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  1. Re:...and adults too. on Bill To Require Vaccination of Children Advances In California · · Score: 1

    That's fine as long as you don't expect to live in or get any of the benefits of society. You are most definitely free to go live in a cave or a jungle on some secluded island.

  2. pure chance? on Rosetta Spacecraft Catches Comet Eruption · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If I spend 24x7 staring in your bathroom window you don't call it "pure chance" that I happened to see you taking a shower.

  3. Re:Why it is hard to recruit... on US Military To Recruit Civilian Cybersecurity Experts · · Score: 2

    Social engineering is still the most common targeted attack vector. Humans are the weakest links in most secure systems, there is nearly always someone no matter how well trained and warned that will fall for well thought out social engineering tactics.

  4. Re:privacy? on Ask Slashdot: What Features Would You Like In a Search Engine? · · Score: 1

    There are other ways to monetize your product. If the engine is actually good and popular then they can monetize licensing for mobile devices, selling into the corporate space with indexing and appliances for the enterprise, definitely not as profitable as advertising and given greed is number one priority for companies like google, and just about every company for that matter, it isn't likely to happen.

  5. Re:Very distorted environment on 2K, Australia's Last AAA Studio, Closes Its Doors · · Score: 1

    If you don't know what your talking about then you probably shouldn't say anything. Canberra has one of the highest homeless rates in the country, only the northern Territory has a higher rate. unemployment here is also still around 5%, while that is slightly better than the rest of the country, it certainly isn't good. Canberra contracts here are pretty well identical to other major cities in Australia (I work regularly between Sydney, Brisbane and Canberra, our rates are the same for all three).

  6. Re:Tax breaks? on 2K, Australia's Last AAA Studio, Closes Its Doors · · Score: 1

    It's far cheaper to live in the rural areas on Canberra's doorstep, or the large town next door, than in that geographically tiny city.
    I've got relatives that live half an hour out of Canberra in a medium sized "hobby" farm with about 20 head of stock and a few horses, and that cost less than they made from selling a modest three bedroom place in outer suburbia. House/land prices and rent drop off very rapidly with distance and the roads are not congested.

    What has that got to do with the topic? simple fact is the average salary in Canberra is approximately 85-90k. even public servant devs make more than that unless they are just a graduate or in the lowly APS ranks.

  7. Re:Tax breaks? on 2K, Australia's Last AAA Studio, Closes Its Doors · · Score: 1, Interesting

    What a load of shit. I get 210k (been working in Canberra for last 20 years), contractors all around me are on between 120-200k. $70k is below the average salary for a resident of Canberra let alone a professional and devs are most definitely not the lowest paid professions in Canberra.

  8. Re:Tax breaks? on 2K, Australia's Last AAA Studio, Closes Its Doors · · Score: 1

    Salaries in Australia are relatively high compared to the rest of the world, especially Canberra. Even bad devs here can happily take home 100k+, good devs more than double that. It has a serious impact on the cost of developing anything here.

  9. Re:Sometimes you can't on How Mission Creep Killed a Gaming Studio · · Score: 1

    the studio didn't plan any contingency or mitigation for a cancellation

    I've seen that in a different industry - a huge client that demands all the resources you have "just in case" and then fucks you over. About the only thing that can help is money in the bank.
    There's a certain type of person that decides they need to "own" you, and they can apply a lot of pressure if they are their only client at the time so they make sure that happens.

    That really just means the company is take on a contract that is simply too big for them in the first place. From what I read no one fucked anyone over. MS wanted changes in scope in order for the game to continue being funded, company said sure but budget will be blown by 40-60%, MS said, no thanks and simply walked away. This is normal business contract negitations, if it killed the company then the company was taking on a job that was far to big for it as it left them with no contingency

  10. Re:used devastatingly already on Windows Remains Vulnerable To Serious 18-Year-Old SMB Security Flaw · · Score: 1

    no it doesn't

  11. Re:used devastatingly already on Windows Remains Vulnerable To Serious 18-Year-Old SMB Security Flaw · · Score: 1

    Soooo what exactly does that article have to do with this vulnerability? it is not mentioned in their, nor does the SMB worm mentioned make use of such a vulnerability? So think you definitely still need a citation.

  12. Re:used devastatingly already on Windows Remains Vulnerable To Serious 18-Year-Old SMB Security Flaw · · Score: 2

    So you are saying it wasn't north korea as the US government has been claiming and it was actually someone on their local lan? where did you find this information?

  13. Re:Everyone loves taxes on Microsoft Pushes For Public Education Funding While Avoiding State Taxes · · Score: 0

    I like the concept but absolutely HATE the implementation/reality, everything the government does costs exponentially more than what it would cost in the real world, the hideous waste in government makes me resent every cent I hand over to them.

  14. Re:Didja ever have butter on a pop tart? on Nokia Networks Demonstrates 5G Mobile Speeds Running At 10Gbps Via 73GHz · · Score: 2, Informative

    your maths really really sucks. at 10gb per second you to 1.25 gigabytes per second or as the OP said, less than 2 seconds for his 2gig quota.

  15. Re:The inversion is complete. on Microsoft: Feds Are 'Rewriting' the Law To Obtain Emails Overseas · · Score: 1

    The right answer is actually very simple. The US government should be following well established international conventions and request the information it wants through the appropriate courts, which in this case is Irelands court. There is no grey area, The US government are trying to stomp on the laws of other countries so they can avoid due process.

  16. IBM makes chips!

  17. Re:Since when on Australian ISPs Must Hand Over Pirates' Info · · Score: 2

    Not to excuse the disgrace that is Abbott, but the reason this got pushed through is because BOTH SIDES supported this legislation. Labor have had a hardon for getting internet censorship in for years and had repeated failed attempts while they were in government. It is truly sad that now both sides have sunk to this level.

  18. Re:Why is that important news? on Windows 10 Successor Codenamed 'Redstone,' Targeting 2016 Launch · · Score: 1

    Microsoft have an official OS cycle of 1.5 years for interim builds and 3 years for major releases. they have been lax in meeting that goal in the past but this seems to be pretty well sticking to normal release cycle (assuming end of 2016).

  19. Wow even if it was still April first this would be just plain aweful, but on April second it is just really REALLY sad

  20. Re:No one mentions the cost on World's Largest Aircraft Seeks Investors To Begin Operation · · Score: 1

    yes it is pretty amazing, normally they actually end up paying them to take the stuff away rather than get anything back for it.

  21. Re:2GB? on Microsoft Announces Surface 3 Tablet · · Score: 1

    windows will run more than fine in 2GB, it will run fine in 1GB with win 8.1. it really comes down to applications and as it is a tablet 2GB is probably fine for most users that will use it for web browsing and consuming media.

  22. Re:See nothing that says this is x86 on Microsoft Announces Surface 3 Tablet · · Score: 1

    older atoms were far too slow, last gen atoms were ok for grandma machines. this gen of atoms looks to be quite suitable even as a desktop replacement for the average user that doesn't do much more than office apps, email and web surfing.

  23. Re:Unsealed after Ulbrich conviction on Silk Road Investigators Charged With Stealing Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    silk road was a LOT more than just recreational drugs. you had gun dealing, paid assassinations and money laundering. If it was just recreational drug use then I would still think of him as a scumbag, but one that is probably not worth chasing down.

  24. Re:Contradiction in article summary on Why More 'Star Wars' Actors Don't Become Stars · · Score: 1

    the vast VAST majority of actors and actresses never make anything. You could pick a whole range of big budget movies where the actors and actresses have never gone on to anything else of significance. Any person that would throw away such a massive opportunity in a movie because it "might" stunt there future prospects had better already be famous and making a fortune as most likely they won't actually have any future opportunities.

  25. Re:Unsealed after Ulbrich conviction on Silk Road Investigators Charged With Stealing Bitcoin · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There were a LOT of agents and far more evidence. I don't get why the /. crowd are so desperate to find an excuse for him. He is the sort of scumbag the police should be chasing down and sending to jail, it is sad that there are also some scumbags in the police as well, perhaps they can all share a cell.