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  1. Heard of an easy fix on Apple's Revenge: iMessage Might Eat Your Texts If You Switch To Android · · Score: 2

    Not sure if this works but the easy fix seems to be that you change your Apple password. Then the iMessage app can't authenticate and dumps your messages back to SMS.

  2. Disable ads isn't working on OCZ RevoDrive 350 PCIe SSD Hits 1.8GB/sec With Standard Toshiba MLC NAND · · Score: 2

    I checked the box but these damn slashvertisements keep showing up.

  3. All of mine are online on Your Old CD Collection Is Dying · · Score: 2

    I have a box of CDs somewhere. Anytime I want to listen to something I usually just download it off BitTorrent. Faster than ripping the CD and I can do it all on my phone.

  4. Re:Sanity check on 7.1 Billion People, 7.1 Billion Mobile Phone Accounts Activated · · Score: 1

    The richest countries would have to have ten devices per person ON AVERAGE to make up for the large portion of the population that doesn't have any, let alone clean toilets. I just don't see how that's the case.

  5. Sanity check on 7.1 Billion People, 7.1 Billion Mobile Phone Accounts Activated · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Usually when you get a number like this you do a sanity check to make sure it's reasonable. This is so plainly obviously a BS number.

  6. Re:"GM thinks" there's your problem. on GM Sees a Market For $5/Day Dedicated In-Car Internet · · Score: 1

    You go into your phone and activate the hotspot. Done. It's not just easy for nerds, it's easy for my 84 year-old grandma.

  7. Re: good on Canadian Teen Arrested For Calling In 30+ Swattings, Bomb Threats · · Score: 2

    They essentially changed the name to Youth Criminal Justice Act. Same BS, different name.

  8. Exactly. This is like the intelligent design argument. "This problem is complex, so we're going to propose that it can't EVER be solved. Let's discuss where we're all going for lunch."

  9. Re:That's annoying! on In SF: an App For Auctioning Off Your Public Parking Spot · · Score: 1

    I'm not selling drugs either. I'm just selling the fact that I'll walk away from this baggie here and won't look back.

  10. Vigilante on In SF: an App For Auctioning Off Your Public Parking Spot · · Score: -1, Troll

    Hopefully a vigilante steps forward and shows up only to put a bullet between the eyes of these assholes.

  11. Re:Storm chasers and drones on Drone Camera Tornado Coverage Raises Press Freedom Questions · · Score: 5, Funny

    Leaving something in the path of a tornado is very very very difficult. There was a documentary about doing that called Twister.

  12. Re:How? on Verizon and New Jersey Agree 4G Service Equivalent to Broadband Internet · · Score: 4, Funny

    They are altering the deal. Pray they don't alter it any further.

  13. Re:Old phone cords? on New Shape Born From Rubber Bands · · Score: 1

    They spent a fortune on getting someone to CAD that up instead of just taking a picture of a telephone cord.

  14. Re:How does an elevator accelerate? on "Going Up" At 45 Mph: Hitachi To Deliver World's Fastest Elevator · · Score: 1

    I like the idea of just freefalling for most of the way and then slowly and safely decelerating. That would be a riot.

  15. Re:Well... on iPad Fever Is Officially Cooling · · Score: 1

    I was given a 7th gen iPod Nano at work as a project completion gift. I looked it up online and at the time it was worth $145 new. I had a lot of trouble giving it away. Nobody wanted it. It ended up going to my six year old nephew.

  16. Re:Well. on How Apple's Billion Dollar Sapphire Bet Will Pay Off · · Score: 1

    Handing phones to teenagers to test screens is probably the worst test you could come up with.

  17. Obligatory XKCD on NIST Removes Dual_EC_DRBG From Random Number Generator Recommendations · · Score: 3, Funny
  18. Re:Gen 1 camera on Lytro Illum Light-Field Camera Lets You Refocus Pictures Later · · Score: 1

    So you can make crappy YouTube slideshows with bad music and a boring voiceover.

  19. Marketing geniuses on Linux Voice is a New Magazine for Linux Users — On Paper (Video) · · Score: 3, Funny

    These Einsteins sure know their audience!

  20. Re:What now? 1 billion! on Apache OpenOffice Reaches 100 Million Downloads. Now What? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Find me a replacement for Excel then. A real replacement, not some crappy OpenOffice thing that has 80% of the features.

  21. Re:LOL CANADA LOL on RCMP Arrest Canadian Teen For Heartbleed Exploit · · Score: 2

    If you compare their failures to those of other police forces they don't even come close. They're in another league. They may get some publicity but I'd far rather deal with the RCMP than a city cop. The RCMP may have had a few incidents, but city police forces are corrupt from the top down.

  22. Re:LOL CANADA LOL on RCMP Arrest Canadian Teen For Heartbleed Exploit · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You guys will never understand the RCMP. They're probably one of the last competent police forces on the planet, and the vast majority of Canadians respects them. Our city or provincial police forces on the other hand...

  23. Re:Uproar? on Vintage 1960s Era Film Shows IRS Defending Its Use of Computers · · Score: 1

    How many people do you think use cash at the self checkout? I didn't know you even could. The places I've seen you'd have to do the cash transaction with the person monitoring the machines.

  24. TP on Ask Slashdot: What Good Print Media Is Left? · · Score: 2

    They haven't started making digital toilet paper yet.

  25. Re:http://www.linuxadvocates.com/ on Lack of US Cybersecurity Across the Electric Grid · · Score: 1, Funny

    If money doesn't grow on trees why do banks have branches?