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  1. Re:Larry Lessig Ends Presidential Campaign... on Larry Lessig Ends Presidential Campaign, Citing Unfair Debate Rules (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I think you're proving the point of his complaint with that comment.

  2. hah, poor Oklahoma.

  3. Re:The Commit Message on Busybox Deletes Systemd Support · · Score: 2

    Well it gives RedHat employees, and thereby RedHat, Inc., direct strategic control over a major (and growing) component of competing Linux distros. If you're looking for a motive here you don't have to look any further than that. And yes, its their full-time job.

  4. Almost nothing. on What Might a $50 Tablet Inspire? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    If it could boot most Linux distros un-modded, then would inspire me to buy a 50$ tablet. Other than that, tablets inspire actually absolutely nothing that is unique to themselves of all computer form-factors.

  5. Take that, "The Cloud." on Not Just Paris: Community Activists Target Data Centers (datacenterfrontier.com) · · Score: 1

    Serves them right.

  6. Re:greybeard here, so watch it. on House of Representatives Proposal Aims To Regulate Car Privacy (itworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Cute, but wrong. Rubber tires are significantly higher durability than wooden chariot wheels, as well as more modular. I challenge you to make it 60,000 miles on a chariot with wooden wheels without having to replace both of them entirely.

  7. Re:You like our work? on More Tech, STEM Workers Voluntarily Quitting Their Jobs (dice.com) · · Score: 2

    The second part of the statement, I agree with. But in this case numbers aren't worth as much as names. We need to start naming and shaming the companies that are abusing basic labor laws first. We know there are vast discrepancies in salaries already, but salary discrepancies aren't inherently illegal.

    (Don't worry, I know you didn't think it out further than trying to call what you probably erroneously assumed was a bluff, I was just trying to help the discussion as a whole by salvaging the important part of your argument.)

  8. Re:You like our work? on More Tech, STEM Workers Voluntarily Quitting Their Jobs (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    Seconded.

  9. Re:speaking of shilling... on Nintendo's New System Likely a Console/Portable Hybrid (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    APK == Android Application Package? That's what Google tells me at least...

  10. Re:greybeard here, so watch it. on House of Representatives Proposal Aims To Regulate Car Privacy (itworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd also like to add to this that I can do without the USB audio jack. A single analog stereo 1/8" input jack is perfectly sufficient. The less unnecessary vulnerabilities the better. I know cars aren't likely to ever be the most secure thing in the world, but I'd at least like mine to be more secure than unencrypted 802.11b.

  11. Wow, lots of people shilling and talking out their on Nintendo's New System Likely a Console/Portable Hybrid (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    ... asses in here. Lots of people talking about how Nintendo is a failure because Sony and Microsoft keep saying so. Lots of people claiming the Wii-U is a terrible console who've never owned one. Lots of people claiming they have good advice for Nintendo who wouldn't be a Nintendo customer even if Nintendo followed every single one of their puerile, sophomoric suggestions.

    Go buy a Wii-U assholes, and a copy of Smash Bros Wii-U. Don't want to spend lots on the controllers? Just buy some used Wii ones. Don't want to demean yourself by buying a console that only costs half of what Sony or Microsoft is charging? BUY TWO. Stop complaining and be happy. You know all those extra on-paper specs don't actually make you enjoy Sony or Microsoft's offerings more, neither does their exorbitant prices. If they did, you'd be playing your XBone or PS4 instead of in here slamming Nintendo products you haven't tried for three generations.

  12. Re:Wii U's capabilities were notably lower on Nintendo's New System Likely a Console/Portable Hybrid (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    The port issue has been rectified. There is now a wireless adapter for Wii-U that has 4 GameCube controller ports on it. Its popular for the new version of Smash Brothers Wii-U due to the old GameCube controllers having been a favorite for competitive play.

  13. fact checked myself on Tesla: Journalists Trespassed At Gigafactory, Assaulted Employees (teslamotors.com) · · Score: 1

    Ok, I guess its more than I thought, roughly half of them now, notably including Nevada: http://www.leg.state.nv.us/nrs...

  14. Re:They should have been shot on Tesla: Journalists Trespassed At Gigafactory, Assaulted Employees (teslamotors.com) · · Score: 1

    I think that's actually only true in a small handful of the US states. In most of them you still have to prove you were acting in self-defense, and in some of them you further have to prove that your action was proportionate to the level of actual danger.

  15. Re:Okay, seriously.... on Wealth of Personal Data Found On Used Electronics Purchased Online · · Score: 1

    Here is what you do with those mobile devices.

  16. Re:Aside from gravity and the windstorm.... on Review: The Martian · · Score: 1

    Also it was the wrong color.

  17. Re:Sad to see the HP culture disappearing on How Steve Jobs Outsmarted Carly Fiorina · · Score: 4, Informative

    I KNOW! If you tell these guys what minimum mandated vacation time looks like in France they flat out think you're lying.

  18. Re:TLDR, Jobs was a raging piece of s*** on How Steve Jobs Outsmarted Carly Fiorina · · Score: 1

    Well he certainly proved for the rest of us that you can't outsmart Cancer with a vegetarian diet plan. He should have sprung for the chemo.

  19. Re:Goodbye yellowbrook road on Ask Slashdot: Make Windows Update Install Only Security Updates Automatically? · · Score: 1

    I got sad news for you dude. Microsoft was the enemy at least two decades ago or more. You're just now noticing today because you finally got computer literate enough to see their blatant and stupid evil.

  20. Re:I almost puked ar SIGGRAPH on Oculus' Michael Abrash Explains What It'll Take For VR To Feel Real · · Score: 1

    Who is really paying you for this? I just want to know where I can get paid to shill for stupidity. I'm sure it pays well....

  21. Re:I almost puked ar SIGGRAPH on Oculus' Michael Abrash Explains What It'll Take For VR To Feel Real · · Score: 1

    No I'm just flat out telling you I already have and you're wrong. If you want to make these outrageous blanket statements give yourself a bit larger margin for error.

  22. Re:I almost puked ar SIGGRAPH on Oculus' Michael Abrash Explains What It'll Take For VR To Feel Real · · Score: 1

    1 hour?! Ok, you're wrong and this is provably false. If you'd said something like 32 hours I'd have given you that I haven't personally tested for that long, but you're just either lying or completely naive.

  23. Re:I almost puked ar SIGGRAPH on Oculus' Michael Abrash Explains What It'll Take For VR To Feel Real · · Score: 1

    No, everyone has this issue if they stay in the VR environment long enough.

    Challenge accepted.

  24. Re:I almost puked ar SIGGRAPH on Oculus' Michael Abrash Explains What It'll Take For VR To Feel Real · · Score: 1

    Luckily its only a problem for a small percentage of humans, so evolution is apparently already working around your "unsolvable" problem.

  25. Re:Does it really matter to the air? on How Did Volkswagen Cheat Emissions Tests, and Who Authorized It? · · Score: 1

    There may be more variables here you're not considering. Compare cars-per-capita in most large cities around the world you'll see even the biggest, densest ones generally top out at around half as many cars as people. Compare that to Los Angeles, for example, where there are almost twice as many cars as people.