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Comment Local police have access via DHS (Score 1) 48

This is complete face-washing. Any child agency of DHS can and will provide this technology to whoever asks for it. Pima cty. sheriff already uses it complements of DHS/CPB. It's also all over Maricopa/downtown PHX and parts of Casa Grande in Pinal. It's already in use at the border by CPB at checkpoints within 30 miles of the border in AZ. This is hot stuff folks, don't let this crap fool you.

Comment Sad to so much misinformation on /. (Score 1) 116

Really. You *guys* should be ashamed.

First off, whoever said that you don't get much performance by improving the hardware: I worked an Rdb/ACMS optimation for DEC in the mid 90's. The end result? The customer pitched our work, and threw more money at memory and disc. Remember the RSTS/E OOM message? "Buy more memory..." Seeing that on an LA-120 for 2 hrs. brings back fond memories. But I digress.

Second off: There are classic Knuth sorting/searching jobs. Some of them can be refactored. The bitch is that Cobol was never really designed to sort/search as much data as is now being thrown at it. There's a reason these systems are so slow and treacherous. My guess is that these systems need to run parallel sort/merge/filter operations, there's so much data. Operation Services is as much an issue here as bit-twiddling. That doesn't even get into updating all those hardcoded level 88's....

Thrid: gnu cobol. It's a thing. It works. Feel the luv.

Comment Apple fuck-nuggets broke the boot process AGAIN (Score 2) 30

Try to avoid this update if possible.
The previous High Sierra update failed when trying to start the window manager. I was able to recover by starting in single user mode and immediately exiting, which started the window manager.
With this update, the Apple fuck-nuggets have broken that work-around.
I have a macbook pro w/ 15" screen for sale.

Comment The end game for GWT (Score 1) 219

GWT rocks - don't expect it to go easily into that good night.

Consider the following scenario:
o Convert the compiler to accept Dart instead of "pure" Java. Remember, GWT does not implement the entire language, only a subset of the run-time. This conversion can easily be implemented as a rolling replacement to the compiler.
o There's absolutely no reason now for GWT to support Java 7+
o The Google Plugin for Eclipse will easily convert to Dart, keeping the developer mind-share
o Keeps all those nifty 3rd party libraries
o Keeps the advantage of all those optimizations that the GWT compiler reduces to practice. Google will not flush all that work.
o Tell Larry to stick it where the sun don't shine

Comment I'm glad somebody else noticed this (Score 1) 66

1. Interesting that /. is making such a big deal of recognizing 1st time contributors. It's an "interesting" editorial policy.

2. I, too, wondered whether or not to complete the enrollment process. We never:
o had a realistic opportunity to interact with the instructor(s). I know that a certain set of questions will be answered, but what are the odds /my/ question will be answered? Apparently about 1 in 100K;
o never had an opportunity to get feedback to quizzes/exams;
o Maybe I missed it, in the initial furor, but the lectures will now be delivered 2 wks, after the live class.

The "bloom is off the rose", but it will provide a interesting excuse for ignoring my other tasks in the next few months.

Does anyone here doubt Acacia is assessing its patient portfolio in light of this now becoming a startup?

Comment ZBV at the border (Score 4, Interesting) 154

Comments so far are missing a salient feature of these things: they are in use at the U.S. border.

Trucks drive past them at the border (oh, they're just mezkins...)

They are located north of the border, by approx. 30 miles (DHS calls it "defense in depth"). See them in my neck of the woods in Arizona on: northbound I/19, eastbound Hwy 82, northbound Hwy 83, northbound Hwy 90

To the assholes who have no problem with this: how many checkpoints do you drive through on your way to work?

You can see a picture of these vans via the earlier /. link

Comment WebOS developer program (Score 1) 514

HP is committed to making the webOS developer program the world leader in developer benefits, growing the developer base, and helping developers showcase their products. Over the coming months, the webOS ecosystem will be growing dramatically as webOS is introduced to PCs and printers, and into the enterprise with a scale only HP can provide.

Jeebus, did anyone here sign on to this gobbler?

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