognize, not endorses. One can recognize different types of murder, but not endorse it.

  6. Please reinstall on Long Uptime Makes Boeing 787 Lose Electrical Power · · Score: 1

    Please format the drive and res-install windows.

  7. Re:2 weeks notice? Fuggedabouit on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With User Resignation From an IT Perspective? · · Score: 1

    There is no (usually in the USA) law that says when you give notice, the employer cannot fire you immediately without paying.

    Of course, when that happens, you can contact the new employer and ask to start immediately. I worked with someone who was called into the office when he was about to give notice. They laid him off and gave him 6 months severance. You could always apply for unemployment for the time you are fired, though generally there is a 1 week waiting period.

  8. Re:If he's sufficiently important... on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With User Resignation From an IT Perspective? · · Score: 2

    Yeah right. If you were giving notice and you were planning on stealing or sabotaging, would you have not done it already?

    I was once laid off. After I was told, I went back to my desk, had some coffee, checked in the code I was working on.

    Once I was illegally fired, the company's network had some back doors (not put in by me). If I wanted, I could have wiped every machine in the company, or encrypted the entire hard drive, left them running until all the backups were corrupted, then take them down.

    It all depends on the person you hire. If you hire someone who is technically good, if they want they will find a way to burn you. It all depends on the moral fiber of the person.

  9. Big deal, already done. on Ask Slashdot: Automated Tool To OCR CCGs Like Magic: the Gathering? · · Score: 1

    Seto Kaiba has already done it, but added holograms.

  10. It is called good coding. on UK Government Department Still Runs VME Operating System Installed In 1974 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Many people are shocked that computers/systems for 20 years still run, but is says a few things:

    1. That people are used to crap code that can't keep running.
    2. That people are used to crap products that can't last for more than a couple of years.

    If it ain't broke, why fix it? They sent man to the moon on less CPU horsepower than my Nexus 6. Voyager has been running for more than 35 years in the harshness of space.

  11. Re:This is So old... on "Infrared Curtain" Brings Touchscreen Technology To Cheap Cars · · Score: 1

    I was at Carroll Touch back in the 90s. It did not support multi-touch.

    I think it is news because nobody, until now, came up with the obvious idea is to add a IR touch panel over the display in the car.....DUH!

  12. I can host on Ask Slashdot: Good Hosting Service For a Parody Site? · · Score: 1

    I can provide hosting. I am not a big host like some others, but am located in USA and I do not cave to threats.

    The last guy, Robert Smolely, who threatened me with a libel claim for posting my lawsuit accusing him of illegal spamming spent 40 months in prison. I had an ex employer threaten me with a libel claim which when we went to court, they wrote me a 6 figure check.

    Contact me through my web site.

  13. It is called IOS 8.0.1 on iOS Trojan Targets Hong Kong Protestors · · Score: 3, Funny

    IOS 8.0.1 will disrupt cellular communications on an iPhone without the need to root the phone.

    It's not a bug, it is a feature.

  14. Re:I would.. - solution on What Would You Do With the World's Most Powerful Laser? · · Score: 1

    Electric eels with lasers, they have their own power source.

  15. Re:Side benefit on Laser Headlights Promise More Intense, Controllable Beams · · Score: 1

    Hack the lights, fry the next guy who cuts me off or goes to slow.

    Driving in Boston is a contact sport.

  16. Re:Yes it is rascist, and a little sexist on Is Computer Science Education Racist and Sexist? · · Score: 1

    I have a friend who I met during my junior year in high school and her junior year of college. She was a EE and chemistry major. She ended up doing microprocessor optimization code, and was definitely female. She was working on her masters in physical electronics while married.
      I didn't see her in these courses to get a husband.

  17. Nothing new here, sort of. on Chicago Public Schools Promoting Computer Science to Core Subject · · Score: 1

    Offering computer as a major course is not new, this goes back to 1978. As part of a partnership with MIT and the Boston Public Schools, they implemented a Computer Science curriculum in the Mario Umana Harbor School of Science and Technology.

  18. Nothing new! on The Academy For Software Engineering: a High School For Developers · · Score: 1

    This is not a new thing. In the 1976 the Mario Umana Harbor School of Science and technology was formed as a partnership between MIT and the Boston Public Schools. We never got tours of Facebook or Google, but that might be because they didn't exist at the time. We got tours of the MIT museums and labs.

    Of course, who doesn't know about the Bronx High School of Science.

  19. alumni reunion BBQ on Ask Slashdot: When Is It OK To Not Give Notice? · · Score: 1

    I worked (on contract) for a company in Round Rock that had that. It was a great group of people to work for. Sometimes Tim would draw a mustache on me, which could be a bit annoying.

  20. Where do thay say that? on Ask Slashdot: When Is It OK To Not Give Notice? · · Score: 1

    What law prohibits employers from giving information? In the USA, I don't believe there is a law against giving any information. In fact, there is a limited privilege for giving references. However, most companies will give out very little information so as to avoid being sued.

  21. Re:Obligatory on Iron In Egyptian Relics Came From Space · · Score: 1

    It was the giant aliens.

  22. Unintended Consquence on School Board Considers Copyright Ownership of Student and Teacher Works · · Score: 1

    If work done by a teacher at home because property of the school, then that work would become work for the school Then, any injury at home tangentially related to the work would become a work related injury.

  23. Talk to a lawyer. on Ask Slashdot: How To Collect Payments From a Multinational Company? · · Score: 1

    This is not legal advice until: I go to law school, graduate law school, become licensed in your jurisdiction, and confirm your retainer check had cleared.

    Talk to a lawyer to determine where they can be sued. If you provided code to them, revoke the license to use/distribute that code and inform them of that. File a copyright on that code. Then sue them for piracy, breach of contract, fraud, promissory estoppel, unjust enrichment, etc. Once you get a judgement, seize assets, have the court find the corporation in contempt, lock up the officers. Have a blue police box wait for a few people who can help. Essentially, go to war.

  24. What about performance? on Reiser4 File System Still In Development · · Score: 0

    It has killer performance.

    It kills the other filesystems in the benchmarks.

  25. Forget injunction against google. on Ask Slashdot: How To Fight Copyright Violations With DMCA? · · Score: 2

    Get a declaratory judgment. Once a Court rules it is yours, then Google will listen. How much would Google spend to fight when it has no dog in the fight.