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  1. Re:Good, but not for the reasons I had hoped for. on Netflix Expects To Be Unprofitable In 2012 · · Score: 1

    You're not thinking outside the box. During the winter you simply have to get a different job, one were you have time to spend with your kids during daylight hours.

  2. Re:What about non-coding time? on The Futility of Developer Productivity Metrics · · Score: 1
  3. Re:Why did everyone else pay? on B&N Pummels Microsoft Patent Claims With Prior Art · · Score: 1

    Yeah, cause when TV came along all the radio stations shut down. And then when Netflix came along, all the TV stations went out of business.

  4. What about non-coding time? on The Futility of Developer Productivity Metrics · · Score: 2

    What about all the time you spend not coding: meetings, documentation, training users on how to use the system, working out the design before you start coding, answering emails, sending status reports, filling out time sheets, coordinating work with other developers, coordinating things with others in IT so your program will have a server to run from, being the go-between for the IT server team and the customer when the server goes down, creating database layouts and writing SQL?

  5. Synapses FTW! on MIT Creates Chip to Model Synapses · · Score: 1

    So they used their synapses to design something to allow them to study their synapses

  6. If you had your own server and enough iPhone ids.. on Siri Protocol Cracked · · Score: 1

    Just set up your own server. The Android app would contact your server. Then your server would pretend to be a random iPhone 4S and send a request to Apple. Your server would then send the result back.

  7. Re:Something not quite right on NYPD Dismantling Occupy Wall Street Encampment · · Score: 1

    "It's a clear attempt to sabotage the entire right to assemble/protest."

    The right to assemble/protest doesn't include the right to move in and live there.

  8. Remember on Zynga To Employees: Surrender Pre-IPO Shares Or You're Fired · · Score: 1

    The only people your Farmville crops are feeding are the employees at Zynga

  9. A what? on End Bonuses For Bankers · · Score: 1

    "risk engineering prof"?

  10. Sounds like... on Phobos-Grunt Launches To Retrieve a Sample of Phobos · · Score: 1

    This sounds like the beginning of a bad scifi movie. You know, like the ones they used to show on that SyFy channel, until they started showing wrestling instead.

  11. Re:wikipedia on A Cognitive Teardown of Angry Birds · · Score: 3, Funny

    Citation needed

  12. Re:Al Franken on Slashdot Asks: Whom Do You Want To Ask About 2012's U.S. Elections? · · Score: 1

    Why? Because he's good enough, smart enough, and doggone it, two out of three ain't bad.

  13. Re:a mirror of stack overflow users, nothing else on Analyzing StackOverflow Users' Programming Language Leanings · · Score: 1

    'I am a C programmer and do not need help from this "stack overflow" web site.'

    Then perhaps you should go to this "stack overflow" website and help others who don't know as much as yourself.

  14. Android on Hotmail Mobile Usage Spikes Thanks To Apple iOS 5 · · Score: 1

    They also recently released an Android app.

  15. Another question mark story on VMware, a Falling Giant? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Why should be pay attention to stories where the headline ends with a question mark?

  16. Depends on what level you're talking about on Your Tech Skills Have a Two Year Half-Life · · Score: 1

    I know what a variable is. I know what a loop is. Those haven't really changed in the last 20 years.

  17. If they don't want you to root. on Android Orphans: a Sad History of Platform Abandonment · · Score: 1

    I rooted my Droid Eris only because Verizon stopped updating it

  18. Two year agreement on Android Orphans: a Sad History of Platform Abandonment · · Score: 1

    Personally, I think that if they make you sign a two year contract to get the phone, then they should agree to provide updates for two years

  19. Re:How's about this... on HPV Vaccine Recommended For Boys · · Score: 1

    Really? What changed?

  20. Forty percent? on The 147 Corporations Controlling Most of the Global Economy · · Score: 1

    "forty percent" is not equal to "most"

  21. Free? on Galileo To Be Europe's Answer To US GPS · · Score: 1

    "supposed to free Europe from dependence on a US-controlled positioning system"

    You know, they dont have to use the system if they don't want to.

  22. Where's PETA? on Iran Tried and Failed To Launch a Monkey Into Space · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't PETA be protesting this?

  23. Re:Cool on India Launches $35 Tablet · · Score: 1

    According to that article: "Here is the real story of Social Security in one sentence: It is underfunded and badly needs to be modernized but even if Washington does nothing, young people will receive three-quarters of their promised benefits"

    So I pay in money and only get 3/4 of it back? That sounds like a losing deal to me.

  24. Re:It's called "lying". on India Launches $35 Tablet · · Score: 1

    But it's MY money. Shouldn't I be allowed to decide how to invest it?

  25. Re:Cool on India Launches $35 Tablet · · Score: 1

    Then why did Obama say "I cannot guarantee that those checks go out on August 3 if we haven't resolved this issue, because there may simply not be the money in the coffers to do it".