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  1. Re:Waste on Fukushima To Become Nuclear Dump? · · Score: 1

    Then good thing my country, Russia is not a "serious" nation. We are moving ahead to doubling the amount of energy generated by nuclear, with dozens of reactors under planned and under constructions.

  2. Re:Is IT/CS/... not easy enough already? on Professor Questions Sink-Or-Swim Intro To CS Courses · · Score: 1

    Oh Gods! I do not know if I should laugh or cry really, American CS program is such a cakewalk that making it any easier would qualify it as a paraolympics sport.

    Compare the the typical CS curriculum to one taught in Russian universities, In classic schools CS is still treated as branch of mathematics and specialization does not come until the third year, until then future theoretical mathematicians and CS people study together. So let's say starting the first day of their first year a future CS person would start - Analysis (as in Real Analysis, what you call Calculus is covered in four lectures, because Calc I and II are review material), Abstract Algebra, Number Theory, Mathematical Logic, Analytic Geometry, Theory of Algorithms (mostly state machines and their mathematical invariants) and Methods of Programming (this is similar to what is covered in Cormen's book)

    I'm not saying this curriculum is ideal, there is a consensus building that ToA was only showed into the first semester because they could find a spot fir it later on, likely due to unhealty emphasis on equations of mathematical physics which is rather silly considering MPh is by itself a 3rd year specialization and imho everyone should not be forced to suffer through quantum electrodynamics unless they choose to specialize in this stuff.

  3. Re:Begs the question... on Explosion At Foxconn Factory Kills 2, Injures 16 · · Score: 1

    You people are really talking out of your ass. In my experience every western company that opens business here in Russia provides better than local pay, good working conditions and a sane promotion path. True for anything from retail to manufacture to IT outsourcing. The salaries may not seem much in absolute values (about 1000 euros for entry level skilled labour) but provide a good standard of living and the jobs are sought after.

  4. Re:Wait, so.. on How Today's Tech Alienates the Elderly · · Score: 1

    I think the problem has more to do with abstractions that people develop over their lifetimes. Recently there was an article on BBC about an Amazonian tribe that has concept of events happening in sequence but no abstract concept of time. Here we have people who grew up with clocks that could only have one alarm set, so for them clock = alarm (alarm clock). An abstract concept of an alarm and many instances of which that can be added to an existing clock is unknown and confusing to them.

  5. Re:Does it run on my n900? on MeeGo 1.2 Released · · Score: 1

    By antiquated you surely mean more powerful in both cpu and gpu than any iOS or Android phone?

  6. Re:Probably not worth the effort on Ask Slashdot: FTP Server Honeypots? · · Score: 1

    I agree, looks like the dude is totally amateur and panicked over something he saw in the logs. Everyone has these automated scans. Rest easy, hackers are not targeting you specifically.

  7. Who are they kidding? on CDC Warns of Zombie Apocalypse · · Score: 1

    I've read the ZSG twice and I think I'm pretty well prepared. With the FA the bureaucrats over at CDC just want to cover their asses, there is little useful advise in the FA, no discussion of stockpiling weapons and ammo, nothing about preparing a retreat. In reality when ZA happens all kinds of government will be the first to go. Better get yourself a copy of the ZSG and read it cover to cover, including "Living in the undead world" chapter.

  8. Re:Yes, population control makes sense on 8 of China's Top 9 Govt. Officials Are Engineers · · Score: 1

    The problem with Africa is extremely low framing productivity coupled with increasing urbanization.

  9. Re:no substitute for the real thing on Ask Slashdot: DOSBox, or DOS Box? · · Score: 1

    Kali was great, getting tcp/ip to work under Dos was .. interesting.I recall most ppl played Descent., Warcraft 2 was laggy, then I think someone made a special patch for it, C&C worked OK as I recall.

  10. Re:Cannot know for sure on The FSF's Campaign Against the Nintendo 3DS · · Score: 1

    The quoted does not require you to give up your copyright, I believe it can only be done as work for hire. The copyright stays with you, but Nintendo gets a license to use your work in a manner describe. Same thing happens when a writer signs a contract with a publishing house - they keep their copyright, that must be displayed on a published work in the usual places and grant the Publisher a right to print, distribute, sell, sub-license.

  11. Re:Nice on GSM Association Slams Euro Call For Ban On Wireless In School · · Score: 0

    The man gave you a great scientific explanation and you ignore it and the best you can produce is unknown unknows related to "molecular jittering"? You are either very stubborn or have no aptitude for scientific reasoning.

  12. Re:It's not free. Let's not pretend. on Microsoft To Support CentOS Linux In Hyper-V · · Score: 1

    Best reply in the whole thread, thank you.

  13. Re:Hyper-V isn't second. It doesn't even place on Microsoft To Support CentOS Linux In Hyper-V · · Score: 1

    A lot of large hosters have already deployed it as part of their infrastructure, it's there and being used.

  14. Re:Anyone else? on Porn Reportedly Found At Bin Laden Compound · · Score: 4, Interesting

    He was a good person when he was killing our soldiers in Afghanistan, but when he started murdering Americans he became evil, or hypocrisy!
    Silly Americans, you really fucked yourself over twice, late Soviet style autocratic socialism would have been such a step up from the shit they are in now . But you had to spoil it by sponsoring OBL and other assorted Arab and Pakistani scum.
    Now the Afghans are back to squire one in civilization building. OBL attacked your cities and you and NATO are stuck in that shithole.

  15. Re:Human after all! on Porn Reportedly Found At Bin Laden Compound · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it must have been embarrassing to ask his couriers to fill the flash drives with pr0n on the way back.

  16. Re:Worth mentioning? Probably not... on Porn Reportedly Found At Bin Laden Compound · · Score: 2, Informative

    Somehow I doubt Aphganis would be doing Google searches in English. The statistics likely apply to foreign troops and NGO stationed there.

  17. Re:Nicely done! on Telehack Re-Creates the Internet of 25 Years Ago · · Score: 2

    I agree the stupid sheeple, drones and plankton have invaded our sacred space, anything from internet to Unix (Ubuntu) became infected with their stink.
    Just yesterday I was musing about the need to create new application protocol, possibly with a Lisp based text interface, with no Flash, JS, ads, ecommerce, sort of like hypertext vector Fidonet.

  18. Re:Floor plans... on Bin Laden Hideout Recreated In Counter-Strike · · Score: 1

    I have no doubt regarding the ultimate fate of OBL whether he would have got a trial or not. Bit I think the West lost a chance to gain moral high ground by giving him a trial. And I do not mean just in the eyes of the rest of the world, it's also in your own eyes because so much freedom has been lost over the last decade.

    And I find it hard to believe that arguably the best fighting men in the world really had to shoot him. Other factors were in play, most likely keeping OBL alive for years during the trial would have been a huge liability for the USA.

  19. Re:god bless capitalism on Idle: Four Injured In iPad Fight At Beijing Apple Store · · Score: 2

    All three of the ideas are stupid and do not work. Some committee decides how much of the "means of production" each worker/engineer/cleaning lady controls and gets to keep when they leave? And why would I want to keep the fruits of my labor? Unless I'm maybe a farmer they are useless to me and will have to be promptly exchanged for currency anyways. And the icing on the cake - another committee get to vote on my "needs". What a joke.

    All of this has been implemented much better under Capitalism. Instead of questionable control of means of production one may own shares, instead of keeping useless fruits of you labour you get a salary which in general is proportional to your contribution (not perfect, CEOs, I know). And of course you are the one who decides what and how much you need, noone is gonna tell you you can't have two laptops until everyone else gets one.

  20. Re:Sick, not evil on Osama Bin Laden Reported Dead, Body In US Hands · · Score: 1

    If nuking Hiroshima and Nagasaki knowing ahead that the vast majority of the victims will be civilians is justified then so is targeting the WTC. And Pentagon was a valid target by any definition.

  21. Re:Put it another way on Why Science Is a Lousy Career Choice · · Score: 1

    Anything beyond stage 2 is for losers.

  22. Re:Whose enemies? on Iran Says Siemens Helped US, Israel Build Stuxnet · · Score: 1

    Do you remember that not long ago part of Lebanon was actually occupied by Israel, and that sponsoring of Hezbollah by Syria and Iran was a response to that and to Israel propping the brutal SLA militia (funny how their officers fled crying to Israel the moment IDF withdrew). Israel and Irann are playing a regional power game, one would be foolish to take one side.

  23. Re:I like Ubuntu 11.04 on 5 Out of 11 Crashed Unity In Canonical's Study · · Score: 1

    I think it's called Launcher, and I agree it's awesome. Canonical is really pushing Gnome UI development in the right direction. About two years ago I tried one of the first releases of UNR, it sucked badly, they have really come a long way.

  24. Re:Them new DE's, man on 5 Out of 11 Crashed Unity In Canonical's Study · · Score: 0

    Don't know what kind of Windows you support. I submit 10-15 memory dumps a week from 2003 and 2008 servers. Non hardware related. Bad drivers and other kernel space junk blue screen Windows easily.

  25. Re:Them new DE's, man on 5 Out of 11 Crashed Unity In Canonical's Study · · Score: 1

    Installed Unity about 10 hours ago on a 11.6'' notebook. So far it's simply awesome, no crashed yet, very smooth. Recommended.