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  1. Re: Cruz can't be trusted on Ted Cruz Wants Minimum H-1B Wage of $110,000 (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    He's from Calgary. He just represents Texas. #TheCanchurianCandidate

  2. A Republican who likes the minimum wage? on Ted Cruz Wants Minimum H-1B Wage of $110,000 (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I thought they would leave every immigrant in the world in before tampering with the sacred right of employers - sorry, wealth creators - to offer the rate of their choice to their peons to be.

  3. What will Sheldon Cooper have to say? on Babylon 5 May Finally Get a Big-Screen Debut · · Score: 1

    JMS should offer Jim Parsons a part for the lulz.

  4. Re:Breaks some websites (Java 7u51) on With HTTPS Everywhere, Is Firefox Now the Most Secure Mobile Browser? · · Score: 1

    You need to add them to the Java Control Panel applet exception list. Works for me.

  5. Asteroid "QE2" on Big Asteroid (With Its Own Moon) To Have Closest Approach With Earth Today · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing the "moon" is called Philip?

  6. "it's generating article after article... on Apple Leaves Journalists Jonesing · · Score: 1

    ...because, hey, it's Tim Cook."

    Um, yeah, no kidding. How are the clicks on *this* article doing, non-jonesing Slashdot editors?

  7. Don't laugh UK readers on Spain's New S-80 Class Submarines Sink, But Won't Float · · Score: 1

    If you're tempted to, you don't know how much Trident 2 is going to cost.

  8. Tax the surcharge on AT&T Quietly Adds Charges To All Contract Cell Plans · · Score: 1

    Announce that all enterprises that impose a surcharge (see also airlines with their "fuel surcharges" etc) will be subjected to a 50% tax on the surcharge. Even Grover Nordquist would release the crazy long enough for his drones in Congress to vote for it.

  9. BBM and iOS/Android Secure Work Spaces on BBM Coming To iOS and Android · · Score: 1

    I bet that once the MDM code for the BES10 Secure Work Spaces got done to talk to the SRP infrastructure, 90pc of the work to make BBM work on those platforms was done too.

  10. When is Hadfield's disciplinary hearing? on Astronaut Chris Hadfield Performs Space Oddity On the ISS · · Score: 2

    Obviously nobody sent him the memo where Canadian scientists and public servants have to get approval for talking to the media or even giving evidence to members of Parliament. All these pictures and videos - oh boy is he ever going to get it when he gets back to CSA HQ.

  11. Re:Dumb. on Sequester Grounds Blue Angels · · Score: 1

    or they could allow the F-22 to be sold abroad - OR EVEN JUST WITHIN NORAD - where it would be a far better fit for Canada's Arctic Patrol requirement than the single engine F-35 - after all that's what USAF themselves fly out of Alaska to intercept pesky Russian varmints flying too close to Sarah Palin's house. (Although RCAF would probably want a probe and drogue refuel which would complicate matters)

  12. Wonder if Opera knew about Blink on Opera Confirms It Will Follow Google and Ditch WebKit For Blink · · Score: 2

    before pensioning off Presto...

  13. As opposed to Google on Microsoft To Abandon Windows Phone? · · Score: 1

    who obliterate the competition in a computing segment with "free" and then toss it in the trash.

  14. Physical keyboard on Microsoft To Abandon Windows Phone? · · Score: 1

    Nokia are still "gauging demand"
    http://www.upi.com/Science_News/Technology/2013/02/28/Nokia-holds-off-on-QWERTY-phone-keyboards/UPI-98831362092469/

    That's nice. We might be deploying Nokias if they actually just got off their ass and made some, but instead we'll continue to wait on Blackberry Q10 as the only other enterprise ready device with a physical keyboard, which is what our USERS want.

  15. Jim Balsillie on RIM Co-Founder Drops His Stock · · Score: 1

    From the Summary: This has to be seen as a massive vote of 'no confidence' from someone who was on the inside long enough to know what's going on in the company."

    The guy who was desperately trying to buy an NHL franchise while Blackberry were spinning its wheels in the face of Android and iPhone? Yeah, that guy knew what was going on all right.

  16. You could teach all of chemistry with a whiteboard on Professors Rejecting Classroom Technology · · Score: 1

    and give your students eyestrain while they learned because DAMMIT MY PROF COULDN'T PRINT OR DRAW EITHER.

    I had one prof who spoke in a low voice and thus half the class became disinterested and talked among themselves so you really learned nothing unless you snagged a chair in the first three rows. Naturally, they promoted him to Dean.

  17. BB IS (in part) an OS company... on BlackBerry 10 Review: Good, But Too Late? · · Score: 1

    because it bought an existing OS business (QNX). That they decided to use QNX for phones does not nullify that other existing revenue stream, or any decision to double down on it for telematics etc.

  18. Student ID number? on Ask Slashdot: Name Conflicts In Automatically Generated Email Addresses? · · Score: 1

    Student Joe P. Bloggs enrolls in 2013 and receives Student Services ID 13123456, IT therefore gives him:
    username jpb.23456@college.edu

    You're not giving away the store by embedding the full ID number but 3 initials (could use X for those who don't have one) and 5 digits would probably have few collisions

  19. If all you used BES for was to get mail on devices on RIM Unveils BlackBerry 10, Its Big Turnaround Hope · · Score: 2

    you were doing it wrong. BES isn't about mail/calendar as much as about policies, including custom policies for apps.

  20. It's not a big discovery on What "Earth-Shaking" Discovery Has Curiosity Made on Mars? · · Score: 1

    until Marco Rubio finds proof of it in the bible.

  21. What is their obligation to you? on FCC To Allow Cable Companies To Encrypt Over-the-Air Channels · · Score: 1

    You got a free, uncontracted bonus from their cable service in the form of analog channels. Now you won't, but describe this as giving you the finger. Why should they continue to provide you content at no cost over their infrastructure when it is not mandated by statute that they do so, particularly when you retain an alternative, albeit one you consider unsightly?

    I can only assume you have some sort of crazy high bandwidth cap - otherwise how will you rationalise the extra expense of a more expense net plan to take the hit Netflix will impose?

    I realise this may not be a popular opinion but I really don't see what it is you think the cable company owes you.

  22. How is this not malpractice? on The New School Nurse Is Nurse Ratched · · Score: 1

    Surely the State medical boards should be reminding doctors that they are there to treat ILLNESS, not act as equivalents to the team "medical consultants" on your average Tour de France team or whatever.

  23. Re:Make an offer on RIPE Region Runs Out of IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 1

    If that's the case the market price will reflect that. But if you're wrong then the IPv4 crash is staved off a while and some ageing tech companies get a nice shot in the arm cash wise.

  24. Make an offer on RIPE Region Runs Out of IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 1

    There are companies out there with IP allocations from the dawn of time they are not (or should not) be using since most clients don't need fully routed addresses. Time to set a market price on IPv4 addresses. At the right price we might throw one of our two class Cs in the pot - not much, but there's a lot more out there.

  25. Uninformed foreigner sez... on Japan Aims To Abandon Nuclear Power By 2030s · · Score: 0

    put a "renewable energy tax" on pachinko machines and video billboards. Solve that whole polling problem for nukes in no time.