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  1. You are right on the money with that post. I've dealt with male supervisors and female supervisors. The latter turned out to be in not so simple word as you said, raging types.

  2. This is why I love Avaya phone systems. There's a button you can define called Send Calls. Tap that and all incoming calls get dumped straight to your voice mail box.

  3. Whilst reading this on Most Teens Who Abuse Opioids First Got Them From a Doctor (livescience.com) · · Score: 1

    Kurtis Mayfield's "Pusherman"started playing my head.

  4. I work in Boston, live in Providence. Best of both worlds - salaries higher, costs lower in home city.

  5. Re:That's pretty smart on Millions of Smart Meters May Over-Inflate Readings by up to 600% (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    This is precisely why when I build my own place it will be off-grid. Screw the incumbent utilities.

  6. In my state on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Make Novice Programmers More Professional? · · Score: 1

    They're going like gang busters to try to each every kid how to code. I've suggested they focus on number systems like base 2, base 8, base 16. If they can handle that then you start with Boolean logic. Then open source software - python for example. It's a simple but very powerful language.

    That Boolean thing is clutch though - once you understand that you're pretty much good to go. And of course some critical thinking is in order too.

  7. Re:Is this news going to bring them more business on How The FBI Used Geek Squad To Increase Secret Public Surveillance (ocweekly.com) · · Score: 2

    In my case no kiddie porn but some rather hot information on my system. It will NEVER see Geek Squad. I've been around computers long enough to encrypt and to know how to image drives etc.

    And I've always distrusted Geek Squad - I've seen their handiwork and made a tidy sum cleaning up their messes.

  8. And it's only on China Developing Manned Space Mission To the Moon · · Score: 1

    Forty eight years after the United States did it. That seems to always be the case with China. For example nuclear weaponry - we had it in 1945 - they got it thirty years later.

  9. It all depends on being able to connect to Bing. And if one blocks bing at the physical level oh well.

  10. Freeze a jolly good fellow!

  11. Re:FM radio on Sorry, Apple, the Headphone Jack Isn't Going Anywhere (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    And honestly I haven't listened to radio in some time. Have Amazon and Pandora apps on my phone I just listen to those instead.

  12. One issue I've noted on Sorry, Apple, the Headphone Jack Isn't Going Anywhere (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Is that the headphone jacks tend to wear out with repeated connect/disconnect. It's why I went with bluetooth headphones.

  13. She must have read Heinlein's "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress"

  14. On $150K if you're single you will only get about $8,125 a month after taxes.

  15. Now even Boeing is getting into using robots to construct the 777. It's interesting because the robots are essentially at the dumb terminal phase.

  16. The external I.T. support guy didn't know you can shut that shit off, or at the very least put a decent hardware firewall in front of it?

  17. No way on Slashdot Asks: Are Curved TVs Worth It? (cnet.com) · · Score: 0

    The curve is a gimmick and nothing more. However I do see a use for roll up TV's and phones. That said, I need to replace my old Element ELCH401K - it's gone through two power supplies. And I don't have the time or inclination at the moment to rip out the power supply and just replace all the junk Chinese capacitors in the thing to bring it back to life. I figure parts wise it's going to cost about $50 and my time has to be accounted - I estimate 3 hours repair time so that brings total cost to repair to $300. I can get a new one for a bit more.

  18. Microsoft is rather stupid. Everything to do with ads, spying etc. is run through Bing. So as a general principle I block Bing at my firewall. Of course the Windows 10 machine tries phoning home frequently and I see it in the firewall logs.

  19. Part of the problem on YouTube Will Kill Unskippable 30-Second Ads Next Year (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    That I have with online video ads is that they widely miss the mark with me. Which is interesting because other sites like Facebook, Amazon etc. all pretty much know what I like. And you would think being it's owned Google this wouldn't be the case.

  20. Re:Android in the car? on Researchers Discover Security Problems Under the Hood of Automobile Apps (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I cannot for a moment imagine the hell that would ensue if Windows were the dominant OS on cars. I know on my PC I had to go through several layers of things to get it where I can use it. But then I'm not your average user so YMMV.

  21. And some of us on 'To Live Your Best Life, Do Mathematics' (quantamagazine.org) · · Score: 1

    Enjoyed the math enough but decided to go in a different direction like Computer and Information Science, Information Security etc. It's where I went.

  22. I run software and hardware firewalls, plus AV, Ad and script blocking. Makes my web experience much better.

  23. Well, you're assuming I let the ISP put in a router with wifi attached. I've enough experience to roll my own so to speak, the only concern I have it's all Cisco gear but likely made in China.

  24. There are already two devices that connect to my wireless networking, one is my door bell. The other my Chef Steps Joule Sous Vide stick. And my Windows 10 box - I block every public IP that Bing uses.

  25. So you allow it for 30 minutes a day. I can put schedules on my firewall to do that.