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  1. Re:So, hat solves the lack of qualified techs, rig on Massive Layoff Underway At IBM · · Score: 1

    While I am sure there are some good techs available because of this, IBM had a massive glut of crap people that you wouldn't want unless you were absolutely desperate, the last set of layoffs saw a heap of them turn up on our door looking for jobs and we turned away every single one of them as unqualified. Maybe they got rid of all the crap in the last round of layoffs, but somehow I doubt it.

  2. Re:better solution: don't make cars network-capabl on BMW Patches Security Flaw Affecting Over 2 Million Vehicles · · Score: 2

    in car systems are massively overpriced, but I would never choose to use my phone over my incar navigation. Phones are awkward, unwieldy with smaller screens and no integration.

  3. Re:Wow on Sony Sells Off Sony Online Entertainment · · Score: 1

    Sony propping someone up? perhaps you haven't looked at Sony's financial situation for the last few years, they are drowning in debt. SOE is probably going to be far better off without Sony. getting split off from Sony is like winning a place on one of the few life rafts on the titanic.

  4. Re:Google AV... baked in with every product. on New Google Security Reward Program Announcement · · Score: 1

    No it isn't, the reports are heavily biased as they test for areas that MSE isn't designed to address, as an AV product it is excellent however you should combine MSE (anti virus) with an antimalware product (like malwarebytes) depending on what you are using your machine for.

  5. Re:Google AV... baked in with every product. on New Google Security Reward Program Announcement · · Score: 1

    If your business is so simple that you can operate in a browser then you can just as easily lock down a windows machine to only let the browser run, hell you don't even need to use ie or AV software then if you do it correctly.

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

    you stated "Australia also holds that view on personal income for Australian citizens on money earned abroad". This is incorrect, it is based purely around residency (i.e. where you live as opposed to your citizenship), the US one is very different where it is based on you being a US citizen.

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

    You aren't wrong. The OP is wrong.

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

    That is not true. Please don't mark him as informative. You are only taxed abroad if you remain an Australian Resident while working abroad.

  9. Re:So what's the real story here? on Police Stations Increasingly Offer Safe Haven For Craigslist Transactions · · Score: 5, Insightful

    take off your tinfoil hat, not everything in this world is out there to screw you over. robberies, murders etc look bad on the police as well as affecting normal people. It is an intelligent move and it would be nice if we saw more of it, regardless of what good they do there will always be people like you that can't possibly fathom that not all police are corrupt.

  10. Re:AMD is coming out with the 390 on GeForce GTX 980 and 970 Cards From MSI, EVGA, and Zotac Reviewed · · Score: 1

    yeah I get the black screen regularly on Nvidia which is the driver faulting. The ATI I get the occasional machine lockup every few days, usually the minutes before it happens I start getting artifacting on the screen. The Nvidia though is having driver faults several times a day, most recover, sometimes I have to restart the machine.

  11. Re:!DX12 on GeForce GTX 980 and 970 Cards From MSI, EVGA, and Zotac Reviewed · · Score: 1

    many games are running on the threshold of 2GB VRAM, others such as Far Cry/BF4,skyrim/shadows of mordor etc can easily use upwards of 3GB. people running in SLI configs or with 4k screens will also be able to push 4GB cards memory to the limits. 2GB in a card today is the absolute minimum and if you are a gamer and buying a card today then you will be aiming for a 3 or 4GB card unless you don't want to run at high or max graphics settings.

  12. Re:AMD is coming out with the 390 on GeForce GTX 980 and 970 Cards From MSI, EVGA, and Zotac Reviewed · · Score: 1

    I run both ATI and Nvidia based machines, to be fair I seem to get more trouble with the Nvidia drivers than the ATI ones. Though both have there share of issues. I originally swore off Nvidia around 2007 when there drivers were so abysmal as to be nearly unusable in a system you wanted some stability in, but difference in power usage and hence noise levels has brough me back to Nvidia recently, just wish they would both get there driver acts together.

  13. Why hothardware on GeForce GTX 980 and 970 Cards From MSI, EVGA, and Zotac Reviewed · · Score: 1

    gotta ask. Why do Slashdot articles seem to link hothardware a lot, it seems at best an average site that produces reviews weeks after all the good sites have already done them. Why not link to some of the better hardware review sites?

  14. Re:Only a matter of time... on Indian Woman Sues Uber In the US Over Alleged New Delhi Taxi Rape · · Score: 1

    of course not. can't stop crime 100% either, lets ditch police and the laws. can't guarantee 100% some prisoners won't escape lets release everyone from jail. can't guarantee other countries won't manage to kill a few citizens if they attack lets abandon having a military.

  15. Re:Only a matter of time... on Indian Woman Sues Uber In the US Over Alleged New Delhi Taxi Rape · · Score: 1

    you can't completely stop it, but you can enforce proper background checks and screening. In many countries this is actually mandatory for taxis and hire cars.

  16. Re:The crime happened to an Indian in India. on Indian Woman Sues Uber In the US Over Alleged New Delhi Taxi Rape · · Score: 4, Informative

    Uber is a US company and Uber supplied the drivers hence she definitely has standing to sue.

  17. hmmmm on There Is No "You" In a Parallel Universe · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So now we are making predictions about speculations and guesses to say, there is no you in a parallel universe. Call me a skeptic but I would like a molecule of proof that such universes even exist before you start on speculations about what exists in them.

  18. Re:Welcome! on Amazon Takes On Microsoft, Google With WorkMail For Businesses · · Score: 1

    . Anything cheaper and more administration friendly than Exchange is welcome.

    That is where o365/hosted exchange comes in. Amazon are currently seeing MS market grow with triple figure growth percentages and email is one of the big reasons as enterprises no longer have to worry about the complexities of running it themselves.

  19. Re:Bad comparaison on The American App Economy Is Now "Bigger Than Hollywood" · · Score: 1

    They are comparing a global economy (Apps) to a local US market.

    What's the profit of global Hollywood sales?

    not even that, they are comparing a global market to a subset of the Hollywood's US market (US boxoffice).

  20. Re: What's more irritating? on One In Five Developers Now Works On IoT Projects · · Score: 1

    all of those items are much easier to ignore or avoid, at least for me.

  21. Re: What's more irritating? on One In Five Developers Now Works On IoT Projects · · Score: 1

    I have learned to contain sufficient hate in my heart now for blogs, facebook, twitter, cloud and internet of things. I hope they don't come up with anything else that needs adding to that list :(

  22. Apple operates primarily in the US. .

    Really? the majority of their manufacturing is in china. China and other international markets are now also there biggest revenue source. For tax purposes they are a irish company. If anything the US should now be seeing the smallest part of the tax they "should" be paying. The general tax rule is you pay the tax in the country you earn it, only the US considers earnings outside of the country to have a tax burden as well. regardless Apple and many other internationals don't pay their fair share anywhere. I can actually accept that as they are following the laws and it is the countries that need to fix their damn laws, the part that PISSES me off is when these companies come out and say what a wonderful contribution they are making to the local community with charities or sponsorships and how they are good corporate citizens all the vacuuming money up out of that community and siphoning it into tax havens and asking each of the local communities to be thankful for the pennies they return to them.

  23. Re:just put a motor on the elevator itself on Engineers Develop 'Ultrarope' For World's Highest Elevator · · Score: 1

    yes, but the cable is only used as a triggering mechanism, used as it is obviously there and is simple. There is nothing stopping that triggering mechanism being anything from an acceleration fired mechanism, or pressure held open by the motors when they have power or any number of other methods.

  24. Re: @MAS email dump on Lizard Squad Hits Malaysia Airlines Website · · Score: 1

    In some countries like the US maybe, but that doesn't make it anymore valid, rather irrelevant, you don't justify one set of criminal activity by pointing out that other criminals are doing something similar.

  25. Re:@MAS email dump on Lizard Squad Hits Malaysia Airlines Website · · Score: 3, Interesting

    NO, nothing validates what they do. They belong in a jail, you get to validate criminal behaviour by saying "look what we found while being total pricks".