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  1. Take a page from the MBA handbook on Ask Slashdot: Best Software For Tracking Fiber Optic Networks? · · Score: 1

    Excel and email.

    Those guys know what they're doing. That's why they get the big bucks.

  2. Re:Papa John's Class-Action on Class Action Suit Goodies Await Tech Users · · Score: 1

    It's not my job to ensure others pay taxes. I am not the IRS. If more people were responsible for actually paying their own taxes rather than it automagically disappearing from our paychecks, perhaps there would be some pressure for restraint from government (and they know it).

  3. Strong Password Examples on Google Patents Frowns and Winks To Unlock Your Phone · · Score: 1
  4. Microsoft not worried. on Google Patents Frowns and Winks To Unlock Your Phone · · Score: 2

    The next release of their OS has been programmed to recognize the facepalm.

  5. Re:Papa John's Class-Action on Class Action Suit Goodies Await Tech Users · · Score: 1

    I always tip cash. That also leaves it in the hands of the tippee as to how they report it to the taxman. Also, tipping on the card can mean it takes a while for the cash to get to the receiver and cash flow can be an issue for people working those jobs.

  6. Jumped the Shark. on Class Action Suit Goodies Await Tech Users · · Score: 1

    The first class action I got involved in was pretty decent. A replacement CD-writer for one that died early. The replacement wasn't SCSI like the original but fair enough. I'd bought the original one used anyway.

    The last couple that have come in my mailbox though were just stupid. For trivial things that were nobody's fault and were just a waste of time and resources to take through the courts. They went straight in the trash.

    What I would like to see a class action for is the broken GPS on the Galaxy S that I carried for 3 years. Total rip-off and Samsung stonewalled anyone trying to find out what the issue was.

  7. Re:Paying off for whom? on Class Action Suit Goodies Await Tech Users · · Score: 1

    Round here they tell you "We don't carry coke. Will crystal meth be OK?"

  8. Re:Another reason I no longer fly. on TSA Decides Against Allowing Small Knives On Aircraft · · Score: 2

    He convinced me they hang bread on walls and use a blowtorch to make toast.

  9. Re:Another reason I no longer fly. on TSA Decides Against Allowing Small Knives On Aircraft · · Score: 1

    It depends on your definition of bad. It's bad enough and annoying but usually not awful. If you fly into the US, avoid any contact with Atlanta airport.

  10. Re:There goes another Swiss Army knife on TSA Decides Against Allowing Small Knives On Aircraft · · Score: 1

    I agree. But by that logic we don't need the TSA either so...

  11. Re:There goes another Swiss Army knife on TSA Decides Against Allowing Small Knives On Aircraft · · Score: 1

    I left my laptop at security last time I flew. $70 to have it shipped including $28 for the stupid UPS box.

    Yeah, avoid doing that if you can help it. (TSA guy stacked the boxes when they random searched me and it is a thin Chromebook)

  12. Re:Seems an unnecessary feature on Keyless Remote Entry For Cars May Have Been Cracked · · Score: 3, Funny

    They're in my glove box if you'll just lean in and grab them for me...

  13. Re:Does anybody else find it funny... on iPhone 4, iPad 2 Get US Import Ban · · Score: 1

    If Palm had been able to put one foot in front of the other, we would have had an iphone-like device a couple of years earlier. Instead they forfeited that opportunity and instead of the natural fit of integrating telephony into a PDA, we had it shoehorned into a music player instead.

  14. Re:Those who live by the sword... on iPhone 4, iPad 2 Get US Import Ban · · Score: 1

    Something's broken with this app. It's only showing "-3 Arse". Oh wait...

  15. Re:$50 billion sounds like a lot on New Drugs Trail Many Old Ones In Effectiveness Against Disease · · Score: 1

    Reading libertarian stuff quite a lot, my impression is that there are quite a few on both sides of the aisle. Not an even split probably but enough that you can't really use a broad brush.

  16. Nuclear Wessel? on 900 Ton Containment Vessel Bottom Head Installed At Vogtle 3 · · Score: 2, Funny

    No idea.

  17. Re:Who cares. on Google Security Expert Finds, Publicly Discloses Windows Kernel Bug · · Score: 1

    Let's not forget multi-user systems too. If you're really paranoid, you can keep one account for the important stuff and one for general day-to-day crap.

  18. Re:It is going to be a when, not an if. on Footage Reveals Drone Aircraft Nearly Downed Passenger Plane in 2004 · · Score: 1

    You have placed 2 billion people in the air at any one time.

  19. Re:My solution for fixing Windows 8 on A Serious Proposal To Fix Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    Though when I take off my socks, they leave of their own volition.

  20. Re:Nice objective summary on A Serious Proposal To Fix Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    The start menu was a fantastic advance over progman. Though pre-emptive mutitasking was the real big winner.

  21. Re:It is going to be a when, not an if. on Footage Reveals Drone Aircraft Nearly Downed Passenger Plane in 2004 · · Score: 1

    Nonsense. There's plenty of space. You not only have a lot more space for vehicles in the x-y plane, you also have the whole altitude thing to play with meaning that you can practically ensure that it's very unlikely that vehicles are on a collision course (which happens as a matter of necessity for ground-based vehicles). As for user error? Computer control becomes a whole lot easier when you don't have to worry about pedestrians, cyclists, corners and other random obstacles.

    There's other reasons we're not seeing flying cars.

  22. Yeah, you can say a lot about the Nazis but at least they had style.

  23. Re:Frameworks are great, but ... on How Unity3D Became a Game-Development Beast · · Score: 2

    Sometimes yes, sometimes no. There are some games where it's more about things external to the mechanics. In fact, for some games, though the game is otherwise OK, the developers implementing their own mechanics leads to an extremely screwed up game that would have been far better off using a proven engine.

    With that said, I haven't messed with unity3d yet but I'll have to give it a try at least.

  24. Re:God only know what I'd be without u. on How Unity3D Became a Game-Development Beast · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Pfft, noob. Everyone knows you let a company build up a nice wad of cash before you unleash the patent lawyers.

  25. Re:UK Leads here on SCOTUS Says DNA Collection Permissible After Arrest · · Score: 1

    +1. It's one reason I'll never move back. I can at least get a few years of reprieve from complete totalitarianism in the US.