Slashdot Mirror


User: manu0601

manu0601's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
3,442
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 3,442

  1. Comparison on Los Angeles Raises Minimum Wage To $15 an Hour · · Score: 1

    If someone needs some comparison, France's national minimal hourly wage is 9,71 euros, that is 10.7 USD.

    This is much lower, but to make a fair comparison, one would have to take expenses into account. The presence of socialized services lower expenses, especially for people at minimum wage that do not pay taxes on their income.

  2. restricting access to the DNA on Genetically Engineered Yeast Makes It Possible To Brew Morphine · · Score: 1

    restricting access to the DNA

    What a joke! Do they plan to introduce DRM-enabled DNA?

  3. Selection on Harvard Hit With Racial Bias Complaint · · Score: 1

    I see the problem: they are thinner on average than other ethnic groups and therefore perform weaker at football. As a result they cannot enter University college.

  4. ACPI mess on MenuetOS, an Operating System Written Entirely In Assembly, Hits 1.0 · · Score: 1

    stable on all hardware with which they've tested

    How do they manage ACPI mess that exists on some machines, and unusual chipsets? There is nothing impossible here, but if the end product must fit on a floppy, there is no much room.

  5. Xen paravirtualized not vulnerable on 'Venom' Security Vulnerability Threatens Most Datacenters · · Score: 1

    Xen security advisory notes that Xen paravirtualized setup is not vulnerable. It only strikes HVM, where the host OS is run unmodified and think it has access to a real floppy drive.

  6. Let them use code numbers, they cannot be offensive: sorry, but you have caught a 23-19

  7. Re:Transnistrina on 28-Year-Old Businessman Accused of Stealing $1 Billion From Moldova · · Score: 1

    You could not be more right by comparing Transnistria to Donbass.

    • In both cases, the conflict ignited because the state decided to suppress Russian as an official language.
    • In both cases, the state was not able to recover control over the separatist regions
    • In both cases, the separatist regions asked through referendum to be integrated into Russia
    • In both cases, the Russian parliament refused integration
    • In both cases, Russia does not recognize the separatist region as being a sovereign state.

    The Russian strategy is the same: either the region remains outside of the state control, or the state is federalized to offer some autonomy to the separatist region. In both cases, the state cannot integrate NATO: either it has a latent conflict and other NATO member states do not want to automatically act on it as NATO treaty request. In the federalization case, integrating NATO would require all federalized regions to agree, and obviously the pro-Russia regions would refuse.

  8. Re:Transnistrina on 28-Year-Old Businessman Accused of Stealing $1 Billion From Moldova · · Score: 1

    What happens if the guy resells Transnistria? I heard Ukraine's president was interested at "fixing" it. Fortunately he lacks the money, that will save us from making the local situation even more a mess.

  9. North americans on Dropbox Moves Accounts Outside North America To Ireland · · Score: 2

    North Americans, that is, residents from Canada, USA and Mexico, cannot use the Irish service.

    The ban on people under Canada and Mexico juridiction is interesting. Either Canada and Mexico have agreements with the USA that enforce their citizen's snooping, or Dropbox does not want the transatlantic traffic increase.

  10. Bubble on Want 30 Job Offers a Month? It's Not As Great As You Think · · Score: 2

    Too many offers remind me of the last months of the dotcom bubble...

  11. Re:Attribution on Officials Say Russian Hackers Read Obama's Unclassified Emails · · Score: 2

    Not Russia's fault, but Putin's fault. It is always better to blame a leader than a nation, as you can gab markets in the later once you manager to throw away the former.

  12. Attribution on Officials Say Russian Hackers Read Obama's Unclassified Emails · · Score: 2

    How can they know the attackers are Russian? I understand it would be nice for US government because it could help justifying the policy against Russia, but that will not make a proof.

  13. World Bank metadata on Africa E-Waste Dump Continues Hyperbole War · · Score: 1

    The summary talks about World Bank metadata. why is this called metadata and not just data?

  14. Unscientific on New Nudge Technology Prods You To Take Action · · Score: 1

    Diagnostic uncertainty ignites extreme anxiety in people

    This is unscientific against unscientific: where are the studies showing these device cause anxiety?

  15. Asian languages on Google Adds Handwriting Input To Android · · Score: 1

    They even do Chinese. But it may be easier than Latin language, after all, as characters are not linked (melted?) with each others.

  16. Re:Almonds on Drought and Desertification: How Robots Might Help · · Score: 1

    Correct me if I am wrong, but in drought context, trees are ideal to protect vegetable cultures on the ground. They retain soil and water and offer protection against direct sun exposure. This kind of technique as been used in Sahel.

    Hence you can keep your trees unproductive and start producing something else.

  17. Almonds on Drought and Desertification: How Robots Might Help · · Score: 1

    I recall reading California's almond production consumed 3 times the amount of water of Los Angleles. At some point something will have to change in agricultural production.

  18. Truly democratic on The Voting Machine Anyone Can Hack · · Score: 1
    .

    If anyone can hack it, then voting machine got truly democratic.

    The voting process is just a bit skewed: the last to cheat votes for everyone, but at least it can be anyone.

  19. Re:hes not the one to blame. on Bolivia Demands Assange Apologize For Deliberately False Leaks To the US · · Score: 1

    Blame the governments of Austria, Spain, Portugal, and France. We never elected them to do that!

  20. Better software on Fifty Years of Moore's Law · · Score: 2

    One Moore's law will be a thing of the past, developers will have to take care of software performances, instead of requiring latest hardware to run badly optimized code.

  21. Devastating effects on How Mission Creep Killed a Gaming Studio · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Escalating and unanticipated requirements, especially without added budget to meet those requirements, can have devastating effects on both a project and the larger software company.

    Not to mention the company's workers, who are likely to be burnt in the process before getting lay off

  22. They may succeed on French Intelligence Bill: 5 Web Hosting Providers Threaten To Leave the Country · · Score: 1

    The "socialist" french government does not give a s**t about its citizen's opinion, but it seems to be very vigilant about what corporations want.

  23. Stuff that matters? on Study: Ancient Mosasaurs Gave Birth In Open Sea · · Score: 1, Funny

    Indeed news for nerds, but very specialized nerds...

  24. Human toxicity on Plaque-busting Nanoparticles Could Help Fight Tooth Decay · · Score: 1

    Do they make sure this bacteria-killing stuff is not toxic for humans?

  25. Divide the key on U.S. Gov't Grapples With Clash Between Privacy, Security · · Score: 1

    Dividing the key makes sure a single individual cannot have access. But since all individual workers obey to their employer, it does not prevent any NSA access.

    This is just a measure against rogue NSA employee access, not against NSA access.