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  1. I've known a 'CIO' that had to get approval for any expense greater than $50.

    He had negotiated the title in lieu of a raise. Moron. He was still just the 'computer guy'.

  2. Basic asymmetry. It's the admins responsibility/problem but someone else's property.

  3. Re:Wait this ISN'T April fools yet??? on New UBI Program Launches In Canada To 'Define Our Future' (thestar.com) · · Score: 1

    Conservatives could support it, IF they cut all the programs it 'replaced' on the same day. Otherwise it's just the usual lies being told by the usual liars, using other people's money to buy votes.

  4. Re:That's nothing... on USB Canary Sends An SMS When Someone Tinkers With Your USB Ports (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    IT security guy...you know a 'rubber ducky' is a penetration tool? The ones with actual rubber duckys printed on them are sold to poseurs, real hackers just modify the right old thumb drive.

    PCs with windows or Linux (with autorun disabled) are owned by plugging it in. The computer thinks it's a keyboard and trusts it. It runs scripts, which can be toxic.

    Does IT get called when someone's keyboard gets disconnected then plugged back in or only for USB storage?

  5. Re:Why shop at Walmart on Amazon and Walmart Are In An All-Out Price War That Is Terrifying Big Brands (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Mop bucket, most of the function is in the wringer.. The good one costs about $150, the crap one costs $75, but the crap one is single use at best.

  6. Re:That's nothing... on USB Canary Sends An SMS When Someone Tinkers With Your USB Ports (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    A Rubber ducky? Those look like keyboards to the machines...and run scripts.

    You can hack up a 2gig USB drive into one. Certain models only.

  7. For most of the people bad at it? Least common denominators. I don't really want to know what % of adults can't add fractions. Of course they fail at algebra, most lost the thread much earlier and are just slipping by on 'memorize and regurgitate'.

  8. Re:Why shop at Walmart on Amazon and Walmart Are In An All-Out Price War That Is Terrifying Big Brands (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    For the record: The good rubbermaid mop bucket will last a lifetime. The crap one will break the _first time_ you (unless a girl or vegan) try to wring a mop with it.

    I own the good one at home. had an employer that tried to get the cleaners to use household kitchen 'mops' in a factory, they eventually bought the crap rubbermaid one. Then they had the bright idea of having engineering fix it. Yeah, that worked, we bought the good one for them.

    I bet rubbermaid didn't make the crap one until wallyworld demanded it. Once they had paid for the molds, they foolishly sold it elsewhere.

  9. Re:Why shop at Walmart on Amazon and Walmart Are In An All-Out Price War That Is Terrifying Big Brands (recode.net) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Look at a rubbermaid mop bucket at Home depot. Then look at a rubbermaid mop bucket at Walmart. Then tell me their is 'no evidence'.

    Walmart is notorious for squeezing so hard, they get a shitty, brand destroying version to sell.

    Then you get 'brand destroying' enterprises like MTD mowers and you get a true shitstorm of junk.

  10. Re: Reusable - like the shuttle? on SpaceX Makes Aerospace History With Successful Launch, Landing of a Used Rocket (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Foam insulation saturated in water ice.

  11. Re:And Now For Something Off Topic... on House Approves Bill To Force Public Release of EPA Science (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    Too good for them.

  12. Re:Indeed on House Approves Bill To Force Public Release of EPA Science (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    You're being trolled. Literally _nothing_ in the GPs post is true.

  13. Re: Reusable - like the shuttle? on SpaceX Makes Aerospace History With Successful Launch, Landing of a Used Rocket (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Ice came off the external tank and damaged the carbon fiber left wing leading edge.

    No tiles involved, but don't let being wrong stop your rant.

  14. Will it throw itself onto a Fiat multipla?

    Fact is _I'm_ a reliable wingman. Total darkness is your friend, I'll take that grenade.

  15. And you're in Illinois.

    If I'm guessing right, when the wind is wrong, you also get to smell Decatur for days at a time.

  16. Re:Where's the news? on A Lawsuit Over Costco Golf Balls Shows Why We Can't Have Nice Things For Cheap (qz.com) · · Score: 0

    They won't let me use my homemade driver.

    Apparently, a 44 mag blank being part of the head isn't legal. It drives a half mile (in a random direction).

  17. Re:Costco put some cards on the table on A Lawsuit Over Costco Golf Balls Shows Why We Can't Have Nice Things For Cheap (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Monster cables filed a patent that basically covered all RCA standard cables.

    Used it to intimidate competitors until one called their bluff. They still try.

    Fucking lawyers...up against the wall.

  18. Re:Where's the news? on A Lawsuit Over Costco Golf Balls Shows Why We Can't Have Nice Things For Cheap (qz.com) · · Score: 2

    Sounds like SOP. Acushnet learned a valuable lesson for dealing with Chinese contract manufacturing.

  19. Re:Where's the news? on A Lawsuit Over Costco Golf Balls Shows Why We Can't Have Nice Things For Cheap (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    There are already a number of golf ball designs that are 'too good' and don't comply with the rules (same as clubs). Hacks play them in casual games (for long drive bragging rights).

    It's a game. Nobody wants to build all new courses because the balls fly 20% further.

  20. Re:Where's the news? on A Lawsuit Over Costco Golf Balls Shows Why We Can't Have Nice Things For Cheap (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Were 20+ year old golf ball designs unusably bad? Not talking about some feather stuffed antique.

  21. Divide by number of balls lost + 1. Handle the admittedly very unlikely edge case better.

    Cart girls aren't reliable enough for my odd/even schedule. Carry beers in the bag.

  22. Re:Silly Dutchman on Dutch Scientist Proposes Circular Runways For Airport Efficiency (curbed.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe a 'dutch rudder' would help an airplane land on a circular runway?

  23. People are stupid. What you describe does happen. But more often than not, the cops have a snitch and are making up a reason so (s)he isn't implicated.

    Also: The official area drug dealer. Part of police payoffs is giving the cops a competitor, so they look like they are doing their jobs.

  24. No. The 'euphemism dance' is retarded.

  25. Opening the donation and petition signing history to public search is much more far reaching than that.

    You won't squeal until the shoe is on the other foot, it surely already has been, just not so publically. At will employment.