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  1. Re:1Password on Why People Are So Bad At Picking Passwords · · Score: 1

    Passwordsafe rocks! I use it at work, and it has been keeping all my passwords safe for over 6 years now. I liked it so much at work, that I set it up on my home systems. (For my personal passwords.)

  2. Re:To hire specific people on Ask Slashdot: Why Are Tech Job Requirements So Specific? · · Score: 1

    I always just assume they are listing everything they would like to have. If I have more than half, I send in my CV. I have had interviews even when I don't match up to every "requirement"

  3. Non-starter for me. on $39 Arduino Compatible Boardset Runs Linux On New x86 SoC · · Score: 5, Insightful

    More expensive than a Raspberry PI, with a slower processor.
    Add in the community that has grown up around the Raspberry and I know where my money will be going.

  4. Re:Shooting Itself in the Foot on Microsoft May Finally Put Windows RT Out To Pasture · · Score: 1

    I was going to say RT stands for "Retarded Thing" But being compared to a MS product might be insulting to Retarded people.

  5. Re:Should shut up and be glad.... on Sex Offender Gets New Hearing After Hearing Officer Rants Against Arial Font · · Score: 1

    I bought one in a thrift store 6 months ago, for $5.00
    It even works.

  6. Re:Should shut up and be glad.... on Sex Offender Gets New Hearing After Hearing Officer Rants Against Arial Font · · Score: 2

    There is this archaic bit of technology, called a typewriter. They can commonly be found in a thrift store for just a few bucks. The best thing about a typewriter is that you can use it to fill in an existing form, neatly.
    You might want to suggest it to your friend. Or just pick one up, and give it to him.

  7. Re:Priorities much? on Sex Offender Gets New Hearing After Hearing Officer Rants Against Arial Font · · Score: 1

    If you spend your time dealing with sex offenders, and your rants are about Arial, is it possible that you might have your priorities in poor order?

    I always thought the only people who used the Arial font were sex offenders. :)

  8. Re:It's not hard to tell on Microsoft Customers Hit With New Wave of Fake Tech Support Calls · · Score: 1

    Maybe the changed is since it happened to me. My message said nothing about calling the number on my card. I did point it out to the person I talked to on the phone.
    If so, good for them for fixing it.

  9. Re:You are messing with unintended consequences bi on HIV Tracking Technology Could Pinpoint Who's Infecting Who · · Score: 1

    Why does everybody always assume that the unintended consequences of an action will be:

    1. A net negative
    2. *More* negative than the intended consequences
    3. Non-mitigable

    Experience.

  10. Re:unlike- mutates in host quickly on HIV Tracking Technology Could Pinpoint Who's Infecting Who · · Score: 1

    You know it will furn out to be neither of them, and Belinda will be back four or five more times, with a different Possible infecter each time. Each time swearing that he has to be the one.

    For the record, I love the Maury show, and and Springer. They make me feel SO good about myself. No matter how badly I screw up, I am not on either show, so I know it isn't that bad. :)

  11. Re:It's not hard to tell on Microsoft Customers Hit With New Wave of Fake Tech Support Calls · · Score: 1

    I was really surprised that it was legit. I usually just follow up on these to see what the scam is, so I can warn my less technical family members.

  12. Re:It's not hard to tell on Microsoft Customers Hit With New Wave of Fake Tech Support Calls · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Not long ago I gat a call from a 1-800 number (I never answer these numbers.) They left a message telling me there was a problem with my credit card, and asking me to call them back and giving my the same number that showed up on call display.
    Naturally I googled the number. About half the people were saying it was legit, and half saying a scam. I checked the number against the number on the back of my credit card, and it did not match. I calld the number on my credit card, just to be sure.
    It turns out that there was a problem, someone buying show tickets on the east coast while I am on the west coast.

    So even the banks are screwed up. They should be telling me to call the number on my card. I wonder what would have happened if I had just ignored the call. I was quite disappointed.

    For the record, Royal Bank of Canada.

  13. Re:A sad day on Winamp Shutting Down On December 20 · · Score: 4, Informative

    AOL has a profitable business unit?!!

    AOL is still in business!?!?!?!!?!?!?!!!

  14. Re:Let me guess on How Munich Abandoned Microsoft for Open Source · · Score: 4, Informative

    Kerio Connect is pretty good.
    The webmail interface is far Superior to Exchange web.

  15. Re:That's kind of the idea. on Boston Cops Outraged Over Plans to Watch Their Movements Using GPS · · Score: 1

    I love uninformed opinions from 14 year olds. If you are not 14 I suggest you try growing up.

  16. Re:That's kind of the idea. on Boston Cops Outraged Over Plans to Watch Their Movements Using GPS · · Score: 1

    I used to agree with you completely. Then I started dating a woman who happens to work for the local police department. (Not a cop, an analyst.) Since I started seeing her, I have learned differently. Most police officers are very hard working civic minded people, who do use their compassionate judgment to do the best job that they can. They are without fail overworked, and spend most of their time dealing with people at their worst.
    There are also a few assholes, but far fewer then you might expect.

  17. You had zeroes?!?!?!?!?
    We had to substitute the letter O

  18. Re:It's a shame homophobephobes won't see it on Movie Review: Ender's Game · · Score: 1

    Hydrophobia does in fact mean what it says: A morbid fear of water. Go look it up.

    It was also once a synonym for Rabies as well, but has since fallen into disuse.

  19. Re:It's a shame homophobephobes won't see it on Movie Review: Ender's Game · · Score: 1

    If there is one thing I won't tolerate it's intolerance!

  20. Re:It's a shame homophobephobes won't see it on Movie Review: Ender's Game · · Score: 1

    You forgot Gingers. The only group you can safely get away with discriminating against these days. Other than smokers of course.

  21. Re:Video Games on Alfred Poor Says HDTV Manufacturers are Hurting (Video) · · Score: 1

    Pong can burn in the phosphors and damage the TV set.

    That doesn't matter if, like me, all you ever do on your TV is play pong. :)

  22. Re:pointless on Alfred Poor Says HDTV Manufacturers are Hurting (Video) · · Score: 2

    All we need is someone to start releasing porn in 4K format, and the 4K TVs will start flying off the shelves. :)

  23. Re:This is nothing new on DRM To Be Used In Renault Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    30 years ago, it what probably because the car was metric. The American auto makers were very late to adopt metric fasteners. My 1989 Jeep is all Imperial nuts and bolts.

  24. Re:What could possibly go wrong... on Viruses Boost Performance of Lithium-Air Battery Used In Electric Cars · · Score: 1

    You wouldn't download a car.

    Hell, yes I would!

  25. Re:How to win friends and Influence people. on Ask Slashdot: Communication Skills For Programmers? · · Score: 1

    He mentions advancement in the original question. If you want to advance you need to be likeable, and to sell yourself.
    I am sure many of us here have had to report to a "likeable" waste of skin in a suit, at some point in our working lives.