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Comment: Re:Wrong (Score 1) 347

What he's saying is that in 5 years, you don't know the type of programming that will be in the most demand. Web development can be seen as the current state of the software evolution, which is very dependent on which field of interest.

If D-WAVE and whoever else is making adibiatic quantum machines which need to be programmed a specific way to solve their non-polynomial reduced problems, then you can bet that there will be a neccesary segment of academic and commercial programmers that start to program using that methodolgy (which will defintely be different than any type of progamming seen to date).

Comment: Re:Time for the Judges ruling? (Score 1) 475

Yeah, I'm wondering how all of this boils down to how much Bell Labs (or Lucent or IBM or whoever owns the Unix copyrights) is going to start suing for using stdio.h, stdlib.h and string.h!

Those header files are the same as the Java API; and if this is a copyright issue then the authors of those works can still claim it (Life+70 years!).

+ - 7 Warning Signs That Your Hiring Process Sucks->

Submitted by venturegrit
venturegrit writes "Steve Jobs said that “no matter how smart you are, to be successful you need a team of great people“. But hiring well is really tough. Here are some warning signs that your hiring process needs some improvement. They're all real stories from startups in Silicon Valley."
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Games

+ - A new Space Quest game? The Two Guys from Andromeda are back!->

Submitted by XanC
XanC writes "The Two Guys from Andromeda (Scott Murphy and Mark Crowe), the geniuses behind the classic Space Quest series of adventure games, have joined forces once again. They're working on a new "Space Adventure" (I'm assuming they legally can't call it Space Quest), and have a fun site where you can learn more. It brings back great memories of Space Quest past, and hope for the future as well!"
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Power

+ - iCloud Powered by Landfill-Fueled Bloom Boxes-> 1

Submitted by 1sockchuck
1sockchuck writes "Apple's North Carolina data center will tap landfills for biogas, which will then be converted into electricity using fuel cells from Bloom Energy. The 24 "Bloom boxes" will have a capacity of 4.8 megawatts of power, and along with a large solar array, will provide Apple with a significant on-site generation of sustainable energy. Microsoft is also developing biogas-powered data plants where modular data centers will be housed near water treatment plants and landfills. GigaOm has a useful primer on biogas in data centers, as well as video of the new higher capacity Bloom boxes that will support Apple's server farm."
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Desktops (Apple)

+ - Tim Cooks Wins Where Steve Jobs Failed: Java->

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GMGruman
GMGruman writes "As Woody Leonhard writes, the recent Flashback Trojan that infected nearly 700,000 Macs exposed a big rift between Apple and Oracle on who should take responsibility for keeping Java securely patched. Leonhard traces the history of Java's stewardship on the Mac and other platforms, and shows how by refusing to take on active responsibility for Java patches, new Apple CEO Tim Cook finally got what former CEO Steve Jobs long wanted: The ownership to go back to Oracle, just as Adobe takes responsibility for Flash and AIR vulnerabilities and Microsoft does for Office flaws."
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Comment: Re:How to change email account? (Score 1) 88

Did it get hacked into before or after you added the two step auth?

Also, are you using Google Account Reports? It now tells you exactly where and how you've logged into your Google Accounts; I think the SMS that you get are actually from this, not the two-step auth.

I feel much safer with the application one-time passwords and two-step hardware keycodes than any other service.

Does your Linode Server have two step auth to access email? And can you do that on your phone?

Comment: Re:Body Language (Score 3, Funny) 315

by BadAnalogyGuy (#36877050) Attached to: The Internet's Age of Rage

Your definition of "troll" is astoundingly wrong.

People who suffer from Aspergers or Autism (like many Slashdot users) are unable to read those cues in real life, much less on the internet. They are victims of a disease, but your definition lumps them in with people who try to raise the hackles of others on purpose.

If someone does not understand the nuance of your post, it does not mean they are a troll. The inability to read such nuance over the internet is very much akin to Aspergers and Autism. The person on the other end is working at a disadvantage.

It isn't nice to mock the mentally disabled, but you seem to think it's fine. You, sir, are the exact kind of person this story was written about.

All generalizations are false, including this one. -- Mark Twain

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