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I think master locks are a much more prevalent example of this.

I have a terrible feeling that WSJ is using hackernews here. This post is pretty meaningless, and the title does not agree with the few sentences of an "article."

"Quiting" has a much different connotation than being funded by your employer.

What is your proposal to automate this? Remember there is very large delay and blackouts that happen.

After they do it by hand several times, sure automate it.

I have a text document on my computer that lists all the websites/programs with username/password. I also use autocomplete (which IMO is basically the same as having a document with all passwords.) I can have unique passwords for every single website without relying on a third party cloud solution. And for the passwords I use often, I have them memorized anyway.

If something is compromised (which has happened) then I have a list of every single site where I have an account, and can change the passwords.

A side benefit to this is if someone needs to access something (most likely while traveling, or if I'm dead) all the information is there for them.

I would be fine with a data transfer cap, if it scaled with technology or time. However looking at my internet provider, I have not seen an increase in the data cap since it was implemented. Meanwhile both services and technological capability have increased.

I wonder how much role models actually play a role. I got into programming because I loved programming, it was something I could do at home with minimal ramp up time or gear.

I fail to see the relevance of this.

In addition it somewhat upsets me that someone could get jail time for making an offensive comment. Depending on the jurisdiction or culture, I know I have said things that would be offensive to someone (specifically regarding religion.) To be faced with jail time over something like that does not sound like something I would expect from a western country.

It seems to me that working away all your life isn't any better that "wasting away" all your life.

I've read a lot of ebooks (even long before I got a kindle) and I have to say that I read them for the story, not the presentation.

What is wrong with ebooks is that there are still books that I _cannot_ buy. I want to give the publishers/writers my money and they simply will not accept it. For me its e or nothing, I don't have the space to store paper books, and to be honest I just like ebooks better.

I don't understand why you have to "develop hardware" for this. Unless you are willing to produce hardware at a loss its already incredibly cheap to take off the shelf parts and put together a media box. To me it sounds like a lot of over engineering and blatant waste of resources.

This has alternate spellings (data-alternative-spellings). So you can type America and it will show United States.

When I can get a game for free that has fewer restrictions than something I pay for then the system is broken.

Looking at you Ubisoft.

Internships are supposed to be the real world training though. It seems highly unethical for companies to take advantage of interns because by definition interns are inexperienced.

I had great internships and never felt like I had to be vigilant that the company was trying to take advantage of me, so I could spend my time learning. Its unfortunate that you are most likely correct that colleges should now be informing their students of things they need to avoid or deal with like this.

One thing I'm somewhat confused about is why a bailout is better than default. In both cases the banks cannot pay back loans so their credit is worthless right? In a bailout the government becomes the bank (through a proxy) but its still the governments credit, not the banks'. So keeping the banks alive, instead of allowing them to default would keep jobs, but wouldn't it be keeping the jobs of people who, for lack of a better term, didn't actually do their job?

Well that and transfer caps from ISPs getting lower (or more expensive for the same cap) over time.

I don't understand how this is sad. All it showed was that people skipped a word that had "bananas" in it, a word that has pretty much no meaning in the context of the article.

Its similar to how I ignore spelling mistakes in news articles. I may see it for a second, but since that isn't the reason I'm reading it, I'll just move on and probably instantly forget.

The menu style seems very close to the style already in Windows 7 for Wordpad. Personally I find that style both confusing and clunky.

Probably the biggest reason I will leave a game unfinished is if it takes too much effort to get back into the game. There are plenty of times I will take a break from a game, even one I really enjoy playing, and more often than not it is easier for me to start the game over than to try and figure out where I left off, what I have to do and even the general gameplay (key-commands, items, etc.)

When I was a kid I could play a game from beginning to end without stopping, and I had a lot fewer games available.

One thing that has helped me is game walkthroughs, I scan up to the point where I'm at and get a good idea of strategies I had previously learned, as well as the story.

One thing that game developers could do is actually provide this information to the player. Basically create a walkthrough based on what the player has done, up until the current point of the game.

Not necessarily true. Often there is application state that you don't want to lose, which isn't saved. For example if you have open IM/IRC windows or if you have multiple opened Documents that you are reading that are saved.

Though I think a better way is just to save all state when quitting no matter what your application does.

From one view I understand at least some of the reasons they are doing this.

1) Money. D3 is free to play so monetizing non-subscription aspects makes sense.

2) People will buy in game items for real money so bringing that out of the dark underground makes sense.

However it still seems contrary to the gameplay, and would make finding some very rare item less special (unless you were going to sell it that is.)

On the bright side, hardcore mode will not have this, so I think overall it is acceptable.

There are plenty of times when a resume is not required for a hire. A recommendation can replace it, chatting with the person in a dev irc channel, contributions to open source, etc.

You aren't required to do any of those things, but it makes sense that the more quality information about yourself available the better your chance at getting a quality job.

Netflix is free to set their own prices, and I am free to change my subscription (cancel or drop to streaming/dvd only). However doubling the price of something, and expecting no backlash is silly at best.

In addition they cut the cost and hassle of legal entertainment. With this change they have now increased the cost of legal entertainment.

I'm fine with them upping my costs, as their costs increase, but this seems beyond that.

It seems to me that the word "gifted" has been diluted to mean "meets expectations."

It seems that the cost of fabbing your own gps chip would be peanuts compared to the cost of even one missile. Given the raw GPS data its pretty trivial to do all location processing in software.

I think the value of a college degree as a screening procedure is in fact dropping. The potential value of college education is still high, but the piece of paper doesn't really give any insight into what value the student took. All it shows is that the student payed the fee (and probably is in debt) and put in his/her time.

I think the fact that there are no other large competing social gaming web platforms shows that it is actually not at all a guaranteed success.

This seems more comparable to a bunch of people finally ganging up to beat the shit out of a bully who had a history of treating weaker individuals badly.

The only issue I have with the missing http is that when you copy the link, it automatically adds in the http. Most of the time when copying a link I either don't care if the http is there, or I specifically don't want it (for example if I am sshing into a box.)

If they stuck with "copy what you see", at least for me, it would resolve one of my biggest peeves with Chrome. The other being useless tab text if you have too many tabs open (and I don't really like the side tabs.)

It doesn't seem to be a PC problem, it seems to be a laptop problem. My lcds at home (and my TV) are all matte, its only my laptop (mac) that is glossy.

When I want to watch a movie, the first place I go to is netflix. I won't tell you the second place I go to.

I'd pay an extra 5 bucks a month if it could increase the rate at which netflix lets me "play now" movies. Yes, some movies I specifically want to get on bluray, but there are plenty of others that video quality matters very little to me.