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  1. Re:So misinformed on Data Centers And DC Power · · Score: 1

    I think I'm going to cry. Someone named Nigel working for the French called me mean names.

    I need to find my tissues....

  2. Re:802.11x compatible? on Nintendo & McDonalds Providing WiFi · · Score: 1

    I had the "privilege" of consuming mass quantities at a rural Alabama McD's on Sunday and noticed that they had a 6mbps connection to the internet, all open and all available. That's apparently thier plan. It's great because I can actually get a better connection at McDonald's than I can at my friend's parents down the street.

    Of course, all that new-fangled tek-naw-ladgy was mystifyin' to the locals...

  3. From the JR forums on Can an Open Source Project Be Acquired? · · Score: 1

    My question on the JR forums, answered very nicely, I think.

    https://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id= 1273463&forum_id=113529

  4. Re:You -Really- Don't Get This? on Can an Open Source Project Be Acquired? · · Score: 1

    FreeMercator did this already.

  5. Re:enterprise vs company on Non-Technical Managers in a Technical Company? · · Score: 0

    Define "computer company"

  6. Re:Essentials on Non-Technical Managers in a Technical Company? · · Score: 0

    While I often agree, this is a Dilbertization and isn't any more generally accurate than certain forms of racism.

  7. Re:What a moronic question. on Non-Technical Managers in a Technical Company? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Tell that to industrial engineers. Allegedly, managing a company is exactly like engineering...depending on if it's a company that produces nothing but red rubber balls or if it's a company that produces complex software products.

    This certainly isn't a moronic question. Having experienced that my "managers" often have difficuly managing a schedule because it's far more slippery than (their project management software+their dubious skills with that software+their dubious skills with aspects of management in general), I can certainly understand where the question comes from.

  8. Re:What about unlawful search and seizure on No Warrant Needed For GPS Tracking By Police · · Score: 0

    So by that definition, is it ok to search my (physical) body as long as you don't cut me open to look inside?

    Seems like freedom from illegal (to be defined at a later date) search would denote some reasonable "zone of influence" around the thing to be searched.

  9. Re:Privacy or not on No Warrant Needed For GPS Tracking By Police · · Score: 0

    That depends on laws more specific to a state. Here, one of the "shooting offenses" happens to also be probably commission of arson. And apprently, you can even bust a cap in someone on someone ELSE's property who appears to be setting the offending blaze.

    Probably something about babies trapped in a burning housefire set by the jealous ex-husband, etc, etc.

  10. Re:RTFFA on No Warrant Needed For GPS Tracking By Police · · Score: 0

    I thought my car WAS one of my "effects". No, come to think of it, my car is DEFINITELY one of my effects.

  11. Re:grab what you can NOW on The Coming Expensing of Employee Stock Options · · Score: -1

    Wow! You get a MOVIE?!?

  12. Re:Not professional on Developing for Healthcare - .NET vs J2EE? · · Score: 0

    {sound of the hook being set}

    Not to be overly critical, but tying XP to Java (or .NET) directly is a mistake. I've done Java development since the early days and I did my first "XP-like" project within the last 7 months. Pure XP is a little silly, IMO, but some of its tenets are valuable. Quick releases, customer involvement, less focus on C.Y.A.-style requirements. All these things make an XP project flow. On the other hand, paired-programming didn't work, and seems silly from almost every angle that I can see it from.

    I've also done a HIPAA compliant system in the last couple of years (ph33r my l33t self-validation!), so to further repudiate, XP development, and even XP-like development, is perfectly acceptable in a HIPAA compliant system.
    Dismissing the fast-release concept as a deal-breaker demonstrates a minor misunderstanding. Releases in XP don't necessarily constitute a system-wide rollout and system security (and it's overbearing parent Privacy), which are primary foci of HIPAA with regard to software, can easily be made an essential element of the application.

    As for the closing troll, clearly lots of developers seem to get the jobs using .NET and J2EE. When someone at my house goes to get ice cream, I vote for butter pecan. But I'm the only one who likes it so it's not too popular.

  13. Re:A Microsoft Defender Speaks Out on How Tomcat Works · · Score: 0

    Assuming that I'm just not smart enough to find it, from reading the thread, W(here)TF is it stated "Well, with any luck, you will not start a business of your own." except in this message?

    I started reading the thread and was quickly lost in what appeared to be someone making a statement ( INetEngineer ) and someone else setting a fire.

    Huh! I guess that's a "Welcome to Slashdot. We value your stupid opinions only as something that we'd use to generalize a holy war!" thing...

  14. Wow. And I live here on D Squared To Stop Sending Pop-Ups · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    As a resident of Alabama, and not too fond of our current governor, I'm in the process of writing a letter even as we speak.

  15. Dead schmed on Is Bluetooth Dead? · · Score: 1

    Long live the vikings

  16. Re:Miners on No Americans Need Apply · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Huh...
    Just spoke with my dad today (a mine foreman who retired 2 years ago).

    Is $16-20/hr considered one of the highest paying fields? As my father put it: "I retired making over $20 an hour more than the people who worked for me. I never checked into it, I only put down their time. If I'd known how little they made, I'd have put down more. " (That's my dad, fraud never scared him... :) )