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Comment: Re:and why it shouldnt ? (Score 3, Informative) 1263

by SDrag0n (#39050289) Attached to: Doctors "Fire" Vaccine Refusers
It's funny, one of the first things you learn in a statistics class is that statistics are very dependent on how they're collected, determined, and described. You can make statistics to mean a lot of different things. I'm not judging the content of your link (I didn't read it), but saying that there is a statistic so it must describe the truth without any other information is just dumb.

Comment: Re:Curious (Score 1) 445

by SDrag0n (#38930069) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Are Daily Stand-Up Meetings More Productive?
That's not always true. Where I work the tech staff actually don't care much for agile because we develop a data product, not as much software (we sell sets of data). However, the management decided that agile was great and so guess who got trained how to do agile?

If you guessed the managers, that's right. Now all the managers are pushing scrums and agile. The rest of us are trying to figure out how to even apply that to database design
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iOS Apps Crashes More Frequently Than Android Apps - Study->

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dkd903 writes "iOS fans generally maintains that the iOS apps apps are better than the Android apps. However, according to a study by Crittercism, that may not be entirely correct. Crittercism's study reveals that iOS apps crashes more frequently compared to the Android apps. Of course, there are no hard and fast rules to determine which app is better — but the crash rate is one indication."
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MIT Software Allows Queries On Encrypted Databases->

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Sparrowvsrevolution writes "CryptDB, a piece of database software that MIT researchers presented at the Symposium on Operating System Principles in October, allows users to send queries to an encrypted SQL database and get results without decrypting the stored information. CryptDB works by nesting data in several layers of cryptography, each of which has a different key and allows a different kind of simple operation on encrypted data. It doesn't work with every kind of calculation, and it's not the first system to offer this sort of computation on encrypted data. But it may be the only practical one. Previous crypto schemes that allowed operations on encrypted data multiplied computing time by a factor of a trillion. This one adds only 15-26%."
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Comment: Re:Tuition math lesson (Score 1) 359

by SDrag0n (#38383378) Attached to: Oracle Sued For 'Extortion, Lies' By Montclair State University
Hey, here's the "Things have gotten more expensive" crap. I guess it depends on your idea of crap. I'm going back to college to finish getting my degree at a local public university. I had one class that required 3 books and cost about $250. One band-spanking-new "lab" book, and 2 used textbooks. There is some serious bullshit going on with books, and it HAS gotten worse.

When I was at Purdue in '99, used books cost between $60 - $90 depending and new books were maybe $110. Now the used books cost $110 and are only in use 1 year so you can't even sell the stupid things back. It's a racket.

Comment: Re:Other Motivation? (Score 5, Informative) 101

Maybe if GPS manufacturers hadn't disregarded the DOD requirements on GPS, the technology wouldn't mess with your GPS http://m.lightsquared.com/press-room/press-releases/gps-industrys-failure-to-comply-with-department-of-defense/

Imagine I bought a timeshare for 2 weeks a year and noticed that nobody was using the week after mine and I started planning 3 weeks stays. A few years down the road, somebody else shows up and wants to stay during that third week. What right would I have to be pissed?

Personally, I'm more concerned to find out that it's apparently really easy to knock out military GPS.... It seems like somebody would want to fix that rather than complain about spectrum usage. Just my 2 cents.

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