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  1. Re:What else do you need? on Ask Slashdot: Is C++ the Right Tool For This Project? · · Score: 2

    In fact, to support your comments about Javascript, in the FreeSWITCH project, we have a VoIP softswitch that can directly interact with Javascript using mod_v8 (used to be spidermonkey), and can also interact with lua, perl, and other languages - scripted, compiled, managed, etc. in a similar fashion.

  2. Re:That's pretty surprising for 2015 Android IMO on IT Pros Blast Google Over Android's Refusal To Play Nice With IPv6 · · Score: 2

    There may be not requirement for DHCPv6 in IPv6, but that's not to say that DHCPv6 does not have merits to it. And DHCPv6 still requires router advertisement.

  3. Remember folks... on General Mills To Drop Artificial Ingredients In Cereal · · Score: 1

    Castoreum would be considered a natural flavoring. So "natural" really means nothing of consequence, and artificial equally means nothing of consequence... unless you prefer fresh-squeeze beaver anus, that is...

  4. Re:Whats wrong with US society on Privately Owned Armored Trucks Raise Eyebrows After Dallas Attack · · Score: 1

    Tell that to the police who have been receiving MRAP's and other combat zone armored vehicles including some types of tanks. They got them in my city too.

  5. Re:$100,000,000 on FCC To Fine AT&T $100M For Throttling Unlimited Data Customers · · Score: 1

    You must be new here. :-) The telcos have "gentlemen's agreements" where they mostly collaborate to not rock the boat too much for anybody else in it. It's rare that some company really creates waves. Question: What's the most expensive bit of data to the telco? Answer: The one they didn't collect a fee on.

  6. $3.2 mil in savings? For voicemail? on So Long Voicemail, Give My Regards To the Fax Machine · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I have to question those numbers. Perhaps if you're in the stone age paying for a voicemail per-seat license per year or something like that, sure. But you're still doing it wrong. Voicemail is pretty damn cheap to run and doesn't cost much in storage space either (look at those AMR sound files that some cellphone providers save their voicemails in that your Android phone then downloads).

  7. Re:Social mobility was killed, but not this way on Writer: "Why I Defaulted On My Student Loans" · · Score: 1

    Universities have gladly contributed to the concept that everybody needs a college education to work. Sorry, I'm going to agree with Mike Rowe on this one: you don't need a degree to keep track of my schedule or answer my phone calls for me. In fact, I'd guess that anywhere between 1/3 and 1/2 of all office type of jobs don't require a degree for competency either.

  8. Why must the companies use plastics? on California Votes To Ban Microbeads · · Score: 1

    Are there not sands that are a fine enough grain that they can be used instead? That would at least mean we're putting something that is commonly found in the water back in it instead of plastic microbeads.

  9. Re:Game the System on Survey: 2/3 of Public Sector Workers Wouldn't Report a Security Breach · · Score: 1

    Psssh... only high school and college? How about politics and big businesses?

  10. "Millenials"... on The Demographic Future of America's Political Parties · · Score: 1

    You keep using that word. I don't think you know what it means. Now according to the summary millenials started being born in 1981. In a few more articles, millenials will start encompassing those who were born in 1975 or later...

  11. Re:This is total nonsense on Microsoft To Teachers: Using Pens and Paper Not Fair To Students · · Score: 1

    Ya know, lots of written languages in the world have no cursive equivalent. Those folks seem to do quite well without that b.s. "important to the development of young brains" cursive writing. In fact, many of them seem to do much better than we do with our dying cursive (haven't used it myself in over 2 decades).

  12. Re:Follow the Good Eats mantra on Here Comes the Keurig of Everything · · Score: 1

    Blaming the microwave is like blaming a car for making somebody fat. I use my microwave all the time - to heat up pre-made homemade meals that I divide out into single servings and freeze...

  13. Re:This law will not stand... on California Senate Approves School Vaccine Bill · · Score: 1

    Forgot to add that the kid that wasn't vaccinated was a child of antivaxxers, and was in the ER for... wait for it... MEASLES.

  14. Re:This law will not stand... on California Senate Approves School Vaccine Bill · · Score: 1

    "1. If I send the kid to private school, I still must pay school taxes -- so I get dinged twice, once for the tax bill and again for the private school tuition"

    And if you have no kids, you still pay property taxes for other kids to go to school. What's your point? I smell a lot of entitlement in your post. Even if the tide does turn eventually for home-schooled kids, unless those kids are locked up in a subterranean dungeon somewhere, they will and do interact with society. I don't want to have to take an infant to the ER again to be exposed to the kid whose parent didn't vaccinate them for measles (yes, I *have* had that wonderful experience). Measles is highly contagious and an infant isn't fully immunized against measles yet.

  15. The results are in... on World Health Organization Has New Rules For Avoiding Offensive Names · · Score: 1

    ...you are HIV Alladeen...

  16. Re:It's the same old lies from these H1B advocates on FWD.us To Laid-Off Southern California Edison Workers: Boo-Hoo · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "they have an obligation to their shareholders to make as much ROI as possible."

    I get sick to my stomach every time I read this bullcrap. ROI is not simply just cash. ROI can be a lot of things, including the improving of the quality of life for the workers, or the areas in which the company operates. Since nobody has the balls to fight the "it's only the green" mentality, we all get fucked in the end.

  17. Re:Appropriate vocational training on LAUSD OKs Girls-Only STEM School, Plans Boys-Only English Language Arts School · · Score: 1

    Ok, so let me get this straight. Society at large *still* judges men based upon how much bacon we bring home. Society still expects us to be the primary bread winners in the household. Except for anecdotes, there is huge pressure for men to fulfill this role... and now not only do male tech workers, who if they are in their 30's or older were likely ostracized, ridiculed, or harassed on their way through k-12 to earn this spot, now not only have to compete against H1B's, but also against the very same women who will still very likely judge men, even on a subconcious level, by how much bacon we bring home? This is a bandage on a wound that requires stitches. The whole foundation needs to be ripped up and our society first has to deal with these other issues before we start pushing more women to this job because there's not enough vaginas there, and we need to push more men into these fields because there's not enough penises there, and for some reason penises and vaginas as somehow vital to occupations that aren't strip clubs or sex work...

  18. Re:the real crazy: on Gyro-Copter Lands On West Lawn of US Capitol, Pilot Arrested · · Score: 1

    And how do you propose to accomplish this? I'm sure that the gov't would be just happy to stamp those permission-to-land-a-gyrocopter-on-capitol-hill forms in a heartbeat...

  19. Re:the real crazy: on Gyro-Copter Lands On West Lawn of US Capitol, Pilot Arrested · · Score: 2

    What "better" way would that be? Seems to me guy's got balls of steel or is mentally unstable.. I'm going with the former, and I think I'll contribute to his needs-stronger-underwear-to-hold-his-steel-balls fund. :-)

  20. Yeah we traffic in fear on Reason: How To Break the Internet (in a Bad Way) · · Score: 1

    The fear of our internet becoming like that provided by Smart and Globe in the Philippines, where every other month there is a special payola deal where visiting Facebook or using Viber or whatever does not count against your quotas. It's not like these things we fear don't already exist out there in the wild...

  21. Re:Double the Outrage on AT&T Call Centers Sold Mobile Customer Information To Criminals · · Score: 2

    Sure you do if their policies are what led to this being unnecessarily possible. Why do the call centers need access to the full social security number? Why not the first two and last two digits or something like that? Surely these weren't the sales call centers - Americans in general tend to not like speaking to sales people with accents.

  22. Re:Canadian Tire on RadioShack Puts Customer Data Up For Sale In Bankruptcy Auction · · Score: 1

    The Retail Equation is what a number of big retailers in the USA use (i.e. Victoria's Secret). Even if you show up with the original receipt in hand and are just asking to do a like-item exchange for a different size, they demand to scan your gov't issued photo id. They will refuse your exchange unless you capitulate or try to dispute the purchase with your credit card company.

    If there was ever a legitimate use for a fake id, this is it.

  23. Whats with this hype for Skype on Ars Reviews Skype Translator · · Score: 2

    This is something we've been able to do for ages now in FreeSWITCH. I'm pretty sure that the more complex the speech input, the less accurate the system gets as human language is very difficult to decode as a machine. If this wasn't the case, we wouldn't be yelling at those IVR systems that ask us to say X to speak to Nina in corporate accounts payable and we always end up getting transferred to Milton instead...

  24. Re:Obedience is now a virtue? on NYT: Privacy Concerns For ClassDojo, Other Tracking Apps For Schoolchildren · · Score: 1

    This matter is completely subjective - even when there is an actual school policy about such things. I have dealt with teachers who would complain to me about my child not "marching with his right arm up when told to do so"... incidentally that was a teacher who was unable to command respect from my child, and likely others.

  25. How to on Big Talk About Small Samples · · Score: 1

    write a more concise, coherent, and far more correct article than anything that ever comes out of Bennett Hasselton's keyboard...

    dd if=/dev/urandom of=/. bs=1024 count=10

    For the love of the FSM, put in a filter so that we can click "Don't want to read any more of this author's drivel"...