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Comment bulllllshit (Score 3, Interesting) 322

BULLSHIT! What he wants is to make ongoing costs just like Xbox Live, skydrive, Office 365, and all the other crap they've tried to push. No thanks, I don't want to pay $1200 a seat over a decade to use Office, thanks. EVERYONE is copying Call of Duty and the DLC era. The new CEO of MS was in charge of cloud services! I am NOT paying a subscription to use ANYTHING from Microsoft. The end. He needs to get over that or get the fuck out.

Comment this can't be right (Score 0) 778

I work at a 100 person company. We pay our lowest employees about $10/hr already because nobody would stay working there for $7 or whatever the minimum is now. But, if it was raised to let's say $13, we would fire 30% of our staff and make the others work harder. We absolutely cannot afford to raise our prices any further and we cut all overhead expenses imaginable. Then go to a company that does pay minimum wage, which obviously implies that labor is their #1 expense, and try and raise it 20%. So this report cannot possibly be correct. The companies will fire people or raise their prices to the point where nobody buys their products and they have to go out of business.

Comment FINALLY! (Score 2) 113

It's about damn time! That asshole sends out fake domain registration renewal notices via mail and fax. So many businesses fall for it and at the same time basically put this company in charge of their domain. They should have arrested this asshole years ago! In fact, it sounds like he's not arrested, he's just banned from registrations.

So there goes any hope that Perion Network will be shut down. They're responsible for the vast majority of advertising malware infections and they're in a lovely looking building over in Redmond Washington. They use their Israel location to do most of their illegal stuff so it's all cool with the US gov apparently. By the way, they're responsible for everything related to Conduit Malware, Sweetpacks, Smilebox, and basically everything else you've ever seen on a stupid person's computer.

Comment Re:wall-e (Score 1) 253

Diabetes is mostly annoying and not commonly deadly. Heart disease is the number one killer according to some study somewhere. Murder, drugs, alcohol, HIV, starvation, and dehydration are all also the #1 killer worldwide according to more studies. But still, it's a higher number for heart disease.

Comment what this says (Score 4, Interesting) 383

He might as well have written "Hey everyone, stop giving a shit about your job because you're probably fired." The same thing happened for the contracted/outsourced IT dept at the hospital where I worked. They told them 2 years in advance that they were not renewing their contract and were switching to a crew from IBM. So they stopped caring, didn't follow the dress code, outsourced internal support calls to Mexico, and their support response time rose to 3 months.

Comment wow (Score 1) 122

"large enough for several Mi-8 helicopters to fly into it - not that they have."
"the dark colour of the crater indicates 'some temperature processes', without explaining more what they may mean"
" it could be caused by a space object - perhaps a meteorite...We can definitely say that it is not a meteorite. No details yet,"
"one web claim suggested - evidence 'of the arrival of a UFO craft' to the planet."
That's some quality journalism right there.

Comment waste of money (Score 0) 37

Every dark matter detection experiment ever performed has suggested it doesn't exist. The proof that it does exist requires that we accurately know how much mass is in the universe, which we absolutely do not. The money should be spent on developing fusion, not testing for dark matter. They might as well fund a search for bigfoot.

Comment you're assuming she wasn't lying (Score 1) 424

I own a shop and I can tell you from experience that the vast majority of people who leave negative reviews are clueless, petty, psychotic assholes who have no idea what they're talking about. This one 70 year old bitch left a review saying that after I had to reset Windows 8 to factory default state (after her nephew used it and wouldn't tell them the main login password) that her wireless didn't work and her printer no longer printer. Um yeah, that's what happens when you reset windows. It forgets your wifi passwords and uninstalls your printer software. But try explaining that to her. She was screaming at me on the phone that I don't know what I'm doing and need to give her a refund etc. What a useless waste of space. Those are the people get write negative reviews.

Comment The smartest idea (Score 1) 280

I personally use tiered passwords. Some forum or random website gets my low level password. Something vaguely important like a prominent tech support forum account gets a higher level password. Web servers and those sorts of logins get unique passwords each to avoid mass hacking. Banking passwords get my top tier password. Encrypted archives get my even more top tier and excessively long password. That last one doesn't even have to be good, it just has to be long. Llamasllamasllamas!123 is actually a very good password.

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