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  1. Formula for red mercury on ISIS's Hunt For a Bogus Superweapon · · Score: 1

    The formulation for red mercury can be found in the koran - The return of the Mahdi, the final defeat of infidels and the end of the world - that's the formula for red mercury. They have been staring at it all along.

  2. Re:Take some risks? on HP Is Now Two Companies. How Did It Get Here? (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    That CEO fired HP's R&D department during the 2001 recession because she thought that the R&D department was non-profitable!! And so HP had no choice but to become a "me too" organization.

  3. Re: But what about HP-UX? on HP Is Now Two Companies. How Did It Get Here? (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    Personally I found Solaris to be more stable than HP-UX. Solaris too came along with its own tools, like their forte compilers. Anyways, now all of that is history.
    Smart phones and tablets are replacing desktop computers and cloud is replacing servers. HP is almost non-existent in those 2 markets.

  4. Re:Cheap you say? on Why Is RAM Suddenly So Cheap? It Might Be Windows · · Score: 1

    An EDA app?

  5. Re: Haven't Windows Phone users learned by now? on Windows Phone Store Increasingly Targeted With Fake Mobile Apps · · Score: 1

    But at least other app's, like the camera, acrobat reader, google maps etc. don't hang on me on my wife's iPad. All of the above app's including chrome keep hanging all the time on my tablet. The touch goes unresponsive for a long time. Sometimes I would want to capture a moment but end up losing it because the camera app took a long time to respond. All the videos that I have recorded with my motorola tablet tend to have a jerky moment at about fixed time intervals. No, I don't have a microSD card. Same is the case with my android phone.

  6. Re:Haven't Windows Phone users learned by now? on Windows Phone Store Increasingly Targeted With Fake Mobile Apps · · Score: 1

    For all the years I have hated Microsloth and their litigious ways of functioning, I am getting pissed off at Android now. Not because of their litigious ways but because it is so damn slow and laggy. Java is screwing android. My tablet has 1 GB RAM and a dual core processor but it still leaves me frustrated. Although I dislike Apple and their dictatorial ways I will have to admit that with 512 MB RAM and similar processor my wife's iPad mini is so very smooth to use. I am starting to consider switching to windows devices for their excellent price point and smoothness.

  7. Re:Glutathione on Windows Phone Store Increasingly Targeted With Fake Mobile Apps · · Score: 0

    Don't underestimate fruits: Selain itu berbagai jenis vitamin dan mineral yang terdapat pada buah juga dapat membantu tubuh dalam meningkatkan sistem kekebalan tubuh, seperti vitamin C dan antioksidan. Berikut ini adalah beberapa jenis buah yang memliki kandungan serat tinggi.

  8. Re:Why are there so many security researchers ? on Windows Phone Store Increasingly Targeted With Fake Mobile Apps · · Score: 2

    They get hired at all the major companies including non-IT/software companies. They are there to ensure the websites, applications, IT infrastructure etc. are secure. Apart from that many also do consulting on their own for quite a good sum of money. Recently a telco customer of ours hired the services of a security consultant for $570 per hr for over a few months to oversee the roll out of LTE.

  9. Re:the penalty is way to light on Citadel Botnet Operator Gets 4.5 Years In Prison · · Score: 1

    $500000000/11000000 * 7000 = ~$320,000, is how the courts arrived at the damages I guess.

  10. Re:Crime does pay! on Citadel Botnet Operator Gets 4.5 Years In Prison · · Score: 1

    Even if its 1/100th of that money, its still a great deal. $5 million in return for 4.5 years and $320K. Wow! Crime does pay and that's why we have so many aspiring criminals.

  11. Re:You know what's worse than being unemployed? on NY Times: Temporary Visas To Import Talent Help Copycats Take Jobs Abroad · · Score: 2

    So true. I've been there, seen that. Its like living in the middle of utter chaos. One person pounding the road with a steel bar while a dozen other men are just watching. Another person pounding volcanic glass on the side of the road while his family sits beside him watching him. The traffic is utter chaos. With vehicles of all sizes and shapes (shapes you would have never before seen in your life) tightly packed on the roads to the extent of being intertwined into each other. With some patches of road in the middle of an ocean of potholes and rain water mixed with gutter. And when you get to office the scene is no different. There are people chatting all over the office space like its some kind of a congregation. There are people yelling loudly, laughing loudly, no body seems to be working really. You see people overflowing in the cafeteria all through day and relaxing there sipping chai and coffee. Then another hour for lunch. And then in the after noon you see people bringing in stinky snacks on to their tables and there is a congregation around there with people laughing, shouting, talking loudly and munching. When do they work? They don't until after sunset. Then there are serious discussions as to what they were supposed to do but they didn't. And some shitty dirty code quickly gets written with no thought going into the design. The programmers are as clueless as ever. There are about two to three people coding while ten other people watch them sitting and standing in various postures. All fifteen of them are then billed for 8 hours of work. And then people leave for the day. Its the same story the following day. Its as scary as can be. I would rather work as a farm laborer.

  12. Re:without Europe on Uber Raided By Dutch Authorities, Seen As 'Criminal Organization' · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Ireland, Greece have gone bust. Italy, Portugal, Spain are all on the brink. Other's are in line... I do not know of one serious large tech company from Europe. SAP is the biggest low-tech company at around $20 Billion. That is immediately followed by Dassault at $3 Billion. If you ignore CapGemini which is actually an IT sweat shop. That's it. over.

  13. Re:Language on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Introduce Kids In Rural India To Computers? · · Score: 1

    He said they speak Odiya and not Hindu.

  14. Copy and paste is all there is to really learn on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Introduce Kids In Rural India To Computers? · · Score: 1

    Why teach them to code? If they've mastered copy and paste they are ready to take on coding jobs. Teach them to mine bitcoins instead.

  15. Re:First, listen to every talk by Sugata Mitra ... on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Introduce Kids In Rural India To Computers? · · Score: 1

    That Sugata fellow is dozing off... Hes like Obama, all talk and no walk.

  16. Re:Nokia 635 on Cheap Smartphones Quietly Becoming Popular In the US · · Score: 1

    A cheap Android phone is unusable, whereas a cheap Windows phone is snappy and elegantly simple to use.

    I haven't come across a single cheap Chinese Windows phone. Neither from ZTE nor Xiaomi nor dolgix nor haobing.

  17. Re:#4 in the U.S. Market, #1 in Malware on Cheap Smartphones Quietly Becoming Popular In the US · · Score: 1

    Depends... There have been preloaded malware incidents, but the bootloaders of these devices tend to be either not locked, or easily unlocked. After that, it isn't tough to flash a third party ROM, or good ol' CM.

    Flashing a good ROM can go a long way into making a low end device quite useful, and for a flagship phone, making it worth the price premium.

  18. Re:Which scholars really believe it's divine sourc on Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate Muhammad · · Score: 0

    They are scientific theologians.

  19. Re:Accuracy on Carbon Dating Shows Koran May Predate Muhammad · · Score: 1

    It can't be, simply because that's not interesting.

  20. Re:I thought this was the only way SAP gets sold. on SAP Paid Bribes To Panamanian Officials · · Score: 1

    That's pretty much how anything gets sold to the government of India. There is a well know "procedure" of doing it too. Western companies hire and pay huge sums of money to local consulting companies to do "Consulting" with the local governments. What the consulting companies really do is, they transfer that money to the officials in the local government and will in turn generate an invoice for the western company. So the transaction from the perspective of the western company selling any goods is "white". It just appears like the western company just hired the services of an Indian company to help them "figure out" the local market. Making it legal from the perspective of the western company. What really happened is that they indirectly just bribed the officials in the local government to purchase their goods. Some of these officials in the Indian government are Billionaires who have stashed away all their ill gotten wealth in Swiss banks, including many former Prime Ministers of the country.

  21. Re:Puff piece on The Promise of 5G · · Score: 2

    Thanks for the insightful comment, I skipped reading the article and saved time.

  22. billions of machines hooked to botnets on The Promise of 5G · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Hundreds of billions of machines will be sensing, processing and transmitting data without direct human control and intervention."

    Hundreds of billions of machines will be connected to botnets that will be indirectly controlled by humans for fun and profit at the expense of others.

  23. Re: Oracle's monopoly? on Oracle: Google Has "Destroyed" the Market For Java · · Score: 2

    I have used iPhone and iPad. They gave me a shitty experience. I felt like my devices were still owned by Apple and whenever I was using them I was just doing time. I moved to Android and it feels much better. I have a lot of freedom.

    Had Google just straight up used C or C++ we wouldn't be in this predicament.

    I sort of agree with you on that point. But C++ lacks core language support for so many fundamental things. Then there are a myriad 3rd party libraries with their own quirks.

  24. Re:Minsky on Leaked Documents Suggests Uber Is 'Losing Millions' · · Score: 1

    Economics of Money and Banking - Part 1

  25. Re:Unfair comparison! on India Blocks Over 800 Adult Websites · · Score: 1

    He is referring to the rampant pedophilia prevalent among the catholic priests. It is unwritten and only done.