Comment Re:NOT ME !! (Score 2) 56
He's just copypastaing another one of Dvorak's shitty articles.
Comment Re: Redneck roadhouse (Score 1) 311
Owning. Because it'a considered obscene and promoting others to be obscene.
Sec. 43.23. OBSCENITY. (a) A person commits an offense if, knowing its content and character, he wholesale promotes or possesses with intent to wholesale promote any obscene material or obscene device.
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(f) A person who possesses six or more obscene devices or identical or similar obscene articles is presumed to possess them with intent to promote the same.
Comment Re:Cry Me A River (Score 1) 608
In 1980 micro computers didn't have anything that looked like a kernel.
They did if you ran something like Xenix. Which was Unix specifically for microcomputers.
Comment Re:Apparently dedication = autism (Score 2) 608
He used the term because he's just one many losers who self-diagnose themselves with autism spectrum and then wrongly extrapolate that ever one else who programs must be the same way.
Comment Re:"Rare talents"?! (Score 1) 608
I laughed even more at a comment he made near the bottom:
Yes programming is far worse than any field of engineering. I think we can quantify this, though I haven’t actually done the experiment yet. Stack up all the textbooks and reference manuals that a proficient web programmer needs to know. Include estimates for things like Rails that don’t even bother to have docs anymore. Compare the height to that for engineers in other fields like electrical or mechanical engineering. I believe our stack will be 10 times as high.
What a fucking joke!
Comment Re:I'll enjoy this.... (Score 1) 530
$15/hr is the minimum wage in Seatac, Washington
Wrong. It won't be $15/hr until 2017.
Comment Re:I'll enjoy this.... (Score 1) 530
Fast food workers don't get 40 hrs per week in anything but extremely rare circumstances. They keep them as part time for a reason.
Comment Re:We should expect some wingnuts to say... (Score 0) 109
Much better that we incinerate them, right?
Comment Re:What the fuck is this thing? (Score 1) 69
ARM has sold dev boards for ages.
If Immigration Reform Is Dead, So Is Raising the H-1B Cap 341
dcblogs writes: In a speech Wednesday on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) declared immigration reform dead. He chastised and baited Republicans in Congress for blocking reform, and declared that winning the White House without the support of a growing Hispanic population will become mathematically impossible. "The Republican Presidential nominee, whoever he or she may be, will enter the race with an electoral college deficit they cannot make up," said Gutierrez. If he's right, and comprehensive immigration reform is indeed dead, then so too is the tech industry's effort to raise the cap on H-1B visas. Immigration reform advocates have successfully blocked any effort to take up the immigration issue in piecemeal fashion, lest business support for comprehensive reform peel away. Next year may create an entirely new set of problems for tech. If the Republicans take control of the Senate, the tech industry will face this obstacle: Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa). Grassley, the ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee could become its next chairman. He has been a consistent critic of the H-1B program through the years. "The H-1B program is so popular that it's now replacing the U.S. labor force," said Grassley, at one point.
Comment Re: Awesome! (Score 2) 276
Every day we don't start a bloody revolution is one more day for the Evil to dig it's claws in
What are you doing beyond whining? No one is gonna fight and die for an armchair general like you.
Comment Re:I want one (Score 1) 358
I want one so that if you get hit your 911 call gets jammed.
Comment Re:You know ... (Score 1) 358
You do realize that his jammer went beyond just disrupting drivers' cellphones, right? It was jamming the cell phone tower for everyone and also jamming the two-way radios used in emergency vehicles.
Comment Re:You know ... (Score 2) 358
So passengers aren't allowed to use their phones? Police/fire/ambulance drivers shouldn't be able to use their two-way radios? I can't make a call, possibly an emergency call, on the side of the road?
There is nothing to agree with him about because he was potentially jamming all sorts of perfectly legal communications.
Oracle Buying Micros Systems For $5.3 Billion 71
An anonymous reader writes Oracle is buying hospitality and retail technology vendor Micros Systems for $5.3 billion, in a deal that will be its largest since the purchase of Sun Microsystems in 2010. "Oracle said the acquisition will extend its offerings by combining Micros' industry-specific applications with its business applications, technologies and cloud portfolio. Oracle expects the deal to immediately add to its adjusted earnings. Its stock climbed 18 cents to $41 before the market opened. Micros' board unanimously approved the transaction, which is expected to close in the second half of the year."
