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  1. Re:feature? on iPhone Tracking Ruckus Ongoing · · Score: 1

    only when there is a network event, switching towers can happen frequently, with no user intervention. Apple logs this too.

  2. Know good? on Novell Completes Sale · · Score: 1

    know, I don't know how knowbody could knot have switched from Knowvelle years ago, you know...

  3. Re:feature? on iPhone Tracking Ruckus Ongoing · · Score: 1

    As the commentor above mentioned, they are logging his phone usage, if he is not doing something on the network, they cannot locate him. They are only showing the tower he is connecting to. Apple is doing more then this.

  4. Re:Your Intelligence Quotient. on What Does IQ Really Measure? · · Score: 1

    Sometimes you make some good points, but your Bio sounds like a recipe for "how to make a pretentious prick", and I think they succeeded. Maybe you hold all this in while you are helping your customers...

  5. Re:Make yourself irreplaceable on Why Science Is a Lousy Career Choice · · Score: 1

    I don't know why this is modded up... I have to assume it is a joke. I automate everything possible. To do things by hand limits your growth much more then it limits the ability of your managers to outsource you. There will always be a place for the competent workers.

  6. Re:Adoption... on German Company To Install Linux On 10,000 PCs · · Score: 1

    I dumped Ubuntu and went to OpenSUSE. They have the best hardware support of any Linux distro. They lag ubuntu in packages available, but they are catching up.

  7. Re:No cable. Just Roku and my laptop on Ask Slashdot: Are You Streaming-Only For Home Entertainment? · · Score: 1

    Switched from cable (comcast) to DSL (att) last year. I get better performance. Torrents download faster, my home NX server still works fine, I can connect from work. My connection is slower, but it is more reliable in speed. With cable I could download a 70 mb file in afew minutes (usually), but torrents took forever. I could also pull a file from my home server remotely much faster. I am willing to sacrifice the upload and download speed for the other improvements and cost savings, $20 vs $50.

  8. Re:Job Change on Promotion Or Job Change: Which Is the Best Way To Advance In IT? · · Score: 1

    If my car has a catastrophic incident, I repair or replace it. I myself, would like to avoid a catastrophic health incident.

    Call 5 doctors and ask them their fees for a visit, be sure to ask about cash discounts. Your probably looking at anywhere from $70 to $150. Now pull out any records you have from past insurance visits. It should list the amount the company was charged, and the amount they pay, it's probably considerably less, like $55 to $90. I've seen bills come in over $100 and be paid out at less then $20. Do you know enough about the health industry to negotiate fair payments? Do you have the time to haggle over every bill?

    Last time I had a child, I called every hospital in the area to get pricing for delivery, nobody would even give me anything but the most generic ballpark figure (usually they said, "this is what you pay with most insurance). Price comparison is impossible in the medical field.

  9. Re:We live in abundance on How the Social Tech Bubble Is Different · · Score: 1

    Estate taxes are necessary to fund the government and keep other taxes low. They also prevent dynasties.

  10. Re:Not bothered on Why Has Blu-ray Failed To Catch Hold? · · Score: 1

    probably a connectivity issue...

  11. Re:All FPS do this on FPS Gaming and the 'Just-World Hypothesis' · · Score: 1

    Too bad the American right (reich?) hasn't learned this lesson...

  12. Re:Kill the Invaders on FPS Gaming and the 'Just-World Hypothesis' · · Score: 1

    only a bowb would think that...

  13. Re:Alternatives to the mass-murdering hero on FPS Gaming and the 'Just-World Hypothesis' · · Score: 1

    There is always stuff you can buy, that is nowhere to be found if you kill them, that's the real tragedy...

  14. Re:We live in abundance on How the Social Tech Bubble Is Different · · Score: 1

    My point is that estate taxes are valid and don't hinder the wealthy.

  15. Re:We live in abundance on How the Social Tech Bubble Is Different · · Score: 1

    If a wealthy parent never gives his children anything except an education, his attention and knowledge, and a clean slate to start adult life; those children will have a tremendous advantage and will quickly climb into the ranks of the wealthy.

    If 50 people are racing, 20 have shoes, and 10 of those have had the benefit of targeted training and optimum nutrition, do any of those 10 need a head start to win the race?

  16. Re:I like paying taxes on Need a Receipt On Taxes? The Federal Tax Receipt · · Score: 1

    Just imagine how hard it would be to get anyone out of these prisons. Any minor dispute becomes an assault charge, and I'm sure the imaginative can come up with a dozen other things to charge people with. Things that would be overlooked in a normal day to day flow, become infractions that add months or years to your sentence.

    might not be much of a change...

  17. Re:I like paying taxes on Need a Receipt On Taxes? The Federal Tax Receipt · · Score: 1

    and these regulations should have the full weight of the government behind them, enforced with gun-toting thugs...

    just like taxes...

  18. Re:I like paying taxes on Need a Receipt On Taxes? The Federal Tax Receipt · · Score: 1

    Where do I go if someone refuses to honor a contract? I wish I could join some sort of social framework that would compel people to honor contracts and provide some sort of safety from the lawless. I would pay for that!

    Also, who would cover abandoned buildings, many cities have problems with abandoned buildings. Even buildings that are bank owned are not paying required fees to HOA's. The banks would pay fire dept fees, or would the building sit as a fire hazard?

  19. Re:Cisco is missing on their switches and routers on Cisco Ditches Flip and $590 Million · · Score: 1

    I dumped ASA in favor of pfsense years ago. Why pay that much for something that really sucks to work on?

  20. Re:Something to be learned from the spiller on Workers Will Smash Their PCs To Get an Upgrade · · Score: 1

    Chrome and Firefox will happily install to user space, no admin rights necessary. I've even seen it sneak onto Citrix servers.

  21. Re:smash on Workers Will Smash Their PCs To Get an Upgrade · · Score: 1

    name something that isn't unusually bad in the health care industry...

  22. Re:This is like the end of history, right? on The End of Content Ownership · · Score: 1

    Try Tonido. I had some problems with their Linux version and it was a pain to remove, but that was many versions back. I'm thinking of giving it another go, but I get most of the functionality I need with NX. They appear to have versions for all major OS's.

  23. Re:Use more bandwidth to enjoy media? on The End of Content Ownership · · Score: 1

    Everybody in America wants to be a superstar. The ISP's are not different. Why offer things like file storage, local mirrors, web server space, or higher speed between subscribers (internal network) when they can instead offer free AV, discount music and video ($), discount online shopping ($), and charge companies that want to provide network services to access their customers ($).

  24. Re:I wanna watch Sin-duh-weh-wuh again on The End of Content Ownership · · Score: 1

    you misspelled day...

  25. Re:starting no doubt with 'rainbows end'... on California Library's Plan: Get Rid of Books · · Score: 1

    When I was younger, it always seemed like the Government, both state and federal would adopt certain policies or salary rules for their workers in an attempt to make them more common in the private sector. Companies would often adopt these rules to compete for better workers.

    Now they have found it easier to deny those benefits to government workers via legislation.
    sad...