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  1. Re:You know what's wrong with the world? on 30 Years a Sysadmin · · Score: 1

    even in a windows environment, when something has to be done fast CTRL-R, cmd, ENTER is how it all starts.

  2. Re:Some of us still dream in perl on 30 Years a Sysadmin · · Score: 2

    Thats why they keep us around. I work with several of the click it and go people. But when something breaks, all eyes turn to me.

  3. Re: You know what's wrong with the world? on 30 Years a Sysadmin · · Score: 1

    powershell is still command line.

  4. Re:You know what's wrong with the world? on 30 Years a Sysadmin · · Score: 1

    How little you know. Any environment, even Windows, has command line functions that are far faster than using the GUI.
    I'd suggest you learn them, even your browsing of script kiddie archives would be improved. How do you think those scripts operate?

  5. 24 years a Sysadmin on 30 Years a Sysadmin · · Score: 1

    24 years for me, started on a Netware 4.12 ThickLAN network running Banyan Vines.
    yes I worked with vampire taps and token rings.

  6. Re: hey, CBS doesn't promote Fox, either on Amazon To Cease Sale of Apple TV and Chromecast · · Score: 1

    For years Prime was good. Entire old series, recent seasons of new series, and a buttload of movies.
    but then one day it all went away/ ld series only have a season or two and the rest are pay-to-play, movies are a paltry selection. I have had prime since the day it launched- i won't be renewing when it expires next month.

  7. Re: hey, CBS doesn't promote Fox, either on Amazon To Cease Sale of Apple TV and Chromecast · · Score: 1

    https://play.google.com/store/... Amazon FireTv app
    https://play.google.com/store/... Amazon Music App

    google does carry the Amazon apps.

  8. Re:Unionize on American IT Workers Increasingly Alleging Discrimination · · Score: 2

    Actually, NAFTA drove it overseas. You think they would pass up on $2 a week labor if the unions hadn't existed? I'll have what you've been smoking, please.

  9. Re:how will you verify? on American IT Workers Increasingly Alleging Discrimination · · Score: 2

    Amazingly simple solution: the H1b they bring in has to meet the same qualifications they listed. If they are willing to accept a lesser candidate, they have to re-list and go through their US applicants first with the lowered requirements before they can hire the H1b.

  10. Re:Unionize on American IT Workers Increasingly Alleging Discrimination · · Score: 1

    My take on H1b abuse and how to solve it:
    Require the job be independently categorized (prevents high end programmers listed as "janitorial staff") and the pay rate has to be set at 150% of the current median pay for the area for a US worker in that position.
    And THEN they must list that job exactly as categorized for US workers to have the opportunity to apply for- reviewed by the H1b oversight to ensure if there are qualified applicants that they are made an offer at the 150% rate.
    THEN- if there are really no qualified US applicants- the oversight will review the qualifications of who they bring in and ensure they actually meet those requirements. if they are willing to accept a lesser applicant- they must review US applicants and see if any meet those lowered standards.
    If, at that point they cannot find a US candidate, they must hire the H1b at the full 150% rate.

  11. Re:Shop elsewhere if you need this drug on Another Pharma Company Recaptures a Generic Medication · · Score: 1

    This is why we need a sarcasm font.

  12. They still have a 90 day gag on Federal Court Invalidates 11-Year-old FBI Gag Order On NSL Recipient · · Score: 2

    To allow for appeals. A great step forward, but not yet a victory.

  13. Re:Right to Privacy in One's Backyard? on Kentucky Man Arrested After Shooting Down Drone · · Score: 1

    grenade launchers are 40mm, for a comparison.

    M203 http://www.m203grip.com/0M4-M2...
    M79 (Terminator for scale) http://i259.photobucket.com/al...

  14. Re:Can't stop it on Google Staffers Share Salary Info With Each Other; Management Freaks · · Score: 2

    Then your place of work is in violation of federal law. If it is a written policy, get a copy and keep it at home. Discuss salaries, when fired, sue for wrongfule termination with that company policy as evidence and retire.

  15. Will they go after Rice and Powell as well? on Criminal Inquiry Sought Over Hillary Clinton's Personal Email Server · · Score: 1

    Seeing as they both ran email outside of the official email server as well.

  16. Re:Your biggest screw up on "We Screwed Up," Says Reddit CEO In Formal Apology · · Score: 1

    It means that the person I am discussing something with remains that person. Once a second or third AC pops in, the whole thing is a useless mess. They all use the same name, but get pissy when they have to point out they are not the one that said whatever it was earlier in the discussion.

  17. Re:Cherry picking salary data on A Tool For Analyzing H-1B Visa Applications Reveals Tech Salary Secrets · · Score: 1

    This disregards that those locations are high cost of living because of the long history of highly paid highly skilled tech workers living there.

  18. Re:Lots of highly paid folks on A Tool For Analyzing H-1B Visa Applications Reveals Tech Salary Secrets · · Score: 1

    It is protected, but has been abused for decades and no one does a thing about it.

  19. Re:Must hackers be such dicks about this? on FBI Accuses Researcher of Hacking Plane, Seizes Equipment · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Meanwhile the home was seized under asset forfieture and the police have sold it for their share of the profits before the trial ended. Too bad, Joe. Better luck next time. Maybe you can bid on your car, since that auction is still pending.

  20. Re: Decent on Seattle CEO Cuts $1 Million Salary To $70K, Raises Employee Salaries · · Score: 1

    Yet if she was at home with her newborn on WIC and SNAP, you'd be calling her a welfare queen leech. No winning in her situation.

  21. Re: Decent on Seattle CEO Cuts $1 Million Salary To $70K, Raises Employee Salaries · · Score: 1

    You fail to realize your original position is also anecdotal.

  22. Re:get rid of the H-1B job lock and set a higher m on IT Worker's Lawsuit Accuses Tata of Discrimination · · Score: 2

    It is not immediate, it is economic growth. Every time the minimum goes up the economy gets a boost which leads to more jobs. That growth stagnates and declines when inflation overtakes the gains. Inflation has shown NO change to its rate of growth in relation to minimum wage hikes. Ever. it grows whether or not wages keep up- but the economy suffers if wages do not keep up.
    http://www.dol.gov/minwage/myt...
    http://www.cepr.net/documents/...

  23. Re:get rid of the H-1B job lock and set a higher m on IT Worker's Lawsuit Accuses Tata of Discrimination · · Score: 2

    Easier- require the job be independently categorized (prevents high end programmers listed as "janitorial staff") and the pay rate has to be set at 150% of the current median pay for the area for a US worker in that position. And THEN they must list that job exactly as categorized for US workers to have the opportunity to apply for- reviewed by the H1b oversight to ensure if there are qualified applicants that they are made an offer at the 150% rate. THEN- if there are really no qualified US applicants- the oversight will review the qualifications of who they bring in and ensure they actually meet those requirements. if they are willing to accept a lesser applicant- they must review US applicants and see if any meet those lowered standards.

  24. Re:Isn't Cheaper, the American Dream? on IT Worker's Lawsuit Accuses Tata of Discrimination · · Score: 1

    A man who's last name was tata picked that.

    I took a chance on a great opportunity. I walked up on a very busty Army specialist waiting for her friends to get back to the truck. She was standing between two brand new tata pickups. So I said "hey, Nice Tatas!"
    It could have gone either way- she found it hilarious.

  25. Re:Isn't Cheaper, the American Dream? on IT Worker's Lawsuit Accuses Tata of Discrimination · · Score: 5, Informative

    No teeth if they refuse to enforce it. California Edison had 400 of their current US Citizen employees train the H1b workers that were replacing them. DoL refuses to take any action on it.

    http://www.computerworld.com/a...