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  1. Re:So In Effect... on Cobalt-60, and Lessons From a Mexican Theft · · Score: 4, Informative

    Its not an immediate lethal dose you die in several days in a gruesome way - Stargate had an episode where one of Dr Jackson had this happen to him "Meridian" is the episode its a fairly realistic depiction of death by massive radiation exposure.

  2. Re:get used to the monthly payment on Why Cloud Infrastructure Pricing Is Absurd · · Score: 1

    But you can layoff that cost against tax which you cant really do with an expense like AWS

  3. Re:Doesn't seem that absurd on Why Cloud Infrastructure Pricing Is Absurd · · Score: 1

    Well thats the mobile telecoms game make the tariffs so complex and riddled with gotchas

  4. Re:use wifi on Ask Slashdot: Recommendations For Beautiful Network Cable Trays? · · Score: 1

    I do have a fucking wireless CCNA sub

    Only if the channels overlap the idea is you deploy a clusters of non overlapping channels so that ap's on the same Chanel dont overlap and are separated by physical distance so that problem doesn't occur - thats why pro AP's allow you to tune the power output.

    http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/wireless-network-routing-with-multiple-access-poin.html

  5. Re:Technicality? on Google Fiber In Austin Hits a Snag: Incumbent AT&T · · Score: 1

    Yeah and part of the deal is playing nice and not writing a snarky letter to the president nudge nudge

  6. Re:YRO on California Man Arrested for Running 'Revenge Porn' Website · · Score: 1

    But this form of extortion would not be practicable without the technology involved.

  7. Re:use wifi on Ask Slashdot: Recommendations For Beautiful Network Cable Trays? · · Score: 1

    you drop the power to reduce the cell size so that not all channels overlap se teh cisco wifi books

  8. Re:Is it just me, or ... on US Treasury Completes Bailout of General Motors · · Score: 1

    How? Unless you have gross corruption as in Robert Maxwells case (which lead to a major change in the law) the assets of a DB (defined benefit) pension should be separate from the company you might no longer be able to pay into that pension and your payout might not be as much as if you had fully funded it to retirement age but that is not "losing all your pension" BTW do not use wikipedia for financial advice and remember pensions differ widely between countrys

  9. Re:Is it just me, or ... on US Treasury Completes Bailout of General Motors · · Score: 1

    Well yes the pension contributions are managed by a third party its not all in the parent companys stock.

  10. Re:This was definitely not intentional. on Air Traffic Control "Telephone Glitch" Delays Hundreds of UK Flights · · Score: 1

    mm you do wonder if the fault was in using a modern tcp/ip link rather than an old school error corrected up the wazzo x.25 - on of the problems with OSI was that it had a lot of error correction as was less efficient than TCP/IP

  11. Re:Programming IS hard and boring on Excite Kids To Code By Focusing Less On Coding · · Score: 1

    Actually I saw a two job adverts recently at a local employment agency window one was for a PHP developer the other for an experienced "ground worker".

    The ground worker role was paying about £10k more than the developer one - and if you dont know Civil engineering jargon ground worker is the politically correct name for a Navvy

  12. Re: patenting statistical hypothesis? on Facebook Patents Inferring Income of Users · · Score: 1

    Advertisers already do this - broadsheet newspapers attract a different set of advertisers than tabloids and quite a few engineers are telegraph readers as historically Thursdays was the day that all the engineering jobs where advertized likewise Wednesdays for the Guardian and social work jobs.

    I can remember being told to say that you read a proper newspaper (times telegraph or guardian) in job interviews for professional jobs to mark out that you where one of us and not some over promoted clerical assistant who read the daily mail.

  13. Re:Tough luck.. on Thieves Who Stole Cobalt-60 Will Soon Be Dead · · Score: 1

    Agreed when the train driver who was coshed during the great train robbery died his family are sure it was the coshing he got that caused him to die early

  14. Re:IT IS AUSTRALIA CUT THEM SOME SLACK !! on Australian Defense Scientists Plagiarizing Trade Secrets · · Score: 1

    However badly the Native American Nations where treated they got off lightly compered to the Aborigines in Australia

  15. Re:Because... on Why Engineers Must Consider the Ethical Implications of Their Work · · Score: 1

    I have had an employer go bust and end up with zero unemployment because of a law suit from a project that went bad

  16. Re:They do on Why Engineers Must Consider the Ethical Implications of Their Work · · Score: 1

    And most of the the money that went into AI and ML research came from milatery/defense sources and i know people who switched out of AI because of it.

  17. All engineers should do this on Why Engineers Must Consider the Ethical Implications of Their Work · · Score: 1

    and not just those who happen to work in today's "hot button issues" Amazon and its massive JIT warehousing has a social impact just as much as working on a new drone avionics package - and economists and accountants who need to have and follow an ethical code - if you develop a tax doge that damages poor people ok in his book?

  18. Re:IT IS AUSTRALIA CUT THEM SOME SLACK !! on Australian Defense Scientists Plagiarizing Trade Secrets · · Score: 1

    Note sure all of the Abo's would agree with you on that can't see a Ozzie Obama anytime soon.

  19. Re:Developing software on The Desktop Is Dead, Long Live the Desktop! · · Score: 1

    Still not the best use of the share holders money though.

  20. Re:Non-trivial was always cross-language on The Challenge of Cross-Language Interoperability · · Score: 1

    Yep I worked for BT we ran the Biggest IBM based system in the world - they still used IBM assembler when they wanted performance.

  21. Re:Java, all you need. on The Challenge of Cross-Language Interoperability · · Score: 2

    you win the inter webs this week for "Java is portable in the same sense that you'd be portable if you traveled with your own hotel."

  22. Re:Java, all you need. on The Challenge of Cross-Language Interoperability · · Score: 1

    Then why does Hadoop come with support for many other languages rather than bloody Java :-)

  23. Re:Developing software on The Desktop Is Dead, Long Live the Desktop! · · Score: 1

    "a quad-core laptop CPU on a machine with 8-16 gigs of RAM can be "good enough", especially with a SSD, a docking station that supports Thunderbolt, and USB3 for drives." is going to cost quite a bit more than an equivalent desktop and you get a better CPU on the desktop

  24. Re:Developing software on The Desktop Is Dead, Long Live the Desktop! · · Score: 1

    Not for the same cost they are not and for a proper desktop replacement at work you need extra screens, dock and a decent keyboard

  25. Re:Every year on The Desktop Is Dead, Long Live the Desktop! · · Score: 1

    And they pay through the fucking nose for the privilege people take expensive payday loans at 5000% APR does not mean sensible people dont have mortgages