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Comment Re:failing a job interview (Score 1) 108

How about naked in a cave half a mile underground without real-time broadcasts and no cell signals?

No need for that cave, a Faraday cage would do for cell signal blocking.
If you want to be extra careful, the game would be in an anechoic chamber. Any buzzer would sound loud, even if, ahm, hidden.

Comment Re:So? (Score 4, Insightful) 61

One thing is old tech, another is dead tech.
There's no more manufacturers for floppy disks and drives. The only seller in business is recycling the disks.
When you operate multi-million dollar machines that gives multi-million dollar profits, or when life depends on it, you want to solve problems before they happen. You don't wait the brakes of your car to fail to only then replace them. And you replace them because they're worn out, not because they're not fashionable anymore.
If it was with me I'd see a floppy drive as a "ticking time bomb" problem just waiting to happen at the worst moment possible.

Comment Re:This will go nowhere (Score 1) 152

There's more. Surprisingly, the provided-for-free tax filling software doesn't suck, it's easy to use, and it's multiplataform (Java). Now there's even an web app if you don't want to install anything.
And there's a great new feature lately, depending on your Gov.br account status (must be "gold", which is fairly easy to obtain, i.e. using a personal digital certificate to login grants instant gold status), in the web app the forms come pre-filled.
I used the web app like this this year, just reviewed and updated some data, and sent. Done in 15 minutes because I was careful.

Comment Open Source For The Rescue? (Score 1) 152

I don't know much about American tax system, so this maybe can sound like a naive question, but... Isn't this a perfect case for a free and open source software solution? What are the impediments? Complexity? Legal accountability? Does this software needs a permit by IRS?

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