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  1. Cost of Living on How Much Money do Programmers Really Make? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    How much you make is pretty meaningless without normalizing by cost of living. $50k in Idaho is effectively 2x as much as $50k in San Francisco.

    -me

  2. Re:omg! i can change everyone's preferences! on Emergency Alert System Insecure · · Score: 1

    respond :)

  3. Re:Solution to "lifetime" problem on Samsung Announces Largest-Ever OLED Display · · Score: 1

    even better, DON'T do this and then every 2-3 years people will have to spend another $2000-3000 on an entire new monitor...

    1) build a monitor that decays in 2 years
    2) wait 2 years
    3) PROFIT!
    4) goto 1

    -me

  4. Re:3 simple words: on Company Claims Patent on CD Writing · · Score: 3, Funny

    good thing that this is a hardware patent, then.

  5. Re:I never learned STD on Downsides to the C++ STL? · · Score: 1

    except of course that the MFC makes your executables the LARGEST things in the known universe. MFC is good for GUI app programming bad for everything else. It includes tons of libraries into the .exe and unless you are doing GUI you won't use most of them.

  6. Re:Faraday cage???? on Tinfoil Hat Linux: A Distribution for the Paranoid · · Score: 1

    um...

    faraday cage doesn't prevent your computer from emitting detectable EM radiation. it only shields it from external radiation. with a faraday cage, EM waves initiated inside the cage pass just fine through the cage walls.

    to prevent someone from detecting your computer using a faraday cage, you'd need to put THEM inside a cage...

    -me

  7. oops (typo) on Retinal-Scanning Screen Prototypes · · Score: 1

    crap, that should have read:

    people who can't see near things WOULD be affected.

  8. Re:What about deformed retinas? on Retinal-Scanning Screen Prototypes · · Score: 1

    right, except of course that nearsightedness and farsightedness are cause by your eye's lens being unable to correctly focus the light....

    and of course any light entering your eye has to go through said lens.

    people who can't see distant things clearly would be unaffected. people who can't see near things should not be affected.

    course, if the device is smart enough to project directly through the exact center of your lens, there would be no problem for anyone b/c the light would travel in a straight line. in which case, only retinal malformation will effect your ability to see the image correctly.

    -me

  9. In this market: W2 on Best Billing Options for a Contract Position? · · Score: 1

    I'd say that in the current market go for the most secure job which would be the W2 employee. TONS of my friends (we're 2+ years out of college) were contractors and now they can't find work. 50% of them are now waiters/waitresses. the rest are living off mommy and daddy.

    corporate stuff sucks ass sometimes but at the end of the month when you get the paycheck, you're pretty happy to have a job.

    the up sides are that corp. work for me means 20 hours of work a week and 20 hours of writing my own code on company time. So by the time the market turns up again i'll have tons of stuff to dive for with a nice saftey cushion in my savings account.

    -me

  10. Re:Wouldn't it be amusing if...? on MS Zone Users Must Use Passport Accounts · · Score: 1

    try nope@foo.com / foobar

    -me