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  1. Solution: Non-Sequitur Answer for All Questions on Study Shows "Secret Questions" Are Too Easily Guessed · · Score: 1

    Just pick one word you use to answer all questions, like "love2canoo" or something. Why put in answers people can guess? Just make up a single answer that answers all questions.

    For example:

    1) Mother's maiden name: love2canoo
    2) First pet: love2canoo
    3) First car: love2canoo

    That way everyone trying to guess your answers will always be wrong. I'm not sure why people think they really need to answer those things truthfully. Lie, and others trying to use the truth will fail.

  2. Not Mutually Exclusive on Go For a Masters, Or Not? · · Score: 1

    #1 priority is get the job. Once there, you can think about part-time / night school to get your Master's.

    I was in the workforce for three or four years before I started my Master's program. I found it a much more rewarding effort because I had real-life experience to apply to what I was learning. I had lessons-learned to bring to classes, and if your classes are made up of people who are working (nighttime classes will be like that) then you are more likely to get better "war stories" and come away with good info and considerations of things you had never thought of.

    And at the end you'll have a Master's plus work experience... an advanced degree plus a portfolio of success (or at least experience) on real projects.

    Some say certifications are the route... somehow I think a potential employer is going to be more impressed by my Master's plus years of experience and examples of work over the cert-of-the-year I could have gotten back then that is useless now. Certs have their place, but in my view (and career experience) there is much to gain by hitting the workforce for a couple of years and then starting the Master's program.

  3. Re:Bring Back Paradox on Borland Being Purchased By Micro Focus · · Score: 1

    True that... I remember writing a magazine article on how to deploy apps that use shared Paradox files. It worked as long as the rules were followed, but pulling together all the rules was difficult. And if all the clients weren't following the rules, lockouts occured.

    But then again Paradox was really a desktop database. It wasn't really appropriate for multi-user apps.

    The paradox Net file gave me nightmares, and now they shall return.

  4. Thank Goodness for ASCII Art on Data Preservation and How Ancient Egypt Got It Right · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't know of any other way to preserve our pr0n on rocks.

  5. Re:To Err is Human--to Persist is Microsoft? on Average User Only Runs 2 Apps, So Microsoft Will Charge For More · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And if Microsoft only charges ~$10 for this edition of Windows 7, it may have a positive net effect for third world countries

    I understand your point, but in that scenario a million licenses = $10mil, while a million Ubuntu licenses running Wine where Windows apps are really needed = $0. Seems to me a third-world nation could better put that $10million into machine guns or whatever else they buy.

  6. My Experience on Microsoft Issues Workaround For Zune Freeze · · Score: 4, Funny

    I hadn't turned on the Zune before I read about the problem, so I just left it off and turned it on the morning of Jan 1 and everything worked fine, no need to drain battery or anything.

    The above is not an admission that I own a Zune, just what I theoretically would have done and the theoretical results, based on heavy pretend observations.

  7. Re:Two words: on Google, Apple, Microsoft Sued Over File Preview · · Score: 1

    Actually the PTO is fee-funded, so in this case we aren't paying for wasteful activities unless we're inventors.

  8. Red Ring of Death Now Cheaper! on Xbox Price Cuts Confirmed · · Score: 1

    I'd feel better if there was a hardware revision along with the price cut... are people still experiencing the red ring of death? I have held off on next gen consoles to this point due to low availability and high price points. I have held off on the 360 specifically due to hardware quality issues.

  9. My dad told my I swung a bat like a girl... on Do Women Write Better Code? · · Score: 1

    They'll intersperse their code-those strings of instructions that result in nifty applications and programs-with helpful comments and directions, explaining why they wrote the lines the way they did and exactly how they did it. The code becomes a type of "roadmap" for others who might want to alter it or add to it later,

    ... now Slashdot tells me I CODE like a girl, too. :(

  10. Not to be indelicate... on Post-Suicide Account Cracking? · · Score: 5, Funny

    A good friend of mine had her younger brother apparently commit suicide last week.

    ... but that sounds like a lot of words to describe a hit job. The political correctness is awesome though!

  11. Re:How is AIR different from, say java? on Adobe Joins Linux Foundation, Develops AIR For Linux · · Score: 2, Funny

    While it's damn near impossible to create a UI in Java that doesn't look like a PoS (yeah, gross generalisation, but that's my experience), AIR makes it very easy.

    AIR is RAD for very easily making PoS interfaces? Or am I reading that wrong?

  12. Sould have banked this story on Microsoft's "Source Fource" Action Figures · · Score: 1

    for April 1. Would have been a good anti-fools piece.

  13. Paying Fines in Pennies on WV Assessor Sues to Keep Tax Maps Off the Internet · · Score: 2, Funny

    I wonder if WV will get back at those who pay $2000 fines in pennies by giving this guy the "collection of county tax maps (in TIF format)" in little 3.5" floppy chunks?

  14. The obvious question for males on New "Endoscope On a Pill" · · Score: 1

    Is there a model in the works for the other end?

  15. Insensitive on Origami Plane to Fly From the Int. Space Station · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Unfortunately for most of us reading this, the original source is all in japanese.

    I am Japanese, you insensitive clod.

  16. Apple is Hunting OSS Browsers on Mozilla Exec Claims Apple is Hunting OSS Browsers · · Score: 3, Funny

    We're on a Safari and we're hunting OSS browsers. (slaps self) I mean we're developing Safari and HURTING OSS browsers.

  17. Alarm Clocks on Self-Healing Plastic Skin · · Score: 1, Funny

    Finally, my morning tormentor will be able to heal itself after its otherwise-fatal blow or toss.

  18. I have always thought this could be solved easier on New Legislation to Combat Identity Theft · · Score: 2, Insightful

    We need federal legislation signed making credit card companies or any organization extending credit civilly and criminally liable for identity theft. In other words if someone under the guise of you opened a Citibank VISA account in your name and rung it up, Citibank could then be sued by you and/or prosecuted for extending credit to someone whose identity was not properly verified.

    THEN you'd see some changes taking place. Instead of "oops, sorry" they'd be faced with saying "oops, here's six million for our mistake."

    I mean, these guys own the system. They make money off us from their ownership of it. They should be responsible for securing it.

  19. I can't put my finger on it on Transform a Regular LCD Into a Touchscreen · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...but there has to be a pr0n application here somewhere.

  20. What About At-Home Use? on Should Schools Block Sites Like Wikipedia? · · Score: 1

    If any site is blocked at the school, does policy then follow that students are forbidden to use Wikipedia as a referenced source for any report or essay? And what is the penalty for doing so? Or can they reference it but must do so not as a factual reference but more as they would for quoting an editorial piece?

  21. Failures on Intel Stomps Into Flash Memory · · Score: 1

    But Intel also touts extreme reliability numbers, saying the Z-U130 has an average mean time between failure of 5 million hours compared with SanDisk, which touts an MTBF of 2 million hours.'

    Yes, because I should be concerned that my pr0n collection isn't making it all the way to my laptop for traveling purposes.

  22. Halftime Wardrobe Malfunctions on Time Warner Cable Runs Out of HD DVRs · · Score: 1

    I guess people want them in hi-def this year.

  23. If that obi-wan guy can come back on Harrison Ford Turned Down Han Solo Role · · Score: 1

    and play an older guy in the fourth movie then why can't Ford? Instead of Han they can do what the did with Obi-Wan. Make him "Ben". Han can be Henry. Or better yet Harry if he's so old he doesn't know what to answer to.

  24. SETI@Home Rank on Detection of Earth-like Civilizations in Space Now Possible · · Score: 1

    You mean my top .005% rank was all for nothing? Drat. Time to put my 200-core SETI calculation cluster to work as an HDDVD/BRay decryptor.

  25. I prefer a different ordering on Star Wars Virgin Takes the Plunge · · Score: 1

    I'm showing them to my young kids gradually in the order of 4, 5, flashback to 1, 2, 3, then 6.