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Comment Re:Assuming of course hardware is the bottleneck (Score 0) 465

by shashark on Saturday December 20, 2008 @06:19PM (#26186719) Attached to: Hardware Is Cheap, Programmers Are Expensive

I wonder if they teach that in those call centers in India, or those single programming courses companies make people take when they're trying to cut out the cost of programmers altogether.

Yes, they do. Not in call centers though, but in Universities across India. If your purpose was to slander Indian education system or belittle the coders there - then that's a FAIL. The guys there are as good [or bad] as they are over here. The spread is larger because of the bigger population.

Submission + - West Virginia Republicans Vote Online (theintelligencer.net)

Submitted by

InternetVoting

on Wednesday September 19, 2007 @03:55PM

InternetVoting writes: "The West Virginia Republican Party will be offering Internet voting for their 2008 Convention delegates. These delegates will be responsible for choosing the West Virginia GOP's nomination for President at the 2008 WV GOP Convention. Online voting will be available from Jan. 1 — Jan. 14 via the convention website. From the story:
"West Virginia Republicans may usher in the future for democracy when they choose their delegates for the state presidential convention online later this year.""

Submission + - P2P Sites Mock MediaDefender's Legal Threats (arstechnica.com) 1

Submitted by

Happy Talk Lika a Pirate Day!

on Wednesday September 19, 2007 @03:53PM

Happy Talk Lika a Pirate Day! writes: "Apparently, MediaDefender's attempts to stop the email leak aren't going so well. Several major BitTorrent sites have replied to their claims with hilarious rejoinders. While they've had somewhat more luck DoSing the new MediaDefender-Defenders web site, which reports that 1020 out of the 1257 IPs that are DoSing them are from known MediaDefender subnets, the BitTorrent sites have just been publishing their legal threats and laughing. ISOHunt responded by asking them, "If Mr. Gerber is truly as experienced in IP law as his bio claims he is why is it that he is incapable of composing a DMCA takedown notice as per USC Title 17 Section 512?" Meganova was even less kind, telling the "asstunnels" what they can go do with themselves and saying "In case you haven't noticed, this site is located in Europe (I hope you can point it out on a map)." Perhaps some US copyright lawyers, like some people out there in our nation, don't have maps?"

Submission + - NYC man Arrested for Reciting First Amendment

Submitted by CWRUisTakingMyMoney on Tuesday July 03, 2007 @11:49AM

CWRUisTakingMyMoney writes: 'Reverend Billy' — a cross between a street-corner preacher and an Elvis impersonator (but blond) — was arrested on harassment charges last week while reciting the First Amendment through a megaphone in Manhattan's Union Square. Have we reached the point where we can't even (rather uniquely) recite from our own Constitution without being arrested or shouted down?

Submission + - Best small business Anti-Virus package for WinTel?

Submitted by dr_strang on Tuesday July 03, 2007 @11:24AM

dr_strang writes: In these times of surreptitious payola and suspect 'page ranking', it's hard to find truly unbiased reviews for software. As the sysadmin for my company, I am looking to replace the notoriously clunky and resource-intensive Network Associates package and find a truly lightweight, effective and easy to manage anti-virus suite for our smallish (under 100 devices) network, including XP Pro machines and 2003 servers. I haven't been able to find very many reviews that address the largest concern I have, which is the biggest problem I have with Network Associates: resource hogging. If you have insights to share or know of review sites that are fair and informative, I'd love to hear it.

Submission + - Behind the scenes of MIT's computer networks

Submitted by

BobB

on Friday January 19, 2007 @11:03AM

BobB writes: "MIT's head of computer networks and security give an inside look at how the techie school is fending off hackers, cranking up its network to handle voice over IP and become a fiber network operator to link to other research institutions. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/011907-mit-y our-take.html?page=1"

Journal Journal: Slashdot | Surgical Microbot Developed

Journal by jdray on Friday January 19, 2007 @10:42AM

Holy crap, will wonders never cease? If this thing really works, we're definitely on the short path to witnessing some amazing surgical recoveries. Clogged arteries? No problem. My only question is whether it can get caught in a blood cell in the brain and cause a stroke.

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/19/1341247

Submission + - Ultra-Dense Optical Storage -- On One Photon

Submitted by brendotroy on Friday January 19, 2007 @10:32AM

brendotroy writes: Researchers at the University of Rochester have made an optics breakthrough that allows them to encode an entire image's worth of data into a photon, slow the image down for storage, and then retrieve the image intact. Squeezing that much information into so small a space and retrieving it intact opens the door to optical buffering — storing information as light.

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