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Comment Re:Already happening (Score -1, Flamebait) 867

How sad.

They could instead, go to MULTIPLE door-to-door deliveries per day.

This would INCREASE the time required, causing a shift to greater hiring, and increased overall employment. Then? More parents could buy cars, eat out and send their kids to college.

You see, the government is NOT a private business, and it does not "lose" money like a corporation, no matter how many MBA's it takes to screw-over a light bulb. In fact, "losing" more money on more postal service and more postal workers means MORE economic long-term gain, overall. This includes those private businesses that need customers. But short-term, zero-sum-game trained business management thinking just wants to eliminate workforce competition by public sector employment, and to create an extractive revenue model out of postal service.

I might remind you that it is postal service that was historically considered one of the foundation pillars for the creation of a nation, as the concept emerged in the late 18th century. You can't really claim to be at all patriotic, if you advocate the national abandonment of infrastructure to profiteers.

Comment Re:Exactly (Score 1) 391

The business model for something like RT comes from the App Store. Problem? No device adoption = no participation by devs in your store. Chicken? Meet egg.

So? Microsoft gives away the RTs at cost to ship. There's a crack in the darkness. It's a last ditch, that sends the "bad money" already accounted for as loss, into possible asset generation.

Meanwhile? Having cheap RT slabs available means the "DVD Johns" take an interest in busting open the loader. A tiny, rounding error of users bother with this - but well worth the doing.

Comment Re:Proof! (Score 1) 78

I was tired of my lady
We'd been together too long
Like a worn-out recording
Of a favorite song
So while she lay there sleeping
I read the paper in bed
And in the personal columns
There was this letter I read

If you like Pina Coladas
And getting caught in the rain
If you're not into yoga
If you have half a brain
If you'd like making love at midnight
In the dunes on the Cape
Then I'm the love that you've looked for
Write to me and escape.

I didn't think about my lady
I know that sounds kind of mean
But me and my old lady
Have fallen into the same old dull routine
So I wrote to the paper
Took out a personal ad
And though I'm nobody's poet
I thought it wasn't half bad

Yes I like Pina Coladas
And getting caught in the rain
I'm not much into health food
I am into champagne
I've got to meet you by tomorrow noon
And cut through all this red-tape
At a bar called O'Malley's
Where we'll plan our escape.

So I waited with high hopes
And she walked in the place
I knew her smile in an instant
I knew the curve of her face
It was my own lovely lady
And she said, "Oh it's you."
Then we laughed for a moment
And I said, "I never knew."

That you like Pina Coladas
Getting caught in the rain
And the feel of the ocean
And the taste of champagne
If you'd like making love at midnight
In the dunes of the Cape
You're the lady I've looked for
Come with me and escape

Submission + - Why you have to stay away of "Locked Bootloaders" and DRM software (iturbide.com)

martiniturbide writes: I want to share my personal experience with "Locked Bootloaders" and DRM software, and why you have to stay away from it. This is a short post about my experience with the "Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet 1" and how DRM software combined with the locked bootloader are making some models of this tablet useless after a software brick, forcing you to pay for a new motherboard.

Submission + - NSA Says It Can't Search Its Own Emails (propublica.org)

An anonymous reader writes: Responding to a Freedom of Information Act request by Justin Elliot, blogger and journalist at ProPublica.com, the NSA regretfully informed him:

"There's no central method to search an email at this time with the way our records are set up, unfortunately," NSA Freedom of Information Act officer Cindy Blacker told me last week. The system is “a little antiquated and archaic," she added.

Maybe a little extra could be included in the next NSA budget for an Outlook license?

Submission + - What Can Lord of the Rings Teach Us About Surveillance? (slate.com)

Jeremiah Cornelius writes: Slate has an article: The Eye of Sauron Is the Modern Surveillance State . Although the insights provided are not necessarily unique, and echo the observations of some like Bruce Schneier, Glenn Greenwald and Chris Hedges, they do illustrate them nicely, through an unexpected allegorical reading of Tolkien's familiar epic. The gist is that unlike most dystopian fantasy — especially the explicitly political variety — Tolkien understood that the minions of absolute power were untrusted by that power, itself. It's also worth reading for the defense of the fantasy-epic genre, which offered Tolkien the opportunity to explore themes like the "distinction between omnipotence and omniscience," that were under-examined in modern idioms, but relevant to Tolkien from a theological interest and connected to the experience under tyranny.

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