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  1. Immigration to Isreal is easy on Short of IT Workers At Home, Israeli Startups Recruit Elsewhere (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Immigration to Isreal is easy if you can make the cut.

  2. Re:need more STEM grads on Short of IT Workers At Home, Israeli Startups Recruit Elsewhere (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The principle architects of 3 of the most successful IT corporations in the world did not have college degrees at all.

    WTF is a principle architect? Someone who designs systems of ethics?

  3. Re:6.3 billion is impossible on The App Economy Will Be Worth $6 Trillion in Five Years (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Sure the number of people on earth has nearly doubled in the past 100 years or so

    More like the past 50.

  4. Re:I still do not get spending much money on apps on The App Economy Will Be Worth $6 Trillion in Five Years (recode.net) · · Score: 2

    Hipsters & millenials.

  5. Close up wallaby on Volvo's Driverless Cars 'Confused' by Kangaroos (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Close up wallaby, or distant kangaroo?

  6. Re:Does not add up. on The App Economy Will Be Worth $6 Trillion in Five Years (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Seconded. It's like the story that there'll be 27 trillion twitter accounts by next Wednesday.

    I propose a rule: before suggesting that "the market for foo will be X" ... or "there will be Y number of bar", divide it by 7 billion. Then ask yourself if you can reasonably imagine one person buying/eating/having that quantity.

    There should be a name for this. Malthus' quotient?

    P.S. The speilchucker suggested Maltese or Maltose. Does anyone know of one for Firefox that has a vocabulary better than a typical nine-year-old?

  7. Re: Robotmania! on Amazon Robots Poised To Revamp How Whole Foods Runs Warehouses (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know about you, but I have better things to do than wander around a supermarket randomly putting tins of beans in the soap powder section.

    Sure people change their minds and put stuff on the nearest shelf, and don't get me started about kids. But really, it's not even going to be one percent of one percent.

  8. No I'm not, you are.

    You're also fat and think dinosaurs coexisted with humans.

  9. Would a radar speed gun use the computer's internal clock? I doubt it would be fast enough.

  10. Re:Excellent news. on Google Slapped With $2.7 Billion By EU For Skewing Searches (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1
  11. Re:Excellent news. on Google Slapped With $2.7 Billion By EU For Skewing Searches (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Either they have monopoly or they don't.

    No. Despite the "mono" root, the legal definition is more nuanced than being the only supplier.

    In the UK, 25% of the market is the baseline.

  12. Re:Not just AMP... on 'Why I Decided To Disable AMP On My Site' (alexkras.com) · · Score: 1

    It's more likely that the next release of emacs will be written in systemd lisp.

  13. Re:Accommodating fat fingers without excess scroll on 'Why I Decided To Disable AMP On My Site' (alexkras.com) · · Score: 1

    It's ''ad nauseam'', you fucking peasant.

  14. Re:Everybody loves a doomsday scenario on The High-Tech Jobs That Created India's Gilded Generation Are Disappearing (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    If there are hundreds of thousands of mediocre or even sub-standard workers, there are also tens of thousands of employees who are top notch and highly skilled.

    Nobody cares about that. They care about which type they get on their project.

    On the actual work phase, not the proposal.

  15. Those of us who oppose Trumpism don't believe he is "working for American citizens".

    Of course he is.

    I don't see the word "all" or even "most" in there.

  16. Re: Except for us of course.... on Australian Officials Want Encryption Laws To Fight 'Terrorist Messaging' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, that used to be the case in Britain up until at least the 1940s. The term wasn't even particularly derogatory.

  17. You've got it the wrong way round. If you're claiming doppelgangers or witchcraft as a defense it's not up to the prosecution to disprove them.

    Just like you can't just say "self defense" against an assault charge; you have to provide credible evidence that the person was about to attack you.

    Given that this malware had a specific purpose - which wasn't recalibrating radar guns - I'd say it made no difference.

  18. You've made a case for possibly. It's nowhere near probably.

    Cosmic rays could possibly affect the reading.

  19. Re:"Well-Known" Hackers, that is . . . on Why So Many Top Hackers Come From Russia (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    The really interesting top technical hackers . . . well, we haven't heard of them yet, and probably never will, if they are that good.

    Pull the other one, it's got bells on.

    We all know they come from North K0|Â&87'@... #'#io
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    no carrier

  20. Re:Hackers in Russian media on Why So Many Top Hackers Come From Russia (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    So is working in a bank.

  21. Re: Education system that educates, perhaps? on Why So Many Top Hackers Come From Russia (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    I would yawn, but you'd probably do it again.

  22. Re:I am guessing... on SpaceX Livestreams Sunday's Rocket Launch (space.com) · · Score: 1

    I haven't memorized the list, but I recognised the style.

  23. Why do you think malware would edit the photographs or move the distance markers around? On the scale of reasonable doubt it's quite "aliens did it" but it's not far off.

  24. Come on, that's not right. They only wish it was.

  25. One tech didn't go and plug the USB into over 200 computers.

    It's possible. Maybe he was doing some kind of upgrade.

    Or to use the writing style of the article, it's not impossible that he wasn't unperforming some kind of downgrade.