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Comment Re:Wrong! (Score 1) 347

Yes, that is indeed a thing. In Rendmond, WA, part of the city has this law in effect. A local business there that I deal with had this issue, they had a chunk of land for "future development", and had a timeline given to them by the city in which it had to be developed, or sold to someone else who would (which, of course, ended up being sold to Microsoft, who practically owns the entire city)

Comment Reports (Score 1) 468

I'm seeing lots of comments telling people to (dont) do daily reports, or similar tasks.

What my team has started doing is using the Trello web site for project management. Each task is added as a card, and then assigned people to work on it. Any notes are then added to the cards. This is by far the quickest system I've ever seen for day-to-day documentation. There is no more spread sheets or paragraphs of text to sort through. The cards themselves represent a summary of events, with more details after opening the cards.

https://trello.com/

Comment IP Geolocation (Score 1) 55

How about we just do IP geolocation of the top two IP addresses each user logs into ANY given service on the web with. Odds are one is "home" and the other is "work"... 50km is pretty damn large for Foursquare, there has been geolocation research which has gotten it down to within a city block or so.

"Write witty paper about it" ...
#PROFIT!

Comment Re:. . . The end of Google . . . (Score 3, Interesting) 294

Are the ads THAT big of a problem on Google's search results?

Searching for "Insurance" on my system with customized results gives me 3 ads. Two of those ads are already the top-2 ranked results, so it is just a redundant result. The Wikipedia article still shows up in the top-ten results. The top-ten results contained both local and national results, all of which have coverage in my area. Beside the results is a map of local insurance companies.

I'd say these are pretty damn quality results. I now know EXACTLY where in town I can go. Addresses and phone numbers are right on the results page, so I don't need to fight through each company's possibly horrible web interface to find their contact information. The Wikipedia article is on there too, so I can get information about what "Insurance" even is.

What more would you like from these results?

Comment Stupid SHIT (Score 2) 340

There is a ton of stupid SHIT being posted here on the slashdot comments. I don't blame the commenters one bit, thought. Why? Because the article was a regurgitated rehashed pile of shit in comparison to the actual Blizzard press release... which was really hard to find, ya'know, being the top post on Blizzard.com after all... A very key detail, the usage of SRP, is completely missed by the article, which is leading to the majority of the confusion here and elsewhere.

http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/securityupdate.html

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