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  1. Re:Resigning on Computer Jobs -- How to Resign Professionally? · · Score: 1

    I'm fairly certain that after you give what is considered standard notice in your field that you can't be fired. Companies are required to honor the notice that you were given but it is their choice if you will continue to work for that time or not. You still get paid though.

    In his case, the company let him have the two weeks off and paid him for it.

    Most jobs I've had when I've given notice I've been allowed to retain my access to systems but that is probably because I've discussed leaving with my supervisor not HR and they trusted me or at least had work that still needed to be done.

    Personally, I wouldn't ask for a reference from a company that revoked my access that quickly unless it was a set and documented policy like you might find in financial services.

  2. Re:What's the big deal? on Free Wi-fi Prompts BellSouth to Withdraw Donation · · Score: 1

    Explain why my trash, water and sewer are handled by the government then. It would be possible for a private enterprise to handle all of these.

    If Bell South were actually doing anything but killing the forward progress of the Internet I'd be all for suppporting them. No reason that Bell South can't roll out faster Internet access to compete with it. Why do we still not have 100Mb or even 10Mb to the home for a reasonable price?

  3. Re:One Case Study on Unisys: We No Longer Have A Way Out · · Score: 1

    Dude if your wife is only considering your technical advice and not bowing down to your technical mastery I'm going to have to ask you to stop posting.

    Maybe you should rephrase it a bit ya know, "My wife was almost suckered into buying an overpriced toaster with Microsoft software on it but I smacked her upside the head and installed linux on a 486 that solved all of her problems."

  4. Re:Russian Philosophy on NASA Scraps Shuttle And Returns to Rockets · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You mean like the N1. http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/spacecraft/q0 196.shtml "Though seemingly more complex, the Soviets believed this approach could be developed more quickly than Apollo and would allow them to beat the Americans by making the first lunar landing as early as September 1968. However, this plan turned out to be woefully optimistic. While some blame rests on the LK and LOK vehicles whose designs fell behind schedule, the ultimate failure of the Soviet manned lunar program rests squarely on the N1. At least nine examples of this enormous rocket were completed and four were launched on unmanned test flights. Unfortunately, all four failed in spectacular fashion."

  5. Re:Tech support hates them already on Office 12 Exposed · · Score: 1

    12 year olds don't have any problem figuring out software. They are persistent and aren't afraid to learn new things or click on buttons.

    You'd be better served to design an interface a even a technophobe can use.

  6. Re:Just my 2 cents as an end-user on The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security · · Score: 1

    You must be new here. We all want the ability to see porn at work, we would prefer if they didn't have the ability to see us seeing porn.

  7. Re:Windows media? on Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 Released · · Score: 1

    Use flashblock

  8. Re:Best Practices 101 on Cisco Flaw Opens Routers to Attack · · Score: 1

    The title is worded a bit badly. It's for Proxy telnet services not telnet services itself.

  9. Re:Note.. on The Massachusetts Office Party · · Score: 1

    You do however, need to own Windows.

  10. Re:google talk BETA on Google Talk Claims Openness, Lacks S2S Support · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I thought it was a Google product family

    Gmail Beta
    Gmaps Beta
    Gtalk Beta

  11. Open Source it on Canada and Denmark using Google as Battleground · · Score: 1

    Islands want to be free!

  12. Re:RAID = Backup? on Basics of RAID · · Score: 1

    Until your raid controller fails and you realize that for no amount of money can you buy a replacement that will get your data back in any reasonable amount of time.

  13. Re:The ESRB screwed themselves on Hot Coffee Cooling Off · · Score: 1

    The whole game isn't violent. I drive around on motorcycles a lot and try to jump stuff too :)

  14. Re:Just wording? on Firefox 1.1 Scrapped · · Score: 1

    I haven't seen anything out of Microsoft that would make me use their browser again either.

  15. Re:easy to blow the entire CIA front firm too on Googling for CIA Agents · · Score: 1

    Does partisan hack mean someone who wasn't blinded by bloodlust?

    I'm sorry I must have missed the article where they found the WMD and all the terrorist cells that were used as the justification for going to war in the first place.

  16. Re:Firefox does not block all popups on Google to Release Firefox Toolbar · · Score: 1

    you need to install flashblock, that or uninstall flash. That will remove 99.9% of all of the popups on the internet.

  17. Re:Pain? on `Bionic' Arm Brings Back Sense of Touch · · Score: 1

    Don't screw with bionic people, we don't all tolerate normals very well.

  18. Re:What does this mean to biotechnology? on `Bionic' Arm Brings Back Sense of Touch · · Score: 1

    If your arms were removed and made stronger and impervious to pain your body would also loose that much cooling capacity and also muscle tissue to burn off all those pizzas.

    Arms are easy anyway, try making a leg that does that. Your leg makes thousands of muscle changes a second to keep you upright. Your arm just hangs there by comparison.

    It would be the 1 in a million person who decided that they would rather have a strong, laser beam equiped artifical limb over a real one though. Too much maintenance :)

  19. Re:Pain? on `Bionic' Arm Brings Back Sense of Touch · · Score: 1

    No, he was right. They are tapping into the nerves. Your brain will react just as if it were a real arm.

    If it's hot, you would yank your fake arm back involuntary, if it is really to hot you'd feel the pain and drop what you were holding. Your central nervous system will never adjust to the loss of a limb.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_limb

    As someone who had his leg amputated 20 years ago I am qualified to discuss this from first hand experience. I can still curl my missing toes and feel the resistance from doing it.

  20. Re:Upgrade path on Fedora Core 4 Available · · Score: 0

    It really depends on your usage of the server imho. If you are talking about a home server and you are already familiar with RH or Fedora, why not use it as a server. You are forgetting about the fedora legacy project for community support on older versions if you just don't feel like upgrading it but still need package updates.

    http://fedoralegacy.org/

  21. Re:What is the practical application for this? on Google to Map San Francisco in 3D · · Score: 1

    How exactly is it going to make navigation easier then GPS and a 2d overhead map. Quake Maps I can see, but navigation for normal people? Not buying it.

    It's a matter of doing it because they can imho, not because there is a good reason or use for it.

  22. What is the practical application for this? on Google to Map San Francisco in 3D · · Score: 1, Troll

    I can't see how this would be useful for regular users but I could see how this could be used to plan attacks against our country. Is there something I'm missing?