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  1. Jobs? We don't need no stinkin' jobs... on Technologies Like Google's Self-Driving Car: Destroying Jobs? · · Score: 1

    "We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian-Darwinian theory, he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living." R. Buckminster Fuller

  2. be yourself on How To Behave At a Software Company? · · Score: 1

    Be yourself, if they don't like you, chances are you don't like them either and should be working somewhere else anyway.

  3. Backdoor.Ghostnet on Impressing Security Upon End-Users Visually? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Symantec Security Response has an excellent video about Backdoor.Ghostnet on their youtube channel.

    I think the message here is that if you don't practice safe computing, the tools exist that empower just about anyone to pwn you

  4. Re:renders my tv useless on MPAA Pushes Once Again To Close the Analog Hole · · Score: 1

    This move is totally anti-consumer.

    Except for the fact that it forces consumers to spend more... how can you get more consumer than spending more :P ...

    I agree with the parent. My TV is only a few years old and it doesn't have a digital in (or out), there is no legitimate reason to deem a few hundred dollar purchase worthless. I didn't expect to purchase another TV for another 10 years.

    This is a fine example of why a consumer society doesn't work.

  5. Re:Blimps on High-Tech Blimps Earning Their Wings · · Score: 1

    and blimps don't have to move around to stay a'float

  6. Re:What will the control group be? on Want to Eat Chocolate Every Day For a Year? · · Score: 1

    I'm an Insulin dependent Type 2 Diabetic... While I have the ability to match insulin with sugar intake, I agree with the parent comment,"I would never volunteer for this study". Asking a Diabetic to eat chocolate is just wrong! If I were able to maintain my glucose levels without insulin, I surely couldn't do it while eating candy.

  7. Symantec Endpoint Protection on Central Anti-Virus For Small Business? · · Score: 1

    SEP is the best protection you can buy and comes with excellent support. The higher price pays off in the time that you don't have to spend to administer your security (or remove threats). Regardless of the security solution you chose: keep all software patched and up to date, secure your shares, kill auto-run, firewall the perimeter of your network, and please don't give your users admin access ... ---- Q: how much damage could any threat do? A: none if you're patched ;)

  8. Re:Simple Solution on Making a Child Locating System · · Score: 1

    the message I got from Finding Nemo was that sometimes overprotective parenting pays off...

  9. Re:Didn't plan on buying another Asus EEE anyway on Asus Slaps Linux In the Face · · Score: 1

    This MS thing is a marketing ploy...This is nothing new. Windows has been on the EEE PC for a long time. I own an EEE 1000h, that I bought 2nd hand only because it was a good deal. When I was looking at netbooks, I didn't much consider the EEE because I wanted to support someone selling a PC with a native Ubuntu install. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE my EEE. It came with Windows, which, of course, didn't last more than a few days. Fact is, if I would have bought it new, it would have came with Windows for the resale value. I'm not a fan of Xandros, I much prefer Ubuntu. Asus really should consider a deal with Conical if they really want to help the Linux community.

  10. Re:Meh on Asus Slaps Linux In the Face · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I disagree... Make sure to pay your windows tax and ensure that you have a reinstall CD so you get a better resale value

  11. Re:Connect an external monitor! on Options For a Laptop With a Broken Screen? · · Score: 1

    I agree. Laptop w/ broken screen == portable desktop (just add screen)

  12. Re:I wonder if the economy will change that back.. on RIP the Campus Computer Lab, 1960-2009 · · Score: 1

    your hypothetical child better be very far in the future or a mistake, 'cause you obviously have some growing up to do

  13. Re:Once again it's time to suggest on Targeted Advertising Coming To Cable TV · · Score: 1

    I agree, I don't think that anything that leads to the loosening of rules that govern the information that Experian holds on all of us is a good idea.

  14. Re:marketing on Britannica Goes After Wikipedia and Google · · Score: 1
  15. marketing on Britannica Goes After Wikipedia and Google · · Score: 1

    Britannica is known as a hard copy encyclopedia. The type of resource that you go to the library for. Wikipedia has marketed itself as the online leader for encyclopedia type lookup... Wikipedia is what people want (thus higher page rankings on Google). Britannica has a long way to go in changing the way people look at them before they will be competitors on the web. they should have started this long ago if they wanted to establish a presence.

  16. Re:Unfortunately... on Internet Not Really Dangerous For Kids After All · · Score: 1

    I AM a parent and grandparent ... I compleatly promote children starting out on a computer at around the age of 2 ... my children started playing on the computer at 2, my grandchild is fastly approaching 2 and she is starting to get on the computer... age appropriate activitys start with teaching point/click and interaction ...

    Don't get me wrong, I don't set them down and say, "go at it, find whatever you can." .. as I said age appropriate material (Putt-Putt, Freddie Fish, Pajama Sam, etc.), on top of that, toddler computer time must include an adult for at least the first year or 2 ...

    my 11 year old knows at least as much about computers than the average adult, and is starting to wright code...

  17. Alice on Best Paradigm For a First Programming Course? · · Score: 1, Informative
  18. recycling... not a part of it, but stil important on Long-Range Wireless Keyboard/Mouse? · · Score: 0

    I was going to suggest a similar setup to others... a MAC Mini will surely do the job, but creating a terminal session from an outdated PC @ the TV would have saved tons of cash, and put to use some of the old hardware hanging around the house...

  19. Re:Where were you?!? on 35 Articles of Impeachment Introduced Against Bush · · Score: 0

    I don't buy that 1/2 of America voted for him. I didn't. one of the charges that Kucinich brought up was tampering with an election.

  20. if it's wireless: ask a HAM! on Parent-Friendly Wireless Bridge To Span 500 Meters? · · Score: 0

    My first suggestion would be to contact your local armature radio club. Someone there will be familiar enough with 802.1x to help you. Directional antenna's shouldn't have an issue reaching that distance, especially if it's line of site. As far as building your own antenna, you can find many options out there on the internet. I would suggest the N-type connection over a BNC connector (less signal loss at that frequency =) ) I'd be happy to help as much as possible, if I you require more from me: feel free to message me... ~ 73 kd7tag

  21. Re:It's security, stupid on Microsoft Threatens Startups Over Account Info · · Score: 0

    so as far as security goes and...:'Hall said that Microsoft's main concern, and the reason it sent out Big Foot letters in the first place, was security. "If you look at what a number of sites are doing, they're asking for your Hotmail login info, They're storing your identity, which is not a best practices [approach] for anyone's data from a security standpoint. We want to make sure our data is kept between our users and our servers."' Wait a second, my company never asked for my Hotmail info, but I have a few computers at my desk at work, and the versions (yes multiple versions of Windows) all have asked me to associate my MSN passport with my user account, and MSN messenger runs by default wanting a password stored locally. So lets talk about this security that Microsoft is trying to keep my info safe, yet while my company has never asked to store this info, ,my operating system wants this info on a regular basis. So my company is not the security problem, its the operating system that is manufactured by the same people who have made this comment, wow... going around in these circles is making me dizzy!

  22. Re:Sort of ... but not exactly. on Do We Really Need a Security Industry? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    LOL... how are you guna connect to the internet without any open ports?