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Comment Re:Advice : do it from home exclusively. (Score 2) 353

That depends on what state he lives in. Several states (e.g., Kansas, among others) have laws which state that work done on your own time with your own resources is yours, and any contract clauses which state otherwise are null and void.

As always, OP should consult a lawyer, as even if such a law exists in his state, there may be finer details which could still prevent him from developing his plug-ins.

Comment Re:We're so screwed. (Score 1) 237

And when it comes to suspected criminals, it is trivially easy to convince the mob that the suspect deserves no protections. When it comes to the rights of the accused, I would much rather follow the fourth amendment than a bunch of scared/angry people who probably couldn't even tell you what the fourth amendment is about.

Comment Re:Sanders amazes me (Score 5, Informative) 395

but then goes for batshit insane politics that would push us back to the worst part of the soviet experiment.

Examples?

I looked him up to see what was so crazy, and all I found was:

  • support for campaign finance transparency (DISCLOSE Act)
  • opposition to concentrating media into a few corporations
  • support for universal health care
  • support for LGBT equality
  • opposition to the bank bail-outs when they were fast-tracked through in 2008
  • a bill increasing veteran disability compensation
  • and a co-sponsoring of a bill to fix the VA.

None of that seems all that crazy or dangerous to me

Comment Re:She has a point. (Score 1) 628

For example, a simple search for "LaTeX" (typesetting) yields pornography on some search engines.

FYI, if you Google "TeX", nearly every result on the first page is for LaTeX. The two exceptions are an IMDB page for a movie and a Google Finance page for the TEX stock. It also helps that there is a tex.stackexchange.com site.

Comment Mobile device (Score 1) 446

The summary states that it's only a few GB of data, so why not put it all on an SD card and keep it on your person? You shouldn't have to worry about temperature extremes that way, as even in the case of a home fire in the middle of the night, you'll want to take it along with you to call 911 as you rush you and your family out the door.

Naturally, you'll still want to encrypt it in case your phone is lost/stolen, but it's probably by far the safest, easiest, and most secure solution.

Comment Re:Is that the best sales pitch they can offer? (Score 4, Insightful) 105

The advantages are those which aren't listed: the appliances will *also* send that recipe and ingredient list to your HMO so they can jack up your rates and to advertisers who can then send you targeted advertising.

Oh, you wanted features for individuals? Well, the main feature is that eventually you won't be able to purchase a device *without* IoT

Comment Re:UAC - A Double Edged Sword (Score 4, Informative) 187

If you need to use COM components, and you don't want to require admin rights, you register them in HKEY_CURRENT_USER instead of HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT. After that, it just works.

The sad part is, it would have not have taken any more time to Google that than to find how to disable UAC through the installer.

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