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  1. Re:Sure on Can You Commit Copyright Infringement By Using Your Own Work? · · Score: 1

    Hey, if it is "transformative art" for some, it is for others too!

  2. Re:Register what you spend on Ask Slashdot: Switching Careers From Software Engineering To Networking? · · Score: 1

    What is also the quality of your suits? I was no stranger to good suits (around 1.5k-2k with inflation in place), nowadays I get by with more modest clothing. Do not get into herd/peer pressure mentality of buying 4x4 for field activities, boats or planes. It is a trap, and the maintenance is very steep. If you absolutely insist on that, buy models and join a club that do some races or activities one time per month.

  3. Re:Register what you spend on Ask Slashdot: Switching Careers From Software Engineering To Networking? · · Score: 2

    About letting go drinking buddies, this goes without saying. I enjoyed a lot the companion of someone that was more calmer and more socially apt than me. A lot. But the man and their circle of very amicable friends, they downed a bottle per night, per guy of whiskey, plus the grub that went down to "settle" it, every single day of the week. I had to let it go. Being an expat in a foreign, hot country was not easy, and I was no stranger to have a drink at the end of the night. He made a hell a lot of difference, however it was not a sustainable life in many ways. If you need to let go this kind of people, fake an health fad (I turned vegan), fake a minor disease and a need for a diet...whatever. But do it. Also your body will thank you. With 30 years the impact of abuse in a body is not yet noticeable.

  4. Re:Register what you spend on Ask Slashdot: Switching Careers From Software Engineering To Networking? · · Score: 2

    Budget by the year and not for the immediate. That several coffee a day habit could translate very well between 1000k-5000k thousand a year depending where you live and where you drink it. Save some vices only for the weekend. Be careful with eating out, it could well translate between 20k to 100k per year easily. And when I told to jot down the expenses it to carry a smart app or paper with you and jot down everything to the single penny.

  5. Register what you spend on Ask Slashdot: Switching Careers From Software Engineering To Networking? · · Score: 1

    Man you seriously need to control your fixed income expenses. It is very easy to get lost in the day to day grind, and toast it all in eating out and bars every single day, cigs, coffees, small vices. Sport cars and all of that. You have to start controlling your OWN expenses. Since your are married, both of you need to control it. I propose a small experience. Get a smartphone app, or a sheet of paper, a xls, whatever suits you, and jot down the expenses of the next 30 days. Then analyze it with your wife and see where you can improve. Cut back while it makes a difference. Get advice from someone more conscious in the family. Often also are buddies with the same lack of self-restraint that down you with them. Do not delude yourself, you have to let go these people for the sake of your own.

  6. Re:Don't go into networking on Ask Slashdot: Switching Careers From Software Engineering To Networking? · · Score: 1

    Networking goes far much more beyond dealing with cables and designing the data network. Far much more. Otherwise you are doing it wrong.

  7. Re:This is why France doesn't do startups on Mandriva CEO: Employee Lawsuits Put Us Out of Business · · Score: 1

    So having work laws is bad for business. How you mind leaving your linked.in profile for me to apply for your business?

  8. slashdot was run over by feminists on Google's Diversity Chief: Mamas Don't Let Their Baby Girls Grow Up To Be Coders · · Score: 1

    Well slashdot, fuck you. I do not support sexist outlets.

  9. Does the infra-structure allow for this? on Attackers Use Email Spam To Infect Point-of-Sale Terminals · · Score: 1

    If the network infra-structure allows for POS to connect to the Internet at large, the managers are idiots without a clue and are asking from problems. Probably sooner than later.

  10. Re:Great Recession part II? on Greece Is Running Out of Money, Cannot Make June IMF Repayment · · Score: 1

    It does not matter what it is. Historically all pensions schemes were private in my fathers time, and they were basically appropriated and stolen by the government, with the exception of a few odd ones (one of them is the private bankers pension scheme, that continued private to this day). On a rather curious historical footnote, whenever our former ditactor asked for the private pension scheme for money, he always treated those requests as loans that were to be repaid, and honoured the debt. The money was always more than enough, the problem is that successive governments stole much of it for other purposes.

  11. Re:Great Recession part II? on Greece Is Running Out of Money, Cannot Make June IMF Repayment · · Score: 1

    Healthcare is not already being provided as it used to be. The amounts asked for routine visits and specially for the more complicated theatre operations , while not often covering the full amount, are not trivial to pay for pensioners without savings. And no matter how you spin the excuses, the pension money historically in Portugal was private money and was always promised as a safeguard in the old age. Now if governments are dipping on that funds, it is not peoples fault.

  12. Re:Great Recession part II? on Greece Is Running Out of Money, Cannot Make June IMF Repayment · · Score: 1

    There are no "promised" pensions. Pensions are just money lent by the workers to be given back later. Historically they were all private run schemes before the government "confiscated" them, and used the huge lump of sums over the years to give money to people who never discounted a cent, robbed from the funds as it pleased them, managed them with prejudice, and also even paid Kosovo soldiers with pension money. To add insult to injury, that money lent from the people, that already paid taxes, got a 20-40% dent with IRS on top of already IRS paid when people worked and paid their dues, and now on top of that the shavings. This has got nothing to do with accounting, and everything to do with robbing people of their money, and robbing the most vulnerable sector of the population.

  13. Re:"Slow and calculated torture?" on Greece Is Running Out of Money, Cannot Make June IMF Repayment · · Score: 1

    Here in Portugal they take it a step further, and the first decade/few years you are just basically paying interest up front. So in reality if down the lane you have the means to repay the loan sooner, it wont do you any good.

  14. Re:I have an idea on Greece Is Running Out of Money, Cannot Make June IMF Repayment · · Score: 1

    The problem is that you are comparing apples to oranges. You are comparing a country where much of the people tries to abide by law to countries like greece, spain, portugal and italy where it is a national sport to cheat employees, the state and suppliers. Most of the tactics on the situation you described above is to: send money to off shores, fake a divorce to save at least half of your possessions, invent expenses and not declare proceedings. Actually the politicians are the first ones doing it...

  15. Re:Great Recession part II? on Greece Is Running Out of Money, Cannot Make June IMF Repayment · · Score: 1

    Cyprus was made as an example because people did not like it being a tax heaven for russian gangsters.

  16. Re:Great Recession part II? on Greece Is Running Out of Money, Cannot Make June IMF Repayment · · Score: 1

    No, it is not conspiracy stuff. That line of bullshit talk has been being used in Portugal to rob us blind, and almost half a decade as passed away with salaries and pensions being robbed and the deadline of it "ending" being kept pushed back more longer in the future several times.

  17. Re:it's not "slow and calculated torture" on Greece Is Running Out of Money, Cannot Make June IMF Repayment · · Score: 1

    Sure "it can". This is a german ploy to get at other countries gold reserves. And greedy politicians have put us in Greece and Portugal with all this debt, because it is far easier to have a lot of money going in today and have money for their corrupt schemes and getting some under the table at the same time, than planning for the future, which does not matter to them, because someone else will be there and will have to handle paying the debt. It is pretty much like the average citizen maxing out several credit cards to buy sports cars, luxury watches and LCD TVs when they are flat broke.

  18. Yet another sexist article on Study: Science Still Seen As a Male Profession · · Score: 2

    Is slashdot trying to drive away the male audience?

  19. Re:Specialization on How Windows 10 Performs On a 12-inch MacBook · · Score: 1

    Microsoft is a damn piece of shit that does scale multitask well, or rather does it very badly under heavy loads. And typically and historically bully manufacturers into providing sub-par versions of drivers to others. It could be very well it gives the impression of being faster if you are only using the UI and nothing else. Nevertheless, the article has not much in the way of scientific testing, or anything that could stand between them and their perceived "truth". News for nerds? What a sad joke.

  20. Windows before 3.11 was crap on 25 Years Today - Windows 3.0 · · Score: 1

    And even though. Before 98 I was very much into DeskView for DOS multitasking and SCO Unix V for doing actual work. Used briefly windows 98 and went on to use Ultrix and after one year started using RH. After another year switched to Debian and has been using it with brief intervals using *BSD products. In 2005 discovered OS/X for the desktop...

  21. BASIC and COBOL are easy too on The Reason For Java's Staying Power: It's Easy To Read · · Score: 1

    Honestly,I have seen many, and this one about been readable must be the more strange argument I have seen lately.

  22. How about vulnerability suck my dick? on 'Logjam' Vulnerability Threatens Encrypted Connections · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The name of the article is virtually incomprehensible due to this shit. How about the original idea about saying a new TLS vulnerability? Would it be so fucking difficult? Yeah, mod me down.

  23. "now" is the wrong question. on Ask Slashdot: What Tech Skills Do HS Students Need To Know Now? · · Score: 1

    You do not want them tied to present or past technologies. The industry changes too fast, and by the time you think you *ought* to teach them something, it will mean that when they hit the market, the target has moved somewhere else. You want to give them the tools for them to pick up any emergent technology on their own. Most may be proficient with facebook, or even a little more advanced, however the more pressing problem I have seen over the years, both in my trainees and in workmates, is the lack of foundations to understand how things work or why they have to do a specific task.

  24. Re:Not the same thing on Gates, Zuckerberg Promising Same Jobs To US Kids and Foreign H-1B Workers? · · Score: 1

    Why are they paying for their mortgage in the first place? If you cannot afford a home, rent one.

  25. Re:short-term vs long-term solution anyone? on Gates, Zuckerberg Promising Same Jobs To US Kids and Foreign H-1B Workers? · · Score: 1

    There is not much to understand they just want to create hordes of low-paid employees. The rest is just bullshit talk.