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  1. Re:Still behind iOS and Android on Skype Finally Arrives On Microsoft Phones · · Score: 1

    My family is spread all over the planet. Which is why we tend to use skype. I need to work when not active more than I need the POTS stuff.

  2. Re:Still behind iOS and Android on Skype Finally Arrives On Microsoft Phones · · Score: 1

    They aren't setting any sales records, thats for sure. Actually the idea that a smartphone does not need to be a very good phone is very common. Go ask anyone under the age of 45.

  3. Re:The Department of Redundancy Department on University of Florida Eliminates Computer Science Department · · Score: 1

    They will if they want to get a job.
    Who would in 2012 hire a windows admin that does not know powershell?

  4. Re:HD 4000 on Intel Officially Lifts the Veil On Ivy Bridge · · Score: 1

    This is cheaper for you, it would cost more to fab a separate unit. Also motherboards are now also cheaper.

    You have no real complaint.

  5. Re:Franklin said it best. on Proof-of-Concept Android Trojan Uses Motion Sensors To Steal Passwords · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So don't install their code. The flip side it that it is even worse if someone else gets to decide what arbitrary code is allowed to run on your system.

  6. Re:HD 4000 on Intel Officially Lifts the Veil On Ivy Bridge · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The vast majority of users will use it. Intel integrated has been a good enough solution for most users for a long time now.

    It would cost more to fab a chip without it, would you pay extra for that? Since they would be making so few.

    This is a normal tick in the Intel tick-tock cycle. You will get that 50%-100% with Haswell.

  7. Re:Pot, kettle on New Sanctions To Target Syrian and Iranian Tech Capacity · · Score: 1

    He is not saying that openly unless his slashdot handle is his real name.

    Say this stuff in an airport and see if they let you on a plane.

  8. Re:Hewlett-Packard - Israel/Palestine on New Sanctions To Target Syrian and Iranian Tech Capacity · · Score: 1

    Not gonna happen.

    Nor will we go after the Saudis, these are the folks our government likes. In the case of Israel they even have their own senator Joe Lieberman. I am sure the Saudis have a couple too.

  9. Re:The Department of Redundancy Department on University of Florida Eliminates Computer Science Department · · Score: 1

    I had a similar coursework, with a lot more lower level stuff, I also minored in Sociology. Am I also what is wrong with University education?

    Believe it or not actually handling the equipment is needed to learn how to deal with many different examples. Is premed not a university education? They also handle the equipment, aka bodies.

  10. Re:The Department of Redundancy Department on University of Florida Eliminates Computer Science Department · · Score: 1

    Since to administer them you must first buy them, you actually do need to know some of the finer points of modern CPUs. At the very least, what operations your usage of this server require and what architecture is best suited to that use. Sure I can't design a modern cpu, but I can build a shift register and have a good general understanding of what is going on. I actually have done a wire wrap cpu and while it was a pain I learned a lot.

    You may well need to know what python is doing under the hood when something does not work and you are stracing it. Not knowing the fundamentals often means a total inability to know how to troubleshoot a system. Not knowing what a car engine is really doing is why so many mechanics now just swap parts until the error goes away. This is expensive for everyone involved and means repairs take longer than they should.

  11. Re:The Department of Redundancy Department on University of Florida Eliminates Computer Science Department · · Score: 1

    Not these days, they now have to know powershell. Even in windows land things are much improved and require actual knowledge.

  12. Re:money is your god on In Nothing We Trust · · Score: 1

    Only because those predisposed to believe in myths and legends are now seeking another similarly pointless goal.

    Worship of money, god or other humans are all empty pursuits.

  13. Re:The political narrative lives on, apparently on In Nothing We Trust · · Score: 2

    You mean programs that minister to ourselves and our fellow men?

  14. Re:Still behind iOS and Android on Skype Finally Arrives On Microsoft Phones · · Score: 1

    Then just get a feature phone.

    A smartphone is a computer first, phone distant third maybe.

  15. Re:The Department of Redundancy Department on University of Florida Eliminates Computer Science Department · · Score: 1

    He should have already done that in college, I know I had to. We also had to know CIDR, BGP and RIP(for some reason) and a slew of other related things. On top of which without that sort of underlying knowledge he will never learn the technology and systems of a company.

  16. Re:The Department of Redundancy Department on University of Florida Eliminates Computer Science Department · · Score: 1

    Which you cannot support without scripting and knowledge of all kinds of underlying things.

  17. Re:The Department of Redundancy Department on University of Florida Eliminates Computer Science Department · · Score: 1

    If the IT kid does not have a grasp of subnetting how did he graduate?

    What sort of shitty departments are these?

  18. Re:The Department of Redundancy Department on University of Florida Eliminates Computer Science Department · · Score: 1

    Not at any decent school it isn't.
    If you can't script you can't sysadmin. If you can't script you can't be a netadmin, what the hell can you do?

  19. Re:The Department of Redundancy Department on University of Florida Eliminates Computer Science Department · · Score: 2

    If there was not much overlap then it sounds like those were some worthless IT degrees. I guess this is where we get interview candidates for IT jobs that can't even script perl or python much less write actual code.

  20. Re:No. on Did Microsoft Simply Run Out of Time On Windows RT? · · Score: 1

    Actually it would make a lot of sense, if they added the needed GPOs. Automatically configuring the http proxy would be nice, as would being able to use the domain login for authentication. You could also use it to lockdown all kinds of things, or just use it to set defaults.

  21. Re:How does the MTBF scale? on US Small-Scale Nuclear Reactor Industry Gains Traction In Missouri · · Score: 1

    The state is also giving lots of money to the feds, you know the money that midwesterners eat up in farm subsidies. Without that they probably could balance a budget.

  22. Re:How does the MTBF scale? on US Small-Scale Nuclear Reactor Industry Gains Traction In Missouri · · Score: 1

    No, the biggest problems are the high upfront costs and low returns over a long period. Investors don't want to wait that long to get their money back.

  23. Re:you can save a ton of $ on Technology Makes It Harder To Save Money · · Score: 1

    I don't talk much either, but last I checked they will not let me bring a phone and their selection sucks for smartphones.

  24. Re:And this is why you're poor. on Technology Makes It Harder To Save Money · · Score: 1

    Since when?
    I buy cases of beer that cost that. Not to even mention what a nice meal out costs.

  25. Re:america on Technology Makes It Harder To Save Money · · Score: 1

    Where is this 3GB for $35 plan?