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Comment Re:US vs UK... (Score 1) 1174

by jackhererUK (#29986714) Attached to: Plug vs. Plug — Which Nation's Socket Is Best?
The circuit breakers in my house are 30 amps, they protect against current overload in the wiring in my house. The fuses in my plugs are between 3 and 13 amps (as appropriate to the particular appliance) they protect against circuit overload in the appliance and associated wiring. This is not redundancy it is 2 different fuses/breakers that serve totally different purposes.

Comment Put all projects together (Score 1) 103

by jackhererUK (#29784115) Attached to: How To List FOSS Experience On Your Resume
Most tech cvs/resumes i have seen list the various projects worked on in the career history section. If you wanted to include open source projects that don't relate to a specific job then you could have a cut down career history section with just an explanation of each job and then split out the projects into a seperate section. You could then just put a reference with each project to say which job or open source project it related to. That way your commercial work and open source work get equal precedence and you don't have to relegate your open source projects to their own little ghetto.

Comment Insert (Score 1) 939

by jackhererUK (#29616589) Attached to: The Most Useless Key On My Keyboard Is...
Insert is not only useless it is actually irritating that it exists. I always want to type text in insert mode and never in overwrite mode. If I want to overwrite some text i will highlight it first. The only time i am ever in overwrite mode is by accidentally hitting the insert key. A colleague of mine has even gone so far as to prize the key off his keyboard cos he i so fed up of hitting it accedentally.
Education

Submission + - Students' Scheduling Errors May Last Days 2

Submitted by
Hugh Pickens
Hugh Pickens writes: "The Washington Post reports that thousands of high school students in Prince George's County missed a third day of classes Wednesday, and school officials said it could take more than a week to sort out the chaos caused by a computerized class-scheduling system as students were placed in gyms, auditoriums, cafeterias, libraries and classes they didn't want or need at high schools across the county and their parents' fury over the logistical nightmare rose. "The school year comes up the same time every year," said Carolyn Oliver, the mother of a 16-year-old senior who spent Wednesday in the senior lounge at Bowie High School. "When I heard they didn't have schedules, I was like, 'What have they been doing all summer?' " When school opened Monday, about 8,000 high school students had no class schedules and were sent to wait in holding spaces while administrators tried to sort things out. By Tuesday evening, that number was down to 4,000. As of noon Wednesday, 3,400 of the school district's 41,000 high school students had no class schedules, officials said. Superintendent William R. Hite Jr. said that some schools didn't realize there was a problem with schedules until school started and that the trouble was exacerbated by difficulties with SchoolMax, a $4.1 million computer system introduced last school year. SchoolMax went online in Prince George's a year ago to help the county track students' grades, attendance and discipline data. Last year, the program crashed at least four times and was plagued by errors that led to botched schedules, an overcount of students and mistakes on report cards. Jessica Pinkney, a junior, said she was moved to the cafeteria Wednesday morning after two days in the gymnasium because the cafeteria had air conditioning. "We just sit and do nothing," says Pinkney. "But I'm meeting new people, so it's getting more interesting.""
Earth

Submission + - Climate change? There's an elephant in the room.

Submitted by Morlenden
Morlenden writes: Whether or not climate change is caused by human activity, there are several other ecological problems caused by a increasing human population. A constant focus on climate change leaves these other problems un-addressed, perhaps leading to problems ahead where the carrying capacity of the Earth is reduced by ecological damage even while the human population continues to increase.
Security

Submission + - Techdirt Hacked

Submitted by
jackhererUK
jackhererUK writes: "Someone calling themselves BIOHAZARD appears to have hacked/defaced techdirt. It seems to be a fairly low impact hack with the body of a number of posts defaced but most of the rest of the site is intact."

Comment Re:officially its an adjective (Score 1) 210

by jackhererUK (#27865623) Attached to: What Data Center Designers Can Learn From Legos
Lego is not an exception, it has no s because it refers to stuff not things. You would say "that's a lot of Lego" in the same way you would say "that's a lot of sugar". An individual Lego brick is not "a Lego" therefore lots of them are not "Legos". Even Firefox knows this, it is happy with Lego, but it tells me Legos is not spelled correctly and suggests Lego instead.
Security

Should the US Go Offensive In Cyberwarfare? 276

Posted by kdawson from the mutually-assured-mayhem dept.
The NYTimes has a piece analyzing the policy discussions in the US around the question of what should be the proper stance towards offensive cyberwarfare. This is a question that the Bush administration wrestled with, before deciding that the outgoing president didn't have the political capital left to grapple with it. The article notes two instances in which President Bush approved the use of offensive cyberattacks; but these were exceptions, and the formation of a general policy was left to the Obama administration. "Senior Pentagon and military officials also express deep concern that the laws and understanding of armed conflict have not kept current with the challenges of offensive cyberwarfare. Over the decades, a number of limits on action have been accepted — if not always practiced. One is the prohibition against assassinating government leaders. Another is avoiding attacks aimed at civilians. Yet in the cyberworld, where the most vulnerable targets are civilian, there are no such rules or understandings. If a military base is attacked, would it be a proportional, legitimate response to bring down the attacker's power grid if that would also shut down its hospital systems, its air traffic control system, or its banking system?"

Comment Re:My mother takes the elevator to work (Score 1) 887

by jackhererUK (#26424503) Attached to: How do you get to work?

I had a similar experience in College. All of my classes were after 5:30pm. For a few weeks during finals I would wake up at 4:30 or 5 and go to class. Then return home. Do homework until 5:30 -6 in the morning go to sleep and rinse/repeat.

I followed this schedule for over a week and seeing as it was december and the sun set at around 4:15 it occured to me that I hadn't actually been awake during daylight for almost 2 weeks.

I did the same thing, only with less going to class and more smoking weed.
Music

Submission + - Paul McCartney on music in the digital world

Submitted by
Rachhpal
Rachhpal writes: "Paul McCartney, ex-Beatles member, will release his new album today, "Memory Almost Full". In an interview with L.A. Times, he indicated ending his long time relationship with EMI and making his album fully downloadable through his new relationship with Starbucks' new Hear Music Label. http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-mc cartney3jun03,1,1265126.story?track=rss&ctrack=2&c set=true Some of his comments on the music industry currently from the interview: "I was bored with the old record company's jaded view," McCartney says, ..... "They're very confused, and they will admit it themselves: that this is a new world, and they're a little bit at a loss as to what to do. So they've got millions of dollars and X budget ... for them to come up with boring ways — because they've been at it for so long — to what they call 'market' it. And I find that all a bit disturbing."
Space

Submission + - Space X Falcon 1 launch failure speculation

Submitted by jafac
jafac writes: As discussed in this SpaceDaily article, the video footage from the launch, earlier this week (available at www.spacex.com), of the Falcon 1 vehicle, seems to show a problem with the stage separation. I noticed this when I watched the video last night — it appears that the top of the first stage bumps the engine nozzle.

The upper stage guidance does a good job of setting the craft straight after this bump, but some odd things happen after that, including some kind of ring flying off the engine, and a wobble that gets progressively worse until the vehicle goes completely out of control. I've been fascinated by the availability of these kinds of videos more and more; but this is the first one I've seen that documents a failed launch — (Elon Musk's denials notwithstanding), and because of that, it's probably the coolest video I've seen all year.
Windows

Submission + - Why Windows Vista isn't ready for geeks

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The boys over at Short-Media have a pretty convincing write up about Vista. They are advocating that all geeks stay away from the new MS operating system. "Games wouldn't run, applications wouldn't install, and a slew of Vista options could not be disabled even if it would've helped the PC's performance or my sanity; it all just went to hell." They also try to cut out some of the Vista's bloat by going over all the services and disabling the ones that are unnecessary. They were able to get their system from 42 Processes, 607MB paged and 532MB of RAM used to a lowly 29 processes, 368MB paged and 400MB memory usage; an accomplishment any true geek would recognize.

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