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  1. Re:Somewhere, a coder is polishing his resume on Good Database Design Books? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Huh? I'm employed by an S&P 500 and director is the title above manager and below VP. Looking at the definition of IT Director in the first dozen hits on Google seems to match that.

  2. Re:Doesn't sound free to me on Sidestepping A-to-D Convertors For Town Government's Cable TV? · · Score: 1

    Also see if you can attract an overlay provider like Wide Open West while you are at it. I love where I live because I don't have to deal with a monopoly provider, they give better customer service and better rates but don't have all the newest equipment which is just fine by me since I still have quite a bit of analog equipment including the capture card for my PVR =)

  3. Re:How many TV's?? on Sidestepping A-to-D Convertors For Town Government's Cable TV? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    More like Fire and Ambulance guys that live in the fire house. You work 12 hours on, only a small fraction of that will typically be active duty so filling the rest or the time with entertainment is fine. It's the price you pay for faster response times than a volunteer department that has to rush to the fire house before heading out to the fire.

  4. Re:advice: on Sidestepping A-to-D Convertors For Town Government's Cable TV? · · Score: 1

    who said there was no other solution and I had to pay $3 per month for each box.

  5. Re:Government waste on Sidestepping A-to-D Convertors For Town Government's Cable TV? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Yeah, because keeping guys working 12's with plenty of downtime entertained is such a waste....

  6. Re:As usual, ignores the value of data integrity.. on SSDs vs. Hard Drives In Value Comparison · · Score: 1

    Nope, they just lose whatever writes are in cache, that's why RAID controllers disable write caching on the drives themselves (one good reason to only use supported drives with servers, the manufacturer has made sure this process actually works).

  7. Re:10 minute boot up? Standby is a security risk? on SSDs vs. Hard Drives In Value Comparison · · Score: 1

    Full disk encryption + AV + bloatware = 10 minute boot easily.

  8. Re:Reliability? on SSDs vs. Hard Drives In Value Comparison · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I'd rather spend an extra $100 and get 2xSSD's and do software RAID1 across them, since no RAID controller I have benchmarked can keep up with a single Intel X-25e it's best to do software raid anyways =)

  9. Re:Good RF Engineers are expensive and rare on Apple Hires Antenna Engineers. Really. · · Score: 1

    Yeah, the company with a market cap larger than Microsoft can't afford a couple RF engineers, laugh.

  10. Re:Reading into it? on Apple Hires Antenna Engineers. Really. · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You mean like Steve Jobs? Very likely.

  11. Re:P!=NP on Knuth Plans 'Earthshaking Announcement' Wednesday · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Einsteins miracle year was when he was 22.

  12. P!=NP on Knuth Plans 'Earthshaking Announcement' Wednesday · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Would be shocking, but as smart as Knuth is I doubt that's the kind of thing he'd be discovering at this point in his career. Breakthrough proofs tend to be completed by kids in their early to mid 20's, it's when the brain is still plastic enough for truly out of the box thinking but where enough knowledge has been gathered to actually work on the hard problems.

  13. Re:They have a point on Statewide Franchise Illegal? Detroit Sues Comcast · · Score: 1

    Nope, though physical access to the poles is a different animal from a video franchise.

  14. Re:They have a point on Statewide Franchise Illegal? Detroit Sues Comcast · · Score: 1

    It doesn't give them an exclusive franchise, at least the one in Ohio doesn't. Verizon and AT&T both got statewide franchises and are able to offer video services in any area they have a footprint regardless of any existing franchise agreement for exclusive video rights.

  15. Re:They have a point on Statewide Franchise Illegal? Detroit Sues Comcast · · Score: 1

    Actually, they aren't exclusive franchises they are statewide franchises which takes all control out of the hands of the local municipality. Basically the megacorps were finding too expensive/inconvenient to lobby and bribe^h^h contribute to campaign funds for local officials in each municipality so they just applied their money at the state level and made the problem easier to manage. Of course that works against the public interest in a number of ways not least of which is removing clauses like the ones that Detroit is complaining about that were in their 1985 franchise agreement or the cable modem requirement I mentioned previously.

  16. Re:People who cheat should blame themselves, not F on Facebook, Friend of Divorce Lawyers · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's called a Tracphone.

  17. They have a point on Statewide Franchise Illegal? Detroit Sues Comcast · · Score: 1

    The statewide franchises were a huge bone thrown to the megacorps AT&T, Comcast, and Verizon. I know in my previous residence we would have never received cable internet if the local franchise agreement hadn't required it by a certain date with significant penalties for non-compliance.

  18. Duh on 22 Million SSL Certificates In Use Are Invalid · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Virtual hosts mean if you just do an IP scan you will likely run into an SSL site that doesn't match the first URL associated with an IP.

  19. So when do we get reasonable pricing? on Obama To Nearly Double the Available Broadband Wireless Spectrum · · Score: 1

    $12.50/GB would have been steep in the early 90's, today it's almost criminal (if the criminals weren't running the law it might be).

  20. Re:Porn? on SCOTUS Nominee Kagan On Free Speech Issues · · Score: 1

    Speech is the one right that must be almost completely inalienable. Without an unfettered right to speak our own truth we inevitably are led towards a tyranny of the masses where only that which the majority can be convinced of can be legally spoken. No, only that speech which directly results in the harm of others should be looked at (fire in a crowded theater) and only then by a judiciary guided to minimize the impact. Hate speech should not be banned unless it is a direct call to action to harm another person, which is exactly the case today and which is all the broader it should be, further restrictions are simply the first steps towards tyranny.

  21. Re:Ugh, single bit errors on Tracking Down a Single-Bit RAM Error · · Score: 1

    That's why the Nehalem's have ECC all through the data bus and internally.

  22. Re:Cosmic rays, my ass. Occam's Razor time. on Tracking Down a Single-Bit RAM Error · · Score: 1

    Across a few thousands DIMM's in my datacenter we tend to lose about 1-2 per year, more than we lose PSU's. Of course we control temperature, humidity, and have double conversion UPS's and only use ECC systems so it's kind of an ideal environment for avoiding all but the most serious of problems.

  23. Re:Pardon my ignorance on IEEE Releases 802.3ba Standard · · Score: 1

    OM3 has a typical jacket diameter of 2mm vs 6-8mm for twinax and 8-9mm for 7a, cat 5e is closer to 4-5mm typically. When you have hundreds of runs in a raceway it makes a big difference.

  24. Re:.org first over .com ?? on Dot-Org TLD Signed For DNSSEC · · Score: 1

    Doh, scrap that, it was the root servers that were signed.

  25. Re:.org first over .com ?? on Dot-Org TLD Signed For DNSSEC · · Score: 1

    .COM was signed a few months ago.