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  1. Re: Hiring Chief Security Officers with music degr on Slashdot Asks: Which IT Hiring Trends Are Hot, and Which Ones Are Going Cold? · · Score: 1

    But due to diversity it starts with a crescendo and will end with largo

  2. Re: lost of telemarketing calls on Equifax Suffered a Hack Almost Five Months Earlier Than the Date It Disclosed (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Those are the India based telemarketers spoofing their numbers.

  3. Re: Insider trading, jail for life on Equifax Suffered a Hack Almost Five Months Earlier Than the Date It Disclosed (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    NO. Life sentences means that we the taxpayers are still on the hook. And they get an all expense paid trip to club fed.

  4. I am kind of curious WHO was actually performing their day to day operational tasks. Was it their own in-house IT? Did they follow all procedures that SHOULD have prevented this? Was there anything else that could have been done to prevent this.

  5. What could go wrong.... on Typing By Brain Arrives: No Surgery Necessary (wired.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Okay, while this may be pretty handy in some cases, but I am hoping people are taking into account that IF it is brain activity that simulates a keyboard based on what your thinking..... Get where this is going. No more thinking about last night with your wife, no more cubicle walks ups that will interrupt your thought process, and holy cow, do we need to reference the micro-managing boss scenario? I see benefits and the opposite with technology like this. I just hope someone does think about this.

    It would be kind of bad if a co-worker drops by and "Yea, I would tap that" shows up on your screen.

  6. Yea, you also with your embargo.

  7. Well, considering we have been in a trade deficit for the past 10 years to about the tune of $43B a month (hint: that usually tells most that you already ARE restricting US goods from entering your market)....... Okay, I raise your embargo with a 100% tariff on all foreign produced products. And I call.

  8. Re:There's Nothing to Re-Negotiate on Trump's Officials Suggest Re-Negotiating The Paris Climate Accord (msn.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    The WSJ story has already been debunked. Stop the madness already.

  9. Okay, but will your dog raid a cat's litter box to see if there is a mid-day snack? (Hint: most do). So for those that have both cats and dogs as pets, this is usually the reason why there should be no concern that your feline friend is constipated.

  10. Does this now point out that tinfoil hatters may not be conspiracy nutters that they are depicted as? Kind of makes you wonder.

  11. Re:Yes and no... on Equifax CEO Hired a Music Major as the Company's Chief Security Officer · · Score: 1

    Now that is funny. It is not just anyone that will give your company a $3 billion boost in market value just for being fired.

  12. Re: Yes and no... on Equifax CEO Hired a Music Major as the Company's Chief Security Officer · · Score: 4, Funny

    She fell sharply flat with her security approach. Anymore to keep it going?

  13. Re:Yes and no... on Equifax CEO Hired a Music Major as the Company's Chief Security Officer · · Score: 1

    Agreed. They provide the applications that are put into an environment that the Operations teams manages. This is only after the application has gone through rigorous testing, many time through multiple test environment. Devs ONLY do unit test in a development environment. All other tests (Certification, Integration, Regression. We even added two more separate tests of Performance and Release) go through a different group of folks with environments setup for each. Each with specific set of tests in mind.

    There have been instances where a developer is present during deployment to the production environment, but that is the reason we added the two extra test (performance - load related and release - all applications present) environments to mitigate any issue. And yes, it was a VERY LARGE environment. Had release cycles of every two weeks for major changes, weekly for minor.

  14. Only if you consider just being able to survive as your one and only choice. You do know there is a difference between "living" and just "existing", right? That is part of being human.

  15. This is blathering noise in order to ensure there is a clear division maintained in the US. The one thing they do NOT want is a united US. Common "Art of War" tactic. Most people realize this. The problem, however, is there are quite a few useful idiots in the US on both sides.

  16. Re:Canada's real challenges: on Canada's Challenge Is Keeping Techies, BlackBerry Inventor Says (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, take your pick. A career politician whose primary goal is to perpetuate their career, or a person that had a profession that was not part of the political establishment? Who do you feel will represent the citizenry better?

  17. From the sound of it, it seems to be an economical factor brought on by government. I believe I read something similar to this in the UK medical field and US medical field as well.

    There seems to be a very fine balance between regulations that help and ones that actually destroy.

  18. Re:Thanks for the laugh on Silicon Valley Bosses Are Globalists, Not Libertarians (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    Well, we all do need laughter in our life to help us keep our sanity. At the least we could thank them for that.

  19. Re:With a markup like that on Apple's 'Shoddy' Beats Headphones Get Slammed In Lawsuit (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    No, not Johnny. Sorry, no Goin' to Jackson this time around.

  20. Re:Alright on Java EE Is Moving To the Eclipse Foundation (adtmag.com) · · Score: 1

    I always did like NetBeans, but it seemed to fall behind in some of the support while ahead in others. Maybe now it can be a little more consistent.

  21. Re:With a markup like that on Apple's 'Shoddy' Beats Headphones Get Slammed In Lawsuit (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    No, they will spend 5.1 million to make sure they do not lose. That is money well spent and not even an H2O molecule in the bucket of their cash hordes.

  22. Re:Most Ironic on Java EE Is Moving To the Eclipse Foundation (adtmag.com) · · Score: 1

    Wellll, IBM was pretty ticked off at Sun for trying to disrupt their mainframe market with the E10K line models back in the late 90's. Now REAL irony was that the company I worked for actually had a lease for their E10K (Sun product), with.... you guessed it IBM.

  23. Re:Alright on Java EE Is Moving To the Eclipse Foundation (adtmag.com) · · Score: 1

    I guess it will have to be seen as to WHAT PARTS of the EE product will actually be moved outside of their company. But from the sounds of it, this move is to further development in the EE product as a whole at a more rapid pace without having to put cash infusions by themselves. The related costs for just maintaining a major project is not a drop in the bucket. Enhancing one costs even more. Now they want to enhance it more rapidly.

    Do it by yourself? Or, release the project to a foundation with a record of successful management of large projects. I do not believe any large company does ANYTHING without looking at the money factor. Plus they gain the expertise of the Open Source community that is already part of the Eclipse foundation (e.g. IBM, RedHat, etc.). Added bonus.

    What I am wondering is WHY now? Why only the EE product? Coincidence it coincide to a restructuring as they plan to drop the SPARC architecture and Solaris? What is next?

  24. Re:Whatever on $782,000 Over Asking For a House in Sunnyvale (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    I lived on 40' sailboat for a year and a half in 2009 and I loved it. Don't like your neighbors, weather, or any other little annoyance.... raise anchor. One of the better years in my life. People in marinas are also great people.

  25. Re:Alright on Java EE Is Moving To the Eclipse Foundation (adtmag.com) · · Score: 1

    It removes his company from any resource expenditures associated with the maintenance of the widely used framework (themselves included). This should have been a no-brainer. Removing the maintenance costs, but retain the benefits. In addition, their attempts to monetize it pretty much has been exhausted.

    IMO, I believe that had they continued to pursue the path of trying to monetize the entire framework or even portions of it, supporters would have just abandoned it, and in the long run hurt themselves even worse and brought quite a few other big companies with them.

    So in answering your question, it freed up money so he COULD buy an even bigger yacht.