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  1. Re:3 billion on a fan company? on PC Cooling Specialist Zalman Goes Bankrupt Due To Fraud · · Score: 1

    Assumptions made here:
    - 3B dollars were loaned from multiple banks
    - the money wasn't loaned all at the same time.
    - we might find out that some loans were taken to cover others, which is a well known and common practice.
    - some money might have come from other sources (not necessarily banks).

  2. Re:That raises the question: on PC Cooling Specialist Zalman Goes Bankrupt Due To Fraud · · Score: 1

    I did, and it was funny.

  3. Re:The only way to win the game... on Users Can't Distinguish Scams From Facebook's Features · · Score: 2

    Or play responsibly. Don't make your main page ("wall?") look like a Christmas tree, keep a tight cover on who's in which group, don't accept a gazillion "friends", keep a low profile, update only when you have to (something important, worth sharing, happens) and you'll be fine.
    Those who fall for such scams don't use the system, they are the ones being used, they're fodder and none the wiser.

  4. Re:Assumptions? on The Other Side of Diversity In Tech · · Score: 2

    I had the impression that job websites are gender and race neutral, I also had the impression that if a job ad isn't gender and race neutral, that would be illegal.
    As for "publications for professional women" - that's less than "publications for professionals", isn't it?

  5. Re:Assumptions? on The Other Side of Diversity In Tech · · Score: 2

    How would that go?

    "Oh dear, these jobs are on sale, just like shoes!" or "Yo dog, wanna put that application in da mailbox"?
    Really, it sounds ridiculous and reeks of positive discrimination to even attempt to tailor job ads to a certain race or gender.
    The problem isn't job ads. The problem lies within the preconceptions of people who have the power to decide between candidates.

  6. Re:There's a clue shortage on The Great IT Hiring He-Said / She-Said · · Score: 1

    There are other parameters to be taken into account.
    Mature and reliable infrastructure, for example. Yeah, open an office in a tourist area and be plagued by outages of all sorts (from electrical to telecom to Internet). Also, looking locally for applicants is faster and cheaper, provided you're willing to match up salaries and then some, and Silly Valley for example is groaning under the weight of qualified people.

  7. Re:Diversity bullshit on Amazon Releases (Not Many) Details On Its Workforce Demographics · · Score: 2

    Oblig: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...

    First paragraph should suffice.

  8. Re:Rainbow PUSH said ... on Amazon Releases (Not Many) Details On Its Workforce Demographics · · Score: 2

    it does require companies to identify that minorities are underrepresented in employment applications and take measures to encourage more applications from underrepresented minorities.

    Why?
    No, really, I don't get it. Why positively discriminate $this race versus $that race?

  9. Re:Not a good week... on Virgin Galactic SpaceShipTwo Crashes · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Or horse carriages, or trains, or cars, radios, TVs, mobile phones, computers... pretty much anything that was "brand new tech" at some point in the past.

  10. Re:How big a fuss is it, really? on How Apple Watch Is Really a Regression In Watchmaking · · Score: 1

    I don't wear a watch, period, so it's a non-issue for me :)

  11. Re:We can do that thing you like on Windows 10 Gets a Package Manager For the Command Line · · Score: 1, Interesting

    In which case it would make no sense for each application to try and store the DLL locally. I shiver when I imagine an application being uninstalled and removing deduplicated DSLLs that every other application uses, simply because its developer was cutting corners or incompetent.

  12. Re:We can do that thing you like on Windows 10 Gets a Package Manager For the Command Line · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Disk space ain't that cheap, especially if you install the applications on a SSD. Furthermore, a large application is using literally gigabytes of shared DLLs which would otherwise be saved separately. Disk space usage would astronomically increase.

  13. Re:One of the ways Linux is ahead of Windows. . . on Windows 10 Gets a Package Manager For the Command Line · · Score: 1

    For most well known Windows applications, I'm using Ninite for both automated batch install and automated batch update.

  14. Re:Simply put: O_o on Windows 10 Gets a Package Manager For the Command Line · · Score: 1, Troll

    Not as long as it (would) take Linux to offer a really good Desktop solution.

  15. Re:Yay! Another Unix! on Windows 10 Gets a Package Manager For the Command Line · · Score: 1

    That would make it a non-Windows thing, not a Linux thing.

  16. Re:We can do that thing you like on Windows 10 Gets a Package Manager For the Command Line · · Score: 2

    ...leaving you with many identical abc.dll files spread throughout the storage system. Not sure I like this.
    Ideally I would love file versioning with diffs, but that's just unobtainable.

  17. Re:Social network not enforcing real names.... on We Need Distributed Social Networks More Than Ello · · Score: 1

    My sister lives in Italy with her family. My uncle lives in Germany, my cousin lives in Japan, I have friends (not "facebook"-style friends, but good ones I met in real life) in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa to name a few countries.
    Social networks allows us to keep in touch and communicate. Sure, you could do that by placing a phone call and sending letters and e-mails, but it would be more complicated (timezone differences and whatnot).

    With that being said, I'm not the usual facebook dweller. I only access it when needed, my circle of friends is indeed composed of friends and relatives, not the random dude who added you and never interacted with you again. And yes, i shudder when i see people checking Facebook on their mobile phones every other minute. I for one don't have it installed, nor would I ever do such a thing.

    I guess I'm trying to say it's okay to use social networks as long as you don't let the social networks use you.

  18. Re:Michael Jordan on Machine Learning Expert Michael Jordan On the Delusions of Big Data · · Score: 1

    Only I got to work with Sumana Shit (https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Sumana%20Shit) and people called Supaporn, Wanaporn and Pornsak?

  19. Re:A star? on Astronomers Find Brightest Pulsar Ever Observed · · Score: 1

    Somebody didn't RTFA.

  20. Re:Ridiculous on Manga Images Depicting Children Lead to Conviction in UK · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm confused about one thing, though.
    How can you reliably determine the age of a cartoon character? I mean, they're cartoons, you could say "this girl-like-looking drawing is actually an 1000-year old witch". Furthermore, I found difficult to reliably determine whether some manga characters were of lawful age, because most look like they're not, I assume this is intentional but can't be sure.

    In the absence of a well-designed "lawful age" metric, one should either ban all manga or ban none.

  21. Re: How many GPS systems are there? on India Successfully Launches Region-Specific Navigation Satellite · · Score: 4, Informative

    Therefore, from the in-house GPS perspective, india is in top 5 countries. I'd say that's quite an achievement.

  22. Re:Matlab is not an app on The One App You Need On Your Resume If You Want a Job At Google · · Score: 3, Informative

    I used the word "app" long before it was corrupted by Angry Birds and the like.

  23. Re:Good job, India! on India Successfully Launches Region-Specific Navigation Satellite · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What the fuck.
    How many countries have their own, in-house built GPS solutions?

  24. Re:I installed it on Data From Windows 10 Feedback Tool Exposes Problem Areas · · Score: 1

    I installed it in a VM as well. The Start Menu was small, I mean really small, and although the mouse pointer showed I could resize it, it wouldn't resize at all. I restarted it and the Start Menu was bigger this time, but I still couldn't resize it. After several restarts I came to realize that if I tried to drag it to a new size, I had to restart for that change to apply, but then I couldn't resize it again unless I restarted the OS after that.

    That was as far as I went. I still have it installed in a VM but I'm not firing it up again.

  25. Re:January... on Federal Government Removes 7 Americans From No-Fly List · · Score: 1

    They will introduce a second January smack in the middle of December just to prove you wrong.