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  1. Re:Translation: Another 50-state wonder on NASA's Deep Space Habitat Could Support the Journey To Mars and a Lunar Return (spaceflightinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    As long as we can reserve place for all of them on the 'B' ark ...

  2. Re:Hanlon's Razor on Remix OS in Violation of GPL and Apache Licenses (tlhp.cf) · · Score: 1

    I never said OSX was BSD licensed. I said that OSX was based on FreeBSD. And it is. Open up a terminal window and you'll see FreeBSD is pretty much all there for you to use.

    IBM sales have slumped each quarter for 3-1/2 years. Not good, so it's not like linux is helping them sell their services. Hardware sales now represent less than 8% of revenues, and software sales continue their decline, as IBM gets away from the hardware and software business to continue to concentrate on the more profitable services division. IBM does not have their own distro, and Oracle's linux is just a modded RedHat, which is way less popular than even Slackware, a now-dead distro that has had no activity since 2013. Give them both red shirts.

    Android also is not an operating system any more than Cocoa is. Android runs atop linux, but can be made to run on FreeBSD (FreeBSD already runs most linux binaries, though the reverse isn't true), same as Cocoa runs atop FreeBSD. Cocoa is an API, not an OS.

  3. Re:I remember him on Software Hall of Fame Member Ed Yourdon Dies (wikipedia.org) · · Score: 1

    Did you ever read one of his books. I made the mistake of shelling out $70 for the first hardcover edition of Yourdon System Method in the early 90s. After reading it, I thought "I must be missing something!" So, I read it again. And again. Then I figured out the thing I was missing was $70. Ended up putting it in the charity bin along with some clothing.

  4. Re: oversupply of labor on Senior Citizens Hit the Road For Uber · · Score: 1

    You missed out under-employed and screwed every which way.

  5. Re:It's a lack of perspective on Senior Citizens Hit the Road For Uber · · Score: 1

    And if the poor could earn more money, they wouldn't BE in the emergency rooms and hospitals nearly as much.

  6. Re:"each coast" on For Data Centers, Google Likes the Southeast (datacenterfrontier.com) · · Score: 1

    The shoreline around Minnesota isn't a coastal area. At least, not yet. But at the rate we're screwing up, just give it a while :-) It's not like North America never had a huge inland sea.

  7. Re: Are they planning to buy an A/C company? on For Data Centers, Google Likes the Southeast (datacenterfrontier.com) · · Score: 1
    Take Florida - you had Jeb Bush, who gave us King George the 2nd , or California, who gave us Ronald Ray-Guns and bs trickle-down economics that people still insist must work, even though studies show it just makes the richer richer and the poor poorer.

    Get rid of fracking, you'll get rid of almost all the earthquakes.

  8. Re:Are they planning to buy an A/C company? on For Data Centers, Google Likes the Southeast (datacenterfrontier.com) · · Score: 1

    The flyover states - cheaper land, lower costs, fewer natural disasters

    Not to mention great pings to everywhere and easy access to backbones for even smaller shops.

    When you're in the middle of nowhere, you're in the middle of everywhere. :-)

  9. Re:I remember him on Software Hall of Fame Member Ed Yourdon Dies (wikipedia.org) · · Score: 0

    Oh yeah, I remember him. Stupid methodologies that in many cases made problems harder to solve because they added a whole layer of "methodology" that you had to do first, that made changes a nightmare, and were the silver bullet that didn't fix anything - when process becomes more important than solving a problem, GOTO TFO.

    Rank it right down there with design patterns as a piece of sh*t.

  10. Better to just have Java applications on the desktop, etc. At least get rid of the web browser portion and the risks of XSS, etc. HTML was supposed to be for rendering and cross-linking texts, not an "application platform."

  11. Re: Are ther any honest companies in India? on Symantec Disavows Business Partner Caught Running a Tech Support Scam (malwarebytes.org) · · Score: 1

    No - not if you've been following the twists and turns of businesses trying to work in India, where if you don't grease every palm you run into exponentially increasing bureaucratic delays. It has nothing to do with racism and everything to do with a country with an ingrained culture of corruption. Add in that the caste system is still alive and well (just ask any of the 160 million "untouchables") and nobody should be surprised. Just because it's illegal doesn't mean anything - law in India is in many cases not worth the paper it's written on.

    Then again, what do you expect from a country where it is perfectly legal to rape your wife and where female genital mutilation is an open secret?

  12. Re: Are ther any honest companies in India? on Symantec Disavows Business Partner Caught Running a Tech Support Scam (malwarebytes.org) · · Score: 1

    It's even worse - they're also using the British/UK spelling - "favour". Add that to the American slang "Specially", and it has to be some dumb Canuck. :-)

  13. Re:"each coast" on For Data Centers, Google Likes the Southeast (datacenterfrontier.com) · · Score: 1

    You forgot all the shoreline around Alaska and Hawaii and Puerto Rico ...

  14. Re:Are they planning to buy an A/C company? on For Data Centers, Google Likes the Southeast (datacenterfrontier.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    Lots of sun means lots of solar power potential. Chill the place down real good during the day ...

    The west coast is getting more and more risky. The "big one" is like a hard drive failure - not if, but when. Lots of fires. Not enough water.

    The east coast - you certainly don't want to build in what will be the Gulf of Florida. Then there's hurricanes and storm surges.

    The deep south - hurricanes and storm surges. A crazy religious environment. Too many red republican states with policies that discourage education, increase and make permanent the cycle of poverty, overt racism ...

    The flyover states - cheaper land, lower costs, fewer natural disasters

  15. Re:Are ther any honest companies in India? on Symantec Disavows Business Partner Caught Running a Tech Support Scam (malwarebytes.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    India has a long history of corruption. This should not be a surprise to anyone.

  16. Re:Why are they bothering with this? on Netflix's Doomed Battle Against VPNs Begins (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    DVDs are region-coded. Streaming services aren't. So your comparison is really off.

    Next you'll be arguing that they don't have a right to region-encode DVDs, when they clearly do.

  17. Re:Female fighters posing over ISIS dead ... on Tokyo Rose 2.0: White House Asks Silicon Valley For Terrorism Help · · Score: 1

    All your handwaving doesn't change the fact that your original contention is wrong. Argue all you want, won't change the fact that you're an idiot.

  18. Re:"Climate contrarians" on Mainstream Scientists Cashing In On Climate Wagers (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Christ! It's not a difficult concept. We are releasing CO2 into the atmosphere beyond normal background natural processes.

    Which is why the new word for climate change deniers is "morons." Most of them are into other stupid crap, such as all sorts of conspiracy theories."Morons" covers the essential cause of why they do what they do.

  19. Re:Why are they bothering with this? on Netflix's Doomed Battle Against VPNs Begins (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    This would still violate their distribution and licensing agreements with the content producers - you can't "ship" the streaming video outside the licensed area.

    And it's not hopeless. When there's enough money involved, solutions WILL be found.

  20. Re:Oh noes! on The Trouble With Intel's Management Engine (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    Meant "wake on mouse." Sorry.

  21. Re:Female fighters posing over ISIS dead ... on Tokyo Rose 2.0: White House Asks Silicon Valley For Terrorism Help · · Score: 1
    You really are naive to think this isn't a climb-down. They DO want the statistics. The minutae of how they are collected is a separate matter, and this is why she clarified her statement, because idiots like you would claim that this meant they didn't want to change the need for better data from police departments on police shootings.

    Vital is not the same as "we're not going to start requiring this."

  22. Re:Of course its gonna get checked on 10-Year-Old Muslim Boy Probed For 'Terrorist House' Spelling Error (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    First, I wrote "No true scostman fallacy" Not "One true scotsman fallacy", whatever the hell that is? You need to see what the "no true scotsman" fallacy means.

    Me: recent Christian missionaries have backed killing gays.

    You: Then they aren't actually practicing Christianity.

    Classical "no true scotsman fallacy". "No real christian would do that."

  23. Re:Misogyny Gets What it Deserves on Ashley Madison Blackmail Letter Revealed (grahamcluley.com) · · Score: 1

    That doesn't change the truth - that for every 2 women graduating from university, 3 women (50% more) are graduating. Also, STEM majors are more likely to end up working for and reporting to non-STEM majors, who make more money over their careers.

    In case you haven't noticed, STEM is stagnating due to offshoring, H1Bs, foreign guest workers, and more people chasing fewer jobs. Women see this and say "who needs to put up with the macho bs for less money?"

    So, are you really uneducated as to what's going on in the real world or what? Or are you just going to continue your lame, transparent attempt at trolling?

    BTW - I am not an SJW - to the contrary, I think they're as stupid as you, and you would have known this if you had bothered to check.

  24. Oh noes! on The Trouble With Intel's Management Engine (hackaday.com) · · Score: 2

    always listening, able to receive packets even when the device is asleep

    When was the last time you saw a computer that didn't have "wake on lan", "wake on keyboard", and "wake on network"? It's not done by magic and pixie dust/

  25. Re:Misogyny Gets What it Deserves on Ashley Madison Blackmail Letter Revealed (grahamcluley.com) · · Score: 1

    Combine the huge over-supply of Chinese males, and the way western guys have the hots for asian women ... but it's not like bride kidnapping is anything new in China.