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  1. Re:You're a contractor. Your "secrets" are yours on Ask Slashdot: How To (or How NOT To) Train Your Job Replacement? · · Score: 1

    I'd go more with:
    Request formal performace evaluationas and professional references as a requirement for training.

    Negotiate any additional support charges (hour/day/job) for future support once existing contract is fulfilled.

    Train within reason.

    Leave.

    $$Profit

  2. Wouldn't it be more prudent to charge an address with a flat tax to receive snail mail? Charge a flat tax for individuals. Charge corporations based on volume received.

    Nice try Sprint/AT&T/Tmobile/Verizon

    pay to send and receive Text messages?

  3. Re:Not a completely useless idea on City Councilman: Email Tax Could Discourage Spam, Fund Post Office Functions · · Score: 1

    What if, instead of taxing email, USPS was to provide end-to-end encrypted email for something like $.10 per message?

    But I want decryption on my end!

    Ok, but only if I can create and manage the keys.

  4. Re:Best salaried employee behavior on Best Buy Follows Yahoo in Banning Remote Work · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yeah the problem is that if they "expect you to work 50+ hours per week" with no formal documentation or overtime pay, then
    for every 4 employees, there is one other person who isn't going to be hired.

    Then when times get "tough" there will only be 3 of you working 66 hours a week, for the same pay.

  5. Best salaried employee behavior on Best Buy Follows Yahoo in Banning Remote Work · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Work exactly 40 hours per week, and not at all from home.

  6. Oh good on Canonical Announces Mir: A New Display Server Not On X11 Or Wayland · · Score: 1

    I would prefer a serial port and a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vt100

  7. If you're a manager on Ask Slashdot: Software To Help Stay On Task? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Schedule more meetings.

  8. How about on Seagate To Stop Making 7200rpm Laptop HDDs · · Score: 1
  9. There's Gold in them there CPU's on Ask Slashdot: Projects For a Heap of Tech Junk? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Gold is at 1,573.00 an ounce today.

    Here's a link to check out cpu prices based on gold content:

    http://www.ozcopper.com/computer-cpu-gold-yields/

  10. Doesn't it really all come down to on Sergey Brin Says Using a Smartphone Is 'Emasculating' · · Score: 5, Funny

    The size of your screen?

  11. Definition of Border on Homeland Security Stole Michael Arrington's Boat · · Score: 1

    It's only news because it's a rich person and his boat. When they utilize the new Homeland Security policy allowing them to seize any electronic device at the border without suspicion, and decide to hold on to your IPad or cellphone it will most certainly be your problem. And you will have enabled it to be so because you are so cavalier about a person's rights, so long as they have a different amount of wealth as you.

    Isnt it fascinating that it's abhorent to violate a poor person's rights, but its chiche to promote violating the rights of the wealthy?

    http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/10/aclu-assails-10/

  12. Re:Bow down on Mosquitoes Beginning To Ignore DEET Repellent · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I think it will take longer for them to become resistant to the lasers:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosquito_laser

  13. Cue the on FCC Proposal Would Cover the US With Public Wi-Fi · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Lobby "contributions" from Sprint, AT&T Tmobile, Comcast, Time Warner... The war chests of our representatives and senators will overflow with joy
    if they defeat this.

  14. Re:What did they do? on SCO Wants To Destroy Business Records · · Score: 1

    IIRC they were a litigation business.

    Correction: They were the puppets for Microsoft and Sun to destroy Linux, the free kernel that was taking over UNIX and threatening Microsoft's future control of the small computing platforms. What nether saw was Apple coming up in the rear view mirror.

    And only one of them exists now.

  15. What happens if on UK Researchers Build Micron LED Light Based Wireless Network · · Score: 0

    you're not a basement dweller and actually have windows in a room with these?

    I know, not as much a problem in the UK, so they probably didn't check into this potential issue.

  16. How about on Credit Card Swipe Fees Begin Sunday In USA · · Score: 1
  17. FTP? on Thousands of Publicly Accessible Printers Searchable On Google · · Score: 1

    I don't know about current HP printers, I do remember using the nice ftp server on them in the past..

    Second rule of Internet Club, no connections directly from the Internet to your Intranet.

  18. A better approach on Senators Seek H-1B Cap That Can Reach 300,000 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Reduce the percentage of H1-B's by the unemployment rate every year.

  19. Is it too late on Ask Slashdot: How To Convince a Team To Write Good Code? · · Score: 3, Funny

    to outsource your work to someone in India giving you time to peruse Reddit?

  20. Hiding from Space? on NASA Releases Orbital Photos of Beijing's Air Pollution · · Score: 4, Funny

    Go go gadget smokescreen!

  21. Remember Remember on The U.S. Careens Over the Fiscal Cliff, Reaching Only Half of a Deal · · Score: 2

    All the fine Congress critters and Representatives who managed to screw up something so simple.

    In their next election.

    Hint:
    Vote them out.

  22. Nah on Does 2012 Mark the End of the Netbook? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Samsung ChromeBooks, Apple 11 inch devices. Tablets with keyboards not running windows 8 or 7 for everything else...

  23. I'm sure that on Empty Times Square Building Generates $23 Million a Year From Digital Ads · · Score: 1

    there are all kinds of jobs being created by this business, so YAY.

  24. Re:Hahaha - Unity even fails mobile on Ubuntu Focusing on Tablets and the Cloud in 2013 · · Score: 2

    Unity is not good on a laptop with 1366 x 768 display. I ditched it for xfce which at least lets me use the
    whole screen...

    I don't want Unity on my tablet. Thanks for listening Mark.

  25. Re:Almost there... on Microsoft Patents Virtual Handshakes, Hugs · · Score: 2

    Here ya go:
    http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2008/07/airknife/
    probably just a parody, but why not?