You're like a generation behind on your reasons not to have a phone. Nobody has a phone so they can make phone calls wherever they are anymore. Now you have to say "I have no need to look up directions, reviews, navigate, use maps, communicate with my friends, take pictures, travel, reference information, access the portal of all accumulated knowledge of mankind and the greatest invention of all time or participate in modern day life in any other conceivable way."

Russia sold an air craft carrier for $20 million? If I would have known this would have been just what I've been waiting for, as I've wanted to live on an air craft carrier set in the middle of the lake near my house.

Exchange sucks. It's incredibly expensive, incredibly inefficient, and incredibly prone to problems. Every company where I've used it I've had issues. It seems the only reason IT people recommend it is to keep the helpdesk employed.

NY could have saved a million dollars by using google apps for education, which has the benefit of actually being able to perform a service to the people who are supposed to be able to use it and had the benefit of being free.

When the options are hassle and cost free vs. pile of exchange, I don't understand why anyone chooses exchange.

I agree with others saying to start your own business. If you're not into that, look for startups. Startups will be more willing to look at your skill-set rather than a big corporation that use education credentials so that non-informed people can make somewhat informed hiring decisions. Startups are also more likely to give you a more impressive title, giving you further resume cred for future jobs.

I do not have any formal higher education and have gone up against a slew of more impressive resumes (masters degrees, etc.) for my last few jobs. If you know you're stuff and you're dealing directly with people rather than procedures and an H.R. department it won't be a problem.

Claiming that they are infringing unknowingly is a nice idea, except for the fact that these guys ARE SPONSORING THE VERY LAW WHICH THEY ARE BREAKING. To claim that they are breaking the law unknowingly is claiming that they don't understand the law they are passing. This is a far more frightening prospect.

Also, what sort of law includes ignorance as an excuse for breaking it?

You're reading stories on slashdot and commenting on them. I'd say it's more than just possible...

This kid is clearly a rebellious brat who hates the system. Sit him down, force him to go through school like everyone else, and kill any drive he has before it gets out of hand!

I've noticed that the time circuits inside a standard time traveling DeLorean have 123 at the top. I imagine this must be the organization you are most used to, since you clearly time traveled here from a time when people used dedicated calculators and manually dialed phone numbers.

First of all the storm was a pile of steaming turd, second of all the tech they used is not even close to what this article is talking about. This is saying you'd be able to feel the buttons before you press them.

Hire and continue to employ people you trust. If you don't trust them to be responsible with their internet usage, why are you paying them? The only thing web monitoring will do is let them know that you don't trust them, and give them permission to act in an untrustworthy manner.

If the merger goes through and AT&T lowers their prices as a result, I will eat my hat.

Just remember that at 20 cents per message to send and 20 cents to receive (40 cents per message), it will cost $61,000,000 to transfer your mp3 collection over tcp/sms.

http://gthing.net/the-true-price-of-sms-messages

That's exactly why the strategy is so genius. You remove the anxiety associated with switching to a new operating system, so people can try it out without being scared that they'll be stuck with it. In the case of Apple, most people stick with OS X because they find it to be better than Windows. So Apple allowed support for competitor products on their platform but people don't end up using it. It's one of the most genius marketing moves of the last ten years.

But what is the benefit to the average end user of having an intel processor over a Power PC processor?

Being able to run Windows natively.

I've convinced a lot of people to switch to Macs, and nobody cares that they have intel processors. They care that they can install Windows if they can't figure out how to use OS X. That was the entire strategy behind releasing bootcamp; let people try OS X without the risk of giving up the system they already know. It's a genius move because it's counter-intuitive to support competing products on your platform for no apparent financial benefit, but it opened the flood gates to timid Windows users who just didn't want to take a $1500 risk on a scary-looking new OS. Bootcamp is a warm cuddly blanket, but it worked as a strategy because everyone just ends up using OS X because it's superior (well, okay I know one person who runs Windows on their Mac full time).

This would be a really good weapon. Seriously - grab a giant asteroid and slam it into North America.