Given how inaccurate I've found FourSquare to be (I can be standing 6 feet from a store, and it can't find it... and when I search by name, I find oodles of variations of the name because people can't spell. Maybe it's Tonys, maybe it's Tony's, maybe it's Tony's Pizza, maybe it's Tony's Pizzeria, maybe it's Tonys Pizza Place, etc...) I don't see how the data collected could ever be very useful...

I'm more bothered by the fact that they came and took anything from the developer's desk. Yes, sure, the monitor belongs to the company. But once you've allocated a resource to a person, you don't just come take it. If the accountant really, really needed the monitor, you contact the developer first and ask him - "Hey, Joe, we have a crisis - Bob over in accounting doesn't have a monitor, and several reports are due by tomorrow for the SEC filing. Can he borrow your second monitor?" And if Joe says "No, I have a deadline to meet also." then you go out and buy Bob a monitor and be done with it.

Me too... not because I want to... because someone sent me a package that I had to go pick up. The reason for 15 people being in line was because there was only one person working behind the counter (built to have 4 clerks), and he was competing with a snail to see who could be the slowest living creature on earth.

I think the only reason some people still use the Post Office is they don't want to pay FedEX or UPS. Meantime, USPS is losing money charging the lower fees it charges.

I think UPS/FedEX plus email will kill it.

Or, maybe the administration thinks it needs more money for infrastructure because it is unwilling to dump all the unnecessary entitlement programs. And because the administration is spending a lot of money in military operations around the world. Dump a bunch of those entitlements, and stop solving the world's problems, and suddenly we can afford to deal with our own problems.

Really?

Don't!

I pay for the water I use... I wouldn't let my neighbor fill their pool or water their lawn from my faucet.
I pay for the phone I use... I wouldn't run a line across the yard for my neighbor to share my phone.
I pay for the electricity I use... I wouldn't run a line across the yard for my neighbor to share my electric service.
I pay for the internet service I use... why on earth would I just give that away for free to anyone who just wandered by!?!?!?!

Totally agree!

Install "Kidoz" - a kid friendly front end to the internet. http://kidoz.net/plus/index.html

Some people can drive AND use a cell phone safely. Some people cannot. In fact, some people cannot drive without being distracted by a story on the news radio station, or because they are fiddling with the radio controls, or turning around to yell at their kids in the back seat. I know a person who drove into a telephone pole while doing so. I once saw a guy driving a car (with a famous insurance company's name prominent on the side) who had a laptop in the passenger seat, and kept turning to type on the computer while driving!!! This kind of legislation will never fix the problem. Some people will always find something to fiddle with, become distracted, and kill themselves and/or someone else. Unless we ban cars and go 100% mass transportation :-)

The kits need "vigorous" testing? Really? The dictionary defines vigorous as characterized by forceful and energetic action or activity; "a vigorous hiker"; "gave her skirt a vigorous shake". So, these kits have to be violently shaken while being tested? The testers have to jump up and down 'vigorously' while testing? Or could it be the kits should be ' rigorously ' tested, as in rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard; "rigorous application of the law"; "a strict vegetarian"

Just for fun I enabled the text-to-speech on my iPad. It's so bad, it's laughable. The guild has nothing to worry about because only someone desperate would use that sucky text-to-speech instead of a good audio book.

I follow primarily websites that provide news, such as New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNet, PBS, IBM, Time, New Scientist, Scientific American. I also follow a few people that I find interesting and informative. Twitter is the internet equivalent of the crawler across the bottom of a TV newscast or sportscast, except it's hyperlinked and I can click to get details. P.S. I qualify for senior discounts...

This thread is exactly why I'd never ask a question on SlashDot. You wanted recommendations on websites, books, and other resources. What do you get? Tons of comments about how useless calculus is, or how useless statistics is, or what sciences use which one(s), and on and on. Sure, there's probably some good recommendations in here. Is it worth digging though 343 comments to find the handful that are useful? Not to me.