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  1. This is EPIC because: on Mainframe OpenSolaris Now Available · · Score: 1

    IBM has a strangle-hold on the high-margin mainframe world. This is causing issues in the Big Blue God Pod right now, be certain.

  2. Re:Like their namesake? on Tesla Motors Shaken Up, Laying Off · · Score: 1

    Tesla was a genius, and at least 3 generations ahead of his time.

    QED.

  3. Fraud involving cheap labor? on Feds Consider H-1B Changes After Uncovering Fraud · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No! It can't be! paying a resource 10k USD/yr to replace a 70k/yr resource offers a lot of incentive to skirt the rules. You would have thought that the sub-standard work would have been outrageous enough, but companies keep offshoring.....

  4. Another Option: on $700 Billion Bailout Signed Into Law · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I have had the chance to speak with other business owners and some executives of, let's just say, large, corporations. The general feeling is that while action was necessary there was a much better approach:

    - ~500 billion USD given to the Fed
    - Allow the Fed to disperse the money through the discount window with loans at 1% fixed for 18 months then reset to Prime-0.5%
    - All mortgages that are currently in MBS tranches have their rates reset to Prime+1 for 24 months.
    - Have the US AG seek felony charges for lenders that committed fraud.

    The current bill is like trying to get fuel into a car through the tailpipe instead of filling up the gas tank.

  5. I have never been more proud to be a republican... on US House Limits Constituent Emails · · Score: 5, Insightful

    then I have this week. And by republican i mean REAL republican, not a neo-con like in recent years. Regardless of the fact that some house republicans were going to vote for it, it was enough in the end that an individual's ego made them stick to their principles.

  6. Unreal... on CA Legislature Torpedoes IT Overtime · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why is Arnold not doing something about this?

  7. Re:Que Google Employee Fanbois on Has Google Redefined Beta? · · Score: 1

    You're selling your examples too short. Ford had numerous other models to keep momentum going. MS first had dos, then windows, then office, then exchange.

    Cherry-picking examples is not clever. If you're going to use analogies then use them correctly. Google's first big money maker was adwords.....we are still waiting for the next thing.

    Ford's was the Model T, then the next Model, then all the other cars they made. MS made money with ms-DOS, then with windows, then with office, then with exchange.

    See my point yet? If not, my point is that the other companies you used as examples have multiple cash-flow positive products/services. Google has only one.

  8. Re:Que Google Employee Fanbois on Has Google Redefined Beta? · · Score: 1

    No but you need to be a Google employer, beneficiary, partner, affiliate or stock owner to make excuses for their history of shortcomings and business ineptitude. IANATroll, but if they didn't have adwords they would have been bankrupt or acquired 6 years ago.

  9. Que Google Employee Fanbois on Has Google Redefined Beta? · · Score: 0, Redundant

    In 3....2.....1......

  10. Re:Google may not know what beta means... on Has Google Redefined Beta? · · Score: 1

    MOD PARENT UP.

  11. Re:This Just In on Palin Email Hacker Found · · Score: 1, Informative

    But she didn't conduct any official business with the yahoo account! All that was in it were family pictures and emails to her friends. IMO, she did the correct thing by not using a govt.-paid for email account for personal communications.

    Also, by the fact that you falsely stated she conducted "official business" with the yahoo account, I cannot help but think you have some type of bias, as why else would you blatantly falsify information???

  12. Re:Tons of stuff out there: on Trading the Markets With FOSS Software? · · Score: 1

    yes, that is exactly what I'm saying.

    For example, TWS has java binding and even a local DDE server do you can write crap in Excel. God help you if you have triggers sent form Excel Macros....

  13. Tons of stuff out there: on Trading the Markets With FOSS Software? · · Score: 4, Informative

    I understand that the submitter doesn't know what is out there, but if you ever have a trading account you're likely to have API access to your broker's systems. I recommend Interactive Brokers as their TWS software has a lot of different language bindings.

    In finance you don't look for "FOSS" tools, you go to your broker, get API access, and write them yourself.

  14. Re:It's the same line they always use. on Advanced Surveillance Tech for Unmanned Drones Credited In Iraq · · Score: 1

    A Jihad precludes all "learning" that you think the terrorists should do. You cannot apply your reasoning, education and beliefs to how religious extremists behave, it will only cause you to draw malformed conclusions.

  15. Re:Bush and McCain don't want to admit this on Advanced Surveillance Tech for Unmanned Drones Credited In Iraq · · Score: 1

    Parent is a Tree-hugging Troll.

  16. Re:America FUCK YEAH! on Advanced Surveillance Tech for Unmanned Drones Credited In Iraq · · Score: 1

    MOD PARENT INSIGHTFUL!

  17. Re:xVM is based on Xen... on Sun Bare Metal Hypervisors Now GPLv3 · · Score: 1

    not based on our experiences.(first-hand) We don't even offer Xen because of its performance issues under load.

  18. Re:Which benchmarks? on Sun Bare Metal Hypervisors Now GPLv3 · · Score: 1
  19. xVM is based on Xen... on Sun Bare Metal Hypervisors Now GPLv3 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Which has a boatload of problems. The fact is there is enough competition in the market that just being able to be a hypervisor is not enough - you need to measure up and offer proprietary advantages.

    The reason this release is not a big deal is that VMWare spanks the performance of every other hypervisor. VMWare ESX networking is magnitudes ahead of every single other competitor in the benchmarks.

  20. Re:How many failures before.. on The London Stock Exchange Goes Down For Whole Day · · Score: 1

    No one ever got fired for choosing IBM.

  21. Re:Misleading summary on The London Stock Exchange Goes Down For Whole Day · · Score: 1

    most of the nyse stuff that's important will be on AIX, but I guess you don't need to read articles, just post links...

  22. Re:Misleading summary on The London Stock Exchange Goes Down For Whole Day · · Score: 0

    Any company that includes Linux is RTP/STP should go out in the street with them. Though at least you got Solaris correct.

  23. Re:The SunSPOT is much newer on TCP/IP Meets Physical Reality · · Score: 1

    I did say -nearly-, i think it was late 02 that the project was released, so development was at least several months prior.

    As for cost, it's all economies of scale. You can get SPOTs cheaper in bulk, though you are correct, the SPOTs do a much broader array of things.

  24. Sorry - this news was beaten nearly a decade by... on TCP/IP Meets Physical Reality · · Score: 1

    Sun.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_SPOT

    Java, ftw.

    You can by SunSPOT dev kits for a few hundred bucks. People have already build p2p networks with them. Exciting enough to remind us of the old XeroxPARC days.

  25. Re:Chrome Users: new security flaw found on MySQL Founder Monty Quits Sun (Or Not) · · Score: 1

    In chrome the location ":%" apparently blows the thing up.

    Has nothing to do with mysql, other then the fact that google is planning on putting a lite sql db into chrome to facilitate gears.