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  1. Re:Third Dimension on Kentucky Man Arrested After Shooting Down Drone · · Score: 1

    Was the issue that he shot the drone, or that he shot a gun into the air in his yard?

  2. Re: "Gigabit service" is FRAUD. on Gigabit Internet Access Now Supported By 84 US ISPs · · Score: 1

    Just like it's always been with every other last mile technology. Having a DS3 doesn't mean that you're going to slurp Joe Sixpack's blog at 45Mbit/s.

  3. Re: Ambiguous on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Store a Half-Petabyte of Data? (And Back It Up?) · · Score: 1

    Ceph. Or if you can get past the traditional filesystem concept, Swift. Don't cheap out on journals. Trust me on this.

  4. Re:There is no cure for absolute fucking stupidity on Techies Hire Witch To Protect Computers From Viruses and Offices From Spirits · · Score: 1

    However - I don't think that there is any profession which is unsuitable for women or minorities. And, sometimes, the woman, or the minority really is the best qualified.

    What sort of degree qualifies a woman to be a sperm donor?

  5. Re:$805M budget on Smithsonian Using Kickstart Campaign To Save Armstrong's Moon Suit · · Score: 1

    I have a buddy who served and was wounded in the Gulf. The VA mostly gives him runaround, like only scheduling appointments on the other side of the regional large city, 100 miles from where he lives. Because his grandmother lived there 25 years ago. He's been fighting for two years to get his disability percentage raged. In the meantime he can't work and has been camping out in my garage. There are advocates in theory to help with the VA process, but they're uniformly worthless.

  6. Re:25+ years on What's the Oldest Technology You've Used In a Production Environment? · · Score: 1

    To be sure, the Reagan-era kitten-heel era didn't really kick in until 1983-1984, though the stupid rat-tail thing had taken root already.

  7. Re:25+ years on What's the Oldest Technology You've Used In a Production Environment? · · Score: 1

    Shit, I work with people who actually and voluntarily use **vi**

  8. Re:They're worthless. on Why Certifications Are Necessary (Even If Aggravating To Earn) · · Score: 1

    Back in the day I looked at Sun's certifications, for a sysadmin the test had anachronisms like how to do things in vi, and expected answers to other questions that were just plain incorrect. Kinda soured me on the things.

  9. Re: Bad calculation on Microsoft Uses US Women's Soccer Team To Explain Why It Doesn't Hire More Women · · Score: 1

    Exactly the point that jumped right out at me. As for the poster who said that US people are only good for code monkeys and H1B's for higher work, my experience has been substantially the reverse.

  10. Re: Shut up.. on Scientists Develop Nutritious Seaweed That Tastes Like Bacon · · Score: 1

    Been able to realize that for some time. Gardien fishy cutlets are awesome, pair with Lightlife or Sweet Earth bacon. FFS you can buy vegan *bacon grease*.

  11. Re: Smaller than our moon from about 80x distance on 'Pluto Truthers' Are Pretty Sure That the NASA New Horizons Mission Was Faked · · Score: 1

    There's also the factor of light levels, it's like what EV1 out there?

  12. Re:Google Fiber TOS? on Google To Provide Free Internet For Public Housing Residents To All Fiber Markets · · Score: 1

    Were you running those ISP's with residential-class uplinks? All providers have terms like this for residential-class service, which is designed and priced for casual household use, not the substantially higher usage presented by commercial or shared users. Business-class services exist for those purposes, because nobody is in business to provide you service below their own cost. The rural WISP question, though, is moot because GF will never be deployed to such an area.

  13. Re:No live sports? No thanks. on Comcast Launches Streaming Service and Unveils Pricing For 2G Fiber · · Score: 1

    Still no practical choices to get a full plate of live sports without being tied to cable..

    Or .... you could grow up.

  14. Re: Never heard that one before on J.J. Abrams On "Star Wars" Cast's Racial and Sexual Diversity · · Score: 1

    Farscape had recurring characters that were clearly based on native americans, with some controversy re their portrayal. This seems like a like slippery slope, dual demands for actor diversity while not being seen as portraying badly.

  15. Re: Wrong. on Is the Amazon-Led Economic Boom Wrecking Seattle? · · Score: 1

    I have to laugh about the claim of a white demographic - are Indians considered white???

  16. Re: Nirvana?! on Computer Program Fixes Old Code Faster Than Expert Engineers · · Score: 1

    The quarter of a man he got hired The next damn day he got fired There's only one thing wrong with this plan He only gets a quarter he's a quarter of a man

  17. Re: Total on 13% of CompSci Grads Have Starting Salaries Over $100K · · Score: 1

    Yet MSFT is documented as paying fresh code monkeys 100k, AMZN too

  18. Re: The reason is more simple on Why Electric Vehicles Aren't More Popular · · Score: 1

    Because all parents are rich and can afford to pay insurance for kids?

  19. Re: The reason is more simple on Why Electric Vehicles Aren't More Popular · · Score: 1

    But you still end up with a VW, all the brain-dead engineering, defective documentation, and never-ending expensive repairs.

  20. Re: Range and Price on Why Electric Vehicles Aren't More Popular · · Score: 1

    The up-front, balloon, and overage charges are always downplayed by dealers. Leases are never favorable, and at the end you have a liability not equity.

  21. Re:They could save space on Where Facebook Stores 900 Million New Photos Per Day · · Score: 1

    Facebook practices severe compression on uploaded photos, so it's not a great option for archival. I upload family photos there for my wife's friends/family to see, but use CrashPlan for actual archival. These days most people view photos as ephemera, given that so many people can take thousands of good-enough-for-casual-use photos with their phones. Back in the day when taking / printing a photo was an event, people valued them much more.

  22. Re:It's business on How Verizon Is Hindering NYC's Internet Service · · Score: 1

    Aye, the landlords in NYC rake it in, and people haunt the obituaries looking for shitty apartments to get into. I can't see them bothering to facilitate tenant access unless either a) they're forced to or b) their already-astronomical profits are increased

  23. Re:Hmm that sounds familiar on How Verizon Is Hindering NYC's Internet Service · · Score: 1

    DC service in NYC was only discontinued a few years ago IIRC.

  24. Re: Demographics on FB Reveals Woeful Diversity Numbers · · Score: 1

    In the Facebook context, note that it's very difficult to get a job with them that doesn't involve being on-site in the silly valley, which limits the pool to single people who already live there.

  25. Re:Amazing and dreadful, simultaneously on Who Owns Your Overtime? · · Score: 1

    How many of those people can afford to live in houses?