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Comment Re: The next old emergency? (Score 1) 199

Cute, you are obviously commenting on an article that you didn't even read - that's kinda wrong.

Everyone in May 2021, the period used in the datasets, had the choice to get vaccinated.

I suspect that 90% of the time you post online, you don't read the source material and make ridiculous statements like these.

Comment That's amazing (Score 1) 37

"The 4TB HGST (model: HMS5C4040ALE640) has 274,923 drive days with no failures this quarter."

Does this mean they have 274,923 of these drives and not a single one died in 4 months?
I didn't think that degree of reliability was possible.

Comment I doubt it. (Score 1) 3

Oracle has no intention of stewarding Java and doesn't see that as a responsibility. They do not care about making people happy. These are not concerns of Oracle. What they want is to have many many dollars and to put them in a huge money bin like Scrooge McDuck and swim in them. Owning Java and shaking down everyone for those dollars is their strategy.

Or to use a different analogy, a shark is not biting you because he wants to trick you into purchasing his teeth. He is a shark and wants to eat you. That makes him happy.

Google

Which Google Should Congress Believe? 428

theodp writes "In Congressional testimony last month, Google's VP of People Operations told the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration that, due to limits on the number of H-1B visas, Google is regularly unable to pursue highly qualified candidates. But as Google stock tumbled in after hours trading Wednesday, Google's CEO blamed disappointing profits on a hiring binge and promised Wall Street analysts that the company would keep a careful eye on headcount in the future. So which Google should Congress believe?"
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Journal Journal: Gaping privacy hole in whitepages.com

I try not to be a skittish, paranoid consumer, although the way people are motivated by money and have no souls makes me paranoid (apologies to Thomas Pynchon, natch). However, whitepages.com has added a neat feature that piques my paranoia. It reveals the frequency of searches for first names, and the first and last name and location of the person most recently searched for -- I can't put a finger on why this is a bad idea, but like domain slammers watching whois results, it opens people up to

Feed Science Daily: Why Humans Walk On Two Legs (sciencedaily.com)

A team of anthropologists that studied chimpanzees trained to use treadmills has gathered new evidence suggesting that our earliest apelike ancestors started walking on two legs because it required less energy than getting around on all fours. The researchers found that human walking used about 75 percent less energy and burned 75 percent fewer calories than quadrupedal and bipedal walking in chimpanzees. They also found that for some but not all of the chimps, walking on two legs was no more costly than knucklewalking.
Slashdot.org

Journal Journal: Sad State of Nerd Affairs 2

Its really sad to see the Slashdot community go from a can do, toaster modding bunch of creative tech junkies, into an Apple teet sucking, iPod praising pussies, sucking up Apples marketing crap and pretending it just the natural, uncommercialized evolution from Linux to a solid GUI. And everyone using Windows and a non Apple Ipod is missing something.

Please, please pull that giant Apple marketing dildo out of your collective asses.

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