If Beethoven were alive today, he'd be scratching on the roof of his coffin...

In those new fangled GUIS you can cut and paste the url without having to type it into the address bar. (-;

I drive a pickup truck. I have no problem turning around to look behind me on the right hand side. When I turn around to look on the left hand side though, the shoulder strap obscures my view. I always wear my seatbelt except when I'm backing up, because I'm more concerned with hitting someone or something behind me than I am about being thrown from the vehicule. How fast do you drive in reverse anyways to not feel safe backing up unless you are wearing your seatbelt? Big difference between I-85 and your own driveway don't you think?

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Lingua mortua non mutationis.

145-225Mhz right smack in the middle of the HAM bands. These are not the frequencies being talked about in the FA.

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you must not have paid much for your smart phone....

In Canada at least, since they've had code free licenses there as actually been an increase of folks interested in obtaining their cw certification. While you may not need it to operate at home, there are still plenty of countries that do require cw and if you want to operate there, then you'll still need it.

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Not evil to store your contacts on the cloud if that's what you intend. Taking a personal contact list with phone numbers, addresses, company etc. etc. without asking however, is evil. There's a big difference between that kind of contact information and a screen name for someone else who has a google account that you correspond with.

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My primary reason for buying a phone was because I needed a phone. I got an android because I wanted a recent model and don't like apple products. All the rest of the stuff available on the android platform was of little interest. I need occasional email and above all a phone. My phone has a 16G SD card in it. I don't need a cloud to store the 50 or so contacts I keep in it. Integration with google had nothing to do about it.

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When I bought my Android phone, the first thing I did was set up my contact list (I don't have many in my list). While exploring I found the Google mail client and since I have a Google account, so I clicked on the client to see how it looked. The first question it asked me was "Do you want to set up your Google account?"
Well, if I wanted to look at the client it was a forgone conclusion so I entered my password and account information. As soon as I had entered this data, google snarfed the entire contact list and downloaded it to their web servers. Names, phone nos and addresses. There was no indication to me about what they were going to do and I certainly would never have done that voluntarily. Google as far as I'm concerned, has already crossed that line. I wiped my phone and created a bogus account and I turned off synchronisation with their servers. After logging into my old account, and deleting (for all the good that does) my entire contact list, I stopped using it.

I don't like being made to feel like prey by anybody even if their motto is "do no evil"

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What's the difference between a lawyer and a catfish?

One's a bottom sucking scum dweller and the other is a fish.

I know a few older guys with that problem. I also know a few older guys like myself who don't. I do contract work and have for most of my career. So far, the only bad patch I've had was when the bubble burst after y2k. I think much depends on how we think of ourselves. Why do you feel you were at the end of your technical useful life? Dude that's not old... You've had experience, you quit at an age where many people are in the prime of their careers. I know lots of guys that have successfully transitioned from a technical role to one that needed MBA qualifications. They did it while working (sometimes paid for by their employer).

I'm 51 and I get hit on for contract work, all the time and I know many guys and gals in situations similar to mine. I stay current, but unlike when I was younger I pick and choose what I want to stay current with. It also depends on what you do as well. Coders I know have a harder time with it, because the APIs are always changing and you have to spend a lot of time re-learning where everything is and how to control it. That's tougher to do if you have family responsibilities, because it demands so much of your time. At some point, older coders I know didn't feel too much like doing that any more, so they transitioned into management type roles.

If you feel useless, then that is the image you will project. How we think of ourselves has a lot to do with why some folks (both old and young) have such a hard time finding jobs. Do you have any idea how many managers in big companies would kill to find experienced employees capable of delivering the goods? If they could find them, they wouldn't have to rely so much on guys like me.

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run-levels on a UNIX like system will do the trick.

Nothing in those 4 points prohibits downloading music. So while you are not permitted to distribute, the tax does indeed appear to allow us to download to our hearts content.

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WTF is wrong with the Slashdot UI? Comment threads are impossible to follow. Click to expand a comment and the screen jumps around to anywhere but the thread you are trying to follow. It's been doing this for what seems like a few weeks now and it has become tiresome in the extreme.