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  1. Re:Endusers on The Windows 8 Power Struggle: Metro Vs Desktop · · Score: 1

    And that attitude is why we often have crap for interfaces.

    Don't discount the end user, your customer, as they are lot smarter than you about their job and do know what they need. You don't. You don't have a f-ing clue what the customer needs to get their job done. And that you think you do just proves it.

    the *best* interfaces i have ever seen were when they pulled end users out of their jobs for a few weeks and made them sit with the developers, and made the coders actually listen and work with the users, instead of against them.

  2. Endusers on The Windows 8 Power Struggle: Metro Vs Desktop · · Score: 1

    End users should be designing the interfaces, as what is 'apparent' to a developer isn't to the rest of the world. They 'think' computers, but the average Joe on the street just wants a working appliance

  3. Re:Magnet links? on Police Planning New Raid On The Pirate Bay · · Score: 1

    They may end up moving to i2p or freenet before its all over, but i disagree their days are numbered. They will adapt and only their public facing days are in question. ..

  4. Fire the PR department on Coca-Cola and Pepsi Change Recipe To Avoid Cancer Warning · · Score: 1

    They could have spun this to 'we care about our customers health' instead of ' we just want to avoid some stupid government label'.

  5. publicity hog on Rep. Darrell Issa Requests Public Comments On ACTA · · Score: 1

    its election season.

  6. Re:Might as well follow us around... on Why Making Facebook Private Won't Protect You · · Score: 1

    Some places do hire a PI during the hiring process, but those jobs are rare and often involve security clearances.

    That said, id still walk if they asked to look at any of my *private* accounts.

  7. Potential Employeer? on Why Making Facebook Private Won't Protect You · · Score: 2

    Not if they are making those sorts of demands of me. Same goes for any other "activity". If they are demanding i give up my privacy to make them happy, I'm gone.

  8. Re:I thought this was known by now on Man Barred From Being Alone With Daughter After Informing Police of Porn On PC · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You are screwed either way, so personally id take the safer route of just deleting it. If anyone asks, 'it was offensive, and i didn't look that closely before i deleted it to even know it was underage'.

    Why ASK for trouble?

  9. Re:Blast from the past on Wine 1.4 Released · · Score: 1

    How does it compare to vmware? Huh? Those are different tools to solve different problems and work differently.

    Why not compare iPads to cars too?

  10. Digital Handwriting? on Amazon Patents Annotating Books, Digital Works · · Score: 3, Informative

    My newton did this decades ago.

    If you want a more current example of handwritten annotation on existing PDF documents, look at the now defunct 'entourage' tablet products.

  11. SOPA/PIPA were defeated on UK Anti-Piracy Law Survives Court Challenge · · Score: 1

    No, neither were. Perhaps by name i guess, but not by intent, and will return in more subversive ways.

  12. Lesson re-learned on LulzSec Leader Sabu Unmasked, Arrested and Caught Collaborating · · Score: 1

    Trust no one. This is rule #1 if you are doing anything shady.

  13. Re:WHY? on Google Unifies Media, Apps Into Google Play · · Score: 1

    Oh, and some of us have much, much more music than will even begin to fit onto a 32GB `smartphone`.

    Right, and we stream the files from home, where we don't have to worry about someone searching thru them on some public server, to see what we have that they can nail us to the wall with.

  14. Re:Why the anxiety? on Ask Slashdot: Life After Firefox 3.6.x? · · Score: 1

    Because at some point due to the lack of standards conformity by content providers your older browser will be pretty useless.

  15. Re:Not the answer on Anonymous, Decentralized and Uncensored File-Sharing Is Booming · · Score: 1

    I agree, its not *THE* answer, but *darknets* are A answer. The key is which question you are asking.

    While its true that a darknet is by nature closed, for some communities that is the end goal in the first place.

  16. Re:Does it depend on DNS? on Anonymous, Decentralized and Uncensored File-Sharing Is Booming · · Score: 1

    When i played with Retroshare it was quite happy with either DNS or IP addresses.

    It was nice to share stuff between friends easily, without having to waste space on my home server.

  17. Re:What a surprise on Anonymous, Decentralized and Uncensored File-Sharing Is Booming · · Score: 1

    Yep. That is coming soon, and the only way to truly stop P2P in its tracks ( and is damned easy ).. The only time you can use your bandwidth is if you download from your ISP's approved servers. ALso, isn't this how it works down in Australia now?

    Of course when this happens widespread, that's when wifi mesh will take off.. An even more bleak future for the 'industries' who are trying to stamp sharing out.

  18. Just dont on Ask Slashdot: Using Company Laptop For Personal Use · · Score: 1

    Really.. its not your machine, don't screw with it.

  19. Internal staff IS to blame on Vendors Take Blame For Most Data Center Incidents · · Score: 1, Interesting

    They need to monitor and control their vendors/contracts/etc better.

  20. Is Azure free? on Microsoft's Azure Cloud Suffers Major Downtime · · Score: 1

    if so, that's the breaks. If not, then there should be contractual SLAs and penalties involved.

  21. Re:Great, now the terrorists are controlling natur on What The DHS Is Looking For In Your Posts · · Score: 2

    It has plenty of scientific, beneficial uses as well.

    Most things do, but that doesn't mean its used that way and if you trust the Federal Government to not expand its use, then you are living in a dream world.

  22. Same company? on Ask Slashdot: Best Practices For Leaving an IT Admin Position? · · Score: 1

    if so, expect to be helping the new guy for months. One day of training the new guy isn't going to be reality. Did you figure it out in a day? did all your projects take a day?

    if you are moving to a different company, expect phone calls, that you can always refuse or ask for a fee..

    But ya, if you were not documenting as part of normal practice, document it all now..

  23. No thanks on Schematics and Circuit Simulation In the Browser · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Great idea, but if i cant have it local, then no thanks. I don't want to rely on something that is being hosted by another party.

    They lose interest, poof there goes my work.

  24. Attorneys on YouTube Identifies Birdsong As Copyrighted Music · · Score: 1

    So when will one step up and make a name for him/her self and stop this crap once and for all?

  25. Countersue on YouTube Identifies Birdsong As Copyrighted Music · · Score: 1

    Put the bastards out of business. Please Include Google in the suit.