Comment Re:What's a "Sneaker Tech"? (Score 0) 414
Refers to technicians who are on-call inside the building, usually walking to wherever the problem is, hence 'sneaker tech'.
Comment Nowadays? (Score 0) 414
It's normal. With the economy and the dwindling amount of resources being set aside to IT in companies, you can expect to see the tech to end-user ratio reach 1:1000 often.
Comment Re:Fishy... (Score 0) 242
It's 72 virgins. Get it right.
Hand Written Clock
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a3buster writes "This clock does not actually have a man inside, but a flatscreen that plays a 24-hour loop of this video by the artist watching his own clock somewhere and painstakingly erasing and re-writing each minute. This video was taken at Design Miami during Art Basel Miami Beach 2009."
Comment Google Webpage Removal Request Tool (Score 0) 888
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=92865
That's at least one giant step in the right direction.
Comment Seems reasonable... (Score 0, Flamebait) 520
Is this some kind of hit piece to try and convince people not to use Verizon instead of AT&T? If you use data, it seems reasonable to me to charge a fee even if you just made "a mistake". It's not like international roaming is any more lenient.
As for early termination fees increasing, that's what gets you nice phones for cheap. I don't really see a problem with these fees since they are making phones more affordable given that you would have a phone plan anyway.
Dashboard Reveals What Google Knows About You 260
CWmike writes "Ever wonder exactly what Google knows about you? Google took a step today to answer that question with the unveiling of Google Dashboard, which is designed to let users see and control the copious amounts of data that Google has stored in its servers about them. 'Over the past 11 years, Google has focused on building innovative products for our users. Today, with hundreds of millions of people using those products around the world, we are very aware of the trust that you have placed in us, and our responsibility to protect your privacy and data,' Google said in a blog post today. 'In an effort to provide you with greater transparency and control over their own data, we've built the Google Dashboard.' Dashboard is set up so that users can control the personal settings in each Google product that they use. Google said the tool supports more than 20 products, including Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Web History, YouTube, Picasa, Talk, Reader, Alerts and Google Latitude. Consumer Watchdog said in a statement today that it applauds Google for giving users a single place to go to manage their data. But at the same tine, the group also came down hard on Google, contending that it needs to give users a vehicle for stopping the company from collecting any personal data."
Comment Two words... (Score 0) 843
No shit.
I'm sure any other Windows OS shortly after launch is susceptible to many viruses as well.
Rise of the Robot Squadrons 245
Velcroman1 writes 'Taking a cue from the Terminator films, the US Navy is developing unmanned drones that network together and operate in 'swarms.' Predator drones have proven one of the most effective — and most controversial — weapons in the military arsenal. And now, these unmanned aircraft are talking to each other. Until now, each drone was controlled remotely by a single person over a satellite link. A new tech, demoed last week by NAVAIR, adds brains to those drones and allows one person to control a small squadron of them in an intelligent, semiautonomous network.'
Comment Free Viagra! (Score 0) 179
Why can't -I- sue people for emailing me mindless spam?
Comment Re:LyX (Score -1) 823
'Steep learning curve' goes both ways.
As does your mother.
On topic: It depends what you you designate the X and Y axes.
Say you have your typical exponential (steep) curve. If you call your X axis "Time Spent" and the Y axis "Knowledge Gained", then the curve represents something easy. If you switch your axes around, the curve represents the opposite.
Comment Re:Pff! (Score -1) 709
Especially those of us who enjoy underage girls dressed in skimpy costumes coming to our houses.
Companies To Invade Your Retinas As Soon As Next Year? 245
Engadget is one of many reporting that Brother and NEC both seem to have retina display technology in the works for release next year. Brother, at least, seems to have a fully functional prototype, while so far NEC is mostly talk. "Naturally, there are a few considerable limitations compared to more traditional displays, but the company's as yet unnamed goggles do promise to beam an 800 x 600 image directly into your retina that'll appear as a 10-centimeter wide image floating about one meter in front of them -- which is certainly no small feat, even if it may not be the most practical one. Slightly less specific, but also working on a retina display of its own is NEC, which apparently hopes to incorporate a microphone into their display and use it as a real-time translation device that would quite literally display subtitles as you talk to someone."
Comment Re:Space program over 40 years old... (Score -1) 703
I'm sure any gay friend of yours would be willing to focus on Uranus.
AT&T Suggests To 300K Employees To Lobby the FCC 239
Several readers sent in the news that AT&T's top lobbyist sent a letter to all 300,000 employees urging them to give feedback to the FCC as it gears up for rulemaking on net neutrality. He even supplied talking points approved by the PR department. The lobbyist, Jim Cicconi, suggested that employees use their personal email accounts when they weigh in with the FCC. Pro-net-neutrality group Free Press has now likened Cicconi's letter to astroturfing: "Coming from one of the company’s most senior executives, it’s hard to imagine AT&T employees thinking the memo was merely a suggestion."
