balabaster

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1201.
by balabaster 13y ago
Um... isn't releasing his salary (bear in mind he works in the private sector for a private contractor and wasn't a government or public sector employee) a violation of privacy laws? I love the level of irony of every layer of thi
1202.
by balabaster 13y ago
The only one problem is that you can clear or modify your browser history - whereas the NSA keeps everything. So that makes things a little more difficult :P
1203.
by balabaster 13y ago
Hahahaha that almost took me a second... nice! :D
1204.
by balabaster 13y ago
How hilarious is this? They think that having every piece of information about you they can get their grubby little hands on is okay... but they don't think that you should be able to get your hands on all their information? Seems a to
1205.
by balabaster 13y ago
I think many people forget that companies don't have a website for the sake of having a website. They have a website for the sake of increasing sales/revenues and profits. As long as it meets that business objective, companies usu
1206.
by balabaster 13y ago
I applaud the French for this approach - of course there may be direct repercussions of teaching the masses to think and learn... and be smart.
1207.
by balabaster 13y ago
The lie isn't that you can walk faster between two points on the map than by taking one or more trains... the lie is that by following the signs, you can get from one train to the next in the most efficient manner. People expect signs to ta
1208.
by balabaster 13y ago
...and it still seems to me that the easiest way to get hired for a job is to work hard to be the best at whatever it is you do. Then when someone thinks "Oh, we need someone to do X job, everyone says 'This is the guy you need'," instead o
1209.
by balabaster 13y ago
They're less likely to waste their time getting almost all the way through the interview process only to fall at the finish line. Better to spend your time elsewhere. Besides - there's many legitimate reasons not to want people checking you
1210.
by balabaster 13y ago
Why don't you just NOT check the "Allow them to check my credit" box? Your financial well-being is nobody else's business - except perhaps your spouse, your accountant and your potential creditors.
1211.
by balabaster 14y ago
Mostly because it's natural to type a word longhand in the form of a sentence. So it's not that you should be able to do one or the other, but that you should be able to do either. A user shouldn't be coerced into doing something unnatural
1212.
by balabaster 14y ago
Honestly if there was more of a proliferation of this kind of news instead of the constant barrage of negativity and fear that is pushed upon us through mainstream propaganda er... media channels then perhaps we wouldn't need the TSA with t
1213.
by balabaster 14y ago
My kids routinely go outside in sub-zero temperatures with just sweaters on. I can't keep clothes on them for love nor money... every time I turn around they're missing socks and shoes. When I try and put a coat on them they're like "but we
1214.
by balabaster 14y ago
... for $1,000 do you want it to scale as well or do you just want something faked that'll work for 1 concurrent user? Do you need full reporting and analytics? Load testing? Unit tests? etc.? Ridiculous.
1215.
by balabaster 14y ago
2100 MHz 3G/4G are HSDPA/LTE so your phone needs to support HSDPA/LTE as well as being GSM... and then you also get 2100 MHz LTE on CDMA... On 2G, 2100MHz was only on CDMA, which most of the world (still) doesn't support... so if you've got
1216.
by balabaster 14y ago
In Europe where I grew up, we use 900/1800MHz - my original GSM phone wouldn't work in the States when I visited. I had to wait quite a while for the first tri-band phone to come out before I could get one that would work in Canada where I
1217.
by balabaster 14y ago
I used the new Google Maps for my GPS on the way to work this morning to do a side by side comparison with my regular GPS software from Navigon. A couple of things I love: 1). It connects to my car stereo via the phone bluetooth profile so
1218.
by balabaster 14y ago
The biggest use case for me is the proximity lock/unlock feature so that when I approach the door, it detects (via bluetooth) my phone and unlocks for me without me needing to go in my pocket for my keys... I just approach the door and walk