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  1. Re:H1-Bs rock on Gates, Zuckerberg Promising Same Jobs To US Kids and Foreign H-1B Workers? · · Score: 1

    Cry me a river.. New college grads in Bay Area start at round 75k. Almost no one pays 100k+. The prevailing wage stats are screwed up, because of a few companies that really pay 3x or 4x, but those can be counted on the fingers of one hand.

  2. Re:Gates and Zuckerbergs Vision for America on Gates, Zuckerberg Promising Same Jobs To US Kids and Foreign H-1B Workers? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    No, the real problem is "right to work" states and two week notice. Make it like Europe - labour code, mandatory no-term (infinite term) contracts, 3 months notice, and needing a good reason to fire someone and most of it will just fall into place nicely. And one more thing - stop offering annual wage before taxes, only negotiate on net money coming to employee's account monthly.

  3. Re:Gates and Zuckerbergs Vision for America on Gates, Zuckerberg Promising Same Jobs To US Kids and Foreign H-1B Workers? · · Score: 1

    Hey, you got it wrong.. Eat only but less ramen, it hurts my bottom line to feed all those slave...err...live in worker force.

  4. Re:Gates and Zuckerbergs Vision for America on Gates, Zuckerberg Promising Same Jobs To US Kids and Foreign H-1B Workers? · · Score: 2

    Any they don.t give a flying donkey's ass about the long run. All the care about is the next quarterly board and stockholder meeting. You know, they care to look good in front of the people that employ them, and hang on long enough to negotiate the next golden parachute.

  5. Re:Gates and Zuckerbergs Vision for America on Gates, Zuckerberg Promising Same Jobs To US Kids and Foreign H-1B Workers? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Your post would have been funny if it was not informative. But alas it is. And this is exactly why I as a foreign H1-B holder am planning to leave the US. If you make it so bad, that I get a batter deal back at home, I have no reason to even want to come, especially not planning to have and raise children in what the US has become, but people are only now starting to realize. The sad part is.... after almost 6 years, thinking clearly through it, I already had a better deal back home and I wasted my best years for nothing. Even being a farmer in China, a worker on an oil rig in the sea, or a shepherd in New Zealand now seems preferable than being a H1 in US; and those are not easy jobs. You know, some place that does not thing only for the profit and for the price of the stocks at the next quarter board meeting. Publicly traded companies are the doom of all. No public company would do something out of pride of a job or a product well done or out of idealism. If it was a private one, perhaps 1 in 10000 would still care about the product, the service or the society they are rending it to.

  6. 2008 wtf? on The Milky Way's Most Recent Supernova That Nobody Saw · · Score: 5, Informative

    How is this news? The video in TFA is from 2008, check the upload date on Youtube. There must be some weird time dilation effect going on, posting 2008 news is a new low, even for ./ on nowadays.

  7. Re:Low hanging hack... on C Code On GitHub Has the Most "Ugly Hacks" · · Score: 1

    Took the words right out of my mouth

  8. Re:File this under "NO SHIT" on C Code On GitHub Has the Most "Ugly Hacks" · · Score: 2

    This one exactly. The non-C developers are in general ignoramuses and for them the ugly hack is modus operandi, not an exception. For the C developer that is an exception, so they can recognize it and mark it as such. .

  9. Re:Usefull... on USBKill Transforms a Thumb Drive Into an "Anti-Forensic" Device · · Score: 1

    Or could be done with a pin protected smart card on a cord to your wrist. Pull it out and they system is out.

  10. Re:physics is wrong.. no need to expell on New Test Supports NASA's Controversial EM Drive · · Score: 1

    You forger that when a particle changes its heading due to an EM field, the particle only affects the EM field locally and not the EM field generator. Hence there is no magnet on a pole (no Munchausen pulling himself out of the mire). It is not a perpetum mobile as energy is constantly being brought into the system by the EM field generator power supply.

  11. Re:physics is wrong.. no need to expell on New Test Supports NASA's Controversial EM Drive · · Score: 1

    No, not really.. Imagine a box. make it a 2d square to make it simpler. you have sides names a, b, c, d (c is opposite of a, d is opposite of b). Have a few particles in the center.. now accelerate them via EM field towards side a, until they collide with it. They have transferred momentum to side a. Now accelerate them back, towards c, but with a lower force, so it takes them more time to reach c (or just allow them to diffuse because of Brownian motion and skip the next step). Now, before they actually reach c, you accelerate them towards b and d sides with a comb like fields. The particles collide with b and d, effectively cancelling out the momentums on each side, so you reverse the filed until you put them in the center and accelerate towards a again. So at the end, over time you will get a single non-zero vector of the force being applied on a (all others cancel each other out). The tricky part is to be able to split the particles equally in half and collide them in a plane perpendicular to the plane of motion so they cancel each other (or wait long enough for diffusion).. no friction required.

  12. Re:physics is wrong.. no need to expell on New Test Supports NASA's Controversial EM Drive · · Score: 1

    Correct.. But you can jump inside the case as well. When you are not into contact with it, it just transfer your momentum. Imagine that you apply X amount of momentum when you are inside the case to bump into a wall, yet apply only half to return to the center of the cage. At the end you have X/2 momentum applied over the cage wall for your entire movement. If you use waves to carry particles, or accelerate particles through EM, you can do the same. Accelerate them for a time X till they bump into the container, then accelerate them back with X/2 to move them back inside.. Since the container is heavy you can't accelerate it with the EM changes, only the particles inside, then repeat.. Not very effective, but with a big and light container and a lot of particles inside (you want them to stay inside) the container will eventually get moving even in the frictionless environment of space. And the nice part it you can actually leave some of the effort to return the particles to their original positions to diffusion. All you have to do is manipulate where in the volume the mass is and how it is distributed.

  13. physics is wrong.. no need to expell on New Test Supports NASA's Controversial EM Drive · · Score: 0

    Not saying this is how this thing works, but you don't need propellant. It already uses waves. You can set it so at one of the half period the waves amplify each other, and some physical piece goes into a resonance, yet on the other half period the waves cancel each other. What you get in the end is one way directed vibration. Subject something to that long enough and it will accelerate. It is the same as if you are locked in a cage and bump yourself against the wall - the cage eventually moves. yet nothing is expelled outside of the cage.

  14. Re:Project Ara on Meet the Firmware Lead For Google's Project Ara Modular Smartphone (Video) · · Score: 1

    That was a hugely successful project. Screw the project lead anyway.

  15. Re:Seriously? on Verizon Tells Customer He Needs 75Mbps For Smoother Netflix Video · · Score: 1

    I hate Verizon as much as the next guy (I loved then when they were UUNet, and my beloved BGP session with AS701) but the articles lie too. Even Netflix can't get their own story straight. A HD Netflix (the only 1080p) video is supposedly 5.6 Mbps at the data stream (looking at the debug of the netflix player on PC), but you really need 8 Mbps in order not to kick into the quality downgrading algorithms, and that is the data steam. In reality an hour of Super HD Netflix video (Netflix says 7Mbps to 12 Mbps) on a Roku, Wii U or some other player is a hair under 8GB/h with all the overhead (measured at the Ethernet interface with SNMP based counters), which goes down to whooping 17 mbps. If the Verizon tech had looked at the customer's utilization graph and seen that they are at a 40+ Mbps , I can somewhat justify their response, considered a tiered service. But man, at 29Mbps for 10 concurrent streams, that guy must be used to watching one crappy quality video. he better save his money and have his eyes checked.

  16. Re:Personal Anecdote on Amazon's Profits Are Floating On a Cloud (Computing) · · Score: 2

    They are not billing you for the instance but for the disk space. That always comes with the instances.

  17. Re:And it's gonna rain on Amazon's Profits Are Floating On a Cloud (Computing) · · Score: 1

    Web hosting companies will take a steep penalty to you for using too much CPU or memory. And usually ask you for your money in advance.

  18. Re:me dumb on Wormholes Untangle a Black Hole Paradox · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The exhaust pile runs along the entire car, from the engine to the tail, and all other parts of the car stay together because they hold on to it.

  19. Re:How about basic security? on Why the Journey To IPv6 Is Still the Road Less Traveled · · Score: 1

    My comment has nothing to do with NAT but with the mess that BGPv6 is. IPv6 is good within an Enterprise, I actually prefer it over using RFC 1918 space, but there is much less need for it to be available to for a web site for example. You are going to hit a load-balancer anyway, even with a CDN you DNS query will only return a small subset of the entire CDN. Most of the internet does not need IPv6, with the exception of the endpoints.

  20. Re:How about basic security? on Why the Journey To IPv6 Is Still the Road Less Traveled · · Score: 0

    A firewall will not help you in that regard. If it did, then we wouldn't need IPv6 anyway. IPv6 is more or less like running the entire internet on IPX (if it was able to address that many machines)

  21. Re:Well done! on George Lucas Building Low-Income Housing Next Door To Millionaires · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yes, as a legal H1 Expat from EU who came here on request of my company, and having heavily invested my in education, and basically spending and paying more in taxes than my American neighbors, and having to through thousands of hoops to get a green card and be able to live like a normal person I fully object against (especially low qualified) illegals given a parole. I'm sorry, but I can live in uncertainty, refrain from establishing long term relationships and such, because I may have to pack up and leave, but these guys can come and stay disregarding all the laws of this country? I think I can't agree with that. Same goes to most of the legal H1 Indians who after spending 30 minutes with them leave me completely confused on how they can possible have all the qualification that they claim. So, even I as being a legal foreigner, am for a much tighter control on the border. No one should be allowed to illegally pass the border and get away with it, and leave in complete disregard with the law and the "native" inhabitants of the land. At least they can learn English. And I'm sorry - but if you can't afford to raise a child, simple don't make it. It's not like they happen on their own.

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

    Don't agree. Windows 3.1 - bad, Windows 3.11 - good, Windows 95 - good, Windows 95 OSR 2 - bad, Windows 98 - good, Windows 98 SE - bad, Windows Me - good, Windows NT 4.0 Good, Windows 2000 - bad, Windows XP good, Windows Xp Sp1 - good, Windows XP Sp2 - good, Windows XP SP3 - bad, Vista - bad, Windows 7 - just rebranded vista - bad, Windows 8 - neutral, Windows 8.1 - good, Windows 10 - neutral.

  23. Re:Lets encrypt on Google Let Root Certificate For Gmail Expire · · Score: 1

    All you need is the rekey procedure in RFC 4210. It is mind boggling to understand for most, dead simple to do in practice (though not when there is an expiration). But for expiration you don't rekey, you just resign the CSR.

  24. Re:NOT "network timekeeping", just timekeeping on Internet of Things Endangered By Inaccurate Network Time, Says NIST · · Score: 0

    The definition of a nanosecond is: The time between the traffic light showing green and the honk of the guy behind you in Pernik. That is some city in eastern Europe

  25. Exactly this. If it all goes to shit and the car has to inevitably crash I will crash it differently (when I'm driving), depending on who I have with me in the car. If my wife is in the car, you can be sure that I will crash my side of the car, rather then hers. If our child was in the car though, there are too many factors - e.g. I my crash my side, I may crash the child's side. A child without parents is pretty miserable, and a younger child can easily (in physical form only) be replaced by two healthy parents. I would rather have my wife hate me for the rest of hew life, than blame her fate and feel a victim completely out of control ... Until a self driving car is able to make such a distinction - No, my family is not boarding one.