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  1. That's going to come back to haunt them on Large Corporations Displacing Aging IT Workers With H-1B Visa Workers · · Score: 2

    Firing your most skilled employees in a highly specialized and difficult field is beyond stupidity. This will end badly for them. Fortunately for the rest of us this means that there will be some talent freed up. So snatch them up while you can.

  2. Re:Third option on The Scourge of Error Handling · · Score: 1

    You are missing at least 1 third options that is already in practice today. A side channel which propagates errors. PHP's error handler setup does this and stderr in shell programming is akin to this as well.

  3. umm... remember the tech bubble on If Tech Is So Important, Why Are IT Wages Flat? · · Score: 1

    2000 was at the height of the tech bubble. So any comparison to it is horribly skewed.

  4. Meaningless without latency numbers on The Fastest ISPs In the US · · Score: 1

    Latency has a greater impact than raw throughput when it comes to anything interactive and they don't necessarily correlate. For example Comcast vs. Centurylink here in OR. Comcast is the fastest and Centurylink the slowest. Yet Comcast routinely has ping times of 80-100+ms where Centurylink gets around 20-30ms ping times (using the same google ip as an example for testing). The difference is noticeable.

  5. For the lazy... on Book Review: Drupal Intranets With Open Atrium · · Score: 1
  6. Universal Suffrage is the problem on Scientists Say People Aren't Smart Enough For Democracy To Flourish · · Score: 1

    For a Republic or Democracy to work the Citizens have to have something invested. It must be limited, something you earn. Traditionally this was through seemingly unfair methods, but it was always there because it was necessary.

  7. Re:i'll do my own tests on Notes On Reducing Firefox's Memory Consumption · · Score: 1

    I dumped FF because they kept breaking all my plugins. I used it primarily for the plugins, yet they broke half of them ever release (versions 4-6). I keep waiting to hear that they created a stable API for plugins to use but have yet to hear about this. Do you know if they've addressed this.

    And using Chrome doesn't necessarily mean using the 'official' binary version from Google with all its spy-settings turned on full. You can use Chromium w/ all that off and not worry about it.

  8. Re:More SATA ports on Via Launches a New Mini-ITX System · · Score: 1

    Supermicro has a ATOM based board with 6 SATA ports. I am using one for a NAS box and it works good. Kind of expensive though.

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813182234

  9. Re:Sandy Bridge Still Brutal on Linux Kernel Power Bug Is Fixed · · Score: 1

    That is due to i915_enable_rc6 defaulting to off. In 3.2 they should be changing it to default to on again as they've fixed the lockup bugs that it was causing. See the developers blog for more; http://dodonov.net/blog/

  10. Keep an offsite backup. on Ask Slashdot: P2P Liability On a Shared Connection? · · Score: 1

    Seems to me that the jury is still out on how liable you would be found as the law is still somewhat murky.

    Either way though they will come and confiscate every piece of computing equipment in the place if they decide your IP/residence is of interest. So you will definitely want to keep an offsite backup of your data. That way if they take everything you can get another computer and get back to work right away.

  11. Re:Sept 2008 document on Leaked Doc May Have Forced US To Speed Up Bin Laden Raid · · Score: 1

    They were waiting as there was no reason to kill him before next years elections. I bet they are pissed they had to move this early, as it will be hard to maintain the popularity boost this will give while the economy still sucks.

  12. Openshot on Kdenlive 0.8 Adds Advanced Features for NLV Editing · · Score: 2

    I don't do much video editing, but another one I've read is supposed to be decent is openshot.

    http://www.openshotvideo.com/

    They are at version 1.3 and have nice documentation.

  13. Re:WebM is too "geeky"; too "open/free" on YouTube Now Transcoding All New Uploads To WebM · · Score: 1

    Let's take two examples everyone knows: OGG/Vorbis. What's the penetration of this open and free format out in the music player industry?

    Not true. It is easy to find music players that support not only ogg/vorbis but flac as well. The only player I've seen recently that doesn't support them are ipods, which isn't surprising given that it is primarily a vehicle to promote itunes.

  14. Re:The reason is clear but it isnot the one mentio on Open Source Programming Tools On the Rise · · Score: 1

    Your doubts are misplaced. The #1 reason is access to source code. Not so much to modify or fix bugs, though I've done both at time, but for documentation. The documentation written as such universally sucks and never really matches up with what the software actually does. The only real documentation is the software itself. If you don't have access to the source so you can see what the hell is going on you don't have usable documentation and are just guessing.

  15. Re:They won't get me on 'Scrapers' Dig Deep For Data On Web · · Score: 3, Insightful

    IMO it's better to have an easy to find public 'you' online for these people to track. You use that for everything 'safe'. You then use multiple anonymous accounts for anything you don't want tracked.

    If you have nothing tracking online I think it might start looking more suspicious than not. Plus having nothing might encourage 'them' to dig in and try to relate you to your anonymous account(s).

  16. Re:My neice on US Students Suffering From Internet Addiction · · Score: 1

    That's not internet addiction. That's just old fashion teenage rebellion combined with a health dose of spoiled brat.

  17. Re:Wouldnt he have deleted everything already? on Geohot To Turn Over Computers To Neutral Third Party · · Score: 2

    My understanding of the situation is that he was trying to restore the ability to boot to linux on the PS3, a feature that was included on the device when he purchased it.

    No. That was failOverflow that did the work to get Linux running on the PS3 but they did not go on and do the additional work required to run pirated games on it. Geohot did that additional work.

  18. Re:Funny... on Last.Fm Founder Criticizes Apple Over Music Subscription Fees · · Score: 1

    How much did the artist get for each radio play? Nothing you say. Subscription services are arguably more comparable to radio than purchasing an mp3 or CD. At least they make something off the subscription service. It's a gain as far as I can tell.

  19. Capital Gains != Income on Every Day's a Tax Holiday At Amazon · · Score: 1

    [...] and recently ponied up $100,000 to defeat a proposed WA state income tax, a good investment for someone who's cashed in close to $800,000,000 in Amazon stock this year alone.

    The poster obviously never heard of capital gains tax and the fact that it is not the same as income tax.

    Capital gains tax != Income tax

  20. Debian CUT on Ubuntu May Move To Rolling Releases · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Debian CUT == Constantly Usable Testing.

    A recently started project in Debian with a similar goal of a rolling release (along with an idea of installable snapshots).

    http://cut.debian.net/
    http://lwn.net/Articles/406301/

  21. Re:Predicting the future... on Online Behavior Could Influence Insurance Rates · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This has nothing to do with your cookies, browsing history, etc. It will be an accumulation of your searches, shopping habits, media habits, social networks, etc. Your online behaviour as seen by third parties. They will scrape what they can and buy the rest. They are basically profiling people looking for correlations with their insurance risks. This is nothing new, it is what they have been doing for years. They are just looking at adding new data points that are cheaper and readily available.

  22. Doesn't take much to be noticeable on Do You Really Need a Discrete Sound Card? · · Score: 1

    After getting a nice pair of Sennheiser headphones I was very disappointed in the sound quality of both my old Audigy 2 ZS and the on-board sound. There was a noticeable, high-pitched buzz all the time that was very annoying.

    Purchased a HT Omega Striker and it sounds MUCH better. Not just no buzz but it just sounded better overall, particularly with the headphones. Quite a difference.

  23. D-Link Boxbee on Video Appliance For a Large Library On a Network? · · Score: 1

    I'm holding out for a D-Link Boxbee. It is small, dedicated hardware which supports both online streaming from netflix, hulu and such as well as full support for your local library of video/audio. Should be out this fall.

    I'd provide links, but it's easier to just google for it.

  24. Let me translate for you... on Apple Just Says Yes To iPhone Smoking Game · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Come one... how many people sit in a circle and pass around a cigarette. You all know this is a pot smoking game. They might have well specified the items as 'joint, fatty and bong'.

  25. Re:here's my toolchain on Multiple-Display Power Tools For Linux? · · Score: 1

    You are assuming that the question was proposed by a person who likes tightly integrated systems like windows and mac provide. Not everyone does. Some prefer loosely couple and highly customizable systems that they can mold to their style.

    Just because you like one thing don't assume everyone does.