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  1. Re:No surprise on Income Tax Quashed, Ballmer To Cash In Billions · · Score: 1

    Living in a society there are some social responsibilities. The future generation is going to lead this country, politically, socially and economically. I for one would like every child to receive the best education possible. Look at Asian countries who send their children to school over 300 days a year. They are outpacing us. Innovation is what drove this country and education needs to be fostered to continue to drive us.

    Sooner or later you will need a doctor, who is educated in some public system. Your coworkers are educated in a public system. Without public education, there would be no NASA or someone to build your 'field trip bus', much less design it. These roads, bridges and buildings you enjoy were designed and built by people with a public education.

    I am going to assume you where not educated in public schools, I was. I did not have the chance to college right after High School, I am going to a public college now working on my degree. I have a great job and for the record I pay a lot of taxes. I also have significantly more than $100 left over at the end of the month. I guess my public education must have let me down.

  2. Re:I live in Seattle. on Income Tax Quashed, Ballmer To Cash In Billions · · Score: 1

    Great rebuttal. Mod up.

  3. Re:I live in Seattle. on Income Tax Quashed, Ballmer To Cash In Billions · · Score: 1

    When will the poor get their refund? At the end of the year? Doesn't help them much then.

    Also the rich can go over to Italy and purchase their Ferrari and after a few months of 'using' it there can ship it over here and avoid that 23%. The rich will just save their money and spend in lower tax areas. Why do so many Washingtonians and Californians come to Oregon to buy big purchases? No sales tax. Black market will also sky rocket.

    Fair tax is a good idea, and I believe should be part of our tax solution, but I also believe there will need to be some type of income tax.

  4. Re:Should be good for the economy on 2010 Election Results Are In · · Score: 1

    If you don't have insurance you have to pay a fine, so there is less incentive to game the system

  5. Re:small impact, android will trump on Verizon iPhone Rumored For Early Next Year · · Score: 1

    Iphone supports changing to a custom onscreen keyboard? Oh wait that is Android too. Swype is pretty handy for quick messages and I have my keyboard if I need to pluck out something more.

  6. Re:Financials on Google Reportedly Ditching Windows · · Score: 1

    Yeah, very hard (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accounting), and I am pretty sure Google does not use some off the shelve solution like Quicken.

  7. Re:MACS???!?! on Google Reportedly Ditching Windows · · Score: 1

    Agreed, how many Apache servers were 'hacked' due to being poorly set up or having insecure password.

  8. Re:Google's Windows-only software on Google Reportedly Ditching Windows · · Score: 1

    Producing and using are two different things. I am sure QA will still be testing on windows machines. Chrome is available for Linux and Mac. Once they migrate over to what ever OS I am sure it will only be a few weeks until GTALK comes out for that platform.

  9. Re:A false choice, of course... on Health Care Reform · · Score: 1

    I have a similar plan, and my company subsidizes nearly $1000 a month for me and my family. Over the course of a year the total paid for my Health Insurance is $18,000. Consider the poverty line in the US for a family of 4 is around $25,000 and average family income around $50,000, health care can constitute a majority share of people's expenses.

  10. Re:A false choice, of course... on Health Care Reform · · Score: 2, Informative

    That 15% you got knocked off is still 20-30% higher then what the Insurance companies pay. Still think you got a deal?

  11. Re:What's the big deal? on Apple's iPhone Developer License Agreement Revealed · · Score: 1

    With Android you can install whatever you want on it, it doesn't have to come from the marketplace.

  12. Re:What are you looking for, really? on A Public Funded "Microsoft Shop?" · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Father in law = HIPAA sepcialist YOU being a HIPAA specialist.

    Having an browser installed does not make a PC any less or more secure, it has been proven recently that most versions of IE have major vulnerabilities (just ask Google).

    Most likely the director only knows M$ so it must be best right? Me thinks the memo came because many people want to use Macs and there main software does not support it.

  13. No Slashdot? on US Military Surrenders To Social Media, Changes Access Restrictions · · Score: 1

    I am a little offended it did make the list, it was around way before youtube and facebook.

  14. Re:HA! on Calendar Bug Disables Older PlayStation 3 Models · · Score: 1

    I have this issue, but my Netflix disk worked last night. I did set the date to the correct date.

  15. Re:This Is Not Censorship At All on Apple Bans Sexy Apps, Developers Upset · · Score: 1

    No rights have been violated. The Constitution only guarantees rights from the government. Last time I checked Apple is not the government so they can do pretty much what ever they want

  16. Re:Why redirect them? on Is Internet Explorer 6/7 Support Required Now? · · Score: 1

    A machine can be a virtual machine. It is another environment that needs to be managed and tested. And there is a hit in testing, a relative large on. You have 6 major browsers (IE7, IE8, Safari, Opera, Firefox 3.5, Chrome), adding more just increases the testing time. Most of those are standards compliant, except for IE. I have websites that look different on IE7 and IE8.

  17. Re:IDE? on Eight PHP IDEs Compared · · Score: 1

    I was told years ago real web programmers use notepad. I am a hobbyist PHP guy, but been doing it alot at work for the company website, perhaps it is time to move away from gedit (they have a windows version) and onto something else,

  18. Re:Try Drupal on Joomla! 1.5 Development Cookbook · · Score: 1

    I agree Drupal is better, but it takes a CS degree to use it. I was able to get my company to adopt a Joomla website over Drupal, and once set up they don't have to contract out to some 'web guy' to update content.

  19. Re:Are nerds not aware on Is Programming a Lucrative Profession? · · Score: 1

    I assuming you are talking about the BAR for lawyers as opposed to the place I go every night after work. It is administered by the state, and is show basic competence as a lawyer. It is like a medical license. A better association to compare is like ASE certifying mechanics.

  20. Re:Microsoft's advisory admits that both IE7 and I on Microsoft Says Upgrade To IE8, Even Though It's Vulnerable · · Score: 1

    May is such a definitive word. If I had a million dollars on a project, may is not going to cut it. And how much faith would you put into DEP? I don't: http://uninformed.org/?v=2&a=4&t=sumry

    Also do you think M$ will come out and say that, "IE8 is exploitable, please use something else."?

  21. Re:Of course on Bing Gaining Market Share Faster · · Score: 1

    Hompage Searching

    It is more like ALT to show the menu.

    Tools -> Settings

    Click on Settings under Search.

    Look at the screen for a minute to figure out how to add one. BTW it is at the bottom Find more search providers

    It opens up a add-on window, with incidentally no competitors on the front page, just sites like ebay or New York Times. Try navigating to google, couldn't find it.

    Searched for google, there it is. Added it.

    Go back to tools->settings, open up search settings

    Right Click on Google and set as default.

    Easy to follow 20 steps to change search provider in IE8. Wonder how many people do it, since it is easier to download firefox or chrome.

  22. Preception on TSA Wants You To Keep Your Seat, and Your Hands In Sight · · Score: 1

    Another example of how the government is keeping us safe. But they are not, this guy was on a watch list for two years and still got on a plane. The perception of safety is there yet really it has no real and only impacts everyones personal liberties.

  23. Droid on Verizon Removes Search Choices For BlackBerrys · · Score: 0

    How would this affect the droid? Freedom of choice is sooooooo overrated anyways. And anyways most people prefer being told what to do, and think and 10/15 people that tried bing like it more than google.

  24. Re:Negotiate on Saying No To Promotions Away From Tech? · · Score: 1

    You nephew is not the norm. An architect median salary rarely goes over $100,000, that is with alot more experience than 6-7 years that he has.

  25. Conflicted on iPhone Game Piracy "the Rule Rather Than the Exception" · · Score: 2, Interesting

    What's up the past few days. Stories about iPhone development sucks, Android development rules, no wait Android development sucks and iPhone development rules, no wait iPhone owners are a bunch of pirates.