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  1. Re:One Click on Amazon Founder Jeff Bezos Calls For Governments To End Patent Wars · · Score: 2

    So he can't change his mind?

  2. Re:I'll take a third option... on FCC To Allow Cable Companies To Encrypt Over-the-Air Channels · · Score: 1

    Where I live, I get the basic channels in both HD and SD feeds. I set my TV to ignore everything except the HD OTA channels, WGN (only in SD), and Discovery Channel(also only in SD).

  3. Re:Developers love USDP on Windows 8: Do I Really Need a Single OS? · · Score: 1

    Vi!

  4. Re:The writer of the article has no credibility, I on Why Eric Schmidt Is Wrong About Microsoft Not Mattering Anymore · · Score: 1

    Wow. Looking back at your posting history, all of your arguments end up with "You're dumb. You're ignorant. I'm right."

    You are a dumb dumb and a bully. Eat shit and die, dumb dumb.

  5. This law is not applicable. The law applies to intermediaries and not end points. It's to keep people from sniffing around caches on non-originating and non-recipient machines, and their backups to gain access to someones protected communications.

    The cloud based email service is a communication endpoint and not subject to the law.

  6. He is excluded because he couldn't raise a piddling $50,000. THERE IS NO REQUIREMENT THAT THE $50,000 COME FROM CORPORATE DONORS! The pathetic liar (a trait that is disgustingly common in right-wing candidates this year) couldn't get $50,000 and chose to blame corporations, a bizarre statement to hear from a Libertarian to say the least.

    The HELL you say! A politician bending the truth to fit his own narrative?! Not in this man's America, no siree Bob!

  7. Re:If you really wanted to distance Wikileaks supp on WikiLeaks Losing Support From Anonymous · · Score: 1

    Steel doesn't need to melt in order to weaken. 'Nuff said.

  8. Re:If you really wanted to distance Wikileaks supp on WikiLeaks Losing Support From Anonymous · · Score: 1

    I am the keeper of the secret knowledge! If it were not for my vigilance, the world would have plunged into the abyss by now! I've got a blog.

  9. Re:The writer of the article has no credibility, I on Why Eric Schmidt Is Wrong About Microsoft Not Mattering Anymore · · Score: 1

    Oh, you're right. Maps sucks balls now. Thanks for reminding me.

    iOS is worse now than it was in 2007. Suck on that.

  10. Re:trade with asia? on Samsung Galaxy Nexus Ban Overturned · · Score: 2

    I hadn't realized that Korea was in Taiwan. Hmm...

  11. Re:The writer of the article has no credibility, I on Why Eric Schmidt Is Wrong About Microsoft Not Mattering Anymore · · Score: 1

    iOS is pretty much the same as it was 5 years ago. Rows of static icons hiding your data from you. If you went back in time and handed an iPhone 5 to an iPhone 2G user, they'd be pretty comfortable with it, I'd say. It hasn't changed much.

  12. Re:Ho hum on Why Eric Schmidt Is Wrong About Microsoft Not Mattering Anymore · · Score: 1

    People didn't need phones with Angry Birds on them, but when presented with those phones they went hog wild. It's the producers imperative to show the consumers what they "should" want.

  13. Re:This guy is dumb on Why Eric Schmidt Is Wrong About Microsoft Not Mattering Anymore · · Score: 2

    A shill doesn't necessarily need to know the limitations of what he's shilling...

  14. Re:91? They must have some good-ass healthcare. on Prince of Sealand Dies At 91 · · Score: 1

    Yeah, It's called the NHS.

  15. Re:News for nerds on Half-Life of DNA is 521 Years, Jurassic Park Impossible After All · · Score: 1

    If there's one thing you should have learned from Slashdot it's that simply being a nerd doesn't make one less stupid, less ignorant, or less technically inclined.

  16. Re:But Jurassic Park wasn't bsaed off fossil DNA on Half-Life of DNA is 521 Years, Jurassic Park Impossible After All · · Score: 1

    An article on this at The Register pointed out that even in amber, the DNA had very little chance of surviving 1.5M years, let alone the 62M years that would have been required for Jurrassic Park to have happened.

  17. Re:arg on OS Upgrades Powered By Git · · Score: 1

    Forgive me, I just assumed that you missed the part about this being for kiosk automation. I now realize that you just don't care about using Linux in any great capacity. Each Linux installation should be it's own delicate house of cards held together by deft handling and the force of gravity and friction. To use Linux for anything other than that goes against the "Linux way".

    Oh, I assume you don't use any package management system to "automagically" install and maintain your software? Compiling from the source is so much more the "Linux way". You shouldn't use any version control software, either. Not the "Linux way". Merge those changes by hand.

  18. Re:arg on OS Upgrades Powered By Git · · Score: 1

    So you just plain missed the whole "this is for kiosks" part? Good reading comprehension skills there, Tex.

  19. Re:I am 45 on Ask Slashdot: Am I Too Old To Retrain? · · Score: 1

    I guess I never really considered it managements duty to keep me up to snuff. In fact, in my job description, it states that it's my responsibility to keep my chops up. Work does provide some resources and time, but that's not the only place I look for training and guidance. And I use that training clause as justification to surf Slashdot at work every day. Blam!

  20. Re:First space-faring race = a bunch of nutjobs on Astronomers Search For Dyson Spheres of Alien Civilizations · · Score: 1

    When you see NASA asking for more funds to build a rocket to Mars, they don't say anything about how we embarrased the Reds, they talk about Velcro, Tang, and MRI machines.

  21. Re:First space-faring race = a bunch of nutjobs on Astronomers Search For Dyson Spheres of Alien Civilizations · · Score: 1

    Not true. We brought a bunch of rock back from the moon. That's not where the greatest benefits from that expedition came from. I'd surmise that insterstellar travel will give us some from column A, some from column B. Particularly if we find Eridium.

  22. Re:Can't they just... on How To Add 5.5 Petabytes and Get Banned From Costco · · Score: 1

    Another modded Insightful comment for someone who didn't read even the first paragraph of the corresponding article...

  23. Re:arg on OS Upgrades Powered By Git · · Score: 0

    That is not the Linux way. To expect understanding and willingness to learn and giving freedom and power in return is. It is no accident that a command-line gives the power of command, while a user-interface merely lets you click on the colorful buttons.

    Oh please if you'd bothered to read the very short snippet in the story summation, you'd see that this was for kiosk automation. Please don't ban WebConverger from the land of Linux for heresy.

    I propose that Slashdot require a TL;DR for every story that is written in huge bold letters and displayed above every single response textbox.

  24. Re:In Soviet Russia... on Russian Officials Consider Ban On Wi-Fi Use For Kids · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Alcohol in is counter-revolutionary. Internet access is just the opposite.

  25. Re:I am 45 on Ask Slashdot: Am I Too Old To Retrain? · · Score: 2

    This.

    At 41 it appears to take me longer to code because I can give an accurate estimate instead of a BS shot in the dark. Also, I spend more time preparing than I do hammering crap out on the keyboard, so it to the naive it appears that I'm not doing anything.

    I've never stopped honing my skills and probably would be asking myself if this is really the job for me if I ever did.

    Short answer to OP: Yes, re-train to another profession. You don't like programming. The longer you stay at a job that you don't like, the harder it will be to leave.