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  1. Re:Overly Dramatic Much? on The Coming Internet Video Crash · · Score: 1

    Or they think, I'm listening to it on the road, so quality would mostly be drowned out anyways.

  2. Re:A lesson to Americans on The Coming Internet Video Crash · · Score: 1

    I have a choice of providers. all of them 'big' players, and yes, they do complete. It's why I have 25/25Mb for 30 bucks, no contract.

  3. Re:Unfortunately, the solution is obvious on The Coming Internet Video Crash · · Score: 1, Insightful

    for now.

  4. Re:Wrong on The Coming Internet Video Crash · · Score: 1

    "Quality of content is *far* more important than the quality of the image."
    those aren't mutually exclusive.

  5. Re:Don't let it fool you on Most SSDs Now Under a Dollar Per Gigabyte · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It doesn't, he's an idiot.

  6. um on The Coming Internet Video Crash · · Score: 1

    My tablet and phone has unlimited data, so I don't really know what they person is talking about.

  7. Re:I'm in a similar boat but.... on Ask Slashdot: Am I Too Old To Retrain? · · Score: 1

    "Again though, if you don't love it, it's never too late to find your passion, try something else."
    bullshit. I am tired of that stupid platitude. There is the reason the term 'Golden Handcuffs' was invented.

  8. Re:You'll do just fine. on Ask Slashdot: Am I Too Old To Retrain? · · Score: 1

    Either you had no idea what you where doing, or those where all the worse possible .net app. Really, there ins't an excuse for that, and I would just pack my bags and walk into the sunset if that was an actual problem with competently written applications.

    BTW, I've seen similar problem with many other programming languages. Special 3rd part libraries, some on rewrote a standard library for their precious program, all kind of crappy shit. So, while yes you need the framework, what you describe is..odd.

  9. YOu dont' want to proghram anymore on Ask Slashdot: Am I Too Old To Retrain? · · Score: 1

    So you have two choice:
    Do something else, or decide you are going to suck it up, and get a job at an organization with pretty fixed hours. So you can enjoy the other aspects of your life.

  10. Re:Not a problem iOS users have. on Over 60% of Android Malware Hides In Fake Versions of Popular Apps · · Score: 3, Insightful

    And there is less crime we we force everyone to never go out.
    But, you enjoy your shiny toy and take whatever the deem you worthy of having.

  11. Re:Crime pays on Verizon Tech Given 4-year Federal Prison Sentence For $4.5M Equipment Scam · · Score: 1

    Insightful.

  12. What a stupid on Verizon Tech Given 4-year Federal Prison Sentence For $4.5M Equipment Scam · · Score: 1

    reason to put someone in prison.
    There are better ways to punish and develop corrective measures.

  13. Re: caffeinated coffee on New Study Links Caffeinated Coffee To Vision Loss · · Score: 1

    "Coffee" is a set of prepared drinks that also included decaffeinated coffee.
    "Caffeine" is a set that includes more then Coffee.

  14. Re:Breakfast form once and for all on New Study Links Caffeinated Coffee To Vision Loss · · Score: 1

    Actually, it a by product of watching your diet. Once you do that, regardles of the 'diet' you will do better, and then cave with time. Usually your brain will start rationalizing the behavior. Classic human behaviour.

    Eat balanced and light and make it the way you eat. Not a diet. Binging is bad. Any diet the recommends that should be ignored.

    Our bodies know exactly what to do with it. Save it for an emergency.

  15. Re:Breakfast form once and for all on New Study Links Caffeinated Coffee To Vision Loss · · Score: 1

    A cup of coffee with an eff and a piece of toast is fine.
    two eggs, bacon toast 2 coffee pack with cream and sugar is not fine.

    pre1950 or so, the Average american breakfast was a cup of coffee and toast. The 'farmers breakfast' was creating for marketing.

    While the media likes to paint good/bad many times that not it at all. It's usually a property of the item that was study. Add to the the media makes every study sound like it's the final study; in fact you need several studies to begin to be informative. There are exception, but not a lot.

  16. Re:on the other angle... on New Study Links Caffeinated Coffee To Vision Loss · · Score: 1

    "Lowest of the blue collars drink far more coffee than any white collar type."
    mmm, I would guess that's not true. White collar workers who drink coffee tend to drink coffee while working. Not a lot of blue collar workers can drink coffee while performing their job.

    That's just speculation, of course.

  17. Re:Everything kills you. on New Study Links Caffeinated Coffee To Vision Loss · · Score: 1

    Fatal: Causing or capable of causing death.

    Not everything is fatal. Sure, based on the evidence it is highly likely everyone will die, but you can't not say everyone until everyone has become infirm or died. ... really subtle stuff?:
    so you magically know what is subtle and not? Please, let us know how you can not the effects of everything and determine what is subtle.

  18. Re:Caffeine on New Study Links Caffeinated Coffee To Vision Loss · · Score: 1

    They need to be specific and indicate WHAT in the coffee they were watching.
    Science needs to be specific, get used to it.

  19. Re:Indirect explanations on New Study Links Caffeinated Coffee To Vision Loss · · Score: 1

    Caffeine doesn't motivate.

  20. Re:Coffee is... on New Study Links Caffeinated Coffee To Vision Loss · · Score: 1

    It's off topic.

  21. Re:Coffee is... on New Study Links Caffeinated Coffee To Vision Loss · · Score: 1

    only to a point. The 'effects' of caffeine are lost after 2 weeks of regular use.

  22. Re:Intensely idiotic on After 7 Years In Court, Google Settles With Publishers On Book Scanning · · Score: 1

    Cultures? society? Human instinct to share?

    Copyright is an anathema to human behavior. One that would be worth having it copyright was returned to a sane amount of time.
    Copyright holders want to lock up culture, and that's going to far.

  23. Re:Breaking the Standard on Advertisers Blast Microsoft Over IE Default Privacy Settings · · Score: 1

    Becasue people don't want to be tracked and MS is making that the default. The fact that advertising companies are evil poor excuse for limp wristed cum stains who want to dictate how you use the web and might loose some quatloos doesn't matter.

    They are whining becasue in the EU it's illegal to ignore the setting, and they will loose the ability to track where you have been, where you go on the web.

  24. This whole thread is like on Advertisers Blast Microsoft Over IE Default Privacy Settings · · Score: 2

    it's backwards day on /.

    Seriously, people blaming MS because they actual implement something users want. Going on as if the advertising companies and people who want to track you are some kink of hero against the oppression of people not wanting to be tracked.

  25. Re:Microsoft cares about privacy on Advertisers Blast Microsoft Over IE Default Privacy Settings · · Score: 1

    People don't want to be tracked. every browser is set to 'Allow tracking' by default. hence, they are ignoring users.

    For a specific citation see: every fucking browser install.