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  1. Re:What am I missing? on Black Friday Protest Sites Included An Amazon Warehouse (thecourier.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    A primary difference here is the necessity of health care.

  2. *feature

  3. Yup, sorry you're in that state and hope you get out of it soon! I got super down when I was in a similar situation but it passed and life went on and I was happy again.

  4. Good advice, thanks. Sort of a duh, but I hadn't thought to turn it off yet, either.

  5. +1, excellent first post. Shit, we might as well close the comments and move to the next story. We've already gotten to the meat of it.

  6. I'm sorry to Godwin the thread, but people really did rationalize away Hitler's extreme statements, even those that were expressed in Mein Kampf. I do wonder if Trump is purposely modeling his behavior, or whether it's a symptom of something else.

  7. That's how ingrained the two party system is. Jason Levine criticized Trump and the rationale of the Trump supporters, and you automatically trash Clinton and try to make a case about how Trump's shit stinks more than Clinton's.

  8. Re:Man with too much money is blind on Man Builds $1.5 Million Star Trek-Themed Home Theater (cepro.com) · · Score: 1

    While that may be true, the compromises appear to have been made with good intentions. I mean, the guy apparently built it to share with his family, so some accommodations to comfort would be necessary. Anyway, can you really fault the guy for wanting a love-seat instead of those cock-blocker seats?

  9. Re:Word: being bought by google actually sucks. on Google Is Shutting Down Picasa In Favor of Photos (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    I was sad to see what they did to Songza as well.

  10. Please fix these annoyances on Ask Slashdot: How Can We Improve Slashdot? · · Score: 1

    I really, really dislike the whole "from the foo dept." thing, such as this:
    Posted by timothy on Tuesday February 02, 2016 @04:45PM from the you-love-surveillance-we-see-you-say dept.

    Also, the mobile interface displays something along the lines of "this post is hidden due to filtering preferences" or something wherever a filtered post would have appeared. Oftentimes there's more space taken up in the thread by these notifications than by comments. Please turn the filtered post notifications off :)

  11. Re:RTFM! on GA Tech Students Use Cell Phone Pings To Find Missing Person (ajc.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://www.ajc.com/news/news/l... It looks like they've started putting the article reference next to the story title.

  12. Re:Scared Idiots on 1950s Toy That Included Actual Uranium Ore Goes On Display At Museum · · Score: 1

    Well, you're wrong about the constancy of isotope ratios. There're plenty of processes, chemical, biological, and physical that lead to isotopic fractionation. The question is whether bananas enrich the radioactive isotope of potassium in the fruit. I don't know whether that is the case for bananas, but it is so for other fruit.

    Wikipedia often provides an incomplete picture. You might want to read other sources before using all that bold text on uninformed shit.

  13. Re:Only one way to stop it. on Verizon's Plan To Snoop On Its Customers · · Score: 1

    From my experience, Sprint is able to offer unlimited data transfer because even if you max out the connection 24/7, you aren't going to hit 10 GB in a month. I couldn't even stream 92kB/s pandora streams.

  14. Re:Because Hollywood. on 60 Minutes Dubbed Engines Noise Over Tesla Model S · · Score: 1

    Yes. What really gets me is that cars in movies are constantly accelerating and shifting gears like there are 500 of them to get through.

  15. Re:Chinese Stamp? on Steve Jobs To Appear On US Postage Stamp · · Score: 1

    I full heartedly agree with your second sentiment. What gets me is the abundance of American flags and such gear that is made oversees -- and people gobble it and feel damn patriotic about the whole thing.

    Side note: Apple is opening a plant in Mesa, Arizona and will employ about 700 people. http://cdn2.geeknation.com/gee...

  16. Re:Here in Baltimore on Massive Storm Buries US East Coast In Snow and Ice · · Score: 1

    As a former Missouri resident, I suggest shoveling when you can as it's a lot easier to just lay down salt or other heating agent on the ice when it forms. If the snow is already gone, you won't need to shovel. If the snow is still there, the salt/whatever won't work well and you'll have to break up the ice/snow conglomerates, which is tough stuff.

  17. Re: Really? on Security Vendors Self-Censor Target Breach Details · · Score: 1

    And from now on, I will refer to all those infuriatingly insecure devices as POS^2.

  18. Re: Units sold or already out? on Apple Devices To Reach Parity With Windows PCs In 2014 · · Score: 1

    The cost is also what, 1/3 as much for the Nexus versus IPhone?

  19. Re:Memorizing stuff is pretty central to schooling on Ask Slashdot: How Can I Improve My Memory For Study? · · Score: 1

    I think you're being more than a little harsh here. Almost all of us have some sort of difficulty to work through when it comes to higher education. Would you have told Steven Hawking to go home?

  20. Re:Why on China Prefers Sticking With Dying Windows XP To Upgrading · · Score: 1

    Apparently you missed this statement:

    "At some point a PC will cost more than it's worth to repair, but that's the point you chuck it and get a new one, and even then you can harvest parts as spares."

    Replacing the motherboard certainly qualifies as the point that the pc is cost more than it is worth. But then, as stated, you can salvage the other components for another system.

  21. Re:Really? on Student Arrested For Using Phone App To 'Shoot' Classmates · · Score: 1

    My comment wasn't detailed and I may have given the wrong impression. The two guys were friends, and he had said it in a joking manner. There were more factors that made it obvious to all involved that this was a benign situation.

  22. Re:Really? on Student Arrested For Using Phone App To 'Shoot' Classmates · · Score: 3, Interesting

    In 1999 when I was a freshman in HS, I saw another freshman walk up behind another kid and jokingly put a plastic knife from the lunch room to his back. He said, "give me all your money."

    Unfortunately, a teacher also saw this harmless joke. The kid was arrested and expelled from the entire school district.

  23. Re:What a scam on Flash Memory Won't Get Cheaper Any Time Soon · · Score: 1

    This, and the chemicals used in the manufacture of semiconductors are of extremely high purity and precision. I work for a manufacturer of such chemicals, and I'm amazed at the amount of thought and innovation that is thrown at maintaining and improving the quality of our product. Additionally, the solutions are typically custom tailored to the application, even down to the customer's process line. Everything that can even obliquely affect the final product is regulated and and detailed at length. I can't so much as move a printer in our lab without writing a whitepaper and requesting the change from the customer. We're talking a 2-3 month turn around time. This sort of service does not come cheap. And I'm just talking about the chemical side of the business.

  24. Re:Smart watch not such a smart idea on Can Even Apple Make a Watch Insanely Smart? · · Score: 1

    In my opinion, the smart watch should be considered a peripheral for the smart phone I already have in my pocket.

    This means it won't need to be a high powered device. I agree with you that this is not practical at this time.

    But, if I'm able to check notifications such as text messages, subject lines of received emails, and navigation commands from my GPS, I'd be happy. I should be able to change music tracks without pulling out my phone. It could display a grocery list.

    Stop thinking of it as it's own computing device, and more as a display device with limited input capabilities, and I think it'll make a lot more sense.

  25. Re:All weasel words.... on 'Half' of 2012's Extreme Weather Impacted By Climate Change · · Score: 1

    You must be new to science.