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Comment USA Land of Crime (Score 2, Interesting) 451

In the rest of the world, justice comes before anything else. No matter how evidence is obtained, it is still evidence, and will be used in court.
In the US, if an unskilled policeman makes a small mistake, all evidence will be thrown down the sink, and the criminals who would be convicted on that evidence in every other country of the world, will walk free. I don't understand this protection of people where there is evidence that they are criminals.

Comment Invest in power (Score 1) 372

Invest in solar panels, such that you can get free/cheap power for all the gadgets.
Wind power is craap, and create so much noise pollution, that nobody wants to live near it

A fuel cell is another alternative, have not found a price for the Panasic fuel cell yet though. I think it is above your budget.

Comment SP2 is out (Score 1) 441

Windows Vista SP1 is normally called Windows 7, so the Windows 7 SP1 is what most people sees as an SP2.
Nothing new from Vista to 7, other than what Microsoft normally puts in a SP.

And, Microsoft can see nobody upgrades from XP, so they are afraid that companies will stick with Win7 if it is manageable. No sensible huge enterprise will go for Windows 8, they will wait for the first service pack, labelled Windows 9, and we don't know how far in the future that is. And Windows OS X is even further out.

Comment Re:Listen up newbie... (Score 1) 360

Only been at a few job interviews, directly or with recruitment companies.
The one killer skill is problem solving skills. There are so many out there working with IT that really sucks at problem solving (or don't have the experience to do it reasonable fast). Another of their problem is their narrow area of skills.

There are lots of programmers (and other IT ppl) out there, just writing boring code, and who tries not to get any interesting / challenging tasks.If you are looing for the interesting tasks, and can solve them, it elevates you to a level where you should always be able to get a job.

Learning a programming language is no big deal, I have programmed in a multiple of languages, and it does not take more than 2 days to be able to program and read sample code in a new language. Learning the API is the slow process. Getting used to the IDE takes some weeks. Takes years to master something like the iOS API. But you can get experienced in parts of it quickly.

If you are intelligent and have the problem solving skills, and human interaction skills, go to the recruitment companies, and they should be able to find a company that can't let a person like you pass.

Comment Re:I still think this guy should countersue . . . (Score 5, Interesting) 308

He can probably not sell his seeds to Europe, we do not like genetically modified foods here. We let the americans be the Guinea Pigs of their own products.
It seems like the US Government has the same slogan like "The Body Shop" when it comes to food: "Product not tested on animals". There is enough humans to test on.

Comment Sue God (Score 2) 308

Since God used the first crop of seeds to produce new plants, I think the whole patent issue boils down to this infrigement made by nature or God. Since Monsanto can't sure nature, they will have go for the big man himself.
I think Monsanto needs to sue God or in his absence his nearest representative, the Pope, for making illegal copies of their seed.

Comment Re:"..know who was using an IP address..." ? (Score 2) 136

They don't. Since in most cases they will not know who used the IP address, but only who paid for it, there should be no way they could get the name/address.

As an example, if both me, my wife and my son denies any knowledge of copyright infringement, how will they get a search warrant ? Whose computer will they search ? Can they get permission to search two innocent peoples computer just because those computers sometimes are at the address in question ? How about my sons friends computers who are used on our WLAN ? How about hackers ?

In Denmark we have had a few cases where the police just let people walk without a search as soon as they see there is an open WLAN. And open WLAN means that there is no evidence that anybody living at the address used the IP at the given time.

Comment Re:bcache (Score 2) 331

You should not expect much speedup from using a 10Mbyte/s memory card in front of a standard 150 MByte/s sustained transfer drive.

If the small files are stored in your cache, you might save some seek time. But you can't compare some ultra-slow USB / SDHC card to a 2-300 Mbyte/s SSD.

I tried the SDHC, did not work well. A fast USB 3.0 stick in a USB 2.0 port was way better, but still does not compare to SSD.

Comment C is great (Score 1) 793

My C code works fine in C, C++, Objective C etc.
C is the base for all portable code, unless you want something like Java, which I am skilled in, but never really liked. I prefer Perl og java any day. But yet, much of the syntax is the same, no matter which one of these languages you use. They are all C-like to some degree.

Comment You are wrong (Score 1) 559

Animal testing is there to avoid testing on humans. Would you rather have poor humans as victims ? That is what I consider inhumane.
Banks gives money to help people in need, and to help build companies providing jobs. Basicly they are doing good as well. Without banks, society would stop working, and everybody would live in hos own small 20 mile circle, not getting anything from outside.
Defence industry I can understand you don't like. But if you write code for a missile defense system, or a terrorist detection unit, would that really be that bad ?

Of course there is also the option of becoming an independent contractor, then you can pick contracts after your ethics, and write iOS apps to make a living when there are no clients.

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