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  1. Re: Woah Jessie Jackson gone Nativist on With H-1B Cap Hit, Zuckerberg and Ballmer-Led Groups Press For More Tech Visas · · Score: 1

    Many Hispanics come here illegally because they're not educated enough to get a job in their own country. As such, only the truly uproot their lives and looks for a better life elsewhere to start over. Those that still have yet to find employment are still better off in America than elsewhere, handouts and all.

    African Americans have competition obtaining both government cheese and employment. The grand majority vote Democrat; so much so that will never change. Both party's acknowledge this fact and thus not worth having them as part of the battle ground. Basically, it's all about the Hispanic vote now and what can be done to woo them. Oh, and the negro will be sacrificed in this endeavor!!

  2. Re:Woah Jessie Jackson gone Nativist on With H-1B Cap Hit, Zuckerberg and Ballmer-Led Groups Press For More Tech Visas · · Score: 2

    So African Americans are among the largest group of unemployed or under-employed. So are hispanics. Both groups are competing in the lower skilled labor pool. Both political parties are flying illegals south of the boarder for cheaper labor and future voters. It's the African Americans that are getting fucked in all directions here. Never mind where all the responsibility lays, but Jessie Jackson has every reason to have a political voice as a nativist here.

  3. Re:Hmm on Windows 10 Successor Codenamed 'Redstone,' Targeting 2016 Launch · · Score: 1

    (...don't mix in Win2k if you aren't also going to include Windows NT)

    Win2K, XP, Vista, Win7, Win8....etc are all direct descendants of Windows NT.

    Win 3.1, 95, 98, 98SE, ME were all based on the MSDOS platform-ish.

  4. Re: Tabs vs Spaces on Stack Overflow 2015 Developer Survey Reveals Coder Stats · · Score: 5, Funny

    Next time you interview someone, the first question out of your mouth should be "Tabs or spaces?!" This way, nobody's fucking time is wasted.

  5. Re:Get over it ! on How the Pentagon Wasted $10 Billion On Military Projects · · Score: 2

    ...or not doubling down with more spending. 'If we can stop one missile from destroying one American city

    It's called a law of diminishing returns. Yes, we could -in theory- save one city from an ICBM with double the funding. Another report states other offending nations would just overwhelm the system further by launching multiple weapons in what would be a computer analogy of a DDOS. Given that the radar system has a very precise yet myopic view, it's not hard to overwhelm it.

    At some point, you just have to take a step back and re-evaluate your whole objective at achieving defense and where best to spend the funds, and where. As technology changes, sometimes the effectiveness of an entire project can get derailed by quick obsolescence.

    Sometimes you just need to know when to hold em and know when to fold em.

  6. Like on Judge Allows Divorce Papers To Be Served Via Facebook · · Score: 1

    *thumbs up*

  7. Re:Basic arithmetics of good on Carly Fiorina Calls Apple's Tim Cook a 'Hypocrite' On Gay Rights · · Score: 1

    No, what really scares libertarians (including myself) is whom becomes the final arbiter of what "the greater good" is. A king, POTUS, a select few if elite? How about the other end of the scale involving mob rule?

  8. Re: Saudi Arabia, etc. on Carly Fiorina Calls Apple's Tim Cook a 'Hypocrite' On Gay Rights · · Score: 1

    Fucking silly that you can't just go before the judge as a civil union (hetero or homo), and then have a religious (non-required) ceremony later. Personally, I prefer the more traditional route. Though I'm ok if a homosexual prefers just the legal only path; no skin off my back. Besides, wait till they enjoy the benefits of a divorce too :)

  9. Re: Sen. Feinstein on Sen. Feinstein Says Anarchist Cookbook Should Be "Removed From the Internet" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Talk to the fuck-tards that keep electing her.

  10. Re: Good God... on Why the Framework Nuclear Agreement With Iran Is Good For Both Sides · · Score: 1

    When a potato is soooo hot, it's nuclear baby!!!

  11. Anything that can cause muscle atrophy in the legs is not something I want.

  12. Re: Amazing! on World's First 1 Megawatt All-Electric Race Car · · Score: 1

    If only the energy storage was practical. Gasoline has a GGE conversation of 33.41 kWh/gal. Reduce that to 1/4th as an ICE (running on gasoline) is only 25% efficient with the fuel.

    If I can have a nuclear powered electric vehicle, I'm sold!!!

  13. Re:My problem with SSDs on Intel Launches SSD 750 Series Consumer NVMe PCI Express SSD At Under $1 Per GiB · · Score: 2

    -_-, ok, this true (just looked it up).

    http://techreport.com/review/2...

    No other manufacture (that I know of) purposefully bricks hardware! Wow! Their enterprise products OTOH will put it in read-only. It will be real interesting to see a stress-test on the 750 series. If they start dropping like flies, there will be a huge community backlash; especially for a first-generation flagship product. Meaning, they can lose the foothold into the market as quickly as it could be gained.

    It will be interesting if Samsung has something in the works.

  14. Re: vs. raid controller + cheap drives on Intel Launches SSD 750 Series Consumer NVMe PCI Express SSD At Under $1 Per GiB · · Score: 2

    In addition, the new NVMe (Express) specification allows for direct access of the NAND chips. That's huge! Effectively, NVMe now supersedes the standard of AHCI (SATA port or other HBA for example) for primary os/app volume performance. The only problem is that it makes physical transfer of the storage media very difficult, if not impossible if soldered to the motherboard (say in a laptop).

    For workstations and high-end gaming rigs, this will be the primary drive of choice.

  15. Re:My problem with SSDs on Intel Launches SSD 750 Series Consumer NVMe PCI Express SSD At Under $1 Per GiB · · Score: 3, Insightful

    From what I've seen, the standard reaction of SSD firmware when write integritiy can't be guaranteed is "commit suicide".

    That was true of some of the OCZ Vertex series and other make/models. But this last generation of SSDs seemed to have made that a rarity even under the most extreme conditions.

    In the case of this new Intel PCIe SSD card, I believe it has enough capacitance to commit a complete transistor write upon system power failure. As for the lost data for non-commited data?? Well, you're are running a journaling file system, yes? At least the volume won't get corrupted. But anyways yeah, seems like a solid drive you can rely on. Time will tell of course.

  16. Re:China may have other reasons for their actions on Bitcoin In China Still Chugging Along, a Year After Clampdown · · Score: 1

    "Why aren't you saving 100% of your salary?"

    I can confirm this about Chinese women in the major cities. At least in Shanghai, the women are real dominating; and everyone knows it. In the west, we call them "bitches". But that's what you get with competition. And in Shanghai, money rules!!! Oh, and as a guy, you're supposed to have purchased a home PRIOR to marriage for a place to move into after the ceremony. Or so that's the custom. Guys have it tough over there.

  17. Re:China may have other reasons for their actions on Bitcoin In China Still Chugging Along, a Year After Clampdown · · Score: 1

    In China as the stock market is fairly new thing and the general population doesn't understand it very well, there are a lot of misconceptions about how it works.

    That's because it DOESN'T! The Chinese stock market doesn't follow conventional market forces; because it's a command and controlled economy. That's communism! Even my Shanghainese wife knows this, and in fact was the one whom pointed this out to me.

  18. Re:You know what else is chugging along? on Bitcoin In China Still Chugging Along, a Year After Clampdown · · Score: 1

    And there will be more as each one reaches critical mass. There's no authority to stop the near infinite amount of virtual currency markets from forming. Further more, there's nothing preventing the bundling of them as "crypto market funds" too. Turtles all the way down...

  19. Re:Is this site legit? on Sign Up At irs.gov Before Crooks Do It For You · · Score: 1

    Look at the SSL certificate, that should tell you.

  20. Re:Sign up? on Sign Up At irs.gov Before Crooks Do It For You · · Score: 1

    The whole thing stinks of basic programming incompetence.

    Yeah, now imagine how the rest of the government is run.

    Taking the Red Pill was a bitch wasn't it? That rabbit hole goes reeeaaalll deep!

  21. Re:The future is now. on Ask Slashdot: Who's Going To Win the Malware Arms Race? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Defining hackers as people who take control of your computer (in whatever form) for their own ends, then this scenario of a "secure walled garden" is a win for the hackers, not a win for security. My idea of security is to prevent exactly this crap happening.

    I think you and everyone else needs to take a step back, breath, and re-evaluate what the entire point of using a computer is. For software developers, yes, you often need full unrestricted access to your computer. But for the majority of people, the computer is just a set of tools by which to do the job. In the case of Apple and Google, their "secure walled gardens" is embraced as a safe community by those that work and play in it. I mean honestly, most people would rather not be swindled in ID theft than have some opened-ended wild-wild-west platform with bandits nearby.

    "Apple is a walled garden, but what a beautiful garden it is!"

  22. Re: Just disable it... on Measuring How Much "Standby Mode" Electricity For Game Consoles Will Cost You · · Score: 1

    Sans an actual PERC card, a Dell Precision shouldn't take that long. Two things that I can think of that would prolong the POST. Firstly, check the boot options to ensure Network is at the very bottom. Also disable PXE boot. I've seen it take an obscene amount of time hunting for a non-existant PXE server via DHCP. Secondly, disable an SATA ports not in use, otherwise the system will hunt for non-existant devices on that channel before giving up and moving on. Just remember to re-enable them should you need them later.

  23. Re: Now I understand her record at HP on Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina Near Launching Presidential Bid · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'd vote for Cruz because he destroys things; specifically the political establishment and aims to realign with the constitution. I want him to be the embodiment of the Fear of God to them!

    Nuke and pave the system. And he's the nuke!

  24. Re: This is great! on Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina Near Launching Presidential Bid · · Score: 0

    Democrat Party. As in 'Democratic Party' is an affront to the true meaning of democracy.

  25. Re: This is great! on Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina Near Launching Presidential Bid · · Score: 0

    Only on social issues; which is a dog and pony show for the simple minded sheeple.