But hiring competent employees means paying them a fair wage... and we cant have that.

You are assuming that TSA agents can read. I will bet there are some barney fifes wearing that badge that will try and push it on domestic flights.

Art in some countries can tell a copyright holder to STFU legally. IF Canada protects art then do it anyways.

Vegas. Dirt freaking cheap to fly to Vegas mid week from Ohare.

HTC flagship phones can not be disassembled at ALL to remove the battery. in fact the HTC ONE M8 cant be repaired in any way. it's a $700 throw away.

Dear silly grad. your skills in C# are worthless.

Want to make really good money? Learn how to manage an AS400 completely. There are incredibly few that can and there are a LARGE number of companies still using them. So you can demand $65.00 an hour.

Hell my company pays a guy $160 an hour to come in for 10 hours a week to work on our systems. HE WORKS 10 HOURS A WEEK and takes home $1600.

Those of you going into CS are morons, Supporting old tech that companies will not upgrade is where the real money is at.

It's not that the new support staff is incompetent and useless. It's that your company's executives are incompetent and useless.

Gotta love rules that almost enforce a form of slavery.

T-mobile refunds the last 2 years of cellphone service to all customers past and present.

That would be fair and just.

SQL server is down and the boss is in the elevator coming to fire you is a pretty critical bit of information.

I get all kinds of stats from work and home, the Pebble has a full open API that allows me to do whatever I want. the Samsung crap is closed up tight with not even any promises of opening it up yet.

Most neurosurgeon bots are run on old PacMan arcade motherboards. I though that was common knowledge!

here in the USA I can point you at several buildings that have been "for rent" for well over 30 years and have never EVER been occupied. They were built and then sat there.

All over the USA there is crap like that.

I did the same, except I returned to ti Best Buy and got a Pebble instead.

Works a LOT better for what a smart watch is good for, critical Information display.

"GNU/Linux systems just can't seem to get a foothold in the consumer market."

Actually almost 100% of homes in the USA have GNU/Linux systems. Their TV, Their Bluray Players all run Linux. Tons of consumer devices run linux in homes.

Cheaper for Them to increase profit margins.