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  1. Re:maybe your skillsets is to big or to long on Ask Slashdot: Reasonable Immigration Policy For Highly-Trained Workers? · · Score: 1

    Yes, I do have a very big and long skillset.

  2. Re:Honest Questions.... on Ask Slashdot: Reasonable Immigration Policy For Highly-Trained Workers? · · Score: 1

    We're a large company, and in this region, to find someone with the skillsets I'm looking for is nearly impossible, and we're paying top $$.

    Sounds like you are not paying top dollar enough or you would find somebody. Or perhaps the needs are too specific. I just hired a guy with lots of technical background in various languages, but no experience in language X to be a programmer for me in language X.

    Could very well be. But $100k to $120k, and not in NYC or SF should bring in a decent selection of candidates at the very least. But I'm in one of those rare fields where there very low or near zero unemployment, unfortunately.

  3. Re:Honest Questions.... on Ask Slashdot: Reasonable Immigration Policy For Highly-Trained Workers? · · Score: 1

    I've moved on beyond proving shit to random idiots on the Internet. While I have personally consolidated 3 positions into one (and my boss doubled my pay for doing that) this is not one of those times.

    You've just shown that you're a fucking idiot with a chip on your shoulder, no wonder you can't make more than $50k, tops.

  4. Re:college what about tech school and people who l on Ask Slashdot: Reasonable Immigration Policy For Highly-Trained Workers? · · Score: 1

    Just because you prefer to read into what I did not say is not my fucking problem. The top guy on the team makes $120k and does not have a college degree, so fuck off.

  5. Re:Honest Questions.... on Ask Slashdot: Reasonable Immigration Policy For Highly-Trained Workers? · · Score: 1

    Because I'm not hiring for a junior position. Is that really a difficult concept?

  6. Re:Honest Questions.... on Ask Slashdot: Reasonable Immigration Policy For Highly-Trained Workers? · · Score: 1

    Because we really can't find qualified people? We're a large company, and in this region, to find someone with the skillsets I'm looking for is nearly impossible, and we're paying top $$.

    Training? I provide additional training, but if you don't come in knowing your shit, why the hell should I pay you $100k just for the privilege of teaching you all the crap you should know for this position?

  7. Re:Summary of TFA . . . on Microsoft Certificate Was Used To Sign Flame Malware · · Score: 1

    They've stored their Private Key in plain text _somewhere_ even if that somewhere was an encrypted container that's locked away in Bill Gates' basement... :)

  8. Re:Yay for security! on Microsoft Certificate Was Used To Sign Flame Malware · · Score: 3, Informative

    No, *MOTHERBOARD* manufacturers can add other keys. If you can't even boot to an alternative OS, there's no way in hell you could _CHANGE_ the damned keys, unless there was a vulnerability.

    So please stop your FUD.

  9. Re:The point? on First Steps With the Raspberry Pi · · Score: 2

    most people don't know how to count. What do you expect?

  10. Re:comcast 300GB and then $10 per 50GB on DirecTV CEO Scoffs At Competition From Apple TV · · Score: 1

    Just because you decide to let your ISP take advantage of you means that the entire industry should bend over and let Comcast take advantage of them too? Do you even understand how the fucking Internet works?

    Here's what happens. Comcast, Time Warner, AT&T, etc all have peering agreements. Think of it as separate clouds linking up at multiple points. Search for the term "peering arrangement".

    If the inbound traffic and outbound traffic between comcast and AT&T is roughly equal, they call it a wash, and no money changes hands.

    Apple already pays its ISP. Why should it pay Comcast again? If Apple's ISP needs to pay comcast, it's an issue between Apple's ISP and comcast. And if it affects the end users, then it's an issue between the end user and comcast, and an issue between Apple and its ISP, and Apple may well look for a new ISP.

    Please explain where the fucking free ride comes from. Thanks.

  11. Re:AppleTV may have to deal with ISP and data cost on DirecTV CEO Scoffs At Competition From Apple TV · · Score: 1, Funny

    Gee, I can't call an idiot an idiot now? Sorry, I didn't realize it was be nice to idiots day today.

  12. Re:Kind of reminds me of on DirecTV CEO Scoffs At Competition From Apple TV · · Score: 1

    you know that. I know that. The average man in the street really doesn't give a shit about that. Just as 3TB means 3 trillion bytes to normal people and not 3,298,534,883,328 bytes.

  13. Re:more tests need to be open book / open google on Students Looking For Easy A Target Online Courses, Where Cheating Is Easier · · Score: 1

    And by the way, Einstein had his concepts down cold. He might not be able to tell you what the exact value is for a certain constant, but he certainly could tell you how things worked in general.

  14. Re:more tests need to be open book / open google on Students Looking For Easy A Target Online Courses, Where Cheating Is Easier · · Score: -1

    And smart aleck remarks get you bonus points too right?

    My point is that if you cannot even demonstrate basic concepts, you should be flunked. Anyone can fucking google for 5x8 and get 40, but I want you to be able to recite the damned multiplication table to show me attention to details, and the ability to calculate in your head, and this is something a 3rd grader should be able to do, and in fact, most 3rd graders across the world can do it.

    Just not the ones in the US... :(

  15. Re:more tests need to be open book / open google on Students Looking For Easy A Target Online Courses, Where Cheating Is Easier · · Score: 1

    I don't think you understand the difference between "open book" and "open google".

  16. Re:So having us piece something together for you on Ask Slashdot: Syncing Files With Remote Server While On the Road? · · Score: 1

    Parchive across micro-SD cards. I love it! For additional robustness, send via multiple envelopes! :)

  17. Re:more tests need to be open book / open google on Students Looking For Easy A Target Online Courses, Where Cheating Is Easier · · Score: 2

    right... if you cannot even discuss basic flags or basic concepts, but can google, that's all that's needed to be a good competent programmer, right? Because good enough is good enough.

    no wonder USA is losing its edge, with this kind of thinking.

  18. Re:You ares testing students the wrong way on Students Looking For Easy A Target Online Courses, Where Cheating Is Easier · · Score: 0

    Right... and so therefore, it doesn't matter whatever questions you set, so long as the students can google for the correct answer, everything's fine right?

  19. Re:Kind of reminds me of on DirecTV CEO Scoffs At Competition From Apple TV · · Score: 1

    Normally, people equate "PC" world to x86 computers running windows.

    Technically Macs run on x86, but consumers still see a "PC" as a beige box, and a Mac as a different animal.

  20. Re:AppleTV may have to deal with ISP and data cost on DirecTV CEO Scoffs At Competition From Apple TV · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What this is fucking free ride you are mumbling about? I paid for my pipe, and though it may be shared with my neighbors, it's none of your fucking business where I suck down my content from.

    You are an idiot.

  21. Re:Weak spec: Secure from what while doing what? on Ask Slashdot: Equipping a Company With Secure Android Phones? · · Score: 1

    key is - are you going to allow non-default apps. If you allow appstore, what policies will you have in place? Can they install Girls Around Me for example? porn? etc

  22. Re:Why not an iPhone? on Ask Slashdot: Equipping a Company With Secure Android Phones? · · Score: 1

    with or without locking out the Google AppStore?

    Or are you saying that you are not worried about random apps your users will buy from the appstore?

    And when iOS can be exploited by going to a simple web page, Apple releases an update, and you apply that update. How do you apply any update to a non-Nexus phone? Is it even available?

  23. Re:bad requirements on Ask Slashdot: Equipping a Company With Secure Android Phones? · · Score: 1

    I take it you haven't read On Trusting Trust?

  24. Re:God's experiment in free will on Debate Over Evolution Will Soon Be History, Says Leakey · · Score: 1

    You might want to google for "Russian Orthodox Church".

    In China, Buddhism, Taoism abound. Christianity not so much, and very much lesser is Islam. But they are still there, in the open. So... what's your point?

  25. Re:God's experiment in free will on Debate Over Evolution Will Soon Be History, Says Leakey · · Score: 1

    Err, someone said Christianity/Christian God never forced people to believe. I offered evidence otherwise. And so you are telling me Hitler and Stalin did the same thing?

    Are you really comparing the Christian God and Christianity to Hitler and Stalin?