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Comment Re:An alternative to the Magic Mouse (Score 3, Informative) 255

They made one glaring design error with the Wacom (Daewoo) Bamboo Touch Tablet. When using in right hand mode, the buttons are on the left (so your thumb can hit it), unfortunately, so is the WIRE. Meaning you can't flush it up against your keyboard or something else. Regardless of where your computer is, in this design, the buttons and wire should be on opposite sides. If you want it on your left side, the wire should hang off the left side, not the right side. That alone says "cheap knockoff".

Comment Re:Really? (Score 1, Insightful) 687

If the unions have contracts that stipulate what cars the manufacturers can produce, that's news to me. Link please.

It's not in there as words as you'd like it to be, but you don't need to be a lawyer to figure out the intent of the contract. New manufacturing methods require new equipment and therefore training. The contracts require that the current workers must be trained by at the expense of the car companies rather than hiring new (and potentially cheaper) workers. So right out of the gate, it's a negative for two reasons. 1) I'm paying a highly-paid employee to sit in training and not be productive, and 2) He'll quit in a few years meaning I'll have to train him, and train his replacement rather than just training a replacement now. The union contract protects against being able to hire potentially better cheaper labor. Secondly, If a new manufacturing method requires less workers, that will be picketed as "jobs will be cut". So yes, in so many words, the "unions have contracts that stipulate what cars the manufacturers can produce".

Idle

Submission + - Chimp found plotting against zoo guests 1

rjshirts writes: In further proof that Planet of the Apes is coming to pass, researchers in Stockholm, Sweden have definitive proof that primates can plan ahead.
From the article: "Santino the chimpanzee's anti-social behavior stunned both visitors and keepers at the Furuvik Zoo but fascinated researchers because it was so carefully prepared.
According to a report in the journal Current Biology, the 31-year-old alpha male started building his weapons cache in the morning before the zoo opened, collecting rocks and knocking out disks from concrete boulders inside his enclosure. He waited until around midday before he unleashed a "hailstorm" of rocks against visitors, the study said."
I think this explains a lot of Cowboy Neal's behavior.......

Comment Hate to Say it. (Score 2, Insightful) 485

I hate to be that curmudgeon old fart, but once they get something, they don't give it back.  And once they start taxing something, it's easier for you to accept new taxes.

But just read and grasp what the whole concept of this is here.  NY wants to TAX you for NOT shopping in their state.  You want to save money by buying online, they want to TAX you for saving money.

I'm not going to get into any Republican vs Democrat ideals here; I just want everyone in NY to understand what is fundamentally happening.  You exercised your right as a consumer to not shop somewhere, and you are being charged for it.

Comment Re:Theory vs. Reality - Seriously (Score 1) 468

>> Meanwhile, crypto-nerds go around scoffing at your primitive WPA wifi encryption
>> and go on to introduce 47 new layers of encryption, all bigger and better than the last,
>> wasting tons of time and money in the process.

Being a nerd, nothing we go overboard on is a waste of time or money.  The value of our project is either proving to ourselves we did it, or gaining practical knowledge we can use elsewhere, like our jobs, where we get paid to do it.

Security

Submission + - NZ Banks want .bank domain to reduce fraud

An anonymous reader writes: Banks want a new internet classification to help combat online fraud. Banks' internet addresses would then read westpac.bank.nz, for example, rather than westpac.co.nz. The . bank address would join the five current "moderated" addresses with restricted memberships. http://www.stuff.co.nz/3976481a28.html
OS X

Submission + - Customize the Mac OS X Login Screen - for Free

An anonymous reader writes: After several hundred times of logging into your Mac you may be tired of looking at the same old login screen. Maybe you'd like to have a customized login screen for your school or employer's workstations. Forget the $10 programs that automate the process, we'll show you how to customize the login screen entirely on your own, for free. It's not as difficult as you might think, and it's a fun way to personalize your Mac a bit more. Be sure to check out the screenshot below for an example of the results. http://osxdaily.com/2007/02/22/customize-the-mac-o s-x-login-screen/

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