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

    Software development is the job of designing parts in detail. Manufacturing is compiling. Or deployment.

  2. Re:Serves them right on Project Orca: How an IT Disaster Destroyed Republicans' Get-Out-The-Vote Effort · · Score: 1

    Does the book also cover absolute numbers, and percentages of income and wealth?

  3. Re:Please, stop all anti-H1B nonsense! on Tuition Should Be Lower For Science Majors, Says Florida Task Force · · Score: 1

    Well, you have industries which would like to sell in India and China. India and China have surplus labour, and as such should be allowed to export it. That would be the win-win situation.

  4. Re:None of those stupid keyboard/computer jokes on Climbing 103 Floors On a 'Bionic' Leg · · Score: 1

    GP has special 1 floor boots, which let him climb a whole floor as a single step. They are scaled down 21 league boots.

  5. Re:Apple has shown the way for Motorola. on To Mollify Google on Moto Patents, Apple Proposes $1/Device Fee · · Score: 1

    Well, given the nature of patents in play, 100% of gross could be seen as fair and non discriminatory.

  6. Re: Puppet for config/package to Windows? on Ask Slashdot: Is Samba4 a Viable Alternative To Active Directory? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Puppet has a server and client setup. The Puppet server process is Unix only.

    MSI packages are supported. I'm not sure about group policies yet.

  7. Re:Apple has shown the way for Motorola. on To Mollify Google on Moto Patents, Apple Proposes $1/Device Fee · · Score: 1

    So 1% on all devices + cross licensing of all patents to all entities who license these patents?

  8. Re:Not news really... on $3,000 Tata Nano Car Coming To US · · Score: 1

    Would you buy a low end Jaguar instead?

  9. Re:Yes lets all celebrate! on Endeavour Arrives At California Science Center · · Score: 1

    It's not a parade, it's a funeral procession.

  10. Re:When I was in high school on Ask Slashdot: How To Ask College To Change Intro To Computing? · · Score: 0

    s/Commonwealth/EU/. There are no separate lines for British commonwealth citizens.

  11. Re:Fabulous on Rapid Arctic Melt Called 'Planetary Emergency' · · Score: 1

    People in third world countries emit far less CO2 per capita than people in the developed world. While limiting population growth is important, you won't achieve useful reductions by limiting growth in that part of the world. You will achieve different useful targets.

  12. Re:Priorities! on Indian Prime Minister Formally Announces Mars Mission · · Score: 1

    That's easily fixed. Just ship all the poor people to the US/Australia/Europe. There's historical precedent for sending poor people to other continents too.

  13. Re:Heard of the slow food movement? on The World's Greatest Competitive Programmer · · Score: 1

    A sysadmin for a trivial network, maybe. For a non trivial system, being a sysadmin may be harder than being a developer.

    You have to ensure that developers can deliver product, ensure uptime, debug production performance problems...

    Production performance problems includes finding the easy things like missing indexes on database tables, or optimising SQL to figuring out the appropriate data structures in code. In the past year, I have written, debugged and tuned code in C++, Java, Python, Perl, SQL, Ruby and C.

    Just because you don't see it does not mean that operations is not a complex field, or that it's easy as compared to programming. It's a hard challenge to solve a scaling problem (distributed programming is fun).

  14. Re:Dumb idea on ICANN Backflips Again · · Score: 1

    There's only one root. A lot of domains under that root.

    However, they should just have made this open and cheap from the get go. Trademarks and other such things could have been limited to the ccTLDs only.

  15. Re:Wrong target for the fine on Comcast Pays $800,000 To U.S. For Hiding Stand-Alone Broadband · · Score: 1

    Be truly nasty. The penalty for this should be that the board, and the board members of all holding companies become personally liable for all fines levied, for the rest of their lives for all companies they sit of the board of *or* own shares of.

  16. Re:I'm for it. on Senator Pushes For Tougher H-1B Enforcement · · Score: 1

    Which is what they can't do :)

  17. Re:Is that serious, or a straw man? on ADA May Force Netflix To Provide Closed Captioning On Content · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Given that any corporation exists via state privilege, the ADA could simply be treated as one of the terms for corporate existence.

  18. Re:Same problem here in the US on Taxes Lead Angry Birds Maker Rovio To Consider Move To Ireland · · Score: 1

    Given that a lot of listed companies don't pay dividends, the only form of income is if shares are sold.

    Taxing share price increase would be one way to solve this issue, but it is fraught with other problems.

  19. Re:on the other side of the coin on Evaluating the Harmful Effects of Closed Source Software · · Score: 1

    You are trying to compare hardware specs. OP is comparing dollar for dollar value. A desktop is cheap. You can get cheaper laptops which do the same functions as the more expensive ones.

    The question isn't if a Mac is cheap with comparable hardware, the question is "Is the Mac cheap enough for me to afford?"

  20. Re:So easy for all of us to solve this, and yet, . on Panetta Labels Climate Change a National Security Threat · · Score: 1

    The point of per capita is because the poor people in developing countries aspire to the same lifestyle as the ones in developed countries. This corresponds to energy consumption, as opposed to economic output.

    The tax should be in terms of energy consumption, not economic output (manufacturing will always be more directly polluting than services, however service economies push out far more pollution into the world via lifestyle choices - cars, gas|oil burning power plants, plastic consumption, air travel, refrigeration of food ....).

  21. Re:"Apple Fever"? TMZ Meets Market Analysis! on Tim Cook Prefers Settling To Suing and Has a Huge Quarter · · Score: 1

    Apple will have pricing issues in India and China. Even Nokia is being chewed up from below by cheap phones.

    Remember that data pricing is still exorbitant in these markets, even when voice calls and texts are not.

  22. Re:Most people won't care: they love America on Europe Agrees To Send Airline Passenger Data To US · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't. OTOH, the UK government has my fingerprints because I have to visit the UK for work.

  23. Re:Free trade has never existed. on Whistleblower In Limbo After Reporting H-1B Visa Fraud At Infosys · · Score: 1

    Why? At the moment the trade goods India and China have to offer are labour. The trade is free, nothing restricts the US from manufacturing and exporting goods.

    OTOH, you could also require that agricutural subsidies and travel restrictions be removed, and that the US reduce it's per capita energy consumption to the per capita levels of India/China.

  24. Re:Was he really naive enough to expect otherwise? on Whistleblower In Limbo After Reporting H-1B Visa Fraud At Infosys · · Score: 1

    It's free trade. Just that instead of material goods, the other side is exporting services.

    Keep in mind that Infosys isn't selling products (or material goods). Just services. They could very well just ship the work to India.

    Free trade rules should apply to services and labour as well as physical goods, surely?

  25. Re:Blashphemy??? on Indian Man Charged With Blasphemy For Exposing "Miracle" · · Score: 1

    He wasn't charged with blasphemy. He was charged with offending religious beliefs (by a bunch of Christian nutjobs).