Comment Re:That just made my day.... (Score 1) 347
it makes me feel physically sick that a bunch of Swedish criminal hippies.
Is that you, Nixon?
Comment Re:Science includes BOTH strengths and weaknesses (Score 1) 344
+1 funny if I'd had mod points!
Comment Re:America, for one, welcomes... (Score 1) 734
OK, I'll give you Canada then. But that sort of bullshit is certainly not common in Europe. Also: In Europe we usually don't separate between "crime" and "misdemeanor" - everything goes on our criminal records.
I found a link to "Classes of Aliens Ineligible to Receive Visas"
http://www.travel.state.gov/visa/frvi/ineligibilities/ineligibilities_1364.html
Comment Re:America, for one, welcomes... (Score 1) 734
As a potential Johnny foreigner, I will spend my hard won Euros somewhere else.
If you are going to be deterred from coming to the US over the requirement that you register online and cough up some fingerprints I suppose you really didn't care that much about coming in the first place anyway, did you?
I think this program is security theater more than anything else but our entry/exit requirements still aren't that onerous compared to other countries I can think of. In the end you'll have to weigh them against your reason for coming here. I'm in love with Italy and Italian culture -- I'd cough up my prints if that was the requirement to go there. New York State already has them anyway.....
But the US rules _are_ onerous compared to other countries. The US demands that everyone wanting a tourist visa need to have a clean criminal record. (And I'm not talkin about having done jail time, everything more serious that a traffic ticket and you're disqualified.)
Comment Re:America, for one, welcomes... (Score 2, Interesting) 734
As a potential Johnny foreigner, I will spend my hard won Euros somewhere else.
So will I! The U.S. makes it so damn difficult getting into their country that it hardly seems worth the effort any more.. The worst part is that they deny visa (even 3 months of tourist visa) to ppl like me who have a small thing ($400 dollar fine) on our criminal record. A US citizen with the same record I have will have no problem entering my country (Norway).
Comment Re:Double Duh! (Score 1) 711
That would have been a good point, except that you're wrong: For the purpose of a server OS (and probably most other purposes) OS X is so far removed from it's BSD ancestry that your point is not valid at all.
Comment Re:Seriously... (Score 2, Insightful) 693
I don't see the problem.
Seriously, you don't? Largely because of the music industry's reluctance to use distribution methods and pricing that makes buying music "legally" attractive, we now have a situation where everything may end up on p2p. If you are happy living with the risk that one of your purchased iTunes Plus files will end up on a file sharing network and you getting sued for it, then you must be on Valium.,.
Comment Re:Paul and Ringo loose out (Score 1) 434
And also considering Paul McC's new project is sold without DRM in a choice between mp3, FLAC and Apple Lossless from his own site: http://www.thefiremanmusic.com/purchase
Comment Re:Double Duh! (Score -1, Flamebait) 711
..if they really were using OS X server they were obviously idiots and doomed to fail.
PS: Not saying OS X is not pretty good on the desktop/laptop, just that for your servers you should use Linux or possibly Solaris or BSD, but not OS X or Windows.
Comment Re:That's my laptop! (Score 1, Informative) 258
NTFS support on Ubuntu is really pretty good. The performance is not quite as good as native, but I think saying that "neither works particularly well in their non-native environments" is going to far, as functionality and stability is very good.
You can even run Ubuntu easily on NTFS with wubi. Check out this review: http://www.linux.com/feature/130713
Submission + - I am the bad boss!! what now?!?
Anonymous writes: I'm an IT manager since almost 2 years now and out of no-where (maybe arrogance), I decided to do a 360 feedback (using one of those websites). Employees were able to answer anonymously and, now I'm sure, didn't hold on anything on their mind.
Turned out I'm not very good; pretty much very bad. As suggested, I'm one of those managers who got promoted due to "technical prowess" in my previous position. And in all honesty, although I like the job (well, before I did...), I didn't sign up for this (people who hates you and goes bad mouthing about you — not that they're not right, just that I don't want to be known like that). What should I do now? You guys saw anyone in that same position (maybe you?) and actually turned it over and became a good boss?
Submission + - Wii Signs Pro Bowling Company
njkid1 writes: "Crave Entertainment announced today Brunswick Pro Bowling for PS2, PSP and Wii. The game promises to be a realistic version of the bowling experience, right down to the Brunswick bowling gear. Players will have a wide variety of options in customizing both their bowler and their bowling ball.
http://biz.gamedaily.com/industry/news/?id=15243&n cid=AOLGAM000500000000014"
Submission + - D-Wave Demonstrates First Quantum Computer
peace2300 writes: "http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2094849 ,00.asp
On Tuesday, members of D-Wave Systems, a Vancouver-based hardware firm, gathered at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View to demonstrate what they claimed is the world's first commercially viable quantum computer: the "16-qubit" Orion.
Touted as a systems-level "proof-of-concept" machine, the Orion uses a new type of analog processor that taps into quantum mechanics, rather than using the conventional physics associated with today's digital processing, to drive the computation.
D-Wave maintained that its approach allows for the building of scalable processor architectures using many of the conventional processes and technologies employed in the semiconductor industry today. Furthermore, because Orion's processors are computationally equivalent to more standard devices, D-Wave says that any application can be developed for one type of quantum computer and then recast as an application for another.
Full story here"
