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  1. OH suburbs - waited 45 minutes on U.S. Election Day In Progress: What's Been Your Experience? · · Score: 2

    OH suburbs - waited 45 minutes early this morning to vote on a hybrid machine (electronic UI, writes on a paper tape that I could see).

  2. Re:Communion on Conservatives' Trust In Science Has Fallen Dramatically Since Mid-1970s · · Score: 5, Informative

    They DO declare their belief in science by asking to be treated by a modern medical facility. If they really didn't believe it would work, they wouldn't bother.

    They're not stupid, they're hypocritical, and lying to themselves about what they believe as much as to anyone else.

  3. Look up _Death March_ on Are 10-11 Hour Programming Days Feasible? · · Score: 1

    There is a book entitled _Death March_ that is a survival guide for situations like this, and also includes tips on talking to management about such situations.

  4. Fallout anyone? on Scientists Advocate Replacing Cattle With Insects · · Score: 1

    Did anyone else read that headline and flash on Fallout series radroaches?

    Or is it just me?

  5. Re:Serving the summons? on Internet Defamation Suit Tests Online Anonymity · · Score: 1

    there's no legal way to prove it was read unless the defendants post in thread

    Ummmm. I'm afraid that Slashdot proves that isn't enough, either.

  6. Re:Timing is everything on Take Two Investigated by New York Grand Jury · · Score: 1

    Actually, no. The Attorney General of the State of New York is elected.
    Reference the NY State Constitution, Article V, Section 1.

    Link (you have to do a bunch of clicking, no direct link):

    http://public.leginfo.state.ny.us/menuf.cgi

  7. Re:two words on Chinese Gamers Circumvent Anti-Obsession Measures · · Score: 4, Informative

    Exactly. We choose to play.

    "Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. " -- Mark Twain

  8. Contribute on Sanely Moving from Word to the Web? · · Score: 1

    Don't Do It!

    I have to support a bunch of Contribute users at work, and the keys are constantly getting corrupted on the users' PC's. I may have less-clueful users than many, but I suspect they're representative.

  9. Re:18yr Old on UK Companies Love IT Workers, Love Not Returned · · Score: 0

    That's a paraphrase of Mark Twain, and the original is better.

    "When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."

  10. Sybex on Microsoft Books and Certifications? · · Score: 1

    My experience with certifications from several vendors (ex-consultant who used the certs to get in the door) is that the books from the vendor itself are almost always useless. This is for several reasons, but one of them is that the vendor has a vested interest in creating the impression that the certification is difficult to get.*

    The Sybex study guides I have used have all been excellent.

    *Not to mention the whole "Save the world by using NetWare" BS in the Novell guides. I could not finish the first one I read.

  11. Re:explanation on the 666 on Why One Man Got a Guerrilla RFID Implant · · Score: 1

    To worship the Emperor and to swear loyalty to your country were one and the same, considered inseperable. To say "I support our troops but not the Emperor" was sedition. When Christians refused to buy incense, they were asked "Why do you hate your country? Do you wish the Emperor dead?"

    So, in other words, little has changed?

  12. Re:Great movie on A Review of "The Incredibles" · · Score: 1

    I don't think so.

    Mulan -- the vast majority of the Hun army dies in an avalanche deliberately caused by the title character.

  13. Re:An encouraging thought to me on Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell · · Score: 1

    Based on the experience of a friend of the family, this is the way to go -- do your entire book, and sell it as a package.

    It took him ten years to get what turned into a trilogy written and published, but it was worth it. He is now writing for a living, and doing better financially than I expect to ever do.

  14. Re:Limit this crap to four lines... on An Analysis Of Email Disclaimers · · Score: 1

    I have personal experience with the spouse opening mail issue, and was advised by an attorney that that's a state-by-state thing. In Indiana, it was legal, and she could even sign my name to contracts and credit card slips.

  15. Re:I don't know a good rate... on Reasonable Salary for Entry Level Programmers? · · Score: 1

    It's all in how you describe it -- I worked for several years (part/full-time) selling Renaisance clothing at Ren Faires in the summers and Spring/Fall weekends. It's listed on my resume with a company name and the description "niche market clothing manufacturer/retailer."

  16. Re:Train My Replacement? on Train Your Own Replacement · · Score: 1

    But, if simply being in the same place with Cthulhu makes it insane, it is not a replacement for Cthulhu. It is a sub-standard successor, perhaps.

  17. YMMV! on Avi Rubin's Thoughts On e-Voting · · Score: 3, Informative

    The laws on that vary from state to state. In Ohio, where I voted yesterday, it's seperate "ballots" (we were using Diebold systems, too). In other states, it's all the same ballot.

  18. Same reason I didn't on Unemployed? Why Not Start a Software Company? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'll give you the same answer a friend of mine gave when he and I were quitting a consulting company about the same time and someone asked why we didn't start our own.



    I don't know anybody who's good at sales whom I trust.

  19. Re:House Calls on The Absolute Worst Working Environment? · · Score: 1

    Oh, sure. You get so you can eat after that kind of thing, or you starve. It's that simple.

    --Dejaffa (ex-Indianapolis EMT)

  20. Test -- ignore this. on GTA Violence, the Media, and the Gamers · · Score: 1

    Testing new sig.

  21. Re:Bunch Bull on Mafia Tech Support · · Score: 1

    Actually, Mussolini made the trains run on time by changing the schedules to read the times that the trains actually ran -- he didn't change in any way when they ran.

    He deserves credit only for redefining the terms of the issue -- specifically what was "on time."

    --Dejaffa (a burned-out old history teacher)

  22. Re:not switching? - Business Reason on Mac OS X 10.3 vs. Linux · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Or you have software, such as MacAuthorize, that requires the ability to dial the modem directly.

    Since MacAuthorize is not being supported any more by the company which owns the rights to it (Veri$ign), upgrading to an OS X version isn't an option.

    Since the only OS X-native credit-card authorization software I've seen costs upwards of $1000/seat, that isn't an immediate option for many small businesses.

  23. Re:That's right... on Could Isaac Newton Get a Faculty Job? · · Score: 1

    You assume that the two are mutually exclusive...

  24. Hmmmm. No Sluggy? on The Rebirth of Comics · · Score: 1, Interesting

    No Sluggy Freelance reference. This story describes what it calls "specialized" comics, but Sluggy seems to have wider appeal than much of what they describe.

  25. Re:even better than snail mail on Mailing Disks is Faster than Uploading Data · · Score: 1

    I beg to differ. According to RFC 1149, it's carrier pigeons. Tell the vendor that, since their product is non-RFC 1149-compliant, you're suing...