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  1. Youtube /TED Talk :Thomas Piketty on Bill Gates: Piketty's Attack on Income Inequality Is Right · · Score: 3, Informative

    There is a TED talk from the author of the book Bill Gates is commenting about at https://www.youtube.com/watch?... pretty good watch

  2. Re:DARPA is trying to improve virus/malware? on DARPA Delving Into the Black Art of Super Secure Software Obfuscation · · Score: 1

    Yes, better packers will come from this.

  3. Work from home. on Bot Tweets Anonymous Wikipedia Edits From Capitol Hill · · Score: 5, Funny

    In other news congressional interns are now encouraged to work from home and on their mobile devices.

  4. economics on Is 3D Printing the Future of Disaster Relief? · · Score: 2

    To me it seems crazy to spend so much on a 3-D printing costs when there are cheaper, easier solutions. The umbilical chord clamp: Teach people they can just leave the baby attached to the placenta till it dries out, or tie it of with string or anything else they have at hand before cutting the chord.

  5. National Instruments LabView on Has Flow-Based Programming's Time Arrived? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    NI LabView has had flow based visual programming for more than a decade. The nice thing is make parallel flows to your data, and it's multi-threaded.. It makes an easy way to visualize that something is run in parallel.

  6. technical challenges on Calif. Attorney General: We Need To Crack Down On Companies That Don't Encrypt · · Score: 1

    Usually at some point the server needs to be able decrypt the data so it can be displayed to a user, so the key needs to be handy. So if you have the key and data on the same sever it's of little security value.

    If you want to have this data in some kind of database, there is a good chance you want to be able to search and index this data. Possible to index and pre-sort encrypted data without giving away the content?

    Yes, maybe encrypt some sensitive parts, but encrypting all customer data is counter productive.

  7. Re:Headers on Ask Slashdot: AT&T's Data Usage Definition Proprietary? · · Score: 2

    If you add ATM and AAL5 overhead that DSL has http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATM_Adaptation_Layer_5 Then 20% sounds reasonable. 30% sounds reasonable if they are encapsulating traffic with PPPoE and a lot of your packets are not at the max MTU.

  8. Re:DSL ATM overhead on Ask Slashdot: AT&T's Data Usage Definition Proprietary? · · Score: 2

    DSL uses ATM AAL5 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATM_Adaptation_Layer_5 So you have ATM overhead, AAL5 overhead. So you have 40 bytes of payload, which then contain overhead from higher layers Then if your DSL is using PPPoE you have Ethernet overhead, and PPP overhead. Then you have IP and TCP or UDP overhead.

  9. WhatsAPP spam comming on WhatsApp Threatens Developers of PC Gateway With Legal Action · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If WhatsApp doesn't add more security, my prediction, is we will start to see WhatsApp spam. If you know phone number and it's IEMI you can fake the sender using the WhatsApp protocol. All it will take now is someone to acquire a database of IEMI's and the phone numbers before the spam can start flowing.

  10. Re:First Illegal Troll on Arizona Attempts To Make Trolling Illegal · · Score: 1

    "I prefer the buffet anyways,"

    Everyone pays the same and get's the same benefit. You socialist!

  11. Re:Overblown on Data Breach Flaw Found In Gnome-terminal, Xfce Terminal and Terminator · · Score: 1

    Yes, temp data is written to /tmp/

  12. Follow the money trail on Rent Your Own Botnet · · Score: 1

    International law enforcement needs to get to work flowing the money. Follow it through botnet rentals, affiliate marketing programs, etc. Cut off flow of money and botnet dies.

  13. Publish patches on Contributing To a Project With a Reclusive Maintainer? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Publish the patches on the project mailing list, forum, or on your own website or blog. The most important thing is to get the patches out there. That will open it up to peer review and discussion. From there you have the possibility of linux distros picking up the patch and using it. Eventually the project may pick up your patches. A fork would be a last resort.

  14. Re:Find some partners on Circuit Board Design For a Small Startup? · · Score: 1

    This is where your social networking sites come in. Find some reliable people with electronic design experience. I myself do mainly embedded HW and SW. :-)

  15. NDA over the source is what you want. on A Software License That's Libre But Not Gratis? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Seems like you want to sell it with commercial license + NDA over the source code. .

  16. I like giving test.. on Testing IT Professionals On Job Interviews? · · Score: 1
    I've hired a few people in IT. Usually you get 100 resumes for a position, then I select the 10-20 CV's/Resumes I like the best. Then I give those 10-20 people a test of basic concepts. You can get rid of the people then that have no f***'ing clue and not waste you time on them. If they pass the test they get an interview.

    Too many people have read an article on /. about some technology, or tried something out for day then put it on their CV like they are an expert.

    Some people say that's what on the job training is for, but when I hire somebody, I want them to come in and hit the ground running.

  17. Re:OpenOffice.org on Modern LaTeX Replacement? · · Score: 1

    Yes I use docbook. And the dblatex (DocBook to LaTex converter) to make PDF's With a makefile, and including each chapter as a separate file works pretty cleanly. IMHO, Writing in Docbook is a lot easier then raw editing of LaTex. http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/

  18. Made in China on The Life of the Chinese Gold Farmer · · Score: 1

    Nothing new here. Who makes all the stuff they sell in Walmart? Look at your cloths, shoes, electronics.. "made in china"

  19. Mexico City already has an earthquake warning sys on An Early Warning System For Earthquakes · · Score: 1
    http://www.gfz-potsdam.de/ewc98/abstract/espinosa. html
    Until now the greatest seismic event detected by the SAS was the September 14, 1995, M7.3 "Copala" earthquake. In a live test that checked the whole system, the SAS was activated and a general warning signal was issued in Mexico City, 72 sec. prior to the arrival of strong ground motion effects.
  20. Personality test i took once. on Behavioral Interviews for New Hires? · · Score: 1

    One time for a Job, they had a 100 question multiple choice personality test. I remeber the first question was asked by the interviewer.. Here are 7 colors on cards. Place the colored cards in the order you like. How that relates to a software engineering job I don't know. The other 100 multiple choice questions were all of the type that they were what would you do in this situation type question, with no right or wrong answer. I had never seen a test like this in an interview before, and was rather un prepared. Anyone know what they are looking for?

  21. Re:Your own multi-national on Finding Work in the US as a Non-US Resident? · · Score: 1

    I think for your US operations you still need people legal to be in the US to be the employees.

  22. H-1B Visa and company sponsor on Finding Work in the US as a Non-US Resident? · · Score: 2, Informative
    Working freelance legally is probably pretty hard, as you have no legal immigration. No residency permit or work permit. Apply for work with companies, some may be willing to sponsor a H-1B visa.

    After you have H1, you can start looking at getting the "green card", One of my co-workers did this. Several years after getting the H1, getting the green card. Eventually marrying a US girl, I assume now he's in the US for good. :-)

    Beware working with a H1, means the company may have you by the balls. If you stop working there, or they fire you, you may have to leave the country. This means making sure you want to work there, and it is a good company. If you want to change jobs, your only option is to find another company to sponsor the H1.

    You said you are into Java. At the moement there are quite a few companies developing java apps for mobile phones, you might want to look in that job sector.

  23. Re:get an antenna outside on Boosting the Cellular Signal, Inside? · · Score: 1

    I have a Nokia 5165 Most Nokia phones have the same antenna connector.

  24. get an antenna outside on Boosting the Cellular Signal, Inside? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    On my cell there is an antenna connector on the back. I hook up to it while in my car. It considerably improves the signal. I've tried the antenna inside, and it also works well. You should be able to purcase an antenna accessory for your phone.

  25. Political Campaign Contribuitons to G. Bush on Drug Making Genes Added To Corn Jump To Soya · · Score: 1

    I wonder how much $$ Anthony G. Laos or ProdiGene Inc spent on political campaign contributions??