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  1. Re:so?? on Russia Announces End to Space Tourism in 2010 · · Score: 1

    Not everyone is from the US East Coast. The Filene' Basement refers to this establishment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filene's_Basement

  2. Re:Easily fixed for many on Widespread Keyboard Failures on OLPC's XO-1 · · Score: 1

    Because we all know that third world children carry around bottles of isopropyl alchohol.
    No, they probably have carbon tet.
  3. Re:Banning LAPTOPS?! on U. of Chicago Law School Blocks Internet Access · · Score: 1

    Not sure how great a laptop would be in real time for writing complex formulas, or diagrams of how things like a thermo system or airfoil work.
    Wow. I've never been to Law School, I never would have guessed these subjects where part of the normal curriculum.
  4. Re:Cue the knee jerk reactions... on U. of Chicago Law School Blocks Internet Access · · Score: 1

    Where did you go to school that this is true? At the college level I don't think I had *1* professor that did what you say they all do. Maybe Intro to Econ which had 300 people, but even that class had smaller breakout groups of 10-15 that had discussions, etc.
    I agree.

    I think this is mostly a 2-year school issue where many of the "professors" hold that title in name but not qualifications.

  5. Re:Superusers? on Guerrilla IT, Embracing the Superuser? · · Score: 1

    Yes, they're end users. But they don't sound like customers. They sound like employees. In which case they should toe the god damn line, because they're fucking shit up for other people.
    Nice! You have management potential. Keep up the good work.

    But your cheeky little wifi hack maybe just took down three buildings of network, resulting in thousands of dollars of lost productivity. Actually happened, in my org - 100% true story.
    I think that says a lot about your companies Wi-Fi network. Not good. Maybe the "IT" department needs some remidial eduction. You've got the management skills, give it to them!
  6. Re:reply on The Dead Sea Effect In the IT Workplace · · Score: 1

    it is easy to make a lot of cake doing that if one plays their cards right...
    When you're 50, tell me what's in you retirement account. Nice TV, I'll give you $50 for it.
  7. Re:reply on The Dead Sea Effect In the IT Workplace · · Score: 1

    I feel like I'm in the same situation as described above and there are almost no IT jobs in my area unless I want to work in (and commute to) the big city (Chicago). I don't! I have never worked in an IT shop that had competent management and that often seems to be the problem from what I've heard (from other IT employees).
    If you want to work in a quality shop, you have to be willing to move. If you are not willing to move, that's your choice. But you can't expect there to be opportunities galore in comfortable backwaters, the people that hold those jobs are keeping them. If you really want to "get ahead", you'll have to go to Chicago or some other big burg for a few years. It's like here in Seattle: Work for The Borg for a few years (but never as a "permatemp"), then move on to friendlier shops. Yes, you often have to whore yourself out if you want to work your way into a real job.
  8. Re:thank you captain obvious on The Dead Sea Effect In the IT Workplace · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Smart people with better options leave. wow who would have thought that would happen. next on slashdot, all about how water is wet.
    IT people with elitist attitude who think they are indispensable? Not anymore...
  9. Re:The Power to Tax on New York to Implement an 'Amazon Tax' · · Score: 1

    Washington State has the same thing. I'll bet they collect less than $100 a year on it.

  10. Re:IMO: AOL+Yahoo is better than MS+Yahoo on AOL Jumps Into the Ring with Microsoft, Yahoo!, Google · · Score: 2, Interesting

    And none of the Yahoo supported OSS software will be turf'd (ie. that Exchange server alternative)
    There are huge swaths of Open Source beyond the Exchange Server Alturnative, such as a large number of Web services and various Webby 2.0-ish type projects. Check it out here: http://developer.yahoo.com/. The code snips are extreamly valuble tutorials. All this material will either be flushed or monitized onder Microsoft...
  11. Re:Bricked? on Apple Error Leaves iPhone Developers In the Lurch · · Score: 1
    I'm tired of sensationalist stories that play fast and loose with the facts. This guy puts some BETA development software on his phone, and has a cow when it expires, and forgets to mention that it's stupid to run BETA development software on something you use in the real world, and that he could have rolled it back without any problems.

    The whole "story" is a NON story.

  12. Re:Private means private. on Google StreetView Is In Your Driveway · · Score: 2, Funny

    How about pictures like this? http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/47331/ Clearly private property...

  13. Re:Link to the actual thing... on Inside UC Berkeley's High Tech Joke Recommender · · Score: 1

    Invalid query: Table 'jester5_emptyjokeclusters' is marked as crashed and should be repaired

  14. Re:Why it does not happen more often? on Sony BMG Sued For Using Pirated Software · · Score: 4, Interesting

    OUCH! Even stupeder than taht! Read on, an employee contacted the software company for tech support!

  15. Re:Why it does not happen more often? on Sony BMG Sued For Using Pirated Software · · Score: 1

    It would only take one of these people to become disgruntled and rat out their employer
    And this seems to be exactly what happened. For those who don't follow links:

    An investigation triggered by the request of an employee of Sony BMG
  16. Is PCMCIA really dead? on A Fond Look at Some Obsolete Ports · · Score: 1

    The say that PCMCIA is dead and anyway most laptops have wi-fi built it. Of the two fairly new laptops I own, the built in wi-fi sucks. Is PCMCIA really dead?

  17. Re:You will lose your copyright on your pictures.. on Adobe Puts Free Photoshop Online · · Score: 1
    All they are saying is that if you upload shit to their Web site image library, they can do what they want with it. This is not a problem for most people. Gimp is a problem for most people, but you can stick with it if it floats your boat.

    The bottom line for this thing is that it's not that hard to get a copy of Photoshop, and Elementsa is cheap. I don't see this getting a lot of use.

  18. Already Free on Adobe Puts Free Photoshop Online · · Score: 4, Funny

    I thought Photoshop was already free. Why would I want a Web-based version?

  19. Re:Why not use home PCs? on Computers May Thwart 2010 Census · · Score: 1

    Physically interviewing each person is much more accurate and much less prone to fraud.

  20. Just a bad idea from a safty standpoint on Aerial Drones To Help Cops In Miami · · Score: 1

    The first time one of these things smacks a commercial jet, it's going to be the end of this madness. The lawyers will have a field day, and the city's tax dollars will pay out millions. Oh, they will tell you there are "safeguards" and so on. But it will happen.

  21. Re:Chapter 10 - Large Projects on Advanced Rails · · Score: 1

    Just because most people writing PHP apps are sloppy armature coders does not mean that powerful well designed apps can not be written in PHP.

  22. Re:Oooookay then.... on Wikileaks Releases Early Atomic Bomb Diagram · · Score: 1

    Writing a new Godwin's law, are you? See some information you don't like then equate it to child porn and get it banned?

    The design is over 50yrs old. Sheesh.

    Does that somehow make it non-deadly? I think that it's irrelevant as there is plenty of more detailed information out there anyway, but your argument that 50 year old design renders it inert is nonsensical.
  23. paradigm shift on Wikileaks Publishes FBI VoIP Surveillance Docs · · Score: -1, Troll

    It's defiantly time to roll shit like this back. Which is why we really need a paradigm shift in Washington. Both McCain and Clinton are Washington "business as usual". That leave one obvious choice, and I'm not talking about Ralph.

  24. Re:Irrevocable is irrevocable. on Legal Counsel Advises Against Accepting OOXML Pledge · · Score: 1

    The reason it's really not irrevocable is that it states in writing that future versions of anything under the promise are not automaticaly under the promise.
    Sounds a lot like the GPL...
  25. Re:There's a lot of leeway in federal cases on Apple Sued Over Fundamental iTunes Model · · Score: 2, Interesting

    East Texas is apparently well known as a venue for patent suits, as the judges there tend to find in favor of the plaintiff more than the national average.
    Are the judges in East Texas running a scam? They must know that they are viewed as the Patent Troll Capital, and that not a positive distiction. Is there money for the court involved in this type litigation?