mjwalshe - Slashdot User

Comment Re:If you want to earn big bucks... (Score 1) 315

by mjwalshe on Tuesday July 29, 2014 @05:46PM (#47561189) Attached to: Programming Languages You'll Need Next Year (and Beyond)

The Q is what they pay you - there is no man with a big white beard that makes them pay you fairly.

Comment Re:Repeat after me... (Score 1) 315

by mjwalshe on Tuesday July 29, 2014 @04:58PM (#47560769) Attached to: Programming Languages You'll Need Next Year (and Beyond)

Fortran comes after Assembly and is not on a par with VB

Comment Re:If you want to earn big bucks... (Score 0) 315

by mjwalshe on Tuesday July 29, 2014 @04:56PM (#47560743) Attached to: Programming Languages You'll Need Next Year (and Beyond)

Presumably you think we should stand at the end of the line (salary wise) of the other professions and say I know my place"

Comment Re:If you want to earn big bucks... (Score 1) 315

by mjwalshe on Tuesday July 29, 2014 @04:55PM (#47560725) Attached to: Programming Languages You'll Need Next Year (and Beyond)

get into big data and you can get £700-£800 per day in the UK and what does hadoop use *spit* Java

Comment Re:The only good thing (Score 1) 511

by mjwalshe on Monday July 28, 2014 @01:14PM (#47551111) Attached to: Suddenly Visible: Illicit Drugs As Part of Silicon Valley Culture

Wall-Street or City bankers on 1m plus basic and multimillion dollar bonuses are high paid someone in it in SV making as much as a Dr and Lawyer is just upper middle class.

Comment Re:Ban caffeine! (Score 1) 511

by mjwalshe on Monday July 28, 2014 @01:07PM (#47551053) Attached to: Suddenly Visible: Illicit Drugs As Part of Silicon Valley Culture

and 100% of Drug users have taken dihydrogen monoxide :-)

Comment Re:Out of the public domain? (Score 1) 96

by mjwalshe on Monday July 28, 2014 @01:03PM (#47551017) Attached to: Google's Mapping Contest Draws Ire From Indian Government

I thought it was funny that when they remade Yes minister in India they just changed all the references to the EU/France to Pakistan and shot them as is

Comment Re:Better be careful Google! (Score 1) 96

by mjwalshe on Monday July 28, 2014 @01:01PM (#47550993) Attached to: Google's Mapping Contest Draws Ire From Indian Government

I suspect doing anything to cut the remittances of Asian programmers working in the USA - or the offshore industry might back fire on the Indian government I suspect the big Indian IT firms would be having a "word" with the PM

Comment Re:Great... (Score 1) 582

by mjwalshe on Sunday July 27, 2014 @04:37PM (#47545197) Attached to: Satellite Images Show Russians Shelling Ukraine

presumably then Adlai just made up the U2 pics they showed the UN then :-)

Comment Re:No surprise (Score 1) 512

by mjwalshe on Sunday July 27, 2014 @11:01AM (#47543093) Attached to: In France, Most Comments on Gaza Conflict Yanked From Mainstream News Sites

I think you forgot a higher level of anti-Semitism in france when compared to other European country's for example Denmark and the UK

Comment Re: Slippery Slope (Score 1) 186

by mjwalshe on Sunday July 27, 2014 @10:14AM (#47542747) Attached to: On Forgetting the Facts: Questions From the EU For Google, Other Search Engines

especially as newspapers get a free ride and don't have to do anything

Submission + - Unique UK broadband deployment to change remote island life forever (v3.co.uk)

Submitted by DW100 on Friday July 25, 2014 @08:17AM

DW100 writes: A unique broadband rollout in the UK has taken place this week, with operator BT bringing a previously disused international undersea cable ashore in the tiny island community of the Isles of Scilly. This will bring speeds of 60-80Mbs to the islands, making it one of the best connected communities in the world.

Submission + - Russia Offers $111,000 to Any Citizen Who Can Crack Tor Anonymity Network (ibtimes.co.uk)

Submitted by concertina226 on Friday July 25, 2014 @07:25AM

concertina226 writes: The Russian federal government is concerned about the number of people using Tor to anonymously surf the web in the country and has set up a competition to find a technological solution to solve the problem.

The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA) is offering 3.9 million roubles ($111,000, £65,370) to researchers who will "study the possibility of obtaining technical information about users and users equipment on the Tor anonymous network," according to a translated version of the proposal.

Comment Re:shocking (Score 1) 92

by mjwalshe on Tuesday July 22, 2014 @05:38PM (#47510797) Attached to: Buying New Commercial IT Hardware Isn't Always Worthwhile (Video)

well might make sense for your dev/test infrastructure if you need to build a technical copy /testbed

Comment Re:What about power? (Score 1) 92

by mjwalshe on Tuesday July 22, 2014 @05:34PM (#47510755) Attached to: Buying New Commercial IT Hardware Isn't Always Worthwhile (Video)

that's why you buy Telco grade cisco gear

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