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  1. Awesome! on ADA May Force Netflix To Provide Closed Captioning On Content · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I know a LOT of hearing impaired and they deserve to have the subtitles.

  2. Really? on Hip Hop Artists Developing Open Source Beat Making Software · · Score: 1

    Did they even look? Rosegarden does exactly what they are after... There is even a OSS version of Fruity Loops.

  3. Re:Orbitz deserves praise on On Orbitz, Mac Users Offered Pricier Hotels First · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Yes they do. At least their secretary or personal assistant does.

  4. Re:No idea on Transplant Surgeon Called Dibs On Steve Jobs' Home · · Score: 2

    Because we all know that Jobs would not have done a solid for a friend and sold it for a bargain price.

    No, Jobs ate babies, he would have never done that.

    BTW: when I bought my friends jeep for under Bluebook I guess it was a "kickback" as well.

  5. Re:This isn't about pricing on On Orbitz, Mac Users Offered Pricier Hotels First · · Score: 1, Troll

    Judging where I see MAC's in the home, they drive Ferrari, Porsche, Audi, and BMW. I do home automation and high end Theaters. Not many rich people have PC's in their home, they all pretty much are iMac and Macbook.

    But then I only do this as my day job and have seen only a few thousand homes of rich people. I am certain you came to your conclusion by seeing millions of cars with apple stickers on them.

    P.S. Rich people tend to not put stickers on their cars.

  6. Re:Orbitz deserves praise on On Orbitz, Mac Users Offered Pricier Hotels First · · Score: -1, Troll

    Enjoy your motel8 with your windows PC

    The Suites at Ritz-Carlton or the Park Hyatt means I don't have to see your rented ford fiesta. in the parking lot, or smell your un-bathed feet in your flip flops while you present yourself as a homeless unshaved bohemian at the breakfast nook in the morning while I read the news waiting for the private towncar to pick me up.

    I think you have zero clue as to what it's like to have money. Those with money use personal concierge service, have drivers, and even enjoy staying at hotels that don't have bed bugs.

    But no, you think it's all about MAC versus PC; then whine like a uneducated redneck, How droll.

  7. Re:Linux users on On Orbitz, Mac Users Offered Pricier Hotels First · · Score: 0

    They need a place to buy rope light.

  8. Re:Hacking is not Cracking on Two UK Lulzsec Suspects Plead Guilty To DDoS Charges · · Score: 0

    "They didn't crack anything, they used vulnerabilities to gain access, there is a big difference."

    you are correct. Someone that does real hacks are truly skilled, the other is nothing more than a ankle biting script kiddie.

    And you must suck at IT security. I can implement three layers of custom built firewalls for about £500

    What kind of overpriced junk are you buying?

  9. Let them be a lesson to you all... on Two UK Lulzsec Suspects Plead Guilty To DDoS Charges · · Score: 2

    Only a idiot hacks from his home or a place they can identify you from OR you get bloated and start letting people know who you are and you start boasting about your "sploits"

    Hacking 101 stuff. Why are these kiddies not learning the golden rules?

  10. really? on Robots To Search for Amelia Earhart's Lost Plane · · Score: 4, Funny

    "and what it's made of "

    I can tell you what it's made of right now. it was a Lockheed Electra 10E was built at Lockheed Aircraft Company to her specifications. Information about her plane was highly documented before it took off. Really scientists, have you not discovered the internet?

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Model_10_Electra

    And I am certain that Lockheed will be glad to tell them what they made it of.

  11. Re:Honestly on Ask Slashdot: Low Cost Way To Maximize SQL Server Uptime? · · Score: 1

    And freaking buy a UPS for every station and the server. 99% of POS problems is because the place has crap power. and then you have places that had installed UPS's 8 years ago and still have not replaced the batteries.

    Problem is you cant convince a restaurant owner to buy UPS's and replace them every 2 years. You can barely convince them to upgrade that windows 98 machine in the back room.

  12. Re:True HA costs money on Ask Slashdot: Low Cost Way To Maximize SQL Server Uptime? · · Score: 1

    " You might round prices down to the dollar to make the math easier."

    You are fricking kidding me? Sorry if you hire anyone that cant do simple addition and figure out tax and change.... you deserve to be out of business.

  13. Re:Not to get buzzwordy, but Azure...the Cloud! on Ask Slashdot: Low Cost Way To Maximize SQL Server Uptime? · · Score: 1

    There is a magical device called the "menu" that has prices printed in them.

    Let me guess, you are the kind of person that believes if GPS quits all the planes fall out of the sky.

    If you cant operate a restaurant with the POS system down, you deserve to be out of business.

  14. Re:If it a'int broke... on Ask Slashdot: Low Cost Way To Maximize SQL Server Uptime? · · Score: 1

    Actually if you rub a zero hard enough with a dusty fan you get a 2, and then all hell breaks out on the SQL server...

  15. Re:Obvious solution on Ask Slashdot: Low Cost Way To Maximize SQL Server Uptime? · · Score: 1

    Says the man that has never had to administer a stable full of MSSQL servers.. I still have nightmares....

  16. Re:Fun! on New iPhone Prototypes Have Integrated NFC chips and Antenna · · Score: 1

    You must have not met a "random J criminal" they are so stupid they can barely operate a calculator let alone a sophisticated device.

    They cant figure out how to get past the simple video camera or home security alarm from ADT....

    Yeah, I have no worries at all about this, because it can be easily turned on and off with a setting.

  17. Re:Contrarian thinking on Sandia's Floating, Dust-Free, Spinning Heatsink · · Score: 1

    so the air coming from the giant fan mounted in front of it was not enough to cool it?

  18. Dust Free.... yeah right.... on Sandia's Floating, Dust-Free, Spinning Heatsink · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dear researchers, please notice how dust will cake and adhere to spinning things. Ask the airline industry how dust can cake on even turbine blades.

    It's not dust free, please take the marketing people out back and beat them with a sack of doorknobs.

  19. Re:Nintendo fails to see the point...again. on Nintendo's Big-Screen 3DS XL Meets Lukewarm Reception · · Score: 1

    I will agree with you for simple games. FPS and driving games SUCK on a tablet. no I dont want to tilt it, I want a zero lag controller. and buttons.

  20. Nintendo Fail on Nintendo's Big-Screen 3DS XL Meets Lukewarm Reception · · Score: 1

    My wife loved her DS, but since an ipad came into her life she has not touched it. I think that Nintendo really needs to knock it out of the park if they think they will survive in today's gaming world.

  21. Re:easy: on Ask Slashdot: Jobs For Geeks In the Business/Financial World? · · Score: 4, Funny

    My wife has worked in the world of banking for 20+ years. All bankers are pretty darn evil. bigger the bank, the bigger the evil. She swore that they had satanic pentagrams on the floors of the executive floor, and wore only red robes up there at the 5/3 bank headquarters.

  22. Navteq? Really? on How Satnav Maps Are Made · · Score: 5, Informative

    They have the WORST maps available. Most of it is wrong, very low detail in any town that is smaller than 300,000 people. And they charge anal rape prices for their map updates.

    I had one of the first in car nav systems, the Clarion Auto PC and the navteq maps were borderline worthless. the maps were missing most roads, no data about most one way streets, etc..

    In fact 10 years later in 2009 I had the unfortunate experience of using Navteq data in a Jeep Grand Cherokee Nav system and once again crap maps, and it even had roads in locations that have not existed for decades, so their data set is still out of whack so bad it's not funny.

    No thanks. I avoid all products that say "Navteq map database" on them.

    Garmin uses Navteq but then uses teleatlas to correct the mess that is Navteq. Their maps are a hybrid of 4 different map database sources ran through their servers to correct them. So far I have had OK luck with Garmin's source database. I stopped using Megallan as they switched to the Navteq low quality database.

    Want good maps in your GPS? teleatlas as the data source.

  23. Re:Oh No on XBMC Developers Criticize AMD's Linux Driver · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I need HD video processing. and Intel sucks at at. Nvidia owns the market at making a video chipset that will render any file format HD without any processor load.

    I really wished that intel would get off their arses and make their GFX chipsets not suck.

  24. Re:Oh, stop acting surprised, Iran on Iran Claims New Cyber Attack On Its Nuclear Plants, Blames US and Allies · · Score: 1

    They can try, problem is they know that we can reply with a stratospheric bomber that can make their facilities explode.

    Oops, sorry... Must have been one of your viruses that scrambled that B52.

  25. Re:The rootkit would just infect the kernel on Ubuntu Lays Plans For Getting Past UEFI SecureBoot · · Score: 1

    You can do this in linux. we boot workstations from a read only partition and most software runs from there. even a master virus cant infect anything but the user partition.