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  1. Re:Spotty 3G on T-Mobile? on Nexus One Owners Report Spotty 3G Signals On T-Mobile · · Score: 1

    Clear actually HAS an engineering dept??? I thought they just threw darts at one of those mindmap things

    or is it the customer service dept that has the problem with reality??

    hint for y'all ftp uploads are NOT FILE SHARING they are a core internet service

  2. Re:human rights violations: crickets on Google.cn Attack Part of a Broad Spying Effort · · Score: 1

    well how much lobbying does google do??

  3. Re:NSFW? on Google.cn Has Already Lifted Censorship · · Score: 1

    To expand on this NSFW is used to mark anything that could get you fired reprimanded or flat out arrested
    (anything that would be a career limiting move) significant nudity language above network primetime and medium or higher violence would be the highlights

  4. Re:TFA backs up parent.... on US Youth Have Serious Mental Health Issues · · Score: 1

    the trick is getting the right amount of pain (hint this is where you need to know your own kids)
    some kids you can just look at them funny
    some kids you need to apply the board of education to the seat of knowledge (note never a bare hand never in anger)

    but the very first thing you need to teach is the concept of NO (the very next thing is that they can learn and how to think)

    note not a parent but the second of six kids (im not swimming in the gene pool because i know id botch the raising kids thing)

  5. Part of the "problem" is Time Till N People Know on US Youth Have Serious Mental Health Issues · · Score: 1

    In this day and age if somebody "important" does something out of the ordinary (Governor Blank has a taco instead of a hotdog with lunch) then within hours of the "event"

    1 40% chance somebody will have cell phone footage of the "event" on Youtube within 2 hours
    2 traditional media will pick it up and have "coverage" on the five o'clock news
    3 by ten o'clock some outlet will have 2 talking heads analyzing his choice of toppings
    4 the next week will have various segments about how unpatriotic Governor Blank is and the calls for him to be removed from office

    (it used to be that even if we found out we would not care [and the truth was the hotdog guy was sick that day])

    yeah being in london and having to worry which kind of irish that guy is was a bit of a bad scene

  6. Re:Spoiler: on CES, Reporter Breaks "Unbreakable" Mobile Phone · · Score: 1

    And what you didn't see was the CEO signaling the techs something that translates to
    " WHY IN THE NINE RINGS OF HELL did you not test this particular failure mode??? you ring up 10,000 engineers and you get them working on this"

  7. Re:Drive-by downloads of fake antivirus software on Malware Threat Reports Are "Apples and Oranges" · · Score: 1

    a suggestion for you

    1 grab a USB >PATA|SATA cable and a good screwdriver
    2 pop the case on her computer and pull out the hard drive
    3 use the cable to mount her hard drive on your computer
    4 scan her drive on "NSA Paranoid" level (you may of course want to do a scandisk on it first)
    5 backup her hard drive after it has been cleaned
    6 replace her harddrive boot it and pray

  8. A Challenge for you on Tech Tools Fostering "Mini Generation Gaps" · · Score: 1

    Write a program that can cook one of these did not read the [redacted] manual into the correct section of the hopefully online manual.

    "Please pardon the auto response but im a bit busy creating %project% at the moment but if you check out %reference in the manual% this should get you started. I will check with you later"

  9. Re:clearly I'm a 'tard....... on OpenShot Video Editor Reaches Version 1.0 · · Score: 2, Informative

    throw that question at Wikipedia for the full details but in a NLE program you can do stuff like grab a clip from 2:45 to 5:32 in a 3 hour clip without actually making a copy until you are done (and this can be down to the frame level) sort of like they used to do with the film reels but without the nasty cutting the film problem.

  10. Re:Can't happen is always fixed twice on Why Programmers Need To Learn Statistics · · Score: 1

    yes but there should be a normal/average value and then there should be a reasonable maximum value
    (in this case you should not be getting return numbers above say 200% of "normal" unless THAT GUY got run over by a bus (and then you have a reason for the numbers ))

    if the normal input is say 30 values input in the 3000 range should be chucked (or if you somehow get "fred" input)

    out of bounds inputs do not come "from mars" they have reasons (or are invalid)

  11. Can't happen is always fixed twice on Why Programmers Need To Learn Statistics · · Score: 1

    you fix it once to handle when some Anti-Mensa card carrying twit actually makes it happen
    then you fix it a second time to prevent it from happening

    every time you get data from a user/outside process you should be able to handle values that make you go Eh WOT?? and then chuck those values out (and emit the correct error code)

  12. Where is KITT when you need him?? on KIA Bringing News & Social Media To Your Car · · Score: 1

    if they are going to put this much C**P in a car then they should go all the way and put a full AI in the car
    of course then you will have

    "Well Bozo not only can i drive better than you but i can Tweet about how much of a drunk moron you are and still get you back to that Hovel you call a house safely"

    hmm new way to get out of a DWI jump: "But Officer ask my car im not driving HE WON'T LET ME"

  13. Re:Unstoppable force, immovable object on Full Body Scanners Violate Child Porn Laws · · Score: 1

    yes but they also would not be "shiny"

  14. Re:Requires PC on MagicJack Femtocell Gates Cell Traffic to VoIP · · Score: 1

    lack of linux support on MagicJacks part

  15. Re:Unstoppable force, immovable object on Full Body Scanners Violate Child Porn Laws · · Score: 1

    The "scary" thing is there are a multitude of ways that somebody could design a plausibly deniable leotard that would scramble one of these scanners (how much metal is needed to block these things??)

  16. Re:Corporate Darwinism on Nexus One Name Irks Philip K. Dick's Estate · · Score: 1

    I dunno TSCOG sued/is suing/will be suing IBM for roughly the same thing

    hey i hear that they will be returning to the "Caldera" name after the next round of hearings (or was that the Nazgul will be making them into a caldera)

  17. it the they pretend to pay us and we pretend ... on Office Work Ethic In the IT Industry? · · Score: 1

    Since it can be proven that They are not holding up their part of the bargain then We don't have to hold up our part either.

    When it becomes fashionable for Management to give sane direction and actually pay the workers properly then yes more work will get done.

  18. This only needs to be said one time on Best Buy $39.95 "Optimization" At Best a Waste of Money · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If i am buying a new computer that computer had better be in sealed factory condition since i have no idea what was done to the computer after it was opened. If I select to have it "optimized" i want to see the tech that is doing the service (so i can "shoot him later").

    How do i know that the previous person didn't put a webserver and a nice selection of kiddie porn on it??

  19. Re:They should never expire on DC Sues AT&T For Unclaimed Phone Minutes · · Score: 1

    Plus there is the "Bounce Back" principle
    Rather than try to guess sizes on that special gift you bop down to say Victorias Secret buy a gift card and then drop hints as to what to buy.

  20. the true test of Media on Novelist Blames Piracy On Open Source Culture · · Score: 1

    this currently works best with movies and songs but they need to look at how popular the torrents for a piece of media is and go from there.

    Day of release (or sooner) lots of fully working torrents: Great
    Day of release a few fully working torrents : very good
    week of release torrents that work : good (but not by much)
    month of release torrents can be found: not good (real sales will be down badly)
    if you work at it you may find a couple torrents: Bad (this is box office disaster territory)
    no torrents : Bad very Bad (you may break even on the ROM/iTunes market)

  21. Wake me up when the arrest somebody inworld on Man Tracked Down and Arrested Via WoW · · Score: 1

    Even if its partly Real World partly Virtual World (of course i would have the police tricked out and leveled to +10 of current max.)

  22. its the What was i drinking problem on Myths About Code Comments · · Score: 1

    put comments in places where you may later need to remind yourself what you were thinking/drinking later (or if you get run over by a bus the next guy). Also in any places where you have to code around a bug in hardware or some other chunk of software make detailed comments.

    a request to programmers please have a function to dump a settings file with all the settings set to defaults
    (even those that would normally not be in the settings file)

  23. Re:Type of laptop in picture on TSA Withdraws Subpoenas Against Bloggers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    then they should be fired for being idiots since
    1 removing the hard drive is documented online
    2 only a true idiot would try to get a FORENSICS QUALITY image from a system without some sort of write blocking inplace
    3 a binary dump of the drive does not care about the disc format

  24. Waste of bullets on Online Services Let Virus Writers Check Their Work · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hanging is good swords are good you need to do this in a "green manner"

  25. Re:VOIP sucks. on AT&T Readying For the End of Analog Landlines · · Score: 1

    im not sure of the regs but i think that short of a switch being reduced to a smoking crater if it goes down then the person responsible will face JAIL TIME (or truly epic fines with a per hour "stack" [base fine of several tens of thousand plus several hundred per hour]).