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  1. Re:A quck guide on HP Is Now Two Companies. How Did It Get Here? (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    oops said that wrong Agilent split but is still around.

  2. A quck guide on HP Is Now Two Companies. How Did It Get Here? (cio.com) · · Score: 2

    HP Inc. - printer, consumer electronics and low end servers. Basically unraveling the Compaq deal.
    HP Ent - disk arrays, high end servers, Open VMS (and therefore a lineage to DEC), Open Stack, Saas, and services. Services was once EDS and management is slowly and quietly putting a knife to it, thereby unraveling another deal made by Carly and the clowns.
    Agilent - split into Avago and Keysight.

    As far as services goes, other companies are having problems with a dying service part of the business. Probably due to the cloud convincing people they do not need IT services. That includes Oracle and IBM.

    So when you discuss HP please specify.

  3. Re:Basic income on Finland Begins To Shape Basic Income Proposal (yle.fi) · · Score: 1

    Except taxation benefits everybody. The taxed as much as everyone else by providing services, sharing risk, and maintaining a civil society. If you reject taxation you reject all of that.

  4. Re:Multinationals have no country on US Tech Giants Increasingly Partner With Military-Connected Chinese Companies · · Score: 1

    When does taking campaign contributions from multi-nationals be gin to violate the foreign emoulients clause of the US constitution?

  5. Re:Impressive but not unique on IMDb Hits 25 · · Score: 1

    online?

  6. Re:Reasons things fail on Lessons From a Decade of IT Failures (ieee.org) · · Score: 2

    For as much money as the Gov't has wasted, I have seen the private sector waste more. I have work for small, midsized, and fortune 500 companies. I have worked for the US government, and have helped people, and state government. An there is nothing like a fortune 500 company when it comes to throwing money down a rat hole. They waste money like crazy and then lay people off. Small and mid-sized businesses are the most efficient and nimble; and the difference between working for state governments and the Feds is that state governments seem to be more politically driven and less performance driven. See Scott Walker as an example.

  7. Re:Hooray! on Google Wants To Monitor Your Mental Health (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    If it increases profits it is the right thing to do.

  8. Re:If border cops don't know what to do, on Hackers, Activists, Journos: How To Build a Secure Burner Laptop (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Which covers 2/3 of the American people:
    https://www.aclu.org/know-your...

  9. Re:If border cops don't know what to do, on Hackers, Activists, Journos: How To Build a Secure Burner Laptop (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    you go first.

  10. Re:The old talent doesn't understand the new stuff on CIOs Say New Talent and Old Tech Don't Mix · · Score: 2

    Yeah we dumped JBOSS/Wildfly for that reason as well as license changes. We are using Jetty and exploring Docker.

  11. Re:The old talent doesn't understand the new stuff on CIOs Say New Talent and Old Tech Don't Mix · · Score: 2

    old pros drag their feet sometimes because they have been burned by half-baked crap too many times. I like to follow the "every other trlradr" or every other incarnation" rule. That's when you beat out many of the bugs and get something of value.

  12. Re:The old talent doesn't understand the new stuff on CIOs Say New Talent and Old Tech Don't Mix · · Score: 3, Informative

    or you find out a few years after retirement the CEOs loot your retirement money to give themselves bonuses.

  13. Re:The old talent doesn't understand the new stuff on CIOs Say New Talent and Old Tech Don't Mix · · Score: 2

    divorce is always an option....

  14. Re: How about on Pentagon Picks Northrop Grumman For Next Gen Bomber (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    We had a surplus in 2001. Before Bush's tax cuts and stupid war in Iraq.

  15. Re: Sounds Familiar on IBM Acquires the Weather Company's Digital Business (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Given that weather seems to be a higher order non-linear system with thousands of inputs with sensitivity to initial conditions as well as sensitivity to rounding errors that would be a neat trick.

  16. Re:Good thing I get my weather from the NWS... on IBM Acquires the Weather Company's Digital Business (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I was about to say, if anyone can screwup weather reporting its IBM. They destroy everything they touch and have a habit of buying and clinging to dying tech.

  17. Re: How about on Pentagon Picks Northrop Grumman For Next Gen Bomber (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    From a HUD report:
    "In January 2014, 362,163 people experienced
    homelessness as individuals "

    "here were 216,261 homeless people in families
    on a single night in January 2014, accounting
    for 37 percent of all homeless people"

    approx. 500k homeless total, 30% unsheltered. see https://www.hudexchange.info/r...

    approximately 7.8 pct of households have unsafe drinking water. From http://www2.census.gov/program...

    I am ashamed and so should you.

  18. Re: How about on Pentagon Picks Northrop Grumman For Next Gen Bomber (theatlantic.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Those aren't people. Just n****rs and trash.

  19. Re: How about on Pentagon Picks Northrop Grumman For Next Gen Bomber (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    "we are running a huge deficit"

    by choice. We could easily balance the budget, like we did in the 90's, through prudent tax increases.

  20. Re:Amazing we didn't kill ourselves on How Nukes Were Almost Launched From Okinawa During Cuban Missile Crisis (thebulletin.org) · · Score: 1

    And a password set to the programmer's son's name.

  21. Re:Really? on Does Government Science Funding Drive Innovation? (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    We need to hear more of this. Is there a page I can share?

  22. Re:Really? on Does Government Science Funding Drive Innovation? (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    I'll try to get word out. In the meantime, is there a good name for the current adulteration? It's not quite fascism but not Free Market either.

  23. Re:Seems fair on Judge: School's Facebook Post is a Campaign Contribution (coloradoan.com) · · Score: 1

    The judge said it was minor

  24. Re:Organic compounds in space on Comet Lovejoy Giving Away Alcohol (eurekalert.org) · · Score: 1

    Just because life is there is no reason not to try to seed it.

  25. Re:Organic compounds in space on Comet Lovejoy Giving Away Alcohol (eurekalert.org) · · Score: 1

    Nice. Though I still think my idea might be less expensive.