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  1. Re:Please don't buy Tesla on Ford CEO Says the Company 'Overestimated' Self-Driving Cars (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Im sure the person who got nailed by that car would disagree if they could.

  2. Re:Or more accurately on Ford CEO Says the Company 'Overestimated' Self-Driving Cars (engadget.com) · · Score: 2

    Considering thier build quality you probably won't be seeing it driving, but rusting on the side of said road.

  3. Re:A better solution... on The World's Biggest Spice Company is Using AI To Find New Flavors (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    You get a promotion ! Your a real mover in the spice industry !

  4. Congressional hearing! on Google Denies Altering YouTube Code To Break Microsoft Edge (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    We need a congressional hearing to prove that it wasn't intentional.

  5. Re:Doubtful on Are We Reaching the Electric Car Tipping Point? · · Score: 1

    Also what about the cities where parking isn't owned by the building owner ? There are plenty of cities in the US , heck most of them, do not have a parking spot per unit and they are forced to park on city streets... Who covers the bill then ?

    EV's are not going to dominate until a city bites the ball gag and starts supplying meters and power to every parking spot.

    Also what about cold area's like here in the northeast during snow ev vehicles are very tough to get around in and their range becomes questionable in very cold temperatures. This is all stuff that gets solved with evolution... 5 to 10 years... I doubt highly.

  6. Re:Not "all software" on Hyundai Now Offers an Android Car, Even For Current Owners · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...

    Sorry but they do...

    VW is infamous for being able to use the head unit to actually interact with the CAN bus.....

    Matter of fact... the controller is linux based and uses RTLinux on some models.

  7. Re:just buy amd or clone them from the factory in on US Blocks Intel From Selling Xeon Chips To Chinese Supercomputer Projects · · Score: 1

    They can press the chips into import.

    Lenovo builds servers, lenovo buys in bulk Chinese government takes what it needs from lenovos stock. Problem solved.

  8. Re:if that were true on Obama Administration Claims There Are 545,000 IT Job Openings · · Score: 1

    Well I am hiring for 1 slot and also an intern... tough to find good help at even high prices so far.

  9. I'd encourage her like i do my own daughter... on Ask Slashdot: Terminally Ill - What Wisdom Should I Pass On To My Geek Daughter? · · Score: 1

    Encourage her to absolutely follow what she loves to do.. And question EVERYTHING.... That is how great thinkers all started their lives.

    And what things she will need to hear... Quite Simply I love you and I believe in you...

  10. Re:That's on Advice on How to Start an IT Business (Video) · · Score: 1

    Ironically... Im the guy that fixes this type of stuff.

    When I go into most shops I call out the trends immediately... Im a fan of Dell servers, cheap, run well and are reliable.. But admittedly, I have seen some cases where the lenovo and hp options were a better choice and were chosen...

    I have gone in and ripped out Oracle.. when mysql was more then enough and they had no issues... they also had in house talent for mysql and were spending uselessly.

    Im happy to be where I am but.. admittedly I want to just co back to being a consultant... There seems to be a lack of good ones out there right now.

  11. Re:Regulation Strikes again on Farmers Struggling With High-Tech Farm Equipment · · Score: 1

    Sorry there but both my nissans and my audi show me exactly which tires is low.

    Audi Q5 - even tells me when the wheel is slipping on the display
    Nissan Pathfinder - shows all 4 tire pressures.
    GT-R Shows which tires are slipping and even shows me when it has to go into vectoring mode because the outside tires are slipping.

  12. Re:Double Irish? TAX ALL FOREIGNERS!!! on Obama Proposes One-Time Tax On $2 Trillion US Companies Hold Overseas · · Score: 1

    And then there is a simple penalty.... You don't have a headquarters here in the US you don't sell a product here.... there are all sorts of cat and mouse games that can be played.

    The us is one of the biggest with the most expendable income. It's financial suicide to not sell a product here. And as has been seen in the past.. when one company leaves here... another will spring up to do it's job here.

  13. Re:Double Irish on Obama Proposes One-Time Tax On $2 Trillion US Companies Hold Overseas · · Score: 1

    Incorrect.. you can file abatements and they allow you to put it off until later. I do this a lot as a dual citizen. I file american taxes every other year, due to my income from colombia being a small portion of what I would earn in the US... I get a huge part of my taxes returned and I am considered low income.

    My kids will have to do the same. When my oldest turned 16 and started working in colombia they were actually sending her more money then she paid in taxes.

  14. Re:Double Irish on Obama Proposes One-Time Tax On $2 Trillion US Companies Hold Overseas · · Score: 1

    Except the fact that they issue tax credits on taxes paid outside the US.

    As a colombian / US citizen, I have to pay my taxes in both countries and take my credits in the US.

  15. Re:The point on Solar-Powered Electrochemical Cell Used To Produce Formic Acid From CO2 · · Score: 1

    And then what happens after the sun goes down and we don't have enough storage capacity to run the peak times ? We just fire up more solar... oh wait no sunlight. A well balanced approach is much better, replace some with solar and wind, and also try and scrub out what we can when we can.

  16. Re:What does IBM do these days anyway? on Tech Worker Groups Boycott IBM, Infosys, Manpower · · Score: 1

    they have also done a lot of buying of other companies as of late... Big data and cloud services are what they are buying now.

  17. Re:Pay versus billing rate. on Tech Worker Groups Boycott IBM, Infosys, Manpower · · Score: 1

    Not true... I worked at IBM as a contractor and was compensated very well.

    I chose to leave for a better job/ higher paying role with benefits. The real problem is they are using contractors for a huge part of the us work force but paying pretty good comp for them, so that they don't have to cover all the little things. Like benefits....

    I chose to leave after being the primary responsable admin in the group, who was denied a job in that group 4 times, due to "not hiring in the US at this time" their process for this stuff is completely short sighted. They can pay people 1/8th less and cover the benefits, but refuse to because if thier numbers don't look good it's not easy to dump a perm employee, where as a contractor they can just put on furlow or ask them not to come back.

  18. Re: Overpriced snake oil salesmen on Apple Reportedly Buying Beats Electronics For $3.2 Billion · · Score: 1

    And that is different from Apple how ?

    Ohhh thats right they are perfect for each other.

  19. Re:An educated workforce on Is Montana the Next Big Data Hub? · · Score: 1

    they did it for the costs. parts changers are cheap, and power and bandwidth are cheap there as well.

    When you have a parts changer, but good sysadmins across the globe you can do that. with remote kvm's and now most servers with good baseband management tools, it's cheaper to have good sysadmins do the cleanup and setup work from half a world away.

    Pay the sysadmins to automate most of the process and have cheap parts changers on hand and it's easy as sin to keep a datacenter running well. It's pricey but the sysadmins are constantly busy across multiple datacenters and it lowers cost.

  20. Re:Proof Elon Musk is a Fucking Idiot on Tesla Model S Has Hidden Ethernet Port, User Runs Firefox On the 17" Screen · · Score: 1

    Tesla uses can-bus like every other auto in the world with advanced controls.

  21. Re:Should void warranty on Tesla Model S Has Hidden Ethernet Port, User Runs Firefox On the 17" Screen · · Score: 1

    My s550 does the same, so there is obviously some work around here. I had 2 occasions where my car lost the display and both speed and rpm on the screen were lost. They come back after 15 seconds and the system reboots. But there is obviously a work around here, it can't be "illegal".

  22. Re:yeah right on Google Faces Up To $5 Billion Fine From Competition Commission of India · · Score: 2

    Haven't gotten any of the scam calls that are from indian call centers requesting you install remote sessions for them to "assess your virus infections" yet have you ? These for some reason are still allowed to run there from the same scum trying to get cash out of google there.

  23. Re:Obviuos question - Who else is infected? on Target Credit Card Data Was Sent To a Server In Russia · · Score: 1

    They usually target more then 1 chain, but have to taylor it to each chain as the pci-dss standard is enacted differently in each chain. Usually they will breach a big chain and use the same method for others but taylor the way they do it a bit differently and most times this helps them avoid early detection. Often the breach is discovered later, much later because it was not using the same carbon copy methods that were used in another breach.

  24. Re:I don't get it on Target Credit Card Data Was Sent To a Server In Russia · · Score: 1

    There is supposed to be multiple log servers, and they get backed up.

    So what happens is the logs are kept in the machines as well as shipped to a log server.. Depends on how they went about this.... but everything should be logging to multiple places for just this reason, hackers have automated log scrubbers that they can hide as a binary like say cd. the cd bin will get executed, but after the hook runs and scrubs the logs.

  25. Re:Quietly moved ??? on Target Credit Card Data Was Sent To a Server In Russia · · Score: 1

    Most IDS systems should trigger alerts and close the route when sending massive amounts of data ANYWHERE !

    All my gear is set up that if your sending a pack over 5 megs and you didn't get auth from secops and the mac cleared the route is shut down. Yes it's draconian but it prevents a lot of network abuse and has left me with 2 300 meg circuits instead of 2 gig circuits.