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Comment Re:And Ireland can't leave the EU... (Score 2) 212

by bobthesungeek76036 on Monday August 29, 2016 @08:46PM (#52793299) Attached to: European Commission To Issue Apple An Irish Tax Bill of $1.1 Billion, Says Report

Irexit?

Comment Re:The new Citizen's Band (Score 1, Insightful) 47

by bobthesungeek76036 on Monday August 29, 2016 @08:19PM (#52793195) Attached to: FAA Expects 600,000 Commercial Drones In The Air Within A Year

And like CB Radio the fad will disperse eventually and we'll move on to the next thing...

Comment Re:GooglePlex??? (Score 1) 100

by bobthesungeek76036 on Thursday August 11, 2016 @08:35PM (#52687797) Attached to: HPE Acquires SGI For $275 Million

I guess I'm just an old fart because back in my day there was no "campus". That building WAS Silicon Graphics...

Comment GooglePlex??? (Score 1) 100

by bobthesungeek76036 on Thursday August 11, 2016 @07:40PM (#52687529) Attached to: HPE Acquires SGI For $275 Million

... SGI's former campus in Mountain View, California, is now the site of the Googleplex ...

I thought the old SGI building was now the Computer History Museum...

Comment Rackable (Score 4, Informative) 100

by bobthesungeek76036 on Thursday August 11, 2016 @06:19PM (#52686981) Attached to: HPE Acquires SGI For $275 Million

For of those in need of an SGI history lesson, the SGI currently in business is not quite the same SGI (Silicon Graphics) of old. Remember that Rackable Systems acquired Silicon Graphics back in 2009 for like $20M I think? And they turned around and renamed Rackable to SGI.

Comment Re:How is SGI relevant to HPE? (Score 1) 100

by bobthesungeek76036 on Thursday August 11, 2016 @05:51PM (#52686867) Attached to: HPE Acquires SGI For $275 Million

..On a different note, who were the people still buying SGI to give them a half billion revenue? What exactly do they sell - it's not like one can buy Irix based workstations or servers anymore, or even Linux ones, from what I understand.

Remember, SGI is not the SGI of old. Rackable bought SGI (Silicon Graphics) and the renamed the company SGI. So I imagine most of the product line was heritage Rackable?

Comment Re:Admiration and Trepidation (Score 1) 59

by bobthesungeek76036 on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @02:45PM (#52672993) Attached to: Researchers Crack Open Unusually Advanced Malware that Hid For 5 Years

Too many of those LOL Cheeseburgers will clog your computer's arteries, causing a kernel panic!

So will popcorn

Comment Re:Untouchable criminal (Score 2, Informative) 265

by bobthesungeek76036 on Friday July 29, 2016 @08:55PM (#52609823) Attached to: Clinton Campaign Breached By Hackers

Stop acting as if she killed someone...

2012 Benghazi attack...

Comment Re:Sounds good on paper... (Score 2) 248

by bobthesungeek76036 on Friday July 22, 2016 @08:02PM (#52563877) Attached to: Issa Bill Would Kill A Big H-1B Loophole

Can you provide some details as to why this would happen and how?

Pretty simple really. Our shop isn't going to fork out 100K/year for US talent when off-shore talent is about 1/2 the cost...

Comment Sounds good on paper... (Score 0, Flamebait) 248

by bobthesungeek76036 on Friday July 22, 2016 @07:53PM (#52563845) Attached to: Issa Bill Would Kill A Big H-1B Loophole

The shop I work at is about 50% US workforce and about 50% off-shore. If this goes through, our shop will turn into a 0% US workforce and 100% off-shore...

Comment I could care less, still on v63 (Score 1) 30

by bobthesungeek76036 on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @02:57PM (#52542697) Attached to: Facebook's Android App Can Now Save Offline Videos

I refuse to update Facebook since they took away the Widget function. It will be a cold day in Hades lair before I update Facebook...

Submission + - Ashley Madison facing FTC inquiry (theguardian.com)

Submitted by bobthesungeek76036 on Thursday July 07, 2016 @06:59PM

bobthesungeek76036 writes: Troubles for extramarrital website Ashley Madison are not over. Parent company Avid Life Media has released that they are being investigated by the US FTC. Probably over false advertising over the female membership which was revealed to be mostly fembots in the aftermath of the recent hack.

Comment Re:Why? (Score 1) 206

by bobthesungeek76036 on Thursday June 23, 2016 @03:37PM (#52376005) Attached to: Facebook Offers Political Bias Training In Wake Of Trending Controversy

If they found no bias, why are they adding the training?

Well since it was announced from the top I would suspect it's a total PR move for Facebook...

Comment I'm confused (Score 1) 77

by bobthesungeek76036 on Wednesday June 22, 2016 @08:18PM (#52370741) Attached to: KFC Introduces Meal Box That Doubles As A Smartphone Charger

To you get to keep this watt-a-box after you have eaten your food? The article is not clear on that point. If not then it's not that practical. For fast food, I sit around 20min to eat. That's not very long on the charger. Probably give you 10-15% battery maybe? But if you get to keep this box then that must jack up the price???

Comment Nikola Zero... (Score 2) 144

by bobthesungeek76036 on Monday June 13, 2016 @08:43PM (#52311711) Attached to: Nikola Motor Receives Over 7,000 Preorders Worth Over $2.3 Billion For Its Electric Truck

Did anybody see this: Nikola Zero 520HP four-wheeler? Woohoo!!!!

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