Comment Re:1984 (Score 1) 347
Good news! DHS has announced they'll have a spot this year!
Comment Jedi ruin everything. (Score 3, Funny) 265
It doesn't matter anyway. Some asshole jedi will come along and try to tell me that credits will do fine.
Comment Re:Theft prevention: label it "Linux Laptop" (Score 4, Funny) 253
This is actually not a terrible idea. Kinda along the lines of how people joke that the best anti-theft an American car can have is a clutch.
Comment Re:Argh! (Score 2) 49
For reference, that means there's 18,420,000 combinations.
Comment poor babies (Score -1, Troll) 115
and often walked across whole neighborhoods to reach zones with power
Whole neighborhoods!? I'm amazed they survived the brutal fifteen minute journey and lived to tell the tale.
Comment Site already blown to bits (Score 1) 87
Error establishing a database connection that looks suspiciously like a broken WordPress on the source material. Google link shows a translation of a translation of a translation...
Comment Re:Seems fishy (Score 2) 262
"#211,944? I'm not familiar with it."
"Of course you aren't, senator. "You" haven't written it yet."
Fixed for unfortunate truth
Comment Already not in use (Score 2) 134
From TFA:
In fact, most of the roughly 1,000 chimps held at biomedical laboratories are not being used.
I'd be curious why this is - already too much regulation? The article goes on to say that they hope to pass them on to shelters. I'd certainly hope that's the case if they're not being utilized
Comment Re:Genius judge (Score 3, Insightful) 540
The only point I can see is that even if they have to be paid, you still have perfectly legitimate reason to pay them less than you would someone else doing the same work.
The real problem is the racket they've got going. You can't get a job without experience and the only experience you can get is going to be unpaid or underpaid labor doing the exact same job
Comment "Summary" (Score 1) 607
This is about the longest TFS I've ever seen. It's only about half the length of the full article!
Comment Re:Self Checkout - Bah Humbug (Score 1) 126
You put it back? That's nice of you. I've abandoned my cart in these lines before.
Protip the the Walmart in Houston - Dunvale. When there are literally more than a hundred people in line to check out, you should open the fourth checkout stand.
Protip the the Walmart in Houston - Dunvale. When there are literally more than a hundred people in line to check out, you should open the fourth checkout stand.
Comment Re:Been going on for years (Score 1) 126
This is such a simple energy saver that it's kind of amazing they didn't come up with using one of the two parts (motion activation and LEDs) it much, much earlier.
Comment Re:Wayback machine? (Score 1) 480
If the original client won't cooperate, perhaps you could send a DMCA takedown notice asserting your ownership of the copyright for the original digital content.
Unfortunately, this is almost certainly not an option. From TFS:
Now this is grey territory as it the client who owns the source, not the contracting developer.
Comment Re:"Dark" past? (Score 1) 78
Having worked with several former TP and EV1 people, I'm confused as well. Aside from running like, well, a lot of early tech companies did, I've never heard of any "dark history."
Comment Re:Bad OS or bad GUI? (Score 1) 578
If it is simply a shitty GUI on an improved kernel and stack then I will deal with it.
Agreed!
For powerusers, whom I would assume make up a large portion of
