Comment Cutting any recurring bill (Score 1) 206
You said the magic words, "I want to cancel my (TV/Internet/Phone, etc.). Nothing fets their attention like the word cancel. Always at least threaten to cancel before quitting a service.
Comment Re:Finance (Score 1) 416
Goldman Sachs, no question.
Auto Incorrect 86
theodp writes "Combine smartphone auto correction and fat-fingered virtual keyboard typing, writes Rob Walker, and the results can be hilarious and even shocking. The website Damn You, Autocorrect collects the awesomely embarrassing text messages that you never meant to send. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to masturbate some chicken for bisexuals night!"
Comment Re:Unacceptable. (Score 1) 330
What I find entertaining is that while Newton was spending most of his time working on on alchemy and theology, he still had enough spare time to write/invent/discover the Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, Newtonian mechanics, universal gravitation, infinitesimal calculus, optics, binomial series and Newton's method.
NHTSA Has No Software Engineers To Analyze Toyota 459
thecarchik writes "An official from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration told investigators that the agency doesn't employ any electrical engineers or software engineers, leaving them woefully unable to investigate correctly what caused the most recent Toyota recall. A modern luxury car has something close to 100 million lines of software code in it, running on 70 to 100 microprocessors. And according to consultant Frost & Sullivan, that number will rise to 200 to 300 million lines within a few years. And the software that controls the 'drive-by-wire' accelerators of Toyota and Lexus vehicles is one potential culprit in the tangled collection of issues, allegations, and recalls of many of those vehicles for so-called 'sudden acceleration' problems."
Comment Re:Seriously? (Score 4, Insightful) 926
How about we repeat the exercise daily at randomly chosen airports around the globe?
Screeners who miss the contraband (or allow a passenger to exit through an entry way) would be stripped of badges and ids, fired on the spot and escorted outside the airport.
Passengers originating at or transiting through airports with a poor screening record would be denied entry to the US.
Seriously.
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