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  1. Re:Move Microsoft to India on Indian CEO Says Most US Tech Grads "Unemployable" · · Score: 1

    If they move to India, the tax revenue also moves to India.
    Have fun with your country taxing you 50% and more...
    Your BS is typical of people who have no clue about anything economics. Get out of your mother's basement for a change and get an education.

  2. Re:Where's your brain? on Indian CEO Says Most US Tech Grads "Unemployable" · · Score: 1

    What BS.
    Let's see: the computer you typed your BS on: Made in Far East.
    The car you drive: either a car from bankrupt GM or Chrysler, or a car designed by a company from Far East.
    The stuff you work on: Sold to the Far East.
    Companies like Microsoft make more than half of their money by selling stuff outside the US. Block free trade, and MS has to lay off half of its people.
    Or, take Linux: developed by people all over the world. Stop free trade, and they may just stop giving you all that hard work for free.
    So, stop free trade and you end up doing farm work.
    But it seems some stupid trolls who are apparently unable to use their brains just want that.
    Good luck, while the rest of the world laughs their asses off.

  3. Good service on AvantGo Shutting Down, Changing Markets · · Score: 1

    AvantGo was a really good thing for devices like the Palm. I used it quite a lot on my Palm V, syncing in the morning before heading out the door.
    Of course, nowadays it is much easier to go online anywhere, and the Palm is now in some corner, mostly forgotten.

  4. $2K on Repairman Steals Hard Drive And Charges To Reinstall It · · Score: 1

    From TFA, he wanted to charge $50 per hour for 40 hours.

  5. Re:Star Team? on Borland Being Purchased By Micro Focus · · Score: 1

    From what I remember, StarTeam was founded by some people from Ashton Tate who didn't like Borland buying AT.
    They ended up doing a pretty good SCM. And in the end were bought by Borland...

  6. Re:Turbo C on Borland Being Purchased By Micro Focus · · Score: 1

    No, Borland C++ 4.5 (it was that version, I think) was just buggy as hell. That's when my then employer decided to go to Visual C++.
    Borland's OWL framework was much better than MFC at that time, with MFC just a really thin wrapper around the Windows API.

  7. Most countries don't have free speech on UN Attacks Free Speech · · Score: 1

    Most countries, even if they are democracies, don't have free speech guaranteed by their constitutions.
    The absolute free speech rule of the US Constitution is rather unusual (and very much appreciated by this poster.)

  8. Completely down now on State of Colorado Calls Firefox Insecure, IE6 Safe · · Score: 1

    Server Error in '/SKILLS' Application.
    The resource cannot be found.
    Description: HTTP 404. The resource you are looking for (or one of its dependencies) could have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable. Please review the following URL and make sure that it is spelled correctly.

    Requested URL: /Skills/myskills.aspx

  9. Mythical Man Month, TAOCP, Tanenbaum on Your Favorite Tech / Eng. / CS Books? · · Score: 1

    The Mythical Man Month is probably the most important SW Engineering book ever.
    Second on my list is The Art of Computer Programming. Very dense, nothing to read on a leisurely Sunday afternoon. But very important to get the background on CS. Without having read that, you are not a software developer, you are a coder.
    Third, Tanenbaum's Operating Systems book. It is impossible to understand a program's interaction with the OS without it.

  10. Nothing went wrong on CAN-SPAM Act Turns 5 Today — What Went Wrong? · · Score: 1

    Nothing went wrong. It's name stated what it was for: Companies CAN SPAM. And that's what they did.

  11. I call BS on Tool To Allow ISPs To Scan Every File You Transmit · · Score: 1

    "a tool they have designed that can scan every file that passes between an ISP and its customers."

    Unless they do a man-in-the-middle attack, they can't view encrypted files.
    Just run everything over an SSL session. If they even dare to decrypt my SSL session with my bank, they'd be in very serious trouble.

  12. Re:Yawn on Slashdot's Disagree Mail · · Score: 2, Funny

    And I thought any chick would do for the people who post here ;-)

  13. Anti-immigrant BS on Should IT Unionize? · · Score: 1

    So, it is in reality yet another anti-immigrant BS, with stuff about the H1...
    If your proposed union says the H1 is good (because it is), then I could join.

  14. Re:I think you're missing the point on Judge Rejects H-1B Visa Injunction · · Score: 1

    Complete and utter BS.
    First off, there is the ability to change employers during the last step, the I-485. If the I-485 is pending for more than 180 days, the person can change employers without starting over.
    Second, H1s can be extended past 6 years until Greencard approval if the whole process was started before the 5th year on H1.
    Third, even if the H1 expires, the Greencard can continue. I know this first-hand. My H1 expired before my Greencard was approved. So I left the country temporarily (that was before the extension past 6 years was possible.) I got the Greencard a couple months later, and I am now a US citizen.

    So, may I suggest learning about these things before posting BS??? But wait, this is Slashdot, most people posting here have no f*cking clue about the H1 anyway...

  15. Not quite the impression from European websites on Fans Cheer as Apple's iPhone Finally Hits Europe · · Score: 1

    http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/mobil/0,1518,516587,00.html

    The sales seem to have been rather lackluster.

  16. Re:Pay for SchedulesDirect--they're good people on No More TV Listings For MythTV Users · · Score: 1

    Yup, I appreciate them stepping up when Zap2IT announced they were shutting the free service down. And I happily paid the $5/month. I want a reliable service, not some crappy scraping.

  17. Re:There are no passwords in the passwd file on Skype Linux Reads Password and Firefox Profile · · Score: 1

    There aren't even hashes in /etc/passwd. Password hashes are stored in /etc/shadow nowadays, and /etc/shadow is only readable by root.
    I wonder which clueless moron came up with this alarmist BS...

  18. Re:Simple: it's the 3rd amendment for the GPL. on Linux Creator Calls GPLv3 Authors 'Hypocrites' · · Score: 1

    Yeah, what can a Finnish guy possibly know about American values like freedom???
    I am sure the software he developed is Un-American, communist stuff.
    Why don't you go back to use patriotic software like the one developed my Microsoft in "God's Own Country"??? American software for Americans. The rest of the world is enlightened enough to use Linux.
    Idiot.

  19. Re:Timely! on DNS Stressed From Financial Maneuverings · · Score: 1

    The exact same thing happened to me recently.
    I was also using Godaddy's backorder tool.

  20. Re:Similar experience with local ISP on Lycos Deletes Emails and Says 'Too Bad!' · · Score: 1
    I keep local back up and off site backups of anything of any significant value to me

    And do you actually check that the backups are ok?
    I thought I had backups of my mail archive, only to find out recently that some of the backups are corrupted...

  21. Re:Raw sockets on Windows XP SP1 Support Ends Tuesday · · Score: 1

    That's a myth. Access to raw sockets is still possible with SP2, it just is a bit more complicated. Winpcap uses raw sockets, and continues to work just fine on SP2.

  22. Re:Many Kudos! on Slackware 11.0 Almost Done · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Cool. Somebody else who remembers SLS ;-)
    When SLS vanished I too moved to Slackware, since the first Slackware distro was derived from SLS.
    I have been using Slack since then on my main Linux box, currently running Slack 10.2 with a 2.6.17 kernel. I play with other distros on a spare machine, but none has come close to Slack in stability and ease of maintenance.

  23. Rob Pike did much more than a Slashdot interview on Acme for Windows · · Score: 5, Informative

    Geez, if the Slashdot interview is all people remember...
    These ignorant kids of today ;-)
    Try his famous book The Unix Programming Environment...

  24. Re:Excuse me, but ... on Fired for Solitare At Work · · Score: 1

    Geez, you obviously didn't RFA.
    The job is in Albany, not NYC. NYC Administration has an office in Albany.

  25. Re:You'd think... on Microsoft Loses Office Patent Dispute · · Score: 1

    Most of it probably went to the lawyers. They are the only ones who get rich.