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  1. rulz rulx rulz on Philly Requiring Bloggers To Pay $300 · · Score: 1
    If you have a brick and mortar business and you open your doors with a bank loan (pretending you can get one) or your life savings and you operate at a loss for the first year or two you still have to have a business license and pay wage taxes. Just because you are making a pittance doesn't mean your not operating a business.

    I say drop the adds and don't pay the fee.

  2. Re:Educational Problems on Union Boycotts LA Times Over Teacher Evaluation Disclosure · · Score: 1

    Not the teachers union, they are a factor (teaches arrive 2 minutes before my kids at 8:58 and the room is locked at 3:32). The biggest issue with the "education system" is the one size fits all approach to learning and the importance of standardized test scores and matching funding to test scores, teachers de-facto teach to the test and the kids lose. Here's a little story. In bush Alaska at the "worst" (lowest score) elementary school in the USA (I have direct knowledge of this area. The village in question is either Sleetmute or Aniak, I can't remember, they are both on the Kuskokwim). all 12 of the K-8 students were asked what the "suburbs" were. All answered that it must be a truck like the Suburban. If you don't know about village life: You can only get there by air or by the river, This was the only truck in town, everyone uses 4 wheelers or snow machines (what most people call Snow Mobiles) to get around. There is no pavement, no cop, no store (that would be recognized as such) and gas is pumped out of a raised 1000 gallon tank and costs $12 a gallon. The mail comes once a week via plane and the air strip is unpaved.

  3. Re:Just because it's patented... on Apple Patents Remotely Disabling Jailbroken Phones · · Score: 1

    I call moo. If you have placed a script on your phone I don't see you kicking in the door to some skells apartment (It wouldn't be the first time I was wrong though) after getting a GPS fix. Are you going to give it to the cops? What are they going to do, they might not even know what a GPS is and they would have to get a court order and some experts to look at your script and proof of ownership. That is, unless you are the rare type of geek and have an OTV with SAPI plates and a M1014 JSCS AND know how to use them. (I know there is no way to show I have that stuff in my locker downstairs, mine is an FNH not a JSCS, but oh well). I am all for it if you can pull a Buckaroo Bonzai :)

  4. Re:Just because it's patented... on Apple Patents Remotely Disabling Jailbroken Phones · · Score: 1

    Doesn't mean they can't do it right now.

  5. the thing is on Will Amazon Put Advertisements In eBooks? · · Score: 1

    I can't see how NOT cutting down trees and having huge overhead eating printing presses is costing publishers profits, but hey I only have a small business. Then I would argue that not a whole lot of books printed each year are anything but crap. That leads me to the last bit. Unlike music and movies, used books have always had a market. They are portable, do not require power, are very durable, and work in almost all conditions you would find yourself from the subway to mcmurdo station. You will also find most of the good ones are in this format and there is an insurmountable number of them found all over the world (no need for special incoding if you read english)

  6. spoon on Calling Shenanigans On Super SATA's Claimed Audio Qualities · · Score: 1

    There is no such thing as analog and digital, only electricity and gravity.

  7. Re:A fool and his money... on Calling Shenanigans On Super SATA's Claimed Audio Qualities · · Score: 1

    Anyone who uses "cab sav" couldn't possibly be classically trained in wine flavors or what ever

  8. Re:How leet r u? on PS3 Hacked via USB Dongle · · Score: 1

    I know, I am one to talk. I have an PS3, a old MacBook with HDMI out and a 1T drive with movies and my stupid DVR (where I live if you want the fastest download of 6MPs and no cap you MUST have a DVR and cable, there is no competition). I think I have 5 remotes on the back of my couch.

  9. How leet r u? on PS3 Hacked via USB Dongle · · Score: 1

    If your uberleet why do you need to run an alt OS on PS3? Why don't you have a beowulf cluster in your closet or some mutant linux box made of parts you scavenged for free from the local mega-corporations recycle bin?

  10. Re:Criminal records on Google's CEO Warns Kids Will Have to Change Names to Escape "Cyber Past" · · Score: 1

    Not fraud in the criminal sense, only grounds for termination (and possible civil action if you have a contract for your job).

  11. Re:Criminal records on Google's CEO Warns Kids Will Have to Change Names to Escape "Cyber Past" · · Score: 1

    However you do not need to answer that question. Very few places keep records that are publicly available who got "arrested". Convicted or charged, yes there will be a record. Arrested is a grey area and not to mention how many HR people don't even call references let alone check your record. Where I live we have two public tools; something called "court view" that shows everybody ever entered into the "system" and an "interested persons report" which is a state report only you can get on yourself and can be required by employers (it also costs $20 from the state law enforcement agency)

  12. regardless on Did Sea Life Arise Twice? · · Score: 1

    It's theorized that microbes living in hidy-holes deep in the crust of this rock survive in the worst terrestrial conditions. That's the short version.

  13. so do I, well three.... on 75% Use Same Password For Social Media & Email · · Score: 1

    Why would I use different passwords? If one password is [stolen-guessed-hacked] everything is in jeopardy anyway. Our online security is a house of cards. I use one simple (for me, random for you) password at all these sites that have no personal data beyond an email address, another far more complex set for sites that have more information and a third for site that have financial or "real" data (my medical license, I am not a doctor or state account).

  14. FedEx, get insurance/ship your server on Stupid Data Center Tricks · · Score: 3, Interesting

    When I was IT manager for a big retail mfg we had a cross-country move from the SF bay area to TN (closer to shipping hubs and lower tax rates). I was hired for the new plant, and I was there setting up everything (I did not know the company knew next to nothing about technology) and the last thing shipped before the company shutdown for the move was ship the data server via 2 day FedEx. The CFO packed it up and shipped it out, as the driver pulled away from the bay the server fell off the bumper and onto the cement. They picked it up (looking undamaged in it's box). When I opened it there was a shower of parts. A HD drive had detached from the case but not the cable and had swung around in that case like a flail. CFO had NOT INSURED the shipment or taken anything apart. That and much more to save $50 here and there.

  15. oh, good idea on Rupert Murdoch Plans a Digital Newspaper For the US · · Score: 2

    Except us "younger" readers know two things. 1) "Reading" on the internet makes our heads hurt. 2) Us "younger" readers know Rupert is a "douche".

  16. Re:Return vs. Fresh Login on Facebook Bug Could Give Spammers Names, Photos · · Score: 4, Funny

    Best line EVER: A spammer isn't going to have your cookies

  17. This was first noted er.. on Touchscreens Open To Smudge Attacks · · Score: 1

    I believe the first report was on the security based reality show titled "Get Smart" in the the 60's

  18. I tried...missing people on FBI Prioritizes Copyright Over Missing Persons · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I tried to start a non-profit to find missing people. I got C&D letters from 4 states for my website as I sought start-up, even with clearly stating I did not have 503x status. Missing people is not good business. I was surprised I did not get a note from the FBI.

  19. Re:Enough! Super model on Rubik's Cube Now Solvable in 20 Moves · · Score: 1

    Reach around the supermodel. Gasp clasp the thumb and index finger with thumb on the inside. Snap your fingers with clasp between. Bra or Swimsuit top should spring apart followed by a giggle from your target. At this point if you have mastered this move you should be able to get her to do anything you wish, just ask.

  20. pot anyone? on Gasoline From Thin Air · · Score: 1

    "Smoking grass" has a new meaning.

  21. huh on Giant Balloons Could Solve Space Junk Problem · · Score: 1

    I see it being a bit hard to attach a balloon to a screwdrive or a nut and the like.

  22. Re:Good Lord! on Hardware Hackers Reveal Apple's Charger Secrets · · Score: 1

    If not "hot" at least warm to the touch (maybe not your touch, but you'll never know unless you ask +) )

  23. Wait, I thought it was piracy? on The Recovery Disc Rip-Off · · Score: 1

    Is it not (according to Them) an act of piracy if we copy the software we are "renting" to another disk? I get so confused with this sometimes it's ok to copy, sometimes not.....

  24. Hello World, er Apple on Lawsuit Hits Companies Using 'Zombie' Flash Cookies · · Score: 4, Funny

    Are we on Apple's side again for being anti-Flash? (I lose track so easily)

  25. Re:No, the BBC Changed the Story on Heat Ray Gun Fails Final Test; Nixed From War · · Score: 1
    I use my powerdrill all the time to hammer nails and it shows, it's torn to sherds. It's me who fails to bring a hammer to the fight [sic].

    I would also say by the above logic our whole mission is failing in the sandboxes we are in. We bought the whole toolbox, but we keep using the wrong tools for the job.