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  1. Re:Change in contract on Verizon Is Merging Its Cellphone Tracking Supercookie with AOL's Ad Tracking Network · · Score: 1

    Of course they are unenforceable - a contract requires parties to consider, understand, and agree to terms.

  2. Re:ZFS is nice... on Ubuntu Plans To Make ZFS File-System Support Standard On Linux · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A typical home Linux server - AKA an old PC - won't have IPMI. Actual servers typically will have IPMI, but they cost $BIG_BUCKS$. And even then, IPMI is extremely limited.

    On the Dell servers I bought a few months ago I can't do anything useful with it beyond power on/off or text-only console redirection over serial (over LAN) before the OS loads (I can get into BIOS and the RAID controller ROM, not much else).
    Unless of course I pony up more cash for their iDRAC Standard/Pro/Enterprise/etc. shit. THEN I can get graphical console redirection, some storage space to flash firmware from, and even USB/optical drive redirection.

  3. Re:JSON! NOOOO! on Twitter Shuts Down JSON API and Names New CEO · · Score: 1

    Press X to JSON.

  4. Re:From a geek's perspective on What Non-Geeks Hate About the Big Bang Theory · · Score: 2

    I enjoy it as well, and part of it is because of how much "geeks" bitch and moan about it.
    The show does a great job of mocking shitty geek stereotypes, and losers online do a great job of living up to those stereotypes.

  5. Re:Not using laugh tracks on What Non-Geeks Hate About the Big Bang Theory · · Score: 1

    It's still a live studio audience.

    There is no laugh track other than what the live studio audience supplies. Any editing to that track is for overall volume and timing, just as is done with every other show. This has been standard practice since Married with Children, where episodes frequently had botched run lengths due to the actors having to wait (and sometimes even restart a line) due to the audience reaction.

  6. Re:Any monitor would crack at 510 PPI on Japan Display Squeezes 8K Resolution Into 17-inch LCD, Cracks 510 PPI At 120Hz · · Score: 1

    Not a CRT.

  7. Bleach doesn't work every time.
    Bleach, alcohol, etc. need to be applied at specific concentrations for a specific period of time to be effective.
    If you don't follow these procedures, all you do is breed stronger shit.

    Some retard is lining up right now to say "NOOOOOOOO THEY NEVER BECOME RESISTANT TO BLEACH OR ALCOHOL!!!!".
    Plenty of organism have on outer wrapper, or "skin", to protect them from hostile environments. Many micro organisms wall off and go dormant until the coast is clear and then come back. So fuck off with that theory, please.

    Bleach doesn't work every time. Not even fire does. However, I suspect what happened here was a simple case of places not being cleaned properly (or at all) because the building owners / maintenance people were cheap / lazy.

  8. Re:If that's how Pokemon Int'l treats its fans... on A Broke Fan Owes $5,400 For Pokemon-Themed Party Posters · · Score: 1

    Holy shit you dummmmmmm

  9. Re:The new normal for Android on Samsung Decides Not To Patch Kernel Vulnerabilities In Some S4 Smartphones · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yup, Android is no longer a platform I can recommend.
    Of course, iOS isn't either, and MS burned all bridges with Windows 10, so fuck it, I'm not buying any shit from you assholes anymore.

  10. Re:Does it matter? on Ask Slashdot: Is the Gap Between Data Access Speeds Widening Or Narrowing? · · Score: 2

    fast disks

    I showed your mom my fast disks, but she only had an ISA port.

  11. Re:If that's how Pokemon Int'l treats its fans... on A Broke Fan Owes $5,400 For Pokemon-Themed Party Posters · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's means it is.

    Not always. It's been fun proving you wrong.

  12. Re:I know nobody RTFA's but.. on Office 2016 Proving Unstable With Apple's El Capitan · · Score: 2

    That's a "Community Moderator", not an official MS rep.

  13. Carly may have outfoxed of by Apple's late leader on How Steve Jobs Outsmarted Carly Fiorina · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Carly may have outfoxed of by Apple's late leader

    Why do you even post things anymore, timothy?

  14. They certainly have better politicians, lawyers, and maketers.

  15. Re:Octocats are for Cows on GitHub's Next Move: Turn Everybody Into a Programmer · · Score: 1

    There are mooooore than one of us, though I don't do it AC.

  16. Re:Not one percent on SolarCity Says It Has Produced the World's Highest Efficiency Solar Panel · · Score: 1

    100% this.

  17. Re:what's the problem? on $50 Fire Tablet With High-capacity SDXC Slot Doesn't See E-books On the SD Card · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Actual numbers indicate that typical usage (not cherry-picked, theoretical 'typical' usage) puts average storage use at ~7GB on the iPhone, meaning that roughly half of people use roughly half or less of the available space on a 16GB model, but people still claim that having the entry-level iPhone start with 16GB is a huge error.

    Could it be that people are forced to modify their habits because of the limited storage space?
    I like to store my blu ray rips on my phone. If I had a phone that didn't have external storage, I wouldn't be able to, and the storage usage on that phone would be really low.
    Change blu ray rips to videos of any sort, music, apps, photos, whatever. People won't keep in on their device if they feel restricted by the storage space.

    I'm not going to keep SOME of my shit on my phone and ALL of it somewhere else. I'm going to keep ALL of it on my phone or NONE of it on my phone (and all of it somewhere else).
    The fact that lots of people use 50% instead of 100% doesn't mean they don't need more space, it may mean that they don't have enough space to do what they want so they don't do it.

  18. Re:8ts on Experian Breached, 15 Million T-Mobile Customer's Data Exposed · · Score: 1

    No, it should go between the two esses.

  19. Re:GRID on NVIDIA Launches GeForce NOW Game Streaming Service · · Score: 1

    The only cows are the ones who buy that marketing drivel.
    See Malibu Stacy and new hats.

  20. Re:The fundamental issue? on Amazon To Cease Sale of Apple TV and Chromecast · · Score: 1

    The fundamental issue seems to be that Amazon is very poorly managed.

    Amazon has junky web pages that try to sell me other things before I've finished reading about the item that interests me. There are many offers on Amazon, by other vendors, that try to take advantage of the customer.

    Should Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos be talking about going into space when he isn't managing Amazon well?

    It seems to me that Bezos is tired and overloaded and should be replaced.

    There's a reason they call him Jeff Bozos, and it's not just because of the "more deals than Black Friday" Prime Day fiasco.
    It's 2015 and Amazon still doesn't have a functioning search or sort system. (Go search for a specific model of video card and then sort by price - you'll get tons of OTHER video cards in there and nothing will be sorted by price. Works for just about any search.)

  21. Re:"in order to avoid customer confusion" on Amazon To Cease Sale of Apple TV and Chromecast · · Score: 1

    if you're going to stop doing business with every company that has done some sort of anti-consumer "trick," you'd be hard pressed to find any companies to do business with (even FOSS).

    Slashdot never misses an opportunity to shit on systemd!

  22. Re:Amazon announces new streaming box... on Amazon To Cease Sale of Apple TV and Chromecast · · Score: 1

    The Gary Busey TV Stick!

  23. Re:Dear Amazon on Amazon To Cease Sale of Apple TV and Chromecast · · Score: 2

    And the reason for the lack of the Android app is because...? (Amazon doesn't want to.)
    And Amazon doesn't want to because...? (Amazon had a competing Android-based platform - Kindle.)

    Amazon doesn't want their service on everything, they want everyone on their platform. Their service is the carrot. Not having an Android app while they had an iOS app and general web access was a stick. Further locking down the web access with Silverlight DRM was a stick. Removing these fairly niche products from their store is a stick.

    Amazon will apply just enough stick to get people to consider buying a Kindle device without driving people away from the service.
    Apple users would never leave iOS for a Kindle, so they got the App and Android got the stick (no App).
    Web users didn't cancel prime when the DRM got cranked up a notch and they lost HD on certain things, so they were able to apply more stick with stricter DRM (blocking HD or more things, blocking other things from the web version entirely).
    People won't cancel Prime if they can't buy a Google Whatzit or an Apple Whoozit from Amazon.

    They're trying to be Sears Roebuck.

  24. Re:Gun-free zone? on 10 Confirmed Dead In Shooting at Oregon's Umpqua Community College · · Score: 1

    Is the land owned by the state? Is the institution funded by the state? Is the land generally accessible to the public?
    It's like you don't know what public property is.

    I'll make it simple for you. If they're required to put in handicap ramps they're required to respect the second amendment.

  25. Re: Gun-free zone? on 10 Confirmed Dead In Shooting at Oregon's Umpqua Community College · · Score: 1

    That's an invalid assumption.

    With a smaller population, you can't expect the number of victims in any given attack to be the same.
    If you normalize for population density (at the time and locations of the attacks) and scale the definition of "mass shootings" accordingly, you can then compare "mass shootings" to "mass shootings".