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  1. Re:ASP.NET and C# on Ask Slashdot: Which Web Platform Would You Use? · · Score: 2

    Not saying he is not a shill but you do realize that you can choose in your settings to not display the fact that you are a subscriber.

  2. Re:You know what they're doing... on RIM's Playbook On Clearance · · Score: 1

    It was nearly epic how badly you missed this one.
    That was not an F-15 Strike Eagle 6 feet over your head doing 900 knots.
    That was just a huge Whooosh.

  3. Re:This seems... on Earthquakes That May Be Related To Fracking Close Ohio Oil Well · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I do not give a shit if it is causing Magnitude 4 earthquakes.
    4s are nothing. If it was causing 5.5s or 6s I would worry, but 4s?
    I'll take 3 4s a day for cheaper gas.

  4. Re:This seems... on Earthquakes That May Be Related To Fracking Close Ohio Oil Well · · Score: 4, Insightful

    the debt that was created to help irresponsible citizens and the made worse by saving irresponsible bankers. Who in turn gave that money to irresponsible politicians so that they can afford to be voted back in by irresponsible citizens.

  5. Re:Fiscal responsibility is tough. on Earthquakes That May Be Related To Fracking Close Ohio Oil Well · · Score: 2

    The education system in California is highly funded.
    The per student spending is high. The problem is that we can not fire bad teachers and too much of the money is spent on "Administration".

  6. Re:This seems... on Earthquakes That May Be Related To Fracking Close Ohio Oil Well · · Score: 2

    And umm. How are high taxes and high benefits working there in Europe?

  7. Re:Democracy in Action on Net Companies Consider the "Nuclear Option" To Combat SOPA · · Score: 1

    While according to definition a company can not really ever be truly or purely altruistic, they can practice some altruism.
    Companies can do and sometimes do do good without direct benefit in mind. For the shareholders you do need to show at least indirect benefit from your actions though.
    Charities benefit greatly from this. I for one would love Google and Amazon and Facebook to stand up against the government lackeys and for the technological freedoms of the people of the world. If those 3 companies really stood against it hard then the government would have to concede. The people would win. The companies would turn that good will into profits and the shareholders would win as well.

  8. Re:Srsly? on Net Companies Consider the "Nuclear Option" To Combat SOPA · · Score: 4, Funny

    I do not think Facebook user are comfortable with phones.
    Unless they can text their representatives.

    "OMG! Stop that SOPA thing and gime back my Facebook!"

  9. Re:Plot!? on UK Ministry of Defense Improves War Games For Console Generation · · Score: 1

    STFU. I am still trying to forget.

  10. Re:Let me rephrase that on World's Worst PR Guy Gives His Side · · Score: 2

    The internet is not the problem.
    If the guy had done this once, then after getting caught on it admitted that he had had a bad day and treated a customer in a way in which no customer should be treated this would have turned out differently.
    He still would have been fired. And probably would have had a hard time staying in PR. As it should be.
    But the way he has handled it means that he is getting infamous as a douche. This is what he is doing to himself.
    Just because it used to be that you could be a total ass and treat people like shit then change company name and move to a new city and all would be well does not mean that is how it should have been. It was only like that because it was harder to track.
    Now you are known for who you are. This is good.

  11. Re:@Motorola - hope you're paying attention! on HTC Unlocks Bootloader For All of Its Devices · · Score: 1

    Motorola?
    Come now. Are they not the ones who have an encrypted booloader to make it more difficult to unlock than HTC or Samsung?
    They make it as difficult as possible. The other companies made it easy but just not official.
     

  12. Re:Always a great excuse on Sun Storms May Affect Radios, Cell Phones Today · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I work in IT for a large cab company in California.
    When I get to work in the morning. I log in, check server status, check status of 4 different radio sites, then I go to spaceweather.com to check sunspot activity.
    With 300 Cabs running around with mobile radios and GPS there is just a lot that can go bad. Better to know.

  13. Re:To avoid antitrust on Did Microsoft Make Google Pay Triple Rate To Mozilla? · · Score: 0

    Google is doing this simply because it drives more traffic to Google.
    Google makes money if they are used on Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Opera, IE, SeaFuckingMonkey or any other browser.
    Google wants money. Sometimes they have to spend it to make more. Rest assured Google thinks that the $300 mil a year to Firefox is going to generate more than that in advertising revenue.

  14. Re:Hey dumb ass on Ask Slashdot: Handing Over Personal Work Without Compensation? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps he should be looking at why when he has so much downtime at work is he doing nothing to help his employers while he is working.
    Why with all that downtime is he waiting till after work to do stuff useful to work?

  15. Re:U.S. is established on religion, so on America's Turn From Science, a Danger For Democracy · · Score: 1

    I 100% agree that at 1 day the thing is a thing and can be wiped away.
    I 100% believe that at 1 min before birth they are human and should have at the very least the right to live.
    It is in that time between that I have problems.
    When? That is the biggie.
    If you are a person that thinks it should be legal to stab and scrape at 8.5 months, I can not reason with you.
    If you are a person that believes that a mother should risk death for a cluster of 256 cells, I can not reason with you.
    If you are somewhere else we can talk.

  16. Re:in the USA you don't get sent to a death camp f on China's Parallel Online Universe · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    in the USA you don't get sent to a death camp for be part of a religion

    Long live Xenu!

  17. Re:No *official* port. on Galaxy S and Galaxy Tab Won't Get Android 4.0 · · Score: 1

    I for one want Google to be DemandLESS as possible.

  18. Re:Obligatory on Go Daddy Reverses Course On SOPA · · Score: 1

    I have 4 small domains on NearlyFreeSpeech. I love them.

  19. Re:It won't last on Volkswagen Turns Off E-mail After Work-Hours · · Score: 1

    I kind of like the way that Ross Perot treated his employees.
    He expected the world from them, and he received it.
    He also protected his employees with all his might.
    He would call you at 3AM on a sunday christmas eve. He would also fly in with Mercs and break you out of prison when you were taken hostage.
    The US would benefit from more employees like his and more employers like him.

  20. Re:I smell a class action suit on EFF Reverse Engineers Carrier IQ · · Score: 1

    I loved my old Evo.
    Rooted with CM7 on it.
    Whatever phone you have, you should have root.
    Most likely you should replace the stock firmware with something else.

  21. Re:I had serious problems with Namecheap. on GoDaddy Backs SOPA · · Score: 1

    NearlyFreeSpeech.Net

    They are quick, cheep and fair.

    Great and Awesome for low volumes sites.

  22. Re:That's nice.. on New Study Confirms Safety of GM Crops · · Score: 2

    1. patent wars on farmers

    This is a Government problem. Widespread and doing damage all over the economy.

    2. cross-contamination to non-GM crops / organic farms

    There could very well be problems with this. This would result in that harvest having to not be sold as non-GM or organic. There would even maybe be grounds for that farmer to sue the contaminating farmer for the firsts damages.
    Though it would not be destructive as the farmer can start new again with the next crop.

    3. against license agreements to save seed

    This is fine. You make the agreement you live by it. The only time this is a real problem is when 2 and 1 mix and cause issues for those who have not made agreements.

    4. crop monoculture

    Why? There will always be a market for other types of crops. Now a miracle GM rice crop may become massively dominant, but it will not become the only kind of rice.

    Now I am not saying that GM is nothing but awesome, but .... there are millions of people starving that GM Rice and Wheat can feed.

    So choose. We allow GM and feed more people or we ban it and if you live in a place that does not do well with crops and has too many mouths to feed we just let some die off and regain the balance of the area.

    With people though, they do not usually starve quietly. They will pick up AKs and go to war. That works to. War is great for population reduction.

  23. Re:Both on Tesla Motors Announces Prices For Their Upcoming Models · · Score: 4, Interesting

    First off the cheapest one is $49,900 and that is after a $7500 tax break.
    That is a $57,400 car that the tax payers have to pay $7,500 on every time one is sold.
    Fuck I hate paying for someones toy.

  24. Re:So all 5 of you running Safari on Windows on New Remote Flaw In 64-Bit Windows 7 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Not saying that Safari does not have some shit code in it that allows this to happen but there is no way that windows should allow the execution of the code because some shit piece of software can not handle its data.
    So ... Fuck em both.

  25. Re:Inovate to ass fuck? on Microsoft Says Goodbye To CES · · Score: 2

    Meanwhile, the brain-dead leadership lets it happen.

    What leadership?
    Very few companies have leaders anymore. With few exceptions.