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Comment Re:maintenance costs (Score 1) 249

Really? So Linux is support and maintenance free? It just magically installs and configures itself? Trains the users? Installs patches? Or are you expecting each user to do this on their own? And who will monitor the security of each system?

Also left out of this whole "saved" calculation is the cost of time lost due to frustration with incompatabilities between open source software and "global standards". Likewise the need to find replacements for more specialized software.

Comment Re: What the heck? (Score 0) 354

In fact it seems quite the opposite. It is Wolfe's code which is violating the other's license. He had no right in the first place to create a derived work using the non-GPL reversed code.

I'll get marked as a troll, but isn't this just another good example of why BSD license is better for all involved?

Comment Re:Wrong Units (Score 1) 212

It's radiation from the decay of Cs-137, and "what's left" is stated in Bq.

which is... beta of what energy? How many gammas? Alpha? Not all radiation is the same and not all effect living tissue the same way and may do so differently externally compared to internally.

1kg of pork with 10000 Bq/kg, your estimated radiation dosage is 0.13 mSv.

From..? I'll asume Cs-137. None of the stories on our boar friends say the average quantity, only a few "alarming" high end figures of 7K Bq/kg. I don't know about you, but I do not typically eat a kg of boar (or any other) meat in one sitting. I think most people would fall in the 1/4 kg range, perhaps less. So taking your figure, and those worst case numbers for the boar we are speaking of the order of 15% of one xray.

And what of the limit imposed by the EU? 600 Bq/kg? You would need to have boar nearly 70 times in a year to reach the one x-ray dose. So as I suggested at the start - the limits are way too low. If you want to label the meat, fine go ahead and put your scary stickers on it. But at least let people make an informed choice on their own whether to eat mr. boar or not.

Comment Not vocational school (Score 1) 546

College degrees are not the same as those from vocational schools which is what it sounds like at least some in industry prefer. Nobody graduating with a college degree has a very high skill set for a particular task - not even accounting majors. All start on the lower rungs but are expected to advance rapidly because they have the necessary broadbased knowledge to learn and use knew skills effectively. Simply put, they are not one trick ponies. Did somebody say ponies?

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