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  1. Electric Shock on How Do You Get Users To Read Error Messages? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Using Bluetooth to activate a transmitter in the seats of our users, we've had a 671% increase in efficiency when helping our users due to increased "awareness" of error messages.

  2. Awesome! on BlackBerry Bold Tops Radiation Ranking · · Score: 1

    With radiation like this, our kids will have 4 thumbs, thus doubling productivity!

  3. Re:changes on Facebook Now Supports Jabber/XMPP · · Score: 1

    No, it just means no sex or blowjobs for j00.

  4. Re:Beating a Dead Horse on RIAA Insists On 3rd Trial In Thomas Case · · Score: 1

    But that's not what he said! He distinctly said "to blathe", and as we all know "to blathe" means to bluff! You were probably playing cards and he cheated!

  5. Re:Upside down or 180degrees? on USPTO Won't Accept Upside Down Faxes · · Score: 1

    TFA says: "Here’s a copy of the letter that a source, who regularly deals with the USPTO, passed along to me:"

    Perhaps a letter was mailed to the person? If the USPTO received a blank page, how would they know where to mail the letter?

    It also says: "The faxed submission was received upside down. We are unable to continue processing these images."

    The fax was received upside down, not backwards/reversed.

  6. Here's an idea: on USPTO Won't Accept Upside Down Faxes · · Score: 1

    Mail them a message back stating that their letter arrived upside down and could not be processed, and for the USPTO to please send another copy...

  7. Whew! on Does Personalized News Lead To Ignorance? · · Score: 1

    If a friend hadn't linked me to this story, I would have missed it...

  8. Just checked D-Link's website on D-Link Warns of Vulnerable Routers · · Score: 1

    I don't see any update for the DIR-655, last firmware is from 07/2009, v1.32NA.

    I hope they release soon, I know a few not so savvy users who have this model.

  9. Re:Spotty 3G on T-Mobile? on Nexus One Owners Report Spotty 3G Signals On T-Mobile · · Score: 4, Funny

    You ballsack T-Mobile?

    I ballsack them too, my Blackberry for work has THE worst coverage. It makes my iPhone 3GS look good.

  10. Re:Can someone explain this to me? on Factorization of a 768-Bit RSA Modulus · · Score: 1

    For someone who hasn't studied in a while, you seem to have a good grasp. To me, this seems to make sense now given the info you have provided. :)

  11. Re:Can someone explain this to me? on Factorization of a 768-Bit RSA Modulus · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, I'm puzzled by this too. My profs in school taught us that RSA can't be broken unless you know how to solve discrete logarithms so I am unsure what factoring has to do with it? Although I suppose if I know all the factors of a certain number, I could try to test all possible relatively prime inverses...

  12. Re:People aren't robots on Office Work Ethic In the IT Industry? · · Score: 1

    Yes but 50% sunlight on the earth's surface does not equal 90% probably at work...

  13. I live in NYC... on Consumerist Says AT&T Site Won't Sell iPhone In NYC, Citing Network · · Score: 1

    I have owned 5 iPhone's including my current one and my development device, my wife has one too.

    My data is usually ok but I do seem to drop calls on occasion even with a full signal. I also just tried entering my local zip code in NYC and it told me the iPhone was unavailable. I then edited and tried my dad's house in Suffolk County on Long Island the site says it's available. I then tried my uncle zip core Nassau County on Long Island and it's not available either.

    It seems that if you are western LI near NYC, you iPhone from their site, but the further east you go, it's available?

  14. Re:sony rootkit on The 87 Lamest Moments In Tech, 2000-2009 · · Score: 1

    They don't. They don't make LCD's, CPU's, RAM, etc either. But they DO have parts made to their specifications or buy parts that meet their specifications. My 13" MBP did not come with a 7200rpm option, so I popped in my own purchased drive. The drive from the new MBP is working fine in my old MBP (my wife's "new" machine) however. :)

  15. Re:obligatory on The 87 Lamest Moments In Tech, 2000-2009 · · Score: 1

    68? Woodstock was in 1969. I only know because I went to the 30th anniversary in Rome, NY in 1999. :)

  16. Re:sony rootkit on The 87 Lamest Moments In Tech, 2000-2009 · · Score: 2, Funny

    I live on the planet where I actually USE an Apple product daily. My wife's Macbook Pro is running fine, my new one is about 95%. Sure I get the spinning beach ball, but I know it's because I put a third party hard disk in it and I'll deal with my own decision because everything else is PHENOMENAL! :)

  17. Re:Beowulf on Best Man Rigs Newlyweds' Bed To Tweet During Sex · · Score: 1

    No need to imagine, just hook it up at the AVN Awards...

  18. The videos need background music on Aussie Scientists Find Coconut-Carrying Octopus · · Score: 1
  19. Well... on Should You Be Paid For Being On Call? · · Score: 1

    As a person who works closely with on call groups but not on call himself, I can say that were I tasked to now be on call, I would expect compensation as such. We pay our employees a normal wage but if they work a later shift, they get a "travel allowance" that most just use as additional income. The federal government also gives a bump in pay adjustment to jobs who work to the tune of 50hrs instead of 40hrs.

    Meaning if you go from 40hrs to 40hrs + "We can call if we need you" you should then therefore be given a higher overall wage to compensate your time focused on work.

  20. Re:Obligatory Office Space on Moving Decimal Bug Loses Money · · Score: 1

    It's not some mundane detail Michael!

    Apparently I got logged off with my last comment, also not a mundane detail!

  21. Amazing! on US Air Force Buying Another 2,200 PS3s · · Score: 2, Funny

    I didn't know Skynet was made of PS3's...

  22. I can already hear the engineers response... on Laser Weapon Shoots Down Airplanes In Test · · Score: 1

    ...to how this is possible: "As you know, Mitch and I were working on the cyanide system. Well, earlier today it ate itself. But, these little set-backs are just what we need to take a giant step forward. Right, Kent? Needless to say, I was a little despondent about the melt down, but then, in the midst of my preparations for hari kiri, it came to me. It is possible to synthesize excited bromide in an argon matrix. Yes, it's an excimer frozen in its excited state. It's a chemical laser but in solid, not gaseous, form. Put simply, in deference to you, Kent, it's like lasing a stick of dynamite. As soon as we apply a field, we couple to a state, it is radiatively coupled to the ground state. I figure we can extract at least ten to the twenty-first photons per cubic centimeter which will give one kilojoule per cubic centimeter at 600 nanometers, or, one megajoule per liter."

  23. Re:How about... on Best Tool For Remembering Passwords? · · Score: 1

    Hopefully that's an easy 4-7 digit number. If you are really paranoid (and you should be!), one could use a combination of office, landline and cell number in chunks as an "easy" number to remember.

  24. Re:paper in your wallet on Best Tool For Remembering Passwords? · · Score: 1

    I meditate to regain my mana, before casting Lvl. 8 chicken of the Infinite...

  25. How about... on Best Tool For Remembering Passwords? · · Score: 1

    Passwords in a file that you keep on an external drive locked in a safe? :)