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  1. Re:Arduino Panic Button on Ask Slashdot: Panic Button a Very Young Child Can Use · · Score: 2

    So, I take it this reply is you volunteering to go to work for their family and pay their bills? Removing him of all obligation so he can "you know ... BE A FUCKING PARENT"? Fact of the matter is, someone has to work. Someone has to pay bills.

  2. Re:No carrier and yet no OTA update on Nexus 7 on Android Policy For Nexus and Google Play Devices Updated To Excuse Carrier Delay · · Score: 1

    Some of your apps aren't going to ever BE lollipop compatible. At least 2 of my apps broke due to deprecated APIs that were removed for security purposes (one had the ability to show widgets on the foreground of other apps, so for example, I could control pandora while having waze open).

  3. Re:"Two" times, not ten times on Corning Reveals Gorilla Glass 4, Promises No More Broken IPhones · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Not only that but what's "tougher"? Elastic Modulus? Ductility? Fatigue Limit? Tensile Strength?

  4. Re:biocompatibility on 3-D Printed "Iron Man" Prosthetic Hands Now Available For Kids · · Score: 2

    PLA does not contain BPA. It's a plastic that's derived from corn oil.

  5. Re:biocompatibility on 3-D Printed "Iron Man" Prosthetic Hands Now Available For Kids · · Score: 4, Informative

    Disclaimer: I'm good friends with the guy who designed this hand. But either way, the hand is made out of PLA: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P... - Which we just so happen to use for drinking cups, so I'm going to go out on a limb and say "not poisonous at all".

  6. So now I've contributed to OSS! on After Negative User Response, ChromeOS To Re-Introduce Support For Ext{2,3,4} · · Score: 4, Funny

    So now bitching and moaning constitutes contributing to F/OSS? Awesome! I'm an open source contributor! Now to put this on my resume.....

  7. Re:LOL, "American Freedom"! on Cell Phone Unlocking Is Legal -- For Now · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That's because in America, corporations are people too!

  8. And then you're limited to TCP traffic.

  9. Re:You have to put a '.' as a last name for monony on Pseudonyms Now Allowed On Google+ · · Score: 1

    Just a heads up; it does indeed display the period. So mono-names are still second class citizens...

  10. Re:Bullshit + News = Pointless on Pseudonyms Now Allowed On Google+ · · Score: 1

    Also uneditable is the "G+ URL" that they were allowing people to sign up for. What the hell good is editing my name, when the URL I was allowed to have ends up having my real name and completely unchangeable....

  11. Another dumb shit from 3Dprint.com on 15-Year-Old Developing a 3D Printer 10x Faster Than Anything On the Market · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Eddie Krassenstein and cohorts, have been at this constantly for the past months. They have made up so many stories, which lack any kind of verification. Do not trust anything that comes from 3Dprint.com. It's just a bunch of marketing assholes trying to make their web-property more valuable by pumping out bullshit that people scoop up and retransmit. Slashdot, please don't stoop this low.

  12. Re:Why not just burn the ammonia on New Chemical Process Could Make Ammonia a Practical Car Fuel · · Score: 2

    It was a retort against the parents typo. "Electric motors have very efficiency". That's all. Get over yourself.

  13. Re:Why not just burn the ammonia on New Chemical Process Could Make Ammonia a Practical Car Fuel · · Score: 5, Funny

    Very efficiency. No gas. Much MPG.

  14. Anyone else remember... on Google Demos Modular Phone That (Almost) Actually Works · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Slashdot was _FILLED_ with comments about how these people were SO stupid, and how modular phones _couldn't_ be built. How there wasn't possibly a way...

  15. Re:Prior Art Disallows Patent Applications PERIOD. on Questionable Patents From MakerBot · · Score: 4, Informative

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F... might be worth a read for you. With the USA no longer being on a "First to Invent" system, and instead "First Inventor to File" means that MakerBot is likely looking to use this change in order to snatch up inventions from the open source community as their own.

  16. MakerBot, enemy of open source and 3D printing on Questionable Patents From MakerBot · · Score: 5, Informative
    Here's an article written by MakerBot themselves praising the author of an extruder drive design: http://www.makerbot.com/blog/2... and admitting that it was made by someone else...

    And here they are, attempting to patent said extruder drive design: http://www.freepatentsonline.c...

    They're taking things from the open source RepRap community and attempting to patent them. Do not support MakerBot. Do not buy their machines. And advise everyone you know not to purchase their machines should they be considering it.

  17. Re:Not terribly surprising on US College Students Still Aren't All That Interested In Computer Science · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Well, given that CS degrees lately consist of having students reimplement all the sorting methods learned since the 1970s, I can certainly understand why CS degrees are less desirable. I know many college kids who took up CS classes, who thought they were going to learn to code, learn awesome things, and it turned out to have much less to do with computers, and much more to do with general math/logic.

  18. No thanks on Nuclear proliferation... on Waste Management: The Critical Element For Nuclear Energy Expansion · · Score: 5, Funny

    Nuclear plants might be safer/cleaner than coal and all, but when they fail (and they always seem to, due to people attempting to cut costs and corners) it leaves areas of land unusable to us humans. Not just a little unusable either. It does it for such a long time that it might as well be considered permanent. Solar, Water, Wind are all completely renewable sources of energy that upon failure...don't destroy the ecosystem around it.

  19. Re:Oh Em Gee! on OnePlus One Revealed: a CyanogenMod Smartphone · · Score: 1

    You're joking, right? T-Mo has a $30/month unlimited data plan, and H20 has a $30/month...500mb data and unlimited talk? Who on fucking earth with a smartphone, actually uses it to TALK anymore? Give me my fucking data.

  20. How is this different than christianity? on Google Aids Scientology-Linked Group CCHR With Pay-Per-Click Ads · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I don't understand, how is this any different than any other religion that someone doesn't believe in? There are plenty of christian churches, etc that pay for advertisements against equal rights for homosexuals. This doesn't seem any more crazy.

  21. Consequences... on Oil From the Exxon Valdez Spill Still Lingers On Alaska Beaches · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Consequences only exist for those too poor to fight them. Exxon should have been made responsible for taking care of the entire area until all the oil was cleaned up, but that would have driven them out of business...and we can't have that!

  22. Re:Another misleading title on NASA Scientists Find Evidence of Water In Martian Meteorite · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The title isn't misleading at all, you're simply lacking reading comprehension. My 6 year old has better reading comprehension than you do. Evidence by its very nature is generally something that is produced or an after effect of some other process. A scratch on a car door is evidence that something harder than the surface scraped against it. You don't need the key that did it to say that the scratch is evidence of it....

  23. Re:Apple is making Jewelry? on Apple's Hiring Spree of Biosensor Experts Continues As iWatch Team Grows · · Score: 2

    Troll or not, there's a good point made here. Apple doesn't seem to be doing anything that everyone else isn't already doing anymore. At least when the original iPhone came out in 2007 it had a real web browser, web apps, touch screen interface that didn't suck, etc. They were pretty much "never" going to do an iPad-mini...and then they followed that gravy train. Everyone jumped on the smartwatch game...and then Apple followed. Apple isn't doing their own thing any longer. They're merely trying to stay relevant at this point.

  24. Old news. DeltaMaker already did it. on RoboBeast: A Toughened 3D Printer · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Deltamaker already did it, and is a much cooler machine to look at. No frame adjustments needed, automatic bed leveling, T-slot and makerslide based frame which is going to take a load of abuse before anything could actually damage it.

  25. Re:Bada on Samsung's First Tizen Smartphone Gets Leaked · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This is the difference between real capitalism, and American capitalism. In real capitalism, you naturally get a race to the bottom. In American capitalism, you get government protectionism to keep your antiquated, inflated business practices afloat while you strip people of every penny you can.