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  1. Re:Unintended uses on Prosecutors Push For Anti-Phone-Theft Kill Switches · · Score: 1

    Too bad it cannot work.

    Worst case from the thieves point of view the phones are now only valuable as parts. More likely he will just have to accept a little less for it since now someone will be paid to get around this lockout.

    The police prefer to not focus on real crime, real criminals are dangerous.

  2. Re:Magnets? on Volvo's Electric Roads Concept Points To Battery-Free EV Future · · Score: 5, Informative

    No free lunch. Any electricity you make by passing a a coil over a magnet is coming from loss of forward velocity.

    There are wireless charging methods, but they again require outside power.

  3. Re:MySQL is Dead! Just like Cobol on Red Hat Ditches MySQL, Switches To MariaDB · · Score: 1

    You are clearly full of it.

    New servers will not run old versions of MySQL at some point. This means they will have to decide if they want to install new MySQL or MariaDB. That is when the latter will go into place since it is the redhat standard.

  4. Re:MySQL is Dead! Just like Cobol on Red Hat Ditches MySQL, Switches To MariaDB · · Score: 1

    The customers, via their normal bill.

    The servers have to be upgraded at some point, EOL and all. The service provider will at that point move to mariaDB and not even tell the customer.

  5. Re:think I can petition my college to.. on Red Hat Ditches MySQL, Switches To MariaDB · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Teaching you LAMP?
    Teaching any programs is foolish, they should teach that you need an OS, a webserver, a db and a language for your site. Knowing the basics will let you easily work on many stacks.

  6. Re:MySQL is Dead! Just like Cobol on Red Hat Ditches MySQL, Switches To MariaDB · · Score: 2

    There is nothing you tell the client. You dump the DB out of mysql and load it in maria.

    Not like they are switching to something not compatible.

  7. Re:I don't get it... on Microsoft Office Finally Gets iOS App · · Score: 0

    Because I don't want to carry a laptop to have a shopping list that syncs between multiple people.

    I use google docs for that sort of thing all the time, when I am out and about. Instructions for tasks are another kind I frequently do.

  8. Re:Contractor on The $200,000 Software Developer · · Score: 1

    I pay less than $200 per pay period, so normally $400 a month for a cadillac plan for two.

    That $623/month is a for a bare bones high deductible plan.

  9. Re:Silver Bullet on SSDs: The New King of the Data Center? · · Score: 1

    Not going to happen.
    I have plenty in production right now proving that.

    The failure rates per drive are just not that close together. It is not like they all fail at exactly the same number of writes. Also friends don't let friends use RAID5.

    If losing a raid array loses your data, you should lose your job. Backups exist for a reason.

  10. Re:Contractor on The $200,000 Software Developer · · Score: 1

    How is that possible?
    New York state has income maximums on that I thought?

  11. Re:Contractor on The $200,000 Software Developer · · Score: 1

    That is the cheapest plan.

    If you could make 3x, then yes it would be fine. So far I am seeing offers in the 1.5x range and less. Maybe you just made very little with a w2.

  12. Re:Silver Bullet on SSDs: The New King of the Data Center? · · Score: 1

    SSDs don't change that either way.
    This is all stuff that gets done with spinning rust as well.

  13. Re:Silver Bullet on SSDs: The New King of the Data Center? · · Score: 1

    The odds of that happening are vanishingly small.

    It could even happen with spinning rust.

  14. Re:Contractor on The $200,000 Software Developer · · Score: 1

    I just tried again, $623/month is the lowest I can find. 30 year old male, non-smoker, NY state.

  15. Re:Contractor on The $200,000 Software Developer · · Score: 1

    I tried pricing some out recently. A couple months ago, it was $700 a month. That is not what I would call a few hundred dollars.

  16. Re:Contractor on The $200,000 Software Developer · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Unless you need healthcare, then you can forget that route.

    Contractors get no health coverage and many people can't get it without group policies.

  17. Re:Silver Bullet on SSDs: The New King of the Data Center? · · Score: 1

    So you replace them. I am still not seeing the issue. Surely you have hot spares.

  18. Re:Of course business adoption is small on SSDs: The New King of the Data Center? · · Score: 1

    That makes sense.
    We also do not buy one off machines for devs or really anyone. We just upgrade one of the hundreds of desktops we buy at a time.

  19. Re:First defense of oppressors, on Professors Say Massive Open Online Courses Threaten Academic Freedom · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sure you can, you just have to go to a right wing indoctrination institute. Lots of those around too.

    How about instead we just focus on facts, not ideology in education.

  20. Re:Of course business adoption is small on SSDs: The New King of the Data Center? · · Score: 1

    We just buy a normal dell and toss the drive out when it arrives. Installing a hard drive is not difficult and you get to keep the NBD warranty on the rest of the machine.

  21. Re:Silver Bullet on SSDs: The New King of the Data Center? · · Score: 0

    Why does the failure mode matter?
    You toss another one in the array when it fails. Rebuild goes mighty quick with SSDs.

    You always have to have backups. SSDs do not change that.

  22. Re:But... *COMPUTERS*! on Bill Regulating 3D Printed Guns Announced In NYC · · Score: 3, Informative

    Actually you can sell them once you no longer want them. You can't make them with the intent to sell, but you can use sale as a method to dispose of them when you are done with them.

  23. Re:Genius judge on Federal Judge Says Interns Should Be Paid · · Score: 1

    http://www.dol.gov/elaws/esa/flsa/docs/volunteers.asp

    With your level of ignorance I would think you might try to hide it a little.

    Much like a contract to murder you for your ignorance would be illegal, so would this contract you are speaking of.

  24. Re:some schools make you pay for the credits on Federal Judge Says Interns Should Be Paid · · Score: 1

    Sure, for a charity. Volunteering at a for profit is not legal.

    http://www.dol.gov/elaws/esa/flsa/docs/volunteers.asp

  25. Re:Genius judge on Federal Judge Says Interns Should Be Paid · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://www.dol.gov/elaws/esa/flsa/docs/volunteers.asp

    If this is the sort of basic facts you do not know, you really should not be discussing this in public.