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  1. Re:Why not use it as a bargaining chip? on Ask Slashdot: Does Being 'Loyal' Pay As a Developer? · · Score: 1

    Yup. Give them an opportunity to make up the difference if you're more inclined to stay if the pay were right. If that doesnt work or if you'd rather leave anyway, give generous notice (I gave my last employer 4 weeks instead of the customary 2), and even offer to be available on a consultancy basis a few hours a week to help them through the transition. That'll also give you a bit of a further bonus in your pocketbook if they choose to do that.

  2. Best of Both Worlds on Why IT Won't Like Mac OS X Lion Server · · Score: 1

    Honestly, It seems to me that the things that are best done in a windowed environment (user management, policy management, etc) have been kept in a nice GUI, whereas the things that have been traditionally configured in text files or via the command line on *nix servers have been kept that way. Quit moaning about having to actually learn how to administer a server. I don't see how IT guys in a enterprise are really going to see this as a bad thing. If they already know how to administer a *nix box, they can administer a OSX box. I can see this affecting shops that are solely OSX Server environments, but those are the exception, not the rule.

  3. Re:a gun on Where To Start With DIY Home Security? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps material possessions aren't worth risking your life, but protecting your family is. Besides, this seems backwards somehow. Someone that breaks into my home needs to assess whether it's worth risking their life and well-being in order to attempt to steal my possessions and put myself and my family at risk.

  4. Link to the video on 80-Year-Old Edison Recording Resurrected · · Score: 5, Informative
  5. Re:Wrong tag on Mass SQL Injection Attack Hits Sites Running IIS · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Not saying it is a problem with SQL. Some SQL statements are being injected into a script, which is then happily executing them. The problem is with the script, but SQL is being injected into it... which is why its known as SQL injection. The term does not imply that the root of the problem is with SQL itself. It's a variant of Code Injection, but with SQL instead...

  6. Re:Wrong tag on Mass SQL Injection Attack Hits Sites Running IIS · · Score: 4, Informative

    While the faulty script on a specific platform may be allowing the attack, it's absolutely a SQL injection attack, which is iterating through tables and appending strings to data it finds.

  7. Where/When is the Auction? on FTC Takes Out Porn- and Botnet-Spewing ISP · · Score: 1

    I've always wondered how to get in on auctions like this. Anyone know how to find the pertinent information?

  8. Not a lobbyist on What Happened To Obama's Open Source Adviser? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    A lobbyist cannot block an appointment. A lobbyist is someone that beseaches an appointed or elected official on behalf of someone else, usually a special interest group or corporation. Look it up.

  9. Re:Forrest Mims on Where To Start In DIY Electronics? · · Score: 1

    Guess this is all moot though, cause the OP wants to do RF stuff, not microcontrollers. :-)

    Why wouldnt you use a microcontroller in RF? Microcontrollers certainly have a place in many aspects of Radio; amateur or otherwise. Like building an Iambic Keyer (think morse code), or building a software defined transceiver, where the 'duino handles communication with the computer, frequency tuning, morse keying, LCD display, and more. While it may not be necessarily be used for the actual modulation of the signal, it definitely has uses.

  10. Re:OMGLOLWTF on Google Gets Quake II Running In HTML5 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because you can.

  11. Re:I've conducted my own blind tests... on 1/3 of People Can't Tell 48Kbps Audio From 160Kbps · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Here's one such study conducted by the Audio engineering society:

    http://www.aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?elib=14195

  12. Digital Intermediate/Digital Master on Archiving Digital Artwork For Museum Purchase? · · Score: 1

    Have a look at the Digital Intermediate process. To quote the wikipedia article regarding the process: "The digital master, created during the Digital Intermediate process, is recorded to very stable yellow-cyan-magenta (YCM) separations on black-and-white film with an expected 100-year or longer life." So essentially you are creating a very high resolution analog copy of your digital master. This way, if the digital media craps out, you have a long-life analog way of recreating it. This is a way some Hollywood studios are approaching the problem.

  13. Re:Well the only fool proof way... on How Can I Tell If My Computer Is Part of a Botnet? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Or they use a "real" switch that has port mirroring, or a passive ethernet tap.

  14. Re:Written Before Christianity Was PAGANIZED on British Library Puts Oldest Surviving Bible Online · · Score: 1

    Wow! Logic-fail!

    Nope. You missed the point. This is about dying for something you KNOW TO BE FALSE.

    Why would any of the followers of Islam fly to their deaths or blow themselves up if their religion was a lie?

    Because they believe what they've been taught.

    Why would Christian American soldiers be ready to die for God and country (and oil) if it was a lie?

    Any American soldier goes into service for their country fully understanding that their service may cost them their life. This they do because they believe their service will save the lives of those they love and of their fellow countrymen. Religion, Christianity, oil, and lies have nothing to do with it.

    Why do all the people in insane asylums believe they are Napoleon or Jesus if it's JUST A LIE?!

    I'm not entirely certain what a delusional state of mind has to do with lies or dying for them.

    Why do you lie?

    The times in my life that I've lied have usually been due to fear of some sort... fear of the truth of what I did being found out, and the perceived consequences of those actions harming me in some way. However, I would never die for something I KNEW was a lie. And that's the point here. Jesus' apostles knew him personally. They watched him die horrendously at the hands of the Romans. They also personally saw him after his resurrection. If that wasn't true, why would they willingly submit to being beheaded, crucified, stoned, boiled in oil, flayed with whips, and beaten?

  15. Re:Be Proactive on From an Unrelated Career To IT/Programming? · · Score: 5, Informative

    But then how does a person break into the industry?

    Freelance. Absolutely work on open source projects in your spare time to hone your skills, but then do some paid work for people that know and trust you. Then you have real-world open source volunteer experience as well as paid experience. Lots of small businesses need small utilities or enhancements to existing products they had custom built.

  16. Re:great on China Aims To Move Up the Food Chain · · Score: 4, Funny

    A møøse bit my sister once...

  17. Re:Buffalo Terastation on Best Home Network NAS · · Score: 1

    I love my TeraStation. It's running linux, and there are a few sites out there that have instructions and downloads that do everything from adding basic functionality to tweaking existing functionality to building your own development toolchain and letting you do whatever you choose. Check out Dave Walker's great work with the TeraStation and other Buffalo Products, and NAS Central a wiki site dedicated to the Buffalo NAS family.

  18. Re:Government Propping Up Companies on Spaceport America Takes Off · · Score: 1

    I agree. Within a reasonable distance of the spaceport you have White Sands Missle Range with all its facilities, NASA Johnson Space Center with its facilities and talent, Holloman Air Force base which has several semi-related research programs, and New Mexico State University's Physical Science Lab which has long contracted with NASA and others to build antennas, telemetry systems, and provides launch and logistical support.

  19. These systems are, in fact, under development on Civil UAVs Still A Distant Prospect · · Score: 1

    no national aviation authority in the world will allow civil UAVs without a system for avoiding other aircraft. And no firm has even started development of one. How unfortunately misinformed. These systems have been in development for some time. Over three years ago I helped with a NASA contract through New Mexico State University's Physical Science Laboratory to establish a concept of operations and a roadmap to help bring UAVs into commercial airspace. This covered everything from systems and hardware that would need to be developed to FAA Certifications and Federal Aviation Regulations modifications. Some test flights with "See and Avoid" systems had already been performed (like this one, with Proteus, made by the same folks that made Space Ship One). The state of the art on commercial UAVs has already advanced quite a bit. There are yearly conferences, an international trade organization and more. This radio spectrum issue seems to me but a minor setback to which a workaround will be found sooner rather than later.
  20. Re:And the lesson is... on Pipeline Worm Floods AIM With Botnet Drones · · Score: 1

    It's more than just a port. Some clients dynamically change their port when they detect the one they should be using is not available. The way a company I worked for got around the issue was by finding and blocking the servers used to authenticate all the clients.

  21. Re:Wonderful waste of resources on Microsoft Puts Police Link on Messenger · · Score: 1
    We already have ways of reporting pedophiles. You can pick up the phone, you can write a letter, or you can walk into a police station. It doesn't need to be made any easier.

    Yeah, but those methods can't automatically flag conversation logs in Microsoft's servers. Something like this will make it much easier for police to gather necessary evidence. Additionally, there's the good chance that would-be predators will think twice before approaching anyone with ill-motivated conversation, since they *know* their conversations can easily be brought to the attention of authorities.

    ... or the police may over-react to information given and you could ruin someone's life based on a vague suspicion.

    This is why juries exist. So that your peers can weigh the presented evidence and decide whether or not you're guilty. The police cannot "ruin someone's life" unilaterally.
  22. Re:Just a trend? NO WAY on An Overview of Virtualization Technologies · · Score: 1

    When I was getting ready to roll out VMWare GSX (now Server) about a year ago, I had an incident where two out of three of my vm clients died completely without any log entries or other indicators as to why. VMWare support told me it stemmed from not having enough swab space on the host OS. Apparently (this wasn't documented at the time... at least no where I could find it) you need to have 1.5x the amount of physical ram in your swap partition (running linux as a host... don't know how this would apply on other host OSes). So in our case, we had 6GB of RAM on the host, so we needed to build a 15GB Swap partition. After doing so, everything ran smoothly, and we haven't had a titch of issues with it since.

  23. Re:Female Logic on Nerds Make Better Lovers · · Score: 1

    Well Said. When I was a teenager, I thought I would be lonely until I was 30, when the women I was attracted to had finally figured out what they really wanted. Fortunately, I was off a bit and married when I was 26. But your logic is sound. I've observed the same "phenomenon" from the male point-of-view. However, that doesnt mean it wasn't excrutiatingly frustrating when I saw the ladies going off with guys that would treat them like retarded pets while I was being passed by. But on the other hand, I learned a lot about human nature, which is quite valuable to me, and it all turned out all right in the end. I'm now expecting my second child in mid-october, and my wife and I couldn't be happier. ;-)

  24. Re:Spam time! on eBay Scam Victim Strikes Back · · Score: 0, Redundant

    That number has a reverse lookup (according to anywho) of:

    Barnes, Craig
    1535 S Dorrance St
    PHILADELPHIA, PA 19146

  25. Re:Cannonfodder on A Thoughtful Look at Indian Outsourcing · · Score: 4, Insightful

    When the loss of a job means suddenly having to wonder how food is going to get put on the table for a family that depends on that income, we have every right to complain that a job is gone. Keeping your spouse and children housed, clothed, and fed has nothing to do with ego. Ego doesnt get involved until you decide that you're above taking a reduction in pay or position in order to obtain new employment, even though nothing else is available.