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  1. Re:YAY! on Cloud Version of OpenOffice In the Works · · Score: 1

    Thanks. Now I will be having nightmares for at least a month!

  2. Re:Single Payer Cost Board Says "No" on Man Charged £2,000 For Medical Records Stored On Obsolete System · · Score: 1

    don't forget that the government tax load in Canada is more like 70% of your income./blockquote> Bullshit! I am Canadian and my tax load is no where near 70% of my income.

  3. Re:Stupid. on Voting Machine Problem Reports Already Rolling In · · Score: 1

    #2 pencil is conductive. That makes it easy to read it by machine. I suppose you could do the same thing with a camera and a computer though.

  4. Stupid. on Voting Machine Problem Reports Already Rolling In · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It is called paper. It works.
    Voting machines are a solution to a problem that doesn't exits.
    Nothing beats a paper ballot and a #2 pencil.

  5. Re:well LA TE DA! on Software Uses Almost 1/2 the Storage On 32GB Surface Tablet · · Score: 1

    That was my third computer. The first two saved to cassette tapes.

  6. Re:32GB? That's like booting off a floppy nowadays on Software Uses Almost 1/2 the Storage On 32GB Surface Tablet · · Score: 1

    Child!
    I remember my first floppy disk drive with 68K per 5.25" disk.
    That was my third computer.
    Also, get off my lawn.

  7. Microsoft's recommendations on Software Uses Almost 1/2 the Storage On 32GB Surface Tablet · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Microsoft's recommendations for adding additional capacity are to use cloud storage, a memory card, or a USB storage device."

    Here is my recommendation: "Buy something else."
    I for one, bought a Google Nexus 7, and quite like it.

  8. Re:Missing links on The Evolution of the Computer Keyboard · · Score: 2

    But there have been no keyboards since the Model M.

    Typed with joy on my Model M keyboard.

  9. Re:ESXi on Ask Slashdot: Little Boxes Around the Edge of the Data Center? · · Score: 1

    ESXi rocks.
    It has made it easy to spin up a test server or six as needed. Makes my work life just a little bit easier.

  10. Re:Your priorities are all messed up!! on NYC Data Centers Struggle To Recover After Sandy · · Score: 2

    You need to add a source of good coffee to this list.
    No, Starbucks is NOT good coffee!

  11. Re:What about battery power? on 48-Core Chips Could Redefine Mobile Devices · · Score: 1

    Who says it has to run all 48 cores all the time?
    Lets assume this does become your primary computing device. It could run 2 or 4 cores on battery, rnen when you dock it and need some real power, it ramps up to all 48 cores.
    That is just off the top of my head. I am sure there are many other viable options. Also:
    Batteries will probably get better.
    Power needed by each core will probably reduce.

  12. Re:Why Australia and not Canada? on Ask Steve Wozniak Anything · · Score: 2

    I like to go camping in areas miles away from other people. Helps me to deal with them when I get back.
    I was camping near Greenwood BC. I went to look at some property. Shortly after I crawled into my sleeping bag, I could hear a soft noise behind me, then a minute or so later off to my left the same sound. Then again, further left a growl. About this time I am thinking a bear is circling my clearing. Bears are no big deal, so I make a bunch of noise, and figure it will be frightened off.
    No such luck. The circling continues. This annoys me, so I go to my Jeep, and honk the 110db horn a few times. I hear a scrambling noise off to my right, but cant see anything.
    Started to head back to the tent, and I hear the circling resume.
    I thought "I don't want to meet whatever is hungry enough to not be afraid of me." I grabbed my tent and stuffed it whole into the back seat of my Jeep, and headed out in a big hurry.
    I didn't feel better until I had covered about 10 miles. My Jeep was topless and doorless.
    I heard about a cougar attack near where I was camping just a few days later.
    I figure it probably got within 70Ft.

    Not my closest call. I got followed by a bear once when I was young, and two years ago I was not paying attention and nearly stepped on a rattlesnake, when I came around a corner on the trail.

  13. Re:Wow, I guess. on A Honda Civic With no Gas Tank (Video) · · Score: 1

    In your opinion.
    Your opinion just happens to be wrong.
    In my opinion.

  14. Re:Wow, I guess. on A Honda Civic With no Gas Tank (Video) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It is geeky and cool. If you don't get that you might be on the wrong website.
    Geeky and cool does not mean useful. In fact most of the best geeky and cool things are not useful at all.

  15. Re:Why Australia and not Canada? on Ask Steve Wozniak Anything · · Score: 1

    Did you make it back alive?

    No.

  16. Re:Why Australia and not Canada? on Ask Steve Wozniak Anything · · Score: 1

    Wildlife: not much dangerous stuff here. Only rattlesnake that keeps to itself.

    You forgot Black Widow spiders, Bears, Cougars, Moose.
    I was hunted by a Cougar just a few weeks ago on a camping trip.

  17. Re:Big problem. on Reminder: Slashdot Anniversary Meetups, Free T-Shirts · · Score: 2

    We should create a virtual party. Perhaps a forum of some kind could be used.

  18. Big problem. on Reminder: Slashdot Anniversary Meetups, Free T-Shirts · · Score: 1

    I am a cheep bastard, so I really want a free /. t-shirt. But I don't want to have any of you freaks in my house. Or anywhere near my house for that matter. I think I am going to have to quickly created some new /. accounts.

  19. Re:Finally, a law recognizing privacy on California Employers Can't Ask For Your Facebook Password · · Score: 1

    It is not as easy as you might think. I spent about 15 minutes looking for how to delete my FB account.
    Finally I had to google for how to do it.

  20. Re:If I were an employer on California Employers Can't Ask For Your Facebook Password · · Score: 1

    For easy and fun, just chance their relationship status, and sexual orientation.
    It doesn't matter what they are currently. Just change them to something different.

  21. Re:I can only assume on The Text Message Typo That Landed a Man In Jail · · Score: 1

    When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
    Norm Crosby

  22. Re:I can only assume on The Text Message Typo That Landed a Man In Jail · · Score: 1

    Your IP address has been tracked, and a law enforcement official has been dispatched. They will be knocking on your door in:
    3...
    2...
    1...
    Don't drop the soap...

  23. Re:Rocks on Rover Finds Ancient Streambed On Martian Surface · · Score: 2, Funny

    It sure beats sending 2-3 meatbags

    I believe those meatbags are commonly referred to as: "Ugly bags of mostly water"

  24. Re:Never such thing as too much porn on .xxx Registrar To Launch Pr0n Search Engine · · Score: 1

    I am still looking for albino, midget, amputee porn.
    Perhaps this new search engine can help.

  25. Re:Microsoft Security Essentials on Ask Slashdot: Actual Best-in-Show For Free Anti Virus? · · Score: 1

    You are wrong! Read the licence. I did.