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  1. Re:"Pink Floyd engineer"? on Pink Floyd Engineer Alan Parsons Rips Audiophiles, YouTube and Jonas Brothers · · Score: 1

    Alan Parsans had a project of his very own? Never heard of it.

  2. Re:Zappy zappy on Mild Electric Shock To Brain May Boost Spatial Memory · · Score: 1

    I learned 1) not to trust my dad, and 2) how to know if your getting spark to the distributer, when he asked me to hold on to the coil cable as he turned over the engine.

  3. Re:Makes a great present on Mild Electric Shock To Brain May Boost Spatial Memory · · Score: 1

    forget your wearing... hahahaha biiizzzt. huh wah?

  4. Re:Contract on Ask Slashdot: Where Are the Open Source Jobs? · · Score: 1

    Pretty much. Also, elance limits the number of bids per month and takes ~9% off the top.

  5. Re:Why... on FAA Bill Authorizes Surveillance Drones Over US · · Score: 1
  6. Re:Im all for this on FAA Bill Authorizes Surveillance Drones Over US · · Score: 1

    members of congress, etc.. live in no fly zones.

  7. Re:Resonably Expecting Less Privacy on FAA Bill Authorizes Surveillance Drones Over US · · Score: 1

    I've been working up the plans for a very large parabolic solar reflector, capable of "flash-tanning" me in mere milliseconds

    Something tells me your dermitologist is behind the new law.

  8. Turing complete? on No Pardon For Turing · · Score: 2

    They are going to use Turing to represent how bad it is to pass judgment on someone based on an unjust law? How... Turing complete.

  9. Re:Multiple mobile operating systems? on iOS Vs. Android: Which Has the Crashiest Apps? · · Score: 1

    no one is saying it was a complete rewrite

    There wasn't any rewrite of the operating system. The only changes to iOS and Android have been application libraries (API), drivers, and hardware. The operating systems have, for the most part, been completely untouched. Darwin and Linux are doing as fine as one would expect.

    will a program written to run on windows 1.0 work on windows 7

    Considering Windows 1.0 was a graphical application interface to (DOS) and Windows7 comprises of its own built in operating system (NT), no.

    The point is that there are differences.

    Not really. The point is, the differences are not the operating system. If the writer knew what an operating system was, his "artcle" would have been two sentences long.

  10. Re:Seriously? on Half of Fortune 500s, US Agencies Still Infected With DNSChanger Trojan · · Score: 1
  11. Re:Seriously? on Half of Fortune 500s, US Agencies Still Infected With DNSChanger Trojan · · Score: 1

    Is it the fault of IT, management or the users?

    Yes. Dig a hole...

  12. Re:Multiple mobile operating systems? on iOS Vs. Android: Which Has the Crashiest Apps? · · Score: 1

    Then explain to me why something built for, say, Android 4.0 will not work on Android 1.5.

    Changes to the API. API is application interface. In its most simplistic description, the operating system is the layer between API and hardware,

    There are differences in both software and hardware.

    Adding drivers to an operating system doesn't make it a "new operating system".

    Kind of why the android devs are having troubles with stuff like 4.0's camera.

    The devs are having trouble getting the driver for the 4.0 camera's working properly. They are not rewriting the operating system for a camera driver. Adding a driver, that is loaded by the operating system, is not a "new operating system".

  13. Re:Seriously? on Half of Fortune 500s, US Agencies Still Infected With DNSChanger Trojan · · Score: 1

    due to either lack of comprehension, lack of skill or lack of funding

    You could have just written, "Bought managers penis enlarging iDevice instead of funding IT". Everyone would have understood.

  14. Re:Multiple mobile operating systems? on iOS Vs. Android: Which Has the Crashiest Apps? · · Score: 1

    Um, yes. Your correct. Microsoft has made significant, complete, total changes but still kept "Windows" in the name of their operating system. Considering the first version of Windows; Windows 1.0, Windows 2.0, Windows 3.0, wasn't even an OS, I would think that would be obvious. To say that Apple has rewritten iOS four times is absolute ignorance. To say that Google has rewritten Linux four times, when they haven't changed it even once, is complete stupidity.

  15. Re:Multiple mobile operating systems? on iOS Vs. Android: Which Has the Crashiest Apps? · · Score: 1

    Base version? Are you suggestion there are fundamental kernel differences in Android? Seriously? You wouldn't happen to have a link showing where they redisigned Linux four times for me would you.

  16. Re:pathetic on Half of Fortune 500s, US Agencies Still Infected With DNSChanger Trojan · · Score: 4, Funny

    The guy in charge of hiring is the bosses son and he "knows the internet".

  17. Seriously? on Half of Fortune 500s, US Agencies Still Infected With DNSChanger Trojan · · Score: 5, Insightful

    any computers still infected with DNSChanger may no longer be able to browse the Web

    There are over 250 IT departments that not only allow infected machines to remain on the network but allow users to continue to use them?!? The IT world has officially gone to shit. I'm going back to bed.

  18. udev? on Google Pulls Support For CDMA Devices · · Score: 2

    Why does this sound like the decision to allow udev to separate the loadable module from the proprietary firmware? Sound to me like Google is doing nothing more than saying, "You have to pay the license fees to include the firmware for CDMA."

  19. Yikes! on Simulators Take the Humans Out of Hiring · · Score: 1

    Another way to keep people that think outside of the box off the payroll.

  20. Multiple mobile operating systems? on iOS Vs. Android: Which Has the Crashiest Apps? · · Score: 1

    One of the reasons for app crashes is the proliferation of mobile operating systems on iOS and Android. As Apple and Google have released more new operating systems...

    Apple has multiple mobile operating systems? Here i thought they just had iOS? Oh wait. According to this "professional" Google has multple mobile operating systems too! I must really be out of the loop. Maybe they should stick with just one OS and update it when they find bugs. Oh that would be cool! They could like call it the same thing but increment a number next to its name to show which updates have been applied.

    Wait! What? Why are you marking this as flaimbait? The article was flaimbait based on a bunch of hair splitting conjecture and the assumption that each update of the OS was some kind of new OS. Why shouldn't I get to join the fun?

  21. Fixes for Perl? on Craigslist Donates $100,000 To the Perl Foundation · · Score: 0

    Does this mean, "Beat up old computer geek seeking perky young beauty queen", will someday elicit the correct queen or is that not a Perl issue?

  22. Nicely played Americans are. on How the GOP (and the Tea Party) Helped Kill SOPA · · Score: 1

    Propose a bill that will stir negative public opionion then let your offshoot political branch be the "ones against it". Does anyone really believe the tea baggers want free access to any content.

  23. Re:is for porn on How the GOP (and the Tea Party) Helped Kill SOPA · · Score: 1

    I thought it was spelled pr0n

  24. Re:Standard arguments on The Coda Electric Car at the Detroit International Auto Show (Video) · · Score: 1

    Having a turbo engage when the supercharger is flat is bad math? O.K.

  25. Re:A better question. on Some Critics Suggest Apple Boycott Over Chinese Working Conditions · · Score: 1

    Indentured servants will never be able to afford the products they make. Though I thought they already were, I'd like to see them become "important", as you put it. Maybe they should demand equal pay.