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  1. Re: Umm... Lulz.... on Will Greek Finance Minister Varoufakis Support Cryptocurrency In Greece? · · Score: 1

    Nobody is going after those who took all this money? Its not magic, it went somewhere.
    The new government officials are cozying up with the kremlin which is a kleptocracy. In may western nations puts them on par with communists. You know the ones currently driving tanks west across the Ukraine.

    Clearly stepping on the economy while hoping it will improve to pay back the loans is a bad idea. But are the people mad enough now, to go get the stolen money back? This will require a lot of people going to jail or giving it back. If they aren't then its not going to get better.

  2. Generally people do not understand on Federal Court: Theft of Medical Records Not an 'Imminent Danger' To Victim · · Score: 2

    Generally people do not understand about personal data until it bites them in the butt. If his data and his families data gets highlighted in those records on the net. Bet he will think differently very fast. Perhaps he needs to understand the personal injury before he can make good decisions.
    Until is more expensive for people that make these decisions and corporations that fail on so many levels of bureaucracy, no changes will be made that have an impact.

  3. Re:not-a-bug; wont-fix on New Android Trojan Fakes Device Shut Down, Spies On Users · · Score: 1

    I'm assuming this only gets in a phone if its jail broken/rooted and your downloading illegally obtained crap the phone. My bet is Government made, but which one has the most to gain from it?
    Is it an Ad for AVG?
    The other Ad, chances of catching this approaches 0 if you don't screw the security on your device up?

  4. This was never going to work anyway. on Delivery Drones: More Feasible If They Come By Truck · · Score: 1

    Its purely a ploy to up stock price, look innovative, and have competitors spend money with RnD on crap that use not useful.
    Price per pound is still, ship, rail, then truck.
    Unless your delivering something like a paper clip at $10 a piece, there is no profit in this, at this time.
    I'm more curious if their "robot lifter distribution centers" are turning a profit yet.

  5. This card just shifts the liability, cost. on Credit Card Fraud Could Peak In 2015 As the US Moves To EMV · · Score: 2

    The cost for fraud is shifted to the merchant if their technology is not up to the level of the banks. If the retailer has high enough tech level, the liability is shifted to the customer.
    The day of you denying charges is about over, even if someone used a PIN device to fool the retailer.

    This does improve some security for the retailer network/software when dealing with the CCs but its a lot like saying DVD's are secure because they are encrypted. Is it secret, is it safe? No, its not. .

  6. Re:"Difficult to install" == "Difficult to compete on Google Faces Anti-Trust Probe In Russia Over Android · · Score: 1

    Its all about Kiev and our sanctions. Its not a technical issue. Kleptocracy.

  7. Re:Nobody gets to use the surprise face on US May Sell Armed Drones · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://www.worldstopexports.co...
    United States Top 10 Exports

    The following export product groups represent the highest dollar value in American global shipments during 2014. Also shown is the percentage share each export category represents in terms of US overall exports.

    Machines, engines, pumps: US$219,566,232,000 (13.5% of total exports)
    Electronic equipment: $171,966,197,000 (10.6%)
    Oil: $157,213,437,000 (9.7%)
    Vehicles: $135,797,903,000 (8.4%)
    Aircraft, spacecraft: $124,831,567,000 (7.7%)
    Medical, technical equipment: $84,879,104,000 (5.2%)
    Gems, precious metals, coins: $65,522,480,000 (4.0%)
    Plastics: $63,025,216,000 (3.9%)
    Pharmaceuticals: $43,967,977,000 (2.7%)
    Organic chemicals: $42,255,264,000 (2.6%)



    Perhaps they are priming to give Kiev some assistance with armored vehicle based terrorist/separatists/greenmen/ignorantrussians.

  8. Re:My suggestion to Oracle: SPARC everywhere... on Five Years After the Sun Merger, Oracle Says It's Fully Committed To SPARC · · Score: 1

    Hard to believe as I have 3500+ AIX servers with 5000+ lpars on them. As always the market changes, I personally hope IBM's massive price reductions and performance on the hardware spur some new interest. The only servers in my centers that never fall down are the AIX servers and zOS. I have Suse, redhat, MS.., z, servers, vmware, dedicated, just a lot of stuff. Z never goes down and AIX has about 99.99999 uptime here. I can't say that for any of the other hardware servers, dell, hp, etc. Its not cheap but not a disappointment either.
    We are trying to put more on linux but the vmware costs keep jumping in there.

  9. Re:Unfortunately... on Five Years After the Sun Merger, Oracle Says It's Fully Committed To SPARC · · Score: 1

    I've never been happy with any database running in vmware. But people keep putting them there. Just more work for me I guess.
    Vmware has its positives but its nowhere near say running oracle R11 on an AIX lpar with dedicated fc/nics, which can also be migrated with npiv live. Lpars lack snapshots unless you count the mksysb/storage snapshots, which work just fine.
    ATM we are trying to rationalize Snapshots of windows desktop and security. Nothing there, just headaches with vmware desktop. Might be banned soon. Anyone have a solution thats usable for that?

  10. Table seems to be lacking IBM Power 8 systems.

  11. Re:Oops! on Jeb Bush Publishes Thousands of Citizens' Email Addresses · · Score: 1

    Crusades were defensive in nature? What??? I must have missed that part when I read all those books about them.

  12. Re:Oops! on Jeb Bush Publishes Thousands of Citizens' Email Addresses · · Score: 1

    What happened to Greece sounds a lot like what happened in Russia. All we need now is the journalists dead and the beat of War drums. I mean we already have them hanging out together.
    I wonder who took the 300b from Greece. Nobody even talks about going after that money. WTF.

  13. Re:Oops! on Jeb Bush Publishes Thousands of Citizens' Email Addresses · · Score: 1

    Pay no attention to the WMD fiasco, and the dead Americans in Iraq. Or the millions we effected. Nope. Nothing to see here, move along.

  14. Re:Oops! on Jeb Bush Publishes Thousands of Citizens' Email Addresses · · Score: 1

    I don't know. If you read any of the forums for media/news, you find 2 things. Putin Trolls attacking america and the president. And Republican trolls attacking america and the president. Wander over to yahoo news or cnn. Take a look.
    We know who is paying the Putin trolls, but who is paying the republican trolls?

  15. Re:Oops! on Jeb Bush Publishes Thousands of Citizens' Email Addresses · · Score: 1

    Right, walker is such a saint, that is why he is anti union. Unless your union like Republicans, such as fire or police unions. Buddy, there is 0 difference, other than he is a bully.
    If walker wanted to really reform he would have pulled up the magic carpet covering Farm subsidies or tackled the Fire and Police departments.
    I expect Wisconsin in 10 years will be fighting Nevada and Missisippi for bottom of the education list. Have to give it a few years for the current kids to get out of that system.
    Walker is the same party line, same motivations. Nothing changed.
    As always I'll be forced to vote for the least likely to screw up the country.
    Did it occur to you if Republicans get their abortion fix, remove all those liberals, those religious things into government, or any of the other base issues. Nobody would ever vote for them again?
    Neither party wants to actually win on a party point, I'm absolutely floored that the Dems got a health reform through. They are screwed now, because they have lost a huge chunk of their platform, and the last elections might be a leading indicator.
    I'm actually hoping John Steward will run with Warren as a VP. That would make for way more change than another nazi's grand kid or a liberal that wants to hug the world while stealing their wallet.

  16. Re:Downtime [Offtopic] on FBI Attempts To Prevent Disclosure of Stingray Use By Local Cops · · Score: 1

    I've seen it work many a time on my older IBM AIX raid controllers. Usually when there is a problem, the controller is throwing an error on a disk being bad. Had already rebuilt it to the spare, and is telling you it needs replaced?
    When it didn't work correctly, almost every time the logs were not being monitored and the second disk fail took the server down. Then the blame went on the crappy raid array. Lets get a SAN, cough. There was once a time when the firmware of the controller wasn't upgraded from a buggy version. For reference I work in a place with 15k servers with 5 different operating systems/architectures.
    Perhaps you should review your old logs, it might give you a clue as to the issue. But then again do you want to find that clue, or show anyone.
    Generally approaching the deep dive to find the issue, resolving the processes gaps, and fixing them to keep it from happening again, determines if your shop is good or just another job.

  17. Re:Unsettling science on US Gov't To Withdraw Food Warnings About Dietary Cholesterol · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Omega 3 is generally picked up when creatures are browsing different seeds. Our current farms feed them, corn and antibiotics. Go with Flax seeds, Walnuts, and oddly Chia.
    Farm raised fish sadly doesn't have it, as it requires Krill to be fed to them. Which farms do not feed the fish.
    Hydrogenated oil and High fructose crap and aspartame, these 3 products combined pretty much are going to shut down every important system in your body over time. GMO'ing your food so it can absorb more roundup pesticides which in the end you eat, is also a winner. Hexane also gets a big thumbs down.

    Try walking 30 minutes a day at lunch. Does it really take an hour to eat? It takes me 5 minutes to eat lunch. Eat more plain nuts unroasted or glazed if your feeling like a snack.
    Another sad fact is, most of those fresh vegetables/fruits are not fresh. They were picked green and completely lacking most of those trace elements a mature fruit/vegetable has when picked. Notice all the studies say, we tested a mature fruit or vegetable. Perhaps try frozen fresh vegetables and fruits, those are packed and frozen after ripening vs before. Salads without those saturated/hydrogenated dressings vs that pizza slice(I love pizza. Which also has hydrogenated oil and high fructose corn syrup. I guess because its whipped up in a lab to trigger all my love for food sensors.).
    Avoid Hydrogenated oil and High fructose crap and aspartame.

    I wish I had listened to those old grey beards that told me to question more, before I became one. I'd be great deal healthier now.

  18. Re:So who's going to buy them? on Radioshack Declares Bankruptcy · · Score: 1

    Odd it this pdf doesn't also have, the state covered cost of expanding roads/streetlights/lanes/watershed run off into rivers, or the crazy tax breaks states like Michigan gave, even though it was in direct competition with local companies like Meijer to build a new store, which Meijer never got. All though some of this is being addressed its spotty, non consistant, and generally doesn't cover the cost of most of the employees not making enough so the local schools and cities get the added burden of low tax residents. Loss of local revenue from businesses that dried up that also paid taxes on buildings and sales.
    We should also figure in the lack of tarrifs and crazy expanding middle class, who manufacture so many goods in the US now.
    Follow the money, its like footprints in the snow, and it leads right up to the Mercedes door of your elected officials.

  19. Re:thank god for the poor states on Mississippi - the Nation's Leader In Vaccination Rates · · Score: 1

    Do we have a map of which states cover mental health care with autism spectrum children?

  20. Re:Not entirely untenable on Testosterone Increasingly Being Used To Fight Aging In Men · · Score: 1

    The idea makes me think of BeekCake 9000.

  21. Re:IBM execs are Dems, gave Obama ~million dollars on Massive Layoff Underway At IBM · · Score: 1

    yes, its clearly Obama's fault, or your not correct. Hmm.....

  22. Re:let's not beat around the bush on Massive Layoff Underway At IBM · · Score: 1

    Not really, because robots do not attend meetings, or take crazy and poorly worded ideas and make servers/systems/requests happen.
    Cloud is great, but you just asked the developer to become the defacto expert in a whole slew of other things. I hope he is a superstar with extra time to burn because in less than 2 years, he will have to relearn it all again.
    I agree it takes less people to manage more servers, but 0 people is so expensive that its cheaper to just keep the 2 people or 4 from before.
    Perhaps in 20 years it will be simpler but in the last 30 the tech has changes every 2 years, right now if you count mobile its every 6-12 months. Its moving so fast, the leading trait I look for in new employee's during interviews is how fast can you learn something new and hit the ground running and keep the older stuff running till the tax depreciation is done.
    At some point management will wake up and realize how much it cost to move to the cloud. Cloud is great for startups, its a tougher sale as the business gets bigger.

  23. Re:Tsk. And they wonder where employee loyalty wen on Massive Layoff Underway At IBM · · Score: 1

    In layoffs like this, the bottom is cut, but the top leaves because of the lack of security for the next wave. The only way to compensate for this is to raise the wages of the top 20percent, which immediately puts them on the hit list for the next round.
    Either way the company can't get the experience and training they just lost back without incurring a huge expense. So its a tumble down the hill unless they find a way to make more products with a 300% profit margin to pay for the upper managements salaries, bonuses, and stock options.

    The new Power8 core prices and performance are amazing, but they have no marketing genius to make the sales. Wonder where that went.
    I do a lot of business with IBM.

    I made a case a few weeks ago that this constant hiring of foreign nationals that are "Easy to manage and cheap". Means you just hired a crap ton of half baked yessmen. In 10 years at the company when the American perspective is gone, all you have left is to promote these folks with "experience". You end up with yes men all through the development and engineering teams, all very pleasant people mind you. In the end, just like with the Commador Amiga management, you get mediocre, not quite good enough, and definitely not innovative next versions or high demand items.
    The idea that we will just hire experts in our speciality employee from somebody else, is just asinine, but after moving around quite a bit through this economy, I've discovered most managers either do not care or do not understand the core issues.

  24. Re:Recession coming?? on Study Predicts 9% Drop In Salaries of New CS Grads This Year · · Score: 1

    Russia isn't capitalist, its a kleptocracy. Please watch PBS frontline - Putin's Way.
    Putin has no place to hide his stolen goods he might take the world down with him. He has littered the ground behind him with so many dead journalists and prosecutors. No real country would take him at this point. The FSB is holding the world hostage. The USA isn't guilt free in this but invading yet another country puts him on the boarder with NATO again. Stop him in Ukraine or in Poland, make a choice.
    Russia has never been a Capitalist society. Read ‘Red Notice’ by Bill Browder, he is morally questionable but his book has some interesting info.
    Saudi Arabia is trying to shut down fracking companies in the US so they can buy them cheap, or just put them out of business. They have a HUGE cash reserve and an average salary of $50K. Where Russia is much Lower like $10k, and Pensioners fully support anybody that keeps the vodka flowing.
    Russia is already financially broken. In a large economy it takes a while for the pain from the tail to reach the brain. Its already too late for them.
    Best the West can hope for at this point is to mitigate the failures, which Putin won't, because it would be asking him to kill himself.

  25. What problem are we solving for here? on WA Bill Takes Aim at Boys' Dominance In Computer Classes · · Score: 1

    Is it clear bias in computer gender?

    or

    Is it clear need for cheap programmers even if its a lot of hard work and they wont enjoy it?

    or

    Or perhaps if a girl wants into computers she just has to want into computer class and try?

    or

    Are we keeping minorities from getting into computer class? clearly this is the issue, right?

    or

    What are we solving here other than creating more programmers, that will have insecure jobs as they are ready to be replaced with foreign workers who will always work cheaper because they are more desperate than an American?

    ---

    Sigh, code.org showed such potential, but I think I forgot who funded it. :(