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  1. Re:Or otherwised titled on Microsoft Innovates Tent Data Centers · · Score: 5, Funny

    Only if they did it in-tentionally. But sometimes you run into people who are just that kinda guy, and they're forever trying to canvas people. But it's ok, it's pretty easy to get them pegged.

  2. Re:Equal and opposite? on Japanese Begin Working On Space Elevator · · Score: 1
    Conservation of energy still applies, but boosting something to 'orbit' is horrendously inefficient - think if you will, how big the sattelite is that the shuttle launches, compared to the total of 'stuff' that leaves the earth?

    The idea of a space elevator is that you just pay the 'energy debt' of the thing you're orbiting, and not the fuel tanks, the boosters, the delivery vehicle and the astronauts - because they return to earth afterwards. And they probably have less to worry about in terms of atmospheric drag, too, and can probably do quite a lot with a very efficient solar powered ion drive to maintain position.

    You're correct in thinking that you can't really violate conservation of energy, but you can make the process of 'lifting' stuff into orbit a lot less wasteful than it currently is.

    For bonus points, you _may_ be able to use the earth to 'push against', but you're entirely correct when you say that the materials we have at the moment have a hard time with that. But it's an engineering problem, rather than a physics one.

  3. Re:Hmm... on Debating "Deletionism" At Wikipedia · · Score: 1

    At least a random anonymous commentator has a chance of being unbiased...

  4. Re:Crack vs. Foss on How Asus Recovery Disks Ended Up Carrying Software Cracks · · Score: 1

    Problem is, sometimes when you do this and you're not paying for the 'commercial' RTU, you're again in violation of your license - despite having paid for it.

  5. Re:Easier to keep on To Purge Or Not To Purge Your Data · · Score: 1
    Well, you can pick out key areas/keywords, and search based around timeframe or involved people, that kind of thing.

    But it's a pretty big business, especially if they take the approach we did - store all tapes and hard drives indefinitely, in a big warehouse.

    It's like the truckload of paper effect in many ways but even more inconvenient, as they can't visually inspect any more.

  6. Re:Easier to keep on To Purge Or Not To Purge Your Data · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Add to that legal requirements of retention - you'll need to filter your 'customer communications' from your 'shopping lists'. That's what actually makes this a nuisance - the possibility that there will be legal action in 5 years time, that you'll need to fight.

    Yes, less data need to be kept, but first there needs to be a _massive_ re-education of the 'data packrat' culture that the users of it have.

  7. Re:New exercise regimen on Gamers Are Fitter (and Sadder) Than You Think · · Score: 1

    Depends if it's vigorous or not.

  8. Re:Intended purpose of hacking the e-mail on "Anonymous" Hacks Palin's Private Email · · Score: 1

    However, when she is conducting official business, as the head of the state of Alaska, transparency is required.

    No no. Transparency is mandated by law. What's _required_ is not getting caught doing it.

  9. Re:Intended purpose of hacking the e-mail on "Anonymous" Hacks Palin's Private Email · · Score: 1

    No, it just means the democrats are better at keeping their secret communications secret.

  10. Re:Too much attention to entertainers on "Anonymous" Hacks Palin's Private Email · · Score: 1

    So no change there then.

  11. Re:What? on Colfer Asked To Write Sixth HHGTTG Book · · Score: 1

    No no. God Emperor of Dune didn't exist either. Heretics and ChapterHouse might have done, if it hadn't been for the prereq of God Emperor.

  12. Re:All the diodes down my left side... on Colfer Asked To Write Sixth HHGTTG Book · · Score: 1

    And lets face it, pterry losing it a bit whilst writing extra extensions would hardly be noticed within the overall context of the setting.

  13. Re:What? on Colfer Asked To Write Sixth HHGTTG Book · · Score: 3, Funny

    What's this nonsense? There are no continuations. There are only 3 Dune books, and they are excellent. I disbelieve your foul and cunning illusion of there being others.

  14. Re:sheboyganpolice.com on City Sues To Prevent Linking To Its Website · · Score: 1

    As would I. I mean, did you have a look at that HTML on that site? Never a good sign when your webshite 'title' is 'New Page 1', but the rest of it isn't so hot either.

  15. Re:Did the editor read the last paragraph? on City Sues To Prevent Linking To Its Website · · Score: 1
    "New Page 1".

    Bah. Amateurs.

  16. Re:Alleged motive: to impress his new employer on AMD Employee Charged With Stealing Intel Secrets · · Score: 3, Funny

    Damnit, that's where I've been going wrong!

  17. Re:A rating system can't overcome stupidity on Berners-Lee Wants Truth Ratings For Websites · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The best argument against any democratic system is a 5 minute conversation with the 'average voter'. This seems little different in that regard.

  18. Re:How naive can people get? on Spy Agencies Turn To Online Sources For Info · · Score: 1

    What makes you think they don't still do this?

  19. Re:IT workers think of plumbers.... on Tech Vs. Business? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    And when they're users like you, does that really come as much of a surprise?

  20. Re:Does that mean it can run on BIOdiesel? on Ford's 65MPG Due In November, But Not In the US · · Score: 1
    There is a very definite correlation between BMW drivers, and people who drive like BMW drivers.

    And I have the anecdata to prove it!

  21. Re:My reason for testing on Testing IT Professionals On Job Interviews? · · Score: 1
    I don't like the 'see if the get flustered' approach myself. The interview is artificial conditions, and it's pretty much guaranteed that they'll be 'tense'. I'd rather have them relaxed and able to give me a meaningful insight into what they're like, than feel I have any particular point of pride in wringing them out.

    I'd also be a fan of a soft start - there's some stuff I'd expect 'everyone' to know about a bit of hardware, but there's other stuff that I'd expect varying degrees of familiarity with - picking out the bits they're familiar with, and digging deeper IMO gives a much more useful insight into what they're able to think, see or do.

  22. Re:What a summary on Google's Floating Datahaven · · Score: 1

    Make them sailboats and run before the wind. And for bonus points set a new speed record at kiting a 100mph hurricane wind.

  23. Re:The underlying assumption is not true on Testing IT Professionals On Job Interviews? · · Score: 1
    I'm not so sure there - it's asking what sort of information you could gather, not a precise spec on what CIDR means. If you've seen the notation, it's not too much a stretch to pick out that you have both IP address and subnet mask there, and it's the first address in the network range. Do it with 192.168.38.255/24 and you might also be able to point out that that's the last address in the range, and that's _usually_ the network broadcast address.

    That's actually quite a nice sort of a question to evaluate just how much someone _actually_ understands about networking, because you don't focus on the what, as much as the why.

  24. Re:The underlying assumption is not true on Testing IT Professionals On Job Interviews? · · Score: 1

    Can't think why they would. 192.168.38.1/24 is a perfectly acceptable way of defining an IP address and subnet mask at the same time.

  25. Re:If doctors were that bad, it would be manslaugh on Testing IT Professionals On Job Interviews? · · Score: 1
    My experience is opposite - certs aren't typically worth the paper they're printed on. Why? Because they're vendor issued, and the vendor's interest in issuing the bits of paper, aren't really going to be intersecting with yours as an employer. Many of the certs I've taken have been heftily laden with 'marketing' to the point where it was sometimes necessary to lie a bit during the test, in order to pass.

    I've encountered Admins who know nothing, and MCSEs that know nothing. Of the two, the people with 'real experience' at least know how to deal with the real world fact vs. what the manual says _should_ be happening.