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  1. Re: Why isn't this illegal again? on Disney Making Laid-Off US Tech Workers Train Foreign H1-B Replacements · · Score: 1

    Campaign contributions go a long way to changing US laws to benefit the corporate contributors.

  2. Too many corporations think that they are the most important thing on earth. Anything they do is fine and for the benefit of all mankind. They need to get the word out, as to how great they are, in the form of ads which no doubt you've been waiting anxiously to receive. They need more revenue to pad exec's bonuses. So we get the much appreciated third party paid ads which inform us of deals that we otherwise might not be aware of.. Stop it you jerks. You're not that important to us at all.

  3. Re:Permission vs Forgiveness on Ask Slashdot: What Do You Wish You'd Known Starting Your First "Real" Job? · · Score: 1

    Your saying works. But, his isn't wrong. It's similar to the way I learned it: It's better to ask for forgiveness then for permission. They all get the point across.

  4. Re:Good Grief on Android, Chromecast To Get HBO Now · · Score: 2

    According to the original article Netflix traffic was up slightly. "Overall in the full report, Netflix remained the clear leader on North American fixed networks (as opposed to mobile) during peak usage times, up slightly to 36.5 percent of downstream traffic, with YouTube again a distant second at 15.6 percent." Do you have a link that shows the number of subscribers leaving Netflix? It sure looks like they're doing just fine based on the linked report.

  5. Re:Systems Administration 101 on Crowdfunded, Solar-powered Spacecraft Goes Silent · · Score: 1

    Pedantically, you are correct. However, in this instance "round robbing" seems apropos.

  6. Not scientific on Ways To Travel Faster Than Light Without Violating Relativity · · Score: 1

    This article is more of an opinion piece than anything else, lacking any evidence of faster than light travel in a vacuum. Light that moves through expanding space is not moving faster than c. It's simply being moved with space itself. The article reads like it was written by someone that normally covers the police beat and now is appearing amazed by science. Click-bait headlines bring in ad dollars though.

  7. There are plenty of coders on Clinton Foundation: Kids' Lack of CS Savvy Threatens the US Economy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    One of the problems is that American corporations are both lazy and greedy. Too cheap and lazy to train local intelligent educated coders in their unique coding operating procedures. So, they lobby to hire foreigners that will keep costs down. Oddly, the foreigners also need training. So, claiming that American't aren't suited is a bold faced lie. They simply want to keep costs down and screw you if you are a qualified American software engineer that has a B+ average and is willing to work hard. Someday, you might become great at what you do and want more money or leave the firm. Hiring H1B applicants keeps costs down and reduces churn, which wouldn't be bad if the cheapskates paid appropriately in the first place and were honest about their hiring needs. Western education is excellent. As a side note, it seems that the Clinton's no longer feel your pain. They help cause it now.

  8. Audit before issuing policy on Insurer Won't Pay Out For Security Breach Because of Lax Security · · Score: 1

    An insurance company that wants to start insuring new things should understand what they are insuring. They need to run tests beforehand to determine if the level of security is acceptable prior to issuing said policy. This would be similar to my getting a physical before obtaining a large dollar amount life insurance policy. The company wants to be fairly certain that my health is at an acceptable level and I am not expected to die soon from natural causes. Issuing policies solely as a means to profit, without proper due diligence, and then refusing to pay a claim seems unethical. Let the courts sort this one out.

  9. Windows still needed to run Word Perfect 5.1 on 25 Years Today - Windows 3.0 · · Score: 1

    As long as people could run Word Perfect 5.1 and Lotus 1-2-3 everyone was happy. I remember people hating "Windows" versions of program as they sucked so badly initially.

  10. Re:Been done elsewhere, but still very cool on Musical Organ Created From 49 Floppy Disk Drives · · Score: 1

    If I told a customer "slash" when dictating a web address, most would ask "which direction?" So, I say "forward" slash when I want to save time on the phone. And yeah, they all use Windows.

  11. Pull the SD card on Factory Reset On Millions of Android Devices Doesn't Wipe Storage · · Score: 1

    Internal SD cards aren't fully wiped during a reset. Why not just pull the card, put it in a computer card reader, format and then do an advanced wipe (I use ccleaner for wipes)? That's what I plan to do when I need to factory reset my phone. Prior to reading this I wouldn't have pulled the SD card before a reset. Now I will. Thanks for the tip.

  12. Re:"Kaspersky's relationship with the Kremlin" on Eugene Kaspersky: "Our Business Is Saving the World From Computer Villains" · · Score: 2

    Kaspersky is in bed with the Kremlin in the sense that Symantec is in bed with the NSA, IMO. It's a company response to friendly pressure from their national governments to expose information that suits their purposes. If it was deeper than that, international companies like Kaspersky would quickly become local firms as customers shop elsewhere.

  13. Gravitational lensing, maybe on Four Quasars Found Clustered Together Defy Current Cosmological Expectations · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Maybe multiple gravitational lensing is somehow confusing things. That or the universe took fertility pills and had quadruplets.

  14. Re:This will be a historic mission. on Arab Mars Probe Planned For 2020 · · Score: 1

    Google (US News link) says its King Saud University. Other Arab schools rank #1 in specific fields of engineering. Seemingly trick questions like yours are easy to answer these days without any previous knowledge of the subject.

  15. Usual answer to a headline question on Does Using an AOL Email Address Suggest You're a Tech Dinosaur? · · Score: 0

    If the term "dinosaur" means "early adopter", than yes.

  16. Re:Privacy? on Worker Fired For Disabling GPS App That Tracked Her 24 Hours a Day · · Score: 0

    Formerly free? I think the descendants of slaves would like a word with you. The USA has only been truly free for wealthy families since it was a group of colonies.

  17. Build numbers stay on Windows 10 the Last Version of Windows? Not So Fast. · · Score: 1

    Windows version numbering may go away. But, build numbering will always exist.

  18. Real world use cases needed on Enterprise SSDs, Powered Off, Potentially Lose Data In a Week · · Score: 2

    I skimmed though Seagate's paper. At first glance, it appears to have a hidden agenda. That is to make hard drives preferable to solid state drives for everyday use, as Seagate primarily sells hard drives. For long term storage that is what is generally done anyway due to cost, along with tape. For performance, 120+ GB SSD's cannot be beaten, one on one, by any hard drive. Does anyone know of data that indicates that (non-OCZ) drives lose data over time during use, not when powered off for many months after use? Seagate's paper may not be useful if it doesn't correspond to real world use.

  19. Re:Vista imploded because of Media Center. on What Might Have Happened To Windows Media Center · · Score: 2

    Media Center began in XP Media Center Edition 2004. It was improved and made more stable in XP MCE 2005. Vista was the result of MS trying to tack SQL onto NTFS. Longhorn took over ten times longer to boot because of it and was eventually killed. Vista, while slow to boot was an improvement. Media Center continued in Vista. Since Media Center was already several years old when Vista was released, I don't think it's "entire concept" was to become an entertainment center. That was simply a feature that was continued from XP MCE 2005. Now, with all the serious rewriting going on with Windows 10, Media Center is not a priority. If enough people demanded it, by, posting at insider.windows.com, it just might be put in Windows 10 some day.

  20. Re:Just in time for the End of the Line on AMD Outlines Plans For Zen-Based Processors, First Due In 2016 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    We are a ways away from not being able to shrink dies further using known technologies. One atom, in this context, is much smaller than 10 nm. The range is 0.1 to 0.5 nm using various methods of calculating the atom's diameter (see link following). . Source on atom size: http://hypertextbook.com/facts...

  21. Metamaterial needed on Space Radiation May Alter Astronauts' Neurons · · Score: 1

    I wonder if anyone is addressing this problem by researching how to deflect the space radiation by designing meta-materials, with a negative refraction index, that would function at the specific energies and wavelengths that would cause damage to neurons. This might take decades, but seems like one possible solution. If you can't block the radiation, move it around you.

  22. Re:Finally on Chinese Security Vendor Qihoo 360 Caught Cheating In Anti-virus Tests · · Score: 0

    How do we know you're not part of a competing firm, like Symantec? Posting as AC doesn't give us any reason to believe that your statements are true and plenty to doubt their veracity. I use 360 TS. If the company genuinely sucks, I'd like evidence of it, not anecdotes. Please post some links that can verify your comments. Have there been any incidences of Qihoo bullying firms outside of China? Are they trying to be a 1990's Microsoft-style company?

  23. Re:Not really an issue on Chinese Security Vendor Qihoo 360 Caught Cheating In Anti-virus Tests · · Score: 1

    There is no upsell, that I can see, when there is no charge for either product. How can there be a bait and switch when it's free? "Here's a nice AV. But wait, here's a better one. Gonna cost ya... nothing."

  24. Not really an issue on Chinese Security Vendor Qihoo 360 Caught Cheating In Anti-virus Tests · · Score: 3, Informative

    The company submitted 360 Total Security with Bitdefender enabled to the antivirus test firms. It was very highly rated. The 360 TS and TSE base products let you enable Bitdefender and Avira engines, but does not come with them pre-enabled. They also have a version that comes with Bitdefender enabled called 360 TSE Enhanced. This is what was submitted, as I understand this issue. I'm not convinced that there was any "trickery". It more than likely was poor communication between the firms.

  25. Currency needs a basis for being on Bitcoin Is Disrupting the Argentine Economy · · Score: 0

    A currency is backed by the value of the goods and services of the nation producing it. Bitcoin is backed by magic.