NinjaTariq - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Penetration Tester (Score 1) 372

by NinjaTariq on Sunday January 11, 2009 @06:04PM (#26410231) Attached to: How Will Recent Financial Downturns Affect IT Jobs?

Why would you equate penetration to masturbation? One is a poor alternative when you can't get the other.

Surely it would be better to equate it to testing lubricant or contraception or something like that?

Comment Re:Only the paranoid survive (not) (Score 1) 508

by NinjaTariq on Tuesday January 06, 2009 @08:29PM (#26351521) Attached to: Are My Ideas Being Stolen? If So, What Then?

I have, but i never signed it.

But from what I have heard, enforcing things like that even if they are in your contract are difficult. Its like non-compete clauses.

LHC Shut Down By Transformer Malfunction 293

Posted by timothy on Thursday September 18, 2008 @08:53PM from the it's-only-broken-if-you-look dept.

Ortega-Starfire writes "A 30-ton transformer in the Large Hadron Collider malfunctioned, requiring complete replacement on the day the LHC came online. No one at CERN reported any problems, and they only released this data once the Associated Press sent people to investigate rumors of problems. I guess it's hard to just sweep a 30-ton transformer breaking under the rug."

Trading the Markets With FOSS Software? 417

Posted by timothy on Thursday September 18, 2008 @07:34PM from the free-markets-deserve-free-software dept.

Robert writes "Along with many other techies, I share an interest in the world of finance (bubble-era stock options pulled me in). Unfortunately, as someone with a strong preference for GNU/Linux as my operating system of choice, I have found that software in this area seems quite sparse. For awhile I have made do with Python, R, Gnumeric, Gnucash and a telephone, along with some small utilities I have written myself. What I would like to know is: what FOSS software do you use for financial analysis, trading, system development, and testing in a Un*x environment? Are there programs you would like to see written or ported? Do any brokerages, data providers, or other services provide good support for we the few? And finally, what commercial entities do you know of that are using FOSS software in their operation?"

Submission + - Leopard is the New Vista 4

Submitted by ninja_assault_kitten on Thursday November 29, 2007 @06:15PM

ninja_assault_kitten writes: Interesting rant from Oliver Rist of PC Magazine. He compares the catastrophy that is Vista to the recently released OSX Leopard. While clearly one is a lion and the other a cub, is does appear to be an apples to apples comparison and it's qutie sad. From the article, "...the fact that so many of the semi-important changes don't work, the fact that Apple turned a stable OS into a crash-happy glitz fest, or that the annoying, scruffy Live Free or Die Hard actor infecting my TV (and our Web site, by the way) is pretending that Leopard is better than Vista". Worth a quick read.

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