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  1. Re:This is bad strategy. India/GM-Canada/GM-EU on Smart Immigrants Going Home · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I like to listen to The World, from BBC/NPR... In today's audio...

    http://www.theworld.org/node/24849

    "Delhi-based economic journalist Paranjoy Guha Thakurtha tells anchor Lisa Mullins why India's economy is managing some growth while many neighboring economies are slipping."

    But, what did *I* learn today? (this is from memory, and some of it my own adding...)

            India's economy is set or on track to grow some 3-5% this and next year, even though the rest of the (industrialized) world is stagnating. Why? India's economy is not nearly as integrated with the rest of the world as is the US', Japan's, Korea's, UK's, etc.

    Some 1/3 of Indians go to bed starving, but some 2/3 of "Americans" are classed as "overweight". Indian make of some 1/3 of the world's IT force, yet India's own domestic infrastructure is ~ or http://www.theworld.org/node/24850

    I learned:

    "General Motors and Chrysler produce nearly a quarter of their North American vehicles in Ontario. So they're asking Canadian taxpayers to pitch in almost a quarter of the money that the companies say they need to stay afloat. The World's Jason Margolis has more."

    So,
            Canadians produce around 25% of GM's cars, and GM wants Canadians to ante up (help out) with some 20% of the money GM needs. Including benefits, Canadian GM workers earn about $49/per hour! But, effective take-home pay is about $25/hour. Canadians, understandably, are concerned that GM or other US-carmakers will get them to sign on to a Canadian-citizen-funded auto industry bailout program, then take the money to less-expensive Asian areas, or back to the US.

    Interesting report...

    ---

    And, here:

    GM Europe 'could run out of cash'
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7922186.stm

    ----

    GM Europe 'could run out of cash'
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7879372.stm

  2. Re:sourcing the problem You could investigate on Tigger.A Trojan Quietly Steals Stock Traders' Data · · Score: 1

    with...

    VisualAnalytics, too:

    http://www.visualanalytics.com/

    I wouldn't be surprised if THIS is the program that the NY Times(?) reporter "outed", infuriating the Bush.

    Only thing is, is I'VE been curiously and with excitment (database freaky) casually observing VisualAnalytics since, oh, about 1999 or maybe 2000. So, if this program is The One, and if the Bush had ANY thing to do with getting that NYT reporter into legal/judicial trouble, then somebody should bitch-slap him and his minions, since VA existed before the Patriot Act was published, much less drafted.

    Anyway, that trader or group of tech-savvy traders better watch out, whether or not they knew/know of VA. VA purportedly has tools to do JUST the sort of forensic sniffing of some or many of the activities you posit this guy/group might have engaged in to try to cover their tracks.

  3. Re:Lame lame lame... so, then, Mr. Smarty Pants... on Advance In Making Stem Cells From Skin · · Score: 1

    What's the REAL skinny on this?

  4. Re:My kind of democracy..This Volt event on Volt Asks Temps To 'Vote" For Microsoft Pay Cut · · Score: 1

    must be a polarizing shocker...I wonder how much resistance there will be sparked an arc flash, or if the bad economy will increase capacitance for drops in currency....

    I wonder if ms will issue an admittance to their impedance of income flowing to Volt, or if ms will rump up and ramp up with their Aeolian Vibration technique that requires resonant vacuum attachment to the Amorphous Semiconductor of the rear of the discharge port.

    Butt, despite their biased relay, blackouts, bonding and brownouts, they will huck and buck and steady up on their probe-inserting stabilizing Bull Wheel.

    Their cable-pulling lubricant will be NO MATCH for the cable sheath. Their characteristic angle matching their characteristic curve will charge the cherry picker, swing the choker, conduct a corona around the counter EMF, reduce the dip tolerance, and increase the Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum, Direct-on-Line, Duct Bank, with a steady eddy current to boot, maximising en(d)trainment.

  5. Re:From the wiki ... At first i thought on Amiga Community Collaborates On Restorative Gel To Brighten Your Old Plastic · · Score: 1

    Polyrazzmatazz... PolyGLYCOAT... Polyrazzmatazz... PolyGLYCOAT.... (too damn many TV commercials in my Texas youth)

  6. Wait, wait, don't tell me...was that a on White House Ditches YouTube · · Score: 1

    U-turn on YouTube, or was it a low-blow/low-tech reach-around? LOL!

    Seriously, though, YouTube just has wayyyyy to much distraction on it and maybe the viewers might get bored and click on another link in the side bars....

  7. Re:So, that would mean I smelled a rat when i read on Volt Asks Temps To 'Vote" For Microsoft Pay Cut · · Score: 1

    Ahem. I'll just add modification to your (sic) your own quote:

    Or did you think the trail blazer was the guy who followed at the rear?

    No, but i think they ARE tail blazer (firey firmware/hardware "her hengelahders" (German, sp) ) being the guy who mostly follows at the rear... Either they will excite and endtertain you or they will alight your ass and put and end (sic, sick one at that) to you.....

    (Have a sense of humour, lad/lass...)

  8. Re:Wise choice ... JUST GREAT! on White House Ditches YouTube · · Score: 2, Informative

    Oh, OK, sweet. MP4 and other options ARE available...

    Stupid me. THIS is why slashdotters should RTFA, FIRST, heheheh....

  9. Re:Wise choice ... JUST GREAT! on White House Ditches YouTube · · Score: 1

    I block the hell out of akamai, and now, it seems i have to let it all in just to get to see the Presidential Addresses?

    Why not just post them to ads-free FTP sites. Put a link on the whitehouse page and let me run the thing in my local media player (xine, mplayer, kaffeine, etc, and if it's a DIRE situation, then, umm, ms media player...).

    C'mon, Administration! Be platform/software/player neutral. Don't be a "player hater"...

  10. Re:Appearence! Innovation in the workplace: on New Netbook Offers Detachable Tablet · · Score: 3, Funny

    I wonder if THEY go topless in the office...

  11. Re:Find the responsible genes on Science Unlocks The Mystery Of Belly Button Lint · · Score: 1

    I can't recall having this be an issue in my case. I wear t-shirt 90% of the time that i am out and about. I wear some kind of shirt anytime i'm out. I do have some soft/fuzzy (almost wrote fussy) hair near my navel.

    I really have to think that any heavy lint collection is due unbathed/unkempt hygiene, or laundry being hang-dried in dusty areas, or place in a malfunctioning dryer, or sleeping in a hella lint-filled bed.

    Interesting this comes out around Lint Season/Ash Weekend.

    (I wonder if by brand/ply/coarseness factors anyone has done a PHd paper on whether North Americans' incidence of anus cancer is increased by used of dry/cheap-ass toilet paper, and reduced by use of moistened/soaped TP, with reduction coincident to taking one's time rather than rushing. TNow THAT would be more worth PHd funding...)

  12. Before i get scooped on this article below... on Facebook Nearly Added Twitter To Friends List · · Score: 1

    Related to facebook.... (I won't bother posting in my journal since i won't get the opportunity/fact of being presented anyway...)

    "Facebook users suffer viral surge "
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7918839.stm

    Once a frackingain, facebook needs to get off its ass and create a better, more public, more user-controlled anti-rogue apps procedure. It's NOT enough to "refer to the user security/privacy guide.

    facebook's rank policy of allowing any app you add ALL ACCESS to your profile, friends, and such is specious and set up for sheer access to advert revenues. There should be granular access control for EACH AND EVERY APP USERS ADD. NO EXCUSES.

  13. Maybe PSION could juggle a few letters in their on Psion Accuses Intel of Cybersquatting · · Score: 1

    name, add one and become POISON.

    But, if they become PRION, they could be the slurry/sludge/brown POISON to slow Intel down...

  14. Re:"windows" article tag biased "Not fair"? LOL! on Obama Helicopter Security Breached By File Sharing · · Score: 1

    So, ms' os has some 92% of the market, and when the offending OS is not declared, and people naturally assume the P2P software was windows based, people here have the temerity to expect us to believe that that other 8% is EQUALLY a risk? Sigh.

    But, aside from that, how do we even know that the leaked/lost blueprints are real. This could be the US seed to tighten up networks, ban military personnel from using social networks (the way the UK recently declared), and maybe even to justify DOD contractors drumming up whole new info and handling protocols to justify jacking up costs. Of course, SOMEone or some company will burn, given that all this is in the open, but i am willing to entertain the possibility that compromise response measures have been in play.

    Further, it is possibe that this leak was intentional not for the above reasons, but to find out WHO is interested in exploiting the "juicy information" that was "leaked". The compromise and circulation of individually coded documents can indiciate where leaks/moles exist, who is brokering/circulating the informaiton, and who is buying the information, and who is able to actually BE the threat. Probably more than just Iranians have this info. Slashdotters pretending to want the torrent might have some. Chinese might have some. Japanese, Koreans, British, French, and Russians may, too. If the compromise had never been pubicized, most of us here would be (likely) talking about something else.

  15. Re:So, that would mean I smelled a rat when i read on Volt Asks Temps To 'Vote" For Microsoft Pay Cut · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Microsoft, as a trailblazer in the information technology industry,"

    "Whooat?" I thought... "trailblazer?" I thought most of what ms did was light the initial fire in some cases, buy and shut down in many cases, and FUD/run out of business in many more caes.

    (cue the off-topic/flamebait/troll-markers against me...)

  16. Re:hmmm... Just dont' violate ms' "Don't Ask, on Are Windows 7 Testers Going Unheard? · · Score: 1

    Don't Tell" policy...

    http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/25/2018243

    Or, don't have a Lesbian X-Box... And, don't compete with the males seeking girls...

  17. So, then "Zero" is still... on Creative Commons Releases "Zero" License · · Score: 0

    UNO?

    "Even though it isn't a true public domain dedication, it only waives the rights as far as they can be waived (Note: Moral rights, in many countries, can not be outright waived),"

  18. That Trojan came full circle and INFECTed on Attackers Infect Ads With Old Adobe Vulnerability · · Score: 0

    their ads....

    Haven't they heard of protection? They should yousd tube of some adstroglide. I bet someone's ads will be busted. Talk about exPLOITUS enterRUPTus...

  19. LOL. For a few secs, my mind saw the power draw on $100 Linux Wall-Wart Now Available · · Score: 1

    "The power draw is a nightlight-like 5 Watts."

    as six GIGAwatts...

    That could be approaching a home-based (no relation to HomeBase, and, yeh, I was also seeing "Wal-Mart") personal teleportation device...

    But, we're gettin' there.... Say, what would you trust:

    A Linux-based matter-conversion teleportation device, or a windows-based one? I would wager the windows one might reduce me to Sonak's condition in ST:TMP. But, what would the Linux-based XR do?

  20. So, in that phrase using "de-fang": on Homemade PDF Patch Beats Adobe By Two Weeks · · Score: 1

    "to de-fang the hack by disabling JavaScript"

    I began to wonder if it will become the new defangto or new-fangled way of disable features and bugs of software...

  21. Re:That's great... Sewing false hope on Microsoft Unveils "Elevate America" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Seems to me that ms wants to suckle money from the Stimulus Package by giving false hope to tens of thousands of people who already have enormous competition from hundreds of thousands of already- ms-certified techhies out there who DO NOT need the extra competition, but who will suffer from the lower pay expectations of the newcomers.

    Sounds like a quasi reach-around. People wanting to get into tech jobs can already go to local city/county/state offered programs. But, in making this "levitate/satiate/simulate Amerca" pitch of theirs, they probably hope someone in the Obama administration is green (or dumb) enough to say, "Hey, lets give ms some of that money and let them decide how to dole out the vouchers...." Only thing is is that ms as SURELy would love to get the money, and put the vouchers down to the lowers dollar amount they can get away with.

  22. Re:Bugs? The way SOMe programmers "think", count- on DARPA Creates Remote Controlled Insects · · Score: 1

    downs would be based on a reverse sort of a list of possible seconds:

    20
    201
    202
    203...
    19
    198
    197
    196...
    13..
    12..
    11
    102
    103
    104...
      and if the Enterprise computer did this shit, the Self-Destruct Sequence would never finish in time...

    As for the bugs, i say set up a bug detector, and then spray the room. They may be cybernetic, but unless their lungs and blood are synthetic and don't react with/to aerosols...

    Even better, put soap and water in a bottle... Then, when the fucking bugs/flies fly around, nail them in the wings. No need for a perfect bullseye. Just goop up their wings and they go... "Won't fly no mo". then step on their asses, or even better, mail them to electronics labs, or overseas to other governments... wait, might neet ITARS letters and other export/agent/proxy signatures...

    Local Bonus: No toxins in the air.

    Alternatively, periodically laquer the space suspected of these buggers. Preserve them...

  23. Re:Old Easy now... Easy now... You might get mod on Sun Slips Firefox Extension Into Java Update · · Score: 1

    ded "off-topic"... I've been experiencing that off and on over the past year... Be gentle.... LOL

  24. Re:You're right--convenience sucks--Not just volts on Sun Slips Firefox Extension Into Java Update · · Score: 1

    wagon...

    It's voltsSHAAGGEN... fukengruven, ass in "Fahrvergnuegen"...

    OTOH, it could be like opting in for anal sex in the back of a clunky car and complaining about bad tailpipe emissions...

  25. Re:The "secret" is Moderators? i'll tell you about on Microsoft Secret Prototype Phone Stolen · · Score: 1

    I'm going to burn some karma... with:

    DAMN YOU you bastard. If you hate me that much, come out from behind that keyboard. But, you won't because it's your refuge, your sanctuary. Dishing out negative points and off-topic as if it fucking doesn't matter that you screw over people who annoy you.