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  1. Re:Unless on Joseph Goebbels' Estate Sues Publisher Over Diary Excerpt Royalties · · Score: 3, Informative

    His remains were already exhumed, burnt to ash, and the ashes thrown down the Elbe by the KGB, personally I think they should have been glassified in porcelain and placed in a toilet in the main synagog in Berlin so that the jews could piss on him for the rest of eternity, but I like symbolism like that =)

  2. Son of Sam on Joseph Goebbels' Estate Sues Publisher Over Diary Excerpt Royalties · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Doesn't Germany have the equivilent of a Son of Sam law where criminals and their heirs can't earn a profit from their heinous acts?

  3. Re:Accepting a story from Florian Meuller? on Microsoft Open Technologies Is Closing: Good Or Bad News For Open Source? · · Score: 1

    MIT or similar, not such a big deal since MS is contribution a metric crapton of code to start the projects.

  4. Re:Accepting a story from Florian Meuller? on Microsoft Open Technologies Is Closing: Good Or Bad News For Open Source? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So far their acclaimed commitments seem to be mostly fluff with very little real substance in them..

    How about completely opening .Net, moving their build system to GitHub, and moving the compiler to LLVM? Those seem to have some real substance to me. Then there's them embracing Docker for Windows Server 10 and open sourcing that work. This is not your fathers Microsoft.

  5. Re:Can we stop the "War on Discrimination"? on IT Worker's Lawsuit Accuses Tata of Discrimination · · Score: 2

    The funny thing about those women favoring contracts, they end fulfilled by a minority woman owned pass-through entity which files the paperwork and the same old contractors do the actual work. That's how a friend of mine described it, he said when he worked for Booze Allen he worked on just such a contract, three minority women had an office in DC where they filed paperwork and passed off the actual fulfillment to his group while they collected their 1-2% management fee. Those three were doing a couple $Billion in set-aside contracts so earning a few million a year for essentially nothing more than being a minority woman with a law and/or accounting degree.

  6. Re: Getting undercut by those... on IT Worker's Lawsuit Accuses Tata of Discrimination · · Score: 2

    One of my coworkers is from India, he's a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology and he's one of the smartest people I've ever met (I was accepted to MIT and went to RIT so that's not a light compliment). Just because your employer chooses to hire the bottom of the barrel from India doesn't mean there aren't a LOT of smart people from there (or even smart people from there working in IT). It would be hard to have 1.3B people and a history of eduction and NOT have lots of smart people =)

  7. Re:Isn't Cheaper, the American Dream? on IT Worker's Lawsuit Accuses Tata of Discrimination · · Score: 2

    Considering it comes from High German/Old English I think it's been used as slang for a lot longer than that!

  8. Re: Android without Google on Google Responds To EU Antitrust Claims In Android Blog Post · · Score: 1

    So don't use keep, use one of the dozens of grocery list apps, many available on the amazon app store and so requiring no Google account.

  9. Re:Nothing to do with the subject, but...overreach on GAO Warns FAA of Hacking Threat To Airliners · · Score: 1

    The GAO is Congress's research arm, they were asked to analyze the effectiveness of the FAA's role in assessing cybersecurity risks and they did as requested. This is a role the GAO has played for at least my entire lifetime (born in 1978). In fact this articles says that the research function started to expand in 1967 when Congress asked the GAO to research the effectiveness of the newly enacted anti-poverty programs.

  10. Re:Of Course It Is on GAO Warns FAA of Hacking Threat To Airliners · · Score: 1

    There are ways to do formal proofs of correctness, but nobody outside of NASA does it, and it leads to a cost per LOC that's at least 100x what COTS software costs so there's no way that airlines would go for it, it's cheaper to require that the systems be airgapped.

  11. Re:Story is that it's a very low power camera on Researchers Design a Self-Powered Digital Camera · · Score: 3, Informative

    For outdoor use you'd be better served by a $10 solar panel and a battery or supercapacitor.

  12. Re:Hits Home on Netflix Algorithm Tells You When Your Best Employee Is About To Leave You · · Score: 1

    Uh, I mentioned that, they do of course own some of those accounts but the total wealth in them owned by the 1% is limited by annual contribution caps. As an example my father has an S corp and is in the bottom of the 1%, he is limited to X dollars per year in contribution and can't contribute anything if the non-principal workers in the corporation don't also have funded retirement accounts with at least x dollars in total contributions.

  13. Re:Do not invest in this startup on Netflix Algorithm Tells You When Your Best Employee Is About To Leave You · · Score: 1

    Err, have you looked at the macro numbers? There are more unfilled positions then there are workers looking for work, the problem is matching skills with needs, so most well run companies are looking to retain talented and productive workers at this point in the cycle. This is especially true in IT where unemployment topped out at ~5% and is at ~2.5% today.

  14. Re:Hits Home on Netflix Algorithm Tells You When Your Best Employee Is About To Leave You · · Score: 1

    Yes, capitalism allows, in theory, for workers to own the means of production. In practice it doesn't work out that way. In the US "the 99%" owns, collectively, only about 1% of stock

    This isn't remotely close to true, the total of IRA and defined contribution plan (401k and similar) plan holdings in Q4 2014 totaled $14.2T, over half the total value of the combined NYSE at $16.6T, and NASDAQ at $8.5T. While the 1% hold some of the value in those two categories they are both limited in their total annual contribution amounts so it's actually much less skewed than the overall wealth holdings.

  15. Re:Managers need an algorithm for that? on Netflix Algorithm Tells You When Your Best Employee Is About To Leave You · · Score: 2

    If the loss of any one employee can cost the business millions then it is in their interest to make sure that there is another person who can perform that job. In IT disaster preparedness planning we often refer to this as the hit by the bus disaster where a key individual is taken out of action without warning. Any well run company will have identified these key people and will have planned to cross train others in their department to at least pick up the daily tasks they perform until a replacement can be hired and trained.

  16. Re:Credit Ratings on FTC Creates Office Dedicated To "Algorithmic Transparency" · · Score: 1

    I've never generated a penny in fees to any lending institution and yet I too have an 800+ rating so there is more than one way to score highly in FICO and other scoring systems.

  17. Re:Gaming the system on FTC Creates Office Dedicated To "Algorithmic Transparency" · · Score: 1

    Sounds like people need to find a bank or credit union that doesn't suck. Huntington for example not only does credits before debits but they also give you 24 hours to make up any overdraft and will automatically pull from your savings to make it up if you have agreed to let them.

  18. Screw that on Reason: How To Break the Internet (in a Bad Way) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't want ANYONE buying promotions into my IP stream! I want my ISP to do their freaking job and shift packets from the source to me, without molestation and without interest or undue visibility into the contents.

  19. Re:Android not Windows on Dell Expands Intel RealSense Tablet Lineup With 10.5-Inch Venue 10 7000 2-in-1 · · Score: 1

    I disagree, I've had up to 120 apps installed on my S5 without being close to running out of room, but I have all my MP3's and podcasts on a 32GB SD card which makes it very useful.

  20. Re:This issue is why people are leaving... on How Ubiquiti Networks Is Creatively Violating the GPL · · Score: 1

    Plenty of higher end networking gear is BSD based, there's really no reason you couldn't use BSD for lower end gear other than your parts supplier might not have ready made drivers or images for you to modify (although even Atheros has support for current chips in FreeBSD so that appears to no longer be much of an issue).

  21. Re:And guess what! on LG Accidentally Leaks Apple iMac 8K Is Coming Later This Year · · Score: 1

    This will probably be Skylake with GT4e with 72EU's and 128MB eDRAM. Not sure what kind of gaming performance that would give, but probably plenty to drive an 8K display at 60fps in 2D for media production.

  22. Re:AND they stole Halo from the PC world.... on Microsoft Considered Giving Away Original Xbox · · Score: 1

    The Games division is net -300-400M over the last 12 years, up significantly since Q4 2012 where they were net -3B and the XBox One's losses are significantly smaller than the previous two generations at the same point in the cycle despite the recent price cuts. I'm not sure how much knowledge sharing there's been between the gaming division and the Azure division, but if the MS marketing is anywhere near the truth then it's likely that at least some of that groups significant profitability was gained through experience in the gaming division (kind of like how GE can lose money on the generating part of a power plant but make money on the financing or vice versa depending on how they want to structure the deal).

  23. Re:How about equality in iPhone sweatshops? on Apple's Tim Cook Calls Out "Religious Freedom" Laws As Discriminatory · · Score: 1

    I don't know about AC but I bought a made in the USA Moto X (1st gen) and a made in South Korea Galaxy S5, both are first world countries with non-deplorable working conditions.

  24. Re:Biggest issue is still liability on German Auto Firms Face Roadblock In Testing Driverless Car Software · · Score: 1, Funny

    Why the hell would someone have to pay for insurance for something they don't have control of what it does?

    Says every parent of a teenager since cars became widespread.

  25. Re:Show me 1 independently publicly tested autonom on German Auto Firms Face Roadblock In Testing Driverless Car Software · · Score: 1