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  1. Undergrad only? on 13% of CompSci Grads Have Starting Salaries Over $100K · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Are they talking about undergrads or did they include graduate students and PhD graduates as well? I really doubt that somebody fresh from college with an undergrad degree can make mid $60k right off the bat.

  2. Re:4 paid developers yes, but on VirtualBox Development At a Standstill · · Score: 1

    This is correct. It is Xen.

  3. Re:International dick measuring contest on Does Being First Still Matter In America? · · Score: 1

    The willingness to spend any money. It's all about profits here in this country. We will only be first in things that has something to do with money, selfishness, and convenience.

  4. Re:Critical thinking test for y'all on Employers Worried About Critical Thinking Skills · · Score: 1

    The glass is made of ice, it melted, and that's how the pillow got wet. And I assume the diamonds were inside that glass?

  5. Easy tests on Employers Worried About Critical Thinking Skills · · Score: 1

    Two easy tests to show how little critical thinking this society is capable of: promise them they can get rich quick by following 3 easy steps or yell out "Ebola" in a crowded train.

  6. Re:Downloading music for free? Scandelous! on Say Goodbye To That Unwanted U2 Album · · Score: 1

    I didn't hire Apple to maintain my music library. I signed up to use their shelves to put my music the way I want it. If I knew it came with a maid that can do whatever she wants with my library I wouldn't have signed up.

  7. Re:Downloading music for free? Scandelous! on Say Goodbye To That Unwanted U2 Album · · Score: 1

    So, when you set your device to auto-sync you automatically agree that Apple can push whatever they want onto your device in addition to your own stuff? I hope that's covered in some EULA you agree before using iTunes.

  8. The wars? on Ask Slashdot: What Smartwatch Apps Could You See Yourself Using? · · Score: 1

    The "smartwatch wars have begun" because Apple joined the fray? There was no war before then?

  9. Create your own community on Ask Slashdot: Tools For Managing Multiple Serial Console Servers? · · Score: 1

    Open the source of your tools and make them available to the public. You will be able to grow your own community. I would LOVE to have a look at your home-grown stuff. We are an Avocent shop here when it comes to remote console/KVM/power access and so far the only tool we are currently looking into is DSView which a) is sucky enterprise-y software, b) extremely pricey, and c) does way more than we need it to do. Thanks to your posting, though, I found interesting links to tools like conman and powerman in the comments.

  10. Re:I don't think I agree with this statement... on Edward Snowden Files For Political Asylum In Russia · · Score: 1

    Huh? Law enforcement has all kinds of tools to make sure that you cannot leave the country if you are accused of something. So, yes, the Department of State can revoke your passport so you stay put so you can get your trial or your conviction.

  11. Re:First off, on How CoreSite Survived Sandy · · Score: 1

    Yes, the power in that part of town was out for less than a week. My employer also houses two datacenters in the same building and both floors were on generator power all that time w/o incident. So, the only useful thing you can take out of CoreSite's story is "have backup power on standby". You'll never know when it is needed. Or, do it like what NYU did, have your own power plant and hook up your most critical sites to it (http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/05/how-n-y-u-stayed-partly-warm-and-lighted/).

  12. Re:Submitter here... on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Protect My Android Devices From Hackers? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I've had enough of a crash course in android this year to know it's real, especially when I have family members who are in law enforcement and gov't jobs that they can't/won't talk about. Those people do have access to the 'interesting' toys...

    I don't know, dude. The most logical answer anybody here can give you: your wifi access at home is crap because a) both of your devices work fine using other hotspots and b) both of your devices don't work at home. Btw, Android 2.2.x (aka Froyo) is known to have wifi problems in enterprise settings. Google fixed that in 2.3. Just another example how other explanations make a lot more sense than "I am being hacked." And the quote above makes you sound a bit of a looney.

  13. Re:What happened to qwerty devices? on CyanogenMod 9 Working On the Nexus S · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Try using an ssh client like ConnectBot with a virtual keyboard. You are losing enormous amounts of screen real estate that you need to get work done. I am in nightfire's camp - a phone without slide-out keyboard is utterly useless. I do not want to schlep around another piece of equipment in form of a bluetooth keyboard or some such. There are some hardware solutions for the iPhone 4 (cases with built-in keyboards) but the accessory market in the Android world sucks donkey balls thanks to manufacturers pumping out a new phone every 7 days.

  14. Re:Frozen, I tells you on Andrew Tanenbaum On Minix, Linux, BSD, and Licensing · · Score: 1

    Dude, I have the book. I used to have the source code on disk. There was nothing monolithic about MINIX in version 1. It's been a microkernel from day one on. You really do not know what you are talking about or you read the wrong books/articles about UNIX history.

  15. Re:Good on Two Porn Companies Take ICANN and .xxx Registrar To Court · · Score: 1

    Yup, and DNS is only being used on the Web, right? We will just google for the names of mail servers, NTP servers, etc. or replace host lookups with Google searches under the hood.

  16. Re:Oracle? on Fujitsu Announces 16-core SPARC64 IXfx (and the Supercomputer It Powers) · · Score: 1

    Not my experience at all. We never had any trouble with Oracle support. Sure, the online portal sucks donkey balls but getting them to reply to us within the contracted time has never been a problem. If it happened to you, you should make a stink with your account representative.

  17. Re:Call me old fashioned on Dropbox Pursues Business Accounts, But Falls Short On Privacy Laws · · Score: 2

    Because sometimes it can cost a lot of money to run and maintain a storage system. It doesn't stop with capital costs. There is maintenance fees and labor costs. It can be a lot cheaper to outsource these things.

  18. What do CUs do with your money? on Fee Increase Attempt Inspires 'Dump Your Bank Day' · · Score: 1

    I am curious (and a bit too lazy right now to look it up) but doesn't the money we deposit with credit unions still end up in the "evil banks"' hands? Isn't all so much interwoven that you will never be able to avoid giving your indirect support to the big players in the financial industry?

  19. Re:Journalists and Math on Angry Birds Downloads Pass Half-Billion Mark · · Score: 1

    The article linked to also says "half billion" and "500,000". I assume it's 500,000,000.

  20. Re:The US will just cripple its own tech on Apple Granted Patent For Slide To Unlock · · Score: 1

    I would love to support your point but that graph really only shows that Apple is the defendant in most of the cases. NTP, Inc. seems to be the bad guys suing the most.

  21. Quality of life through nutrition? on DNA May Carry a Memory of Your Living Conditions From Childhood · · Score: 1

    I don't know what I should make out of these findings but couldn't it be that kids coming from a "richer" background are fed more nutritiously than maybe a "poor" kid? Couldn't that have an impact on the "appearance" of the genetic material? DNA and life style are such different things that I am not convinced that a correlation between these two are any meaningful at this point.

  22. Re:Largest single cells on 10-Centimeter Single-Celled Organisms Photographed 6 Miles Underwater · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Technically, the yolk is part of the "egg cell". The white and everything else within (besides the yolk) and including the shell is not. The only thing that is special about the yolk is that it does not partake in cell division if the egg is fertilized. There are no other cells within an egg. The white and the shell are not made from cells. All that said, I doubt, though, that the yolk of an ostrich egg is bigger than 20cm.

  23. Re:TV has been great for our kids on Doctors Recommend Against TV For Kids Under 2 · · Score: 1

    I am also in the camp that TV can help your child's mental development but it really depends on each individual child. It never is a necessity nor a requirement for raising smart children. It just doesn't hurt as the AAP, for example, is trying to tell us.

  24. Re:The AAP has always been extremely conservative on Doctors Recommend Against TV For Kids Under 2 · · Score: 1

    By after school activities of their own choosing (dance and swimming) and some that we as parents want them to do (mostly religious education). The rest of the time is taken up by homework and of course downtime. TV usually stays off all day on school days mostly because nobody is missing it.

  25. Re:The AAP has always been extremely conservative on Doctors Recommend Against TV For Kids Under 2 · · Score: 1

    Agreed. It is up to you as a parent what you feel comfortable with. If you believe too much TV is detrimental your child's development you restrict it. As long as we don't judge each other what we do with our own children that's perfectly fine by me. I just think (my very own personal opinion) that the AAP has always been way too conservative when it comes to things what's good and what's not good for our children. They do have an agenda they follow which I don't agree with.