Comment Re:Saddening (Score 2, Informative) 231
> www.Government.us/research/
Ahem. www.crs.gov/reports, lest ye forget the Internet's roots as the U.S. DARPANET.
Data Loss Bug In OS X 10.5 Leopard 603
An anonymous reader writes "Leopard's Finder has a glaring bug in its directory-moving code, leading to horrendous data loss if a destination volume disappears while a move operation is in progress. This author first came across it when Samba crashed while he was moving a directory from his desktop over to a Samba mount on his FreeBSD server."
Geek and Gadgets Set Cross-US Speed Record 805
Brikus writes "And you thought your car had gadgets. In this story from Wired magazine, we hear about Alex Roy and his quest to break the record time for a cross-USA road trip. One of the biggest roadblocks to breaking the record: highway patrol officers, about 31,000 along the way. So Roy decked out his E39 BMW M5 with a thermal camera, radar/laser detectors, GPS devices, police scanners, and other high-tech gadgets and toys."
Comment It's a manufactured problem. (Score 1) 257
The ISPs in question are run by businessmen who are set in the mentality of a 10Mb pipe costing more than a 1Mb pipe, and less than a 100Mb pipe. In reality, the same circuits and equipment could handle several times their current speed (think moving the 1Mb level to 10Mb, 100 to 1000, etc.), but it doesn't fit the business model. This won't get any better, and the ISPs will continue to claim the sky is falling until they realize that they cannot keep the same business model of the current service levels forever (which will probably only be effected by government regulation in this country where telecommunications companies are given free reign to be thugs... sorry).
Comment if(computerScientist==softwareEngineer) shoot(me); (Score 2, Insightful) 1525
While this may stray a bit from the topic at hand, it may (indirectly) help you to understand some salary-related issues. You mentioned you have a computer science degree, and yet you are inquiring about the starting salary for a software engineer. This is your first problem -- you aren't a software engineer! You aren't even an engineer. In a world where everyone is trying to get something for nothing, it's high time people started realizing that the title of "engineer" belongs to an individual who actually has an engineering degree (and nowadays, that's not even enough -- you must take a battery of certification tests as well). This practice of adding the word "engineer" to job titles (such as waste management engineer) is tired and really inappropriate.
Perhaps if you ask for the starting salary for computer scientists you might get somewhere.
