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Comment Darkness (Score 1) 590

by TechJones on Tuesday October 30, 2012 @03:57PM (#41821883) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Stands In the Way of a Truly Solar-Powered Airliner?

In general darkness stands in the way of anything solar powered..

Comment Re:In other words, (Score 1) 645

by TechJones on Thursday October 20, 2011 @08:58AM (#37773098) Attached to: Ballmer Slams Android As Cheap and Overcomplicated

What does Android do that iOS doesn't exactly...?

Flash.... AHHH AHHH!!!

Comment Does it only cost 6 million dollars? (Score 1) 60

by TechJones on Thursday July 14, 2011 @09:43AM (#36762026) Attached to: NSF Funds Mind-machine Interface Center

We have the technology, we can rebuild him.

Comment And here I thought we were.. (Score 1) 1277

by TechJones on Wednesday March 09, 2011 @10:44AM (#35429414) Attached to: Utah To Teach USA is a Republic, Not a Democracy

Hmm and all this time I thought we actually were a Republic.. The pledge of allegiance even says so (note the to the republic part): "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."

Comment Block Writes, Bah (Score 1) 625

by TechJones on Monday January 19, 2009 @04:05PM (#26519441) Attached to: Single Drive Wipe Protects Data

NIST 800-88, Read it.. Love it! Modern hard drives have the command for data destruction built in the form of Secure Erase (http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/people/Hughes/SecureErase.shtml) Block writing went out with the '90s and unless you are using a drive that is that old block writes are nothing more then a waste of time. Heck the old DoD 5220.22M even calls on the NIST standard these days. Read up on it!

Comment Re:Linux is killing IT jobs (Score 1) 460

by TechJones on Friday August 08, 2008 @10:11AM (#24524495) Attached to: Nearly 50,000 IT Jobs Lost In Past Year

As Linux takes over in the back rooms, the number of staff required to maintain the systems, reduces. This trend has been ongoing for years. Now that Linux is moving onto desktops and laptops, the trend is bound to accelerate. Microsoft types are doomed and need to upgrade their burger flipping skills.

Yeah I'm sure those end users that can't figure out the difference between a left and right click will find linux easier to use. I'm not too worried about being out of a job because of linux, in fact it just gives me something else to maintain.

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