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  1. You don't need the course... on Ask Slashdot: How To Prove IT Knowledge Without Expensive Certificates? · · Score: 1

    Just test out of it. Most certs you can go take the test for, for under $200.

    Also, you're PhD makes me suspicious that we're all being sucked into some graduate study.

  2. People like you are the reason this country will never change for the better.

  3. Re:No problem with this on Towards a 50% Efficient Solar Cell · · Score: 1, Troll

    Governments do not "invest", Governments move money from one place to another... VERY inefficiently.
    How are Obama's solar investments doing? Oh, that's right, they taxed you... took your money, then gave it to some businessmen that promptly filed bankruptcy and drove off in their BMWs. Congrats.

  4. Re:Fuck Apple. on iPhone 5 Scorns Standards Promise To European Commission · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No you can't. The connector doesn't "Stream" anything... it's an analog "line in" that's no better than if you used the headphone jack. The cable also transmits controls back and forth so the buttons on your radio can control the iPhone... what a fantastic idea... unfortunately you could do this in 1980 with corded remotes for VCRs. Well, it's 30 years later and the Android/Windows Mobile/Blackbery and just about every other device made todays communities would like to introduce you to Bluetooth. It's already 18 years old, but it makes your Apple adapter cable look rather silly.

  5. Re:Just self defense on Anonymous' Barrett Brown Raided By FBI During Online Chat · · Score: 1

    If I were constantly being harassed and raided by the police, I'd simply cut a 6'x6' hole in my floor just inside the front door and staple a rug across it. Start using the garage door and keep it closed from the inside. Next time they entered without knocking they'd end up in my basement.

  6. Re:Um, no. on Twitter Hands Over Messages At Heart of Occupy Case · · Score: -1, Troll

    What case? This never went to court. Twitter decided that now that the Occupy movement has blown over, it's cheaper to comply and frankly not very damaging to their public image because most people wont even notice. Twitter doesn't care about your rights.

  7. well on Intel Predicts Ubiquitous, Almost-Zero-Energy Computing By 2020 · · Score: 1

    There are plenty of alternatives to audio and video that use very little power. The kindles e-ink screen for example... there's progress in delivering audio directly to the skeletal structure of your head, therefor using far less power. Wifi, GPS and cellular signals are where the real problems lay.

  8. Re:Remember that thread from the other day... on Ubuntu NVIDIA Graphics Driver: Windows Competitive, But Only With KDE · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Linux has games?

  9. Re:Never trust security through obscurity on Chip and Pin "Weakness" Exposed By Cambridge Researchers · · Score: 1

    Can't buy pot with a debit card. Well... except for California.

  10. Re:Can this be retroactively legalized on House Approves Extending the Warrantless Wiretapping Act · · Score: 0

    That's cute... you think that vote was a legitimate look at those politicians beliefs.

    Have you ever had someone play "Good cop / Bad cop" on you? Like your boss comes to fire you. He says "Well, I really wanted to keep you, you're a great guy but... the big boss says you've gotta go. He's a real jerk." Isn't that nice? He wanted to keep you and he really liked you... Well, I've got news for you... you're still fired and he was lying. Get a fucking clue. Every republican and democrat on that floor knew exactly how that vote was going to come out before they walked in. The democrats could have stopped that legislation but didn't.

  11. Re:As a welder on Augmented HDR Vision For Welders (And Others) · · Score: 1

    I have both kinds of masks. To use the old, non-automatic, you simply have the helmet up, position your gun, don't move... flip the helmet down, and start. If you get a bright shoplight and shine it on your work, you can see it ...sorta... through the glass before you start. At least well enough to get your position. The auto dark helmets can be had for as low as $50 now http://www.harborfreight.com/adjustable-shade-auto-darkening-welding-helmet-46092.html

    I've even seen that one on sale for $40. It's the same one I have, and it's served be for about 5 years now.

  12. Why do we care what affects voting habits when we have no real choice in who to vote for in the first place? Will the outcome of this falls election really have any bearing on what laws are passed, which countries we invade, what services we have or how much we're taxed? No.

  13. Re:They Aren't For Tracking Asteroids on Europe Sets Sights On Asteroid Tracking Radars · · Score: 1

    Because Venus is just a tad bit bigger than an asteroid.

  14. As a welder on Augmented HDR Vision For Welders (And Others) · · Score: 2

    As a welder I can say: Holy cats! I want that... Talk about making my life easier!

  15. Re:Correction... on Zuckerberg: Betting On HTML5 Was Facebook's Biggest Mistake · · Score: 1

    Apple is a far far far larger bubble than Facebook. Wait for that Mountain to pop. When the most valuable stock in the world belongs to what's basically a toy company, you know you've got a problem.

  16. Re:SI units, please on Synthetic Materials Set New World Record For Greatest Amount of Surface Area · · Score: 1

    Yes, we need the "libraries of congress" conversion to truly understand these numbers.

  17. Re:*700* instruments off *6* different coastlines? on Scientists Built the 'Hubble Telescope For the Ocean' Using the Cloud · · Score: 1

    Dude...
    They said Hubble, Cloud, application Architecture and COI in the same paragraph. Drop your pants and suck VMwares dick immediately. They have buzz-worded you into submission.

  18. Re:yikes! on 8th Circuit Upholds $220,000 Verdict In Jammie Thomas Case · · Score: 0

    Except, they can find those MP3s on your computer at a border patrol stop (and yes, they really are searching computers for pirated content at border crossings now) and arrest you for pirated content on your computer. You have no way of proving you got the songs legitimately. iTunes is not the solution to the problem.

  19. Re:High Frequency trading on More Warnings About High-Frequency Trading · · Score: 1

    I don't even think it has to be that high. .001% would probably end it. And where does that money go? I'd rather it were not a tax... How about it goes into some insurance program to bail out banks so we don't have to do it next time?

  20. Re:.gov gone wild on Finnish Bureaucracy Takes Issue With Crowdfunded Textbook · · Score: 0

    Taken care of by the system? LOL Golden chains my friend.
    And, I'm not defending my government, I'm admonishing yours.

  21. Re:.gov gone wild on Finnish Bureaucracy Takes Issue With Crowdfunded Textbook · · Score: 1

    Ok, let me put it more plainly: Why the fuck should he have to register with anyone or apply for any permits, to get free money to do something good for the community? If you wanted to take up a collection for someone that was dieing of cancer you'd have to go to a local comity to get approval? Fuck the Finnish government and their bullshit, wipe your own ass for you legal system.

  22. Screwing themselves on No Opt-Out For Ads On New Kindle Fires · · Score: 4, Informative

    I paid for the version without ads. In the kindle hacking community, there was a definite aversion to helping people circumvent the ads. If you don't want the ads, but a kindle without ads they'd say. Now however, I'm willing to bet that very same hacking community will consider it their duty to help people remove the ads. Amazons screwing themselves with this move.

  23. Re:.gov gone wild on Finnish Bureaucracy Takes Issue With Crowdfunded Textbook · · Score: 2

    You miss the point, there is no permit he can get. He'd have to form a business or organization. As always government regulation adds cost, complexity and may even kill this project. All for the noble purpose of preventing money laundering? Which this is clearly not. But we can't let common sense intervene.

  24. Ironic on Rare Form of Autism Could Be Curable With Protein Supplements · · Score: 2

    Wouldn't it be ironic to find out all theses parents and their modern fad diets of all organic/vegetarian/whatever... are whats causing their children to be autistic and not the very "chemicals" they are trying to avoid.

  25. Re:Copyrightable? on Open Source Beer Served Cold, With a Heated Licensing Discussion · · Score: 1

    The crime was that they ever thought they "owned" the recipe to begin with. Imagine if Chocolate cake had a screwed up license like the song "happy birthday" does... That's right, lets ruin everyones birthday even further with more copyright law.