Rob’s Comments

• Aug 8th, 2011 @ 2:46am

  Re: Time of day...

  on Insanity: Getting Worked Up Over One Company's Slight Change Of Opinion In The Creditworthiness Of The US
  Most people do trust the US government to give them the correct time of day, actually.
  
  http://www.time.gov/timezone.cgi?Mountain/d/-7/java
  
  Now spending money - I have to agree that spending less than you make seems reasonable.
• Aug 6th, 2011 @ 5:48am

  Re: Ever been to school Mike ?

  on When Innovation Meets the Old Guard
  I would have thought spellcheckers worked *well*.
• Jul 18th, 2011 @ 10:17am

  Perhaps google should charge them...

  on Newspapers Win Suit Against Google, Get Their Wish To Be Delisted, Then Complain
  It only seems fair that if they want to be part of google's family they should use that awards money to pay google to index them (or whatever they want). After getting permission from the court, of course.
• Mar 8th, 2011 @ 11:14am

  Get rid of the $1 bill, the penny and the nickel.

  on GAO Suggests It's Time To Ditch Dollar Bills For Coins
  Keep the granularity of transactions to the penny for electronic transactions, but for cash round everything to the nearest $0.10 and make the smallest coin a 10-cent piece.
  
  I was recently in New Zealand where that technique is in use and it works wonderfully. They have $0.10, $0.20, $0.50, $1 and $2 coins.
  
  In our case, it would be easy to go for $0.10, $0.25, $0.50, $1 and add in a new $2 coin.
• Dec 21st, 2010 @ 8:34pm

  culture....

  on Woman Sues Google Because She Hung Her Underwear Outside, And Street View Caught It
  Well, using your logic, nobody who is using street view in her neighborhood would look at the photos of her (extremely boring) underwear anyway. Nobody anywhere else would care, or have noticed, if she hadn't made a big deal of it.
  
  Now, of course, the whole world has clicked the link to check out her underwear. Streisand effect in a *big* way.
• Dec 8th, 2010 @ 2:35pm

  Stazi?

  on Homeland Security Gets Walmart To Tell You To Inform On Your Neighbors
  It just gets better and better. Pretty soon they'll be renaming the country "Staziland" in honor of the East German secret police..
• Sep 8th, 2010 @ 8:03am

  Re: Re:

  on Groups Still Slamming Craigslist
  CL didn't make money off of the adult services section. The money they were forced to charge for adult listings went to charity.
• Sep 8th, 2010 @ 8:02am

  Re: The reason...

  on Groups Still Slamming Craigslist
  CL *wasn't* making money off of the adult services section until they were leaned on to charge for the listings. And I believe that CL actually contributed the money they were forced by attorneys general to charge to anti-abuse groups.
• Jun 4th, 2010 @ 6:28am

  It would be a lot easier....

  on Canadian Official Admits Last Copyright Bill Was Solely About Keeping US Diplomats Happy
  If Canada just gave up on this whole "independent country" concept and became an assortment of new states.
• Apr 13th, 2010 @ 11:17am

  Steig Larsson's estate maybe...

  on Publisher Warns Fans That Liking A Book Too Much May Be Illegal
  But he himself isn't making any money from the book...
  
  http://www.stieglarsson.com/
• Apr 12th, 2010 @ 3:34pm

  Not an actual problem.. :)

  on Publisher Warns Fans That Liking A Book Too Much May Be Illegal
  I brought all three books back with me from Sweden last summer. Of course, they're in Swedish, but that works for me.
• Mar 6th, 2010 @ 2:56am

  Who cares?

  on Netflix, Warner Bros., Sued In Class Action Lawsuit Over Delayed Movie Window
  Netflix never guaranteed the availability of a movie at any particular time - the come available when they do. If they're available a month later, I won't even notice. Netflix and buying DVDs are unrelated in my life. I neither buy nor don't buy a movie because it's available as a rental. I *might* buy it after I've rented it if I think I will want to re-watch it without returning it to my netflix queue, but that's only happened once in two years.
  
  Bogus lawsuit, bogus issue.
• Feb 18th, 2010 @ 7:29am

  Just like Iran?

  on And, Of Course, Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Google Over Buzz
  What planet are you on?
  
  How much did you pay for this Google service? Who forced you to use it out of the gate.
  
  "Like Iran" implies a hell of a lot more than somebody who keeps "private" information on a free service being annoyed that another free service accidentally exposed it.