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Comment Re:didn't ask the right people (was: Re:Yes) (Score 1) 646

Actually I spend alot of time coding. I do it from home, the road, on airplanes, hotels, etc.

The downside of this is keeping the screen clean. Matte screens pick up just as much gunk as glossy. But with glossy its easier to get it completely clean. Granted the glossy screens tend to be much brighter and therefore fingerprints and gunk show up right away but at least it can get it clean. Now with my personal workstation its differient. There is no-one stupid enough to suffer the wrath of my baseball bat and touch my workstation screen. No fingerprint issue so my workstation uses a matte screen.

Regardless, for anything that is going to leave the control of my personal office its glossy screen all the way.

Comment why is anyone surprised? (Score 2, Informative) 103

When you do a billing and explain exactly what sensitive information you are going to be talking about far in advance of the event. How is anyone surprised when the people to whom are actually sensitive to that information object. If your going to drop an informational bombshell it needs to be a surprise.

If your not dropping an informational bombshell then likely you are just trying to get attention and wasting everyones time.

Comment Judge needs education regardin teh intra-web-tubes (Score 0, Flamebait) 250

Me thinks that this judge and or the attorneys involved in this exercise in stupidity; need to be re-educated.

Basically if someone exercises their right to free speech and anonymously posts lies about you on the internet they are a TROLL. If someone exercises their right to free speach and anonymously posts an unfortunate truth about you on the internet you will just have to live with it. It's not something that anyone needs to sue over.

I dont know which this is, but I truely do not care. If I post that your mother intimately cosorts with farm animals and it isn't true then I am a TROLL. If it is true then it is unfortunate but hopefully nothing more.

This crap only makes the news because of how retarded it is.

Canadian Judge Orders Disclosure of Anonymous Posters 250

debrain writes "The Globe and Mail is reporting that Google and a newspaper called The Coast must disclose all information they have about the identity of individuals who posted anonymous comments online about top firefighters in Halifax. The story in question is titled 'Black firefighters file human rights complaint,' and there are some heated opinions in the comments."

Comment RE: Sat Phones (Score 3, Interesting) 103

Yes but there is already infrastructure in place to combat CC fraud. Granted in India its not a good or reliable system but its a system none the less. And sat phones can be tracked whereas IMEI-less cell phones are not especially trackable.

Basically they are just forcing all their cellular networks to refuse connection to phones lacking IMEI numbers. This is hardly an international crisis. It just means that people are going to have to pay for their phone calls or pay to call in their bomb threats. No more free rides.

Comment THREE RULES OF ROBOTICS ERR RELATIONSHIPS (Score 1) 1146

Female geeks tend to be more intelligent and more independent. Their relationships frequently go sideways because their independence causes to refuse to compromise.

There are only three important things to consider.

First. Think of this like programming with ramming with rules. Together you create rules. Dont break them.

Second. Compromise. Successful relationships with independent women fail unless you can compromise. Always establish that you are compromising when it happens. It should never be assumed.

Third. Sex. Never compromise on sex. Humans are hardwired the associate sex and partnering up. When you stop having sex either you are your partner start looking for a new partner. Especially if she is independent. This is Hardwired. If you have friends that are new parents. You can observe this bug in the wild. Offspring tend to end ones sexlife for a while for various medical reasons. If both partners are extremely faithful the only perceived result is some sub-conscience guilt about considering sex from other sources; when they are less faithful its a little crazy how fast they start looking.
There was a female author who wrote a book about how having sex every day for a year had a near miraculous resurrection effect of her almost completely failed marriage. Sex = Not just important to men. Women tend to assume that after you are hitched that sex isnt that important. Maybe that was true in 1920 or 1950 but in 2009? Not even close to true. Any woman who believes that has a divorce to look forward to.

Comment scams and profit (Score 2, Insightful) 122

Rarely do fake pyramid scam companies collect real income in a recession with the increasing number of sufficient savvy consumers increasing. Therefore they must get their employees to pay the company instead of paying their employees. Its a law of reverse proportions scams (I made that law up).

Step 1 Create fake miracle product.
Step 2 Hire employees as product advocates swearing by the awesome majesty of imaginary hardware/service.
Step 3 Convince employees to pay employer instead of being paid themselves.
Step 4 PROFIT!!!!!!!!!! and Create a new identity to hide from the multi-state angry mob of rightfully vengeful customers.

Comment I wish these lawyers were argueing common sense (Score 1) 324

I hope this gets modded up enough that people read it. An important point occured to me while read some earlier replies. The border issue is one of import control. The data on a laptop should be exempt. There is nothing there that the border has a right to search. Here is the simple and strangely not obvious reason why. The internet. There is no data on a laptop that they could possibily prevent from entering or leaving the country even if they searched each and every laptop or ipod and cell phone. Anything on your laptop could be sent through the internet. The only thing that giving them access to your data does is allow unwarrented and unreasonable access to your private life or the trade secrets of your company or business that the government cant legally get any other way. If they cant stop the data from entering or leaving the country anyways then there is no point where they actually have import control. If you are crossing with illegal drugs that is an import control issue. Drugs can physically stopped at the border if found. Data cannot be import controlled so they cant stop it or control the flow of it. Data lacks a neccisary physical component required for the flow of it to be controlled at the border. And it definetely lacks the physical component that makes a search of your bag acceptable. Bottom line. They want into your life. They want access to your medical info, your family info, your private life, your financial info, your company data. There is a huge untapped data market that the domestic spying programs would give their left eyes to get their hands on. And they know they dont have the right to the info which makes them want it more. Its also likely that there is a border agent out there that has a person collection of comondeered private photos copied off unsuspecting travelers. How do you feel about border agents copying perfectly legal private naked pictures of your girlfriend or wife? What checks and ballances are available to make certain there is no abuse of the system?

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