Comment Re:The only goddam thing American IT ... (Score 1) 104
Everything is hackable. If someone wants in anywhere... they'll get there.
Shitty planning is putting industry secrets on a public network and it happens all of the time.
Submission + - Why Is Internet Access In Africa So Difficult? (itworld.com)
jfruh writes: Eight of the ten countries in the world with the lowest levels of Internet penetration are in Africa. Some of the reasons may seem obvious to outside observers — the poverty of much of the continent's population for instance. But it's also true that broadband rates on undersea cables that connect the continent remain prohibitively high.
Comment It's not annoying (Score 5, Insightful) 232
Out Of Office = "I'm not going to get a timely reply"
Comment Microsoft still can't get the UI right (Score 1) 31
Why isn't this a split screen of without and with?
Comment Not to be that guy but... (Score 1) 86
..why not crawl all these movie review sites and use some super algorithm to sort these things.
Comment We aren't sure what happened (Score 3, Funny) 116
Even though it's not on the ballot, Estonia overwhelmingly voted to join Russia.
Comment Some sour lemons (Score 2, Informative) 192
Don't listen to all these bitter pricks.
Execs know the job of IT is to maintain systems and to increase work-efficiency through collaborative technology.
Instead of being boring "yeah everything fine, piss off" announce internal initiatives and goals that even a commoner can understand. Talk about important milestones or stories of exceptional (and actual) personal achievement. If you track your hours, announce how many man-hours were placed into a particular project. Show me the numbers.
If you fall into that "we work hard" crying bullshit, fuck you. My cat works trying to get that god damn dot with no results. I want to see results that people OUTSIDE OF IT actually like. If you did something that took 5,000 hours and everything sucks and the users don't like it... why did you do it in the first place? That's when the inquisitions start.
Comment Reddit, of course (Score 1) 89
Involves cats doing cute things, Nikola Tesla, and kickstarter.
Infinity money.
Comment Makes sense (Score 2) 130
Valve makes money with Steam.
Valve has hammered out a useful content delivery platform for Linux and OS X.
Valve makes it easier to translate DX to OGL.
Collect profit... eventually.
Comment CIA's next move (Score 4, Funny) 411
Since the CIA can't outright shoot him, they'll just alter a few videos to make it look like he's gay in Russia.
Comment Re:does shatner ever tire? (Score 1) 194
If anything it should be called Andoria.
United States Begins Flying Stealth Bombers Over South Korea 567
skade88 writes "The New York Times is reporting that the United States has started flying B-2 stealth bomber runs over South Korea as a show of force to North Korea. The bombers flew 6,500 miles to bomb a South Korean island with mock explosives. Earlier this month the U.S. Military ran mock B-52 bombing runs over the same South Korean island. The U.S. military says it shows that it can execute precision bombing runs at will with little notice needed. The U.S. also reaffirmed their commitment to protecting its allies in the region. The North Koreans have been making threats to turn South Korea into a sea of fire. North Korea has also made threats claiming they will nuke the United States' mainland."
Comment Re:This just in (Score 1) 397
See. No one really knows how insurance or insurance companies work.
Comment This just in (Score 1) 397
This just in "Do more with less and stay longer" causes emotional and psychological distress.
Film at 6 but it will actually take until like 11:30.
Comment You and me both (Score 5, Insightful) 965
Linux is a great kernel. Linux has never had a good or stable GUI environment. Ever.
OS X and iOS QA has gone to shit. They're toys from China that break a lot now.
Windows 8 is a LSD trip. Windows 7 is the new Windows XP. However the Microsoft people will say Windows "next version" will be super better!!!! (since about Windows 3.11) like a broken record.
What's wrong with paper again?
