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  1. Hosting company on Ask Slashdot: Getting a Tech Job With Skills But No Formal Degree? · · Score: 1

    The degree's subject doesn't matter. Just having one will give him a leg up.

    As long as he knows what he's talking about, he should be able to find work at a hosting company which will have plenty of entry- to low-level sys admin type work. Some sort of volunteer work beforehand to prove that he's not totally inept would help, too.

  2. Busy databases on Ask Slashdot: What Type of Asset Would You Not Virtualize? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Shared disk does not make I/O happy.

  3. In other news... on Software Engineers Remain Top US Job · · Score: 2

    ... sys admins, DBAs, and network engineers have it so bad that they cannot even be mentioned by these types of surveys, apparently.

  4. Re:Innocent? on Innocent Or Not, the NSA Is Watching You · · Score: 4, Informative

    That's more right than you think. One author claims that the average citizen commits three felonies a day without knowing it (due to the byzantine legal code which can be interpreted any number of ways): Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent. It's an interesting read if you're into that sort of thing.

  5. Re:Ridiculous amount. on Boston Pays Out $170,000 To Man Arrested For Recording Police · · Score: 1

    After paying his lawyer and taxes, he'll end up about $20 in the black.

  6. Looks like the lobbyist... on Rearview Car Cameras Likely Mandated By 2014 · · Score: 1

    ... for the company(s) that make the backup cameras did his job properly.

  7. Re:I remember THIS Sealab on Remembering Sealab · · Score: 1

    I'm very glad I wasn't the only one whose first thought was of this show.

  8. Re:Are you rich? Is your dad a senator? on Ask Slashdot: What's the Best Way To Deal With Roving TSA Teams? · · Score: 1

    The 9th Amendment says plenty. The framers assumed we wouldn't be so asinine as to need every little detail of the limitations of government explicitly delimited.

  9. Amazing time to be a physicist on New Particle Identified At LHC · · Score: 1

    (Possible) FTL neutrinos, new particle, and the Higgs-Boson on the horizon. It's amazing how many things can get clustered together.

  10. Re:Dirty trick on Democratic Super PAC Buys Newtgingrich.com · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The purchase of newtgingrich.com by a Democratic Super PAC — and the use of it to highlight Newt Gingrich's political weaknesses — is either amusing or a dirty trick

    Can't it be both?

  11. Re:Easy on What Silicon-Based Life Might Be Like · · Score: 2

    NO KILL I

    And they'll also have a tenuous grasp of English grammar, at best.

  12. Re:I know on Twitter Buys Moxie Marlinspike's Crypto Startup · · Score: 2

    Cryptic? What's so cryptic about the best soda ever created?

  13. Re:Mars? Maybe? on NASA, Google Award $1.35M For Ultra-Efficient Electric Aircraft · · Score: 2

    If I remember correctly, the Martian atmosphere is about 1% as dense as ours, so I'm guessing airfoil technology wouldn't work as well there.

  14. Denny Crane on Ask William Shatner Whatever You'd Like · · Score: 2

    It is my own thesis that any great character has elements of the actor's own personality in them. That said, how much of Denny Crane was the real Shatner?

  15. Social media on Ask They Might Be Giants About Almost 30 Years of Music · · Score: 1

    With the explosion of social networking websites, blogging and microblogging sites, etc., people are much easier to discover and contact -- some of whom may have been impossible to find in the 80's. Given these amazing tools, have you managed to speak with Ana Ng?

  16. Re:Something the academic forgot on Designer Creates "Euthanasia Roller Coaster" · · Score: 1

    Let's assume a massive dump is on the order of three pounds. At ten G's, that would weigh thirty pounds. Since toddlers have been known to hang from their diapers, I'm assuming it can be done. If not, research will need to be done to make a stronger 10G diaper. Even if the deathercoaster is never build, with the rise of space tourism, more people will be going into space in high G environments; oldsters make up a percentage of the population, so it's a good guess that some will be going into space -- thus creating a demand for 10G diapers.

    Wait... I'm going to patent that. Everyone disregard this message

  17. Re:Something the academic forgot on Designer Creates "Euthanasia Roller Coaster" · · Score: 1

    One word: Depends.

  18. Re:No way! on Gene Therapy May Thwart HIV · · Score: 1

    But if you remove HIV you're certainly working towards such an event. I also *might* have been slightly facetious.

  19. Re:Man if it cures HIV on Gene Therapy May Thwart HIV · · Score: 1

    I'll trade in the pharmacists for unfettered, unprotected sex for all. A world without STDs would be an awesome world, indeed. Seinfeld's dream of an intercourse hello would be realized.

  20. I was wondering... on After Firing CEO, Yahoo Puts Itself Up For Sale · · Score: 2

    Who still uses Yahoo? I decided to take a quick trip to Alexa to get some sort of info about their demographics: "Relative to the general internet population, people over 65 years old are over represented at yahoo.com. Confidence: high"

    That pretty much explains it. Grandpa learned to use the internet in the late 90's with Yahoo, and any other dangblasted, newfangled search engine won't be built like they used to be.

  21. But which game(s) does she play? on Chinese Couple Sells Kids To Fund Online Gaming · · Score: 1

    How can we judge whether or not this was a good decision without the requisite information?

  22. Why would a nation-state want to? on Could the KGB Infiltrate LulzSec? · · Score: 1

    If a country can't figure out how to (or hire someone to) run LOIC to perform DDOS's and do simple SQL injections on their own, then they've got much bigger problems than working out how to infiltrate a group of teenagers.

  23. I would have been more impressed... on Second Life Mine Simulation Receives an Emmy Nomination · · Score: 4, Funny

    ... if they used Minecraft.

  24. Seems risky on Iran Plans To Put a Monkey Into Space · · Score: 1

    The monkey might go off course and land outside of Iran. The Iranian leadership would then run a great risk of the monkey defecting and giving up all their secrets.

  25. OSSEC maybe on Ask Slashdot: FTP Server Honeypots? · · Score: 1

    OSSEC will block IPs for however long you'd like when they fail on multiple SSH logins. I would assume it can be set up for FTP as well.