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Comment Car Inspection (Score 1) 286

Why not make it compulsory to get networkable devices certified to be malware-free every year just as cars need to go through statutory vehicle inspections? If bandwidth is such an important resource, shouldn't we consider networkable devices to be potentially dangerous and perhaps consider the idea of requiring a license for ownership?

Comment the IRC typing course (Score 1) 705

I'm in the IT line. I've never attended a typing course in my life but i self-taught myself touch-typing on some freeware, once in QWERTY, once in DVORAK and in either case it took a little less than three weeks. The real speed came from chatting in IRC. My sister is not in the IT line, she went through the same IRC "course" and she types just a little slower than I. As useful as touch typing is - I think it's trivial to pick it up when compared to something as deep as reading and arithmetic. All that being said, I realized that my own way of typing back then was not very much different than the "correct" fingering. When speed matters, we will all develop our own optimal way of typing - which should, IMHO, on average, converge on the prescribed "correct" method.

Comment Non P2P Substitute (Score 2, Interesting) 251

Personally, while my demand for content has actually changed, I am also preferring streaming video to downloads. While content made available via tube sites are much more closely managed and gets deleted more frequently than before, fresh content goes on them more quickly than before. Watching RAWs has become a great substitute to recording. Quality used to be a bigger factor for me, but now it's more of instant gratification - pretty much like radio. The internet itself is now my library.

Comment Bad business decision? (Score 1) 376

I thought creating images is a company's business strategy to gain competitive advantage, essentially the equivalence of raising QC level to lower customer dissatisfaction? If circumstances cause a competitive edge to become a burden, isn't it simply a bad business decision that nobody else needs to be responsible for?

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