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  1. Re:Why no "Bring your own phone" plans? on Why Everyone Should Hate Cellphone Carriers · · Score: 2, Informative

    just get a prepaid phone from t-mobile - pretty cheap, and no contracts. Is 10c/minute that expensive? I use 300 min/month, and that would be about $30.

  2. Re:Who else has a valid claim to being in charge? on Why Everyone Should Hate Cellphone Carriers · · Score: 1

    Sure, why not? We paid for it through phone levees for the most part.

  3. Re:I don't believe it on One-Third of Employees Violate Company IT Policies · · Score: 1

    Because techs never work from home...

  4. Re:Sports vs. Games on Cheap New GeForce 8800 GT Challenges $400 Cards · · Score: 1

    Serious injury qualifies too - football is a sport, chess is a game. Rugby is insanity, but fun.

  5. Re:Low-to-middle-income families watching cable... on FCC To End Exclusive Cable For Apartments · · Score: 1

    Only when their team wins the world series. Much safer.

  6. Re:Why not? on FBI Accused of Abusing Criminal Database · · Score: 1

    the guys who pushed the war through numbered at most 5. They can certainly agree on a strategy and execute it.

  7. Re:Don't Shop at Best Buy? on Best Buy Customer Gets Box Full of Bathroom Tiles Instead of Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    I have actually stood in the middle of the TV department and shouted "I have a bunch of money. Won't someone help me spend it?"

  8. Re:You want to hear a story? on Best Buy Customer Gets Box Full of Bathroom Tiles Instead of Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    But - that's what he wants! He will probably care a whole lot more if you go through with the purchase and damage his ratios than if you kill the sale.

  9. Re:Open source search on In Some Places, Local Search Beating Google · · Score: 1

    Because the thing that matters is the search algorithm, and kazaa can't handle something as huge as all the webpages dealing with a particular country.

  10. Re:Trades on The Science Education Myth · · Score: 1

    way to miss the point. Hereditary or not, society needs more people in worker type roles than it does scientists. The cool thing about the US is that you can generally move from one 'caste' to another.

  11. Re:The Premise is All Wrong on The Science Education Myth · · Score: 1

    She's probably from NYC - all the women I know from big cities who don't really need cars suck at car knowledge. Shouldn't really be surprising, though.

  12. Re:Tests are getting easier on The Science Education Myth · · Score: 1

    Feel like working in seattle? Amazon likes Canadians.

  13. Re:WHich market on The Science Education Myth · · Score: 1

    If you can't make money selling someone's labor, then you should go out of business - demand goes down and then so does price. That, or you figure out how to do with fewer engineers.

  14. Re:Supply and Demand. on The Science Education Myth · · Score: 1

    Two problems: offshoring refers to moving jobs overseas from wherever the corporation lives. What you are talking about is innovation that attracts talent - the control of the company is local, and the fruits stay with the people doing both sides of the work. Innovation and having working infrastructure in 1945 is what made us rich.

  15. Re:https and login on Slashdot's Setup, Part 2- Software · · Score: 1

    Damn straight - if I hack somebody's slashpass, what are the chances I also have their email password or bank site password?

  16. Re:In other news... on Techie Pay Approaches All-time High · · Score: 1

    Funny you should mention cars - the most american car at the moment is a toyota, subaru builds the Legacy in indiana, while ford builds in mexico.

  17. Re:a rose by another name on Terror Watch List Swells to More Than 755,000 · · Score: 1

    No it isn't. Atheism just means not believing in a god, which is the default state anyway.

  18. Re:Generation Why? on Gen Y Tech Savvy, But Not Interested in a Career · · Score: 1

    Scifi is always about current events. It just wraps it in technotoys so you can pretend it's not you.

  19. Re:Computer literacy level 10! on Gen Y Tech Savvy, But Not Interested in a Career · · Score: 1

    Gross. You know, fertilizer is pretty cheap - you don't have to resort to that sort of stuff.

  20. Re:Fluent? Not really... on Gen Y Tech Savvy, But Not Interested in a Career · · Score: 1

    Sure, at a hardware level there are easier ways to damage things (although old computers did that too, and cost more than your year's salary), but for software, they're very forgiving - at most you zilch a process or elete the wrong data. Very hard to damage the OS files unless you decide to work on OS components.

  21. Re:Critical thinking on Gen Y Tech Savvy, But Not Interested in a Career · · Score: 1

    Oh, contre!

    it's /Au contraire/. If you're going to be clever, get it right.

  22. Re:Critical thinking on Gen Y Tech Savvy, But Not Interested in a Career · · Score: 1

    I've always thought that children should be encouraged to learn at their own speed. With the advent of the Internet, this might be more possible that ever before.

    It's been done, and it doesn't work all that well. Look up open plan schools.

  23. Re:Lazy Kids ! on Gen Y Tech Savvy, But Not Interested in a Career · · Score: 1

    Most legal activity should not be performed by lawyers.

    Most legal activity is done by paralegals anyway.

  24. Re:T-shirts are communist? on Stallman Attacked by Ninjas · · Score: 1

    Tshirts are unprofessional? Anyway, it's Stallman - if he wore a suit, I'd be suspicious.

  25. Re:It's been done on Very High Tech - Elevator Garages in an NYC Hi-Rise · · Score: 1

    I thought they decided to ditch the support, then balked at the cost of a repair when it broke somehow. That, or they didn't sell the owner the right to operate the garage themselves, but contracted out operators.