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  1. Re:Third-party nominations? on Mars One Has 78,000 Applicants · · Score: 1

    Just do not forget the Q-36 Space Modulator.

  2. Re:Your question on Ask Slashdot: Why Won't Companies Upgrade Old Software? · · Score: 1

    Try not to forget that as you become more efficient you lower prices to attract more customers.
    Unless you are a government propped up shit hole telco.
    There is a reason that at one time a TV was only for the rich. Now people on welfare have 3 HD TVs and cable.

  3. Re:mature response to a corporate stumble on Microsoft Prepares Rethink On Windows 8 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    To be fair when people did not like where Gnome and KDE were going they had the choice to pick up where they left off and roll their own.
    Which some people did. Some users followed. Some distributions picked up speed due to what they did.
    With Microsoft your only choice is to bitch. You can not take the windows 7 source and stay on that path and update as you will.

  4. Re:Priority Failure. on BT Begins Customer Tests of Carrier Grade NAT · · Score: 2

    But there never was an outcry of people demanding a static IP address for free.
    Never.
    Not once.
    I am old. Not ignorant of these things and, ... well to be completely truthful, I can be an asshat. I am just not being one now.

  5. Re:Defects fixed for proprietary may differ. on 450 Million Lines of Code Can't Be Wrong: How Open Source Stacks Up · · Score: 1

    A fangirl?

    No. The exact opposite would be a HateBitch.

  6. Re:Great... on EA Is the Game Company Disney Was Looking For · · Score: 1

    Yup. Pretty much anything this shithole has to say is useless.

  7. Lol on EA Is the Game Company Disney Was Looking For · · Score: 1

    lol
    That is all.
    Really.

  8. Re:OSX is better anyway on Microsoft's "New Coke" Moment? · · Score: 1

    It is the standard desktop with a majority of users that reside and work exclusively at Starbucks locations.
    If your order includes both "Non-Fat" and "Soy" there is a 93% chance you are using OSX.

  9. Re:It usually works like this on Google Ordered Back To UK Parliament To "Explain Itself" Following Investigation · · Score: 1

    A private company can not put me in prison without government help.
    A Government can.
    Some private companies I do not like. Most I do not have business with.
    A few I am "Forced" (Meaning I am too lazy to figure out a different way) to do business with (Microsoft).
    There is no competition for government.
    I fear Government. There is no corporation (Even the Evil Microsoft) that I fear.

  10. Re:Far cheaper options on German Ministry of Education Throws Away PCs For 190,000 € Due To Infection · · Score: 2

    So don't use Red Hat. Lots of free linux distros out there.

    Or do use Red Hat as it will still be cheaper.
    If Windows were free I would still prefer Linux, just for the licensing.
    All the different licensing takes up my time. Quite a bit of it.
    With the crap I have to go through for viruses, licensing, updating, and basic windows problems I spend a lot of time that I would not have to with linux.
    I have 3 Linux servers, 2 SCO Unix Servers, 2 Windows 2008 servers, 1 Windows 2003 Server, 34 Windows XP machines, 2 Vista Machines, 1 Windows 7 Machine, 1 Ubuntu PC and 4 Linux Mint PCs.
    I know where my time is spent. I can tell you this. Migration on all but one of the XP machines is going straight to Mint. That one is running proprietary software and hardware and is only on the local network and behind a firewall with very strict rules. People will bitch a little. I have already moved a majority of the people off MS Office and onto either Libre Office or Open Office. I installed both and allowed the users to choose which one they like best. Most of them were good after 10 minutes of training on the basic differences. The power users are still on MS Office but I will win them over soon as well.
    Now if I could only get rid of those soul sucking SCO 5 Unix machines my life would be soo much better.

  11. Of course on Kenya Police: Our Fake Bomb Detectors Are Real · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    because Kenyans are in fact ...
    Idiots.

  12. Re:Oh boy. on Microsoft Ad Campaign Puts a Hotspot Inside a Magazine · · Score: 5, Funny

    The problem today is the insane number of people who scour the planet looking for ways in which to be offended.

  13. Re:Oh boy. on Microsoft Ad Campaign Puts a Hotspot Inside a Magazine · · Score: 2

    Luckily you stated "male" because we all know there are no flight attendants that are "men".

  14. Re:BARDIAC on Old Educational Computer Resurrected As a Spreadsheet · · Score: 1

    You missed the elumation typo.

  15. Reply was... on What's Actually Wrong With DRM In HTML5? · · Score: 1

    W3C sent them back a letter in conjunction with ICANN sayng "Fuck you and Fuck the Interwebs. We want some of that internet money like the Canadians got!"

  16. Re:My car has a range of 6000 miles on Will Future Tesla Cars Use Metal-Air Batteries? · · Score: 1

    Distilled water in fact does not fall from the sky for free.
     

  17. Re:But... But... Why? on Wikipedia Moved To MariaDB 5.5 · · Score: 1

    If you arfe a business looking forward to the long term those ifs, buts and maybes are important.
    You serve yourself well by not waiting till the last minute.

  18. I think you missed his point.
    The point being that Democrat or republican you are just voting for one side a poison pill.
    The "One Party System" is that of the Republicats.

  19. Re:Rotten to the core. on Siri Keeps Your Data For Two Years · · Score: 1

    Horseradish is what you put on Prime rib. Not Apple(sauce).

  20. Re:Google keeps voice searches for 2 years also... on Siri Keeps Your Data For Two Years · · Score: 1

    Your ISP will rat you out.

  21. Re:Comparison with Google search? on Siri Keeps Your Data For Two Years · · Score: 1

    Google ads are white listed for me.
    Plain text. On topic. Unintrusive and helps out the company giving me good free shit.
    Every great once in a while I actually click on an ad because it is something I want.

    Of all ads on the internet. Google ads cause me the least pain.

  22. Re:nope on Windows: Not Doomed Yet · · Score: 4, Interesting

    95, ME, and Vista were failures.
    98, XP, and 7 have been decent.

  23. Re:What trend? on Windows: Not Doomed Yet · · Score: 1

    To be fair the OS is not "Unusable" just really bad.

  24. Re:Distinct taste? on Demand for Kopi Luwak May Be Threatening Wildlife · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Most people who know coffee say that in blind tests this "Shit" coffee is indistinguishable from cheap ("Shit") coffee.
    People are for the most part incredibly stupid.

  25. Re:Oh well on Google Apps Suffering Partial Outage · · Score: 1

    We switched to Google Apps a few years ago. In that time I've seen maybe a dozen full or partial outages. Some were not Google's fault. Internet routing or DNS problems were responsible some of the time. One instance was when a drunk driver hit a telephone pole about a quarter of a mile away and severed our fiber connection. When it is down, I still end up spending half the day dealing with the outage. But In a decade of running our email in house, I had just one outage. We did have a few instances of where our Internet connection was down so outside email did not flow, but at least internal communications worked.

    Ok. So if you are running you Google for Business correctly you should still have access to local copies of important documents and critical email accounts should all be going through a local non web based client that downloads emails locally.
    So how many times in the decade of running you local email did you have issues that made things the same as if Google was down and you were doing things correctly?
    What I see there is you saying ...
    Sometimes when Google was down it was stuff that would have effected us even with our own servers.
    Sometimes it was not.
    Sometimes when I ran my own servers I got affected.
    OMG Google sucks.