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  1. This is perfect on Jobs Wanted To Destroy Android · · Score: 1

    I was thinking about being Steve jobs for Halloween. Now I know how to perfect the getup. I'll put on zombie makeup and be...

    Zombie Steve Jobs: Back from the dead to destroy Android!

  2. Re:its not 'unions'. on Teacher Union Tries To Block Online Courses · · Score: 1
  3. Re:its not 'unions'. on Teacher Union Tries To Block Online Courses · · Score: 1

    ...the whole point of a charter school is that you get a temporary charter from the state to run your school how you like.

    This is how corporations used to be. The government would allow them to exist to fill a specific market need and revoke their charter if their usefullness had run out. Now, corporations are the defacto government.

    The same thing will happen with charter schools. They will end up (legally) lining the pockets of those who fund them and become the new public school system.

  4. Re:its not 'unions'. on Teacher Union Tries To Block Online Courses · · Score: 1

    Changing schools is not hard for those who have access to more than one local school.

  5. Re:its not 'unions'. on Teacher Union Tries To Block Online Courses · · Score: 1

    Exactly.

  6. Re:its not 'unions'. on Teacher Union Tries To Block Online Courses · · Score: 0

    My solution is to give each student a voucher, and to employ free market regarding education. Not public schools, only public funding of education.

    The free market consistently fails when the population is compelled to participate in the market.

    See: energy, health care

  7. Re:First post! on BlackBerry Outage Spreads To North America · · Score: 1

    You are begging the question.

    As are you by dismissing the success of both the iPhone and Windows 95 as products of herd mentality.

  8. Re:Stallman and FOSS on Richard Stallman's Dissenting View of Steve Jobs · · Score: 1

    ...NDA Agreements...

    *facepalm*

  9. Re:Stallman and FOSS on Richard Stallman's Dissenting View of Steve Jobs · · Score: 1

    I bet there were NDA agreements between ATI and Apple that prevented the release of the drivers.

  10. Re:Seconded on DBAN. on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Destroy Hard Drives? · · Score: 1

    The several weeks number is massive hyperbole. It's more like several hours - with only a few minutes of human intervention required.

    Taking the time to physically destroy the platters would probably take more time, more energy and pollute the environment.

  11. Just write zeros to the damn hard drive on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Destroy Hard Drives? · · Score: 1

    DBan quick erase takes very little time and the data will *NOT* be recoverable. Anyone who thinks otherwise watches too much CSI.

  12. Re:RAID 5 array on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Destroy Hard Drives? · · Score: 1

    Ouch. :(

  13. Re:What other products on Healthcare Law Appealed To Supreme Court · · Score: 1

    The real question is "When do you let them die?" And the government is terrible at making that decision.

    So I take it you think a profit-motivated private insurance company is better suited to make that decision?

  14. Re:What would Americans comment to this? on Healthcare Law Appealed To Supreme Court · · Score: 1

    When you abandon your house here the bank forecloses on it; i.e. they take possession of it and sell it. They absorb any losses, and your credit record is marked in a similar way to how it would be marked if you go bankrupt.

    Typically, someone whose house is foreclosed on in unable to get another home loan for several years.

    the base insurance which covers a LOT but not everything (the basics real medicine is covered for ill or injured people, the fruity stuff less and less) is going up from 1107 euro this year to 1211 euro for the next year.

    hah!

    My health insurance costs around 882 Euros PER MONTH.

  15. Re:font cache rebuilding - now mobile on VLC Player For Android Is Almost a Reality · · Score: 1

    heh.

    It took forever yesterday on my brand new quad-core i5 desktop here at work.

    They'd have to update their dialogue to remind you to plug your phone in.

  16. Re:full software rendering? on VLC Player For Android Is Almost a Reality · · Score: 1

    Why, for instance, would you limit hardware (nook color) with a display with a native resolution of 1024x600 to hardware accelerated playback of 854x480

    Because that's all the hardware can handle.

  17. Re:But... on Discovery Brings Us One Step Closer To "Milking" Pigeons · · Score: 1

    Were the cows allowed to go out and graze?

    There was a separate outside pen where there were about 50 adult cows, but the other 1000 or so were inside. I'm not sure if that is considered grazing.

    I note that he didn't see antibiotics being administered to the adults.

    Well that would be a big no-no. If milk comes up with even a trace of antibiotics when tested, the entire tank that the milk came from has to be thrown away. The owner of the dairy's daughter who was giving us the tour was openly complaining about that particular regulation, which was troubling to me.

  18. Re:But... on Discovery Brings Us One Step Closer To "Milking" Pigeons · · Score: 1

    My son's first grade class took a field trip to a family run dairy last Spring. Thousands of adult cows lived cramped under a large semi-indoor structure with concrete floors. Every few hours they would wash the accumulated shit out huge high pressure hoses and sweep it all into a nearby "pond".

    The dozens of baby cows were placed in 4x6x4 cages, and injected with antibiotics regularly to keep the mange-like sores all over their bodies from spreading too far.

    Did I mention this was a "family run" dairy? They've been in business for decades, so I have to assume that they do just fine on their inspections.

  19. Re:Important question: get out of my Sprint contra on Sprint Customers Face 5GB Hotspot Data Cap, As of Oct. 2 · · Score: 1

    Flash a verizon PRL file to your phone so it only connects to Verizon towers. They will terminate your contract for roaming too much.

  20. Re:In case you had any doubt... on Verizon Chief Defends AT&T-T-Mobile Merger · · Score: 1

    I would guess that T-Mobile customers are more likely to move to Sprint as their rates are comparable to T-Mobiles. Verizon's rates are the highest of any carrier.

    (I'm a former T-Mo customer that moved to Sprint in June)

  21. Re:#1 tool on Essential Open Source Tools For Windows Admins · · Score: 1

    I created an MSI with all of those goodies and pushed it to every server and workstation.

  22. Re:$3k is 2 months income? on Is There a Hearing Aid Price Bubble? · · Score: 1

    Large portions of the U.S. have doctor and nurse shortages.

  23. Re:Nothing to surprising on Marx May Have Had a Point · · Score: 1

    Marx was a 19th-century political economist. Most of what he wrote is now considered obsolete.

    It's only obsolete if you try to read it as an instruction manual for modern economic theory. I don't believe that was the GP's intent.

  24. Re:Yep. Pretty standard. on USPS Losing Battle Against the E-mail Age · · Score: 1

    It *has* to be either overfunded or underfunded?

    How about trying to find a middle ground?

  25. Re:Do your part! Snail-mail your comments! on USPS Losing Battle Against the E-mail Age · · Score: 1

    Nope.

    Money was tight a few years back and we weren't able to make our car payment until about five days after the due date.

    I received a call from someone asking about the payment the day after it was due. They even asked where the car was parked.