And beat managers over the head with a cluebat, stating "the most damaging phrase in the English language is `We've always done it this way.'"

I know of a few dozen or so managers to this day that needs that cluebat applied to...

And then some.

Remember that disaster in a can? This was during the Big Deal when DSL was the trend maker. The problem with DSL or any ISP service over telecom copper needs to be operating at or on spec. Most of the locations where Pronto was slated to roll out on had crap copper. So guess where the money went? Almost all of it got sunk into infrastructure improvement and service roll out to high income, high density areas, leaving the blue collars and rural folks high and dry.

Take a guess where the FTH is going to be rolled out to. You guessed right, the moneybags districts.

Their mistakes have multiplied greatly over the past 5 years, ranging from basic testing errors that wiped out the hopes for several thousand students, to outages that shackled tens of thousands of applicants for a variety of programs, not just in the academic field.

Questions abound over how they managed to obtain half-billion dollar contracts with states. This stems from non-profit organizations that are attached to the corporate body itself. Plus the heavy-handed lobbying and borderline monopoly they have over the instructional book, testing and exam industry.

Sounds like Pearson needs to come under a congressional audit and grilled until they are past well done.

That is if the eye is not already damaged... If someone has cataracts or similiar myopia and their eye's cannot respond properly, then damage can and will result even during a time exposure that would not damage a normal eye.

There is the point of my concern.

Past the first person with eye problems (particularly photosensitive people) being blinded permanently....

They were both predicted to fail in spectacular fashion due to the already entrenched CDs and VCR cassettes.

Erm, this was postulated by (respectively) RIAA and MPAA...

Both live and strive to this day, despite the industry's best (and worst) efforts.

How do we give TomTom a nice mug of STFU and don't resell, distribute or donate my information?

And it'll be curtains for the data center's infrastructure.

Very, very poor location for a high level center people.

The MAFIAA tried this tactic during the early days of their little war against the pirates, and the judges swatted them down hard.

This bunch never caught the precedence and got smacked for it. Money wasted.

There was talk about a child's version being tested. I think that this might be just that. The adult version is a bit bulky.

At a bank, they put in gold-tinted reflective panels as exterior decoration. Shortly afterward they realized that the reflection was roasting their vehicles. So they called in a contractor and they lightly blasted the panels, making them opaque. I forgot what material they used, probably something soft to keep from knocking too much of the gold coating off, just to soften the mirror finish.

Reprogram them so they can go to work in schools as touchscreen systems for pre-k to 6th graders. They were built to take a beating so a bunch of kids could not put much of a hurt on them, right?

Shades of Raul Julia: "FIIFTY MILLLION!!" And there was great rejoicing (while the ball went down the drain).

Tilting: "Heh heh heh, you're a funny guy!"

That thing sucked more quarters out of my pocket in one day compared to when Gauntlet hit the streets.

I don't think Cousin Itt is ever going to like me; I used him as target practice every time he came up.