The Diver - Slashdot User

Comment When I was a DBA..... (Score 1) 338

by The Diver on Wednesday September 15, 2010 @09:19AM (#33585816) Attached to: Google Engineer Spied On Teen Users

When I was a DBA, I had access to all of the companys data and I couldn't care less. The company audited the payroll departments paycheck but, us, who had access to the raw data, didn't. All I cared about was the integrity of the data. That and performance. I was too business chasing women and drinking beer. Oh, wait, this is Slashdot. Let me correct that... I was too busy drinking beer.

Alan

Comment My stepson.... (Score 4, Interesting) 711

by The Diver on Wednesday August 18, 2010 @09:06AM (#33286842) Attached to: A Million Kids Misdiagnosed with ADHD?

My stepson has been tested twice for ADHD and both times they came out negative. The tests were recommended by his 1st and 3rd grade teachers (he is going into 7th now). He is one of the youngest kids in his class. However, he is in the gifted and talented program, has a high IQ and is currently reading books about the String Theory. We seek out teachers that can handle a child that is, probably, overall, smarter than they are. If we encounter a teacher who asks him to be tested, we show them the original 2 results. Then they can either suck it up or ask to have him moved to another class.

Alan

Sony Refuses To Sanction PS3 "Other OS" Refunds 396

Posted by Soulskill on Friday April 16, 2010 @03:34AM from the you-paid-for-what-we-say-you-paid-for dept.

Stoobalou writes "Sony says that it has no intention of reimbursing retailers if they offer users partial refunds for fat PS3s. Last week, the first PS3 user successfully secured a partial refund from Amazon UK as compensation for the removal of the ability to run Linux on the console. The user quoted European law in order to persuade the online retailer that the goods he had bought in good faith were no longer fit for his purposes because of the enforcement of firmware update 3.21, which meant that users who chose to keep the Other OS functionality would lose the ability to play the latest games or connect to the PlayStation Network."

Modern Warfare 2 Not Recalled In Russia After All 94

Posted by Soulskill on Friday November 20, 2009 @04:14AM from the it's-the-thought-that-counts dept.

thief21 writes "After claims that console versions Modern Warfare 2 had been recalled in Russia due to complaints from politicians and the gaming public over the infamous airport slaughter scene, it turns out the stories were completely untrue. Activision never released a console version of the game in Russia." Instead, they simply edited the notorious scene out of the PC version. They did this of their own volition, since Russia doesn't have a formal ratings committee.

What Kind of Cloud Computing Project Costs $32M? 158

Posted by timothy on Wednesday October 14, 2009 @02:51PM from the those-investors-should-be-pissed dept.

coondoggie writes "The US Department of Energy said today it will spend $32 million on a project that will deploy a large cloud computing test bed with thousands of Intel Nehalem CPU cores and explore commercial offerings from Amazon, Microsoft and Google. Ultimately, the project, known as Magellan, will look at cloud computing as a cost-effective and energy-efficient way for scientists to accelerate discoveries in a variety of disciplines, including analysis of scientific data sets in biology, climate change and physics, the DOE stated. Magellan will explore whether cloud computing can help meet the overwhelming demand for scientific computing. Although computation is an increasingly important tool for scientific discovery, and DOE operates some of the world's most powerful supercomputers, not all research applications require such massive computing power. The number of scientists who would benefit from mid-range computing far exceeds the amount of available resources, the DEO stated."

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