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  1. Re:start with the device, cellular isnt the answer on Ask Slashdot: Unlimited Data Plan For Seniors? · · Score: 1

    You can already get an adblocking hosts file that installs easily as an app. and it blocks ALL ad's on the device... Makes it a breath of fresh air.

  2. Why not a wifi extender? on Ask Slashdot: Unlimited Data Plan For Seniors? · · Score: 1

    Get a good wifi extender and attach it to the "free wifi" there and have it re broadcast to her room. A decent AP that can do it with external antennas and a high gain patch antenna should do the trick.

  3. Re: Not a chance on Why CurrentC Will Beat Out Apple Pay · · Score: 1

    I use Google Wallet NFC and I see whats going on instantly. Where do you get this fictional "4 days" from? did you pull it directly from your butt?

  4. This is Hilarious... on Why CurrentC Will Beat Out Apple Pay · · Score: 1

    Yeah, Walmart and other retailers bow to customer pressure like grass in the wind.

    This whole summary reads like a really bad joke. CurrentC is already dead. Google Wallet and Apple Pay will utterly destroy them like they are destroying Paypal already.

  5. Re:100 year old survival knowledge in PDF files??? on A Library For Survival Knowledge · · Score: 1

    And I would LOVE to see you carry them. Stupidity is not taking advantage of modern tech. I disagree with PDF, I think Epub or Mobi a format that works on epaper devices that can run off of small solar panels that are 5W in size.

    If cared for a kindle DX can last 100 years. Unless you made the books properly by hand binding with thread and leather on very high end paper, they will not make it 100 years in use. I know this for a fact, I have several 100 year old books and they are all falling apart. Glue based binding has completely disintegrated, only the hand bound ones using thread are in good shape but even then, because the books were not read in a dark room with cotton gloves, the pages are fading and crumbling.

  6. Re:Other risks on Car Thieves and Insurers Vote On Keyless Car Security · · Score: 1

    Lesson that was learned: The Police are 100% useless.

    Remember kids, the police are not there to protect and serve or stop crime. They are there for their own reasons to do what they want to do.

  7. Re:I wish I'd thought of that on Car Thieves and Insurers Vote On Keyless Car Security · · Score: 1

    "I haven't heard of a car key that you can just easily clone. The code is never static."

    I have, most of the GM VATS chip keys were nothing more than a simple resistor.

    http://vats.likeabigdog.com/

    Trivial as hell and was broken BEFORE the system was released by GM, even though it was used from 1990-2005

  8. Re:Pre-mapped environments are a dead end on Will the Google Car Turn Out To Be the Apple Newton of Automobiles? · · Score: 1

    Programming a race car to drive a perfectly mapped track is brain dead easy for even a 2nd year CS student.

    Let cattle roam the track randomly, and the car drives at racing speed avoiding cows, goats, etc randomly darting in front of the car, then I'll be impressed.

  9. Re:How hard is it to recognize a stoplight? on Will the Google Car Turn Out To Be the Apple Newton of Automobiles? · · Score: 1

    "Imagine a wage worker making $20/hr produces the factory sensor part, at a rate of 100 per hour through the operation of a machine."

    Will never happen. Reality is very different...

    Imagine a wage worker making $8/hr produces the factory sensor part, at a rate of 100 per hour through the operation of a machine.

    Executives do NOT want to pay living wages. It will be an $8 an hour job or outsourced to China where they pay $3.25 an hour.

  10. Re:How hard is it to recognize a stoplight? on Will the Google Car Turn Out To Be the Apple Newton of Automobiles? · · Score: 1

    magnets in the lanes will also solve a LOT of the problems. It would take minimal cost do retrofit and significantly help ALL cars as lane departure would be trivial, etc...

  11. Yet it's still unplayable.... on Judge Says EA Battlefield 4 Execs Engaged In "Puffery," Not Fraud · · Score: 2

    The game is still a steaming pile of crap, I still warn people away from it and anything else that comes from that franchise ever again.

  12. Re:Dear Canada.... on Shooting At Canadian Parliament · · Score: 1

    So it's time to go all ape-shit like we have in the USA and have military in the streets? Our cops are driving assault vehicles, carrying M16 machine guns and waterboarding people for jay-walking.

    I though canadians were level headed people.

  13. Dear Canada.... on Shooting At Canadian Parliament · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Dont let your idiots in parliment go all panic mode like the Raving Morons we have running this place in Washington DC.

    This was a rare incident by a insane person, nothing more. Put more money into public mental health.

  14. Failure started at the Administrative level.... on Software Glitch Caused 911 Outage For 11 Million People · · Score: 2

    It's the fault of the administrators to begin with. I am friends with one of the technical advisors for the midwest EOC and the problem is that the administrators dont know their ass from a hole in the ground and ignore their tech guys and listen to the vendors.

    He has been screaming for all call centers to have analog failover, but the administrators refuse to hear it.

    So who is to blame for the failures? That top moron of Homeland security. IT would have been in place if he would realize that he is not an expert and to actually LISTEN to the experts in the field.

  15. Better solution... on Internet Broadband Through High-altitude Drones · · Score: 1

    Force the CableTV companies and telcos to run Fiber and then fix the last mile mess.

    Dammit, these companies are making record profits. They can get off their asses and run fiber and fix the last mile Bullshit.

  16. Re:TPB isn't just cheaper. on Your Online TV Watching Can Now Be Tracked Across Devices · · Score: 1

    TPB? No thanks.

    eztv.it is where it's at. TPB is crap for searching and subscribing to specific shows and having a nice RSS feed filtered already for you.

  17. Re:Easy to solve - calibrate them to overestimate on Speed Cameras In Chicago Earn $50M Less Than Expected · · Score: 1

    Please follow at a safe distance, and go back to drivers training.

  18. Re:Easy to solve - calibrate them to overestimate on Speed Cameras In Chicago Earn $50M Less Than Expected · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Easy solution, STOP letting for profit companies run these things. If a community wants red light cameras, they can buy them, install them, and manage them all under heavy citizen oversight.

  19. Re:Eliminate the middle man on An Algorithm to End the Lines for Ice at Burning Man · · Score: 1

    At the ice truck? ARE YOU INSANE?

    That path leads to MADNESS!

  20. Typical Burning Man... on An Algorithm to End the Lines for Ice at Burning Man · · Score: 1

    A lot of people that show up are not prepared and mooch off of everyone in the name of "community"

    We would hide our resources and tell others "nope dont have any" on a lot of occasions and those we could tell were in real need and not just lazy potheads we would share.

  21. Re:The Windows Phone failed. on Microsoft Gearing Up To Release a Smartwatch of Its Own · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    When poor people buy phones, they choose the free model. and all the windows phones are the free model as nobody in their right mind would intentionally pay the $399 premium phone price for one.

  22. Re:The Windows Phone failed. on Microsoft Gearing Up To Release a Smartwatch of Its Own · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    IT will be, it will probably be as horrific as the LG, Motorola and Samsung crap.

    If the Watch can not do 2-3 days on a charge , it is a complete and utter fail.
    If the watch does not have an open API so apps can easily be written for it, it is a complete and utter fail.
    And honestly, from what we have seen from Microsoft for mobile devices over the past 3 years, it will be a complete and utter fail.

  23. Like GM.. Add shiny plastic, crap leather and call it the "premium" version.

  24. Re:Let me get this right on Bill Gates: Piketty's Attack on Income Inequality Is Right · · Score: 1

    Flat tax simplifies it greatly.

    10% with zero deductions or credits. You dont even need to file taxes unless you are self employed and you should have been doing it quarterly like you have to now.

    April 15th becomes nothing but another day in april as nobody has to file anything except for the rich that also pay 10% on all dividend income, all stock income, etc....

  25. Re:Simple solution on Technology Heats Up the Adultery Arms Race · · Score: 1

    You are correct, People that are hell bent on Monogomy are selfish and childish.

    They are the same horrible sociopathic scumbags that demonize homosexuals that want to marry.