Comment Re:Stating the obvious... (Score 1) 145
What happens when you change the email address and then request a password change?
Comment Oh hai people! (Score 1) 146
I was thinking of finally buying a cell phone. Any recommendations?
Quantum Physics For Everybody 145
fiziko writes in with a self-described "blatant self-promotion" of a worthwhile service for those wishing to go beyond Khan Academy physics: namely Bureau 42's Summer School. "As those who subscribe to the 'Sci-Fi News' slashbox may know, Bureau 42 has launched its first Summer School. This year we're doing a nine-part series (every Monday in July and August) taking readers from high school physics to graduate level physics, with no particular mathematical background required. Follow the link for part 1."
Comment Re:just like installing a trojan on your computer! (Score 3, Interesting) 190
(If they can rootkit my Milestone down past the locked loader, I want to know how! [Yeah, of course I got an Android phone, it was
Odds are there are far more stupid "smartphone" users than PC/Mac ones.
Want to tap virgin pools of stupidity? There's an app for it!
Comment Re:Did you check the disused lavatory? (Score 1) 213
I think you should write a note to ask the author. If he doesn't respond with an objection, you can take that as permission.
Also, enclose a towel with your note. He'll appreciate that.
It'd help him clean up after all that dirt some person threw on top of him
Comment Could work in your favor... (Score 2, Funny) 114
" 'Imagine what will happen when, decades from now, a president nominates someone to the Supreme Court who had access to Twitter, MySpace, and Facebook at the age of 15."
This could work in alot of people's favor...
When applying as the Head of the Agriculture Department...
"As you can plainly see, I had several successful Farmville farms at age 15."
Comment Re:how quaint (Score 1) 432
If you under-withhold by more than 10% or $500 (whichever's more) you end up owing a penalty.
You have 3 options for underpaying without penalty
1) You can underpay by up to $1000 (not $500)
2) You are correct about underpaying by 10%
3) If your taxable income goes up, you are only required to prepay what your total tax liability was in the previous year. This means if your total tax liability last year was $1000, and then this year your liability went up to $6000 (whether it be because your income increased, or you no longer had certain credits or deductions), you are only required to have prepaid/withheld $1000. Come April 15, you will have to pay the additional $5000, but if you were smart you had it sitting in the bank gaining interest all that time.
I seriously need caffine... I thought this was devolving into a
4)...
5) Profit! thread
Comment theres a good side... (Score 1) 178
There is a good side, now the hackers that attacked google will be busy sifting through billions of texts saying,
"DOOD, too much rice-wine! just had sex with a goat! gonna hurl..."
Comment `find' it (Score 1) 362
$ time find ~ -type f -printf '%s %p\n' 2>/dev/null | sort -rn | head -1
Backups, virtual machine disks, and raw HDV m2t's seem to round out my >8GB top10 as expected.
Comment Re:Friends (Score 1) 504
here's an idea, I've done this before. Maintain your own OS, beit Windows 7, Linux, whatever. Then, buy a laptop or any hardware that fits your needs. Take the harddrive out, and replace it with one of your own, and install the OS on it.
Sure you don't get the bundled CRAP, that comes with it all, though in the end, you have a clean install that you can restore to factory specs in 5 minutes or less.
Most manufacturers have provisions for upgrading harddrives and memory in their warranty so there is no problem.
And yea, the services suck, worked GS for a year.. I felt like a tool every time i sold 400 dollars in upgrades to some old lady on Social Security and it only took an hour to complete. I got canned when I started telling them to just go get an e-machine instead (heck it was always ATLEAST twice the machine they were going to have after the upgrade at half the cost!)
Comment Re:Copy/Paste mathematics paper (Score 2, Funny) 241
I'm expecting email from some lawyer telling me that Mr. ANDROIDCAT is the closest living relative of Grigory Perelman and that I can collect it as soon as I forward some banking details...
Comment Re:Programming without music? (Score 1) 1019
Did I say you could talk!? CODE!!! *click*
Comment Re:There's an app for that (Score 1) 160
It's not a Droid, it's a Milestone.
wtf? Motorola too cheep to pay Lucus Films licensing of the world-wide rights for that questionable trademark?
But does Google Android support the Three Laws?
Comment I smell profit! (Score 1) 255
Time to buy stock in some select t-shirt companies!
Comment Re:There's an app for that (Score 5, Funny) 160
Wave phone in officer's face. "These aren't the Droids you are looking for."
