Comment Re:what is stopping them from doing the same thing (Score 1) 315
Bingo!
Comment Re:what is stopping them from doing the same thing (Score 5, Informative) 315
Whoa, slow down there. Nobody wants competition here. They want to manipulate the government into giving them an advantage through preferential legislation. You know, capitalism.
Submission + - H&R Block software glitch to delay 600,000 U.S. tax refunds (reuters.com)
mrquagmire writes: Tax refunds for about 600,000 taxpayers claiming an education credit will be delayed, the Internal Revenue Service said on Wednesday, citing a software glitch at some tax-preparation companies, including industry leader H&R Block Inc. Refunds may be delayed four to six weeks from mid-February, likely not showing up until late March, the IRS said.
Comment Offshoring (Score 4, Insightful) 457
Offshoring any part of the development process.
Comment Re:Your papers, please... (Score 3, Informative) 364
I think the US Border Patrol already beat them to it (no pun intended).
Comment Code review? (Score 1) 430
What is this "code review" you speak of?
Comment Re:Wait, what?? (Score 1) 91
So? What's the problem? If you don't find what they're offering worth what they're asking for it, then don't buy it.
It's not like it's an Apple device that forces you to only use their app store.
It's not like it's an Apple device that forces you to only use their app store.
Comment Re:Cell phones suck (Score 1) 445
You've clearly never tried to have a conversation using an actual half-duplex device.
Comment Re:And have they EVER used this to bust a criminal (Score 1) 122
Exactly. They couldn't care less about actually tracking down your cell phone and busting the person who stole it. All they want is the data.
Comment Re:What about vote tampering? (Score 1) 881
An "indirect" example: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2012/11/voting-already-mess-florida/58682/
A possible "direct" example: http://www.salon.com/2012/11/05/ohio_republicans_sneak_risky_software_onto_voting_machines/
A possible "direct" example: http://www.salon.com/2012/11/05/ohio_republicans_sneak_risky_software_onto_voting_machines/
Comment What about vote tampering? (Score 3, Informative) 881
Does this model account for any direct or indirect vote tampering?
Comment Re:Why block them? (Score 3, Interesting) 165
Do you really think cops give two sh*ts about a stolen cell phone? Or stolen anything for that matter? Have you ever had anything stolen? Unless the thief literally falls into their laps, I guarantee they're not going to do anything about it.
Comment Abductions and violent crimes are down... (Score 1) 610
...but fear is way up!
Submission + - Amazon EBS failure brings down Reddit, Imgur, others (networkworld.com) 1
BButlerNWW writes: "Amazon Web Services has confirmed that its Elastic Block Storage (EBS) service is experiencing degraded service, leading sites across the Internet to experience downtime, including Reddit, Imgur and many others.
AWS confirmed on its status page at 2:11 p.m. ET that it is experiencing "degraded performance for a small number of EBS volumes." It says the issue is restricted to a single Availability Zone within the US-East-1 Region, which is in Northern Virginia. AWS later reported that its Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) and its Elastic Beanstalk application plaform also experienced failures on Monday afternoon."
AWS confirmed on its status page at 2:11 p.m. ET that it is experiencing "degraded performance for a small number of EBS volumes." It says the issue is restricted to a single Availability Zone within the US-East-1 Region, which is in Northern Virginia. AWS later reported that its Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) and its Elastic Beanstalk application plaform also experienced failures on Monday afternoon."
Comment Re:Another Double Standard (Score 1) 1160
And what about all the hate that so many religions teach to their followers toward others outside of their particular brand? That offends me. Or is that type of hate ok because it comes disguised as an Official Religion®?
