In an unrelated story US Government Officials today announced the seizure of large amounts of heroine cocaine and guns at the house of all the guys names mentioned in the article. Government spokesmen said today "Definitely not planted. Definitely not planted. We are excellent drivers". All above mentioned persons have been placed in a prison of our choosing and will be arraigned to answer their charges in 16 to 24 years.

I bought a Nexus 4 approx. 2 months ago, and one of the options was wireless charging. I jumped on it. Cost 60 bucks. It works well, the only issue is that I bought a 3rd party case for the phone, and the charger which is shaped like a ball with 2 slides taken out of it such that there are 2 surfaces with different angles, allows the phone to slide off the charger. It usually happens slowly, taking an hour or two. Taking the phone out of the case stops the problem. My solution is to put the phone on the charger at an angle, so that the phone doesn't like down. Not a google problem, but a problem all the same. Aside from that it charges well

Why would you doubt what Oracle says about their free competition. They don't have an agenda. It's all completely above board. Certainly no one here at slashdot will doubt what you say.

The biggest problem with successfully implementing biometrics right now is the perception that the public has that you can take a number generated by a finger print reader and make a usable finger print. Having said that there is also the issue of false positives and false negatives. I doubt it will really circumvent much fraud, because much of it is online where fingerprint reading never comes into it. (Source is a 2009 LexisNexis study behind a paywall). It will stop the casual thief and maybe some cards that get stolen by a pickpocket and quickly used to rack up some bills.

The reality is, no matter how much something will help people, if it doesn't make the medical behemoth more money or heaven forbid will make them lose money, they won't do it. In fact, if a "cure" for insulin had been found and bought by pfizer (as an example) and shelved, it wouldn't surprise me at all.

It seems to me that while this is good, the FAA should be concentrating more on the bad press from the security nonsense and unreasonable searches (why I don't fly into the US any more) than worrying about using my iCrap on take off and landing.

When I was in university, my buddies had a phone number that closely matched a big pizza place. If you hit the second number twice, you got his phone. It was funny at first and then got annoying, so if the phone rang after 11, there was a good chance it was an order. We would answer appropriately, and take orders. We would even hit the computer keyboard making it sound like we are typing in the information. Well, one day it happened, we got a complaint call from a customer wondering where their pizza was. Redial is awesome. So we told her we ate it and promptly hung up the phone. Misspent youth? No!

It's our turn I guess. My company has MAPS (Microsoft Action Pack Subscription) which will expire in february. Had it for 10 years. I sent an email asking if they were for real, and I got a message back along the lines "We are no longer accepting emails, go to the forums". We don't spend all that much with microsoft, maybe 20 or 30K a month as a VAR, and this just feels like a kick in the teeth.

I have created some amazing new software that will allow entry to virtually all vehicles. It's called Crowbar 1.0 and it is available in your trunk today.

At work we use some accounting software called business vision.

The software is not cheap. For our 10 users it was north of 15K, but worth it as it had some tools we needed.

One of those tools was payroll, for which they supplied updates for a couple hundred bucks a year.

So i went to buy the payroll tax update a couple of years later and they said that payroll is not supported by the version we are using.

Now here's the kicker.

They said we had to update to the most recent version of the software. Fine how much is that. Well it's only available to subscribers. Fine we'll subscribe to the updates. Well you have to pay for all the previous year's subscriptions as well as the current to get the update. lol

So we bought some tax software for hundred bucks a year and I will do my best to ensure that Sage/Business Vision never gets another penny of my money.

I sometimes feel that the cost of "freedom" seems affordable because it is paid by other people. It's other peoples kids that get killed in a war, it's sad, but it doesn't affect you directly and intimately. But I wonder how someone would feel if their daughter was raped and killed in a place where one of those cameras was taken down. Yes yes, it would probably have happened anyway, but if there was even a 5% chance that it wouldn't happen, how would you feel about that? Is there really any expectation of privacy on a public street? If someone walks by you, should they turn away so that they can't see what you are doing?

Come on, no one with supermodel? What's wrong with you guys. Geeze.

It's the Slashdot way!

How does that old saying go? Screw me once, shame on you. Screw me twice, Shame on me. Or let me put it another way. Look Dad, I know i have wrecked 2 cars already, but I promise I won't wreck this next one.