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  1. Re:Acronis on Ask Slashdot: Free/Open Deduplication Software? · · Score: 1

    Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 Advanced Server has deduplication (licensed addon) and runs on Linux. At roughly $2000 it ain't cheap. I've never used it so can't comment on how well it does.

    At $2000 it is cheap. Ever price a Data Domain?

  2. Re:I, for one, on Genetically Modifying Silk Worms For Super Silk · · Score: 1

    welcome our new super silkworm overlords.

    The spiders won't become overlords (unless the move to Mars) although if bitten by one it could potentially turn you into a comic book superhero.

  3. Re:Head up thier ass on Google Leaves App Inventor In Limbo · · Score: 1

    At least they can spell.

    Oh yes?? You do know that Google's own name is a misspelling of a very large number? Seldom has a pedant been so completely and utterly wrong.

    They could get a trademark on Google.

  4. Re:News Flash: CEOs Think Strategically on NYT: IBM PC Division Sold To Advance China's Goals · · Score: 2

    It's the essence of capitalism that you can slack off providing you have enough money and don't do really stupid things with it.

    Everyone in favor of sending the Kardashians, Paris Hilton, Lindsey Lohan, Charlie Sheen, and Britney Spears to a Communist country say Aye!

  5. Re:You left one out: on Floyd Landis Sentenced For Hacking Test Lab · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't think of it as disrespectful... more just unintentionally offensive. I find it distasteful for someone to wear the flag as clothing, but I appreciate that those folks don't mean to be disrespectful. They think they're showing everyone how much they love their country.

    Personally I am against flag burning except for when people wrap themselves in one.

  6. Re:Consider relocation on Ask Slashdot: Re-Entering the Job Market As a Software Engineer? · · Score: 1

    to Bangalore. Otherwise, consider some other career arc.

    Labor in India is getting too expensive. Try Manilla.

  7. Re:I'm 55 and like me you are dead meat. on Ask Slashdot: Re-Entering the Job Market As a Software Engineer? · · Score: 1

    I'm 55 and like me you are dead meat. I too have tons of experience but they only look at your last two years or so. Morons. My advice is build your own apps on the side. Good luck.

    If you have more than a few years of experience you probably aren't willing to work 70 hour weeks for entry level pay, and therefore are overqualified.

  8. Re:Good Luck on Ask Slashdot: Re-Entering the Job Market As a Software Engineer? · · Score: 1

    HR will never pass your résumé up to the person who can actually appreciate your experience and knowledge.

    Any shop that has let HR insert themselves into the hiring process like that is pretty much doomed. Avoid at all costs.

    Isn't that the definition of an HR department?

  9. Re:FP? on Edison Would Have Loved New Light Bulb Law, Says His Great-Grandson · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Really?

    Chances are he would have held one or more patents on the new light bulb so it would have been a source of income for him.

  10. Re:protection of a work is needed to keep the crea on Actual Damages For 1 Download = Cost of a 1 License · · Score: 4, Funny

    I forgot to mention that without copyright there will be no incentive for said ancestor to create more cave paintings.

  11. Re:protection of a work is needed to keep the crea on Actual Damages For 1 Download = Cost of a 1 License · · Score: 2

    "That is true, was true, and will keep being true"

    That's so blatantly false that only the utmost ignorant or a damn lier would stand for it.

    The written History of Humankind covers no less than 5000 years; intellectual property is a 500 year old concept at most, so for no less than 90% of History the "creative process" has kept going quite good without such "protections".

    Excuse me! The photographs of cave paintings you took on your last vacation infringes on the copyrights of my great,great,great,great,great,great,great,great,great,great,great,great,great,great,great,great,great grandfather. Pay up now before I sick my lawyers in you.

  12. Re:Lies! on Running Great Britain? There's an App For That! · · Score: 4, Funny

    I guess by county they mean America.

    The bad piggies are running the country now! They seem to have an irrational fear of airborne suicide bombers.

  13. Re:How does it compare on 2011: Record Year For Airline Safety · · Score: 1

    I couldn't help but note the cyclist didn't have any luggage.

    When landing the airplane passenger didn't either.

  14. I'm all for this on TSA Got Everything It Wanted For Christmas · · Score: 3, Insightful

    As long as a tsa checkpoint is required to board Air Force One. (even for the Persistent)

  15. Re:Jeff Goldblum on Insects Rapidly Becoming Resistant To GM Corn · · Score: 1

    As an evolutionary biologist it is my sworn duty to make fun of helpless species that evolved to fill an ecological niche in the absence of predators. Like Walmart shoppers.

    Black Friday seems to sugguest the presence of predators among wal mart shoppers.

  16. Re:SHOULD "Apps" Cost Something? on Why We Agonize Over Buying $1 Apps · · Score: 1

    This is spot on!

    And this is why I "pirate" apps. But before you judge, I can make two statements with total honesty: 1) I have ZERO pirated apps on any of my devices. ALL paid apps I have, have been purchased paid for. 2) Every last app on my mobile devices has been "pirated" for 5-10 minutes. Every last one (Excluding built-in and free apps of course)

    My purchasing process goes like this:

    1) Is there a free version? If so, get that and try it, then jump to step 5 2) No free trial/demo? Then I fire up installious and find the app in question. 3) App not in warez form yet? Then stop - This app is no longer an option. 4) Try warez version for 5-10 minutes or so, hitting 'deny all for session' in firewall, and then delete the app.

    5a) Did I like the app? If so, I return to the app store and purchase it. 5b) Did I hate the app? It's already long deleted, so we are basically done here.

    The developers that DO provide a demo/trial version, you guys rock. Makes it very easy to decide if your app is for me and buy it, with 2/5ths the steps and much less time involved.

    The developers that don't, well, deal with it. If I can't demo it somehow, you are guaranteed to have lost a sale, and if I happen to have placed your company name in my memory, you have potentially lost all sales to me.

    I've easily spent over $500 on the apple store, and $200 on the Cydia store, in apps alone over both of my devices. It isn't worth it to me to fuck around with managing pirated apps in the long term, and have no interest in that.

    The first app I was ripped off from was a silly $1 game. It literally would not run on either of my devices. I was pissed but since it was only a dollar I let it slide. The second app however was a $10 development tool that was literally NOTHING like the description.

    BTW, the scam app was: App Designer HD, v1.2, Seller: Nate Chiger I see he lowered it from $10 to $1, no doubt trying to rip off even more people than before. If you read the description, that is not anything close to what the app really does. You get ONE of each GUI widget type, and can move the icon around on the screen like they were cutout on paper. Want two buttons or two switches on your screen? Too bad. In fact it would be easier and have MORE features to just use pen and paper instead of this piece of crap app.

    The developer nor Apple would refund the price. Ever since that day I won't even consider an app I can't try first, one way or the other.

    I ended up trying two different apps that filled this roll. iMockups (Also $10 but AWESOME) for doing GUI layout and design, and Codea ($8) for rapid prototyping (In Lua no less.) Both "pirated" for 10ish minutes each, and immediately purchased after deleting the warez copy.

    I have no problems paying for software. I do have problems getting ripped off.

    You stinking theiving pirate! I bet you even listen to music on the radio without paying for it before buying it on itunes!

  17. Re:1060 West Addison on Apocalypse Tourism: Where To Celebrate Doomsday? · · Score: 2

    after the cubs win the party may just last all of NOV.

    Although not as apocalyptic as a Cubs world series win, Van Halen announced they would be touring in 2012 with David Lee Roth.

  18. Re:Are they GPS satellites? on China Begins Using New Global Positioning Satellites · · Score: 1

    No, but Beidou will help guide their missiles.

    And recon drones! If they end up in Iran we'll know where they got their UAV tech from.

  19. Re:Are they GPS satellites? on China Begins Using New Global Positioning Satellites · · Score: 1

    Japan ate them, too

    Just the fins.

  20. Re:What if? on What If Babbage Had Succeeded? · · Score: 4, Funny

    What if the Black Death hadn't have occurred? What if Rome had never fallen? What if the Chinese had used gunpowder for more than fireworks? What if Christianity had never caught on? What if Native Americans had thrown off the colonists?

    Until we start figuring out how to travel the multiverse, it's all subjective opinion...

    What if there were no rhetorical questions?

  21. Better idea on Warner Bros Sued For Pirating Louis Vuitton Trademark · · Score: 1

    Perhaps LV should just release a bag based on the one in the move. What are the makers of the 'knock offs' going to do, sue them?

  22. Re:Oh noes on Taliban Seizes and Burns PCs, Cell Phones To Stop Obscenity · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If they were smart they would burn the internet ...

    We' ll take care of that with SOPA.

  23. Re:Surely on Apple Files Patent For Fuel Cell Laptops · · Score: 1

    Apple is the new Microsoft.

  24. Re:Truth on ITC Judge: Motorola Mobility Infringed Microsoft Patent · · Score: 3, Insightful

    On the other hand the US courts don't seem to require the patent to even be valid. (e.g. the infamous NTP vs RIM lawsuit)

  25. Re:lesson learned, don't upload stolen movies on X-Men Origins Pirate Draws a 1-Year Sentence · · Score: 1

    And I forgot. Somehow Google is to blame. They drove the getaway car or something.