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Comment Re:Mantech college sits on his ass all day (Score 0) 130

by R3PUBLIC0N on Saturday July 30, 2011 @10:20AM (#36932562) Attached to: Anonymous Releases 400 MB of FBI Contractor Data

They pay these people for doing literally nothing. A very well known college of mine is paid a well above-average salary by ManTech to answer perhaps one help desk call a day. He does literally nothing, all day long, most of the year. He is not allowed a cell phone or a laptop or browsing access for security reasons, so he tells me he just counts ceiling tiles.

Wow, COLLEAGUE. It's Saturday morning, I claim immunity.

Comment Mantech college sits on his ass all day (Score 0) 130

by R3PUBLIC0N on Saturday July 30, 2011 @10:18AM (#36932538) Attached to: Anonymous Releases 400 MB of FBI Contractor Data

They pay these people for doing literally nothing. A very well known college of mine is paid a well above-average salary by ManTech to answer perhaps one help desk call a day. He does literally nothing, all day long, most of the year. He is not allowed a cell phone or a laptop or browsing access for security reasons, so he tells me he just counts ceiling tiles.

FOSS Community Can Combat Bad Patents 58

Posted by kdawson on Monday December 08, 2008 @11:47PM from the layers-of-barbed-wire dept.

An anonymous reader lets us know about a new initiative designed to help shield the open source software community from threats posed by patent trolls. The initiative, called Linux Defenders (the website is slated to go live tomorrow, Dec. 9), is sponsored by a consortium of technology companies including IBM. "The most novel feature of the new program... will be its call to independent open source software developers all over the world to start submitting their new software inventions to Linux Defenders... so that the group's attorneys and engineers can, for no charge, help shape, structure, and document the invention in the form of a 'defensive publication.' Linux Defenders will then also see to it that the publication, duly attributing authorship of the invention to the developer who submitted it, is filed on the IP.com Web site, a database used by the US Patent and Trademark Office and other patent examiners throughout the world when they are trying to determine whether a proposed patent is truly novel..."

World's First 21Mbps EHSPA/HSPA+ Data "Call" 95

Posted by kdawson on Monday December 08, 2008 @08:21PM from the faster-than-a-bounding-kangaroo dept.

gadgetopia writes "Although data 'calls' on 21Mbps networks and equipment have been made in the labs and in demonstrations, Australia is the first place in the world where such a call has been made on a commercial, deployed 21Mbps eHSPA network, with a full commercial launch due early 2009."

Comment Well I guess... (Score 5, Funny) 164

by R3PUBLIC0N on Tuesday October 14, 2008 @07:16PM (#25375063) Attached to: Banjo Used In Brain Surgery

I guess in this case, the banjo tuned him.

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