Comment: Lot's of ways to do it .... (Score 1) 135
In his fictional book "Daemon" , Daniel Suarez showed lots of ways that Internet connected devices can whack people. Many of them are not that far fetched.
Comment: When she goes to work.... (Score 1) 743
Assuming she finds work as an engineer somewhere, she will probably be issued an employee badge. She will then be asked to "badge in" when she comes to work each day. Is she going to sue her employer because this is against her belief system?
Sorry, I agree with her in principle, but I' afraid she has just torpedoed her career.
Comment: No Problem.... (Score 1) 301
I'll just run down to Borders and grab a copy.
Oh, uh.... wait a minute.
+ - LEGO is in trouble with feminists->
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Bravoc writes "The new “LEGO Friends” rolled out in December featuring LadyFigs, curvier takeoffs on the traditional boxy LEGO men. Construction sets include a hot tub, a splash pool, a beauty parlor, an outdoor bakery and a “cool convertible," as well as an inventor's workshop.
But the SPARK Movement objects to the "LadyFigs," the female version of the little figures who man the spaceships, trucks and forts children create. "Ladyfigs" are somewhat anatomically correct, which hypersexualizes girls, according to the group.
"They have little breasts and they have fancy hair," the organization's executive director, Dana Edell, told FoxNews.com. "And it just disturbs us that this is the image that they want girls to see."
(as opposed to mostly anatomically incorrect BIG breasts and fancy hair — ala Barbi. Maybe they are just upset at fancy hair?)"
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But the SPARK Movement objects to the "LadyFigs," the female version of the little figures who man the spaceships, trucks and forts children create. "Ladyfigs" are somewhat anatomically correct, which hypersexualizes girls, according to the group.
"They have little breasts and they have fancy hair," the organization's executive director, Dana Edell, told FoxNews.com. "And it just disturbs us that this is the image that they want girls to see."
(as opposed to mostly anatomically incorrect BIG breasts and fancy hair — ala Barbi. Maybe they are just upset at fancy hair?)"
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Comment: Re:Privacy? (Score 2) 72
Yea but.... we're not talking about a company where they could become the target of civil litigation. We're talking about the US Federal Govurn-munt. Need I say more?
I don't feel good about this at all.
Comment: Re:I predict.... (Score 2) 545
Just like the Motorola devices, whose boot chain is still unbroken and as a result hinders the ability for true 3rd party ROMs to appear?
Not saying I got it all figured out, just saying I believe some uber-smart person will figure it out and release a hack into the wild.
Comment: I predict.... (Score 3, Interesting) 545
There will be a "jailbreak" or somesuch available for these within a matter of hours from when they hit the street.
Comment: Re:Contrast with consumer hard drive prices (Score 1) 96
Oh yea, don't get me wrong - they made money on the HDs. The thing is, they make WAY more on the software. When it comes down to it though, their money is in the software.
I probably shouldn't have opened my mouth anyway, I got sick of defending their hard drive prices when I worked there, been gone over a year - don't want to revisit that BS.
Comment: Re:Contrast with consumer hard drive prices (Score 2) 96
I worked at NetApp for 11 years. The intent never was to sell hard drives, the intent was to sell the software; ONTAP, Snap*, etc.
Dan Warmenhoven used to tell people "give away disks, but sell the software licenses." They make almost nothing on drive sales, they make huge margins on the software
Comment: Re:The outrage because it's China? (Score 1) 210
US wages need to drop to force prices down so we can compete.
OK, you first!
Comment: Why? (Score 2) 315
Is a "civil right organization" in Israel, telling a US company that it is violating US law?
Comment: Re:Sports should be low-tech. It's human competiti (Score 1) 257
I agree 100%. Next thing you know, we'll have iPads at chess tournaments to make them "more high tech".
Just because we have technology, does not mean we need to apply it. WTF?
Comment: Re:What? IT Workers GET OVERTIME? (Score 1) 1167
All the tech jobs I've had since 1990, have me listed as "exempt". Exempt from overtime that is. AKA salary, which means they own you and it is NEVER 40 hour weeks. More like 50-60, with the occasional 40 hour week almost like paid vacation.
So.... there are IT people who aren't "professionals" - oh yea, I remember, I called Dell Tech Support - once.
+ - Red Hat moving engineering operations to Silicon V->
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Bravoc writes "So it seems that Red Hat might be thinking about ditching the "great white north" in favor of a more conventional software home on the west coast. Being a Si Valley expatriate myself, I can't imagine why anyone would WANT to locate a business there. Could it be that the once golden fields of Sunnyvale and such are hurting for businesses and offering tax incentives now? Quite a change from the years gone by where Si Valley was the "place to be""
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Comment: Outlaws (Score 1) 80
If we make having my personal information illegal, only outlaws will have my personal information. Wait a minute...