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Comment Re:"Do the right thing" (Score 1) 915

by mihai.todor85 (#41046261) Attached to: Assange Makes Statement Calling For an End To the "Witch Hunt"
Yeah, she tripped, fell, and landed on his Captain Johnes, takng him by surprise. The standard swedish girl could break him in two, considering how feeble he is, so I am quite sure that the girls were encouraged by some 3rd parties to press charges, just because they don't have any other reason to throw the book at him. This whole legal issue of his sounds more like getting charged for stealing candy from a baby.
Twitter

Submission + - Slashdot Style Twitter Accounts 1

Submitted by mihai.todor85
mihai.todor85 writes: I was tempted to follow as many "geeky" people as possible on Twitter and, unfortunately, I've ended up abandoning my account because of all the "noise". I was interested in using it to get a more real-time and also succinct scoop of stuff that usually appears on @slashdot, but I ended up seeing mostly tweets about nonsense, since, in general, people tend to post useless ramblings, completely unrelated to their professional interests. Now, I'm thinking of trimming down most of the people I follow and start using it again, but who should I follow? I'm looking forward to seeing your suggestions in the comments.
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Submission + - Scientists find that the Sun is so round, it's scary (networkworld.com)

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coondoggie
coondoggie writes: "If you thought the Sun was round — you'd be right. But astronomers this week said the Sun is so round it's nearly perfect in its roundness. So round that astronomers said if they scaled it to the size of a beach ball, it would be so round that the difference between the widest and narrow diameters would be much less than the width of a human hair."

Comment Misys (Score 1) 181

by mihai.todor85 (#40485835) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Jobs For Geeks In the Business/Financial World?
I used to work for Misys until recently. They are doing some development on their Summit application http://www.misys.com/products/summit-ft.aspx in the far East as well. You could try to look 'em up, although if the work conditions are similar to what the offer in Romania, you're probably better of in a different company. Also, you should note that the entire backend of the application (which runs on a complex distributed server architecture) is written in C, which they tried really hard to upgrade to C++, and it ended up being a big maintenance from hell nightmare. Also, they decided to make a "fancy" C# frontend desktop application for that backend, which is full of bugs. As a side note, don't expect much documentation about the code structure and internal logic, just many 6000+ line functions of C code ;)
Oracle

Oracle Sues Lodsys For Patent Trolling 119

Posted by Soulskill from the rocket-docket-reverse-course dept.
RWarrior(fobw) writes "PJ reports at Groklaw that Oracle has sued well-known patent troll Lodsys, asking for declaratory judgement in the Eastern District of Texas that Oracle and its customers don't need Lodsys licenses, and that Lodsys patents are invalid anyway. 'It seems that Lodsys has been going after Oracle customers, and they in turn have been asking Oracle to indemnify them. Lodsys, methinks, has made a mistake. One doesn't go after Oracle's money. No. No. Never a good plan. I suspect Oracle will go for damages, tripled, and all their expenses, legal fees, etc. when this is over.' PJ also points out that which companies are the good guys and which are the bad guys depends on which case you're looking at. "

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