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  1. Re:VM? on Ask Slashdot: High-Performance Laptop That Doesn't Overheat? · · Score: 1

    There is no such thing as a high performance VM solution! You use VMs to share (chop up) a higher performance machine into several low performance VMs among multiple users or to run several server applications with low CPU requirements.

  2. Re:Frankly... on Paul Graham: Let the Other 95% of Great Programmers In · · Score: 1

    I've always found it easy to land decent jobs.

    You must be under 30, or at least under 40.

  3. We had "cloud computing" back in the 70s on In IT, Beware of Fad Versus Functional · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It was called "Time sharing".

  4. Re:Santa's gonna be PISSED on Denmark Makes Claim To North Pole, Based On Undersea Geography · · Score: 1

    Well, according to this Santa IS Danish!

  5. Re:PC Failure? on Google Suggests Separating Students With 'Some CS Knowledge' From Novices · · Score: 1

    I don't think they should be called native American at all. They immigrated from Asia, as did others, some from Europe, some from Africa etc.

    Well, if you are going to count people who "immigrated" to America 10K or more years ago as not being native, you might as well call everyone African as that where Homo sapiens originated!

  6. They have to check for explosive devices on Are the TSA's New Electronic Device Screenings Necessary? · · Score: 1

    Like lithium batteries

  7. Re:America, land of the free... on Ask Slashdot: Can a Felon Work In IT? · · Score: 1

    Why do you assume he committed a violent crime?

    Assuming it's a violent crime is definitely a bad assumption. It could be something non-violent such as theft, which would be a huge disincentive for an IT Department. However, everything is all speculation other than he committed some kind of felony in his misguided youth, which is a very broad category.

  8. PGP on ISPs Removing Their Customers' Email Encryption · · Score: 1

    This is not as much of an issue when using PGP or something that encrypts the e-mail before it is sent to the server.

  9. The Death of the Internet Troll is not Ineivtable! on The Inevitable Death of the Internet Troll · · Score: 1

    Nor is it possible without shutting down the internet and/or removing the ability to be anonymous.
    Also Troll != harassment. Some troll harass and others don't. Some harassers troll and others don't.

  10. Re:ESSO on Lego Ends Shell Partnership Under Greenpeace Pressure · · Score: 1

    Strike that, Indeed Esso is not Shell as parent indicates, as it is part of the Standard Oil derivative that is Exxon-Mobil.

  11. Re:ESSO on Lego Ends Shell Partnership Under Greenpeace Pressure · · Score: 1

    That simple IS true. Esso is an Exxon-Mobil brand, which is a direct descendant of Standard Oil. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExxonMobil)

  12. Hacker! on Europol Predicts First Online Murder By End of This Year · · Score: 1

    This add a whole new meaning to the term Hacker!

  13. Re:Why do people still care about C++ for kernel d on Object Oriented Linux Kernel With C++ Driver Support · · Score: 1

    I've yet to see any binary for any language, including C, compiled for x86 able to run on an ARM or any other CPU Architecture. portable binaries are an oxymoron.

  14. Re:The feminists want you to find a way! on Code.org: Blame Tech Diversity On Education Pipeline, Not Hiring Discrimination · · Score: 1

    How ever did your wife ever find horrible, backstabbing Lawyers? I'm shocked!

  15. Re:Expense on If Tesla Can Run Its Gigafactory On 100% Renewables, Why Can't Others? · · Score: 1
    90% of people care about the environment, but not enough can afford to pay 25% more for transportation

    FTFY

  16. Re:How quickly will they run back to Oracle? on UK's National Health Service Moves To NoSQL Running On an Open-Source Stack · · Score: 1

    So, when you have an operation and they wind up performing a sex reassignment surgery instead of an appendectomy due to the lack of atomicity, consistency, isolation and durability in their database, you would be OK with it?

  17. Re:Holy shit! on UK's National Health Service Moves To NoSQL Running On an Open-Source Stack · · Score: 1

    No one has claimed it actually worked, just that it has "gone live".

  18. Re:How quickly will they run back to Oracle? on UK's National Health Service Moves To NoSQL Running On an Open-Source Stack · · Score: 1

    They are expecting cost savings due to not paying Oracle licenses, so that strongly implies that there will no longer have any data to be queried in Oracle. The NoSQL solution they are moving to, Riak, is a key-value store that can to full text searches. It is very unlikely to scale when performing full text searches of millions of very long text documents. I do not see this ending well

  19. Re: What the heck? on DMCA Claim Over GPL Non-Compliance Shuts Off Minecraft Plug-Ins · · Score: 3, Informative

    You are confused. No commercial entity took GPL code. What happened is that a GPL Project took commercial code. The GPL code is a derivative of the commercial code, the commercial code contains absolutely no GPL code. The GPL code is the mod.

  20. Re: What the heck? on DMCA Claim Over GPL Non-Compliance Shuts Off Minecraft Plug-Ins · · Score: 2

    Using that logic, and the logic of the complainant, then Microsoft will surely have to release Windows source code because GPL software has been written to run on it and now must comply with the GPL.

  21. Re: What the heck? on DMCA Claim Over GPL Non-Compliance Shuts Off Minecraft Plug-Ins · · Score: 1

    Somebody, Wesley Wolfe (Wolvereness), contributed code to an Open Source, GPLed project that plugs into (links to) to a proprietary game. He is now claiming that since there is a GPLed plugin that links to the Proprietary code, that the author of said code now has to release it to the Public Domain.

  22. Re:Not exactly endearing you to the public on Tech Looks To Obama To Save Them From 'Just Sort of OK' US Workers · · Score: 1

    I agree that foreign worker are not inherently worse. However most of my recent experience with off-shore and H1B workers have been from low-cost providers *cough*Infosys*cough*IBM*cough*Perficient*Cough* that are selected strictly on cost, to "save money". Since these are low cost providers placing people in a really cheap account, they have to scrape the bottom of the barrel to find workers at the lowest cost possible. Therefore, most of those particular workers are not very good and the code they write can be really strange and it usually doesn't work. Sometimes someone really good happens to come along, but they usually don't stay very long. I would guess they find a better paying gig fairly rapidly...

  23. Re:Read that statement as follows: on Tech Looks To Obama To Save Them From 'Just Sort of OK' US Workers · · Score: 1

    That's not what I hear from the H1B workers from the various offshoring providers that I have worked with.

  24. Re:Ya I don't understand the hate on FPS games on Swedish Dad Takes Gamer Kids To Warzone · · Score: 1

    but but but -- there's GUNS and shooting and death! yeah death!! FPS id bad!!! hurrr..... durrr.....

  25. Re:Barak Obama's Secret Terrorist-Tracking System? on 40% Of People On Terror Watch List Have No Terrorist Ties · · Score: 1

    No, just that "Barak Obama" is not personally responsible for the list, as the headline of the article seems to imply. He did not personally add all those names to the list. This is yet another case of the Intelligence community running amock and whoever happens to be the president at the time of the discovery should not shoulder all the blame.