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  1. Re:It's tougher than you think... on Convincing Your Employer To Go With FOSS? · · Score: 0, Troll

    Calc is useless for anything other than a flat list where you sum columns up and make a pie chart.

    Real businesses do far more.
    Calc either can't do many of the things Excel can, or it claims it can and then proceeds to fail.

    ALL evidence is anecdotal. If Calc works for you, great. Lotus notes and fucking File Maker work for some people. I hear there's some guy using MS Access for a database.

    But for srs bsnss, there is NO question that Excel is leaps and bounds beyond Calc. It's like comparing Paint to Photoshop.

    As for the shitty ribbon UI, I completely agree. It's shit.

  2. Re:citation required on Webvention Demanding $80k For Rollover Images · · Score: 0

    In my experience, anti-gun nuts are more numerous and more nutty than so-called gun nuts.

    Guns are neither good nor evil.
    The right to have guns is absolutely good.

    As for Exxon-Mobil, they provide a critical service and product to the world. They get paid handsomely for it. The fact that local governments allow them to damage the environment merely speaks to how important and valuable their product is in comparison to the damage they're doing to the environment (which is greatly exaggerated). Certain people would have you believe that the Gulf Coast is an oil slick (or plume) now, and that every moose in Alaska was slippin' and slidin' on the stuff because their hooves can't deal with it. Protip: I've been to Alaska. Plenty of healthy wildlife and environment there. Blaming oil companies for ruining the environment is like blaming a pimple for giving you toxic shock syndrome - a completely false exaggeration.

  3. Re:keep it up, trolls on Webvention Demanding $80k For Rollover Images · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Who cares about the politicians? Webvention is suing a pharmaceutical company, which certainly has their own lobbyists. All they need to do now is go after Exxon-Mobil, Monsanto, Smith & Wesson, and Philip-Morris, and software patents are gone for good.

    I like how you lumped in the companies that are not evil but are hated by liberals (Exxon-Mobil, Smith & Wesson) with the companies that are actually evil (Monsanto, Philip-Morris) in your little fantasy. And then left out Google.

  4. Re:It's tougher than you think... on Convincing Your Employer To Go With FOSS? · · Score: -1, Troll

    Our company is even worse than that - we have shown them the cost savings of switching from Microsoft Office (Standard) to Open Office, demo'd the interoperability and the ease of switching, but because it's not Microsoft they just can't consider it "reliable".

    It makes me want to rip my hair out. Then glue it on their faces as silly mustaches. Point is it makes me have crazy thoughts.

    The problem with Open Office is that it's trash for anything beyond a simple text document.
    Excel makes Calc look like a fucking joke.

    And of course, the very real cost of having to retrain people (you WILL have to retrain people) will ALWAYS trump whatever per-license cost savings you'll get.

  5. What Do You Expect? on US Reigns As Most Bot-Infected Country · · Score: 0

    We (and by "we" I mean "they") elected CampaignBot 5000 as our president. Of course they're going to take over.

  6. Re:Reasons parent comment fails on Sony HDTVs To Come With Google TV Interface · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    No one cares about the current and planned IPTV offerings.

    This isn't an IPTV offering. Its simply a Web + TV offering. It does incorporate access to existing Web video sources, but primarily the TV (content) part comes from whatever normal TV signal source you have.

    Web + TV, you say?
    Why, I could make billions if it was 1994 and the idea wasn't complete shit.

  7. Reasons this Will Fail: on Sony HDTVs To Come With Google TV Interface · · Score: 1, Insightful

    No one cares about the current and planned IPTV offerings.
    Cable/satellite companies will never let them mature into anything worthwhile.
    Sony.

    Reasons Slashdot will shit on this:
    Flash.

  8. In Related News... on Apple Awarded Anti-Sexting Patent · · Score: 0, Troll

    Slashdot Rewarded Anti-Sexing Patent.
    Here's patent law expert Troll Trollington with the breakdown. Troll?

    Thanks, Jim. So what we've got here is a classic case of a non-obvious method of avoiding sex. Traditionally we've used disease, genital mutilation - often going as far as full-on castration, chastity belts, and plain old ugliness to avoid sex.

    What Rob Malda has come up with, and this is quite ingenious, Jim, is an internet site you can go to get all the latest Digg rejects, Apple PR, and Linux circle jerking. What this does, in effect, is draw in all the undesirables. By wasting their time on Slashdot discussing the finer points of the latest copy-pasta troll about eating one of Obama's turds, the Slashdot "community" (and this is a euphemism, Jim) becomes, collectively, COMPLETELY UNDESIRABLE. It doesn't matter what you, personally, are. You could be a 10 who's getting blowjobs and puppies just for walking into a room. Once you register for an account on Slashdot, your sexual worth is reduced to nothing.

    CmdrTaco realized that the shittiness of a person is defined by the shittiness of the group he belongs to. They call it "crowd sourcing", I think. By leveraging the attributes of the entire group, you're able to turn any individual member of the group into the best of the best, or in Slashdot's case, the wort of the worst.

    Now, Troll, I've been told that not all Slashdot members actually want to be on Slashdot. For this "crowd sourcing" scheme to work, don't you have to ensure a large and undesirable crowd?

    Exactly, Jim. What they've done on this site really boils down to 3 things.

    First of all, anyone can post. If you don't have an account, you can post as what they call an "Anonymous Coward". These posts are largely ignored by the Slashdot members, but reflect on the Slashdot community, as seen by outsiders. Thus Slashdotters generally enjoy their self-imposed prison, while decent people like you and me know enough to stay away.

    This has a couple of effects. Decent people who want to contribute to Slashdot will sign up for an account in an effort to get the community to stop ignoring their "Anonymous Coward", or "AC", posts. A warning to our viewers, Jim. Many decent people have been sucked in by this. The AC feature also allows us desirable people to keep the reputation of Slashdot in the gutter. For example, if Slashdot ever posted an article that wasn't an advertisement, a dupe, a Digg/Reddit reject, or otherwise a worthless piece of shit, the world's opinion of Slashdotters might go up, ever so slightly. We have dedicated trolls in place that spam Slashdot via the AC feature. Unfortunately I can't read any of these posts on the air, Jim, but I can assure you, they are VERY effective in making sure everyone on the outside has a low opinion of Slashdot.

    The second thing they've done to keep people from leaving Slashdot is implemented a half-assed social network backend. People on Slashdot can rate posts, become friends or enemies, and even write in their own shitty blog which is hosted right on Slashdot. By throwing in all of your posts in your blog section, people feel connected to their Slashdot identity and won't want to leave it. Someone with 1000 shitty Slashdot posts and 0 blog entries will feel just as connected to their Slashdot profile as a blogger with over 1000 entries. Another piece of this puzzle is "Karma". Karma is a rating of how shitty you are, ranging from "very shitty" to "barely shitty enough to post on Slashdot". If you're Karma is shitty, your posts are automatically rated lower, and go ignored. You're also limited to only a few posts per day, and it takes ages to submit them.

    Now let me make sure I'm understanding this correctly, Troll. This is an automated system?

    Yes and no, Jim. Karma is assigned automatically based on voodoo calculations that are constantly changing and constantly breaking. But we think it has something to do with post ratings. Posts are rated by Slashdot members. Bu

  9. Re:And??? on 'Back To the Mac' Media Event On October 20th · · Score: 0, Troll

    Because the release of the next major version of the second most popular Desktop OS family is news.

    Vista/7 is getting a major version update?

    Protip, duder:

    XP//NT/2000
    7/Vista
    --LARGE GAP HERE--
    Linuxes
    OS X

  10. Re:Because filters have always worked before. on Apple Awarded Anti-Sexting Patent · · Score: 1

    When managers finally pull their head out of their buzzword-laced asses and realize that we are all humans, and that personal and private lives rarely are similar and simply give jobs to people who are qualified, this will be a non-issue.

    No.
    When managers finally pull their head out of their buzzword-laced asses and realize that we are all humans, they will force the remaining employees to design and build android slaves to replace the undesirable humans.

  11. Re:Parenting skills? on Apple Awarded Anti-Sexting Patent · · Score: 1

    Post #33883892 was rejected for the following reason:
    Exception NON_RECOVERABLE_ERROR thrown by GrammarNazi at LINE 1.

    GrammarNazi was looking at the following text:

    I don't care. As long as they live under MY Roof, they will use correct grammar and spelling when they send nudie texts.

    GrammarNazi returned EXIT_CODE 27 - IMPROPER_CAPITALIZATION. CORRECT AND RESEND. EAT YOUR VEGETABLES.

    Debug Information:
    Post received by Slashdot's shitty server code.
    Post created.
    Post was assigned temporary ID 33883892.
    Post BEGAN LamenessFilter.
    Post PASSED LamenessFilter.
    Post BEGAN DuplicationFilter.
    DuplicationFilter warns: How about you make a sexy lady version of myself and have her check for duped articles, morons?
    Post PASSED DuplicationFilter.
    Post BEGAN GrammarNazi.
    GrammarNazi warns: You will never amount to anything if you use contractions.
    GrammarNazi warns: Using capital letters for emphasis when bolding, italicizing, and underlining is available is the mark of a true rapscallion.
    GrammarNazi threw unrecoverable error 27.
    Additional errors and warnings may have been suppressed.
    Post failed.
    Process halted.

  12. Re:*yawn*. Call me when we lose at Go. on Computer Defeats Human At Japanese Chess · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Go is a simple game.
    Mind numbingly simple, in fact.
    It's just a LARGE game.

    Chess has actual complex rules. It is a hard game.
    Mind-numbingly hard, in fact.
    It's just a relatively SMALL game.

  13. Re:apple ][ clones on The Hackintosh Guide · · Score: 0

    What made the Macintosh successful and what made OS X successful are two different stories as well.

    I disagree.
    "Artists and media professionals" and "unique, free-thinkers" are pretty much the same group once you step outside the reality distortion field.

    (That group is "technically-illiterate, neo-urbanite, narcissistic hipsters".)

  14. Re:Don't cookies do the same thing? on HTML5 Draws Concern Over Risks To Privacy · · Score: 0

    Why would one be worried about it if the system is not online?

    Cleaning the system before it goes online. Or cleaning the system for use on a firewalled intranet.

    the criticism in GP comment was that Adobe did not provide any way to manage the cookies.

    The criticism that Adobe provides no way to manage Flash cookies offline remains.

    Seems to me the uninstaller doesn't need an internet connection.

  15. Re:Browsers... on HTML5 Draws Concern Over Risks To Privacy · · Score: 0

    Windows 7 and Vista support faux DOS just as XP does. Easier to just use a Cygwin bash shell most of the time, however, as the commands available are still quite limited.

    Spoken like someone who has never actually done any DOS scripting. And when you want to move beyond that, there's plenty that NT/XP added to their CLI (which is NOT just fake DOS - see command vs cmd).

    And of course there's always Powershell for those who want to do more.
    http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/ScriptCenter/en-us/site/search?f%5B0%5D.Type=ScriptLanguage&f%5B0%5D.Value=Powershell&f%5B0%5D.Text=Windows%20PowerShell&sortBy=Ratings

    As for the tools available, of course Linux has more. It is by no means due to a limitation of Windows, but the way most people use it.

  16. Horseshit on Of 1.2 Billion Twitter Posts, 71% Are Ignored · · Score: 0

    "Ignored" does not mean "not replied to or retweeted".

    Anyone who follows someone will see and read their tweets.

    While I'd wager that 99% of tweets are pointless drivel, and am willing to believe that 71% aren't responded to / retweeted / etc., they certainly aren't going ignored.

    Even thinking about how many levels deep a chain of tweets goes simply shows that these "researchers" do not know what twitter is about.

    Hint: Twitter isn't about discussion. It's about pointless narcissism, spam, and a few lulz while stuck at the office.

  17. Re:The seriousness on Apple Reportedly Heading Off iPhone 'Glassgate' · · Score: 0, Troll

    "Gushing blood caused by iPhone" isn't something Steve can explain away with "He was sliding it in wrong".

    1 Guy 1 Jar --> 1 Guy 1 iPhone 4 ?

    1 Guy 1 Jar viewable at efukt.NSFW.com (remove ".NSFW").

  18. Re:Avec le bras gauche on Apple Reportedly Heading Off iPhone 'Glassgate' · · Score: 1

    Apple is said to be taking it seriously, looking to avoid the sort of backlash it got when reports surfaced over the summer that the iPhone 4's antennas didn't work correctly when users gripped the phones in a certain (and quite natural) way."

    Left-handers natural? Ha! That's more insidious propaganda from the Soros/Koch Brothers-funded group, Lefthanders International, a front group for an evil left handed supremacist secret society. Don't believe the lies!! They wil

    RIGHT handed people hold one-handed touch screen devices in their LEFT hand. This way they can point, poke, stroke, and jab with their dominant hand. Simpler tasks such as accepting / ending a call can be done with the LEFT thumb. This is very natural for hundreds of millions of people who've been trained for years on video games. Directional pads / analog sticks go on the LEFT, for use by the LEFT thumb.

  19. Re:Not to worry on Apple Reportedly Heading Off iPhone 'Glassgate' · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yeah! And keep that stock price going up and up!

    I just wish Steve would sell his sperm so I could just artificially inseminate my wife and have a little Steve Jobs of my own!

    The better option is to claim he raped your wife, and offer up the DNA evidence of that fetus to "prove" it. You'll be given untold millions to quietly agree to shut up and abort the fetus.

    If you can't get his sperm, simply get some DNA - a loose hair, a handshake, whatever. Head over to Korea or some other country that doesn't let ethical bullshit get in the way of science, and mix up some of his DNA into some of your wife's eggs. Bingo-bango. Just make sure you're registered in a country that has joint property laws so she can't run off with the settlement money.

    As long as the payout exceeds the cost of making the fetus, you end up ahead.

  20. Re:ugh...more of this? on Apple Reportedly Heading Off iPhone 'Glassgate' · · Score: 1

    Mine is made using Gorilla Glass and has no scratches. Seeing a case on a droid is like seeing a task killer running on android 2.2.

    You mean, it's completely normal and a good idea?
    Android is fucking TERRIBLE with programs starting for no reason and doing absolutely nothing but sucking up my memory and battery life. 2.2 didn't change SHIT in that regard.

    Encasing a valuable and fragile item in order to protect it is a good fucking idea.

    Oh well, it's just h4rrh4r being a dipshit again.

  21. Re:Legitimate concern on Apple Reportedly Heading Off iPhone 'Glassgate' · · Score: 1

    Particulate matter? lol.

    How about not putting a snug fitting case on when you're at the fucking beach?

  22. Re:Not Apple's fault on Apple Reportedly Heading Off iPhone 'Glassgate' · · Score: 1

    If you buy third-party stuff, don't be surprised it doesn't work properly.
    Just as those old "10x larger" savecards for PS1 or 2 sometimes erased your saved games.
    Or my "new" laptop battery from China died after just three months.

    3rd party == Sometimes unreliable crap.

    Derp.
    These are sanctioned, licensed, and badged 3rd-party accessories.

    It's the equivalent of a printer branded as "Windows 7 Compatible" completely hosing your Windows 7 installation.

  23. Re:A better PC health idea on Microsoft Eyes PC Isolation Ward To Thwart Botnets · · Score: 1

    Horse shit.
    Wireless clients are no different from wired clients, except that their network performance sucks.

    "Someone across the street could be tapping into my Wifis!" And someone from within the building could be plugging into a network port. Unless your wired network has armored cables, locked ports, and complete and total physical monitoring, there is ZERO practical security advantage compared to wireless.

    Someone would have to break your WPA2, spoof an allowed MAC, and hop on the network when the real client with that MAC was inactive. (Otherwise Alice would call the help desk saying "My internet's being weird." and you'd be alerted.)

    This isn't any more likely than Bob plugging in an unapproved device to the network, or infecting his workstation, etc.

  24. Re:A better PC health idea on Microsoft Eyes PC Isolation Ward To Thwart Botnets · · Score: 1

    I tried to get the idea of "Network Access Protection" for the Internet on the agenda, at Microsoft, for 2 years. We already had the client mechanisms for evaluating health-status, and the signed messages for communicating that status.

    Ah, so you're a moron.

    A rooted client can lie about it's health state, issuing valid copies of whatever certificate bullshit you can dream up, and you'd have no way of finding out if it's true or not.

    Client-side anything is pointless when the entire premise is "we can't trust the client".

  25. Re:I Left Out The Best Part on Virginia AG Ken Cuccinelli's AGW Witch Hunt Continues · · Score: 0, Troll

    Your logic and reason have no place on the internet, in politics, or anywhere in society.

    Thinkers like you only stand in the way of liars and profiteers.