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  1. Re:Average on IT Salaries Edge Up Back To 2008 Levels · · Score: 1

    >> that kind of job requires you to work in a covered bunker with no windows, no internet access, no cell phone

    Not always.

  2. Re:ssh tunnel on nonstandard port on Inside the Great Firewall of China's Tor Blocking · · Score: 1

    I guess any traffic they can't inspect would be suspect.

  3. Re:Very subjective on Microsoft Patents Bad Neighborhood Detection · · Score: 1

    I love Baltimore. Best damn city in the nation... filth, crime, grime, one of the drunked cities, and the highest rate of STD's. I refuse to live anywhere else.

  4. Re:dufus decisions on US Research Open Access In Peril · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Greed is what inspired the US to be great.

    Moderating that greed is what actually makes us great.

    We need greed, as sad as that is.

  5. What is you don't use FB, Twitter, ect? on Pirate Party Leader: Copyright Laws Ridiculous · · Score: 1

    I don't have an account on either, but do have a LinkedIn account.

    Honestly, both services seem a little immature.

    Do people like me not get loans?

  6. ssh tunnel on nonstandard port on Inside the Great Firewall of China's Tor Blocking · · Score: 2

    This seems a bit obvious... does anybody know how much luck folks have had with this method?

  7. Re:Find a big cave on The Challenges of Building a Mars Base · · Score: 1

    That's no moon....

  8. Re:Very subjective on Microsoft Patents Bad Neighborhood Detection · · Score: 4, Funny

    You live in Baltimore?

  9. Re:That is pretty much nuts on DARPA Chooses Leader For 100-Year Starship Project · · Score: 1

    Better PR: slashing a few failing projects (of which DARPA has many).

  10. I'd worry more about being robbed on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Way To Deal With Roving TSA Teams? · · Score: 1

    than having my junk touched by the TSA.

  11. Re:Average on IT Salaries Edge Up Back To 2008 Levels · · Score: 1

    130? Get yourself a Top Secret / SCI with full scope poly and you will command a real salary.

  12. Re:This will sound insensitive on IT Salaries Edge Up Back To 2008 Levels · · Score: 1

    This is great - and similar to what I did in the 1990's... ...but later you will find you have priced yourself high. It is not a terrible problem to have - as long as you are employed.

  13. Re:has to corrects my code on Leap Second Coming In June, 2012 · · Score: 1

    Well, it is going to have to run at least once a day in order to work.

    Which means once a day every year it is going to fuck up.

  14. Re:Ridiculous government intervention on Leap Second Coming In June, 2012 · · Score: 1

    Hmm perhaps there are these things "things" such as computers, atomic clocks, disciplined oscillators, what have you, that simply do not jibe with Pope Gregory's calendar?

    Just maybe?

    Oh for fucks sake why did I even reply?

  15. Re:has to corrects my code on Leap Second Coming In June, 2012 · · Score: 1

    And in 2013.... (and 2014, and 2015, and 2016....)?

  16. Re:has to corrects my code on Leap Second Coming In June, 2012 · · Score: 2

    Well, I think we now have a good example of how NOT to code.

  17. Who would pay for a Letter from Santa? on Why Freemium Doesn't Work · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Seriously.

    I can think of examples where Freemium works (EVE, JIRA).

  18. Re:no win war on Tensions Over Hormuz Raise Ugly Possibilities For War · · Score: 1

    I doubt it. US would not use ground troops, simply knock Iran's military back to 1700 from the air.

  19. The USN would just stand off... on Tensions Over Hormuz Raise Ugly Possibilities For War · · Score: 1

    ...and destroy every scrap of military infrastructure in Iran from 1000 miles out. USAF strikes from Diego Garcia.

    Then clean the straits of mines.

    This would take two weeks maximum.

    Let us all hope this doesn't happen.

  20. Re:ARM is coming along BADLY! on PandaBoard ES Benchmarked · · Score: 1

    PPC?

    1997 called and wants it's next big thing back.

  21. Re:TI on PandaBoard ES Benchmarked · · Score: 1

    I am doing a lot of development on Gumstix Overos and am finding that platform to be pretty sweet. I think many of the problems you are encountering might be an artifact of the Beagle (who incidentally flat out state not to base an actual product on their hardware).

  22. How about OpenCL for POWERVR?? on PandaBoard ES Benchmarked · · Score: 1

    Where are the drivers and SDK for this?

  23. Open source it on Ask Slashdot: Handing Over Personal Work Without Compensation? · · Score: 1

    Then say "Hey look at this great tool..."

  24. Re:Career on Ask Slashdot: Handing Over Personal Work Without Compensation? · · Score: 0

    Clearly you are inexperienced.

  25. Re:The Era of Linux is at hand on Why American Corporate Software Can No Longer Be Trusted · · Score: 3, Funny

    I am not sure how you pirate completely free software, but since not all free (speech) software is free (beer) software, I suppose it is possible.