Slashdot Mirror


User: EmagGeek

EmagGeek's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
4,809
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 4,809

  1. I call BS! on The Steady Decline of Unix · · Score: 1

    Did anyone bother to check to see whether Netcraft confirmed this?

  2. I am Locutus of Borg on DARPA Wants Computers That Fuse With Higher Human Brain Function · · Score: 1

    Resistance is futile. Your life as it has been is over. From this time forward you will service us.

  3. Re:I'll do it on Big MOOC On Campus: Georgia Tech's $6,600 MS In CS · · Score: 1

    It's not a bad thing to go back to school later in your career to get up to speed on the state of the art and maybe even pick up new skills.

  4. Re:$45,000 for a Master's? on Big MOOC On Campus: Georgia Tech's $6,600 MS In CS · · Score: 4, Informative

    UT Austin is 0.1 point above Tech in the rankings for CS Grad Schools. As has been noted, if you're in-state or on a GTA or GRA, the tuition drops precipitously or is basically waived. Whether it's a #10 or #9 school isn't really going to matter during interviews. Both are superb schools with an excellent reputation among hiring managers (and I've hired-a-plenty out of both).

    Tuition rates between the two schools are not significantly different. Tech is a bit over $13K/semester and UT Austin is a smidge over $12K/semester.

  5. I'll do it on Big MOOC On Campus: Georgia Tech's $6,600 MS In CS · · Score: 1

    I already have two degrees from Georgia Tech, but not one in CS yet. For $6,600 a MSCS from Georgia Tech is a no brainer.

  6. Re:Is it illegal to distribute that? on Wikileaks Releases A Massive "Insurance" File That No One Can Open · · Score: 1

    Right now it is just a collection of random bits.

  7. Re:This is exactly why we can't trust Governments on Partner of Guardian's Snowden Reporter Detained Under Terrorism Act · · Score: 1

    Why did you bother narrowing the scope of your subject line?

  8. Re:planned outrage on Partner of Guardian's Snowden Reporter Detained Under Terrorism Act · · Score: 2

    If that girl didn't want to get raped, she shouldn't have dressed so provocatively. What did she think was going to happen? SHE WAS ASKING FOR IT.

  9. Re:Update the constitution on Partner of Guardian's Snowden Reporter Detained Under Terrorism Act · · Score: 5, Informative

    At least in the US, there is no limit to civil forfeiture. If authorities think that your possessions were used in a crime, they can take them even if you are never charged with a crime at all. This includes personal effects, possessions, and real property.

  10. Re:Summary on Dishwasher-Size, 25kW Fuel Cell In Development · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Not everything is impossible. Just the bullshit that the liberals have been claiming "would only be possible if the oil companies would die in a fire and taxpayers gave billions to another one of Obama's friends' so-called green companies."

  11. Re:And? on Feds Target Instructors of Polygraph-Beating Methods · · Score: 1

    They are also used to screen applicants for a security clearance. Yep, you heard that right. Our government uses debunked, junk science to determine who to trust with our most vital state secrets.

  12. Re:128bit AES is insecure on Google To Encrypt Cloud Storage Data By Default · · Score: 0

    If you have "Excellent" Karma you get to post directly to +2 for all of your posts.

  13. Administrative Costs on The College-Loan Scandal · · Score: 1

    The top 50 salaries at my alma mater (a public state school) are all administrators and athletic coaches, and not one of them makes less than $200K (and some of the athletic coaches are over $500K from the State, plus whatever perks advertisers give them).

    The highest paid tenured professor makes about $145K, and most professors make less than a first year MSEE graduate from the same school.

    Yes, the demand-push inflation caused by massive government subsidies is the bigger problem, but administrative waste and focus on non-educational activities are significant as well.

  14. Re:Left off a zero on Transport Expert Insists 'Don't Dismiss Wacky Hyperloop' · · Score: 1

    Whoops, you're right. I misread the article. San Fran is a whole lot closer to LA than is NY heh

  15. So where are the criminal charges? on NSA Broke Privacy Rules Thousands of Times Per Year, Audit Finds · · Score: 1

    Oh that's right. Asking our government to hold itself accountable is farcically funny...

  16. Left off a zero on Transport Expert Insists 'Don't Dismiss Wacky Hyperloop' · · Score: 0

    Should read 6000MPH travel, since after all he's claiming New York to LA in 30 minutes. And, that's average, so accounting for the need to slow down at times, peak speeds probably need to reach closer to 10000 MPH in the Plains states.

  17. Just a few circumstances on Ask Slashdot: When Is It OK To Not Give Notice? · · Score: 1

    1) You discover your employer is willfully engaged in criminal activity
    2) Your employer asks you to break the law or violate ethics rules that may apply to your job, or to perjure yourself during a court proceeding or other investigation

    I can't really think of any other reason it would be okay to just walk out the door. But, in these two cases it would be perfectly okay.

  18. Re:Not going to be popular for saying this here... on New Tool To Measure Consciousness · · Score: 1

    It's all part of the movement towards State management of who lives and dies, based of course on political ideology and revenue.

  19. Re:Terri Schiavo, what? on New Tool To Measure Consciousness · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There was no ethical quandary in the Schiavo case. She was not conscious, and more or less had no brain to be conscious with. It was a clear cut case of a lost cause where the body was only being kept alive to fuel the aforementioned family feud (her parents were not a big fan of her husband, IIRC, and did not want him inheriting her estate, so they fought the issue until her estate was gone and her husband bankrupt, then finally let it go).

  20. Hahhaahah on US, Germany To Enter No-Spying Agreement · · Score: 1

    And the US will violate the No Spying agreement the millisecond it is signed.

    The US Governmet CANNOT be trusted.

  21. Re:Pretext to Gov't Takeover on New York's Financial Regulator Subpoenas Bitcoin Companies · · Score: 1

    "IMHO, anyone who says differently is just plain clueless."

    That is not a "humble" opinion.

  22. Pretext to Gov't Takeover on New York's Financial Regulator Subpoenas Bitcoin Companies · · Score: 1

    These are interesting times, for sure. They claim this is just âoeso we can understand how Bitcoin works,â but I think the reality is that this is an intelligence gathering expedition to figure out how to enforce regulations through forcible means, such as taking over control of the Bitcoin network or enforcing licensing for miners.

    I hope they realize that they can't simply "take control" of a decentralized, peer to peer network like Bitcoin, but I am sure they are going to learn as much as they can so they can try.

    This does not bode well for Bitcoin or any other alternative currency.

  23. It's called a "Fannypack" on Ask Slashdot: Is There a Good Device Holster? · · Score: 1

    Embrace it. Use it. Love it.

  24. Re:You still have time to change your mind! on Ask Slashdot: Best Software For Med-School Note-Taking? · · Score: 1
  25. Panel Will Also Operate in Secret on Obama's Privacy Reform Panel Will Report To ... the NSA · · Score: 5, Informative

    The article doesn't state it, but I heard on CBS News Radio this morning that the panel will also operate in secret, and all records will be classified.

    Nothing to see here, move along, citizen. Thank you for your cooperation.