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  1. Re:Does the rock run Linux? on The Largest Kuiper Belt Object Isn't Pluto Or Eris, But Triton · · Score: 1

    My spreadsheet for this week has 3,000 systems out of 15,000 systems. I ran a script that ran five hours to check the version numbers for the application, which knocked 2,500 systems off the list. Updating the spreadsheet took a better part a day. Another script confirmed that 200 systems were offline. That left 300 systems to fix. I'm trying to develop a script to fix the rest remainder with the least amount of effort. I'll be done in a couple of days. Only a dummy can fix what an engineer has screwed up.

  2. Re:This just proves... on Codecademy's ReSkillUSA: Gestation Period For New Developers Is 3 Months · · Score: 1

    As an experienced computer technician, I get re-hired by the companies I worked for before and need to protect what little privacy I have on the Internet. There are only so many networking companies in Silicon Valley.

  3. Re:Split this baby down the middle... on Computer Scientists Ask Supreme Court To Rule APIs Can't Be Copyrighted · · Score: 1

    Some idiots have done that with my FREE ebooks. A DMCA notice to the ISP gets the bootleg ebooks off the Internet in a hurry.

  4. Re:"I'm not a computer scientist, but..." on Computer Scientists Ask Supreme Court To Rule APIs Can't Be Copyrighted · · Score: 1

    Which was what Universal Pictures did to Dracula, Frankenstein and the Mummy. Anyone can make a movie based on the public domain stories for these characters. What they can't do is based the character designs on the Universal Monsters, as that would violate Universal's copyrights. New movies with these characters deviate from the "classical" design in subtle and not so subtle ways.

  5. Re:This just proves... on Codecademy's ReSkillUSA: Gestation Period For New Developers Is 3 Months · · Score: 1

    You must not read the Wall Street Journal -- or Slashdot.

  6. Re:This just proves... on Codecademy's ReSkillUSA: Gestation Period For New Developers Is 3 Months · · Score: 1

    At one Fortune 500 company I worked at, the CEO laid off 10,000 workers at the front door and hired 10,000 workers at the back door. Wall Street pumps up the stock price for a well-managed company. The board gives the CEO a 66% raise for doing a good job. Never mind that the company had a lousy fiscal year.

  7. Re:Car analogy on Computer Scientists Ask Supreme Court To Rule APIs Can't Be Copyrighted · · Score: 1

    Until sued by the federal government under antitrust laws, AT&T and IBM made it difficult for third-party vendors to connect to their systems. The API issue is the software version.

  8. Split this baby down the middle... on Computer Scientists Ask Supreme Court To Rule APIs Can't Be Copyrighted · · Score: 1

    The public interfaces for the API should be in the public domain. The private interfaces and the actual code should be subject to copyright. If someone wants to reverse engineer, say, the BIOS of a PC, by writing new code for the public interfaces, let them.

  9. Re:Does the rock run Linux? on The Largest Kuiper Belt Object Isn't Pluto Or Eris, But Triton · · Score: 1

    If it runs Windows OTOH it is probably surrounded by normal people.

    As a vulnerability remediation technician, I get paid for consoling hurt computers and fixing broken users. Great job security because the work never ends. Thanks, Microsoft!

  10. Does the rock run Linux? on The Largest Kuiper Belt Object Isn't Pluto Or Eris, But Triton · · Score: 3, Funny

    One of these rocks listed in the pictures has "Makemake" for a name. I guess astronomer had one eye on the telescope, mistyping the command to compile the latest Linux kernel on the PC, and figuring out what to name it. That's a better name than "Makeinstall."

  11. Re: Does it know if I've been bad or good? on Big Data Knows When You Are About To Quit Your Job · · Score: 1

    Now that I got a name, I could find the story. http://forums.gunbroker.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=90049

  12. Re: Does it know if I've been bad or good? on Big Data Knows When You Are About To Quit Your Job · · Score: 2

    A request for 1,000 dollar bills might not be unreasonable at the bigger banks. You don't want to carry that much cash around, as the police may consider you a criminal under existing drug laws. A trucker got pulled over and arrested for possessing an extremely rare one-thousand-dollar bill in his wallet. He was let go without charges but the police chief kept the one-thousand-dollar bill and framed it on his wall, ordering the clerk to refund the value in regular cash. The trucker had to sue to get his one-thousand-dollar bill back.

  13. Re:That was close... on We Are Running Out of Sand · · Score: 1

    I guess you didn't notice that I was dickering around in my reply.

  14. Re:I'm not a scientist... on French Health Watchdog: 3D Viewing May Damage Eyesight In Children · · Score: 1

    I didn't know that the French were Republicans!

  15. Supported desktop list is missing one on OpenSUSE 13.2 Released · · Score: 1

    seven supported desktop environments (KDE 4.14, GNOME 3.14, Xfce, LXDE, Enlightenment 19, Mate and Awesome)

    No support for Blackbox?! SuSE has fallen to new lows since version 6 when I last used it back in the day.

  16. I'm not a scientist... on French Health Watchdog: 3D Viewing May Damage Eyesight In Children · · Score: 3, Insightful

    According to Anses, the process of assimilating a three-dimensional effect requires the eyes to look at images in two different places at the same time before the brain translates it as one image.

    Isn't that how normal vision works anyway?

  17. Re:That was close... on We Are Running Out of Sand · · Score: 2

    After 50 failed attempts to repeal Obamacare, what else would you call Boehner?

  18. Re:That was close... on We Are Running Out of Sand · · Score: 1

    Haven't you heard? We just had an election. It's McConnell and Boehner.

  19. Re:That was close... on We Are Running Out of Sand · · Score: 2

    The economy might be getting better, but there aren't that many boob jobs out there.

  20. Re:Coastal people live in their own universe on We Are Running Out of Sand · · Score: 1

    You've obviously have never made S'mores over a raging bonfire on the beach during summer.

  21. That was close... on We Are Running Out of Sand · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I thought the article was about running out of sand for silicon semiconductors. Besides California falling into the Pacific Ocean after a big earthquake, a lack of sand would be the end of Silicon Valley.

  22. Lovecraftian Dark Matter on Physicists Resurrect an Old, Strange Dark Matter Theory · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Wikipedia has the answer! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cthulhu

  23. Re:This is great news! on Silicon Valley Swings To Republicans · · Score: 1

    President Obama is the best moderate conservative that the Democrats ever put into the White House. Neither the progressives nor leftists are happy about that, but they're not running everyone out of the tent who disagrees with them.

  24. Re:This is great news! on Silicon Valley Swings To Republicans · · Score: 1

    The Great Recession came about under a Republican president. The consequences will be felt for decades to come.

  25. Re:I love recruiters, but they're basically useles on Tech Recruiters Defend 'Blacklists,' Lack of Feedback, Screening Techniques · · Score: 1

    I was out of work for eight months this past year. I've talked with hundreds of recruiters, had 60 interviews, and three job offers at the same time before accepting my current job. As a contractor, this was par for the course.