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by ndespres 9y ago
I've just begun commuting into NYC on Amtrak, and it leaves on time to the [i]second[/i]. After years of my commute impacted by subway delays, NJ Transit delays, and an independent ferry service that had its share of problems, Amt
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Not spring clip, the NTSB report says they were the screw type. Even so, the article states that it would have been difficult for a passenger to reach their own clip, and even if they had, would be difficult to undo it. They even provided &
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I recall the distinction being made very clear on LiveJournal between "deleted" content vs "purged". I would be very surprised if they were not being forthright about this. Of course this was 10 years ago, before the Rus
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There's irony in complaining about unfair standards applied to CEOs, whose primary aim is essentially to extract the maximum possible surplus labor value from their employees!
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I think the Hawaii example was rhetorical, but you can find examples of Americans being fired for supporting BDS movement or speaking against Israel occupation of Palestine, we even have laws against doing business with BDS supporters in so
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In this case, a few breathalyzers were not calibrated correctly, but the officer responsible for testing them claimed to have done so. Now every device and calibration procedure is called into question, as their results may not be as verifi
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Both can be true. I do believe anyone supporting the administration's efforts on immigration and many other issues, and anyone working to assist ICE in these efforts, etc to be acting unethically. I think there is such thing as an ethi
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I think it's less of a gray area than that. Anyone at Uber who worked on Greyball, perhaps telling themselves that they were thwarting an oppressive government who was firmly in the pocket of the taxi lobby, was naïve at best and decei
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That's an interesting approach, and really seems like it would cut down on the amount of work required in the home to provide such a significant speed upgrade over traditional ADSL. Thanks for enlightening me! Verizon rips out the copp
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I didn't realize DSL speeds were even possible above 7.1 Mbps, have things changed? ADSL is (or was) very much dependent on total wire distance and overall copper line quality from the nearest telco switching station. Top speeds were s
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AIM handled presence quite well- custom "away" messages, easily editable "profiles" which were like a .plan file to include a note about where you were logged in, idle timers, icon to tell if an IM was forwarded to a cel
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It isn't exactly clear how it's managed from the desktop either. Over the years they've really screwed the whole thing up. It's no longer clear whether someone is online, offline, online but hidden, or just lost in a con
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The Exchange server requesting remote permission is a "feature" which allows you or your company's Exchange server admins to send remote wipe command to the handset if it's lost or you leave the company. Not the specific
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Well, yes. Windows' implementation of the metaphor is my complaint. In its current form, they may have cleaned up the "desktop" but also made it more confusing to tell what is a special folder/collection/Library. Th
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I used to get frustrated explaining what I thought were simple computer tasks to my mother, but as I've gotten slightly older I am getting just as stuck as she was with some basic computer tasks! I totally get it now. She also reminds
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The places where the metaphor gets stretched can be frustrating, especially in Windows. You can put Folders on the Desktop, but there's also a "Computer" icon on the desktop which allows you to browse into other folders.. inc
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Only after reading your comment did it occur to me that I should set up applications in the Launchpad the same way I have them organized on my iPhone (or like Win 3.1's "Program Groups" or Start Menu folders) and stop using t
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Maybe so, but won't there be less incentive for someone new to post some obscure repair video later on, to help the few people who might benefit from it and make a few dollars?
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That's a great story and incidentally a similar one to another Nebraska ISP I'm familiar with (KDSI). I think they got started when a larger industrial company had excess bandwidth. Sounds like your story was a lot of fun for a hi
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How can it not be a waste of human labor to have devices with artificial roadblocks to extended lifetime in place? We have sources of renewable energy, but human potential is the most valuable thing of all. Despite all our advances in manuf
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Are you seriously proposing that motorcyclists get in FRONT of drivers on the highway with a sign on their back to provoke the drivers into going faster, for a micropayment? Motorcyclists have enough trouble as it is.
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We had a few sets of these in my high school in the late 90s. English instructors would hand them out for essay writing, and you could plug them into the PS/2 or ADB ports on the full size computers in the lab to dump your early drafts
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I'm glad to see DigiCert appearing to make a good faith effort to make sure this transition is handled in a responsible and trustworthy way, and hope they can follow through. It's easy to appear transparent and have the best inten
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It's always been tough to show small biz that IT doesn't need to be a cost center. The business needs to be at a certain maturity level to see that with the right investment they can actually use the computers to save or make them
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Sorry, I moved the farm and forgot to move the web hosting with it! Updated email and web link in profile.
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Well, the places I'm thinking of don't know the difference between Java 8, COBOL-85, and an Excel macro. They don't have Java problems, they have business problems. They aren't hiring Java jockeys, they're hiring so
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To the original poster, I'm sorry if I misread your question by suggesting more places to look for software work. I see that you wrote that you are "reasonably sure that I'm not looking for software related ideas" which
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I work as an IT consultant across a variety of industries, mostly doing server support for small/medium business, and get to see firsthand the number of business problems which have yet to be solved by a reasonably competent software d
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The author should try a couple more guided breathing exercises. He must be out of breath from all this unchecked rage over whether Spotify works on his new watch while he runs.
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I'm looking over my balcony in Spain and can see quite a few solar panels! Maybe they are for hot water heaters or something then.

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