If I'm messing around at work wasting time it means my brain isn't currently functioning. I've usually been sitting at my desk working on a problem for the last few hours and I need time to get up and let my mind unwind. The reason I consider this important because if I don't do this I will just sit at my desk staring blankly off into space. I don't know why but it helps me to break up what I'm doing. I consider these productive interruptions. My brain gets to go back to the problem and start solving it again with a relatively fresh start.

So basically what I'm saying is a certain amount of fucking around is important, as long as the work gets done. It's for the same reason that when I tell my boss I'm not really feeling it today he says "go home if you want". It beats me sticking around getting paid to do nothing but fill a desk. (large difference here is I'm hourly, worker owned cooperative)

Google will win the search engine war because you don't tell your friends to Bing! the latest flash game or Yahoo! that one sports video.

I work in an IT department that consists of myself, a coworker and my boss/manager. We support all computers in two buildings, maintain the entire network and infrastructure, write all of the software, maintain the website, phone system, databases (5+), as well as our computer connection to a radio, and the computers in our taxis. I can be writing Java one minute and be called to replace a keyboard the next. I don't mind and honestly it breaks up the monotony of writing code. We do all of this with 3 people supporting 220+ employees. Needless to say we don't use Windows.

The parent wasn't complaining about the insurance companies being robbed. It is your co-workers who pay for your insurance when you cannot. If enough people are so "depressed" that they can't work the insurance company will adjust its rates if it continues long enough. That is exactly why your insurance goes up, because your company is costing the insurance company more to cover you.

While I agree an insurance company has no business using Facebook for determining a case they do have the right to investigate fraud. Keep in mind insurance companies have a whole slew of their own "trusted" professionals that are on their pay role and look after their best interest, not the insured's.

Is it just me or are all these companies being a little quick to pounce on Google for this one?

'Instant-on is about being able to access your Internet applications in one second. Seven seconds is too long,' Hobbs (CEO of Phoenix Technologies) said. 'There is no such thing as "cold boot" for today's mobile PCs such as netbooks and smartbooks. You should be able to use your netbook like you use your smartphone -- a press of a button and you are "on."'

It takes my android phone a good minute to boot up and load the OS. I'm pretty sure palm and blackberry are just the same. The only reason our smartphones are "instant-on" is because they are already "on" and just standby.

"Since a common excuse for piracy is "try before you buy," they also looked at the related iPhone DeviceIDs to see how many of the pirates went on to purchase the game. None of them did."

Must have been a shitty game then.

To prove such power won't be abused all elected positions should have the tracking system installed in every vehicle that they use for a year long trial period.

So you're saying you've never referenced other work in anything you have ever created?

He shouldn't have to pay them shit. He took a schedule that is public knowledge and made it better, thus the original work.

Any time you read something you are scraping it. By your standards if I then repeat that knowledge to someone else I should pay a license for that privilege. Try again.

The only difference here being is he probably created an automated process to scrape the data.

Imagine if I were to be sued because my grocery list named all the items by their brand name, it would be equally retarded and frivolous.

The metro north transit has a copyright on the schedule they produced, i.e. styling, layout but they cannot copyright the data within it. If he scrapes the data by hand entering or even an automatic reading of the page and produces a new schedule with it it is an original work.

IANAL, but this my understanding of copyright law.

I hope he can fight this, perhaps the EFF will step in on his behalf.

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

The purpose it serves is to express her freedom of speech. She needs no other reason, other people can held liable for their own actions.

Something you are forgetting is police officers serve the public and are on public payroll, thus their jobs are public information and so is what they do.

Now doctors on the other hand are not on public payroll (for the time being), especially abortion doctors who are private practice.

You are trying to compare a civil servant to a civilian. Nice try at fuzzing the line there.

Ironically enough your name is very fitting.

Ya that would be tantamount to everyone carry a tracking device so they could be found at any time and have their movements tracked. Good thing America hasn't fallen for that trick yet. Damn sheeple.

If you are seeing my handwriting it is for one of three reasons.

1) I'm filling out an application.
2) You are reading my signature.
3) You are reading my notes.

In any of those instances I could actually careless if you can read my handwriting. I hate cursive I always have. I remember my grandmother used to write me letters in cursive. I just stopped reading them because it wasn't worth the eye strain.

I don't know what good reason there is for writing in cursive. I've never heard of one. It just seems to be something that is anachronistic and has no place in a modern society.

To all the dinosaurs who still insist that writing in cursive is important: You can think that but I'm never going to bother read anything you write.

Talk to people you trust. It's just that simple. Use your friends and family as a "soundboard" for your idea. They will see the holes you did not.

I wouldn't expect anyone to ever sign an NDA without knowing what they are getting into. I don't recall the article, but it basically said any company who signs an NDA like that is opening themselves to liability. That's why most will not even discuss ideas so that you cannot later take them to court for stealing your idea. If you want to discuss an idea and they already have 2 years of research into the exact same thing they are opening themselves to the liability of a lawsuit from you. The same apparently goes for music companies.

Once you are sure you have a good idea run with it and don't stop until its too late. Anything else and you are setting yourself up for failure.

Velcro. Panduit sells rolls of velcro that is double sided. Cut to length. wrap cables.

ZIP TIES ARE BAD. They have the potential to damage the wires in the cable. Do not use zip ties.

I'm willing to bet that poll question was a little more suited to the results then they are letting on.

When you qualify that poll question "Is traffic shaping reasonable?" with "as long as the customer is treated fairly" it means something completely different then the reality of the situation. If the ISP's get their way they won't give a shit if it's fair to the customer so long as they don't start loosing business.

So the poll question may be "fair", but the reflection of reality certainly isn't going to be true.