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  1. This is an embeded library database on Oracle Quietly Switches BerkeleyDB To AGPL · · Score: 1

    Why is this not LGPL? (Keep the "viral" self contained to the library), or GPL (Application level viral-ability). AGPL? That "infects" everything (Airborne meta-viral!)

    Either the developers/lawyers at Oracle don't understand their own product ... or worse that they are nefariously trying to end of life BDB.

  2. You lost me at Jimmy Wales. Where is Larry Sanger? on RMS, Aaron Swartz Among 2013 Internet Hall of Fame Inductees · · Score: 1

    Jimmy Wales
    Fueled the user collaboration and sharing trend as founder of Wikipedia

    Uh, what the hell?

  3. Re:Seems like..... on Wordpress Sites Under Wide-Scale Brute Force Attack · · Score: 4, Informative

    No, the wp-admin folder is rather hard coded.

  4. Beware the Profzi scheme... on Getting a Literature Ph.D. Will Make You Into a Horrible Person · · Score: 1

    Saw this on facebook the other day, seems very relevant:

    http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1144

  5. Re:Statistics 101 on How That 'Extra .9%' Could Ward Off a Zombie Apocalypse · · Score: 1

    You do realize that the SRB bands were completely redesigned following Challenger? Not just add a third O ring and be done?

    http://science.ksc.nasa.gov/shuttle/technology/images/srb_mod_compare_3.jpg

    A retainer band around the pins, longer pins, changing the mating feature (Clevis and Tang) from a U to more an S to further prevent gases from escaping. And joint heaters for cold weather.

  6. While you are at it... on New Bill Would Require Patent Trolls To Pay Defendants' Attorneys · · Score: 0

    Create a federal patent court circuit with knowledgeable judges, and be specific to exclude the eastern district of Texas for systematic bias.

  7. Implied Power on DHS Can Seize Your Electronics Within 100 Mi.of US Border, Says DHS · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Further, the US Constitution doesn't grant the federal government immigration authority. It is an "Implied Power" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implied_powers

  8. Substitute the players for a history lesson on Dell Going Private In $24.4 Billion Agreement · · Score: 2

    Substitute Michael Dell for Sam Zell, and Dell Company for Tribune Company. Here lies the future...

    Never trust guys with names that end in 'ell'

  9. Re:A better approach on Senators Seek H-1B Cap That Can Reach 300,000 · · Score: 1

    I cited this comment in a letter to my constituent senators. Makes much better sense than what Hatch is spewing.

  10. Re:I am an Alltel Authorized Agent on AT&T Buys More Alltel Operations For $780 Million · · Score: 1

    Thanks for yet another business example of why you don't put all your eggs in one basket. I.e. Zynga -> Facebook relationship, or sort of similar situation in Chicago with Areawide Cellular and Cingular. At least the family that ran Areawide Cellular also ran nursing homes. http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2003-04-28/business/0304270544_1_wireless-carriers-cingular-wireless-at-t-wireless

    I am sure you also tried to sell Dish/Direct for that same commission hit as a diversification measure. Problem is the carriers and satellite have no intrest in developing agent businesses as a franchisee/ franchiser would.

    Just being in the "agent" business is at most a decade business run.

  11. Re:Language is hardly relevant on Java Vs. C#: Which Performs Better In the 'Real World'? · · Score: 2

    I also add the tests were run on cloud servers, which is a time share environment.

    Also, I would have used TC server instead of tomcat. Or another java enterprise JSP container.

  12. Re:Advertised price 9.96 = 10.00 on Canada To Stop Producing Pennies In 2013 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No, Advertised price at 9.96 would round down to 9.95. Then the price should increase to 10.05 or so, then jump to 10.95.

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

  13. Ok...Questions on Facebook Test Will Let You Message Strangers For $1 · · Score: 2

    Since you are now selling access to me, why am I not getting a fiscal benefit as a result?

    Is this different from Linkedin's paid messages as those are work/career context that has a precedent?

    Is this different from Postal mail?

  14. Re:HTC made great qwerty phones. on HTC Losing Ground Faster Than RIM or Nokia · · Score: 1

    Exactly. I don't want a touch phone, I want a slider keyboard phone. HTC made great ones and now I can't find any.

  15. Ok, You want a Figurehead: Sugarbear! on Does OpenStack Need a Linus Torvalds? · · Score: 1

    How about Larry "Sugarbear" Reyes? You don't need a technical head, just some guy from Rackspace to run around in a straight jacket.

  16. Path to Victory on Ask Slashdot: How Often Do You Push To Production? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I am a Release manager at Acquity Group and have worked for "Old School" software companies that have their eyes blazing at all the new web companies that release release release all day long.

    Here is the abbreviated philosophic path to victory:

    DevOps.

    Your developers need to act like operations (knowing how the code is deployed and configuration settings, routes and the like) guys and your operations guys need to start coding (as in ruby for puppet and chef, automation and automation and automation)

    This leads to...

    Infrastructure as Code.

    Hire a Release Engineer or convert a sysadmin to start automating builds. Now you start automating code deployments, you start automating infrastructure deployments so they are repeatable.

    This leads to...

    Test Automation.

    Now you need to stop focusing on smoke testing and have test automation engineers write automated test code.

    One more thing...

    Automated Rollback

    When things go nuts, with fast deploys you need fast rollback. Capistrano is a great tool for deploying this way, rollback is very easy.

    Now you can ...

    Continuous Delivery.

    Great, you got this far, your builds, testing, deploys are automated!

    For Developers:

    Coding for Continuous Delivery is a different paradigm where unfinished code makes it to production. This means that in the production configuration, settings for the new code must be activated by switches to turn new feature sets on. You don't want that unfinished code mucking up your site, right?

    People Processes:

    Do you have CAB boards and ITIL processes? Great, make them faster and more as DEV/TEST/QA becomes automated and just focus on UAT/Prod environments. See this book: http://www.amazon.com/The-Visible-Ops-Handbook-Implementing/dp/0975568612/

    I can also gloss over on waterfall/Agile and hybrid software models.

    Finally, unless your culture wants to shift, it may be damned near impossible to change the culture unless management wants to. If it's doomed, it's doomed!

  17. Correct Attribution on After 7 Years In Court, Google Settles With Publishers On Book Scanning · · Score: 1

    Great job on the correct link attributions in summary. Gold star.

  18. How to Attribute a Newspaper on Roundup Tolerant GM Maize Linked To Tumor Development · · Score: 4, Informative

    All right, we get sick of Slashdot editor bashing, but this needs to be addressed.

    The link to the Chicago Tribune is from a Reuters newsfeed. The attribution should be to Reuters, via Chicago Tribune.

    For quick reference, any "feed" stories from tribune company are going to have "sns" in the title. Other papers will vary.

    (From a former Tribune Co. Employee).

  19. There is even more to the story, as the mother "opted-in" for the food inspection program but forgot she did so. It was a non-story story. I forgot about this additional blog post:

    Enjoy: http://ordinary-gentlemen.com/blog/2012/02/15/a-north-carolina-non-troversy/

  20. Re:U turn on Primary School Girl Told To Stop Photographing and Blogging School Meals · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Turkey Sandwich story is a bunch of hysterical bunk that was rapidly picked up by Fox News and Huffington Post. It was a bunch of poorly worded reporting by the original source, Carolina Journal.

    Please read: http://www.carolinajournal.com/jhdailyjournal/display_jhdailyjournal.html?id=8780 for the real deal.

  21. Re:Well... on Discovery Channel Crashes a Boeing 727 For Science Documentary (latimes.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    H2?! The Ancient Aliens Bull Shit network? All of History channel, RIP.

  22. Backup will be easy... on Is AT&T Building the Ultimate Walled Garden? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ... Just ask the friendly NSA guy in the datacenter for a copy of your data.

    Seriously, would anyone trust their (cloud) data to T after the NSA thing?

  23. Different model for tablets:Free . on What HP's TouchPad Fire Sale Teaches iPad Rivals · · Score: 1
  24. Semantics... on Don't Fly If You Just Had Surgery! · · Score: 1

    "CNN is reporting, via Chicago Tribune" is the correct way to attribute the link in the story.

    Here is the Chicago Tribune version: http://www.chicagotribune.com/travel/la-pn-tsa-implants-20110706,0,1632570.story

    From the basement of Trib Tower...

  25. Re:Truth in advertising? on On Monday, AT&T Customers Enter Era of Broadband Caps · · Score: 1

    Social Business? A new buzz word for mutual company, co-op, credit union or non profit. I love it! Let's realign all business models around Facebook...