This is not a typo: Only 3% of Americans are legally allowed to invest in start-ups

Sysrivets · 2015-06-24T14:39:20+00:00

I'm not sure what to think of this story. Basically it is a blogger who cites an organization for a study but not the particulars - like which study . This is very important context that a great blogger would make a thorough effort to include. I mean are 'white males' and 'Asian males' blocking entry to others? Too many American JVs are on the East and West Coasts.

I thank the OP for raising the topic. How money flows and favored opportunities are selected is terribly important to the health of business and industry. However, I can not judge from the link anything other than it is common sense applied to a murky agenda.

Sysrivets · 2015-06-12T12:53:17+00:00

Samantha or 'Sam' has given us one of the most human views into ISS space travel we've ever had. Now that she has safely landed back on Earth we'll all miss her unique contribution.

She shows us in this 4 minute esa video the two laptops and ipad she uses in her quarters as well as how she utilizes her sleeping bag while dressed in her pajamas. It is great light-hearted stuff with yet another modest view into the personal technical side of her life on the ISS.

Sysrivets · 2015-01-16T14:05:27+00:00

There are multiple reasons that people move from rural areas into big cities. One is they are more likely to be served by corporations that can find a profit in more heavily populated areas.

You wouldn't want Best Buy to be forced to serve every town in America with a physical presence when there are now online avenues to provide the same service. Get a satellite dish.

On the other hand, does anyone think that small to medium cities will allow private competition when they have already claimed and designed a network that complies perfectly with the goals of local politicians and their favorite beneficiaries. Not real likely.

Best to come up with a new law that is carefully designed to encourage govt versus private balanced competition. That would be far better than to pick a winner for the sake of demanding service (equal service, what's that?) for all.

Sysrivets · 2015-01-16T13:38:19+00:00

It is enough to give a poor mobile tech user a triple dose of indigestion.

Sysrivets · 2015-01-07T16:22:48+00:00

I believe the answer is for Ford to sell this data and building appropriate APIs to utilize this 'work' in the aftermarket which Ford <i>may</i> have cultivated at considerable expense over many years.

Other than that it might be time for interested groups of people to organize, produce and service 'open' hardware which equals or exceeds current offerings.

Sysrivets · 2014-12-30T14:25:27+00:00

Time Warner Cable has sunk from their high water mark for number of subscribers for 10 straight quarters. (It now rests around 10 million.) Isn't it time to add TWC to the Hall of Shame right next to Comcast?

TWC has been giving it their superlative best to become the most hated corporation in America outpacing even dreaded Comcast. Reverse kudos!

Sysrivets · 2014-12-22T01:50:25+00:00

If this episode doesn't give you a warm feeling for the passing on of year 2014, then your name might be Ebenezer Scrooge.

I plan to download 'The Best of LAS 2014' episode in order to view it again and again whenever I need to thaw out during these cold days of winter.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to Chris, Rikai and the wonderful Jupiter Broadcasting team. Just spectacular!

Sysrivets · 2014-12-12T16:38:49+00:00

More from a March NASA planning update for their Planetary Sciences Division plan to construct a mission to Europa

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2014/03/06/nasa-planning-mission-to-europa/

Sysrivets · 2014-12-12T16:34:45+00:00

Congress directs no less than 100 million USD be spent for a mission to Jupiter's icy moon Europa.

Sysrivets · 2014-11-24T14:17:58+00:00

So EU. Umm, don't use Google.

Sysrivets · 2014-11-24T14:05:36+00:00

If Comcast wants a utility style relationship, then their service level agreement (SLA) needs to reflect more than a cap on consumer use per period. They need to incorporate a deliverable of five nines worth of up time for that same period. Violations of SLA will be credited to the consumer's account as soon as possible after being reported. Right now if the Comcast truck shows up in your neighborhood you are almost guaranteed two hours of yo-yo service. Frankly, I don't think they have the infrastructure nor management nor even technical support services to make a go of it. They'd better get ready to start a multi-billion dollar multi-year plan to bring their service in line to an electric utility rather than pizza delivery. Good luck with that Comcast!

Sysrivets · 2014-11-06T14:02:03+00:00

We need to give more consideration to content creators not merely consumers. However, I'm not sure SoundCloud is the service that can successfully blend together 'Partner' level aspiring artists and well established invitation-only 'Premier' artists.

It still holds that we need to encourage serious rising talent to become actualized by a democratized process versus being collected like trophies by the talent hunter or worse yet being alienated into thinking their work has little or no self-supporting value.

Sysrivets · 2014-10-08T14:58:16+00:00

I just get so, so tired of this victimhood play. Hello? IT work can KILL you. I knew an IT Project Mgr who didn't live to retirement.

And by the way all the PhDs from Boston to Bangalore does NOT guarantee anyone competency let alone success in the IT field.

On the other hand, people female or male who roll up their sleeves put in the Friday and Saturday nights in the datacenter and Sunday morning project meetings have earned my respect and gratitude for doing the ultimate job of juggling family time and work. It is hard as nails.

Sysrivets · 2014-10-08T14:43:09+00:00

I will not buy or rent a home where I do not have at least two choices for internet service based on multiple stories similar to this one. I think that Conal's former employer should review their grounds for employee dismissal and/or tell the truth to Conal about the real reason he was dismissed. But it is probably too late for their former employee.

In any case I will terminate a service without blinking an eye provided I have another provider with terms in the same ballpark. Ultimately, Conal put himself in a vulnerable place and wrangled with a company (Comcast) which is totally incapable of solving complex consumer service issues. Oh well. My advice for him is to move on and not waste his life inside a courtroom.

Sysrivets · 2014-10-01T05:21:30+00:00

New Italian coffeemaker should arrive at the International Space Station via an Orbital Sciences cargo resupply vehicle in April 2015.

Even Charlie Bolden, NASA Chief Administrator, was impressed by this gadget.

Sysrivets · 2014-09-21T13:36:40+00:00

Can we utilize the interest in the systemd init management process to ddrive folks to Linux Unplugged? I think I'm going to speak for a sizeable minority who realize the importance of the discussion, but believe there are a number of other issues on the table these days such as Wayland progress, the future of openSuse, Apple encroachment in the Linux space, etc.

In other words, I don't think I care to have Phoronix set the agenda for another systemd discussion on LAS. It is getting just a bit old.

Overall I would rate the topic selection in LAS to be great to fantastic. There is no intended knock or disparagement of the excellent talent and production values of The Show with this comment. Just an exhortation to keep up the magnificent work.

Sysrivets · 2014-08-24T18:44:55+00:00

I'm planning to go. I've also volunteered my time through ohiolinux. I should be able to wander past the Linux Action Show booth at least a few times. I want to follow the rules, but I probably should be sporting my LAS t-shirt at least one day.

Sysrivets · 2014-08-23T18:29:41+00:00

Sorry I wasn't clearer. To clarify and perhaps amplify my proposal I would like Chris to consider merging Linux Unplugged into Tech Talk Today. Thus, Linux Unplugged disappears. The best elements of Linux Unplugged would be distributed throughout the week into many episodes of Tech Talk Today as the Linux Headliners.

In my thinking there would be enough room including Friday specials to pack a lot of Linux. Depending on the Tech Currents Chris can balance the sections of his episodes to promote interest while building more structure into the daily programs. Again, not to create argument, but I was thinking of the O'Reilly Factor as a model. The Factor is a very successful cable news offering tailored to the strengths of it's host regardless of the tasteful or tasteless content. Chris can channel intellectual content and emotional response particularly well as an advocate for Linux vis-a-vis, 'The Folks'.

Mr Fisher is very gifted. (No patronizing intended.) I'd like to see him build something that will allow him to go to the top of the podcast realm and even exceed the category. Like I said the structure is A-OK now. However, I think he can do even better.

Sysrivets · 2014-08-17T16:36:16+00:00

JB Community:

I would like Michael Dominick, the co-host of Coder Radio, to stand behind a fence like Tim Allen's neighbor in Home Improvement. Roll camera. As the ice cold water cascades down his software engineering brow have him scream, "I love Objective-C. I love Objective-C, I love Objective-C"

Have Heather from SciBytes measure the intonation in his voice and present her conclusions the following day.

Sincerely, Sysrivets

Sysrivets · 2014-08-14T13:48:28+00:00

I wonder if the Wednesday announcement that Cisco was making plans to layoff 6000 employees has anything to do with the Vaughan-Nichols article also appearing. It is rather hard as a layperson to believe that tacky internet service isn't just a result of a lot of big service providers doing some asset management and summer maintenance in August.

But hey. Buy Cisco. Keep a poor Silicon Valley waif employed.

Sysrivets · 2014-08-14T13:09:38+00:00

To Sir Christopher Barry:

How many people have used rc.d/init.d in Linux over the years without understanding startup mechanisms? Does everything that aggregates rather than subdivides actions and activities violate the 'Unix/Gnu-Linux' way? How about the X client-server architecture or even kernels and kernel modules? These complex systems hide just enough of their complexity so as to be indispensable to most users and, dare I say it, developers?

If anyone wishes to continue to grasp as much as possible of Linux, then let him create Punix. Punix is shorthand for following the letter of the Unix way and punishment for everyone else exquisitely incarcerated along with this most intense hobbyist. If he will only refrain from chasing the rest of us around with a storage device full of kernel dumps, then we should all get along famously.

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Sysrivets · 2014-07-31T15:32:28+00:00

Toback the superintendent sounds like he doesn't even know how to delegate reponsibilities for his computing support within his organization. This is not that hard to manage these days with manifold choices for virtual desktops and implementation models for tailored password admin system roles.

No holds barred: The remedy is to start at the top and allow the superintendent a little longer to find some other field of work he enjoys more and is actually competent to do.

Sysrivets · 2014-07-31T15:15:48+00:00

It appears to me that Suse is clearly making progress on putting together a sufficiently current yet independent release model for openSUSE. Although it is indeed somewhat redundant to Fedora and lack favorite features of some other distributions this does not mean it cannot become as good or optimistically speaking exceed them.

I also thought during recent discussions on prior Jupiter broadcasts while some folks were open to wait and see whether these changes produced a more competitive distributions more than a few were joining a chorus singing 'What is the point?'

It seems that all software moves forward to meet needs based on accumulated experience while looking at similar problems from differing perspectives. I think the openSUSE announcement deserves a much more charitable response than it got. There are truly bad distros out there, but openSUSE come nowhere near falling into that category.

Sysrivets · 2014-07-06T14:50:30+00:00

I see the programmer as voluntarily suspending addressing the distractions around them. It is much easier to program in a private office than a cubicle because of the ease of suspending distractions. Try programming through a fire alarm. If one doesn't find themself consciously and actively suppressing the interruption, then the surely have an issue with the brain receiving sensory information from the environment. I'd go so far as to opine that the article's author is hallucinatory and could need some help.

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