Comment Re:Wage theft. (Score 1) 545
Being salaried, but worked so many hours that you effectively make less than minimum wage, is exploitation pure and simple.
I thought it was called "graduate school"...
Comment Re:It freakin' works fine (Score 1) 928
Newer versions of GNOME (3.8 and after?) rely on a DBus API of systemd's logind component, for reasons I've never seen adequately explained.
The talk of forcing all cgroup interactions to go through systemd would in effect make anything that interacts with cgroups or cpusets such as hwloc, TORQUE, and SLURM rely on systemd. I can't imagine that the developers of hwloc, TORQUE, and SLURM are especially happy about that.
Comment Re:NT is best (Score 1) 190
That is not possible, but I think that a quick reboot once a month isn't too much to ask.
Well, that makes one of us.
Comment More importantly... (Score 1) 183
...when will this result in a 100W Marshall head on a chip?
(Why yes, I am a guitar player! Thanks for asking.)
Comment If you haven't read The Myythical Man-Month... (Score 4, Insightful) 352
...you don't get to call yourself a "software engineer" or talk about others' software engineering practices.
Comment Re:Conman and Powerman (Score 1) 104
Thirded. Conman & powerman rock.
Comment Examiners mailing rejection letters from home... (Score 2) 342
...is entirely possible. For the last several years, the U.S. Patent Office has been moving to a distributed model where comparatively few patent examiners live in the D.C. area except during their initial training period. I know two patent examiners, and both live in Ohio.
In any case, this text-hissy-fit likely did no favors for the lawyer or their client.
Comment Re:TV Series! (Get good writers) (Score 1) 396
Yeah, but once Hollywood is done with it the series will be called Gotham Junior High...
Some exec at the WB requested almost exactly this in the late '90s after Batman:TAS ended -- they wanted a show with Bruce Wayne and most of Batman's rogues galley as high school students. Apparently it was bandied around for a while and eventually split into two separate ideas, an animated show about a teen Batman and a live action show about a fledging superhero in high school. These became "Batman Beyond" and "Smallville", respectively.
Comment Re:For Android phones (Score 1) 249
Klaxon is what I and the other Android users in our on-call rotation use.
Comment Re:SCO = Herpes (Score 1) 208
As long as a lawyer has not been beheaded/disbarred it will keep finding ways to troll.
My vote is for "beheaded" in this case.
SCO Zombie Creaks Into Motion Again 208
phands writes "SCO has moved to partially reopen their 10 year old lawsuit against IBM. Unbelievable! Details at Groklaw."
From the article, quoting SCO's filing: "SCO respectfully requests that the Court rule on IBM’s Motion for Summary Judgment on SCO’s Unfair Competition Claim (SCO’s Sixth Cause of Action), dated September 25, 2006 (Docket No. 782), which motion is directed at the Project Monterey Claim, and IBM’s Motion for Summary Judgment on SCO’s Interference Claims (SCO’s Seventh, Eighth and Ninth Causes of Action), dated September 25, 2006 (Docket No. 783), which motion is directed at the Tortious Interference Claims."
Comment Open letter to the Westboro Baptist Church (Score 1) 699
Seriously, I have to ask: Which part of "Love your neighbor as yourself" was unclear?
Yes, the U.S. Constitution says you're allowed to do your picketing. However, it doesn't require me to listen to you, or see you as anything other than a bunch of sad, deluded, hate-filled little nut-bars.
Comment Re:As Coroner... (Score 1) 181
It's pining for the fjords!
And here I thought it was pining for the fnords...
Comment Re:NSF Blue Waters project reboot? (Score 1) 55
Comment Every action has an equal and opposite reaction (Score 1) 230
Barnes & Noble, which paid almost $14 million for Borders' intellectual assets (including customer information) at auction last week, said it should not have to comply with certain customer-privacy standards recommended by a third-party ombudsman.
In unrelated news, I say customers should not buy anything from Barnes and Noble ever again.
