Offtopic, but I'd drop the A+ certification from your resume. When we get applicants with A+ listed, then we assume that they don't know enough to know that it means nothing and we bin them.

Personally, I'd use your comment as a reason to keep the A+ on my resume. I'd never want to work with people who jump to such conclusions and discriminate over something so trivial.

Not sure who's rating this down but I agree with it. A+ screams geeksquad. We look at A+ as people who have low expectations in life. It's a pretty poor way to look at it, but that's life.

That is a pretty short sighted practice. Just because someone earned an A+ certification at some point in their career doesn't mean they don't know anything. When I was working at my first job, I was doing anything and everything possible to find a way out. One thing on that list was obtaining an A+ certification. Sure, it didn't really help me as I went the development route, but I think it is pretty stupid to write someone off simply because they achieved something that you feel is worthless. Sure, if the only thing on someone's resume is the A+ cert, that is probably not a good sign. But don't throw out the baby with the bathwater.

I hear a lot of praise about DuckDuckGo here on Slashdot. I had Linux Mint installed on one of my laptops. The version of Firefox that comes with Mint hits DuckDuckGo if you use the URL bar to enter search queries. I fucking hated it. DuckDuckGo easily took at least 10 times longer than Google to return results for me. Even if DuckDuckGo gave you absolutely perfect results (which from my experience is no more accurate than Google), I could search Google enough times to find the answer I'm looking for before DuckDuckGo ever responds. I'll stick with Google since their engine returns accurate results quickly.

Let's not pretend that the purpose of guns is not for killing. They are a tool and that is their purpose. You can kill a person or an animal to stop an action but that is the purpose of the person, not the tool. If you fire a gun at a person your expectation is that you will kill. There is an intentionality to firearms. Firearms are a weapon and the purpose of a weapon is to kill.

I aim my gun at a piece of paper with a circle and some lines drawn on it. What is the intention of my gun?

I think frictionless sex would be pretty pointless. But I guess that is the most common type of sex for most Slashdotters.

Does the 4th amendment protect my privacy when I am yelling through the open window at my dogs for pissing on the lemon tree again? I'm certainly not doing it with the goal that everyone within earshot be free to listen...

Obviously Samsung is Madrigal Electromotive...

In the papers context, anyone authorized (police, KGB, GRU, etc.) could stop citizens at any time and ask for their papers

What do you mean, could?

I've been to Russia many times and many times I've seen police demand ID from random people on the street. These people weren't doing anything suspicious either, just walking around. I was asked, in Russian at first, to show my passport while I was simply browsing in a gift shop.

The T and W-series ThinkPads have socketed CPUs.

And the displays can be upgraded.

And the drive is removable, so you can add Blu-Ray or whatever you'd like.

And Lenovo publishes complete manuals with step-by-step instructions detailing how to disassemble everything and how to replace pretty much any part (along with a list of the FRU numbers for said parts.)

And they let you order individual parts (or you can just get them from any number of third party suppliers.)

And replacing CRUs doesn't void the warranty.

Your turn.

The WiFi card in one of my Lenovo laptops was defective, so I ordered a replacement mini-PCI Express card off of Amazon. Card shows up, I pop it in, and BAM, BIOS reports error 1802: Unauthorized network card is plugged in - Power off and remove the miniPCI network card.

Apparently (only some?) Lenovo laptops have a whitelist of approved devices stored somewhere in the BIOS. To get around this, I had to weed out a number of dead links (thanks a lot, Rapidshare) and find a modified BOIS update that removes the whitelist. Without the whitelist, everything works perfectly.

Obvious omission: sexbot

My God! He never took middle school hygiene. He never saw the propaganda film.

So what you're saying is that Republicns are solely responsible for AGW and the US is the only country on the planet that can stop it?

I don't want to ignite my car, so why would I put the keys in the ignition?

Fry: This snow is beautiful. I'm glad global warming never happened.
Leela: Actually, it did. But thank God nuclear winter canceled it out.

This developer is shady. Check the reviews for this game on Google Play. Apparently you can't get very far in the game without buying weapons/upgrades that cost real money. There are a fair number of complaints from people spending $5 for in-game credits, not receiving the credits, and getting no response from the developers.

Want to sound like a fourth grader shilling their science project? Use exclamation marks in your summary.

I'm not sure if the summary has been changed since you posted, but here is what I currently see:

A team from UCLA has developed a new transparent solar cell that has the ability to generate electricity while still allowing people to see outside. In short, they've created a solar power-generating window! Described as 'a new kind of polymer solar cell (PSC)' that produces energy by absorbing mainly infrared light instead of traditional visible light, the photoactive plastic cell is nearly 70% transparent to the human eye â" so you can look through it like a traditional window.

I count a single exclamation mark in the summary. I also only a see a grand total of one exclamation in any of the linked articles (this paragraph is copied verbatim in the summary). Assuming the summary hasn't changed, I have no idea why you were modded +5 Insightful (at the time of this post) for a trivial, and overall worthless complaint that really adds nothing of value to the discussion.

However, if the summary has been edited, then I apologize for my rudeness.