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  1. No thanks... on Solid State Drives Break the 50 Cents Per GiB Barrier, OCZ ARC 100 Launched · · Score: 1

    OCZ is known to be junk that fail with a very short lifespan. Call me when a RELIABLE SSD like a Samsung or Intel, that has a proven track record hits the $0.50 per GB mark.

  2. Re:Hey, that looks like a ... on Samsung Announces Galaxy Alpha Featuring Metal Frame and Rounded Corners · · Score: 1

    no you cant. HTC ONE M8, no way to make it a stock android phone short of unlocking the bootloader, hack to set S-OFF and then install GPE rom or Cyanogenmod Dailies.

    something that is WAY out of reach for 90% of android users.

  3. Re:High Pricepoint on Android Motorcycle Helmet/HUD Gains Funding · · Score: 1

    True! that is why you will not buy this crap helmet. The helmet the Skully is based on is a $90 el-cheapo

  4. Re:Would it be weird? on Android Motorcycle Helmet/HUD Gains Funding · · Score: 1

    Only for the squids and harley riders. Read motorcycle riders know better.

  5. Build one yourself for a LOT cheaper.. on Android Motorcycle Helmet/HUD Gains Funding · · Score: 2

    http://www.reconinstruments.co... has an already proven solution hardware package that can easily be adapted to a full face helmet.

    The problem with Skully is their chosen base helmet sucks, it's great for freaks with smushed heads, but normal people with round heads it's uncomfortable. so they will need to offer about 80 different helmet sizes to make a $1500-$2000 helmet fit everyone that wants to buy one.

  6. Re:Hey, that looks like a ... on Samsung Announces Galaxy Alpha Featuring Metal Frame and Rounded Corners · · Score: 1

    But does it come with the buckets of SUCK that HTC piles into the OS? HTC Sense and blinkfeed utterly ruin the Android experience.

  7. Re:I don't get it on Samsung Announces Galaxy Alpha Featuring Metal Frame and Rounded Corners · · Score: 1

    "It isn't uncommon for these cases cost over $30.00."
    only the trendy crap sold at best buy. I bought an otterbox commuter for $19 online. you can get china cases for as little as $4.00 with free shipping.

  8. Re:I don't get it on Samsung Announces Galaxy Alpha Featuring Metal Frame and Rounded Corners · · Score: -1, Troll

    No but they are hell bent to repeal the laws of common sense and sanity.

  9. Re:I don't get it on Samsung Announces Galaxy Alpha Featuring Metal Frame and Rounded Corners · · Score: 0

    Sane people put the phone in a case so when you drop it it is protected. It's the trendy hipsters that refuse to use a case so that everyone can enjoy the glorious art that their phone is.

  10. Re:not just hiring on Apple's Diversity Numbers: 70% Male, 55% White · · Score: 2

    "or the pay for their gender or ethnicity seems off compared to others." This is why the bullshit of "secret pay scales" exist. so management can pay the black guy less than the white guy or the woman less than the men.

    I freely tell others what I get paid at work and I'll ask others what they get paid. It should not be a secret.

  11. Re:Stupid on Apple's Diversity Numbers: 70% Male, 55% White · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Problem is you are considered RACIST for suggesting they get a better education and not follow the ghetto culture.

    Honestly today you can learn ANYTHING on your own with the internet, yet ask any inner city youth, they are discouraged from learning because it's considered "acting white"

    Their own brand of racisim keeps them down.

  12. Re:Wrong on The Quiet Before the Next IT Revolution · · Score: 2

    Awesome, we need to join the plumbers union and start getting $125 an hour then. Thanks for your support!

  13. Re:Ah yes on The Quiet Before the Next IT Revolution · · Score: 1

    you can have 256 cores at 500mhz and a 4 core 5ghz system will be a lot snappier and faster. because most of what is used for computing does not scale to multi core easily.

    I will take a 2 core 5ghz system over a 4 core 3ghz system any day.

  14. Re:8k video? on The Quiet Before the Next IT Revolution · · Score: 1

    Exactly, yet you will have a TON of people claiming they can tell the difference. In reality they can not.

    99% of the people out there sit too far away from their TV to see 1080p Unless they have a 60" or larger and sit within 8 feet of the TV set. The people that have the TV above the fireplace and sit 12 feet away might as well have a standard def TV set.

    But the same people that CLAIM they can see 1080p from their TV 10 feet away also claim that their $120 HDMI cables give them a clearer picture.

  15. the important question is.... on DEA Paid Amtrak Employee To Pilfer Passenger Lists · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Has the DEA been sending him a yearly 1099 for taxes? if not, then the IRS needs to audit the DEA.

  16. Re:Their web site doesn't say much on Is "Scorpion" Really a Genius? · · Score: 2

    "The HTML source just has explicit non-breaking spaces in the wrong places."

    This really points to the whole website being designed in front page, that was a fingerprint of that horrid horrid program.

  17. Re:Grades vs IQ on Is "Scorpion" Really a Genius? · · Score: 2

    What is worse is when you get a teacher that makes you down for not doing it their convoluted and retarded way. Sorry teacher but I can do all that in my head, and you are marking me down because I am not slowing down and driving myself insane with the archaic and backwards way of finding the answer.

    Luckily I had parents that would scream at the teachers and principal. we finally went over the their heads to the superintendent where he read off questions, and I typically had the answer before he finished reading did they realize that teaching at pot head speeds did not work for me.

  18. Re:An easier solution on Hackers Demand Automakers Get Serious About Security · · Score: 1

    " If a "hacker" gets into your car and shuts down the brake system then it's a whole lot worse than if he's just putting a picture of Goat.se on the dashboard."

    For him as well because he would have to be stuffed up under the dashboard to do his hacking, therefore he will probably die in the accident.
    All of these stories are dripping with scare tactic bullshit from these "researchers"

  19. I still do not get the reason behind it... on Elementary OS "Freya" Beta Released · · Score: 1

    Lubuntu is Elementary OS in every way but with a gigantic repository of software already as a click and drool install.

    What are they trying to target as a demographic?

  20. Re:Real router hardware is the next step. on Ask Slashdot: Life Beyond the WRT54G Series? · · Score: 1

    you will never get 105mbps out of comcast. so that is not an issue.

  21. Re:It's a still a nice PC. on Microsoft Surface Drowning? · · Score: 1

    matte screen wont help, you need a transreflective display for outdoor use. That is what my toughbook has.

  22. Re:Automate it on What Do You Do When Your Mind-Numbing IT Job Should Be Automated? · · Score: 1

    When you realize they are taking advantage of you, please do the right thing and walk.
    They absolutely can afford to give you a 10% pay increase right now, they consciously choose to not to. I bet they can afford a 20% pay increase.

  23. Re:Knee Jerk on Ask Slashdot: Can Tech Help Monitor or Mitigate a Mine-Flooded Ecosystem? · · Score: 1

    So the CEO will dump his fortunes into fixing this? not a chance in hell.

  24. Re:Pretending to do work is fraud on What Do You Do When Your Mind-Numbing IT Job Should Be Automated? · · Score: 1

    Please point out EXACTLY where I said, "sit on your ass".

    It is complete morons like you that simply flap your lips without thinking that ruin slashdot. Just because YOU are a lazy asshole that would sit on your ass does not mean everyone else is.

    Automate the mundane so you have MORE TIME to do better work on the complex tasks.

  25. Re:Fraud on What Do You Do When Your Mind-Numbing IT Job Should Be Automated? · · Score: 1

    The good part is you are an unemployed bum in your mom's basement so that is not a worry.

    Every single time some low IQ person like you trots out that crap it is ALWAYS someone that will never ever be management in their life let alone gainfully employed.