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  1. Dear Ford.... on Ford Will Demo Solar-Charged Car At CES · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Stop with the stupid.

    The Car port, if covered with conventional solar panels will be a lot cheaper, easier to make, and will not require special manufacturing processes to create special lenses that follow the sun.

    Less than 1/2 their price and I can make you a carport that will be double their power with conventional 200Watt panels. Plus require ZERO maintenance except for washing them once a year.

  2. Re:prescription lenses? on Coming Soon: Prescription Lenses For Google Glass · · Score: 1

    And I know people that have had to have it twice and are wearing glasses again. I refuse to as it's not worth the risk. Unless the doctor has $10M in cash waiting for me if he screws up, I am not risking my eyesight for vanity.

  3. Re:Great on Coming Soon: Prescription Lenses For Google Glass · · Score: 1

    Easier than pie because the police report will cover the assult. The hard part is getting your pistol back from the police after you shot the FUD that attacked you.

    I know that any loser that tries to punch me will get about 4 rounds center mass, "I was afraid for my life officer, he just came at me."

  4. Re:That's a nice feature for the wearer on Coming Soon: Prescription Lenses For Google Glass · · Score: 1

    For the mentally ill that think that everyone is recording you all the time because of your paranoia and your inability to see that the record light is on?

    You bet, you will get a free "Google Privacy protector" at any local shopping store for free. simply place on your head and cut holes for your eyes. The stores call them "grocery bags" but that is because they don't understand the Google nomenclature.

    Note, these can be lined with a metal foil to further protect you from the government satellite system as well, contact your local Google Representative for more information on this DIY upgrade.

  5. Re:Slashdot on 4 Tips For Your New Laptop · · Score: 1

    Thunder god is a PUSSY compared to my insurance agent.

  6. Re:Files... Not Allowed to Take? on Ask Slashdot: Best App For Android For Remote Access To Mac Or PC? · · Score: 1

    IT cant block 443 and encrypted traffic through there is expected.

    IT cant cope with us worker drones that know way more than they do.

  7. Re:Easy on Ask Slashdot: Best App For Android For Remote Access To Mac Or PC? · · Score: 1

    VPN home over https port. I've shot straight through every single corporate security I have encountered, it's not hard to get through.

  8. Re:This won't happen in the future. on 100-Year-Old Photo Negatives Discovered In Antarctica · · Score: 3, Funny

    Until they find an old interface to read it, and discover it has only a single copy of "Never gonna give you up" on it.

  9. Re:Space suits? on 100-Year-Old Photo Negatives Discovered In Antarctica · · Score: 1

    The fact that when you lose power your heat goes away. Space suits have heaters and chillers in them to maintain temperatures.

  10. Re:If you're buying somebody a device... on 4 Tips For Your New Laptop · · Score: 1

    My wife ran Ubuntu for 6 years while she finished her masters. I NEVER had to touch her laptop for any issue. She was able to figure out every single thing on her own and even did an upgrade on her own.

    Granted she is smart enough to know when a professor demands "you must only use MICROSOFT WORD" that they are simply full of crap and she used Open office anyways. No not a CS or IT major ACCOUNTING.

    When I bought her a new macbook pro, the first thing she did was ask me to help install Ubuntu to dual boot with OSX. Bootcamp is not linux compatible yet. She has since figured out parallels is more fun and went that route.

  11. Re:comes with any Mac on 4 Tips For Your New Laptop · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If your mom is that much of an evil person, just stay away, you will be happier.

  12. Re:comes with any Mac on 4 Tips For Your New Laptop · · Score: 1

    Nope.

    The first 4 that comes with a Windows PC is...

    Buy MS office, you really need it.

    Buy a wireless MS mouse Ignore that the insides say logitech.

    Did you know that MS has a online premium cloud service? you should buy that.

    Really, most people LOVE metro, you should never ever switch away from the metro interface.

  13. Re:Slashdot on 4 Tips For Your New Laptop · · Score: 1

    http://iosafe.com/

    OR the poor mans choice. Two cheapie external drives. take one to work every friday and bring the other back. Works great but requires the user to not be lazy.

  14. Re:Slashdot on 4 Tips For Your New Laptop · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Lightning strikes can fry stuff that is unplugged and in a closet. Had a lightning strike destroy a laptop that was still sealed in the box from dell. EMP's are a harsh mistress when they strike 20 feet from your house.

    But I have something that guarantees safety from even a direct lightning strike....

    Insurance.

  15. Re:Slashdot on 4 Tips For Your New Laptop · · Score: 1

    Rural? Hell I live in Urban and you absolutely need one. The electrical grid in the USA is a noise, brownout,spike mess, get a whole house unit and have it installed.

  16. Re:There's a question about that at Skeptics on Parents' Campaign Leads To Wi-Fi Ban In New Zealand School · · Score: 3, Funny

    "For all your whining about how the government can't do anything right, you little twits haven't grown up on top of a waste chemical disposal trench."

    I remember when Lake Erie was on fire, and I still KNOW the government cant do anything right.

  17. 12.9 is not "super sized" on Is a Super-Sized iPad the Future of Education? · · Score: 1

    Call me when it's 27" or 32+ inches. THAT is super sized. I personally think the smallest should be 40" and the desk surface.

    but at that point it really needs to not be iOS anymore or the nasty windows 8 single task idea. Back to real multitasking where I can slide apps around and slide data to and from, etc.. I should be able to bring up my photos, and pick a photo by dragging it to the app I want to use it in, say Email or whatever.

    The biggest problem is that all the OS and software makers need to stop being shiny little babies and use A SINGLE STANDARD for file transfers so I can easily flick photos from my phone to my desk when I set it on it. Stop with this retardation that is closed special ways of doing things to force lock in.

  18. Re:Meh.... on Tech Startup Buffer Publishes Every Employee's Salary, Right Up To the CEO · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I have not seen this for over a decade. Almost every job change I make, I will come in at a salary that is equal to or higher than the guy that has been there for 10 years.
    This might have been a reality in a distant past when management actually cared about employees and wanted them to stick around, but I noticed in the past 10 that most only care about the next quarter profits and to hell with anything else. I watched my company recently let a very good person walk out the door to a competitor because they would not give him a piddly 10% increase.

    I really hope that companies come back to having real leadership, but I highly doubt it will happen in my lifetime.

  19. Re:Poor Han on Iowa State AIDS Researcher Admits To Falsifying Findings · · Score: 0

    They have far more money for a legal defense than some street rats. Or are you suggesting that the Researchers live in their car's and rummage through dumpsters for food?

  20. Seniority is not always a good reason to give someone more money. There are new guys out there that can show up at the job and be 2X as effective as the guy that has held the position for 5+ years. And this assumes that the CEO is an honest guy and gives out raises every 6 months for cost of living.

    Dishonest companies do not do the Cost of living increases.

  21. Re:Poor Han on Iowa State AIDS Researcher Admits To Falsifying Findings · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Poor people MUST be punished to the extent of the law.

    If you think there is anything "fair" in justice, then you are incredibly Naive.

    If you are rich you get away with nearly anything, if you have the ability to fight back they tend to not push you into the ground as hard. But if you are poor and stole a loaf of bread? Expect the death penalty.

  22. Re: Who would believe it? on Researchers Claim Facebook Is 'Dead and Buried' To Many Young Users · · Score: 0

    " These are the standard tools of the profession"
    IF Twitter is a "standard tool" then no wonder most college grads are morons.

  23. Re:SETI on NASA's LLCD Tests Confirm Laser Communication Capabilities In Space · · Score: 1

    And over several milennia that is a HUGE margin.

  24. Re:Spiked tyres and featered tread and higher sili on Wisconsin Begins Using Cheese To De-Ice Roads · · Score: 1

    You can use the walnut shell "spiked" tires there without a problem.

  25. Re: Spiked tyres and featered tread and higher sil on Wisconsin Begins Using Cheese To De-Ice Roads · · Score: 1

    Milwalkee gets nothing compared to what we get across the lake. I have 4 feet in my yard right now, drive 10 miles east and it drops drastically. Unless the prevailing winds do a 180, Milwalkee get's nothing in snow compared to where I am living. Got an additional foot last night, not a big deal, you wipe it off the car and drive away.