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  1. Re:Isn't that a bad idea on Geeks On a Plane Proposed To Solve Global Tech Skills Crisis · · Score: 1

    Hint on how to fill the middle- require your mid-level people to teach a training class one day a week to the new people.

  2. Re:Don't forget the free and open source people to on Geeks On a Plane Proposed To Solve Global Tech Skills Crisis · · Score: 1

    Answer to turning a mediocre library-style developer who can barely code a while loop, into a star programmer who builds the libraries: Include one day a week of his work week as mandatory training in the skills that are missing.

  3. Re:Don't forget the free and open source people to on Geeks On a Plane Proposed To Solve Global Tech Skills Crisis · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Hire smart people, make it part of their job to spend one day a week in training in new tech, and you'll have no more skills crisis in no time.

  4. Re:Happy Tuesday from The Golden Girls! on Ask Slashdot: Do-It-Yourself Security Auditing Tools? · · Score: 1, Funny

    Completely OT, but I've got Karma to burn

    The last line of the first verse should read "You're a pal and a confidant". None of the Golden Girls went into space, though I'm sure they thought about sending Sophia there.

  5. Re:Usability on Ask Slashdot: Setting Up a Computer Lab In a Developing Country · · Score: 1

    I was responding to " If it is for a lab, in the US with US pricing you can get 3 years of electronic software delivery + DVD for $1437. I quoted you the most expensive option by the way, it can easily go down to a $100 instead."

    Not the grandparent.

    In addition to that "If your local country values Windows for employment"- well, what many third world countries still value for employment is paper. If you don't have a reliable network, and your entire bureaucracy is based on paper, it's kind of hard to value any operating system/office software combination over any other.

  6. Re:Usability on Ask Slashdot: Setting Up a Computer Lab In a Developing Country · · Score: 1

    It is GUATEMALA, not the United States. RTFA!

  7. Re:Usability on Ask Slashdot: Setting Up a Computer Lab In a Developing Country · · Score: 1

    It's Guatemala. They prefer paper, currently. There is a reason why we don't have 30 minute or less service processing visa requests from there.

  8. Re:RaspberryPi ! on Ask Slashdot: Setting Up a Computer Lab In a Developing Country · · Score: 1

    In developing countries (think 25-75 years behind the times) composite monitors are still likely to be plentiful. It was, after all, the PRIMARY monitor cable system for over 15 years.

  9. Re:76? on New Pope Selected · · Score: 1

    With a nice number of third world countries, they don't need the poor in the United States anymore- abusing work visas and offshoring makes LOCAL labor redundant at best.

    And with 55 million abortions since 1973, you can no longer describe "not getting children" as "not the same as killing people".

  10. Re:Card to Card payments on MasterCard Forcing PayPal To Pay Higher Fees · · Score: 1

    "what good is it unless you for some reason already have money stored at the bank of paypal"

    I keep nothing in my paypal account. I have it set up with my debit card to charge my real bank account. But it means that the final retailer does not have a record of my debit card number. Paypal is an anonomiser, nothing more, living on the microinterest they get in the time it takes for the escrow to clear.

    The other obvious option is that MasterCard and Visa could institute easy-to-use one-use HTTP links and virtual card software, but that's apparently too hard for them.

  11. Re: Card to Card payments on MasterCard Forcing PayPal To Pay Higher Fees · · Score: 1

    An alternative, of course, is braille stamped currency.

  12. Re:Card to Card payments on MasterCard Forcing PayPal To Pay Higher Fees · · Score: 1

    That's not directly. That is through a foreign currency.

  13. Re:They don't get it on Bitcoin To Be Regulated Under US Money Laundering Laws · · Score: 1

    If you trade for Amazon Gift Cards, then yes, under the new regulations this would be a "conversion to US Dollars" and thus any amount over $999 would have to be recorded with extra paperwork.

    Store gift cards ARE money- in a restricted form. You can think of them like debit cards. The IRS does.

  14. Re:They don't get it on Bitcoin To Be Regulated Under US Money Laundering Laws · · Score: 1

    At which point you limit your bitcoin money transactions to $999 *per bitcoin money exchange*. I learned this years ago dealing with the same regulation in casino chip transactions.

    There's a monastery in Vegas that has a chapel on the strip. A brother actually has the title of "Chip Monk" and runs around once a week cashing in chips found in the donation plate.

  15. Re:Sounds like a lack of experience all right on An Instructo-Geek Reviews The 4-Hour Chef · · Score: 1

    Thanks, I was unaware of that term for that. How is this related to cooking fish?

  16. Re:Yes. on Do Nations Have the Right To Kill Enemy Hackers? · · Score: 1

    "isolating you from them could isolate you from the entire internet."

    Which, during a cyber attack, is exactly what you want to protect local mission critical automation, correct?

  17. Re:Um... on Wrong Fuel Chokes Presidential Limo · · Score: 1

    My question was- isn't the "automatic transmission" now invading the heavy-haul land vehicle sector really just (to use your term that makes a ton of sense) a series hybrid as opposed to a hydraulic automatic transmission or the smaller EV hybrids where the gas motor kicks in at higher speeds and loads?

  18. Re:Sounds like a lack of experience all right on An Instructo-Geek Reviews The 4-Hour Chef · · Score: 1

    He said. Fred Meyer, which for those of you not blessed to live in Cascadia, is a child company of Kroger''s. (well, it is now- my dad actually KNEW the original Fred Meyer and at one time battled against him putting one of his "One stop shopping" supermarkets in Albany, Oregon back in the 1960s).

  19. Re:Definitions. on Jedi May Be Allowed To Perform Marriage Ceremonies In Scotland · · Score: 2

    Wasn't a shell game until after the Protestant Rebellion changed "You will be the same religion as the king" to "we'll kill the king and let every preacher who cares to claim to be one battle it out in violent free market". Religions changed very slowly previous to that.

  20. Re:Um... on Wrong Fuel Chokes Presidential Limo · · Score: 1

    I thought the version of the automatic that was making inroads there was the electric drivetrain hybrid- which is basically the same tech as a diesel-electric train locomotive.

  21. Re:Yes. on Do Nations Have the Right To Kill Enemy Hackers? · · Score: 1

    Hmm, given that- in that case, wouldn't the best thing be to take out the routers between you and the country that is attacking? They're likely unmanned and while secure, probably not guarded against a cruise missile.

  22. Sounds like a lack of experience all right on An Instructo-Geek Reviews The 4-Hour Chef · · Score: 2

    " porcelain Dutch oven"

    All the dutch ovens I've ever seen are cast iron- designed for their original purpose- to be an iron oven you can drop into a campfire and bake stuff in.

  23. Re:Yes. on Do Nations Have the Right To Kill Enemy Hackers? · · Score: 1

    I was more going for that traditionally, proportionality meant responding in kind, not necessarily amount. It just seemed odd to me that you'd respond to a software attack- which has no mass and almost no reality outside of cyberspace- with a kinetic attack- which has lots of mass and lots of reality in the real world.

  24. Re:Yes. on Do Nations Have the Right To Kill Enemy Hackers? · · Score: 1

    I'm morally opposed to unjust war. One of the issues of just war is porportionality, which is mentioned in the slashdot article as "so long as that force is proportional".

    We're talking about using kenetic weapons against hackers in cyberspace. Tell me, how much mass is in a bit?

  25. Re:Once every three months or so on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Electrostatic Contamination? · · Score: 0