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  1. Re:good on MySQL Man Pages Silently Relicensed Away From GPL · · Score: 1

    Unless as part of the condition of submitting you are agreeing to assign your new/changes to the controlling party.

  2. Re:Think About It This Way on Ask Slashdot: How Important Is Advanced Math In a CS Degree? · · Score: 1

    Hire both? Dude, step away from the weed, open the window and take a breath of fresh air. Have you heard of things called budgets? They are a fact of life, and if there is only $$$ for one position then you can only fill one position.

  3. Re:Whatever the government does, it does poorly... on US Government Data Center Consolidation Behind Schedule, Cost Savings Uncertain · · Score: 1

    Then by all means, please move to where you believe the health care system is better. Nobody is saying you have to stay here and ruin the current system.

  4. Re:Who pays? on ATMs Compromised, $45M Taken · · Score: 1

    Well, if they are prepaid cards then the financial entity which are the two banks are on the hook for the money. Visa or MasterCard have nothing to do with this other than maybe the routed the requests to the banks for authentication.

  5. Re:remote desktop vs windows on Wayland 1.1 Released — Now With Raspberry Pi Support · · Score: 1

    So what you are saying is that the vendor who provides the software that you need is forcing Wayland down your throat. That is a big difference because that means you need to bitch at the software vendor and not the Wayland crew.

  6. WinDbg Help on Taking the Pain Out of Debugging With Live Programming · · Score: 1

    My first suggestion would be is for them to implement WinDbg in an actual usable way. The cryptic commands and setting up the directories for the source and .pdb files.....sheesh.

  7. Re:What? on Apache Terminates Struts 1 · · Score: 1

    So just how is Apache "screwing over" people on this one? They have a new version of Struts available and focusing on that. They don't have unlimited resources so they have to decide what is supported with bug fixes versus what is not.

  8. Re:C-like C++ is the way to go on Comparing the C++ Standard and Boost · · Score: 2

    I have to agree 100% with your comment. If you want to make a mess, C++ sure will let you (kinda like C). But, if you don't let yourself wander around with all of the possible functionality and just stay with the basics, C++ will allow you to do just about anything you want in a truly readable and supportable way.

  9. Re:Restructure the USPS on US Postal Service Discontinuing Saturday Mail Delivery · · Score: 1

    That is one of the stupidest comments I have read in quite some time. It is comments like that which make me stop reading Slashdot.....sheesh.

  10. Re:Migrating on Fedora 19 Nixing MySQL in Favor of MariaDB · · Score: 2

    Uhm these are all very good questions, but here is a suggestion: verify this for yourself!

  11. Re:Unless it's it writing elsewhere.... on Who Controls Vert.x: Red Hat, VMware, Neither? · · Score: 1

    Actually VMWare does possibly have a legal hold on the code base. The best instance of this if he worked on the code while getting paid by VMWare during normal business hours which more than likely stated in his work contract that anything did while working for them is owned by them.
    The one grey area would be is if he worked on it off-hours AND not using ANY VMWare equipment which was not covered in the article so at this point, everyone who thinks they know the answer is/could be wrong since all the pertinent details aren't know right now.

  12. Re:Are you an engineer? on Ask Slashdot: Developer Or Software Engineer? Can It Influence Your Work? · · Score: 1

    See, I would disagree. An engineer talks in terms of meeting requirements like functionality, cost and deliver dates. We don't talk about "the best solution" or the "correct way of something" because we really care about releasing products to meet business needs that keeps money coming into the business. Scientist talk in terms of "the best solution" and Mathematicians use terms like "correctness".

  13. Re:Unions are archaic on Ask Slashdot: What Would It Take For Developers To Start Their Own Union? · · Score: 1

    Then here is a suggestion....quit. Why do you feel the need to stay at an abusive job? Not only will you get a better job, you will more than likely set a precedent within the company that there is no reason to accept those conditions. Eventually word gets around that that company will need to change or sacrifice money lost.

  14. Re:NEWS: Higher pay no longer important. on Ask Slashdot: What Would It Take For Developers To Start Their Own Union? · · Score: 1

    This pretty much hits the subject square on the head for me. What drives me crazy about unions is the way they seem to teach employees to just take the crap from your boss (if that is the case) and hope the union will fix it. Here is a hint, fix it your self: LEAVE. To me, unions are for the lowest common denominator workers and make those workers dependent on the union as opposed to themselves.

  15. Re:Therac-25 on Internal Bug: Code Flaw May Lead to Wrong Dose From Infusion Pump · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The statement about how the lesson can't be taught to profit seeking enterprises is a load of crap. I have worked in both the area of distributed control systems as well as financial transaction processing (which are both self regulated), and we ALWAYS took situations like this VERY serious. We tested and tested and tested and tried to cover all conditions BEFORE we hit the market. Did the testing cut into our sinister profits, yes, but we knew that peoples lives and livelihoods were on the hook. Are there some companies that don't care, sure, but they will always exist regardless of operating environment.

  16. Re:Good luck with that on The IDE As a Bad Programming Language Enabler · · Score: 1

    I am not sure if you are joking or serious here, and I REALLY hope you are joking because if you aren't, please stop writing code NOW and go back to school for a Poli-Sci degree.

  17. Re:But eclipse is terrible at navigation on The IDE As a Bad Programming Language Enabler · · Score: 1

    I am thinking that you might want to revisit your build system. Using an IDE as your "master" container really isn't smart with that many projects. There are many, many solutions out there like CMake and its family or ANT and its family. I have used both on large projects and each should work but mileage does vary.

  18. Re:Is it too late to get UN sanctions on them? on Iran Universities To Ban Women From 77 Fields of Study · · Score: 1

    Point of clarification, you can collect as many eggs as you want because they don't represent a "person" in their eyes UNTIL it has been fertilized. It is at the moment right AFTER federalization that they consider life to exist.

  19. Re:Best Preference on Ask Slashdot: IT Contractors, How's Your Health Insurance? · · Score: 1

    I like your plan. I would just suggest a few additions:
          1) For all states to take down rules and regulations as to what type of plans must be provided to allow people to buy just what they want.
          2) For all states to all any provider located in any state to sell health insurance in the state.
          3) Encourage HSA accounts to the younger

    This will help keep costs down and let people buy just what coverage they want/need.

  20. Re:And why not in the US? on Bill Gates To Develop a Revolutionary Nuclear Reactor With Korea · · Score: 1

    Please calm down, nobody is saying that there should be no regulations. The problem is that there is an both an excessive amount of regulations as well as a general tone in the DOE that all nuclear energy is bad so they do everything they can to bring application processing to a stop.

  21. Re:Spec'd the Kindle on State Dept. Cancels $16.5M Kindle Contract · · Score: 3

    Guessing you didn't read the article. No device other than the Kindle met the requirements AND the requrements were quite sane.

  22. Re:Another perspective on Kentucky Lawmakers Shocked To Find Evolution In Biology Tests · · Score: 4, Informative

    Thinking I might have to disagree with you. When I talked with my grandparents when they were alive and my parents who are in their 80's now, the educational system back then was heavily based upon early memorization which gives you the fundamentals. Then in high school, they were opened up to the "think about it" model. Now days, kids aren't forced to memorize anything, and they are the ones that are hosed.

  23. Re:Sounds like win-win to me! on Man Orders TV On Amazon, Gets Shipped Assault Rifle · · Score: 1

    I believe technically you are correct. However, they have made it so difficult via the costs of the permits and classes you must obtain make it all but impossible for the average person.

  24. Re:disinformation? on F-Secure Report: Another SCADA Attack in Iran — This Time With AC/DC · · Score: 2

    There is nothing tangible to gain in the sense that it helps prove one particular country was the source of the attack. What they are doing is causing doubts as to the progress, if any, in their program. Translation: we are talking mind games with analysis as to just where they stand in the development cycle. Plus, the people within the Iranian program can use this to cover their butts if they are running behind or have something worse happen like explosions at plants and such.
    Make no doubt about it, though the leader of Iran is a nut job, not all behind him have his same sense of craziness.

  25. Re:FORTRAN? on Julia Language Seeks To Be the C For Numerical Computing · · Score: 1

    Well, if you require all of those language features to implement your design, then I would think that Fortran is not the language for you. With that, don't be surprised that there are quite a few people that don't require all of those language features and can implement the design with Fortran.
    Please don't think I am dogging you here, that is not the intent. Every language has trade-offs, I have found that I can can pretty much use any language in any capacity.