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Comment Re: Cell phones must stop broadcasting MAC address (Score 1) 189

[...]it should not automatically connect to an insecure network that it has never seen before.

Well, if that's what you meant, then you're in luck. As you originally wrote, "There needs to be an update to iOS and Android that gives users the option to disable this feature." That's not necessary, because there are (and have always been) a grand total of two toggles in the Wi-Fi settings on iOS: "On/Off" and " Ask to Join Networks ."

Comment Re:What a dick (Score 1) 248

I would just shrug and go, "Huh. That was an expensive mistake... managers just don't understand workplace economics these days." Then walk out.

Firing an employee is the worst thing for a company. It removes the employee's expertise, disrupts current operations, then requires retraining of other employees to cope.

All of this presumes that the employee's position won't simply be eliminated. Considering that this happened during a conference call during which potentially hundreds of layoffs were announced, it's quite probable that the standard economic model doesn't necessarily apply.

Comment Re:and how do you resolve the paradox (Score 1) 772

Seriously, bearing in mind that there are non-fictional species on Earth that can effectively change their reproductive systems within their own lifetimes

You may want to look into what some animals on Earth are capable of.

And then he went on to give me examples of things about which I'd already written, as quoted. Of course, that I wrote about it seemed to imply that I already knew this.

Comment Re:and how do you resolve the paradox (Score 1) 772

With sex being a changeable characteristic, labels like "mother" and "father" get confusing....

...to your limited human understanding. Seriously, bearing in mind that there are non-fictional species on Earth that can effectively change their reproductive systems within their own lifetimes, that's hardly the most imaginative, alien concept ever to pass through the canon of the Doctor.

Comment Re:So... How worrying is this, really? (Score 1) 180

historically in much of the world cooking was done apart from living spaces - either outside or in an alcove or courtyard. So many of today's houses and apartments really are not that well thought out, if you stop to think about it.

Oh, yes, especially considering how often we cook by burning wood or charcoal inside our homes today. It's a wonder that no one has pointed out the danger of our anachronistic cooking methods before.

Comment Re:Probably wanted to drop pre-WDDM (Score 1) 251

It's sensless to compare software and cars age-wise.

Cars get degraded as the years pass. Software is identical, it's not worn of or anything like that.

Although it's true that the car analogy was highly flawed, it's also unwise to imply that Windows installations do not degrade over time. There was a time, in the not-too-distant-past, when Microsoft would recommend periodic re-installation of Windows.

Comment Re:My theory (Score 1) 1010

I don't know what kind of applications you run to need 8gb of ram; video editing, big games?

Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom, and image files at either ~21MP or 5300 DPI (depending on whether I used a full-frame DSLR or scanned 35mm negatives). At a mere 16GB RAM in my primary workstation, I'm due for an upgrade.

Comment Re:Truly sad (Score 1) 102

Right, so like going to a store and asking for a product that they don't have and being directed to similar products. As mentioned in the case and equally insane.

Oh, I'm fully supportive of Amazon's business model, and believe that the lawsuit had no merit; the judge should have hurled the gavel into the general direction of the plaintiff's lawyers heads. It's simply quite wearisome to watch people comment on things they haven't made the most basic effort to understand.

(I know full well that the response to that should be "welcome to Slashdot.")

Comment Re:Truly sad (Score 4, Interesting) 102

Go to a store and you'll generally see competing products next to each other and that's okay. But try to do something similar on-line?

...writes the person who clearly didn't read the article. I say that because if you did, you'd know that the products in question quite specifically aren't actually available on Amazon.com.

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