Posts by Hud Dunlap

It is the crime in Mexico

I work with a number of people who have relatives in Mexico. They are afraid to go visit. If they do they wear old worn out clothes and get picked up on this side of the border by relatives. No Hable English.

It is a real shame. People used to go back and forth across the border and no one thought anything of it.

Some of the American borders towns are getting just as bad.

Another stupid Calfornia Idea

There was crime before there was smartphones. If it is not worthwhile to steal a phone they will steal something else.

Target pushes debit cards

The usual x% off if you get one of our debit cards. This probably means the PIN was slurped too. At least with a credit card you can challenge a purchase and don't have to pay until it is resolved. My crystal ball says a lot of people will have empty bank accounts for Christmas. I know too many people that this has happened to even without something like this.

So are they going to outlaw the screaming kids on the plane?

Here's hoping.

I wonder about the charges

"dedicated to posting compromising photos that Boellart obtained without the subjects' permission."

You mean like the tabloids? Just ask Kristen Stewart about compromising photos that she didn't give permission for. I see a First Amendment fight at least on some of the charges.

Beer because one of the photographs was in a bar.

what else is in the bill

Anytime a bill goes smoothly through Congress there is tones of pork, set asides and hiding agendas.

Where was Icahn when Apple needed money?

He didn't invest in the company when it needed cash. He is what used to be called a sundowner. A tramp who showed up at sundown hoping to get a meal without doing any work for it.

I still don't understand how he has so much power when he has so little stock.

El Reg doesn't seem to have a problem

This is supposedly to stop nasty comments. El Reg doesn't seem to have a problem.

I wanted to make a simple comment on a site and they wanted a google + password. Google wanted my phone number. Not a chance

@Gene Cash

Down vote for including the dog.

Am I the only who noticed the computer was an iMac?

I guess the old Microsoft guys know what a good computer is.

The weather sites are going crazy

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=2535

Dr. Jeff Masters also said of climate gate " So he hid some data, so what".

The above quote is as well as I can remember but I would say it is 95% accurate.

Beer, because I need one after this nonsense.

Is it because of Ballmer

The Stock Jumped after Ballmer quit. Did this push him to number 1?

But the NSA will have your pictures!!!

OH NO! the NSA will have copies of your favorite pictures!

Hey Apple, why can't you do this?

I just forwarded this to Apple to ask them why they can't make the iPhone here.

This complaint makes no sense

Ok so let us take the tinfoil approach and say this will give the NSA access to my fingerprint. Between previously working for the Government and having more background checks than I can think off, they already have it multiple times.

So it is proprietary, so what? That seems to be the basis of his complaint. All smartphones have a way to enter a password. I doubt they are using the same open source software.

Ok so Apple is pretty much a closed shop. There are other vendors out there. It doesn't mean the NSA isn't deeply imbedded in those too.

So does it still qualify as a paper airplane?

Just asking.

Does El Reg really think they will get a reply

Is there any reason El Reg thinks MS holds them in any higher regard than Apple?

So less than 1% of stock will get you a seat on the board?

I am impressed. They must have very good lawyers. If I was an employee I would be seriously worried.

@deadlockvictum

You are right.

Every place you work has a uniform. It might not be official but it is still a uniform. You weren't wearing the uniform. I have been in the semiconductor industry for thirty five years. How you dress matters. And you don't dress well. The phrase " Hiding behind a tie" was a common comment. People who dressed well were not respected. They dressed well to hide the fact that they couldn't do the job.

I have worked with research managers who wore t-shirts and torn jeans. With his Phd, patents and papers published he could dress any damn well he pleased and he wanted everyone to know it.

But can it handle a rollover like this.

http://www.kens5.com/home/Bizarre-accident-barrells-into-used-car-parking-lot-police-say-220174121.html