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  1. Re:I don't want to say it's not serious on Photos of Chinese Sweatshop Used By Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the clarification re: mean/average.

    When I said ambitious I was thinking relative to the area and its options.

    True, assembly line work (I mean in general, not this specific place necessarily) looks like a shit job from here, but for example, if your alternative is agriculture or small scale merchant, a factory job is reliable pay by comparison.

  2. Re:Password aging isn't in touch with the real wor on Please Do Not Change Your Password · · Score: 1

    It takes a while, and a really tiny screwdriver

  3. Re:86f? Seriously? on Photos of Chinese Sweatshop Used By Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Being stationary is going to make it more bearable, not less because you aren't exerting yourself.

  4. Re:I don't want to say it's not serious on Photos of Chinese Sweatshop Used By Microsoft · · Score: 1

    1) Unless you've been there, you can't guarantee the accuracy of anything the human rights report says

    2) Plenty of people take tough ambitious jobs and wash out because they discover they can't hack it. "Average" may be 6 months but what is the distribution? People who can't handle the hours who quit quickly skew that.

  5. Re:Nutbars and Oddballs Come Out of the Woodwork on Woman Tells State Judiciary Committee, "DoD Implanted A Microchip Inside Me" · · Score: 1

    Perhaps I'm just cynical but I don't necessarily believe her inclusion was an accident.

    That someone would use a delusional/mentally ill person to further a legislative effort creeps me out almost as much as the idea that people in such a state aren't getting help for their problems.

  6. Re:I don't think so... on Fate of Terry Childs Now In Jury's Hands · · Score: 1

    Each side only gets to toss so many though, right?

  7. Re:Oh shut up on Fate of Terry Childs Now In Jury's Hands · · Score: 1

    I thought policy was just to cover the asses of the people who make requests like this, and set aside whenever they want something counter to it?

  8. Re:I know everyone is against the FCC and all... on BitTorrent CEO On Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Bittorrent is (or was at least) notorious for choking consumer routers; as I remember it had to do with ACK'ing large numbers of connection requests and filling buffer up in the router.

    It wouldn't surprise me if on a larger scale, that enterprise level stuff was susceptable to the same. I really don't know what sort of hardware those have in them, and traffic shaping would change the playing field considerably.

  9. Re:Why? on Digital Photocopiers Loaded With Secrets · · Score: 1

    Because as I understand it really fancy copiers are also document repositories of sorts, with a web interface to retrieve faxes and scans, and so on.

    Not saying it's a good idea, but it's an extension of the "multifunction machine" that copiers have become anyway

  10. Re:A means to an end... on Amazon Fights For Privacy of Customer Records · · Score: 1

    I uh, if you'll just give me a few minutes to pack my things...

  11. Re:Bullshit on Professor Says UFO Studies Should Be Taught At Universities · · Score: 1

    Quality has improved yes, but for much of that time it was: cheap, portable, quality, pick one (or two)   Now you can spend a relatively small amount and get a very capable recording device that fits in a coat pocket, that is what people are really getting at, i think.

    Personally I could see rejecting footage for being "too clean" but only in certain circumstances depending on the media from which it came and the reported recording device.  It would be like providing a "scan" of a polaroid instant photo with a razor sharp image of bigfoot, past the capabilities of the medium and therefore calling its credibility into question.

  12. Re:Password aging isn't in touch with the real wor on Please Do Not Change Your Password · · Score: 3, Funny

    Man, I just looked down at my kb thinking you had a good idea, then was REALLY confused for a minute.

    Then I remembered I'd messed the keys around to fuck with people who looked over my shoulder.

  13. Re:Screens... on New MacBook Pros Launched · · Score: 1

    With glossy, instead of that nasty scatter that makes a matte screen unreadable, don't you just get reflections? Sun glaring into your eye suddenly, watching people behind you, that type of thing?

    I ask because I have a 27" glossy LCD that I adore for photo editing and gaming, but I have to mind how the room is lit because light coming over my shoulder causes reflections.

  14. Re:Hope, Transparency, Change. on US Rejects Demands For ACTA Transparency · · Score: 1

    I don't think either side is really interested in bringing the public's eye too fixedly to the inevitable discrepancy between campaign promises and after the fact action

  15. Re:So in other words... on Ubuntu on a Dime · · Score: 1

    Mind = blown.

  16. Re:Ubuntu on a Dime?? on Ubuntu on a Dime · · Score: 1

    Open source accounting- where time invested has no value because you're stickin it to the man ;)

  17. Re:and my time is $100 - $200 an hour ... on Ubuntu on a Dime · · Score: 1

    Out of curiosity, where are you that your library has up to date technical books?

    Mine has got some interesting ones, they have really neat BASIC programs but typing them in by hand is  pain.

  18. Re:your first sentence is technically flawed on Ubuntu on a Dime · · Score: 1

    It all makes sense (sortof) when you consider how many harebrained ideas thought up by upper management make no mention of otherwise-billable or unproductive time contributed by employees affected.

  19. Re:Ok, play *actually* _hard_ball... on Why Responsible Vulnerability Disclosure Is Painful and Inefficient · · Score: 1

    Good job,  now there are criminal charges against you along the lines of extortion, blackmail, libel, etc.

  20. Re:Is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable ? on Dwarf Planets Accumulate In Outer Solar System · · Score: 1

    People think of rhubarb as a fruit? It's like red celery...

  21. Re:I'm probably going to be flammed but ... on Why Lenders Overlook Warning Signs of ID Theft · · Score: 1

    That's an interesting point.  How does it figure in to getting a credit card? Do you fax both sides to the issuing institution or anything like that?

  22. Re:For crying out loud... on Firefox Search In Ubuntu 10.04 Changed To Google · · Score: 1

    If you're so easily irritated i for one am glad your career has nothing to do with explosives or heavy equipment ;)

  23. Re:I went through this kind of shit on 9 MA Cyberbullies Indicted For Causing Suicide · · Score: 1

    You have hit upon the root of the problem. The principal shouldn't have care in the slightest about what the parents of a shitbag child think about their precious snowflake being booted out for persistent disruptions.

  24. Re:Sound familiar to Pratchett fans? on Disputed Island Disappears Into Sea · · Score: 1

    Just a wee bit :) Tagging article Jingo

  25. Re:Meta comment on the comments on Perks & Paintball For Employees At Cybercrime, Inc. · · Score: 1

    No that's totally different because
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