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Comment Is it? (Score 2) 248

by TechJones on Monday August 20, 2018 @04:13PM (#57161550) Attached to: It's Time to End the 'Data Is' vs 'Data Are' Debate

Are we sure it is?

Comment I don't know (Score 1) 277

by TechJones on Thursday July 26, 2018 @03:40PM (#57014822) Attached to: Windows 10 To Use Machine Learning in Latest Attempt To Make Reboots Less Annoying

That Charmed reboot looks pretty annoying to me...

United States Begins Flying Stealth Bombers Over South Korea 567

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday March 28, 2013 @09:01PM from the nice-day-for-a-flight dept.

skade88 writes "The New York Times is reporting that the United States has started flying B-2 stealth bomber runs over South Korea as a show of force to North Korea. The bombers flew 6,500 miles to bomb a South Korean island with mock explosives. Earlier this month the U.S. Military ran mock B-52 bombing runs over the same South Korean island. The U.S. military says it shows that it can execute precision bombing runs at will with little notice needed. The U.S. also reaffirmed their commitment to protecting its allies in the region. The North Koreans have been making threats to turn South Korea into a sea of fire. North Korea has also made threats claiming they will nuke the United States' mainland."

Comment Darkness (Score 1) 590

by TechJones on Tuesday October 30, 2012 @03:57PM (#41821883) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Stands In the Way of a Truly Solar-Powered Airliner?

In general darkness stands in the way of anything solar powered..

Comment Re:In other words, (Score 1) 645

by TechJones on Thursday October 20, 2011 @08:58AM (#37773098) Attached to: Ballmer Slams Android As Cheap and Overcomplicated

What does Android do that iOS doesn't exactly...?

Flash.... AHHH AHHH!!!

Comment Does it only cost 6 million dollars? (Score 1) 60

by TechJones on Thursday July 14, 2011 @09:43AM (#36762026) Attached to: NSF Funds Mind-machine Interface Center

We have the technology, we can rebuild him.

Comment And here I thought we were.. (Score 1) 1277

by TechJones on Wednesday March 09, 2011 @10:44AM (#35429414) Attached to: Utah To Teach USA is a Republic, Not a Democracy

Hmm and all this time I thought we actually were a Republic.. The pledge of allegiance even says so (note the to the republic part): "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."

Comment Block Writes, Bah (Score 1) 625

by TechJones on Monday January 19, 2009 @04:05PM (#26519441) Attached to: Single Drive Wipe Protects Data

NIST 800-88, Read it.. Love it! Modern hard drives have the command for data destruction built in the form of Secure Erase (http://cmrr.ucsd.edu/people/Hughes/SecureErase.shtml) Block writing went out with the '90s and unless you are using a drive that is that old block writes are nothing more then a waste of time. Heck the old DoD 5220.22M even calls on the NIST standard these days. Read up on it!

Comment Re:Linux is killing IT jobs (Score 1) 460

by TechJones on Friday August 08, 2008 @10:11AM (#24524495) Attached to: Nearly 50,000 IT Jobs Lost In Past Year

As Linux takes over in the back rooms, the number of staff required to maintain the systems, reduces. This trend has been ongoing for years. Now that Linux is moving onto desktops and laptops, the trend is bound to accelerate. Microsoft types are doomed and need to upgrade their burger flipping skills.

Yeah I'm sure those end users that can't figure out the difference between a left and right click will find linux easier to use. I'm not too worried about being out of a job because of linux, in fact it just gives me something else to maintain.

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