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  1. Just a question.... on Moving Away From the IT Field? · · Score: 1

    What's IT?

  2. Hence raising California's albedo..... on Car Glass Rules Could Impair Cell, GPS and Radio Signals In CA · · Score: 1

    making even more likely to attract alien invasion....

    "garble garble...Ooooooh....shiny"

  3. Re:We're screwed on Researcher Dies After Studying Plague Bacteria · · Score: 1

    Since lice are nowhere near as prevalent as they used to be, you don't normally have to fear an outbreak.

    But....there's more lawyers and politicians.

    lawyers -> politicians -> humans

  4. Re:Slashdotted - Google Cache the real links on Alan Cox Quits As Linux TTY Maintainer — "I've Had Enough" · · Score: 1

    To be fair, "I no longer care"

    To be even fairer, "I no longer care" is an emotional anagram for "and not only that, fuck off"

  5. Re:No gratitude? on Alan Cox Quits As Linux TTY Maintainer — "I've Had Enough" · · Score: 1

    mentioning that I liked operator overloading the other day.

    There's another one! Grab him before he gets away!!!!

  6. Re:You will have to know tech either way on Tech Or Management Beyond Age 39? · · Score: 1

    Slashdot generally seems to consider...

    Slashdot is a web site.

    The previous posters for this item have demonstrated quite a wide range of opinions about the post, but none suggesting that management wasn't a skill or difficult. Sure, many note managers who have been disasters, but not because the managers weren't "anyone could do" enough.

  7. Re:American Money, American Land, American Calls on NSA To Build 20-Acre Data Center In Utah · · Score: 1

    You don't need supercomputers for handling AT&T's data.

    You need them for real-time mass voice recognition, keyword search and analysis.

  8. Re:Ummm... on Virginia Health Database Held For Ransom · · Score: 5, Funny

    How he expects to receive any money is beyond me... .

    A good plan would be to identify two similarly hackable situations, crack one and post a ransom note on the main page. Then kick back and read Slashdot to figure out how best to exploit hack situation number two.

    We give the best advice.

  9. Re:Sounds like an inside job. on Virginia Health Database Held For Ransom · · Score: 1

    The phrasing "gone missing" makes him sound like he's from somewhere in the United Kingdom...

    And "uhoh" is not hyphenated. Hmmmmm.........

  10. The best of times, etc... on Worst Working Conditions You Had To Write Code In? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    In living room. Two toddlers and an infant to manage. Years, but they became older as time went by so it got better and worse.

    Drove me nuts. Wouldn't have missed it for the world.

    The screaming German client on the phone with no tolerance or understanding for Thanksgiving holiday with infant on my shoulder and a toddler heading for the basement stairs was the best, ever.

  11. Re:It just amazes me on Taming Conficker, the Easy Way · · Score: 1

    Hook, line and sinker. That's what trolls are for.

    No actually, the fact that the supposed cure for the disease, or rather remote diagnostic, takes advantage of the fact that Windows by default lets such probes detect _anything_.

  12. It just amazes me on Taming Conficker, the Easy Way · · Score: -1, Troll

    I've often wondered why Microsoft just doesn't implement some sort of security in Windows like other OS's have. It might prevent this kind of thing.

  13. Step 1, step 2... on From an Unrelated Career To IT/Programming? · · Score: 1

    - identify jobs you'd be interested in

    - make sure you learn enough to do the jobs

    - get interviews and convince the interviewers you can do the job

    - get job

    - realize OMG I have a job in _IT_

    - quit. Become stand up comedian

  14. Re:On one hand... on Harlan Ellison Sues For "Star Trek" Episode · · Score: 1

    I know the story. And I've watched the episode subsequently and, yeah, it says Harlan Ellison. But my sharp as a tack memory thinks that it originally said "Cordwainer Bird" but was later modified to match Harlan's story.

  15. Re:On one hand... on Harlan Ellison Sues For "Star Trek" Episode · · Score: 1

    Actually, I remember the credits on that episode quite clearly. It was not written by Harlan Ellison. It was written by Cordwainer Bird. Though one could consider CB as an alter-ego.

  16. Re:64 bit is no panacea on Adobe Photoshop CS4 Will Be 64-Bit For Windows Only · · Score: 1

    remember that 1GB of the 4GB address space is already reserved for system code sharing Not on Mac OS. Apps get the full 4gb. Although, at least on Tiger and before, there's a usability wall at 3.6gb due to required frameworks loaded.
  17. Re:Not really a new thing on A 3-D View of the Brain · · Score: 3, Informative

    > While it is good to see more talented people working in the medical visualization space,
    > this is not really a new thing. Image Fusion [wikipedia.org] has been around for a while now
    > but it has not yet become a mainstream technique.

    It is very mainstream for PET/CT fusion. Many manufacturers make combo PET/CT machines for just this purpose since the acquisitions are done at the same time, they align very closely and little if any rotation/translation has to be done for a good volume match.

  18. Re:Supersonic Flapping on The U.S. Navy's Doctrine of Laser Eye Surgery · · Score: 1

    >Friends & Family in the service have told me that not only are eyes checked, but other parts, too.

    I can't speak to the issue for the Navy (or our other armed forces) in general, but to even pre-qualify for the Naval Academy, your neck can't be too long or too short, you can't have had too much acne, teeth must be in "good enough" shape, etc, etc. Not to mention all the other performance related characteristics. The whole vision thing has loosened up incredibly in just the last 5 or 6 years.

  19. Re:Supersonic Flapping on The U.S. Navy's Doctrine of Laser Eye Surgery · · Score: 1

    >I wonder if this means that people who have had eye surgery in the civilian sector are also ineligible for flight school, or if > the military has even considered asking people if they have had the procedure before admitting them.

    For Navy flight school, in general, unless the procedure is performed by the Navy, one is ineligible. There is a waiver process, though, and it's possible to get lucky.