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  1. First, I can associate with your user name, but not from a janitorial perspective....

    Kids and 3D = Awesome.Time

    My wife an I saw Inception in seats the moved (swiveled in general and jolted during things like gun shots) with the action. It wasn't cheap, but it was pretty cool. Wasn't 3D, I'd pay a reasonable amount to combine the two (I'm sure it's available but the right movie and personal TIME - think juggling - has not presented itself).

  2. Re:Competition on Will VPNs Protect Your Privacy? It's Complicated · · Score: 1

    You could get both Verizon and Comcast at the same time.

    I did this with Charter and AT&T when my wife worked from home.

    Of course, with regards to your analogy, this doesn't sound like a comfortable solution.

  3. Reconfigure the Theaters on Christopher Nolan and Sofia Coppola Urge Fans To Watch Films in Cinemas, Not On Netflix (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I take my kids to movies in theaters and we always do 3D which is fun.

    Otherwise, they need to update the configuration of theaters to enhance the experience.

    I suggest they use the Oatmeal's suggestions:
    http://theoatmeal.com/comics/m...

    "Into the Dome Motherfucker!"

  4. When my wife got a ticket of this nature it included a URL that provided 2 angles of video of her infraction (no right turn on red, the sign was in one of the videos, as were the traffic lights, one video had a close up view of her sitting in the driver's seat).

    It also included the name of the officer that reviewed the footage and issued the ticket.

    It was funny because she said "I didn't do that!", and then we visited the URL...

    A system like this provides the of guilt. It also linked to a way to contest the ticket (which we didn't do).

    It was a "no points" ticket.

  5. Re:It's scary to know the gov't is so dumb on Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft Are Helping Google Fight an Order To Hand Over Foreign Emails (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    We're not famous for having no clue about jurisdiction.

    We just define our jurisdiction as Everywhere.

  6. Ba da, ba da da, bum, bum, bum.

  7. This is how Terminator started on 'We Didn't Lose Control Of Our Personal Data -- It Was Stolen From Us By People Farmers' (ar.al) · · Score: 2

    The day a person was first hired to be a "Cyborg rights activist"

  8. Re:Music makes no sense on Music Charts No Longer Make Sense (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    I generally agree with you regarding country, but a friend of mine turned me onto Eric Church.

    Here's Kill a Word live at Red Rocks by Eric Church (lyrics as well). Great venue, great song, the woman is a little over the top at times (in my opinion).

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    Lyrics:
    http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics...

    Yeah, he sings about drinking as well, but he has song good songs, Springsteen is another I like.

  9. Re:SETEC ASTRONOMY is a better name on WikiLeaks Reveals CIA's Secret Hacking Tools and Spy Operations (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    That requires more knowledge (that's actually a good pun, pretty deep). Maybe a hyphenated combination of the two...

  10. Re:64-bit on Microsoft Releases Visual Studio 2017 (visualstudio.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm assuming you meant Visual Cobol...

    https://www.microfocus.com/pro...

  11. They should have called it NO MORE SECRETS on WikiLeaks Reveals CIA's Secret Hacking Tools and Spy Operations (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    For obvious reasons.

  12. $500 is Shocking??? on Microsoft Releases Visual Studio 2017 (visualstudio.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    The Professional version is $500 (license, not subscription):
    https://www.visualstudio.com/v...

    That seems very reasonable.

    Enterprise is quite a bit more ($6K for new, $2.6K to renew), but it is part of the MSDN Enterprise (previously Ultimate I believe, that's what my license is called at this time), you get access to almost everything MS has ever made (want Windows 3.1 or DOS 6, it's there, want enterprise SQL Server, it's there).

    Here's the link to the prices:
    https://www.visualstudio.com/v...

  13. That would actually work for the drone, but for me, it's a very dangerous ladder climb from a partial 2nd floor roof to the third floor roof.

    Improving this access would certainly be worth it though.

    Great idea, GPS is accurate enough I believe (landing spot could be 20 wide by 40 in length, in feet).

  14. My problem is not the driver's stealing stuff, but other people in my urban neighborhood.

    If a drone could drop a package my in my fenced back yard that would be fan-freaking-tastic. Of course it would have to navigate over my 3 story row house with two massive trees in the yard, that's not happening anytime soon...

  15. Clear, easy to understand, and classic. Shame this very old tech isn't available cross platform (that I know of). Tis a solid base.

    Corporate folk don't want the shine, they want the very clear to use (make sure and tell them, time after time, about context menus...).

  16. Re:Why do people use Oracle? on Oracle Effectively Doubles Licence Fees To Run Its Stuff in AWS (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    1. If you have thousands of stored procs and/or other customizations (I've done a couple of custom aggregate functions that were pretty sweet).
    2. You use Oracle Forms (probably starting back in the 1990s).

    It's the same situation as with other legacy applications such as iSeries systems, except those situations can be far more painful given dwindling personnel numbers (Who, as a young developer, chooses to go into IBM mid-range development? - This might change over time if salaries increase, but they are still rather stagnant).

    I'm not sure of the situation with Z Series, I'm assuming companies pay a lot for talent as those aren't going away.

  17. Re:How Many??? on Ransomware Infects All St Louis Public Library Computers (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    The city of St. Louis has about 300,000 people, the county and even part of Illinois is included in your 3 million number. They all have their own libraries. I live in St. Louis, there are 2 libraries within 2.5 miles of my house (one is less than 1.2 mile, the other is the central public library which has awesome architecture and lots of art).

  18. Re:President Pussy-Grabber on Donald Trump Is Sworn In As the 45th US President (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Rather than use the phrase "I've got you by the balls!", we should instead use "I'm grabbing your pussy!"

  19. Re:More Incentives for Bandwidth Caps, Net Neutral on Netflix's Subscriber Boom Shows the World is Accepting Internet TV (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm in the US, we have Charter for internet and AT&T for cable (good UI). Both offer cable.

    We aren't there yet, but I could see, through terribly lengthy litigation, a class action that forces local monopolies to divest internet and cable offerings. You can offer one, an independent company has to offer the other.

    That said, I do have two internet choices, and Charter isn't bad at all ($40 per month unbundled, uncapped, 100/10 service, we stream 3-4 hours a day, no problems). The cable is expensive but it keeps the Mrs. happy (Can't Buy Me Love is a bullshit song).

    AT&T wasn't bad internet either, just much slower DSL service.

  20. Re:Not sure what to think.... on President Obama Commutes Chelsea Manning's Sentence (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It can be far more strange as well.

    There's a village in the Domican Republic where some girls "grow" penises when they hit puberty and basically switch genders. I believe this is about as strange as it can get (even having both sets of genitalia is rather passe in my opinion).

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sci...

    I read about this in the latest Nat Geo just last week.

  21. Fantastic video, in fact the lyrics pop into my head from time to time and bring a smile to my face.

    Interestingly, my kids are doing French immersion school, and I don't speak French. I expect something similar might happen to me in a couple of years.

  22. Re:evolution is a lie! on 'Superbug' Resistant To 26 Antibiotics Kills A Patient In Nevada (upi.com) · · Score: 1

    I find it comical, none of us have found the right god yet, and I don't believe we are getting any closer.

    Further, the person is probably a polytheist in the ilk of ancient Roman's or Greek's. He just meant "Gods", so it was a typo...

  23. Re:Will it ACTUALLY work now? on Windows 10 Will Soon Lock Your PC When You Step Away From It (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I have that same problem on occasion, where Win+L fails (while appearing to be successful). Same experience, it can fail for 8+ hours.

    I'm back to Ctrl-Alt-Del then Enter once the security screen comes up, never fails in my experience.

  24. Re:I don't know how far they had to go on Microsoft Anti-Porn Workers Sue Over PTSD (thedailybeast.com) · · Score: 2

    Ahh, the 2 girls vid. Reasonably hardcore, but certainly not the worst.

    In St. Louis there is actually a house cleaning company called, wait for it:

    Two Ladies and a Bucket

    I laugh every time I see one of their cars about.

  25. Re:NovaMin on 'Tooth Repair Drug' May Replace Fillings (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Why/how were there a dozen products on the US market prior to GSK purchasing the company?

    If it was due to FDA that's one thing, I assumed it was for aggressive purposes.