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  1. Re:Not just girls on Google, National Parks Partner To Let Girls Program White House Xmas Tree Lights · · Score: 3, Insightful

    feminists are sexist, just as "equal opportunity" pushers are white-hating racists

  2. Re:Read for yourself, it's true on WHO Timeline for Ebola Containment Proves Hard To Meet · · Score: 1

    you can put the phrase "in Liberia and Sierra Leone" after each of your posts. In other words, no reason for alarm seen for cases outside those countries.

  3. Re:But guys... on Bad Lockup Bug Plagues Linux · · Score: 1

    Just how much experience do you have? In my experience, expensive "enterprise grade" software such as Oracle, VMWare, WebSphere, Windows Server have a massive amount of bugs that causes crashes, unexpected behaviour, incompatibilities between minor point releases...and many go unacknowleged or unpatched by the vendor.

    On the whole, the major open source projects quckly admit to and fix bugs and security holes when found.

    OpenSSL a funny case of a corporation controlling and using the project for rubber-stamping FIPS approval with no concern for security. A very anti-open source model that now is getting the bleach.

  4. Re:beware of breakthroughs on Physicist Kip Thorne On the Physics of "Interstellar" · · Score: 1

    we have no working quantum gravity theory to explain what would really happen; so no real or theorectical evidence that wormholes could either be created or sustained. introducing a basic part of quantum mechanics into wormholes leads to out-of-control creation and flow of virtual particles without limit

  5. Re:beware of breakthroughs on Physicist Kip Thorne On the Physics of "Interstellar" · · Score: 1

    those are estimations based on current models that may be *wrong*

  6. beware of breakthroughs on Physicist Kip Thorne On the Physics of "Interstellar" · · Score: 1

    breakthroughs and follow-on tech arising in decades (example of invention of SR and GR and their use in present everyday life) means such cautions about "boondongles" might be nonsense.

    We already know the "Standard Model" and "General Relativity" both are incomplete and have mutual contradiction where their realms overlap; something better is needed

  7. Re: Is age discrimination a myth? on Ask Slashdot: IT Career Path After 35? · · Score: 1

    Yeah we get big salaries and important projects the "kids" half our age don't. Sucks to be them.

  8. Re:Know how to interview on Ask Slashdot: IT Career Path After 35? · · Score: 1

    dyed hair looks fake, don't hide your age. plenty of places value experience and pay for it. I've been manager twice in the past but make more now in architect role, am over fifty with white hair on the lower sides and a third gray in the rest. I do enjoy my work, can't imagine faking it.

  9. Re:innovation thwarted on Aereo Files For Bankruptcy · · Score: 1

    no such law, comcast has been doing that with their "bundles' for years (yes I have basic one); they hope you'll upgrade number of channels or else buy some pay-per-view thing once in a while so they prefer you have the TV hookup.

  10. Re:Easy to catch Tesla on Multiple Manufacturers Push Hydrogen Fuel Cell Cars, But Can They Catch Tesla? · · Score: 1

    cost is important, eye-candy is not. ugly electric car at same price would win over cool looking gasoline one for anyone not juvenile.

  11. Re:OpenBSD on Ask Slashdot: Workaday Software For BSD On the Desktop? · · Score: 1

    One example is VMWare's VCenter to mange vmware virtualization. Various disk array and SAN switch vendors also use flash UIs.

    Other things major companies have to deal with: PCI compliance auditor might have sample/issue system that uses flash, the famous one I have to deal with does.

  12. Re:Intel: Don't announce until the product is read on Intel Planning Thumb-Sized PCs For Next Year · · Score: 1

    No. You're talking about a niche of a niche market. That little geeky market doesn't matter

    This article is something for mainstream, huge customer base

  13. Re:innovation thwarted on Aereo Files For Bankruptcy · · Score: 1

    but that's how I get my internet

  14. Re:I Switched To FreeBSD on FreeBSD 10.1 Released · · Score: 1

    Haven't notice any issues with OpenBSD smp for things like web serving, and with rthreads becoming the default libpthread lightweight threads have good performance

  15. Re:What a moron! on US Marshals Auctioning $20M Worth of Silk Road's Bitcoins · · Score: 0

    I was making a joke, but the limited number of actually interconnected neurons between your ears might prevent you from processing such.

  16. Re:Intel: Don't announce until the product is read on Intel Planning Thumb-Sized PCs For Next Year · · Score: 1

    You are ignorant of how marketing and sales work, aren't you? Step one, generate hype.

  17. Re:OpenBSD on Ask Slashdot: Workaday Software For BSD On the Desktop? · · Score: 1

    yes there is, plenty of admin web gui demand it, plenty of banks and other financial web gui demand it (retirement accounts)

    flash might need to die but it'll writhe and groan for a few more years

  18. Re:Heh... on The Software Big Oil's PR Firm Uses To "Convert Average Citizens" · · Score: 1

    Over the fence where we outsource our carbon pollution (China), I see rising middle class, longer and longer lifespan, better health and more food.

    Some pollution problems but benefits again outweighing negatives. of course, they're smart enough over there to be ramping up nuclear and have thorium breeder program. So long term their carbon pollution problem dwindles

  19. Re:Wifi what about the poor saps on NYC To Replace Most of Its Payphones With Free Gigabit WiFi In 2015 · · Score: 1

    1. top of the line phone?, who needs one? not me. your question makes no sense. irrelevant.
    2. I pay $20 a month to provider with rule that I use free wifi when available for cell calls (they have servers to tie to that) and internet access, it goes to tmobile otherwise. been using them for over a year. $10 would be half of that, assuming your $10 a month a valid number

  20. Re:schools get too much money for shiny on Head of FCC Proposes Increasing Internet School Fund · · Score: 1

    In our state they stopped teaching cursive handwriting, right at the time I was doing research into genealogy using cursive handwritten census and military records. Are they totally trying to detach children from any ties to traditional skills, ability and history?

  21. Re:Heh... on The Software Big Oil's PR Firm Uses To "Convert Average Citizens" · · Score: 1

    Western civilization and technology, much longer and healthier lives...yeah I can see all those ill effects. let's go live in a cave and beat hides on rocks to clean them

  22. Re:What a moron! on US Marshals Auctioning $20M Worth of Silk Road's Bitcoins · · Score: 0

    Reading comprehension fails you, I was not offering a definition for "assault rifle". Read again.

  23. Re:I thought the distinction was arbitrary already on Laser Creates Quantum Whirlpool · · Score: 1

    Wrong, relativistic mass a very relevant point when talking of any "massless" particle that has real world consequences regarding momentum transfer, conservation of momentum etc. All "massless" particles must have relativistic mass, they cannot exist without it

  24. Re:Systemd appears to me like the Dolphin of init. on Debian Votes Against Mandating Non-systemd Compatibility · · Score: 1

    systemd is not simple to use, it is a bloated sprawling nightmare of complexity.

    there are better looking alternatives for parallel startup and monitoring/restart (when desirable), too bad developer mindshare couldn't have gone toward sane alternatives that have simple modular building blocks which is the Unix way

  25. schools get too much money for shiny on Head of FCC Proposes Increasing Internet School Fund · · Score: 0

    The biggest problem with most public schools is lack of focus on the basics of speaking, writing, math, history and science. None of those even require a computer or internet connectivity. Children can get their office droid skills later, and even IT skills later if they choose that career path.