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  1. Re:There are lots of free workers on Offshore Outsourcing Threatens Offshore Outsourcing · · Score: 1

    No, but I have tried to force software vendors to fix small bugs. Even when paying $80k in licensing and support costs per year it's still tough get this done. For that same amount of money I could most definitely hire people to do the work or persuade the core developers to help me out.

  2. Re:I told you so... on Offshore Outsourcing Threatens Offshore Outsourcing · · Score: 1

    If I buy a shirt from China, I'm not entirely sure it wasn't produced by PoliticalPrisonCo (motto: where products are made by people who think like Americans!) You don't think that free trade is the best way to end this? What is worse, an evil communist society or an early stages industrial society utilizing child labor? Economic theories say that free trade leads to equalization of factor prices, which would mean better off chinese citizens. I only know what the western media has reported, but it seems as if the average Chinese citizen is better off now than they were in June of 1989. The biggest problem I've experienced with outsourcing is that it is very hard to communicate with people that are on a different schedule and far away. Usually this leads to software which doesn't do what it needs to, making all of savings of a lower per hour rate pointless.

  3. Re:Long-reach ethernet on Last-Mile Solution For A Rural Land Co-op? · · Score: 1

    Phone wire is not category 5 and wouldn't be considered 100baseT. Therefore the limitations would be different. As far as requiring an amplifier, I'd assume that it would just use a higher voltage to start with. The signals could not be the same as 'standard' 100baseT, as phone wire has entirely different capacitance and inductance properties than category 5 cabling. Phone wire is also not twisted so it takes on more noise. All of this would require something very different from 100baseT.

  4. Re:The ball starts rolling .. on State "Communication Services" Laws Analyzed · · Score: 1

    At least in Illinois this pertains to all communication: " (B) to conceal or to assist another to conceal from any communication service provider or from any lawful authority the existence or place of origin or destination of any communication;"

  5. Re:And, if you want it right now... on Introduction to PHP5 · · Score: 1

    "Maybe in Windows this is the case, but not Unix, where you can catch a segfault and do a longjmp to an error handler. Tidy and easy." From the man page of signal: "According to POSIX, the behaviour of a process is undefined after it ignores a SIGFPE, SIGILL, or SIGSEGV signal that was not generated by the kill() or the raise() functions." This may work in linux, but it's definitely not "unix" and probably not portable.

  6. I bet on 4l-j4z333ra 0wn3d · · Score: 1

    It's probably just slashdotted

  7. Policing? At Universities? on Congress Asks Universities To Enforce Copyrights · · Score: 3, Funny

    Universities could start some sort of new "Campus Police" department whose job it would be to uphold the laws.

  8. RPM vs compiled on Trail of Tears: MySQL, ODBC, & OpenOffice 1.0 · · Score: 1

    A lot of the issues described in the article were caused by the fact that he mixed a compiled MySQL with some rpms. The RPMS from redhat place both the socket and the libraries into different directories. Had he used an RPM to install mysql, it would have been configured for the proper paths. If he had compiled the clients, they would have been looking for files in the default paths as well. If ./configuring an app on a redhat machine it is always a good idea to use --prefix=/usr and then check the paths in the generated Makefile.

  9. Re:Bad EPoX 8K7A on Illicit Leaky Capacitors Killing Motherboards · · Score: 1

    I have the same motherboard and it has the same problem but still sort of functions (not stable). It only seems to be affecting the 6.3v, 1500 microfarad caps.

  10. what next? on Telemarketers Sue to Block Do-Not-Call List · · Score: 1

    "The FTC is singling out this form of advertising now, what will be next?" said DMA President Robert Weintzen in a prepared statement. email would be nice

  11. Re:Engineering Gets Hit Too on Grade Inflation in Higher Education · · Score: 1

    It will probably take some time for abet (abet.org) to get the CS requirements to the point where they are as detailed as those for engineering. I'm sure the programs will become much tougher in the future.