Comment Re:R'ing TFA? Heresy! (Score 1) 830
We uploaded our brains into computers after we finished reverse engineering them. A-doy.
Comment Re:Another fine example of government in action (Score 1) 205
This game is an example of when you give a government institution (with no reason to stay in business) loads of cash.
Did... you just refer to NASA as a government institution that gets loads of cash?
Comment Re:It's not Russia, but... (Score 1) 327
Well, she would be able to see it from her house, but Jindal convinced her that volcano monitoring was a waste of time and money, so she doesn't look that way.
Comment Re:Three options (Score 1) 1032
You missed a fourth option.
Move to Alberta, Canada. We haven't had rats for decades. =D
(I'm serious, BTW. No wild rats, and private ownership of rats is illegal.)
Submission + - NYSE moving off the mainframe
BDPrime writes: "The New York Stock Exchange today started its migration off the mainframe to AIX and Linux.
AIX on System p will run the recompiled application code; Linux on HP x86 servers will run the FTP transfers."
Francis Feldman, the vice president of the shared data center for Securities Industry Automation Corp. (SIAC), the NYSE's technology arm, said the bottom line for the migration was the bottom line. He estimates the move will halve the cost of transactions, and though he wouldn't detail how much that would mean on a yearly basis, he said it is "serious financial savings, very serious."
AIX on System p will run the recompiled application code; Linux on HP x86 servers will run the FTP transfers."
Submission + - No need to patch Security issues until you have to
johnmeister writes: This guy suggests that security issues are best left alone until they are found by hackers.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/05/11/20OPseca dvise_1.html
