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  1. Re:Your kidding, right? on Does the GOP Pay Friendly Bloggers? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's like buying indulgences all over again. By paying for the legislation they want, the corporations are forgiven of all sins.

  2. Re:Astroporn on The Sun Unleashes Coronal Mass Ejection At Earth · · Score: 4, Funny

    So... lawyers are the larval form of politicians? When they're mature enough they twist the truth into a cocoon and then emerge transformed?

  3. Re:Domotic system on How To Build an Open Source House? · · Score: 1

    What about a focus on making the house upgradeable? Designed in such a way that when you need to move the wiring around when you need it. Maybe removable wall panels that attach with magnets or something?

  4. Re:May I be the first to say: on 36-Hour Lemmings Port Gets Sony Cease and Desist · · Score: 1

    What are the chances that a single developer would have been able to afford the royalties?

  5. Re:FRAUD! on Canadian Arrested Over Plans to Test G20 Security · · Score: 1

    Isn't that our Industry Minister's riding?

  6. Re:FRAUD! on Canadian Arrested Over Plans to Test G20 Security · · Score: 1

    So they can use the citizens of Toronto as human shields against nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons, of course.

  7. Re:please be broad-minded on "Canadian DMCA" Rising From the Dead · · Score: 1

    Support from the Conservative party on one of their bills.

  8. Re:Actually it wouldn't... on Gulf Gusher Worst Case Scenario · · Score: 1
  9. Re:First rebellion on Obama Backs MPAA, RIAA, and ACTA · · Score: 1

    Where's a Vetinari when you need one?

  10. Re:No more frameworks please! on SolarPHP 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    I've seen other frameworks do that as well. Why not just make sure there's no whitespace at the end of the file? It's not that hard.

  11. Re:Tell it to the plastic clown on Uniforms For the Help Desk? · · Score: 1

    Or, for the more subtle approach, get ones that say PEBKAC on the front. Just tell them it's computer jargon..

  12. Re:Bugzilla and Wiki on What Does Everyone Use For Task/Project Tracking? · · Score: 1

    Another ++ for Jira. It's cheaper for small companies, or companies where not everybody needs an account.

  13. Re:Prevent. on What Do You Do When Printers Cost Less Than Ink? · · Score: 1

    Scrapheap Robot Challenge! Two teams build working robots out of scrapped office equipment in a limited amount of time, then compete to perform a set challenge.

  14. Re:Banking INternationally on EU About To Grant US Unlimited Access To Banking Data · · Score: 1

    Are you sure? The UK has created a new law every day for the last nine years. Even if you're not in the UK, do you check every law your country passes to make sure you're not doing something newly illegal?

  15. Re:Teach them something useful on What To Cover In a Short "DIY Tech" Course? · · Score: 3, Informative

    How to use a multimeter, how to solder, what electronics bits do and how they all fit together. Start with the basics.

  16. Re:Same as bugzilla? on Data Locking In a Web Application? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    To ensure the edit isn't lost, we handle this by kicking the user back to the form with a message. You could go one step further and get the modified record from the DB, then highlight the field in question and give the user the option to keep/override. You could make it more intelligent by detecting the collision, analysing the difference, then committing if no fields conflict. Depends on the business logic, I guess.

  17. Re:Learning from the folks down south on Musician Lobby Terms Balanced Copyright "Disgusting" · · Score: 1

    I think the magic words there are "...by comparison."

  18. Re:Can you show me your expense management app? on What Questions Should a Prospective Employee Ask? · · Score: 1

    Or the expense process, if they don't have an app. I have to print out the expense form, fill it in, sign it, scan it, send it to my manager in another country, get him to physically sign it, then get the signed form and the original receipts/invoices to the controller in a third office. I've got several thousand dollars worth of outstanding expenses.. somewhere.

  19. Re:Being an asshole makes people angry, film at 11 on Researcher Trolls MMO, Surprised When Players Hate Him · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What I find interesting about all of this is that City of * had social areas where villains and heroes could socialize without combat, at least while I was last playing about a year ago.

  20. Re:Does it run Linux? on Alternative Energy Policies a Boon For Inflatable Electric Car · · Score: 1

    A clever virus would just up your speed a few mph so you get ticketed frequently.

  21. Re:^_^ on Canadian Politicians Reverse Course On DMCA · · Score: 2, Informative

    Maybe it was the Standing Senate Committee on Transport and Communications meeting that Geist was speaking with?
    Transcript Link

  22. Re:There's no way to think she didn't do it on $1.9 Million Award In Thomas Case Raises Constitutional Questions · · Score: 1

    > Actual damages would not send the message that the industry wants to send, but at the same time, ridiculously high damages seems to have the same effect.
    The message being that if you fight back, it'll be much worse for you than if you than if you just give in and settle before the trial.

  23. Re:What took them so long? on ACLU Sues DHS Over Unlawful Searches and Detention · · Score: 1

    Yes. If you do not have the form signed in triplicate at your local air authority, please cease.

  24. Re:What degree do you have? on Getting Beyond the Helldesk · · Score: 1

    Have to agree - I came out with my BSc in CS just as the dot-com boom went bust. Did helpdesk for 3 years while I worked on volunteer programming projects and donated web development time to non-profit grops in the area. After taking the risk and moving to another province I landed my first programming job - writing a new ticketing system for a helpdesk.

  25. Re:interesting on Oracle Beware — Google Tests Cloud-Based Database · · Score: 1

    Maybe it's more of an alternative to stuff like Crystal Reports?
    Dump data into google tables, let executives play with it, generate charts, trends, etc.

    Or B2B customers could sift through their data which is updated by a core data system.
    Data imports could be handled by dumping the data to a google table, then customers and account managers could hash out values/columns before involving a DBA.