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  1. Re:The number of devices is not most relevant on Making Wireless, Not Ethernet, the Heart of the Network · · Score: 2

    some people obviously have zero ideas about basic physics and how wifi works and just how much more expensive a wireless network its when compared to wired one.

  2. Re:Make up his mind, please on Assange: Facebook 'the Most Appalling Spy Machine' Ever · · Score: 1

    good luck with ever getting a job requiring a security clearance then it that's your attitude

  3. Re:Posting free/shareware doesn't make CNET liable on CNET Sued Over LimeWire Client Downloads · · Score: 1

    Well if your allowing commercial programmers in :-) if your a technical programmer I would expect a basic level of competence :-)

    Actually at the first place I worked this was the case as I got sent on day release to do a Btech in mech engineering.

  4. Re:Posting free/shareware doesn't make CNET liable on CNET Sued Over LimeWire Client Downloads · · Score: 1

    what do mean a real programmer of course know how to use a screwdriver and soldering iron

  5. Re:Only 100 workstations on Ask Slashdot: Becoming a Network Administrator? · · Score: 1

    yes Cisco use a small network of 3/4 buildings and 2000 Hosts as the case study in the CCNA academy course work.

  6. Re:Make up his mind, please on Assange: Facebook 'the Most Appalling Spy Machine' Ever · · Score: 1

    um thats not how it works :-)

  7. Re:Make up his mind, please on Assange: Facebook 'the Most Appalling Spy Machine' Ever · · Score: 1, Insightful

    so how does he justify releasing secret information?

  8. Re:Overpowered? on Robo-Gunsight System Makes Sniper's Life Easier · · Score: 1

    really so the HMG team that a sniper that took out in Afghanistan where just taking their DShK out for a walk - yes right and Donald trump isn't a "loony"

  9. Re:And here I thought... on Punish Bad Users With Drupal Misery · · Score: 1

    >>professional publisher's platform

    For a very low value of professional.

  10. Re:And here I thought... on Punish Bad Users With Drupal Misery · · Score: 1

    testify brother testify.

  11. submitter is a commercial programmer on Ask Slashdot: How To Encourage Better Research Software? · · Score: 1

    this is the same crap you get on quora where OO freaks question why Fortran is used rather than C++ for a lot of technical programming.

  12. Re:Not going to happen on Ask Slashdot: How To Encourage Better Research Software? · · Score: 1

    well you obviously haven't worked in technical programming or at at a cutting edge rnd place where quite often you are dealing with the world no 1 expert in a field.

    quite often you are writing single use specialized programs and you accept some limitations - I recall one wave tank experiment where if you enter the wrong parameters you could cause the computer controlling the experiment to create such a powerfull wave it would have broken the tank and flooded the lab.

    I remember one guy whos program to control a mixing experiment required typing in integers to a command line where the only prompt was "?" - his comment well I remember what I need to type - I actualy went in and added code that told you what the options where - mainly because they had scaled up to full size experiments and the cost of materials for one experimental run approached that of a small house.

  13. Re:Perks are a tax dodge on Inside Google's Secret Employee Hackerspace · · Score: 1

    yes talk to the Auto Unions in private and they will tell you that doing that was a big mistake as post WW2 the US was heading down the same route to a health care system like the German one - until all those deals in the 50's with the big firms sort of derailed it.

  14. Re:Can't lift, too heavy ... on Inside Google's Secret Employee Hackerspace · · Score: 1

    Well i do wonder how many Googlers they employ that have background in mech engineering to make use of this there cant be many like me who got into computing by working for the mathematical and nuke engineering department of a high end RnD organization or doing a degree that required them to make stuff.
    I actually did a very specialist Vocational BTEC in mech engineering - which i last used anything from 25 years ago.

  15. Re:since macs cost 2x,... on Mac Users More Liberal Than Windows Users · · Score: 1

    well compared to OSX sure but compared to the Mac at the time it wasn't far off

  16. Re:since macs cost 2x,... on Mac Users More Liberal Than Windows Users · · Score: 1

    no because The Atari St and Amiga also had gui's and the Amiga OS pissed all over macs untill OS10 - you know with actual multitasking.

  17. Re:This is kind of stupid/obvious on Mac Users More Liberal Than Windows Users · · Score: 1

    which is i think the reason protools now has a wintel port and sound on sound has be worrying about apple screwing the high end professional users to chase a consumer only stratergy, on and off for a few years now

  18. Re:Clouds: Up in the air and foggy: on EC2 Outage Shows How Much the Net Relies On Amazon · · Score: 0

    So what they are saying in the style of Jeremy Clarkson " Where rubbish give us money "

  19. Re:Speaking of Google security on A Glimpse Inside Google's South Carolina Data Center · · Score: 1

    unfortunately this is not uncommon I once had a chat with a very senior Guy in BT whose first job was opening the CEO (well the postmaster general at the time) mail. One chap kept writing to the Postmaster General about the evil organization that was bent on taking over the country - which in his eyes was the BBC

  20. 7 out of 10 could do better on A Glimpse Inside Google's South Carolina Data Center · · Score: 1

    Not if they are pitching for government contracts - and that site well the face is a bit pussy it should be 5 foot higher and should curve inwards. They should have cut down the woods as on 2 sides of that facility the woods came up to the fence. And out in the country like that they should have just dug a moat it looks like they build a pond for cooling water any how

  21. Re:Bedrock is patent troll, and the patent is bogu on Google Loses Bedrock Suit, All Linux May Infringe · · Score: 1

    well the answer to that is for all tech companies to move all their operations out of texas - ok it will suck for Austin but hey you cant make an omlette.

  22. Re:Haven't we seen this before? on Bug Forces Android Devices Off Princeton Campus Network · · Score: 1

    well it was BS5750 and a research project in how it applied to software as opposed to more general engineering - you cant hang a defect ticket on a pice of code was one problem they found in the early days :-)

    I actually had the lead at the BSI look over my code (a CBM Pet program to help chose O rings I seem to recall) as part of that project which was interesting.

  23. Re:Haven't we seen this before? on Bug Forces Android Devices Off Princeton Campus Network · · Score: 1

    huh this is TCP/IP there arn't real standards just guidelines written by hippie grad students that dodge the hard bits. BTW back in the day I was third-line support for the UK's X.400 infrastructure - we had to have a dedicated cupboard just to store all the OSI documentation - that's real standards. I also worked on a RnD project with the BSI that went towards the ISO 9000 standard.

  24. blane the navies on The Dying DVR Box and Woz Wisdom · · Score: 1

    re bridges falling over - probably the contractor screwed up - back in the day (working for a top 5 consulting engineers) i did a custom reverse engined program to help look at the tests done on the ground to see whose fault it was :-)

  25. Re:Correlation is not causation on Requiring Algebra II In High School Gains Momentum · · Score: 1

    you will end up like the UK where most of the effort goes into getting D students to C - which is the key way schools are ranked. Schools also get round this by running classes in soft GCSE's so as to get a better score in the 5 Good GSCEs http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/8374467/School-league-tables-overhauled-in-transparency-drive.html