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  1. Re:Good for you! on Ask Slashdot: Becoming a Programmer At 40? · · Score: 1

    I'm a 31 year old married programmer just getting out of college and looking forward to kids soon. Working a nice 40 hour a week paid internship with decent money and moving into a full time gig starting with generous pay, salary, and pension system in a great mid sized company. All of the programmers on my team are 35+ years old in a very highly successful and growing company. The latest hire is a 60 year old main-framer who's looking forward to retirement in 5 years and just enjoying the work until then.

    Terrible experiences being taken advantage of are no more the norm than great companies who do not age discriminate and offer great compensation, hours, vacation time, wages, and other benefits, they just get more attention.

  2. Interesting on AMD Details Next-Gen Kaveri APU's Shared Memory Architecture · · Score: 1

    I'm curious how long it will be before these optimizations are found in the compilers themselves.

  3. Re:Nope... call Tata, and focus on your business on Ask Slashdot: Building a Web App Scalable To Hundreds of Thousand of Users? · · Score: 1

    So they off-shored from India to America?

  4. Re:history repeating on Why You Should Worry About the Future of Chromebooks · · Score: 3, Interesting

    A large portion of consumers have repeatedly stated the Chromebook is exactly what they want. It's cheap, handles basic computing needs (word processes, etc), handles online streaming, and is nearly virus proof with little to no learning curve. There is also no slow degrade of speed over time as your not installing any software. For a lot of non-techies, it's a dream come true.

    Looking forward to getting a few more bucks saved up to get my wife another as she's used her old Chromebook into the ground (the monitor is literally held on with tape as it was a beta product and she's a rough user).

    You may not agree, but I find it hard to believe you formed your opinion on the realities of what the common computer user wants.

  5. Re:Please make it stop on YouTube's Ready To Select a Winner · · Score: 1

    Even with translation, all the stories are nonsense and un-entertaining.

    I normally check back on this site throughout the day, but this will be my last post until tomorrow.

    Destroying your product for a day is just a bad business decision Slashdot.

  6. Re:My answer on Fighting TSA Harassment of Disabled Travelers · · Score: 1

    Was gonna spend my mod point down rating, but I decided to comment instead....

    That's how you win an argument, you insult the other person if they don't agree with you.

  7. Re:Hope Application on A 50 Gbps Connection With Multipath TCP · · Score: 1

    *home*

  8. Hope Application on A 50 Gbps Connection With Multipath TCP · · Score: 1

    Waiting to see an apartment full of geeks and gamers rocking 10 cable modems all linked together and splitting the bill.

  9. Loud Fan on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Block Noise In a Dorm? · · Score: 1

    All you need is competing noise. Get a large fan and turn it up, most of the outside noises will be drowned out.

    Also, a website like http://rainfor.me/ helps me a lot when I find myself wandering off into my thoughts.

    If you listen to music and the voices are too distracting, just listen to good movie scores, classical soundtracks, or something orchestra based like http://open.spotify.com/user/1225153336/playlist/174h1jI74KgCR30U60E5Wt or http://open.spotify.com/user/1225153336/playlist/0zfVN0HOmVKz5CVDNWigXg. I find when I'm programming or studying, having complete silence is great. When I can't achieve that, then I need background white noise and voiceless music.

    Just some thoughts based on what I've learned since attending College.

  10. Re:Not a good thing!!!! on Solaris Machine Shut Down After 3737 Days of Uptime · · Score: 1

    Curious why he was down-rated, perceived sarcasm?

  11. Re:The police are not your friend. on The Accidental Betrayal of Aaron Swartz · · Score: 1

    Nope, just an idiot.

  12. Re:Cheap Electrical power wins! on Japan Plans to Restart Most of Their Nuclear Reactors · · Score: 1

    Tchernobul and Fukushima have not been decommissioned?

  13. Re:Close the laptop on Ask Slashdot: Monitor Setup For Programmers · · Score: 1

    Exactly what I do, also it's nice to sit your laptop on a cooling pad like http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005C31HC0/ref=oh_details_o05_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc= if you do not use a dock.

  14. Bah, Robomakerbots instead. on Dennis Tito's 2018 Mars Mission To Be Manned · · Score: 1

    How about instead of people, we send a few robots and some self-contained factories with which to build more. Once things are up and running, we can start constructing a base via remote control.

  15. NOOOOOOO on Iran Unveils Its Own Stealth Fighter Jet, the Qaher F-313 · · Score: 2

    Oh crap...

    This is 300 iterations more advanced than our F13s!

    If we don't catch up and start pumping out F500s or heaven forbid, at least F400s... liberty and democracy will end as we know it!

  16. Stop rewarding jerk carriers on AT&T: Don't Want a Data Plan for That Smartphone? Too Bad. · · Score: 3, Informative

    There are lots of re-sellers who provide you with the same networks but don't require crap like this. http://www.pagepluscellular.com/ is what my wife uses.

    I've deactivated my phone completely and use it with google voice / voip on wifi for free. http://sipdroid.org/

  17. Re:Not so fast on Health Care Providers Failing To Adopt e-Records, Says RAND · · Score: 2, Insightful

    HIPPA states providers can charge up to x dollars per page for records requests.

  18. Meh on Degree Hack: Cobbling Together Credit Hours For Cheap · · Score: 1

    4 years in the Air Force after high school provided me with an associates, an awesome resume bonus, and 4 years of schooling where I'm paid about 1000 a month to attend with full tuition and a books stipend.

    When all is said and done I'll have spent 7 years being paid to get my bachelors but man it's been a lot of fun.

  19. Re:Shut up and take my money on Google Wants To Be a Wireless Carrier · · Score: 2

    And for a cheap rate, I would gladly give over that information as long as it doesn't require work on my part.

    You act like many people wouldn't be willing to sell information about themselves if they could easily do it in exchange for a product they want.

  20. Re:Come on! on Parents Not Liable For Their Son's Illegal Music Sharing, Says German Court · · Score: 4, Funny

    You know, I was able to bypass this problem by making my son's cage floor a wire mesh. Now the droppings fall right through. As an added bonus, when I need to hose the floor down I can also spray the boy for his shower. Two birds with one stone.

  21. So if your son shoots someone, you should go to jail.

    Good to know.

  22. Re:He should seek legal advice. on Man Charged £2,000 For Medical Records Stored On Obsolete System · · Score: 1

    There is no reason to keep it longer than 7 years. It's worthless information that doesn't matter to the provider, why wouldn't they delete it?

  23. Re:He should seek legal advice. on Man Charged £2,000 For Medical Records Stored On Obsolete System · · Score: 1

    That's up to the patient to track, not the medical provider.

  24. Re:Why is this even on Slashdot on Steam Protocol Opens PCs to Remote Code Execution · · Score: 1

    Agree, I can't see how this exploit would work without a previously compromised system. They are also relying on users to click on bad links to get the process started. How is this at all new?

  25. Re:What's the value here? on US Election's Only VP Debate Tonight: Weigh In With Your Reactions · · Score: 1

    Actually, there is a good chance that people who are on the fence about the president will vote for the other guy if a VP really disagrees with them.

    At least I know I'm in that boat atm.