blackwizard - Slashdot User

Comment Re:QQ (Score 1) 336

by blackwizard on Tuesday March 29, 2011 @08:18PM (#35660926) Attached to: MySpace Loses Ten Million Users In One Month

The interesting part to me, if you browse to qq.com you'll see a logo that was clearly ripped off from the Google Chrome logo.

My interpretation is that the Chinese government is mocking Google's attempts to scorn them - hence, they are a bunch of whiners - QQ.

Comment Buy HP stock? (Score 1) 264

by blackwizard on Thursday March 24, 2011 @06:25PM (#35605600) Attached to: Microsoft Buys 666,000 IP Addresses

They have two /8s and change. ;-)

015/8 Hewlett-Packard Company 1994-07 LEGACY 016/8 Digital Equipment Corporation 1994-11 LEGACY

Comment Re:You make excellent points. (Score 1) 609

by blackwizard on Monday February 28, 2011 @01:33AM (#35335548) Attached to: IT Graduates Not "Well-Trained, Ready-To-Go"

And don't forget that people who get college degrees have an easier time getting visas to go to other countries. So you get to say "so long suckers!" while your college educated friends have to go to those overseas hot sites. ;-)

Comment Where's your sense of fairness? (Score 1) 184

by blackwizard on Thursday February 03, 2011 @02:00AM (#35087798) Attached to: NASA Finds Family of Habitable Planets

The mormons are only slightly crazier than the average religion. I imagine these guys would be spinning this news like crazy.

Comment Re:Tax Exempt? (Score 2, Insightful) 490

by blackwizard on Thursday August 13, 2009 @12:01PM (#29053485) Attached to: US Colleges Say Hiring US Students a Bad Deal

That makes little sense, but I approve. In fact, as somebody who lives in Europe, I encourage every smart, qualified worker who doesn't feel welcome in the US to come over here. We'll get out of these economic problems by having smart people do innovative things. It doesn't really matter where they were born, but it does matter where they work.

I wish it were that easy. Where is this elusive "work" you speak of? From where I sit, there is no hiring growth in 1st world countries. Requirement #1 for hiring is "low cost geography".

Submission + - Entry Level Astronomy 2

Submitted by

brobak

on Monday September 10, 2007 @11:31AM

brobak writes: "I'm getting ready to move into a new home on a couple of acres of rural property a significant distance from any large source of light pollution. I've always been interested in astronomy in general, and I was thinking that putting my dark skies to use by picking up decent telescope and learning a bit about the skies over my head. I have been doing a decent amount of web research, but I thought that the Slashdot community would be the perfect place to get opinions on entry level equipment, websites, and books.

The overall budget for this project is going to be around $1,000, and observations will be made from the back of my home primarily. I am particularly interested in the subject of astrophotography, but I understand that may be outside the scope of the initial budget. I would welcome any and all of your comments and suggestions for getting started in this fascinating hobby.

PS — I've already signed up for my local astronomy clubs next monthly meeting."

Proposed IPv6 Cutover By 2011-01-01 398

Posted by kdawson on Thursday August 02, 2007 @08:48AM from the swatting-a-nat dept.

IO ERROR writes "An internet-draft published this month calls for an IPv6 transition plan which would require all Internet-facing servers to have IPv6 connectivity on or before January 1, 2011. 'Engineer and author John Curran proposes that migration to IPv6 happen in three stages. The first stage, which would happen between now and the end of 2008, would be a preparatory stage in which organizations would start to run IPv6 servers, though these servers would not be considered by outside parties as production servers. The second stage, which would take place in 2009 and 2010, would require organizations to offer IPv6 for Internet-facing servers, which could be used as production servers by outside parties. Finally, in the third stage, starting in 2011, IPv6 must be in use by public-facing servers.' Then IPv4 can go away."

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