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Comment Re:Microsoft updates before Google and Oracle? (Score 1) 156

by HWMTM on Thursday December 29, 2011 @10:38AM (#38525592) Attached to: Microsoft Issuing Unusual Out-of-Band Security Update

It's precisely because it affects different platforms that MS is rolling out the update before others.

Uh, what are you trying to say here? I thought trolls had to make some sense in order to be effective.

Maybe times are a-changing.

Comment Taking lessons from TM? (Score 2) 562

by HWMTM on Thursday December 29, 2011 @10:34AM (#38525546) Attached to: Verizon Adds $2 Charge For Paying Your Bill Online

Did I miss Ticketmaster buying out Verizon or something? Or maybe companies just don't hire competent marketing/planning folks anymore...

Comment 2012: End of Days (Score 1) 1

by HWMTM on Friday December 16, 2011 @05:32PM (#38403528) Attached to: No SOPA Vote Until 2012

At least the end of a free internet. First, they wanted to stop it. Then they wanted to section it off into paid tiers. Now, we're at the mercy of technological dunces who are bowing to their corporate overlords.

Comment Originality (Score 1, Insightful) 99

by HWMTM on Friday December 09, 2011 @12:07PM (#38315360) Attached to: Forget an Essay; Earn a Scholarship With a Tweet

Application essays were becoming "unoriginal," and yet they expect *more* originality in 140 characters or less?

Comment OWS? (Score 1) 1

by HWMTM on Thursday November 10, 2011 @05:22PM (#38016648) Attached to: Foreigners Don't Take IT Jobs, They Create Them

"One commonly espoused view is that if we keep more foreigners out of the U.S., employment will rise and the economy will rebound. "

Wait, who's saying this? Granted, OWS has a lot of interests, but I doubt keeping out foreigners is high on their collective list.

Comment Re:Is this something the market forces are demandi (Score 3, Informative) 148

by HWMTM on Tuesday November 08, 2011 @12:54PM (#37986672) Attached to: Windows OS Coming To the Mainframe

Some estimates have mainframes processing 80% of the world's data. http://fosspatents.blogspot.com/2010/08/western-civilization-runs-on-mainframe.html Now I'm not sure how accurate that percentage is, but if you run an enterprise business and have thousands of servers to maintain, a mainframe still makes a lot of sense.

Submission + - According to NPR, superhero Phoenix Jones lost his (npr.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 03, 2011 @04:18PM

An anonymous reader writes: According to NPR superhero Phoenix Jones lost his day job as a result of his assault charges.

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