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  1. Re:How about an AMD AM1 combo? on Hardware For a Cheap Linux Desktop (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    That's a complete overkill for my modest Cisco rack that typically has four active console port. If I get dedicated console server appliance, I won't be able to use it for offloading compilation jobs. A hammer isn't always the best solution for everything.

  2. Re:Question for Bernie Sanders on How Technology Is Increasing the Number of Jobs We Have (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    And yet, not one was willing (or able?) to offer a single policy difference.

    Probably because no one knows and/or cares about Chavez and/or his policies? You might have better luck in asking where Chavez is located on a world map. Oh, wait. This is America. You better not.

  3. I recently started converting old BASIC games from a book into Python to improve my programming skills for that language. On several occasions I had to write out informal flowcharts to understand the GOTO/GOSUB spaghetti hell that I was dealing with. No wonder I could never get any of these BASIC games to work on my Commodore 64 as a kid.

  4. How about an AMD AM1 combo? on Hardware For a Cheap Linux Desktop (phoronix.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I recently picked up an ECS KAM1-I motherboard ($25) for the AMD AM1 processor ($25 to $50). The motherboard has two serial ports and two serial port headers for four COM ports. I'm planning to build out a Linux console server for my Cisco certification rack. This is cheaper than trying to convert a Cisco router into a terminal server.

  5. Re:Question for Bernie Sanders on How Technology Is Increasing the Number of Jobs We Have (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Bernie Sanders isn't a socialist. So asking him about Chavez is entirely irrelevant.

  6. Re:Huh? on Rikers Inmates Learn How To Code Without Internet Access (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    During my tour through college in the early 1990's, we had to use a plastic template to draw flowchart diagrams for programs in the Intro to Computers 101 class. A decade later, after the dot com bust, I went back to school to learn computer programming. The bookstore no longer sold the plastic template and none of the programming classes mentioned flowchart diagrams. I guess they weren't needed for object-oriented programming (OOP).

  7. Or programmers printed their code on green-and-white bar paper from the dot matrix printer. Now those were the days.

  8. Re:Moving jobs is often the only way to get a payr on How Technology Is Increasing the Number of Jobs We Have (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Why do you deserve more money simply for the fact that you have been doing the same thing longer than everybody else?

    That doesn't apply to CEOs. I worked for a Fortune 500 company where the CEO laid off 10% of the workforce, got a 60% raise for a lousy fiscal year, and bought a new yacht to keep up with his peers.

  9. Re:Question for Bernie Sanders on How Technology Is Increasing the Number of Jobs We Have (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Most Americans have never met a real socialist before. Bernie Sanders isn't a real socialist. He wears the label to stand out from all the other liberals, and knows that conservative media will go foaming in the month over the label.

  10. Re:At what point do we reevaluate the position on How Technology Is Increasing the Number of Jobs We Have (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Only if you apply for a government job with a security clearance. My two-hour investigative interview turned into four hours because I had a multiple jobs after being out of work for two years and filing for bankruptcy. For several years I had a weekday job and a weekend job. Sometimes the weekend job started right after my weekday job on Fridays. The government's view is that you should have one and only one job at a time, and working two or more jobs is suspicious activity.

  11. No kidding, Sherlock! on Ethics: A Good Reason To Sit Further Away From Your Boss (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    When I worked for a company that relocated to a new building, HR took a survey to find out what employees wanted in the new office. Number 1 request: sitting far, far away from the supervisors. One of the supervisors had a habit of shooting up the blinds with an Airsoft BB gun, sending everyone to cover whenever he popped up above his cube. (We got back at him on his birthday by blocking off his cube entrance and dumping 64 cubic feet of packing peanuts inside, which took him a week to dig out.) The supervisors got their own row in a long room next to the cube farm. Everyone except the supervisors were happy.

  12. Say what?! on Cortana Coming To iOS, For 2000 Beta Testers (informationweek.com) · · Score: 1

    Cortana for Windows 2000? I would think WinXP has a larger installed base as a legacy OS.

  13. Re:Reagan's mic test on KGB Software Almost Triggered War In 1983 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    And you're doing this because at this point, you're obviously a fundamentally dishonest person.

    I used to be a Republican. I'm speaking from experience. Doesn't help that my Tea Party relatives in Idaho keep emailing every little thing that comes out of the right wing echo chamber.

    Don't even bother typing a response.

    You accused me of being a dishonest person and don't want me to respond? You must be new around here.

  14. Re:Reagan's mic test on KGB Software Almost Triggered War In 1983 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you think vaccines cause autism? Because apparently all liberal Democrats do.

    You seem willfully ignorant of liberal Democrats, as they believe in government healthcare. Republicans, not so much.

    http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-02-04/why-do-republicans-have-such-a-hard-time-with-vaccines-

  15. Re:Reagan's mic test on KGB Software Almost Triggered War In 1983 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Nobody with any stature on the right believes any of those things.

    No Establishment Republican believes that BS, but the base that listens to conservative radio does and they are the voters. Which is why Congressional Republicans are suffering a massive case of swamp fever and can't get anything done.

  16. Re:Reagan's mic test on KGB Software Almost Triggered War In 1983 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You haven't been paying attention to the Right Wing echo chamber in recent years. President Obama will suspend the Constitution via executive order (never mind that George W. has issued more executive orders), activate the FEMA camps (hello, Oliver North), send all the white men to be executed by guillotines (paper cutters) and send all the white women to be raped by black men (white fear). Angry old white people believe this will happen any day now (For the pedantic, a democratically elected government can turn into a dictatorship by convincing citizens to trade in freedoms for security from terrorists.)

  17. Re:Serves them right on Insurer Refuses To Cover Cox In Massive Piracy Lawsuit (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    Whenever a Comcast truck is in the neighborhood, I know my Internet connection was FUBAR. It took me a month to convince a Comcast rep to send out a technician to check out the service box on the pole. Surprise, surprise, surprise. The last technician installed a bypass filter backwards that cut off my Internet service. Fortunately, I still had a 56k dial-up account with another ISP during those outages.

  18. Re:Inflation is a bitch... on The Quest For the Ultimate Vacuum Tube (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    If the local staff were making that kind of money, I'm sure they would have found $50K in a hurry to keep their jobs. At the very least, lay off an intern or two. I seriously doubt that was the case based on years of waving the tin cup during Dr. Who marathons.

  19. Re:Vacuum tubes handle EMP's better on The Quest For the Ultimate Vacuum Tube (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    U.S. military installations are hardened against EMP attacks. U.S. civilian installations are not, mostly because the electrical industry doesn't want to foot the bill and the government never has enough money for infrastructure projects..

  20. Re:Extremism is Over-Simplification on Engineers Nine Times More Likely Than Expected To Become Terrorists (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    If the Arabs have more "diversity of thought" in discussing Islam, it's probably because they have — or had, these days — a scientific background.

  21. Inflation is a bitch... on The Quest For the Ultimate Vacuum Tube (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    The local PBS station in Silicon Valley had to shutdown and merge with a distant PBS station in the 1990's because the station couldn't afford the $50,000 replacement cost of the vacuum tube in their transmission tower.

  22. Re:Many a young engineer.... on The Quest For the Ultimate Vacuum Tube (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    I don't think Jacob's ladders count.

    http://www.repairfaq.org/sam/jacobs.htm

  23. Re:Extremism is Over-Simplification on Engineers Nine Times More Likely Than Expected To Become Terrorists (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function." - F. Scott Fitzgerald

    http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/90.html

    Either you got it or you don't.

  24. Re:Extremism is Over-Simplification on Engineers Nine Times More Likely Than Expected To Become Terrorists (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    The Arabs who brought forth Islam also had Arabic numerals, algebra and other sciences. Christians only have Black Friday sales.

  25. Re:Reagan's mic test on KGB Software Almost Triggered War In 1983 (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Not sure why this is being flagged as off topic. If the Reagan Administration was willing to overthrow a democratically elected government in the United States, no wonder the Soviets were scared.

    http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=abefore86rex84