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  1. Re:Your staff on Ask Slashdot: Is There a Professional Geek Dress Code? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But the key thing to remember is that people WILL judge you based on what you are wearing. So don't dress on how people should act, dress on how they will act, if you care how they act toward you.

  2. Re:I'm glad on Half of India Without Electricity As Power Grid Crisis Deepens · · Score: 1

    I've worked with India-based development contracts where IP is involved. It's actually rather amazing how gestapo-like the control is on some of those. Firms in India are very aware of controlling IP, even more so than most companies based in the US.

  3. Re:Meanwhile, over the border... on Half of India Without Electricity As Power Grid Crisis Deepens · · Score: 1

    Most of the western US uses natural gas for hot water, and most homes in my area use natural gas ranges for cooking as well. Kind of nice because the natural gas supply isn't disrupted by weather because it is all buried (now when an earthquake happens, that is a different story).

  4. So they will just be cut off. on Icelandic Court Rules: Wikileaks Will Get Contributed Credit Card Money · · Score: 1

    This will just mean they will be cut off from the world financial processing system. If they start accepting these payments, the VISA network, for example, will just drop them as a provider. The other networks will as well, and you can count the truly international ones on one hand. As someone said above, it's financial suicide for Valitor.

  5. Re:Trespassing.... on Ask Slashdot: Are Smart Meters Safe? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This property owner fellow needs to do more research on easements, encumbrances, and fee simple property titles. Property ownership is not as simple as most hillbillies think it is.

  6. Re:Short-term thinking on Cisco Pushing 'Cloud Connect' Router Firmware, Allows Web History Tracking · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is right on. The problem Cisco doesn't realize they have is that most of these cheap home routers are maintained by people that also make decisions for purchase on the enterprise side. When Grandma needs to buy a router, she doesn't buy one, she has her nephew (who is so cute and knows so much about computers!) to buy it for her. Her nephew also works in enterprise IT, in many cases. For a perfect example, read the Harvard business cases on Black & Decker, and how they tried to do the same thing and completely destroyed their brand name for professionals.

  7. Re:The shortest answer on Why Are Fantasy World Accents British? · · Score: 1

    Isn't that Sir Peter Cushing and Sir Christopher Lee? Not to mention Sir Patrick Stewart, of course.

  8. Re:It's obvious: on Why Are Fantasy World Accents British? · · Score: 1

    Filmed outside the US, but usually bankrolled, produced, and distributed by multi-billion dollar US conglomerates (in the case of LOTR, for example).

  9. Which is then used for criminal activity on Verizon Says Hactivists Now Biggest Corporate Net Threat · · Score: 1

    How much of the "Hacktivist" data that is stolen is then turned over and used for criminal activity? Does it matter why it was stolen, if the result is the same?

  10. Re:Hooray! on Faulty Cable To Blame For Superluminal Neutrino Results · · Score: 1

    The cable was connected between the GPS time device and a computer. It's a secondary cable, not the primary experiment cable. I'm assuming the connection was not working so the computer was not being synchronized correctly and therefore mis-calculating results.

  11. Corporate security? on RIM PlayBook Tablet Jailbroken · · Score: 1

    Isn't the market edge for RIM devices that they are ultra-secure and don't have issues like this? How is this going to effect the market share for security-conscious corporations?

  12. Re:Developement Cycles on RIM PlayBook Email App Nowhere In Sight · · Score: 1

    I can tell you wrote that comment in an agile fashion, as quickly as possible, without pausing to review, edit, or even spell check it.

  13. Difficult requirements on Ask Slashdot: Network Backup Solution Out of the Box? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    "preferably advanced enough..." "readily available (no obscure/local brands/solutions)..." "not unreasonably expensive" It's going to be hard to match all three of those requirements. Remember the triangle - Scope, Quality, Cost - choose two.

  14. Re:Question: Math vs CS Degree on Age Bias In IT: the Reality Behind the Rumors · · Score: 1

    Tell your son to major in math and minor in finance. Much better combination.

  15. Re:Since text messages cost sooooo much to carry on AT&T Kills $10 Texting Plan, Pushes $20 Plan · · Score: 1

    Wish I had mod points.

  16. Accident or Malice? on Emacs Has Been Violating the GPL Since 2009 · · Score: 2

    That's the most important question.

  17. Re:What are they trying to prove at this point? on Sony Compromised, Again · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But they aren't crimes against a faceless corporation in this instance. This is a crime against thousands of individual humans who just had their credentials stolen and published.

  18. Octaves? on Glove Emulates Musical Instruments · · Score: 1

    Don't trumpet and trombone (and most brass instruments) have multiple octaves that can only be accessed by the player changing their embouchure? How are you going to give them more than a dozen notes or so, without a sensor for their lips?

  19. Stock shows no change on RIM Announces BlackBerry 7 OS · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Investors obviously aren't impressed. After the huge crash last week in RIMM, with this announcement you would expect some recovery, but there just isn't anything there.

  20. Network neutrality? on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Leave My Router Open? · · Score: 1

    Sounds like you have a network neutrality problem on your hands. How to provide services while downgrading heavy users through selective throttling...

  21. Re:We've been streaming-only for a year and a half on Ask Slashdot: Are You Streaming-Only For Home Entertainment? · · Score: 1

    I have several friends who routinely pay over $200 USD per month.

  22. Not that expensive on A Cheat Sheet To the Mobile-Patent Mess · · Score: 1

    Surprisingly, corporate counsel (where you have a big company like this, and they have full-time, salaried staff lawyers) isn't really that expensive to use to file a lawsuit. Compared to the R&D expenses, lawsuits really aren't that expensive if you already have a full-time lawyer (or many) on staff.

  23. Re:Willingness to pay on AT&T Lowers Data Access To Just $500/GB · · Score: 1

    Touché. Seriously, though- thank you for an insightful post base on some real economic theory instead of inflammatory rhetoric. Mod parent up.

  24. Willingness to pay on AT&T Lowers Data Access To Just $500/GB · · Score: 1

    Remember that market prices are not set based on cost. They are set based on willingness to pay (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willingness_to_pay). All large corporations set their prices this way, based on economic and business theory.

  25. Google is a publicly traded company on Google Fights Back Against Android Fragmentation · · Score: 1

    I don't think people have realized yet the incredible impact it has on a company to have an IPO and become publicly traded. Going forward, Google is going to start operating a lot more like any other publicly traded company, because the investors are now in charge, in the long run. Their purpose now is to increase the value of their shareholders, that's just the way it works if the public owns your company.