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Comment: Windows XP 2 (Score 1) 856






Just sayin

Comment: Completely reinvent yourself (Score 1) 423

by greywire (#46401683) Attached to: RadioShack To Close 1,100 Stores
Here's an idea. F*ck all the consumer BS products that they can't compete with walmart on (cables, batteries, cell phones, etc). Fire everybody that doesn't actually know about electronics and building things. Stock the stores with awesome stuff like robotics kits and little computer boards and such. But thats not enough... Put in work benches. Turn the stores into maker-spaces. Have classes for all ages on making robots and spy devices and little computer controllers and such. Sponsor local schools that have engineering programs or create such programs. Make it so that when the next kid walks by the store in the mall his mind is blown when he sees robots and blinking lights and kids with their parents making cool shit. I never go into Radio Shack anymore. My son wouldn't even notice the store. But I guarantee if we saw THAT Radio Shack I wouldn't be able to tear him away from it and I'd probably drop some serious change there.

Comment: WTF are they talking about? (Score 3, Interesting) 268

I work for a company that does (among other things) online assessments and data analytics. We're all about the data and how we can use that to help teachers help their kids. How is this a bad thing? The more you know about how the kids are doing, the more you can help them. I don't know how they are getting this idea of something equivalent to an expensive full body physical scan that most people cant afford (besides the fact that over time such scans will get cheaper and cheaper...).

Comment: anoying and useless... (Score 4, Insightful) 380

by greywire (#44494653) Attached to: First California AMBER Alert Shows AT&amp;T's Emergency Alerts Are a Mess
First, I was watching cable tv when the show was interrupted by the EBS (with a computer synthesized voice, no less, yet it still sounded like a bad CB radio). My cable box inexplicably returned to some random channel that I wasnt watching. Thanks Time Warner and Motorola, your cable box SUCKS in yet another aspect. Then, hours later (at like 10pm or so), all three t-mobile cell phones got the alert. We got the alert yet again the next day. For something that occurred at around 5PM? The suspect could have been out of state or in mexico by then. At the time I was thinking, what makes this kid so special, this sort of thing probably happens daily.. I didn't know the details on the story until the next day. This might be useful if it arrived within, say, an hour or less of the incident and was sent to phones geographically within the area the suspect could have traveled in that amount of time (80 miles?).

Comment: Futurama (Score 1) 383

by greywire (#44001395) Attached to: Dmitry Itskov Wants To Help You Live Forever Via an Android Avatar
Am I the only one who immediately thinks of all the heads in jars from Futurama? Essentially that's what this is, in a virtualized form. Just like the disembodied heads, these virtual people would be recognized as being "dead" in a sense but yet still alive in a sense... It would be interesting to note that some time after this becomes possible, the virtual brains would actually start being faster than the real originals. It could become commonplace for humans to have a second life that was better than the first, at least intellectually.

Comment: Hire somebody to help (Score 1) 332

by greywire (#43621425) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How To Handle a Colleague's Sloppy Work?
You say he may be doing this because he's just too busy... Maybe these things are not things he should be doing in his job, maybe he's better suited to something else? Maybe you need to hire somebody to do these things so he can concentrate on the other things he might actually be good at, and would then have sufficient time to do a good job. I've seen this happen where people get pushed into doing too much, and doing things they aren't good at, and then they start looking like poor workers.. well what do you expect? I realize you are probably not his boss so I don't know how you'd approach this. But there could be a very positive way of handling this. Or, maybe he's just lazy and doesn't care. Talk to him with a positive approach.

MasterCard Forcing PayPal To Pay Higher Fees 260

Posted by Soulskill
from the and-they'll-pass-the-spendings-on-to-you dept.
iComp sends this quote from El Reg: "PayPal, Google Wallet and other online payment systems face higher transaction fees from MasterCard in retaliation for their refusal to share data on what people are spending. Visa is likely to follow suit. The amount that PayPal has to pay MasterCard for every transaction will go up as the latter introduces new charges for intermediated payment processors. This change is on the grounds that such processors don't share transaction details, which the card giants would love to get hold of as it can be used to research buying patterns and the like. Companies such as PayPal allow payments between users, so the party (perhaps a merchant) receiving the money doesn't need to be registered with the credit-card company. PayPal collects the dosh from the payer's card, and deducts a processing fee before passing the cash on to the receiving party. MasterCard would prefer the receiver to be registered directly so will apply the new fee from June to any payment that is staged in this way."

I'd rather be led to hell than managed to heavan.