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  1. Re:Personally on Ask Slashdot: Do You Use a Smartphone At Work, Contrary to Policy? · · Score: 1

    Nkwe posted links to 2001: A Space Odyssey and 2010.

  2. Re:Risk vs. Reward on Ask Slashdot: Do You Use a Smartphone At Work, Contrary to Policy? · · Score: 1

    I responded above but wanted to point out that not all employers force employees to give them control of the remote wiping. My company doesn't but I do have that setup for myself so that I can remote wipe it if needed.

  3. Re:Risk vs. Reward on Ask Slashdot: Do You Use a Smartphone At Work, Contrary to Policy? · · Score: 1

    Yikes. Yeah that would be an issue. Currently my employer isn't in control of the wiping of my phone, I am.

  4. Re:surveymonkey for grad school on Ask Slashdot: Do You Use a Smartphone At Work, Contrary to Policy? · · Score: 1

    No this is the study to determine if we need a study for the study.

  5. Survey Issue on Ask Slashdot: Do You Use a Smartphone At Work, Contrary to Policy? · · Score: 1

    The survey is skewed to assume that employers that have policies are those of no PED use policies. My employer allows the use of PEDs freely. We do have a policy too.

  6. Re:Risk vs. Reward on Ask Slashdot: Do You Use a Smartphone At Work, Contrary to Policy? · · Score: 1

    I agree, my work is fairly loose with PEDs. We're allowed to link our work email with our personal phones. It costs the company less than buying phones for everybody plus I get to choose the phone I want. We have a general policy asking for lock codes on the phones and the force of 2 factor for VPN stuff. I follow those. I don't have a problem with general security on the phone. My work is Active Directory so if I lost the phone I can just change the password in one spot. Find My Iphone should help me with remote wiping.

  7. Re:Solar Cell efficiency on Metamaterial Forms Near-Perfect Mirror · · Score: 1

    Or Tesseract shaped! Movies about free energy or time travel or space travel or aliens always end up with some sort of tesseract involved so it must be important!

    In case it wasn't obvious, I made that last part up.

  8. Re:How married to Apple are you? on Apple Will Pay More To Streaming Music Producers Than Spotify -- But Not Yet · · Score: 1

    I use iTunes on Windows and Mac. I don't sync my phone on Windows so I mainly use the Windows version for music that I've purchased. What about iTunes on Windows that you find broken? Again I don't use many features so I wouldn't know what's missing or broken but I'm interested to know?

  9. I've gone back to CDs and purchasing individual songs. Streaming is cheap up front but after a while I found I listen to a lot of the same music usually so its more cost effective for me to buy the music.

    Also, streaming music in 5pm traffic doesn't work at all. For me in my town anyway. Spotify just spins. I have a major network and LTE. Maybe its just my area but I find this unacceptable.

  10. Re:I'm all for abolishing the IRS on Sign Up At irs.gov Before Crooks Do It For You · · Score: 1

    I know that certain types of cancer cells occur almost exclusively for folks that are smokers. This is well documented. So I don't understand your argument that it is a belief. This is clear evidence that smoking can cause cancer. What's more, it has nothing to do with your argument for evolution - its a straw man to prove evolution by dispelling any myths about smoking and cancer. I see no relation between the two.

    I haven't seen these proven tests of new traits but I can't confirm these are not just suppressed traits that were then expressed under these conditions.

    I'll tell you what I believe but it matters not for your case of evolution because neither of us have proof either way. Which was my original point. As you will call my belief in God a "theory" then so too is your belief in evolution a "theory".

  11. Re:I'm all for abolishing the IRS on Sign Up At irs.gov Before Crooks Do It For You · · Score: 1

    I don't hold a separate standard for smoking. Again, as I said in my previous post - we can't have a conversation because you apparently believe smoking does not cause cancer and ask me why I believe it does but not evolution. I don't believe smoking causes cancer, I know it does. So your argument doesn't make any sense the way its stated.

  12. Re:I'm all for abolishing the IRS on Sign Up At irs.gov Before Crooks Do It For You · · Score: 1

    It is a sexual term. That you use it in a perverted way or slang as you did shows your lack of emotional control. Or maybe because its the cool thing the kids are saying these days you think it's appropriate and don't know any better.

    At any rate, you're straw-manning about smoking. I'm guessing you haven't had a close family member die of cancer caused by smoking because you'd understand the realities of it. I have. Thus I've seen what it can do and I understand the devastation it causes. Your suggestion that cancer caused by smoking is a belief is callous, naive and an insult to those who've had it or witnessed others who've had it.

    Getting back to the original argument, which you seem to have trouble staying on, there is no experiment I can conduct or documentation I can read which proves conclusively evolution exists.

    I think you struggle with this (evolution) as your belief but are happy to attack others who have a different belief because you think you have all the facts. As such, you are happy to link me to the slang filled urban dictionary but provide no real source of conclusive studies on evolution.

  13. Re:I'm all for abolishing the IRS on Sign Up At irs.gov Before Crooks Do It For You · · Score: 1

    Wow, what a trove of literary nonsense. Your fictional novel writing and juvenile inability to write a response without using sexual terms like masturbation prove I'm talking to a 12 year old.

    But I'll answer your question anyway since your level of mental understanding is so low. Smoking does cause harm, it has been proven. I can't seem to relay this concept to you in a way that you understand so I chose to skip it before. But now you have an answer.

  14. Re:Hell No Hillary on Hillary Clinton Declares 2016 Democratic Presidential Bid · · Score: 1

    Why an attack on Bush? This topic is about Hillary and the OP was naming her lack of positive accomplishments.

    What on Earth does that have to do with Bush?

  15. Re:I'm all for abolishing the IRS on Sign Up At irs.gov Before Crooks Do It For You · · Score: 1

    This is digressing into you calling me names and making things up. Gravity is not a theory, dude.

    I didn't readdress your comment about smoking because it doesn't apply or otherwise proves my point. You 'believe' in evolution yet you seem to be convinced its a fact. This is your basis and is what I'm pointing out.

    But I won't digress to calling you a hypocrite or other names.

  16. Re:regulation? on 3D Printed Guns Might Lead To Law Changes In Australia · · Score: 1

    Since the U.S. is not going to be invaded by a traditional army any time soon

    And you know this how? The U.S. hasn't fought a war on it's own soil in a long time. I pray you're right, but hubris isn't the way to go. I'd much rather teach people to think for themselves and keep guns available in the market.

  17. Re:I'm all for abolishing the IRS on Sign Up At irs.gov Before Crooks Do It For You · · Score: 1

    What proof? You have presented no links to prove order from chaos? I merely presented the case that I have not seen this proven. That you are now attacking me as having committed a logical fallacy does not remove the burden of proof from you. Keep in mind though that it is called "Theory of Evolution" because it hasn't been proven to be fact.

  18. Re:I'm all for abolishing the IRS on Sign Up At irs.gov Before Crooks Do It For You · · Score: 1

    I have been shown studies that smoking causes cancer.

    It is not the overwhelming likelihood that order occurs from chaos. There is no way to demonstrate this. But if a person can 'believe' it to exist, what stops them from believing in God?

  19. Re:Here's the thing on Google 'Makes People Think They Are Smarter Than They Are' · · Score: 1

    I'd like to point out the money that can sometimes be saved. With non-dangerous stuff of course like do it yourself videos on youtube, or every number of common tasks on youtube. As a matter of fact, its nice to look up something you already know how to do. Why? Because someone out there may have a more efficient way to do it than you've always done it. I don't mean to say everyone should do things the same way but currently it provides a variety. For lots of things if Guy A's video doesn't suit me there's Guy B and C showing me their way to do it.

  20. Re:Very simple answer on Ask Slashdot: Living Without Social Media In 2015? · · Score: 2

    "unwashed masses". I'm going to go with those words you used. You just showed contempt for ... unspecified friends, family, people you don't know? I'm guessing this might have something to do with his comment.

  21. Re:I'm all for abolishing the IRS on Sign Up At irs.gov Before Crooks Do It For You · · Score: 1

    Well, I've never been shown, in a lab, order from chaos without intelligent intervention. But I'm open to any repeatable process which proves this. So far, I am only aware of the path from order to chaos.

  22. Re:When in Rome... on Ask Slashdot: Living Without Social Media In 2015? · · Score: 1

    I don't think people care that much, socially. However, expect to get forgotten sometimes since you are not maintaining a common avenue of contact.

  23. When in Rome... on Ask Slashdot: Living Without Social Media In 2015? · · Score: 1

    Personally I don't care for yet another thing to maintain. But I do maintain a profile on Facebook to keep up with family and friends. I don't have it linked to my phone so that all pictures get uploaded, I don't like that. Any pictures/content gets uploaded manually. Having an account doesn't have to mean your private life is now public. But having an account can have advantages too. I liken it to dinner parties and other social venues. You get invited, you may not want to get dressed up and go but you go anyway.

  24. Re:I'm all for abolishing the IRS on Sign Up At irs.gov Before Crooks Do It For You · · Score: 1

    If you feel you are under taxed, you realize you can write a check to the US Treasury anytime?

  25. Re:I'm all for abolishing the IRS on Sign Up At irs.gov Before Crooks Do It For You · · Score: 1

    Well this is an argument that's been debated for nearly 2 decades. But it's interesting how only the democratic views are being upvoted here.