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  1. Re:Get Ready on Congressmen Say Clapper Lied To Congress, Ask Obama To Remove Him · · Score: 1

    There isn't much about Issa that can be release that would lower my opinion of him. He's already leaking (classified) information and there's some pretty shady stuff from his past.

    Alan Grayson lends a touch of credibility to this request.

  2. Did this years ago on Does Anyone Make a Photo De-Duplicator For Linux? Something That Reads EXIF? · · Score: 1

    I wrote a shell script that looked at the datestamp for each photo and then moved it to a directory called YYYY/MM/DD (so 2000/12/25). I'm going off the assumption that there weren't two photos taken on the same day with the same filenames. So far that seems to be working.

  3. Re:So I was sitting behind a Gbus/Fbus on 85 today on Protesters Show Up At the Doorstep of Google Self-driving Car Engineer · · Score: 1

    Given those services are usually a money pit for the city in question (albeit a necessary one), they'd probably love to have that taken off their hands.

  4. Re:Go Team USA! on Hacker Says He Could Access 70,000 Healthcare.Gov Records In 4 Minutes · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Hence the reason why decoupling your insurance from your employer is a great idea.

  5. Re:"Here's your gift from Amazon!" on Amazon: We Can Ship Items Before Customers Order · · Score: 1

    Or hoping that someone else in the area purchases the item.

  6. RPi with XBMC on Ask Slashdot: Suggestions For a Simple Media Server? · · Score: 1

    I have a server in the basement with all the media files (DVDs and BluRays that I own) and I use XBMC on a few Raspberry Pi devices around the house to organize and play.

  7. Re:That media is really on top of things on How Chris Christie Could Use the NSA Playbook · · Score: 1

    Well and the fact that it wasn't just conservative/tea party groups that were targeted - plenty of liberal groups were as well. So it's unlikely this was done because of retribution or because of political ideology.

  8. Re:The way they play the "copyright" card on Supreme Court To Hear Aereo Case · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ABC objects to this because they license content, and make money on commercials.

    ABC's inability to make a buck off that is not my problem, nor should it rise to the level of copyright infringement.

  9. Re:wow on Dogs Defecate In Alignment With Earth's Magnetic Field · · Score: 4, Funny

    If they ignore it, there could be a very big mess for them to clean up. They can't let someone else scoop up this prize. These researchers have it in the bag.

  10. Re:All or nothing on US Justice Blocks Implementation of ACA Contraceptive Mandate · · Score: 1

    So you want single payer too? I'm okay with that.

  11. Maybe, maybe not on Do Non-Technical Managers Add Value? · · Score: 1

    It really depends on how good a manager they are (technical or not).

    A good manager (as others have alluded to) is there to make sure their employees are able to get their work done. If that means doing back-end stuff to make sure they get the equipment/staff/priorities to meet the deadline, then that's the job of the manager and it doesn't matter if they've never written a line of code.

    Yes, a technical manager can understand the lingo and be of use. Then again, people who are technical and became managers quickly get away from the latest technologies and get stuck on what they did 3-5 years ago rather than what is common practice now. That can be a huge disadvantage to the team.

    In my case, I let my staff go they way they wanted to and did what I could to encourage them to do so. I had my own opinions, but allowed myself to be swayed if they made a good reasoned argument that went against what I thought was the way to go. And they were able to get it done.

  12. Re:All or nothing on US Justice Blocks Implementation of ACA Contraceptive Mandate · · Score: 1

    In return you'd get all of those services for just the price of co-pay (maybe not the gasoline, since it's the equivalent of buying food). But certainly repairs and routine maintenance would be at a lower cost.

    Then again, we only keep cars for a few years. I can't really trade my body for a new model.

  13. Re:Time Warner and Comcast are NOT Competitors on Don't Expect US Approval of Huge Telecom Mergers · · Score: 1

    Technically correct is the best kind of correct.

  14. Re:Time Warner and Comcast are NOT Competitors on Don't Expect US Approval of Huge Telecom Mergers · · Score: 1

    Bzzt.

    I currently have my choice of Comcast or Verizon FIOS. There's a number of areas in eastern MA where this is the case, probably other locations too.

  15. Good? on Percentage of Self-Employed IT Workers Increasing · · Score: 1

    There needs to be a lot of cross-pollination of ideas and technology between companies. It's far easier these days to get stuck in an IT rut and stick with what you know (since it works) rather than expanding into a different technology. I was at my former employer for 11 years until I got laid off over the summer. Took my knowledge, went elsewhere, and have been able to merge what I leared there with the new place and while my former employer is still struggling, the new place is doing a lot better, thankyouverymuch.

    It's difficult though. Once you get into a job with good benefits and pay it becomes way more tempting to stay and stick out political BS and non-technical co-workers than strike out on your own and find something to do.

  16. Re:Morality is an expression of intelligence on How Asimov's Three Laws Ran Out of Steam · · Score: 1

    Your memory must be faulty.

  17. Re:Consider caching instead on Ask Slashdot: Managing Device-Upgrade Bandwidth Use? · · Score: 1

    Between this and QoS it should take care of the problem.

  18. Re:New Bill =/= Passing House Approved Bill on 3-D Printed Gun Ban Fails In Senate · · Score: 1

    Those aren't practical limits.

  19. Re:New Bill =/= Passing House Approved Bill on 3-D Printed Gun Ban Fails In Senate · · Score: 1

    There are practical limits on home production of alcohol. You can make a limited quantity of wine and beer for personal consumption. You can't distill or sell it legally without a license.

    Perhaps some practical limits on firearm ownership is needed?

  20. Re:New Bill =/= Passing House Approved Bill on 3-D Printed Gun Ban Fails In Senate · · Score: 1

    We can't stop people from drinking and driving, so let's not regulate that either.

  21. Re:FP on NSA Planned To Discredit Radicals Based On Web-Browsing Habits · · Score: 1

    With oversight from Congress. BSAB

  22. Re:Good advertising? on Jury Finds Newegg Infringed Patent, Owes $2.3 Million · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'd argue that there's a difference between Amazon and a true patent troll.

    Trolls usually don't use the patent they own and use it solely as an investment tool.

    Whatever you think of Amazon, they use the patents they hold. Maybe they enforce it, maybe they use it as leverage in case a competitor sues them (IBM, Microsoft, Intel, AMD, etc. all do this as well.).

    That's not to say the one-click patent is valid or not, but I don't think I'd call Bezos a troll for patenting the idea.

  23. No, they're not on Futuremark Delists Samsung and HTC Android Devices for Cheating 3DMark · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Benchmarks are serious business.

    For a tiny segment of the population, maybe. For the rest of the world, raw benchmarks don't matter at all. It's all perception and other features over raw framerate. Normal humans can't really detect anything above 50 or 60 FPS. So if you are proud your phone gets 150FPS, congratulations! You got that going for you, which is nice. I guess.

  24. Re:Wagging the dog. on Only 25% of Yahoo Staff "Eat Their Own Dog Food" · · Score: 1

    I don't use Outlook as a VCS either.

  25. Re:Wagging the dog. on Only 25% of Yahoo Staff "Eat Their Own Dog Food" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Google is intending to have their products used by companies that pay for the services. If Google Docs isn't good enough for internal Google employees to use, how can they expect paying customers to be happy with the same kind of service? I can see a section of users with multiple e-mail clients to keep an eye on the competition, but I don't think it would make 75% of employees.

    What Yahoo(!) should really be asking is: what is it about Outlook that keeps people using it?