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  1. More speed if the IT is properly funded. the OC3 at works utterly destroys anything Amazon allows us to use.

  2. JUNK. on USB Reversable Cable Images Emerge · · Score: 2

    thin little thing inside to break. Complete fail. they just need to do a copy of the fraking lightning connector but made some technology advances to it. Apple does not have a patent on exposed pin connectors.

    Apple got the lightning connector right, just give us a USB3.0 version of the fracking thing and put the craptastic mini/micro/and nano usb plugs to death already.

  3. I doubt it. on How Far Will You Go For Highest Speed Internet? · · Score: 1

    Is it standard Internet access or Internet II access?

    Because Internet II kicks the ever living hell out of standard internet even with the best and shiniest fiber connections. Your in route switches and routing means everything and Internet II still is massively faster than the old public internet.

  4. Re:We do on Ask Slashdot: Do Any Development Shops Build-Test-Deploy On A Cloud Service? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "cloud makes it not matter where you're working from."

    Competent IT and VPN does that as well.

  5. Re:Hint: Drivers are morons. on Your Car Will Tell You How To Hit the Next Green Light · · Score: 1

    You really need to go to a doctor to get your binocular vision fixed, I can see the road ahead of me and look in my mirror at the same time.

  6. Re:Maybe someone else will? on Interviews: J. Michael Straczynski Answers Your Questions · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You did not read his answer clearly.

    Warner OWNS it, they have no desire in any way to do anything at all with the property. we are lucky as hell to get the DVD's. It was a bastard child as far as the executives were concerned and unless someone make them see that there is a 1.2Billion dollar profit in re-rendering the CGI they dont care. It will die in their vaults as an unloved redheaded step child.

    Read his book, he covers how studios are ran by the worst most evil people on the plant that are only interesting in whoring things out and gleefully crush dreams.

  7. Oh dear god.... on Interviews: J. Michael Straczynski Answers Your Questions · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Only 2 questions asked him were worth asking, everything else was the crap that would make him stand up and scream. "GET A LIFE PEOPLE!" This is why I feel really bad for any speakers at comic con, all they get are the retarded, "what is Character X had sex with character Y would you have a spin off game show with the child?"

    You guys had one of the best writers/producers/directors out there and most of the questions chosen to present to him were clunkers or wierd nerdgazim crap.

    I knew Slashdot was declining, but not this fast.

  8. Re:Wearable device feasibility on A Third of Consumers Who Bought Wearable Devices Have Ditched Them · · Score: 1

    The camera could be a small removable module

  9. Re:Wrong assumption on Your Car Will Tell You How To Hit the Next Green Light · · Score: 1

    Buddy of mine throws pennies out of his pocket for those people when he rides motorcycle. the suddenly back way off when loose change hist the windshield. I suggested a 3" bolt and nut, but he is nicer than I am.

  10. Hint: Drivers are morons. on Your Car Will Tell You How To Hit the Next Green Light · · Score: 2

    We need this "tech" only because the average driver is a complete and utter moron. we need lane assist because looking out the front window is hard, we need Light timing assist, because paying attention and thinking is hard, we need backup cameras because actually looking behind us is hard.

    As a motorcyclist of 30 years, I have watched how the average car driver has turned into complete drooling morons every year. And the auto companies are catering to them.

  11. Re:Wearable device feasibility on A Third of Consumers Who Bought Wearable Devices Have Ditched Them · · Score: -1, Troll

    Google Glass is your answer, sadly low IQ people are against people having them and make fun of people that use them. So you will haveto deal with a social stigma if you used a pair of them.

    Kind of like how the morons of the Renaissance would throw rocks at and try to imprison people that dared to say the earth was not the center of the universe.

  12. Re:April First????? on Ask Slashdot: Experiences With Free To Air Satellite TV? · · Score: 1

    The dish yes. the focal point in the sky it's aimed at? no it is much higher in the sky than the western birds. You do understand that Dishes dont point at what they a re receiving anymore right? they do a 60 to 90 degree bounce to the feedhorn so they are easier to mount and dont have anything in the way of the dish.

  13. Re:More power vampires... on The Connected Home's Battle of the Bulbs · · Score: 1

    HUE bulbs are $75 each. I think you need up update your pricing information.

  14. Sadly they are far too dim for the price on The Connected Home's Battle of the Bulbs · · Score: 1

    HUE bulbs are 30 watt equivalent brightness. they need to get to the 60 watt world before they are useable.
    Also they are ungodly expensive for what they are, and from a friends failure rate, I know why, you are paying for a warranty that will be used. he is having a 30% failure rate on the bulbs.

  15. Re:If only.. on The Connected Home's Battle of the Bulbs · · Score: 4, Funny

    There is. Hot glue and an old iphone or old android phone.

  16. Re:Dish/Direct TV should offer free basic channels on Ask Slashdot: Experiences With Free To Air Satellite TV? · · Score: 1

    "I think one reason they don't is because it's not trivial to set up a dish properly, there is some math involved. "

    No math involved, and in fact if you actually do a little bit of research plus reading first and have a $19.00 tool you can zero in a dish in 15 minutes. All without a calculator.

  17. Re:Are you in the USA? on Ask Slashdot: Experiences With Free To Air Satellite TV? · · Score: 1

    Yes there is a Lot you can watch, I get all the soccer I want from south america, and there are tons of other things if you actually install a proper setup with a moveable dish. No there is no NBC/ABC/CBS/FOX except for a few here and there as uplinks and feeds. a LOT of PBS, NASA, and other channels. A couple of birds are full of shopping and jesus-freak channels.

    Works great, and if you get a clear shot eastward on a clear night , you can pull in a lot of stuff from europe.

  18. Re:April First????? on Ask Slashdot: Experiences With Free To Air Satellite TV? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Anyone with a modern install dont even need heaters. the new eastern arc is so steep on the dish that a coat of car wax will keep it snow and ice free even when I got 6 feet of snow overnight this past winter.

    99% of the people bitching about Sat TV are clueless people that haven't touched it on 3 decades.

  19. Re:Free market on If Ridesharing Is Banned, What About Ride-Trading? · · Score: 1

    It is because we give out licenses like candy and never ever re-test people. Plus it is very hard to lose your drivers license, you can KILL people with your car and keep your license.

  20. Re:13 deaths? on Department of Transportation Makes Rear View Cameras Mandatory · · Score: 5, Funny

    30 people died from choking on scissors last year.

  21. Re:Why is anyone surprised... on DVRs Used To Attack Synology Disk Stations and Mine Bitcoin · · Score: 1

    Because only complete and utter morons put their DVD player directly on the internet. While a security DVR is required to be in the internet or accessible via the internet for remote viewing.

    It's why I simply point and laugh at the fools that all herald ipv6 where they can have a public IP for every device. Only idiots want that, those of us that are sane only want public facing IP for the devices that need it.

  22. Re:It Won't Work on If Ridesharing Is Banned, What About Ride-Trading? · · Score: 1

    The taxi driver did not pay squat. the taxi company did. The taxi driver barely makes minimum wage.

  23. Re:It Won't Work on If Ridesharing Is Banned, What About Ride-Trading? · · Score: 1

    And to this day Michigan is a 3rd world country of public transportation because of the greedy asshole car companies. Ask anyone who lives in a Michigan city about how shitty the public transportation is. Thank Ford and GM for this.

  24. Re:Free market on If Ridesharing Is Banned, What About Ride-Trading? · · Score: 1

    As seen by the fact that there are the same number of accidents in Germany as in Countries like Korea? Please share your empirical evidence , because cursory evidence found by a simple search online shows otherwise. Countries with a hard to get drivers license has far fewer accidents than anyone can drive countries like most of asia.

  25. Re:Spinning Space stations on Astronauts' Hearts Change Shape In Space · · Score: 3, Interesting

    All ofthe NASA designs from the 60's were 10KM across at the smallest. building a tiny one at 1Mile across would be silly 10Km will be a rotational speed of 0.02 Radians per second. or 1 revolution every 6 minutes (Appx)

    Spinning is not the hard part, building it so that it can withstand the 1G of pulling force across the spokes that will have to exist is the hard part. you need to have a safety factor of at LEAST 2 to 1 of the spokes in case of failure.

    Plus you will want the torus to be at least 10km across otherwise you will get a significant difference of gravity from the feet to head and a tiny 1 mile across torus will actually make is so you can feel the spinning in your inner ear.

    This is all off the cuff calculations, I cant be bothered to grab my calculator. but it does not have to be a solid ring, you can start by building a double ended counterweight of two identical sections connected by a single spoke to a hub.