• "I intentionally abandoned the hard stuff early on because not only do I think it's useless, I think it's a distraction, " he says.

    FORBES: Marketing

  • Older farmers who remember that crisis and see the big swarms nowadays "stop farming, because they know that it's useless, " said Huynh, the FAO's emergency and rehabilitation coordinator in Madagascar.

    CNN: Plague of locusts infests impoverished Madagascar

  • Lopez would prefer to entrust half of his digital-security information to a service such as Legacy Locker and the other half to family members, so that each side's information would be useless without the other's.

    CNN: New services promise online life after death

  • "Sprint's position on the H Block would render useless 25 percent of DISH's uplink spectrum -- so that Sprint is positioned to merely gain the exact same amount of spectrum, " said Blum.

    ENGADGET: Dish's AWS-4 wireless spectrum standards approved by 3GPP

  • "It's totally useless, " said blogger Bakanabe, who researched the Fujitsu smartphone before sticking with his existing phone.

    WSJ: Japan's Philanderers Stay Faithful to Their 'Infidelity Phones'

  • Singh: In the short term it's utterly useless.

    FORBES: Simon Singh says

  • "For a British company to be selling a piece of technology that is useless when it's meant to be saving lives is abhorrent, " Lou McGrath, chief executive of the charity, Mines Advisory Group, told Newsnight.

    BBC: Export ban for useless 'bomb detector'

  • I'm sure you'll agree that New York would be a better, more hospitable and harmonious place if every useless bank that's gone up over the past decade were replaced by a pastry shop that sold some version of the Trianon.

    WSJ: A Simmering Bake-Off

  • That also means it's pretty useless if you only want to schlep one bag around, so it looks like we're stuck with the Bucket Dance for now -- hey TSA, would pockets on the sides be such a threat to our nation's security?

    ENGADGET: Skooba makes with the pictures of TSA-friendly bags (update: not really)

  • Even Joseph Juran, one of the two American post-war germinators of the quality idea (the other was W. Edwards Deming), considered that quality circles were pretty useless if the company's management was not trained in the more general principles of total quality management.

    ECONOMIST: Idea

  • At worst, if the French were to turn away from the treaty, it would be rendered toothless and useless, because of France's muscle within the eurozone.

    BBC: Q&A: Austerity measures derailed?

  • Sure, part of the bill will pave the way for some of the freed up spectrum to get earmarked for emergency services to use, but it's not like failing to render everyone's analog box completely useless is really going to endanger public safety.

    ENGADGET: High-tech CEOs want their DTV and they want it now

  • Yet Siilasmaa would be the first to admit that his building's security is all but useless in protecting proprietary information.

    CNN: Virus protection coming for wireless users

  • Meanwhile, former chairman Sir John Hall has branded the club's relegated playing staff as "useless".

    BBC: Shearer holds talks with Magpies

  • We were left holding a useless piece of paper, and it's difficult to enforce a contract there.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • But Dr Shogren's thesis was that wimpy, useless hunters were the ones who stayed at home and crafted objects, while the real men went out and killed things.

    ECONOMIST: Palaeoeconomics

  • As things stand, the U.S. data are next to useless, since it takes several minutes to have other secret signals extracted prior to reaching Japanese forces, according to defense analyst Okabe.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • The denial of service attack, where hackers jam a Web site with useless data that tie up the site's computers, slowed the news site's operations for nearly two hours, CNN.com spokeswoman Edna Johnson said.

    CNN: hacking

  • His rugged, single-minded approach (forehand crosscourt, forehand crosscourt 1, 000 times) snuffs out Federer's style and versatility, rendering them frustratingly useless.

    WSJ: Novak Djokovic vs. Rafael Nadal: A Fitting End to the Year of the Tiger

  • The wife's mission, apart from monitoring the servants, making useless beaded objects and keeping up social standards, was to ensure that her husband was untroubled by domestic matters.

    ECONOMIST: 19th-century domesticity

  • After that, it's a question of protecting the data and rendering the computer useless in case someone walks off with it while your back is turned at Starbucks.

    CNN: Mobile PCs can be risky on the road

  • With their compromise tool useless, both sides have retreated to their roots, ignoring the other camp's ideas.

    ECONOMIST: Economics

  • Useless was definitely there, including a piece of matzo laser-etched with actor Leonard Nimoy's image, a rocket-powered motorcycle built by a Brooklyn, N.

    FORBES: Magazine Article

  • Even a Kickstarter dream dubbed Pebble would be borderline useless without an online link, and as consumer demands shift dramatically towards expecting more for less, it's the carriers who have found themselves positioned to take advantage.

    ENGADGET

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