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  1. Delays due to incompetence? on Surge In Online Orders Overwhelms UPS Christmas Deliveries · · Score: 1

    I had a package put on a truck two days in a row (according to their computer anyhow) and it wasn't delivered either time. And this was in Austin, with no snow/ice to deal with. Clearly there was incompetency involved somewhere (e.g. if a package is on a truck and doesn't get delivered the day it was supposed to, why not reverse the route the next day so it can be assured to be delivered early? Oh yeah, because UPS trucks only turn right http://www.businessinsider.com/ups-efficiency-secret-our-trucks-never-turn-left-2011-3). Sorry, this has left me a little bitter about using UPS for anything. This isn't the first issue I've had with them, either. NEVER had a problem with FedEx.

  2. Re: Change the business model on Copyright Takedown Requests to Google Doubled In 2013 · · Score: 1

    Cant remember the link, but i was looking for royalty free music the other day for youtube to avoid this sort of problem. Someone recorded a Bach song on his guitar and warns you cant use it on youtube as it will be flagged.

    Bach (21 March 1685) getting royalty checks as the composer? Did the person who recorded his song and manage to protect it pay Bach a royalty?

    It seems commercializing the public domain is a disturbing trend.

    The music isn't copyrighted, but the specific performance of it is. If you want to record your own performance of Bach and use it on your video, have at!

  3. Re:Well, okay, lets make it a legal proffession on Proposed Posting of Clients List In Prostitution Case Raises Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    I think he was just referring to a single person there... wife, sister, mother, girlfriend in some parts of the country certainly are all the same!

  4. Another /8 to take... on UK Government Owns 16.9 Million Unused IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 1

    Why not ask HP to give up one of its 2 (!) Class-A subnets?

  5. Re:Put Dad's tools back where you found them! on CowboyNeal Weighs In On the Windows 8 "Metro" GUI · · Score: 1

    Amen. I regularly have to google to find out how to do something in office that was easily found in drop-down menus before the god-awful ribbon.

  6. Re:Coffee on the laptop on What Was Your Worst Computer Accident? · · Score: 1

    I spilled a full 20 oz. bottle of sprite on this laptop during a PIX teleclass. POS Compaq evo N610c. Shut it down immediately and mopped up as much of the pop up as I could. The keyboard was sticking and the latch continues to stick. Used it 2 months before getting frustrated enough to swap the keyboard out (a deceptively simple operation) but luckily it as been fine ever since!