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  1. Re:Best buy on Best Buy Kills Off Future Shop · · Score: 2

    Yeah sorry, Future Shop practices were questionable before Best Buy bought them out. Once they did 99% of the stuff they carried were identical with maybe one or two things differing between them in each apartment. Surprised this didn't happen before.

    One of my early jobs was working in a Business Depot and we heard and (I personally) experienced some of the crap they were pulling. An example was I had the floor model of a computer for sale and had a customer come in. He seemed interested and was going to but it but had to go move money. I promised I would hold it for him, about half hour later some guy shows up interested and really wanted to buy it (like pressuring to sell it). Told him no, other guy comes back and buys it. While later I was in Future Shop and lo and behold who do I see working there but the guy who came in after. Figure he was trying to buy it so that the guy would come back and buy his model and then return it. Not sure but this was before Best Buy bought them out.

    Anyone remember Futile Shop?

  2. Re:Well done, smart guy on How Activists Tried To Destroy GPS With Axes · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Actually Iraq handed over Iraq to ISIS since as usual:
    1. most they had similar religious beliefs so why would they fight them
    2. some ran away dropping their weapons
    3. rest got overrun and executed

    And actually there were WMDs and they found them. Problem was that they were made by allies to the US and they didn't want to embarrass them. Side note BBC had a great documentary that covered the buildup. Essentially they had one guy that was feeding the CIA info on WMDs but they were skeptical. Problem was higher ups (Wolfowitz and Cheney) decided to take him on face value until it was literally too late.

  3. Thing everyone is missing on Quebecker Faces Jail For Not Giving Up Phone Password To Canadian Officials · · Score: 2

    These are border guards. Technically you haven't entered the country, they don't need warrants to search anything. Now as someone pointed out they should have refused him entry not have him arrested.

  4. Re:Free USB stick! on Inside the North Korean Data Smuggling Movement · · Score: 1

    You'd be surprised. The ones that matter do unfortunately majority of them also get their bread buttered under the existing regime.

  5. Re:Take your space on How Walking With Smartphones May Have Changed Pedestrian Etiquette · · Score: 1

    I had that when out for a run, I usually take the right hand 6" of side walk and when running I saw a guy about 200 yards in front of me walking the opposite direction right in the middle of the sidewalk. Needless to say he was quite shocked when I didn't move onto the grass. I outweighed him by probably 30lbs so he definitely felt it.
    Needless to say I don't think he will assume people will get out of his way from now on.

  6. Re:It was U.S. government supported FRAUD. on US Gov't To Withdraw Food Warnings About Dietary Cholesterol · · Score: 1

    Extra crispy fries = wheat

  7. Re:Implement locally? on How One Small Company Blocked 15.1 Million Robocalls Last Year · · Score: 1

    Surprises me no one has come up with a box that you put between, have a little wireless connection and a web page to manage. It could mimic the same as the android blocker app. You could back up your white and black lists. Basically it checks the call display and hang it up if it is on the black list. Your phone would never ring. You could also send logs via email if needed.

  8. Toothpaste on Cuba's Pending Tech Revolution · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I think they probably want decent toothpaste more than the latest iThingie. They love getting toothpaste as tips.

  9. Re:So they are doing what? on Anonymous Declares War Over Charlie Hebdo Attack · · Score: 1

    Last time I checked the loons in France had no link with ISIS. The one had been trained by AQAP but that is about it. Other than that, they had as much link to ISIS as the attacks at CFB Saint Jean and in Ottawa.

  10. Re:Paper based copy protection... on Archive.org Adds Close To 2,400 DOS Games · · Score: 1

    Keep scrolling down they have the specific pages and what they were looking for.
    Also I found the mouse didn't link up either.
    Came to remember how crappy I was playing these then

  11. Re: This is a foolish business decision. on Netflix Cracks Down On VPN and Proxy "Pirates" · · Score: 1

    They started about 3 weeks ago or so. All of a sudden my wife lost some of the shows that she was watching. Looked into it and this is already known and how to circumvent it. Essentially the Netflix app is trying to get back to Google's DNS servers to determine GeoLocation. Block that and it gives up.

  12. Re: Wrong conclusion on Apple's iPod Classic Refuses To Die · · Score: 1

    Surprised they are allowed to bring them into the area. Granted it has no camera but it is a perfectly viable usb storage device. Our areas bringing any govt owned electronic devices without it being approved by our designated security officer is a no-no. Personal devices would be considered verboten from the get-go

  13. Re:too late on Court Orders Uber To Shut Down In Spain · · Score: 1

    Only problem is there will probably be a clause in the person's insurance contract stipulating vehicle not to be used for work other than going to and leaving work to go home.
    Uber would be considered working
    Odds are the insurance company would balk and claim they don't have to pay out to anyone. It would go to court and ultimately they would lose, problem is after that the driver has been dropped for insurance and no insurance company would touch him

  14. Re:Why only women? on Australian Target Stores Ban GTA V For Depictions of Violence Against Women · · Score: 1

    This was my whole point, the problem is that a lot of the organizations that are pushing the domestic abuse awareness have also been linked to having an anti-male agenda.

  15. Found a better site on IsoHunt Unofficially Resurrects the Pirate Bay · · Score: 4, Funny

    Hope they don't shut it down. It's called google.com

  16. Re:too late on Court Orders Uber To Shut Down In Spain · · Score: 4, Insightful

    My question is how insurance companies are dealing with it. I am pretty sure if I was a driver and got in an accident they would pretty much drop me like a hot potato. Unless your insurance policy includes driving as part of working there is no bloody way I would even think of taking this on.
    This isn't even taking into account being sued by your passenger and what that could entail

  17. Re:Why only women? on Australian Target Stores Ban GTA V For Depictions of Violence Against Women · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It always irks me when domestic violence is attributed to violence against just women. There are estimates that it is pretty much 50/50 for both genders but men don't report it. Also usually if it is against men and the assailant is a woman there will be weapons usually leading to more severe damage

  18. Re:The CRTC... on What Canada Can Teach the US About Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Except a la carte will end up costing you more for what you actually want. The cable companies have always been ok with a la carte but CRTC was pushing it for the multicultural aspect. Pretty much most of the french channels wouldn't be here if alacarte was allowed.

  19. Re:"Out of band?" on Microsoft Releases Out-of-Band Security Patch For Windows · · Score: 1

    Actually it is out of band as it was not originally scheduled to be out on Patch Tuesday but was added after the fact.
    We have some MS guys in our office

  20. Re:First step is to collect data. on Ask Slashdot: How To Unblock Email From My Comcast-Hosted Server? · · Score: 1

    You have an account setup with yahoo. Ask them why they are blocking it. They will probably give you an answer

  21. I get humor out of this on Windows 10 Gets a Package Manager For the Command Line · · Score: 1

    "It's a missing feature Linux advocates have long used to argue against Windows in terms of automation and scale."

    As head of our distribution department with 100,000 Windows machines under us I find that slightly inaccurate.

  22. Re:Dear Canada.... on Shooting At Canadian Parliament · · Score: 1

    It's 4PM, I am still in lockdown and they still haven't confirmed anything other than the one guy is dead. They can't even confirm if he was the one that shot the CF Member

  23. Re:Enfield .303? Wow!! I know these rifles. on No More Lee-Enfield: Canada's Rangers To Get a Tech Upgrade · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Getting my gun license in a couple months and it is on the list of guns I want. I spent a week up north working with the Canadian Military and a bit with the Rangers and I enjoyed it immensely. They get an allowance to purchase their own equipment. Once out on the tundra they revert to the traditional garb as they found the high-tech stuff doesn't work well.

  24. Yeah our right leaning people are more like your left-middle. You probably wouldn't like them

  25. Re:As a BlackBerry user on BlackBerry Launches Square-Screened Passport Phone · · Score: 1

    They went into the consumer market because Apple (and Android)started eating their lunch. The amount of people who can live with their "toys" as a primary work phone is more than the amount that Rim needed/needs to survive. They were trying to plug the dike and stop people from moving over.