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  1. Work's New Age on Why Bad Jobs (or No Jobs) Happen To Good Workers · · Score: 1

    For an excellent, very detailed and well-documented read on the current job market, I highly recommend Work's New Age, by Jim Huntington. He keeps up a decent blog, too.

  2. Re:Problems? Really? on Torvalds Slams NVIDIA's Linux Support · · Score: 1

    Meanwhile, I've been using ATI for more than a decade with zero problems past their initial teething stage. However, I don't care about 3D, gaming, Wine, or MS Windows.

    So, you've no idea what you're talking about. Good to know.

  3. Re:Governments fall on Romanian Prime Minister Accused of Plagiarism · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's about corruption. When the government is in jeopardy because it has a difficult time dealing with corruption, and then something like this hits the very top of the government, there's a major problem with the whole government. It's not just one cretin.

  4. Re:Wrong prize on US Regains Supercomputing Crown, Besting China and Japan · · Score: 1

    How long it keeps the crown is irrelevant to your statement. Is a 60% increase only marginal or not? I'd say it's much more than marginal. You seem to be expressing a logical fallacy here to support your real point about wanting to care more about education. While you're at it, provide the citation that China provided the money explicitly earmarked for Sequoia, else you've simply made another baseless claim for your ulterior motive.

  5. Re:Careful, editors... on FunnyJunk Sues the Oatmeal Over TM and "Incitement To Cyber-Vandalism" · · Score: 1

    I agree with this. Mod parent up. eldavojohn, take note (see you commented about why the summary has issues). Also, put opinions in a follow-up post, not in the summary. I'd prefer to read news stories, not editorials, not after I read the facts and have formed my own opinions.

  6. Re:NEP;DR on A Day In the Life of a "Booth Babe" · · Score: 1

    In fact most of us didn't read it because there weren't enough pictures.

    Read what? There were NO pictures in TFS. Where the fuck else would I go?

  7. No, it's not. In this context, "classified" is not the same thing as the generic English word classified, "to put something in a class." In the context of US Government vernacular, classified means FOUO, secret, or above. It is NOT to be disseminated and explicitly carries with it the idea that leaking it will cause harm to someone or something relating to the USA.

  8. Re:Given a choice on Audio Surveillance, Intended to Detect Gunshots, Can Pick Up Much More · · Score: 2

    Given a choice between outlawing guns and having a sensitive listening device on every street corner that can listen in on conversations like Big Brother, I'd prefer to outlaw guns.

    Unfortunately or not, for you, the U.S. constitution has no explicit right to privacy like you desire, yet it has a right to gun ownership, to some arguable degree.

  9. Re:IPO on SpaceX's Falcon 9 Successfully Reaches Orbit · · Score: 2

    Their might be "real" shirts out there... where? I would think a tastefully done black tee shirt sold directly by spacex to wealthy /.ers could be a significant funding source for their operation.

    I couldn't find anything and I doubt there is anything yet. I sent SpaceX an e-mail so maybe they'll decide to get something setup. I'm pretty sure it would be real easy to do and only take a day or so.

  10. Re:RSA rocks on SpaceX's Falcon 9 Successfully Reaches Orbit · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Thanks to a South African entrepreneur.

    Which is just fine by us. We're supposed to be a melting pot. It only makes the case stronger with immigrants succeed so well in the U.S.

  11. Same Story? on White House Hires a New Cybersecurity Boss · · Score: 0

    WTF am I missing here? Isn't this the same fucking story? And, to make it to the front page?

  12. Re:Works for the feds? on The Pirate Bay Returns, Anonymous Hater Takes Credit For DDoS · · Score: 2, Informative

    Helping them and working for them are two very different things. Nyre may simply have desired to support the Feds on a particular issue.

  13. What does CC mean? on Most CCTV Systems Come With Trivial Exploits · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Are they taking the CC out of CCTV? What am I not understanding about this term? I guess it may have evolved to not be closed circuit any more, but then it should be called something else. Regardless, a "default" with gaping vulnerabilities should not surprise anyone.

  14. Re:Headline should read on Apple Tells Siri To Stop Recommending Nokia · · Score: 1

    Siri is not a womens voice

    Jon Briggs is the voice.

    Jon Briggs is only the voice of the UK male Siri. Not the original, female Siri. No one has publicly identified her and probably only a few Apple personnel and the female in question know.

  15. Same purpose on Jars of Irradiated Russian Animals Find a New Purpose · · Score: 1

    It's not really a new purpose, just new scientists with more advanced equipment and procedures. I'm surprised the tissues were saved.

  16. Re:Misread on JavaFX Runs On Raspberry Pi · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The whole fucking summary is written in broken English. It's not your fault. "It is still early days yet."

  17. Re:Release schedules on SpaceX Launch To International Space Station Delayed For Code Tweaks · · Score: 2

    ...and maybe, just maybe the engineers plea for proper testing has been answered (a little late though)

    Not late. Hopefully, just in time. Late would be after launch and, then uh oh...

  18. Not competitors? on India Test Fires Long-Range, Nuke-Capable Missile · · Score: 3, Insightful

    From TFA, a spokesman for China's Foreign Ministry, Liu Weimin, said "China and India are large developing nations. We are not competitors but partners."

    I say bullshit.

  19. Re:Its a SWISS, not a Swedish firm on North Korea's High-Tech Counterfeit $100 Bills · · Score: 1

    How do you know ESRB is American? Also, as an aside, I know several people from Central and South American countries who get offended at people that think of Americans as only being from the USA. Did you intend to mean people from the USA when you said "Americans?"

  20. Fire him? on Mechanic's Mistake Trashes $244 Million Aircraft · · Score: 1

    Should the company of the mechanic fire him? Hell no! They just gave him $25 million worth of training!

  21. Re:Pun time! on Kaspersky Quits BSA Over SOPA Support · · Score: 1

    Stop with the BS, eh?

  22. Re:Unlikely on Engineers Create World's Lightest Material · · Score: 2

    0.9mg/cm^3 is 0.9kg/m^3, i.e. lighter than air (1.2kg/m^3). I call shenanigans.

    It was pointed out that the value 0.9 for density does not include the air. This makes sense because then we would need to know the exact composition of the air used so we could get an accurate measurement of the material. All that said, however, "lighter than air" has no relevance with respect to density.

  23. Re:Pictures are large on Things That Turbo Pascal Is Smaller Than · · Score: 1

    It's not necessarily pointlessly idle, it's nostalgic. And, being nostalgic, comparing it to current data is appropriate. It's interesting to compare an application 25 years ago with today's data (be it applications, documents, or images). Those of you who didn't actually use Turbo Pascal (I did) will have similar bouts of nostalgia 20+ years from now about forgotten languages from today.

  24. Re:Oblig. on Jaguar Recalls 18,000 Cars Over Major Software Fault · · Score: 1

    That is certainly a 'whoosh' for you. This is a quote from the movie/book Fight Club, where the main character did this for his job.

    Yes, it was a whoosh, thanks! :)

  25. Re:Oblig. on Jaguar Recalls 18,000 Cars Over Major Software Fault · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure what "Oblig" means in this case, but you forgot to include the final factor D, which is the opportunity cost in lost revenue from bad publicity and lack of trust in your product over the next 15-20 years.