Comment: Re:just use the edge of the disk (Score 1) 168
Yes, disks are cheap
The power to run and cool them, and the space to hold them on your data center floor, are not.
Comment: Hosting Matters (Score 1) 456
...so I use Hosting Matters. Been using them for years, they're cheap, provide MySQL and cpanel access, sftp, and ssh (if you ask). Their rates are reasonable, and -- bonus -- every time I've filed a help ticket, I've gotten a response in hours*, and it's always been knowledgeable.
*Once it took 12 hours (essentially overnight) and the support rep apologized for taking so long.
Comment: Re:Speaking of tags... (Score 1) 4
I think there's an actual Slashdot preference setting that hides tags.
I honestly don't know any more, I have so many ad blockers, script blockers, greasemonkey scripts, firefox extensions, CSS modifiers, and other stuff filtering down every site I really couldn't tell you which particular one shut off the damn tags.
Comment: fMRI (Score 1) 938
Comment: Re:Who cares? (Score 1) 353
Android has limited multitasking that isn't terribly intuitive to use
You don't "use" multitasking on Android at all; it's completely transparent to the user, since all activities can be fully stopped and resumed.
Yet all I hear on
I tried WebOS and I like neither the hardware, nor the software, nor the programming model. In addition, it looks to me like the company is going to die. Why would I care about WebOS?
Comment: LHC vs Fermilab (Score 0) 194
Why does Black Mesa vs Aperture Science come to mind?
Comment: Re: (Score 1) 549
I'm from Krypton you insensitive clod!
Comment: Re:Is it only me (Score 1) 114
Are you saying a market can't exist without rules set by an arbitrary entity?
Indian CEO Says Most US Tech Grads "Unemployable" 1144
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from the you-stereotype-i-draw-distinctions dept.
from the you-stereotype-i-draw-distinctions dept.
theodp writes "When questioned about his firm's US hiring, Information Week reports that Vineet Nayar, the CEO of the Indian outsourcing giant HCL Technologies, showed he can stereotype with the best of them, telling an audience in NYC that most American tech grads are 'unemployable.' Explaining that Americans are far less willing than students from developing economies like India, China, and Brazil to master the 'boring' details of tech process and methodology, the HCL chief added that most Americans are just too expensive to train. HCL, which was reportedly awarded a secretive $170 million outsourcing contract by Microsoft last April, gets a personal thumbs-up from Steve Ballmer for 'walking the extra mile.' Ballmer was busy last week pitching more H-1B visas as the cure for America's job ills at The National Summit."
Comment: Re:1. Upload to Wikileaks with Xerobank 2. Link to (Score 4, Informative) 471
Depending on how important/inflammable this document is, I might look into buying a cheap 20GB laptop hard drive, installing ubuntu, going to a star bucks, doing the above and then "disposing" of the drive and all media so that there are no questions.
For this to work you would also have to change your wireless interface's Ethernet MAC (hardware) address. By default this is a vendor-specific code that is probably unique enough that it could be used to link you to the upload. This would require that (a) the coffee shop kept some kind of long-term logging on their wireless device, (b) the authorities were able to trace the upload to the coffee shop, and (c) the police had some kind of suspicion of you already. All are improbable, but none are impossible.
Most wireless cards will let you change the hardware address. I'll leave instructions for how to do that to the enterprising googler.
The alternative is to use a cheap throwaway laptop with wireless, or a disposable wireless ethernet card.
(Yes, it's paranoid, but so is the original question.)