Comment Steering wheel locks (Score 1) 99
Serious question I'm not American; why is it the responsibility of police departments to distribute steering wheel locks?
Comment Re:Nope (Score 1) 741
There are private high schools in Quebec still teaching Latin. Greek however lost favor but my uncle studied it then (c. 1940's). I still have his old Greek primer from high school.
Comment No (Score 1) 615
No. I'm still leasing my car for the next 4 years because of work. Whatever the amount of gas I would save, I would still need to pay for it and the insurance, and a pay cut would certainly hit me. Once I finish my lease, I could reconsidering it.
Comment Re:Wait a minute (Score 1) 456
Yes, I agree. For Lynx, it would definitely be an overkill.
Submission + - New laser makes pirates wish they wore eye-patches 1
vieux schnock writes: The New Scientist has an article about a new laser developed by a company in Farnborough, UK, aiming at deterring modern high-seas pirates. Devised as a "warning shot" to "distract suspected pirates rather than harm them", the meter-wide bean can scan the pirates' 6-metre skiffs and make it difficult for them to aim their AK-47 or rocket-propelled grenades at the ship.
Comment "The Last Component", not really ... (Score 1) 715
Actually, I never got to "The Last Component". As soon as something major broke down, I repaired it or replaced it, but after a while I just bought a new computer with a complete new set of hard drives, CPU, memory, etc. Only the IDE hard drives got to jump from one computer to another but that's about to end as I embark, like everyone, on SATA drives.
Comment KPL (Score 1) 1141
I calculate in Kilometers by litres, you insensitive clod.
Comment Missing option ... (Score 1) 373
Whatever I can leech from my co-workers.
Submission + - Milgram's Experiment: the TV Show.
vieux schnock writes: A controversy has risen over a French television show reproducing Milgram's experiment in front of a live audience. Milgram's original experiment wanted to show "the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts that conflicted with their personal conscience". But this time, it seems that television can play that deadly "authority" figure with more devastating results: While Milgran got 65% of the participants to hit the maximum jolt button, "[in] the final tally, 81 percent of the contestants turned up the juice to the maximum".
Comment Re:Public Service Anouncement (Score 1) 709
No,
All Hallows Day (Nov. 1st) comes after Hallow's eve (Oct. 31st).
Nothing in the Wikipedia article supports your claims.
"Respected" is a bold statement. Lets just say that most Christians don't give a lot of religious / anti-religious meaning to it. it's for the kids to have fun.
Comment In vs Out of the IT Room. (Score 1) 300
I don't mind how things go in the IT room, but once your'e out of it and deal with users and customer support, only one rule: BE NICE!
Comment Re:So.. (Score 1) 590
OK, I can picture a game creator of a war/frag/heavely armed game inviting those reseachers for a focus group session and watch his new realease in action were all protagonists are made of females, Hispanics, Native Americans, children and the elderly.
After the carnage, he turns on the lights and faces his audience with a large smile: "Well, whadyall think ?"
1/3 are speechless, 1/3 fainted, and rest are still fighting over the waste basket to belch in it.
Comment Another link with similar technique. (Score 1) 174
Maybe it's an old story but I found this site that uses the same technique:
http://www.schillmania.com/random/humour/web20awareness/
Online Banking Customers Migrating To Lynx 220
Jibbler writes "Following the recent Pwn2Own competition, in which Firefox, IE8 and Safari all fell quickly to exploits, Netcraft has observed a surge in popularity of the text-based Lynx browser. Netcraft points out that Lynx supports the latest cryptographic ciphers, and at least one online banking site has seen Lynx usage overtake that of Internet Explorer and Firefox. To boost Lynx's excellent security history, Netcraft has even developed a version of its anti-phishing toolbar for Lynx."
Comment Re:well... (Score 1) 703
Rehired ? Sounds like the company had more problems than poor judgment, it also lacked a backbone.
I would have fired the manager and press charges against the tech.
