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  1. Re:He did not experience 40g's on What a Black Box Data Dump Looks Like · · Score: 1

    Were you awake when you read this? Or do you just moonlight as the Internet Strawman Vigilante?

    "He did not experience 40g's" doesn't even close to meaning "do not experience any g's"

  2. Inflammatory summary on What a Black Box Data Dump Looks Like · · Score: 1

    The guy fell asleep. Read the linked article. Then move along. No story here.

  3. Re:Dropbox shows it can be done on Why Freemium Doesn't Work · · Score: 1

    I think (and this is a very very common issue) is that people just love to assume something.

    Isn't that the truth.

  4. TL;DR on Why Freemium Doesn't Work · · Score: 1

    * Developer offers shitty product and is upset when customers don't want to pay.
    * Developer doesn't understand that nobody wants to pay for a downloadable "higher resolution letter."
    * Developer trades shitty free product for spam and is upset when customers mark it as spam.
    * Developer doesn't get that people don't read privacy policies.

    Did I miss any?

  5. Wha? on Do You Really Need a Smart Phone? · · Score: 1

    When did Roblimo turn into a curmudgeon?

  6. Say what? on SOPA Creator In TV/Film/Music Industry's Pocket · · Score: 1

    ESR compare the incandescent bulbs and "Obamacare"* with SOPA?! It's no wonder that nobody pays attention to him anymore.

    * Which I place in quotes because it's really a code word that says "don't listen to me because I'm an extremist without sense to think on my own and instead spout off buzzwords I heard on Fox News." A sane person would call it health care reform or single payer health care.

  7. Re:It has nothing to do with "bad drivers" on Why the NTSB Is Wrong About Cellphones · · Score: 1

    Turn your phone off while driving. It could save a life.

    And the boredom could also lead you to fall asleep, which would make for a much more peaceful death.

  8. Re:reality vs expectation on Google To Allow Location Service Opt-out · · Score: 1

    Why do you think people "name" their networks "linksys?"

    All 4.7% of them? http://wigle.net/gps/gps/Stat

  9. Re:reality vs expectation on Google To Allow Location Service Opt-out · · Score: 1

    Where does anything in my one sentence comment imply that I don't understand radio waves?

    And in any case, people don't need to know dick about radio to realize that there are no wires connecting device A to device B no matter where they go in their house. And that the connections persist even in the yard or -gasp- out on the street as they drive away or up to their house. And it doesn't take much of a cognitive leap to realize that if they can see their network, that others quite possibly could too. Matter of fact, my mother's first question when I set hers up was, "can people driving by see what I'm doing on here?" And she's about as non-tech as they come.

    Why do you think people name their networks funny and clever things? Would they take the time to think up names like "AMANDA_HAS_AIDS" or "get off my netz" if they didn't expect others to see them?

    For people to realize that simply the NAME of the network, even if the traffic is encrypted, is useful information and that someone would be scraping it for location service is a different story and I'd bet that a very small percentage get that. But even so, I doubt that very many of them care.

  10. Re:reality vs expectation on Google To Allow Location Service Opt-out · · Score: 1

    I would assume that's why he said broadcast instead of propagate, yeah?

  11. Re:Recording on Ask Slashdot: What's a Good Tablet/App Combination For Note-Taking? · · Score: 1

    Why don't you stick one of these http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_24?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=ipad+stylus&x=0&y=0 up your fap-inducing ass? As dickhead as you want to be about it, a stylus works just fine with an iPad or any other touchscreen.

    Wanking hateboi.

  12. Wat? on Bug Opens Chrome to Easy Remote Code Execution · · Score: 1

    The OP has an unusual definition of easy.

  13. Re:going open to closed on OS X Notifier App Growl Goes Closed Source · · Score: 1

    You are not as smart as you think you are.

  14. Um. Did anyone actually read this? on Legal Tender? Maybe Not, Says Louisiana Law · · Score: 1

    26 1864.3. Cash transactions reported

    27 All payments of cash in excess of twenty-five dollars given in exchange for

    28 junk or used or secondhand property shall be reported separately in the daily reports

    29 required by R.S. 37:1866.

    Didn't think so. It doesn't block cash sales at all.

    http://www.mygov365.com/legislation/view/id/4db66f7549e51bd334be0300/tab/versions/

  15. Re:HBO "Superheroes" documentary on these guys on Real Life Super Hero Arrested · · Score: 1

    I watched the video too. I think you're seeing what you want to see in it.

  16. Re:HBO "Superheroes" documentary on these guys on Real Life Super Hero Arrested · · Score: 0

    Now I'm not for the way my HOA has donated to have one set of cops on speed dial and I think it's just another example of how everything in modern society to some degree or another is corrupted by money

    Isn't this the ideal that the libertarians are all in a froth to promote?

  17. Re:Nightly builds on Firefox 8.0 Beta Available · · Score: 1

    This holds no interest for those building it themselves. Otherwise, he would have downloaded the pre-built package in the first place.

  18. Re:Nightly builds on Firefox 8.0 Beta Available · · Score: 1

    Which doesn't do any good when you build it yourself. Which the parent specifically said that he did.

  19. erm, wasn't this news ten years ago? on Returning Power From Electric Cars To the Grid · · Score: 1

    wasn't this news ten years ago? The point isn't as an energy SOURCE, but as energy storage for a buffer. If you recall the periodic demand cycle for power, you'll quickly see why this is beneficial. You get energy storage right where it's needed without having to transmit it over miles of overloaded grid.

  20. Re:Cool. Just in time for Google to EOL Google+ on The Google+ API Is Released · · Score: 1

    lol. If by "an awful lot" you mean a handful of self righteous nerds, then I rather suspect you might be right.

  21. Re:Cool. Just in time for Google to EOL Google+ on The Google+ API Is Released · · Score: 2

    erm. I see scads more content on g+ than on facebook --OR-- on slashdot. And it's actual useful interesting stuff.

  22. Re:Read only on The Google+ API Is Released · · Score: 0

    I can't wait to see the next API release. Quit frothing to feel self important.

  23. Bull fucking shit. on Ask Slashdot: Best Use For a New Supercomputing Cluster? · · Score: 1

    What the fuck is a question like this doing on here? If it's for real, then for fucks sake, why the hell isn't it spec'ed?

  24. Misleading summary on Study Suggests Magnets Can Force You to Tell the Truth · · Score: 2

    That's not at all what the study showed/claimed/whatever. People were MORE LIKELY to tell the truth with the magnetic treatment. That's a far cry from force.

  25. Re:"No ecosystem" on Android On HP TouchPad · · Score: 1

    The fact that you call a keyboard a benefit means that you're missing the point of a tablet.