Comment Re:Bite my shiny metal ass! (Score 1) 210
I hope not. Then people might learn he can't run being a Mexican citizen.
Comment Re:I'm Scruffy, the janitor (Score 1) 210
Go scruffy. Scruffy Believes in this school board.
Comment Re:Good Idea (Score 1) 951
Doesn't that go with everything? As soon you get used to it, then you will work faster. Ribbons aren't a solution. As it was before ribbons, I was already doing quite fine. Ribbons have not done my work any faster and I doubt it ever will to most users.
Not really. Getting used to it is the portion that will always be slower because you don't know where buttons are. As for me I tend to use the same tab a lot especially in word. The current tab stays up which allows faster access to the functions versus a menu which will close each time you click on an action thus making you open it again. Hence why it's slower before you get used to it.
Comment Good Idea (Score 4, Interesting) 951
I know a lot of people hate it, I did the first time I used it, but I now think the ribbon is actually a better interface. Once you know where things are it does make you work faster. Especially when you are using items that are in the same tab of the ribbon, or same menu of the old style. While there may not be as many benefits to the ribbon in explorer as there were in Office, I'm all for them putting it everywhere they can.
Comment Re:Taco leaves and the place goes to Hell. (Score 2, Insightful) 543
Taco leaves and the place goes to Hell.
Couldn't have said it better myself.
Comment Thanks (Score 0) 1521
Thanks and good luck. It was time well wasted. Pants or no.
Comment Re:Reality check (Score 0) 369
They shot and killed an innocent man. They caused the riots, not the people complaining about it. This asshole needs to be beaten with a clue-stick.
No there were regular protests then other people decided to come in and use it as an excuse to loot. Thus inciting.
Comment Re:Take a good look... (Score 1) 403
Obviously the fires from the riots are the signal fires.
Comment Re:Take a good look... (Score 1) 403
It's gonna be happening here, too. We'd better start coming up with alternative ways to communicate,
I suggest cup and string, signal flags, signal fires, and messenger pigeons.
Comment Re:My Mailbox at Home is Full (Score 1) 317
My physical mailbox at home is kind of small and when I go on vacation it can get full to the point of no longer being able to put more mail in. Do I get to go after Capital One or any/all of the other habitual mail spammers now? If not, why? Because this Act only covers electrons flowing through wires and not physical items physically limiting my mailbox?
Its called a vacation hold at the post office or having a neighbor bring in your mail. Though that brings up the issue of direct mail and junk mail which is a whole other can of *very* smelly worms.
Comment Re:Any new information is good... (Score 1) 236
... but, please, for the love of Elbereth, don't make it cute and avatar-y.
I don't need cute, especially when my car is broken. I want to know what the fuck is wrong.
Exactly but that still doesn't mean I can fix it. That's what my girlfriend's brother is for.
Comment Re:Overcomplicate much? (Score 1) 236
Or in other words “our cars require maintenance and/or break down so frequently that we have spent a nautical ass-tonne of money developing a automotive equivalent of clippy for you!”?
Exactly and since its German it will also yell at you if you miss a routine servicing.
Submission + - GameFly to unveil 'unlimited' PC gaming service (techspot.com)
An anonymous reader writes: GameFly apparently wants to pull a Netflix when they launch their new online client that allows for “Unlimited PC Play” later this year. The service won’t require a separate subscription, but will be bundled alongside a standard GameFly by-mail subscription. GameFly acquired digital game retailer Direct2Drive earlier this year so it's likely they are harnessing this technology to offer the Unlimited PC Play addition.
Submission + - Collecting DNA from arrestees unconstitutional (wired.com) 1
wiedzmin writes: A California appeals court is striking down a voter-approved measure requiring every adult arrested on a felony charge to submit a DNA sample. Court questioned the extent to which technology can be permitted to diminish the privacy guaranteed by the Fourth Amendment. More than 1.6 million samples have been taken following the law’s 2009 implementation. Only about a half of those arrested in California are convicted.
Submission + - Canadian academics and advocates on lawful access (christopher-parsons.com)
An anonymous reader writes: During the last election cycle, Canada's governing party assured Canadians that within 100 sitting days lawful access provisions would be passed in an omnibus crime bill. Lawful access legislation has not been fully debated in the House or Senate, and has significant implications for the future of anonymity and privacy on the Internet, while simultaneously expanding police powers without a clearly demonstrated need to expand such powers.
Working from the most recent lawful access bills, advocates and academics have come together to send a letter of concerns to Prime Minister Harper. The letter notes: the ease at which Canadians' communications providers will be turned into state surveillance operatives, lack of oversight accompanying these new powers, capacity to force identification of anonymous commentators, and potential to impose gag orders on communications providers.
Working from the most recent lawful access bills, advocates and academics have come together to send a letter of concerns to Prime Minister Harper. The letter notes: the ease at which Canadians' communications providers will be turned into state surveillance operatives, lack of oversight accompanying these new powers, capacity to force identification of anonymous commentators, and potential to impose gag orders on communications providers.
