Slashdot Mirror


User: l0n3s0m3phr34k

l0n3s0m3phr34k's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
2,172
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 2,172

  1. Re:is this "spinoff" HP or "other" HP?? on HP Unveils Industrial 3D Printer 10X Faster, 50% Cheaper Than Current Systems · · Score: 1

    I am wondering too; and I even work there and it's confusing. But I am on the "big iron" side so I just sit in a dark "enterprise control center" for 12 hours at a time. When I'm there we might have 20-30 people in the whole building, mostly in the same room since I work over nights. But since it's a printer, this will be done by the HP Home and Printing side (I think, I can't speak officially lol). The Moonshot is on my side (I think) but I don't know if my org is working with any of that hardware yet. From my job level it would take a bit of digging to see what particular hardware some VM is on...I monitor thousands of various VM's in two states and their all on their own refresh schedule for the hardware. It's all documented in various run books...and it's been several years since I've been inside the local data center (which is about three miles away).

  2. Re:The 3D printing future is vastly underestimated on HP Unveils Industrial 3D Printer 10X Faster, 50% Cheaper Than Current Systems · · Score: 2

    I expect HP will buy one of the smaller leading companies in the next few years too. Part of the split purpose is for future M&A

  3. Re:The 3D printing future is vastly underestimated on HP Unveils Industrial 3D Printer 10X Faster, 50% Cheaper Than Current Systems · · Score: 1

    Products like this are one of the main reasons for the recent separation of HP Enterprise and HP Home. Moonshot is another reason; it's far easier for a "smaller corp" (HP En vs old HP) to use one set of books and move faster putting together THEIR hardware. Rumors are HP buying EMC ?! Disclaimer: I work there as an employee yet still often find out about our "corporate news" here on /. first lol. Often I'll read something here, then in a few days some HP newsletter spam will hit my inbox haha.

  4. Re:Where will decent software come from? on HP Unveils Industrial 3D Printer 10X Faster, 50% Cheaper Than Current Systems · · Score: 1

    I work at HP, and use my MSDN subscription for 15+ machines at home. Most of it is my pet project, but I did include some stuff in my "work goals" in workaday and I'm not selling any products from my house...or selling windows licenses lol

  5. Re:Good to see it on Largest Sunspot In a Quarter Century Spews Flares · · Score: 1

    Sure they do! Just thousands of them that you just can't see without some optical help.

  6. Re:Tried this in the US, failed on Italian Supreme Court Bans the 'Microsoft Tax' · · Score: 1

    So you only buy Macs and chromebooks now?

  7. Re:What awful timing. A decade too late! on Italian Supreme Court Bans the 'Microsoft Tax' · · Score: 1

    "if you want to roll out linux to desktop corporate, it will be a battle. But it can be done" good luck with that. Very few corps could handle the massive re-training of their staff to use something like OpenOffice. You would have to be an IT God to train 1,000+ babyboomers to effectively use OO before the entire company ground to a standstill. Then be prepared for the backlash when a large chunk of your clients and customers can no longer open up files sent to them like they used to. Theoretically it's possible but in practice unless the CEO and Board where pushing it the whole IT department would probably be fired first.

    At my workplace we manage thousands of open-source systems, but their almost all Red Hat servers running under ESX.

  8. Re:Disproportionate response on Days After Shooting, Canada Proposes New Restrictions On and Offline · · Score: 1

    it also shouldn't be called terrorism since it was an attack on military personnel, not civilians. Just like the Islamist beheading in Oklahoma, that to was declared "non terrorism" by the FBI since he wasn't trying to coerce the public or government to change their policies (which is part of the State Department's definition) so he was just a crazy murderer.

  9. was this really "terrorism"? on Days After Shooting, Canada Proposes New Restrictions On and Offline · · Score: 1

    Not to say the shooting wasn't cowardly and horrific, but it was an attack on government and military personnel and not civilians...

  10. Re:I guess you missed Kent State? on Incapacitating Chemical Agents: Coming Soon To Local Law Enforcement? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We should be able to protest without a large police force always quickly descending on us. Police see protests like shooting galleries at a state fair and break out the riot gear and anti-mine vehicles as fast of possible. The best way for police to win is to not even show up unless looting or actual rioting happens. But guess what? You can't have a riot with only one side there! It's Art of War 101. It's easy to to turn a protest into a riot by showing up looking like an invasion force and screaming at everyone over bullhorns. When the PD does that, their still attacking first just via psychological means instead of physical. Once the general melee is going THEN the looters show up to take advantage of the chaos. The PD uses this as an escalation point, going after everyone including members of the press, teargassing citizens who are complying and staying inside...there must be a manual somewhere probably written by the CIA.

  11. Re:Fentanyl on Incapacitating Chemical Agents: Coming Soon To Local Law Enforcement? · · Score: 1

    In Putin's Russia, the survivors PAY Putin!

  12. Re:die by taser or gas? on Incapacitating Chemical Agents: Coming Soon To Local Law Enforcement? · · Score: 1

    usually it's the State Department who declares whomever as a terrorist, not a local judge. I can't quote specific law but you can read this and this but seeing as recently the FBI declared the beheading in Oklahoma "not linked to terrorism" beside the fact he was a Islamic convert who had ISIS stuff all over his FB.

    Until individual state legislatures start passing laws allowing their local jurisdictions to declare individuals (and groups) terrorists, your "cop judge" theory is a none-starter (for now). This would quickly end up in the Supreme Court; it's akin to a state deciding to declare war on a group or individual. Oklahoma can't legally have a judge declare someone a terrorist any more than they can legally invade Mexico with the Oklahoma National Guard. The whole system doesn't work that way.

  13. Re:die by taser or gas? on Incapacitating Chemical Agents: Coming Soon To Local Law Enforcement? · · Score: 1

    so basically, if your not an agent of a large country who hasn't officially declared war on the USA, your a terrorist. Surprising that it doesn't also include "corporate" next to "government", as in "affect the conduct of corporate or government" and "attack on a federal or corporate facility". And how large of a group qualifies as a "civilian population"?

  14. Re:$3500 fine? on Tech Firm Fined For Paying Imported Workers $1.21 Per Hour · · Score: 1

    I'll guarantee that your company took care of everything before you got there, and the Russians were just being their usual paranoid selves by checking to make sure your doing what you say.

  15. scan this! on U.K. Supermarkets Beta Test Full-Body 3D Scanners For Selfie Figurines · · Score: 1

    hmmm....what if I just want a, um, "figurine" of just a specific part of my body?

  16. Re:Criminals who carry tracking devices... on Florida Supreme Court: Police Can't Grab Cell Tower Data Without a Warrant · · Score: 1

    not sure where all the phones come from...but he did have a vast collection of other electronics (wide screen TV's, laptops, etc) taken for barter payments.

  17. Re:Blah blah Elon call me when on What It Took For SpaceX To Become a Serious Space Company · · Score: 1

    yeah, I was "mostly" sarcastic. Honestly, Elon is doing an amazing job. And seeing pics of the line of in-production Dragon capsules, rockets, etc...what he's doing now is just the very beginning. One pic had at least 10 capsules in different build stages.

  18. Garage? on New Microsoft Garage Site Invites Public To Test a Wide Range of App Ideas · · Score: 3, Funny

    Awesome, can I leave a giant oil stain in the driveway?

  19. Blah blah Elon call me when on What It Took For SpaceX To Become a Serious Space Company · · Score: 1

    When SpaceX is launching prefabbed Bigelow habs every day, THEN their a serious space industry. When the alignment of mass production finally hits the space age and we're launching more habs than we can fill with people...

  20. Oh noes! Strategic Syrup Alert! on Shooting At Canadian Parliament · · Score: 0

    oh those Canuks! He's probably wacked out on Maple Syrup and high on medicinal pot. There's no poisonous snakes native to Nova Scotia dontchano, so what ya be needing a gun for?

  21. Ponca City? on 32 Cities Want To Challenge Big Telecom, Build Their Own Gigabit Networks · · Score: 2

    At first look this "small" city in Oklahoma is strange, yet with the local of a Google datacenter, seems perhaps the cities leaders see the future of what could be? I'm from Tulsa, and our "highspeed" (at least where I live) is a joke. I'm locked into a semi-illegal "exclusive contract" my apartment complex has with AT&T so nothing other than DSL at a 2.4MB max. But even if my city suddenly "jumped" on this, I still wouldn't see any results at my place for 10-15 years if that.

    We could, of course, utilize our flood control pathways to install high-strength water-proofed fiber optics all over the city within a few years. Tulsa's flood control system spreads into every area of the city, and a fiber optic system that mimics the natural flow might add an interesting experiment too. We're far too busy tearing our roads up though to bother with anything hi-tech. Every single semi-major street is torn up or at least has construction road signs causing traffic jams; since the 1980's the construction barrel industry has made millions off us taxpayers.

  22. Re:Criminals who carry tracking devices... on Florida Supreme Court: Police Can't Grab Cell Tower Data Without a Warrant · · Score: 1

    Or just do what most "criminals" I "know" do, and have multiple phones. A drawer full of cheap burners, and then your main phone with a SIM. People trade phones for "stuff" too, so having several GSM phones in a drawer is not uncommon lol.

  23. Re:This is horrible! on Florida Supreme Court: Police Can't Grab Cell Tower Data Without a Warrant · · Score: 1

    "The only way to stop that from happening ..." is to blow up the Stingray towers? lol

  24. Re:Responsibility yes, automatic liability no on Court Rules Parents May Be Liable For What Their Kids Post On Facebook · · Score: 1

    "You can't claim to be responsible for something and then when it goes all wrong, stick your hands up in the air and say "not my fault!"." Sure you can, but only if your in the government lol

  25. Re:Responsibility yes, automatic liability no on Court Rules Parents May Be Liable For What Their Kids Post On Facebook · · Score: 3, Interesting

    it wasn't just a "post", it was a whole fake profile complete with racial comments, sexual perversions, morphed photos, etc. Really it's identity theft and libel.