I took keyboarding in 6th grade, around 2000. Schools should be teaching it at the middle school level, if not earlier. Calling a high school class 'computer science' when it's just simple keyboarding and common-sense surfing the net is misleading to colleges and not fair to other applicants. Fortunately, my high school actually tought languages, but not much beyond that. Then again I only took the first year since all future years conflicted with my required language class >:( ...

A few times throughout the year, I find that I either receive a neighbor's mail by accident or someone else receives one of my bills, addressed correctly. I know this is a bit of a tangent, but what if one of your neighbors keeps it or operates ID theft?

Well I'd prefer they do research from scholastic, peer-reviewed sources. Even that can be subject to interpretation. Wikipedia is good for general information, but not something you want to rely on. Anyone can decide to edit the article and include something false, intentionally or unintentionally. Other sites can also be unreliable or biased, but this isn't the place to discuss that.

The judge can provide additional information, when asked. Jurors may look something up in the wrong place. For example, the definition of rape is different in Webster's Dictionary, Oxford Dictionary, dictionary.com, urbandictionary.com, a medical dictionary, an encyclopedia, state law, local statute, etc. Likewise, the information on the term she looked up may have been one-sided or directed towards a specific audience or situation.

The irony behind this is, the Patent website does the same thing in its patent searches (try it), except it bolds instead of highlight and it's on a web page and not on a "tool bar". Can the PTO hire competent employees to determine 'prior art'?

Yes. The low level IT guy (or PHB) shouldn't be handling, accessing, or even seeing the information in the first place if s/he isn't responsible and knows how to take proper precautions. That takes a high level of trust having people's lives in your hands, with sensitive information such as social security numbers or informants in dangerous situations. Have low level IT's work with other databases (or tables) under a different user and permission set that don't require such security.

All companies will do is take away the word 'broadband' from everything. People will still buy with commercials saying "$19.99/mo*" and "10x faster than dial-up**". Haven't you learned anything from your company's management? The * and ** will be too small and too fast to read on an 18" TV, 1 foot away.

These companies will still advertise speeds UP TO 5 Mbps. Those words mean zero to me. A cheetah can run up to 70MPH. Does that mean I'll always see it running at 50MPH? They're empty words, though numbers should be generally close to what they imply, or at least have an "ideal" location where a customer actually gets at or very near the maximum speed.

Personally, I'd force them to advertise their median (or mean/"average" if you must). Have them be accurate within x standard deviations or x%.

Yeah, why would you encourage him towards a life of living in his mom's basement, fighting brain-dead management, and with a computer as a girlfriend.

Oh, is that just me?

I'd rather do 4 months and not pay a dime, just like Sunde said. Then again, that' probably not a real option either.

If Sweden's courts are anything like our courts, the courts will adjust their fines to more realistic amounts on appeal.

It's more like they hoped 911 would accept texts. What seems riskier to you: making a phone call and lowering the volume on your phone or pressing keys on your cell phone?

Personally, I wonder whether insufficient information will create more deaths, indirectly. 911 can't text back. What if your phone makes noise when a text is received? How are police supposed to know what they need to do? Do they need SWAT? Where is s/he exactly? Sure, we think we can just rely on the police to do something, but they're people too. Without more information, they're going into the unknown and take more risk.

Yeah, it's boring with the same architecture we have now. But imagine if someone came up with a creative solution besides the current memory model. Memory management is probably hideous on a 1000-core system; they seemed to pose that lightly in the article.

This might even be a solution for a particular type of dedicated computer, not a personal computer.

Well, Microsoft isn't avoiding taxes in Washington by "selling" from Nevada. Oh, right, they are.

Are interstate commerce excise taxes somewhat proportional to international tariffs? I'd like corporations to feel a pinch of pain when they export, just like what I feel with my small business. Then again, corporations have less personal liability.

I probably use custom install, though it probably works on quick install too:

Instead of blindly accepting the license agreement, click the next/accept button. The checkbox says something like "I accept the above agreement and would like to install the Ask Toolbar". Notice the "and". You do not need to check any of these checkboxes to continue installation.

Out of all the computers I've built, I've only had the Ask toolbar installed once, and that might've been when they truly forced you to install it, or I might've checked that box like everyone else.

No, the central lesson of modern business is to cheat but don't let people catch you.

If you're that worried about the paper, why do you stick it in the trash? That's one part of the year I actually use my white recycling bin.

Plus, there are charity recycling programs out there for new/used phone books.

They consolidated our White & Yellow pages a few years ago and now it's only published yearly, though I still don't use it.

Just turn JavaScript off and you'll get the higher 3.50% every time ...

Seems like something's up with their variables; A different cg variable causes a different rate for the same zip code.