Slashdot Mirror


User: Fulcrum+of+Evil

Fulcrum+of+Evil's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
9,475
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 9,475

  1. Re:Hrmmm.. I dont like this. on Jack Thompson Disbarred · · Score: 1

    given that your state is about 10% of the population of the country, you could extrapolate those numbers to 25-50/mo nationwide and 300-600 per year. But yeah, that's not many.

  2. Re:What is so dangerous about gambling anyway? on State of Kentucky Seizes Control of 141 Domain Names · · Score: 1

    It isn't enumerated as a power that the federal government has, so it's a state issue, but states can't control commerce in other states, so there you go.

  3. Re:What...? on Comcast Outlines New Broadband Policy · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    whatever I want. If you're going to imply that I'm being naughty, you have to be the one to prove it. Implying that large downloads are illegal activity sounds sort of defamatory.

  4. Re:Backwards? on Comcast Outlines New Broadband Policy · · Score: 1

    yeah, but it's only really an issue when you're running close to capacity.

  5. Re:What...? on Comcast Outlines New Broadband Policy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So suddenly any large use of BW is illegal? Way to distract from the point.

  6. Re:250GB on Comcast Outlines New Broadband Policy · · Score: 3, Informative

    set up mrtg to poll your router and make your own graphs.

  7. Re:Backwards? on Comcast Outlines New Broadband Policy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No, it means that bulk transfers are lower priority than someone checking email, since that's fairly low load and interactive.

  8. Re:Or more reasonable policies on Students Are Always Half Right In Pittsburgh · · Score: 1

    giving poor students a better chance of catching up doesn't lessen the inherent value a good student gains from his hard work.

    No, bending all the resources towards the slackers and dullards while ignoring the bright ones does that. This is a lowering of standards, and time and time again, people rise (or sink) to the level of expectations.

  9. Re:Cost Center on Tech Vs. Business? · · Score: 1

    I can't argue that.

  10. Re:Unemployment is only the thin end of the wedge on Unemployment Hits New High In Silicon Valley · · Score: 1

    no, I say that I don't think it's relevant, and it isn't. What's relevant is what I expect to make in the next job based on what I'm expected to do and whether the prospective boss is willing to pay it. In my last interviews, the subject didn't even surface until after they were sure they wanted me.

  11. Re:Yes, it is... on Unemployment Hits New High In Silicon Valley · · Score: 1

    But, I'll grant you, you cannot get a decent rack of ribs in Seattle.

    No, you just don't know how. Go to longhorn and get some brisket, then get the ribs.

  12. Re:Unemployment is only the thin end of the wedge on Unemployment Hits New High In Silicon Valley · · Score: 1

    Also, when applying for a job, the hiring company usually wants your salary history.

    Wait, you actually fill that in?

  13. Re:Cost Center on Tech Vs. Business? · · Score: 1

    I guess you've never met me. This is my primary metric for whether I care about a project - current project: create a service that will allegedly make money, current initiatives that I'm driving: document and automate a build/creation process (that's new and should be automated already) and save time/money/reduce risk, longer term, I plan to push more deployment automation because we currently take 12 hours with all hands on deck to release a fucking product. This will be hard, since I am not positioned well to push it, and we have deployment engineers who will certainly object.

  14. Re:What would an MBA do? on Defusing the Threat of Disgruntled IT Workers · · Score: 1

    Stop making such sweeping generalizations. Didn't you learn something when the mean kids at school outgrouped you and called you nerd 'cause you were different from them?

    Well, if you take a few of them out, you'll feel better, and they leave you alone after that.

  15. Re:This is news? on Defusing the Threat of Disgruntled IT Workers · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Hey, if I had a sister, I'd be okay with kissing her - closed mouth, though (I'm not a perv).

  16. Re:This is only going to get worse. on Defusing the Threat of Disgruntled IT Workers · · Score: 1

    I work in a city where a computer guy will charge $20 a hour for a service call. How can you compete with that?

    You move, dumbass. Seattle needs engineers. DC needs engineers. If you're set on a large hispanic population and sandy beaches, LA needs sysadmins.

  17. Markov Cheney strikes again! on Do Not Lick Walls · · Score: 1

    Please do not litter or spit - the Mgmt.

  18. Re:resistence is futile on Stanford Teaching MBAs How To Fight Open Source · · Score: 1

    unless your product is targeted at such a small subset of users that noone in the OSS world would bother to create a competing product

    You must also ensure that the target market doesn't decide to just collaborate and build something for themselves.

  19. Re:Looks Legit on Graduate Student Defends Right To Own Chicago2016.com · · Score: 1

    as I said above, I don't have to - just wait for this trial to complete.

  20. Re:Looks Legit on Graduate Student Defends Right To Own Chicago2016.com · · Score: 1

    Nowhere in you definition does it specify that these services are sold for money; if I provide a service for free, it's still a service.

  21. Re:Please no! on Keeping Older Drivers Behind the Wheel · · Score: 1

    Sure, the old people are sedate; they cruise along at 15 on a 30mph street with their foot on the brake, stopping at every intersection (no stop signs for them). Then they go cruise around a busier road, but forget to stop at the light and plow into the last guy in line. Woops.

  22. Re:Copyright violations assume it happened a lot on Activision Goes After Individual Game Pirates · · Score: 1

    I wonder if the appeal on damage awards from one of the RIAA cases will be relevant - limiting penalties to 10x damages might be relevant, especially if they can come up a good number of counts.

  23. Re:Looks Legit on Graduate Student Defends Right To Own Chicago2016.com · · Score: 1

    So if you gave free speeches under the moniker Raryco, would you expect no protection under trademark law when I start using your mark for my business? For that matter, NASIOC is a well known subaru user site - can I market NASIOC wristbands without their OK? Methinks your undestanding of how things work is faulty, but we'll find out soon enough - the case may be heard before the 2016 opening ceremonies.

  24. Re:Way to go Apple! on Apple Attempts to Patent Pre-Existing Display Software Idea · · Score: 1

    Boys will be boys. Girls can join in or sit out; changing your mind later is dirty pool.

  25. Re:Looks Legit on Graduate Student Defends Right To Own Chicago2016.com · · Score: 1

    But is he using it as a "mark of trade"?

    How is discussion of olympic type happenings not use? And why should he be required to be selling something specific in order to be protected?