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RedwoodCity

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    Comment #4456477

    Perhaps in the future a group of people will have the job of moving cars that have gone into failsafe mode, and no one else will have to drive. Take the case of elevators, original…

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    Comment #4397296

    Sadly large companies can afford to drive smaller companies out of business suspect means and then fight charges in court. The court system moves slowly and is prohibitively expens…

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    Comment #4344070

    There are many lawyers that have their hourly billing rate set at $1000/Hr.

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    Comment #4336793

    Hurricane, or perhaps Tulane is a party school.

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    Comment #4336784

    Thank You to who ever posted this article. It points out how stupid college/car/etc... rankings are. I think people have a natural tendency to want to rank things, in the end it ju…

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    Comment #4326259

    Who would read a blog with a title like, "HBO please let me watch Game of thrones without paying $130 a month". That would sound like whining.

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    Comment #4320043

    Now your bill will add another mystery fee.

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    Comment #4253506

    Sounds more Canadian to me Dr. Steve Mann, PhD (MIT '97), PEng (Ontario), 330 Dundas Street West Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5T 1G5.

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    Comment #4204717

    That was a really interesting analysis. A malware scam with a global reach. A phone designed in California, malware written in Russia or former soviet Republic, and Banking routed …

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    Comment #4204342

    The last patent reform bill really did nothing. Why can't congress pass useful bills.

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    Comment #4190865

    Nooh, now only big weather will tell us our meteorological future. First ObamaCare and now this. This country has lost its way.

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    Comment #4178924

    malware is a numbers game. All you need is a few thousand older people that don't know any better and you can have your password sniffer / bot net , up and running in no time. Whil…

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    Comment #4173642

    Products get cheaper due to automation, so people buy more stuff. Laid off workers eventually become robot technicians or designers. Some may never adapt but the same be said for a…

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    Comment #4159178

    If $153 billion was invested and some $3 billion in investments will never be recaptured, as the figures suggest, that there is roughly a 2% chance that the money will be lost. It …

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    Comment #4159166

    It just takes one or two people to take the idea of physical punishment too far before people start calling for change. In the 1970's in the USA teachers were allowed to hit studen…

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    Comment #4159153

    Tell kids to play with some paper dolls and see how long before they complain about being bored.

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    Comment #4147542

    Glad to see that european airport secuirty is just as incompetent as american TSA officers. In the future have your robots sent by post in advance of your arrival and terrorism off…

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    Comment #4147468

    I guess now I know where comcast has been spending my subscription fees. Apparently on very expensive lawyers. Now if comcast would only upgrade there service so American broadband…

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    Comment #4112776

    I look forward to the extra second of sleep.

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    Comment #4037947

    For years intel claimed that developers would never port their code from x86 to a different archiecture. The recent wave of mobile devices for iOS and Android has shown this to be …

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    Comment #4018791

    Frequently a market can support multiple versions of a product and the presence of multiple versions of the product create the potential to increase the overall market. If there wa…

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    Comment #3994345

    The last commercial Fab in the valley closed some five years ago. Many of the companies that were essential still have their HQ in the valley, but are transferring more of their op…

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    Comment #3992708

    That is why I only read The Onion.

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    Comment #3992702

    The title was simply meant to get your attention. If you read the whole article the advice given could be applied to anyone working at or running a tech company who is frustrated w…