Pingo - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Field dependent requirement (Score 1) 1086

by Pingo on Thursday August 09, 2012 @02:52PM (#40935809) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How Many of You Actually Use Math?

I am now 58 years old and by some strange reason I have allways needed to use very advanced math in my work. Now my work has been in the Swedish defence industri for 28 years and I have never been involved in anything resembling IT. Only embedded computers in Swedish fighter aircafts and its weapon systems. Also RADAR signal and navigation alghorithms where Quaternions has been an essential skill that I had to learn. I have been fortunate to have good payed jobs that has been very interesting but then programming for me is just a way of expressing my solution to a technical problem. I have also worked with missile tech or what some would call rocket science. No math gives low salaries and very boring jobs.

Comment Ham Radio Licenses Top 700,000, An All-Time High (Score 0) 358

by Pingo on Tuesday November 22, 2011 @12:09PM (#38136526) Attached to: Ham Radio Licenses Top 700,000, An All-Time High

Well, since they no longer require morsecode, anyone can get a ham radio license. On the morse code ham radio segments all is well but on the phone bands all kind of nuts is presented.

73 de SM2IUF

SCO v. Novell Goes To the Jury 67

Posted by timothy on Friday March 26, 2010 @08:30PM from the perhaps-it's-the-oj-jury dept.

Excelcia writes "Closing arguments in the six and a bit year old slander of title case between SCO and Novell occurred today and the case is finally in the hands of the jury. It's been an interesting case, with SCO alternately claiming that the copyrights to UNIX did get transferred to them, and that the copyrights should have been transferred to them. 'Judge Ted Stewart said, after the jury left to begin to deliberate, that in all his years on the bench, he's never seen such fine lawyering as in this case.' We're not going to find out the results until at least Tuesday, however, as one juror is taking a long weekend. Great lawyering notwithstanding, we can all hope next week that the Energizer bunny of all spurious lawsuits will finally go away."

Energy Star Program Certifies 15 Out of 20 Bogus Products 275

Posted by timothy on Friday March 26, 2010 @07:36PM from the so-have-no-fears-about-govt-insurance dept.

longacre writes "A Gasoline-Powered Alarm Clock was among 15 bogus products granted the coveted Energy Star seal of approval by the US Environmental Protection Agency during a secret evaluation conducted by the Government Accountability Office. In addition, four fictional manufacturers run by fake people and marketed with crummy websites — Cool Rapport (HVAC equipment), Futurizon Solar Innovations (lighting), Spartan Digital Electronics, and Tropical Thunder Appliances — were granted Energy Star partnerships. The root of the problem: Manufacturers need only submit photos and not actual examples of their products, and they submit their own efficiency ratings, which are not independently verified by the EPA."

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