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  1. Re:Simple Solution on McDonalds Free Wi-Fi Users Soak Up Seating · · Score: 1

    Serve food more like McDonald's. That way you can have all those seats not occupied by websurfers empty...

  2. If they are going to fire you over your comments on Social Networking Behavioral Agreements At Work? · · Score: 1

    how do they expect your comments to turn out after the whole firing thing... Now you have someone who was already pointing out flaws online who is actually pissed at the company and not having his career held over the fire.

  3. Re:The Wild West is already here on UK "Creative Industries" Call For File-Sharers Ban · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The content providers aren't pushing towards giving you what you want, they are pushing for a more or less continual revenue stream for, well forever. They want you to pay them every time you experience their content or have a copy. If they could, they would probably just be satisfied with you paying them a(income-adjusted) revolving payment till you die content or not. Until someone can come up with a competing organization for the **AAs, then they will be setting the rules for intellectual property by any means necessary. Look at their moves, every step they make is to push towards sucking in more money for the least new work possible.

    I, for one, would love to see a music text from 100 years from now to see what they say about what we have produced. I feel like the content industry has so sucked the life out of our works of art both by their influence on the artists and by their fiddling with copyright laws that we just won't exist in the history of art. As much technical prowess as we would be able to boast in history, it is a sad, sad thing that we have let and are letting the companies erase our culture.

  4. BBloopers on Adblock Plus Maker Proposes Change To Help Sites · · Score: 1

    Bah, if I blocked ads then I'd never find half of them...

  5. News? on The "Dangers" of Free · · Score: 1

    If you give stuff away you need a good plan to make a profit from it.

  6. Re:Work Experience on Go For a Masters, Or Not? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I have to agree with this. The CS field is still relatively young. We have bunches and bunches of self-taught people, so there is a huge community of people who think that experience is the end all be all. Some of those folks are mind-blowingly incredible and some we had to rewrite all their stuff after they left, but the thing is they all thought they were mind-blowingly incredible.

    A BS in CS will get you what you need to know to do your job and learn the technical skills to do about anything in the CS field. A master's is about how to make up new stuff technically, how to make new algorithms, new processes, new operating systems,... You can learn it through experience but it is better to not ignore what has been learned by everyone else over the past 40 years.

  7. Re:depends on Your Commuting Costs By Car Vs. Train? · · Score: 1

    Are there bike paths where you live or a lot of bicyclists? Here the drivers are downright hostile to bicyclists during regular traffic, I can't imagine riding during rush hour.

  8. Re:Article comments are good too on Repairman Steals Hard Drive And Charges To Reinstall It · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm willing to consult to him on his business model. I'll charge him $2000 a week.

  9. Re:Units? on More "Miles Per Acre" From Bioelectricity Than Ethanol · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Almost as useful as miles per gallon...

  10. Re:DoD wiping standards on Unclean Military Hard Drives Sold On eBay · · Score: 1

    All you hardware guys can kiss it. This is just further proof that at the smallest level a computer is just bits...

  11. Re:Confused notion of "rights" on EU Rejects Law To Cut Pirates Off From Their ISP · · Score: 1

    What about those who don't want power, or water, or telephones?

  12. Stopping the bacteria on Bacteria Could Help Stop Desertification · · Score: 1

    From the article it looks like the bacteria will continue to live in the wall repairing and reshaping it, but how will they keep it in the wall? Are we at some point going to end up with the great Sahara sandstone parking lot?

  13. Re:Time to get (overly?) skeptical... on Proposed Peer-To-Peer Law Sparks Animosity · · Score: 5, Insightful

    One person, a government worker, leaks a document, and now we must all pay.

    If a government worker drunk drives should we all lose our licenses and cars?

    The annoying thing is by making those documents available on p2p, the worker was already breaking countless laws and regulations. There are existing protections in place for this type of thing but rather than rely on the fact that he could be fined/fired/arrested/barred from future government work and if he was a contractor his company was also fined/penalized against future contract bids, the solution is to make yet another law standing in the way of legitimate use of p2p.

  14. Re:Resistance is Futile? on Microsoft Bans VoIP, Rival Stores At Mobile Market · · Score: 1

    I would suspect that as long as your script host is native, managed, or a widget then scripting would be fine. It looks like they are keeping people from selling any code that might access privileged instructions that they didn't properly secure. But I don't work for Microsoft so take what I say with a grain of salt.

  15. Resistance is Futile? on Microsoft Bans VoIP, Rival Stores At Mobile Market · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Really?
    1-3 make good business sense
    4,5,7,9 are probably rules pushed by the provider
    7,8,10 protect tech support
    11,12 are to protect the consumer
    6 is probably just a loophole to make sure they can get around any creative ideas that would have been intended to fall under 1-3 but might not be covered.

    Of course if you are unhappy with these rules maybe you could return to the open and free policies of buying apps for your iPhone...

  16. 6 months on Reliable Male Contraceptive In the Works · · Score: 1

    For a couple trying to plan their children this is just an awful time range. If my wife stops taking birth control it only takes her body a month to return to normal and about two months to get back to normal child conceiving mode. These shots give you a six month period of you could but probably won't get pregnant. My wife was wondering if she had some problem after our latest took two months longer to conceive than the first. How many men are going to spend 6 months worrying their sperm will come back?

  17. Re:Requirements? on The Coder Behind the Mortgage Meltdown · · Score: 1

    For that matter, who analyzed those requirements? Designed the models? Tested his code?
    And most importantly what is the tech support phone number?

  18. Re:Public education... on Why Is It So Difficult To Fire Bad Teachers? · · Score: 1

    Oddly this is how typing was taught at least for me. It has proved to be a vital skill saving me countless hours of hunting and pecking which I've even seen professional developers do.

  19. Re:Ironic, really... on Pentagon Lost Billions, Pennies At a Time · · Score: 2

    If you work anywhere near the military it isn't near here... I don't know how many stories I've heard where contractors were forced to use FCS to fast-track equipment to the soldiers in Iraq because the standard military procurement process would have had the equipment to the soldiers in Iraq after we finish the conflict in Afghanistan. Of course, the press runs that as wasteful spending of the FCS money.

  20. Re:Vindicated! on Forensics Tool Finds Headerless Encrypted Files · · Score: 1

    Could you not instead make even the white spaces look structured even structured in several possible different ways to hide the real data from the white space? I'm not a cryptography person, but it seems to hide the structure you are going to mix up the data throughout the disk, but a used disk is going to have random junk in the white space but the random junk will be related in some previously used block. So an encrypted disk is going to have its "junk" more randomly mixed than a non-encrypted disk. If your information "fit" the junk in its local area then it wouldn't look like it is encrypted, it would just look like data that hasn't been reallocated for something else yet.

  21. Re:I'm Skeptical on New Food-Growth Product a Bit Hairy · · Score: 1

    Human hair is nitrogen-rich. The bottom of the pot application is fertilization only. Top of the pot is fertilization and a weed barrier.

  22. Re:Wow. on Apple May Bring a Non-iPhone To Verizon Wireless · · Score: 1

    Except the little one is a small iPhone, and the big one is just a big iTouch; which is an iPhone that you can't call with. But the contract with AT&T won't let them call either one an iPhone...

  23. Re:Question on Apple May Bring a Non-iPhone To Verizon Wireless · · Score: 1

    I think they are saying the contract forbids them to sell iPhones to TMobile, but they can create a phone (or maybe just a non-phone device) and sell it to TMobile.

  24. Re:Life imitating art? on Twitter Considered Harmful To Swine-Flu Panic · · Score: 1

    Won't someone think of the news media...

  25. Having run and played P&P rpgs for years on Contrasting User-Driven Play With Developer Vision · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Letting the players have too much control for too long ends up getting boring for most of your players.