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Comment Re:An alternative to the Magic Mouse (Score 3, Informative) 255

They made one glaring design error with the Wacom (Daewoo) Bamboo Touch Tablet. When using in right hand mode, the buttons are on the left (so your thumb can hit it), unfortunately, so is the WIRE. Meaning you can't flush it up against your keyboard or something else. Regardless of where your computer is, in this design, the buttons and wire should be on opposite sides. If you want it on your left side, the wire should hang off the left side, not the right side. That alone says "cheap knockoff".

Comment Re:Really? (Score 1, Insightful) 687

If the unions have contracts that stipulate what cars the manufacturers can produce, that's news to me. Link please.

It's not in there as words as you'd like it to be, but you don't need to be a lawyer to figure out the intent of the contract. New manufacturing methods require new equipment and therefore training. The contracts require that the current workers must be trained by at the expense of the car companies rather than hiring new (and potentially cheaper) workers. So right out of the gate, it's a negative for two reasons. 1) I'm paying a highly-paid employee to sit in training and not be productive, and 2) He'll quit in a few years meaning I'll have to train him, and train his replacement rather than just training a replacement now. The union contract protects against being able to hire potentially better cheaper labor. Secondly, If a new manufacturing method requires less workers, that will be picketed as "jobs will be cut". So yes, in so many words, the "unions have contracts that stipulate what cars the manufacturers can produce".

Idle

Submission + - Chimp found plotting against zoo guests 1

rjshirts writes: In further proof that Planet of the Apes is coming to pass, researchers in Stockholm, Sweden have definitive proof that primates can plan ahead.
From the article: "Santino the chimpanzee's anti-social behavior stunned both visitors and keepers at the Furuvik Zoo but fascinated researchers because it was so carefully prepared.
According to a report in the journal Current Biology, the 31-year-old alpha male started building his weapons cache in the morning before the zoo opened, collecting rocks and knocking out disks from concrete boulders inside his enclosure. He waited until around midday before he unleashed a "hailstorm" of rocks against visitors, the study said."
I think this explains a lot of Cowboy Neal's behavior.......
Television

Norwegian Broadcasting Sets Up Its Own Tracker 187

eirikso writes with an interesting story from Norway; the state broadcaster there has decided to put up some of its content on BitTorrent. "The tracker is based on the same OpenTracker software that the Pirate Bay has been using for the last couple of years. By using BitTorrent we can reach our audience with full quality, unencrypted media files. Experience from our early tests show that if we're the best provider of our own content we also gain control of it."

Comment Hate to Say it. (Score 2, Insightful) 485

I hate to be that curmudgeon old fart, but once they get something, they don't give it back.  And once they start taxing something, it's easier for you to accept new taxes.

But just read and grasp what the whole concept of this is here.  NY wants to TAX you for NOT shopping in their state.  You want to save money by buying online, they want to TAX you for saving money.

I'm not going to get into any Republican vs Democrat ideals here; I just want everyone in NY to understand what is fundamentally happening.  You exercised your right as a consumer to not shop somewhere, and you are being charged for it.

Comment Re:Theory vs. Reality - Seriously (Score 1) 468

>> Meanwhile, crypto-nerds go around scoffing at your primitive WPA wifi encryption
>> and go on to introduce 47 new layers of encryption, all bigger and better than the last,
>> wasting tons of time and money in the process.

Being a nerd, nothing we go overboard on is a waste of time or money.  The value of our project is either proving to ourselves we did it, or gaining practical knowledge we can use elsewhere, like our jobs, where we get paid to do it.

Windows

The Broken Design of Microsoft's "Fix it" Tool 165

$luggo writes "Curious about MS Fix It, I recently went hunting in the MS knowledge base for articles that provide the new EZ-button. After locating on few, I decided to click the button to download the Microsoft Installer package containing the executable and/or files that automatically enable the DVD Library feature in Windows Vista Home Premium and Ultimate — on my XP Media Center. 'Surely, MS will use some scripting, HTTP User-Agent sniffing, or even Genuine Windows validation to verify that I am running Vista,' I thought. It did not and I canceled the download when I received the prompt to save the file. So, I wonder: is there a Fix-it for Fix it? Because I can easily imagine someone doing what I did without scrolling to the bottom of the KB article and verifying that the article applies to their OS/version. This is a great example poor design. Why not simply use the download approach that other articles / fixes / service packs use, whereby the user must select the appropriate OS?"

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