Comment What is my mood? (Score 2) 246
Generally I use music to change my mood. How do they or even I know what mood I want to end up in?
Comment Re:Email STILL works with friends (Score 1) 223
Do you pay for your email? Gmail seems headed towards the same situation. Yahoo and hotmail already serve up unwanted ads to their free email service.
Comment Re:This is easy ... (Score 1) 81
This is NOT easy, I just spend 20 minutes trying to uninstall it from my non-rooted samsung. No luck. I can't even force stop it.
Comment Re:Idiocracy was prophetic (Score 1) 702
The Hugo voted by the fans, who are the ones paying money to buy the books is obviously the "biggest prize" More money means you can afford to write more of the stories "you" want to write.
An author might appreciate the Nebulas because it is a vote from his peers but that doesn't pay the bills.
The Oscars are everybit a popularity contest as the Hugos
Comment Re:I originally liked Trump... (Score 2) 316
I think you mean right field, Bernie is out in left, who's on first.
Comment Re:Sue - Sue - Sue! (Score 1) 187
Read the novel The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks It is a true story about the same thing.
Comment Re:Bloatware?! (Score 1) 210
I would pay more for a computer/phone/etc guaranteed not to have pre-installed stuff on it that I don't want. Not a lot more but....more
Comment The New Cool (Score 1) 203
I just finished this book and loved it. It is a book about a high school team and the FIRST robotics competition.
Easy, fun read and loads of science+general teanage kids stuff.
By Neil Bascomb. The New Cool
Easy, fun read and loads of science+general teanage kids stuff.
By Neil Bascomb. The New Cool
Comment Re:I do think about this time to time (Score 2) 515
You just applied logic to a situation that is best described as.....unlikely to occur? I was tempted to counter your logic with some more non-reality based logic and then I got confused.....
Comment Do Both (Score 1) 735
Take the offer, but then offer to your (now) former employee that you can help/consult/be available in the evenings or weekends for particularly difficult problems. Offer to do it for free and if they do value you, they might be willing to pay you for it. Your junior developers will be grateful but not as grateful as the owners.
This has worked for me twice in the past. You don't burn bridges, and in fact strengthen relationships. You will probably find, as I did, that your period of working two jobs will last less than a month.
Submission + - Sony takes a week to admit credit card hack (pcpro.co.uk)
Barence writes: "PlayStation users have reacted furiously, after Sony admitted customers' credit-card details may have been stolen in a hack attack. The PlayStation Network — the console's online gaming service — has been down for the best part of the week as Sony battled with an unidentified security issue. The company tonight broke its silence, admitting that customers' personal details — and possibly their credit-card data — have been stolen.
Sony admitted that stolen data included the name, address (city, state, zip), country, email address, birthdate, PlayStation Network/Qriocity password and login, and handle/PSN online ID. "While there is no evidence at this time that credit-card data was taken, we cannot rule out the possibility," the company said."
Sony admitted that stolen data included the name, address (city, state, zip), country, email address, birthdate, PlayStation Network/Qriocity password and login, and handle/PSN online ID. "While there is no evidence at this time that credit-card data was taken, we cannot rule out the possibility," the company said."
Comment Re:Why not just scarp US Intelligence (Score 2, Insightful) 230
Can't we just outsource it? All our other intelligence is outsourced.
Comment Re:You don't (Score 1) 704
How exactly are you supposed to know what *He* wants to do unless you have him try it out? Most kids are pretty open to all things interesting and fun. If you can make coding interesting and fun...there you go. If he doesn't like it after your best shot, after getting the best advice you can, then go try something else. While there is not much connection between playing games and coding, at least there is *A* connection. Better that than "Ooooh my kid likes WOW maybe he will end up being a Blacksmith"
New Estimates Say Earth's Oceans Smaller Than Once Believed 263
Velcroman1 writes with this snippet from Fox News: "Using lead weights and depth sounders, scientists have made surprisingly accurate estimates of the ocean's depths in the past. Now, with satellites and radar, researchers have pinned down a more accurate answer to that age-old query: How deep is the ocean? And how big? As long ago as 1888, John Murray dangled lead weights from a rope off a ship to calculate the ocean's volume — the product of area and mean ocean depth. Using satellite data, researchers from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute set out to more accurately answer that question — and found out that it's 320 million cubic miles. And despite miles-deep abysses like the Mariana Trench, the ocean's mean depth is just 2.29 miles, thanks to the varied and bumpy ocean floor."
Lower Merion School's Report Says IT Dept. Did It, But Didn't Inhale 232
PSandusky writes "A report issued by the Lower Merion School District's chosen law firm blames the district's IT department for the laptop webcam spying scandal. In particular, the report mentions lax IT policies and record-keeping as major problems that enabled the spying. Despite thousands of e-mails and images to the contrary, the report also maintains that no proof exists that anyone in IT viewed images captured by the webcams."
