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  1. Re:this is "news"? on Open Source In the Datacenter: It Was Never About Innovation · · Score: 1

    Um not if your doing serious HPC you use the expensive INTEL compilers and not the open source ones

  2. Re:this is "news"? on Open Source In the Datacenter: It Was Never About Innovation · · Score: 1

    But PS is so much more efficient and higher quality than GIMP its the standard for a reason. Compared to the cost of employing a graphics artist (at 2 or 3 times their base salary) for a year the cost of PS/Adobe is trivial esp as you can amortize the cost over say 2 or 3 years and off set it against your tax.

  3. Re:"Can you hear me now?" on The Dismantling of POTS: Bold Move Or Grave Error? · · Score: 1

    I thought 21CN was just the core and not the last mile stuff Ill have to ask my contacts on that team

  4. Re:Cell phones are better in a disaster on The Dismantling of POTS: Bold Move Or Grave Error? · · Score: 1

    The networks i am familiar with have the ability to turn off access to subs (civilians) in an emergency

  5. Re:My First FRiST P0sT!1!! -- with pride. on The Dismantling of POTS: Bold Move Or Grave Error? · · Score: 2

    I have set of telecoms manuals from the late 40's and 48 hours was the mandatory time a CO (exchange) was designed of work off batteries (in case the generator sets failed) - it even details exactly how you build your battery room

  6. Re:History.... learn from it! on The Dismantling of POTS: Bold Move Or Grave Error? · · Score: 1

    Yeah and then the powers that be flip the switch and kick the normal subs off the network while the emergency is in progress.

  7. Re:"is" vs "would" on Snowden Document Says Dutch Secret Service Hacks Internet Forums · · Score: 2

    some of the users might be which is presumably the justification - its the same when you tap the phones ATT isn't the target one or more of the users of the service is

  8. Re:"is" vs "would" on Snowden Document Says Dutch Secret Service Hacks Internet Forums · · Score: 1

    sorry "gross misconduct against Dutch law" doesn't even make legal sense can you quote the dutch RIPA law which says that what they did is not allowed?

  9. Re:ARREST HIM on European Parliament Culls Public Wi-Fi Access After Email Hack · · Score: 1

    When they have asked their nephews pen friend from the USA what these boxes with blinky lights on actually do - as that seems to be the level of technical advice they have been given.

  10. Re:what makes this white hat? on European Parliament Culls Public Wi-Fi Access After Email Hack · · Score: 1

    so its a MITM attack

  11. Re:forcing them to cutoff access? on European Parliament Culls Public Wi-Fi Access After Email Hack · · Score: 1

    Should not there have been two separate systems with the staff one protected by certificates and a radius server - though after the fiasco of the cookie law it seems the eu it staff know as little about IT as the MEP's

  12. Re:this is "news"? on Open Source In the Datacenter: It Was Never About Innovation · · Score: 1

    The cost of OS software is not a major factor in Data Center budgets the cost of the plant plus the power costs are much much more important

  13. Re:obligatory quote on Death and the NSA: A Q&A With Bruce Schneier · · Score: 1

    I would imagine that spooks, sf operators and armys in general would have ways and orders to destroy any computers if it looks like they would be captured - one uboat captain died trying to make sure that he dumped the code books and enigma machines overboard.

  14. Re:Answer: HR departments on Ask Slashdot: Why Are Tech Job Requirements So Specific? · · Score: 1

    so do HR job postings state must be completely clueless as to the last 50 years on those blinkly light boxes - maybe there is a market for boot camp for hr professionals to understand the current technology :-)

  15. Re:Must have valid work permit on Ask Slashdot: Why Are Tech Job Requirements So Specific? · · Score: 1

    its more normally politically correct put as do you have the right to work in xxx

  16. Re:I don't get it. on LoJack To Release Tracking Devices For Consumers, Insurance, and Auto Makers · · Score: 1

    if you believe that i have a bridge to sell you

  17. Re:Lenovo. on Ask Slashdot: Best Laptops For Fans Of Pre-Retina MacBook Pro? · · Score: 1

    well lets be honest if you need/want decent audio you buy an external audio interface whether or not its a wintel or mac laptop or a desktop PC

  18. Re:I don't get it. on LoJack To Release Tracking Devices For Consumers, Insurance, and Auto Makers · · Score: 1

    well there woudl be an entire department in every insurance company that analyzed the data to try and get out of paying out on a claim.

  19. Re:I don't get it. on LoJack To Release Tracking Devices For Consumers, Insurance, and Auto Makers · · Score: 1

    So change the legal driving age to 18

  20. Re:Not the only state with this law on Driver Arrested In Ohio For Secret Car Compartment Full of Nothing · · Score: 1

    And I have seen these sort of things for sale in the uk mainly for sales guys to lock their laptops/valuables away. We had an instance where a load (well over a thousand) of our mangers went to a conference to hear the CEO speak. When they all came out they found that some one had smashed the widows on a load of company cars and made off with peoples laptops.

  21. Re:That explains Walmart on Geeks For Monarchy: The Rise of the Neoreactionaries · · Score: 2

    Ah you mean those heretical protestant sects that the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith will be investigating and thats not counting those sects that think they are christian and are not :-)

  22. Re:That explains Walmart on Geeks For Monarchy: The Rise of the Neoreactionaries · · Score: 2

    And people like Balaji Srinivasan dont realize that in this brave new world people like them are going to be the "deltas" and "epsilons"

  23. Re:Why subsidize? on A War Over Solar Power Is Raging Within the GOP · · Score: 1

    You think FIDO net (i was on that BTW) woudl have grown to replace the internet we have today? those must be some powerful jazz cigarettes you are smoking - lack of free local calls in most parts of the world would see to that for one.

  24. Re:Why subsidize? on A War Over Solar Power Is Raging Within the GOP · · Score: 1

    what non internet based networks are you referring to CompuServe cix et all charged quite heavily - by the way i was deeply involved in the the UK's main ADMD (i was effectively root on the entire uk x.400 system) and I also worked on billing systems for them i know exactly what a PTT OSI based online system would look like it would not be a good thing!!!!

    OK I would have a cool mail address but you subs would take what you where given and pay for it and like it

  25. Re:Why subsidize? on A War Over Solar Power Is Raging Within the GOP · · Score: 1

    With out the internet you woudl have had OSI based networks which where designed by and for major telcos it would be 50 cents plus data charges to send an email - and you'd take what we give you sub and like it.