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  1. Re:People who cheat should blame themselves, not F on Facebook, Friend of Divorce Lawyers · · Score: 1

    X is abusive. Y meets the very cute Z and sees just how different things can be with somebody who actually respects and cares for you.

    The letters X and Y were just dancing together with Elmo on TV. Nice to see you patched things up.

  2. Re:From the article on Facebook, Friend of Divorce Lawyers · · Score: 1

    Oh, wait... my ex effectively did that with my daughter pre-facebook...

    Wait a minute... people were @sshole's _before_ facebook existed? Surely you jest?

    Facebook made it possible for non-geeks to be @ssholes on teh intarwebs...prior to that, they were contained in AOL's forums.

  3. Re:Who cares about 3G usage? on Sleeping iPhones Send Phantom Data · · Score: 1

    Apple has no right to phone home without specific user authorization.

    I'm willing to bet your paycheck that authorization exists somewhere in the volumes of user agreements for either the phone, carrier, or both.

  4. Re:Pretty .. on Judge Orders Gizmodo Search Warrant Unsealed · · Score: 1

    You mean the new iMow? I'm using it right now....sitting on it, in fact, whilst posting on Slashdot!

  5. Re:12 if the best on Terry Childs Found Guilty · · Score: 1

    Perhaps I should volunteer for jury duty...I cannot tell the difference between the letters "i" and "o" apparently.

  6. 12 if the best on Terry Childs Found Guilty · · Score: 5, Funny

    Remember that juries are made up of the twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.

  7. What if it was your doctor? on Math Skills For Programmers — Necessary Or Not? · · Score: 1

    Saying programmers don't need advanced math is like saying your doctors don't need to take anything beyond 12 grade high school biology. While emergency room physicians and trauma surgeons need to have a rich knowledge base of the anatomy and physiology of the human body, your ophthalmologist can probably get by without knowing much about cardiac output or fluid resuscitation volumes.

    But they still need to know ALL of the human body because their actions, while localized in some fields of medicine, can have effects on other areas of the system.

  8. Up in arms? Really? on Yale Switching To Gmail, Not Without Opposition · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's a service. Just like the phone company, janitorial services, accounting, and insurance.

    The students and faculty don't clamor for input and transparency on which payroll company the university uses to issue paychecks and work/study payments, and there's something they use every day. Sounds to me like this is a lesson to be learned for a bunch of college brats who can't adjust to change.

  9. Senator.... on Lifecycle Energy Costs of LED, CFL Bulbs Calculated · · Score: -1, Redundant

    "LEDs last 2.5 times as long as LEDs"

    Sounds like something a Congressional committee would come up with...

  10. VNC SC...so easy, my parents can do it! on Simple, Free Web Remote PC Control? · · Score: 2, Informative

    UltraVNC SC is what you need.
    Check it out here!

    If you're doing this over your residential connection or if you might be in different locations, set yourself up with a dynamic DNS service (such as www.dyndns.org) and create yourself a hostname on there. Build your VNC-SC download to point to that address.

    I have mine set up on my family website where they can download it easily so I don't have to drive over to their house every time they can't print.

  11. Could the bird be sent by God? on LHC Shut Down Again — By Baguette-Dropping Bird · · Score: 1

    Perhaps there is a religious reason. Has anyone considered the bird may have been send by God to drop the bread to halt activation of the LHC?

  12. Re:What's the Charge? on Woman With Police-Monitoring Blog Arrested · · Score: 1

    Since it's easier to read a headline than an article, we'll help you out here...

    FTA: she was indicted on a single count of identifying a police officer with intent to harass, a felony under state law

  13. Re:Not so happy when the shoe is on the other foot on Woman With Police-Monitoring Blog Arrested · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Most senators and Michael Jackson wouldn't pass the background check to be a cop, anyway.

    Quite frankly, anyone who stalks Michael Jackson (before or after his demise) has enough issues already.

  14. Re:Not so happy when the shoe is on the other foot on Woman With Police-Monitoring Blog Arrested · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Using your logic, it should be OK for any ordinary citizen to be stalked in a similar manner both while on the job and off.

    I'm sure you wouldn't mind a bit if she followed your every move at work, at home, while spending time with your family...and then posting this information online.

    Why is it OK when its a police officer?

  15. Re:August on Navigating a Geek Marriage? · · Score: 1

    You've got the number one key right there....never go to bed angry. Or something like that. Geek or non-geek pairing, you're obviously friends already. Remember that. Always. The last argument my wife and I had where we didn't talk to each other afterward was September 9th, 2001. We argued that afternoon and I decided to go sleep at work (firefighter) before an overtime shift the next day. Didn't even say a word...just went to work. Didn't even call her the next day. The next phone call was the morning of 9-11-01 when I told her my FEMA USAR team was being deployed to New York and I was being sent with them. 11 days later, we knew there was NOTHING worth arguing over enough not to remind each other why we were together. We're both paramedics, I'm a firefighter. She's technologically incompetent. I fix things. There is NO WAY to fix a woman. The warranty was up on her birthday.

  16. Diversion != Closed on Hospital Turns Away Ambulances When Computers Go Down · · Score: 1

    Hospitals around here go on diversion on a pretty regular basis. We have a system set up to minimize patient risk. Diversion means that the facility is not able to provide timely care to a patient whose condition is not critical, and that patient will receive better, more rapid care at another hospital. Why take an MI to a hospital that is experiencing an IT issue causing orders to be delayed, blood labs to be held up, x-rays to not be delivered in a timely fashion, etc...when we can drive 5 minutes further and the patient will be in the cath lab within 30 minutes? We can still take patients to a hospital on diversion if we don't think they'll make it to the next one OR if that hospital has specialty care that is required (such as a burn unit or hyperbaric chamber).

    A hospital being CLOSED is a whole different animal. Here, hospitals have a closed status because they are unable to accept any patients whatsoever. Most recently, we had a hospital closed for 28 hours because a bunch of haz-mat victims left the scene of a hazmat incident and walked into the ED covered in a toxic inhalation chemical.

  17. Gotta love public safety... on Ridiculous Software Bug Workarounds? · · Score: 1

    My fire district implemented a new laptop based Emergency Medical Services reporting system and lets just say, geek that I am, I find myself yearning for the days of old where we used flattened pulverized wood pulp. There's five different ways to affirm you have completed entering data into a field, no way to tab between fields, some numbers must be entered using an on screen keypad using the TabletPC's stylus, and if the data submission button isn't there for whatever reason, the "cancel" button directly under where it should be deletes the whole damned report.
    Damn developers should be flogged. Or treated by and ambulance that has to deal with their crappy software.

  18. Journalistic Integrity? on Unmasking Blog Commenters Not a Huge Threat To Freedom · · Score: 1

    Journalistic Integrity? Is there such a thing any more?

  19. Re:Microsoft has done some good work on this so fa on Electronic Medical Records, the Story So Far · · Score: 1

    Btw, your patient record is completely accessible. You just have to make a request to the medical records office. No, it's not available on the web, but it's not as if your MR is a secret like your FBI file.

    Your record is NOT completely accessible...I guess you never watched much Seinfeld?

  20. Re:Seriously... on iTunes DRM-Free Files Contain Personal Info · · Score: 1

    mouse...mousetrap...mouse...mousetrap...mouse...sign telling mouse there's a mousetrap...mouse...mousetrap...ad nauseam

  21. Hell hath no fury like nursing moms united. on Facebook Nudity Policy Draws Nursing Moms' Ire · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It's pretty funny reading these comments. My wife breast fed both of our kids until they were about 8 months old. I loved it. Not because I'm a pervert who wants his wife's hooter hanging out with my tax deduction hanging off it, but I loved it because my kids are healthy, well fed, and I don't have to spend fistfuls of cash on formula.

    She had a couple of times where someone would ask her not to feed the baby where she was. She would always calmly ask where the individual would like her to feed the baby. Both times, bathroom stalls were suggested. Both times she asked them if they would eat their food in there or give their baby a bottle in there. Both times, they walked away.

    The second time, the bitch at the mall called the police. It didn't work out too well, though. I was in the cop's wedding.

  22. Re:Dragging on? on Lori Drew Cyber-Bullying Trial Begins · · Score: 1

    Quite often, criminals are prosecuted using laws applied in an unusual manner. Capone was not convicted of murder, he was convicted of tax evasion. Since there is no crime of talking an adolescent into committing suicide, they looked for another crime to punish her with. Unauthorized access to a computer system was all they could come up with, I guess. Shallow bitch.

  23. Where was the network? on Verizon Tech Accused Of Making $220K In Sex Calls On User Lines · · Score: 4, Funny

    You'd think with all those people in "the network" following him while he was doing this, he'd get stage fright or someone would have said "I can SEE you now!"

  24. Re:Black? Seriously? on Black Screens For Unauthorized Copies of Windows · · Score: 1

    You think that will embarrass users? You obviously do not have any female offspring under the age of 10. You have perfectly described my daughter's computer. But it's that Hannah Montana crapola...

  25. Re:extremely high on Ratio of IT Department Workers To Overall Employees? · · Score: 1

    Being a schizophrenic, I have anywhere from 3-7 users on my system, yet only one is any damned good with a computer.