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  1. Re:Now We See The Real Greed on How Nest and FitBit Might Spy On You For Cash · · Score: 1

    Because the fuckers will not allow me to access my raw data. I don't care if my data is curing cancer, HONEST companies would let me at the data stream for my own uses.

  2. Re:Depends on if it is in aggregate. on How Nest and FitBit Might Spy On You For Cash · · Score: 1

    What get's me is why hasn't anyone hacked the fitbit's data stream? you think there would have already been drivers that capture the data for you and keep it private or android apps that harvst the data and keep it away from the mothership.

  3. Re:Nobody cares on How Nest and FitBit Might Spy On You For Cash · · Score: 1

    I'm the NSA, we have always been in your house... and can you please change to 2 percent milk? Agent Jenkins is getting fat and starting to stick out from behind the TV.

  4. Replace manangement first.... on California Utility May Replace IT Workers with H-1B Workers · · Score: 2

    H1B's can do the managements job a Lot better and a lot cheaper. There is far more savings in replacing everyone at the manager level and up.

  5. Re:FLYOVER on Detroit: America's Next Tech Boomtown · · Score: 2

    Cars are no longer made in detroit. they are made in MExico and Canada. there is shipping of cars here at the depo, but the large bulk of Ford and GM cards are NOT made in the USA.

    Honda and BMW cars are more American made than GM and Ford.

  6. FUNNY! on Detroit: America's Next Tech Boomtown · · Score: 1

    A detroiter thinking winters are bad..... HAHAHAHAHA!
    I live in michigan to the west, I would get 8-20X more snow than detroit ever did. This winter I had 6 feet in my front yard. 6 feet of snow, think about that.

    Detroiters are as wimpy as Atlantaians when it comes to snow, come on over and visit the lake michigan side where we get real amounts of snow. 1 foot overnight doesnt even close schools.

  7. Detroit? HAHAHAHAAHAHAHA! on Detroit: America's Next Tech Boomtown · · Score: 1

    The infrastructure here is crumbled to dust, any real data pipelines are to the west at Ann Arbor which by the way is where any michigan real tech companies are at.

    Detroit is dead, they need to bullzose the whole thing and start over.

  8. Re:LaserJet II and LaserJet 3 on Ask Slashdot: What Tech Products Were Built To Last? · · Score: 2

    we have two laserjet II's here that print 300 invoices a day. and we will use them until they catch fire or explode.

  9. Anything built before 2001 on Ask Slashdot: What Tech Products Were Built To Last? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The quality difference between pre 2001 electronics and now is astounding. Current products are all utter junk compared to earlier stuff.

  10. We have had OSS (Open Source Seeds) for years. on Plant Breeders Release 'Open Source Seeds' · · Score: 1

    IT's called Heriloom and all of them are not patent encumbered.
    Eliminate any and all patents and copyrights on living things is the only answer, Devices that were common on farms, seed cleaners, are illegal because of Monsanto, they target farmers that have them, they go after ANY farmer that does not buy their product, because their GM garbage will cross pollinate to your field and suddenly your GM free crops are now tainted with Monsanto IP and now the property of Monsanto.

    Eliminate the patent possibility and it neuters Monsanto completely and solves every single problem.

  11. Re:$559 chair? on Switching From Sitting To Standing At Your Desk · · Score: 2

    I am sitting in a $890 chair right now. any good company will do it. I'm thinking you haven't priced real office furniture as the standard desk I am at is $2300 and it's a no frills Steelcase.

  12. Re:1 year now and it's been great on Switching From Sitting To Standing At Your Desk · · Score: 1

    Why do you need a stitting and a standing desk? just get an engineers or draftsman chair and sit at standing level when you need to.
    Or go all out and buy the power up/down desks. I prefer the tall stool chair that way I can change it up as I need.

  13. Pseudoscience at it's best. on Switching From Sitting To Standing At Your Desk · · Score: 1

    There is zero real proof of this. Where is the 20 year study comparing the office workers to the shop workers? This is as bad as all those GNC studies on how their products make me healthier.

  14. Re:perception on GoPro Project Claims Technology Is Making People Lose Empathy For Homeless · · Score: 1

    So sleeping under and overpass or in the park is better for them... How honorable you are to support keeping people from at least having a roof over their head.

  15. Re:Yay for government!!! on Industry-Wide Smartphone "Kill Switch" Closer To Reality · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yes they did, I was told it was on an active account, specifically a gophone account. I had to fight to get them to deal with this. After talking to that rep I was transferred to a "manager" which had an even thicker accent.

    It was the 3rd person I had to talk to after being transferred all over the place. You might follow the rules, but a LOT of your fellow reps do not. Regularly I get told different information by two different reps, it seems that either you guys do not get trained consistently or the offshore people are utterly useless.

    My most recent AT&T fail. I wanted to change plans and get a new phone as I was eligible for a new one. well the CSR changed my plan and then told me I had to pay full retail for the phone because changing the plan removed my eligibility. He refused to fix it and it was only customer retention that fixed it after I said, "well then Cancel all my accounts if you can not do that"

    suddenly something that was impossible was possible.

  16. Re:perception on GoPro Project Claims Technology Is Making People Lose Empathy For Homeless · · Score: 1

    Shanty towns were made illegal, the homeless would not be all over the streets if we allowed shantytowns down near the river or elsewhere.

  17. Define homeless.... on GoPro Project Claims Technology Is Making People Lose Empathy For Homeless · · Score: 2

    The hustling scammers, the druggies and drunks, the mentially ill, or the real homeless that are down on their luck and actually trying?

    Because the first two I ignore completely. The mentially Ill I feel really bad for, and the onesthatare really down on their luck are not on the street corners hustling for money. Those people are helped by my donations to homeless shelters and to women and children shelters.

    The fake hustler that is claiming they are a veteran standing there with a sign? Or the one guy I see push his wheel chair up to the corner then get in it with his hand out? they can stuff it.

  18. Re:Advocates and Proponents only? on Industry-Wide Smartphone "Kill Switch" Closer To Reality · · Score: 1

    Yes, because that would cost $0.001 more per phone and then they cant have solid gold toilets in the executive bathroom.

  19. Re:Yay for government!!! on Industry-Wide Smartphone "Kill Switch" Closer To Reality · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It is a royal pain in the ass to get a IMEI blacklisted. I had to fight AT&T even though I sent them the police report and the phone was in their records as my property.
    "But it's currently activated" Yes, by the thief, blacklist it.
    "but that is one of our gophone customers", Yes the thief blacklist it.
    "but but....." Do I need to get a lawyer involved?
    "One moment please...."

    99% will not force them to blacklist the phone but just let it go. To hell with who they sold the phone to, I was not going to stop until the phone was forever disabled from being a phone.

  20. 56 percent are dilusional. on Survey: 56 Percent of US Developers Expect To Become Millionaires · · Score: 1

    Programming is the new factory work, and software patents have ruined the industry so badly that anything that is slightly innovative is murdered by assholes with patents.

  21. Re:Militia, then vs now on Retired SCOTUS Justice Wants To 'Fix' the Second Amendment · · Score: 1

    Yes mine can, and no you dont.

  22. Re:Polution tax on Pollution In China Could Be Driving Freak Weather In US · · Score: 2

    Raging Stupidity like buying Nike shows is what keeps people poor. Only idiots buy "name brands" or brands that have a retard culture that surrounds it. Like the moronic wearing flat brimmed hats with the tags still on them. Only the mentally retarded do that.

  23. Re:Militia, then vs now on Retired SCOTUS Justice Wants To 'Fix' the Second Amendment · · Score: 1

    Look at the other guy claiming he knows guns. Yes you can, I posted how, just because you cant do it does not mean that others cant.

  24. Re:Militia, then vs now on Retired SCOTUS Justice Wants To 'Fix' the Second Amendment · · Score: 1

    http://www.longrangehunting.co...

    A lot of guys are doing this, problem is, you have a LOT of effect from windage.

  25. Parents fault on Kids Can Swipe a Screen But Can't Use LEGOs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Most parents today are horrible. They do NOT interact with the chile like laying on the floor and playing with them. Get your asses off the couch and lie on the floor playing with your kids showing them how to stack blocks, and play.

    I gave my daughter a earfull having my granddaughter use the ipad at 2 to keep her entertained. No you play with her using physical objects, and interaction.