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Comment Re:Personal Drones (Score 3, Insightful) 155

Everybody who is not properly trained in their use having a drone is a horrible idea, kind of like giving everyone who is not properly trained in their use a gun is a bad idea.

FTFY. Proper training has a tendency to fix a lot of the issues with people misusing tools, outliers notwithstanding.

Comment Re:Saint Louis (Score 1) 336

Dice ranked Missouri as the fastest growing state in regards to tech jobs last year.

Not hard to grow fast when you don't have all that many to begin with. Plus a lot of the tech jobs in Missouri are in Kansas City.

And Monett - Jack Henry pretty much has that place on lockdown, jobs-wise.

Comment Define "Tech" (Score 1) 702

All depends on what you mean when you say "tech," since tech-nically all tools count as tech-nology; to that end, I have a hand-hewn stone axe head that's probably a few hundred years old at least, and it still works fantastically.

Presuming you meant electronic tech... For me, it would be a toss-up between the DAK Mark III CB radio my grandpa gave me and my Marshall Valvestate 8080 amplifier. The DAK doesn't get a whole lot of facetime (don't have a decent place to put an antenna), but the Marshall gets a workout almost daily.

Comment Re:FLYOVER (Score 1) 336

That's a fact.

Nobody dealin' with that winter, for rent.

Funny, because Detroit isn't that far removed from St. Louis weather-wise, and STL is the tech hub of the midwest.

Slashdot's corporate masters will like this tidbit: Dice ranked Missouri as the fastest growing state in regards to tech jobs last year.

Of course, there's plenty of good reasons why tech companies wouldn't want to base out of Detroit, but the weather sure ain't one of them.

Comment Re:do they have a progressive view? (Score 5, Insightful) 336

I would die first before moving to texas. most of my friend also feel the same.

... and since the worldview of you and your friends equals 100% of tech employees... /sarc

the outright racism and bible-belt feel just is not compatible with many techies' view of what a good living area should offer.

Never actually been to the "bible-belt," have you? It shows in your bigotry against those of us who actually live here, the irony of which is not lost on me.

Comment Possibly Worse Than That (Score 4, Interesting) 216

General Mills... has quietly added language to its website to alert consumers that they give up their right to sue the company if they download coupons, or 'join' it in social media communities

It might even be worse than that, according to an interview I heard on NPR earlier - the language of General Mills' new terms appears to include merely purchasing any of their products as a method of forcing you to waive your right to sue.

Of course, they also said one could "opt-out" by sending an email to the company... Anybody got a list of everybody's email addresses?

"Everybody" as in, every-fucking-body.

Comment Re:Rewarding the bullies... (Score 1) 798

Why wouldn't it be foreshadowing if, at some point in the future, the bullied kid in the story got a gun and shot his bullies?

You mean, aside from the fact that 'foreshadowing' refers to a literary device that doesn't apply to real situations?

Because nobody knows the future, which is kind of a requirement of foreshadowing.

Comment Re:Same problem as the anti-glasshole movement (Score 1) 140

Sadly there is no supremely high-tech activity at work in this patent like sending out a flash and scanning for feedback from lenses, instead it is basically an automated anti-glasshole ready to punch anyone who is idly passing by with a recording device, but will completely miss the person with a hidden camera recording them for some time from arms length.

Yea, seems an expensive and obtuse solution for a problem $10 worth of wire and high-intensity IR LEDs can fix.

That reminds me, pick up an IR filter element for my hipster coat button cam...

Which, in turn, reminds me to ask - do we know if Glass has an IR filter built into it? IF so, then my high-powered IR LED system won't be very effective against them (although, it will still be highly effective against traditional security cameras).

Hmmm.... maybe some sort of pocket-sized EMF pump?

I can't imagine any issues with carrying something like that in close proximity to your genitals...

Side note, RE: EMF pumps - I love how a Google search of that term brings up nothing but "ghost" sucker, er, I mean hunter, equipment sales sites. Nothing funnier to me than droves of people doing their damnedest to prove P.T. Barnum right.

Comment Re:Rewarding the bullies... (Score 1) 798

Sigh, you're an idiot.

Says the guy who's only 'argument' boils down to a personal attack with zero substance. Congratulations on destroying any credibility you might have had before you decided to attack me personally, rather than argue a salient point.

What broken piece of machinery in your head is forcing you to wrongly ASSume that the foreshadowing has to apply to him?

I wouldn't consider the knowledge that a single ad on a single website does not foretell of events that are going to happen anyway as a "broken piece of machinery," as you imply. But feel free to keep it up with the ad hominems in place of valid arguments. Because, you know, calling someone an idiot as opposed to actually pointing out what part of their statements are idiotic is totally working for you!

Now, if you'll excuse me, there are grown-ups here that want to have a real discussion and not trade playground barbs, and I'd much rather give my time to them, than someone with the mental acuity of a petulant 14-year-old.

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