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  1. No one ever got a education from technology. on Chicago E-Learning Scheme Embraces Virtual Badges For Public Schoolers · · Score: 1

    No one ever got a education from technology. In 10 years millions of dollars will have been spent, it will never have worked right and will be dropped.
    stop putting computers in class rooms, stop having digital pads. Stop using websites to teach.

  2. Re:Makes no sense. on Google Throws Microsoft Under Bus, Then Won't Patch Android Flaw · · Score: 0

    and this is why FOSS is dumb.
    also do you really have to force OEM to push software updates? Nope, just write the code. They don't mind updates that cover their devices.

  3. I don't have THAT much drive space on Would You Rent Out Your Unused Drive Space? · · Score: 1

    Eh. This is a problem of scale. If you only need to store a little off site it wouldn't be worth it and if you need to store a lot it would be more useful to get a new drive or cloud service. The same problems come with bandwidth. Need to upload a little, hardly worth the extra set-ups, passwords, etc. Need to store a lot? Too much bandwidth.

  4. Re:Not all of his ashes.. on NASA's New Horizons To Arrive At Pluto With Clyde Tombaugh's Ashes · · Score: 1

    but if someone did in the far future, they would have to conclude that 21st century humans believed in magic. Sad, but that at least would be valuable information.

    Which is 100% true.

  5. '3d' picutres look LESS real on 3D Cameras Are About To Go Mainstream · · Score: 1

    The 3d photo club at the local Art school is just as boring as ever. The focal point is annoying. 3d pictures and movies tend to be less immersive due to the fact that part of the screen is always out of focus. 2d shows let you forget you are looking at a screen. 3d shows always remind you of it. As long as we are still using 2d screens, 3d is a long ways from being mainstream.
    Also more feature creep. How bout making a cheaper phone or one with better battery life?

  6. lobbyists laws on Canadian Government Steps In To Stop Misleading Infringement Notices · · Score: 1
    I don't follow Canadian politics but these sort of laws always come from lobbyists anyways. Lobbyists going lobby. Governments should realize they are bending over for BMG and MPAA and such before they pass these laws. Didn't they see what happened in the US?

    Will the companies be fined more then a token amount? Will anyone go to jail? Will the law be repealed? No. But don't worry your leaders will 'tisk tisk' BMG, which will just slightly tone down the letters and carry on

  7. Gore won on Michael Mann: Swiftboating Comes To Science · · Score: 1

    This is the same guy that lost to GWB after serving a Bill Clinton's Vice President for eight years. That election was in the bag. And he blew it by thinking that

    For the record Gore won the election in both popular and electoral votes, had they been allowed to finish counting.

  8. No it doesn't on Closure On the Linux Lockup Bug · · Score: 1

    No it doesn't. Maybe you should upgrade past XP already and use a windows made in this century

  9. Re:Free? on Obama Proposes 2 Years of Free Community College · · Score: 1

    hahahahahhahaha. How wrong you are. protip:CC's are for immigrants and parents who want their kid to live at home for too long. Real college is much much more then just the classes. The most important thing is connections, the second most important thing is learning to be more independent. CC's do none of that. College is also about finding your passion, that is why most people switch majors halfway through. But when you go the CC to 4 year route you don't have access to Juniors and Seniors and high level teachers and culture and clubs that help you realize the work field for you. Plus the fact that you are stuck with all the stoners and burn-outs that make every class lowest common denominator. If your kid could have gotten into a 4 year, even a state one, it is always better.

  10. Stop immigration on MI5 Chief Seeks New Powers After Paris Magazine Attack · · Score: 1

    If these well settled countries would stop immigration for awhile it would solve all sorts of problems in ways you might not expect.

    Not only would internal security census be easier, but more people would integrate, adopt cultural mores. There will never be any peace when 65% of a persons family is back home in the middle east that is either in a war or hides women away. I know several women in the US that were quietly sent overseas when they started to become too American. Everything is culture. How can you expect less when they act more like colonists then immigrants? Mass Immigration of the sort going on now to ancient countries like England or France is just a terrible idea. Even it is travelers that do the attack, it is residents that billeted them. And yes I know it is all the EU's doing

  11. Re:Uber is a criminal enterprise. on Over 30 Uber Cars Impounded In Cape Town · · Score: 1

    lol you think taxi medallions is a small business http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

  12. Re:Some more details and fixing some missing detai on Over 30 Uber Cars Impounded In Cape Town · · Score: 1

    and how it shouldn't affect them as they're not really a taxi service.

    There are some differences. You have to call an uber, you can't hail them. So they don't have to clog the busiest streets driving up and down looking for fare.

    I am glad they are breaking municipality regulations thou. The taxi monopolie needs to die, their service in most cities besides New York and London have become unusable, and their monopoly on licenses is the main reason.

    Uber gets to my door in suburbs in 2 minutes , a taxi would take 30 minutes to an hour or not show up at all

  13. Re: If it was good enough to regulate the telcos on FCC Favors Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    No, this is right. All data should be converted to internet lines. Phone service, Cable TV, it should be all running on internet lines, which you can just improve, add move of. Separating lines/infrastructure into POTS, internet, cableTV is a anachronistic model that will continue to become more so.

  14. Re:Well Then on Tips For Securing Your Secure Shell · · Score: 1

    100% true. Stopping the NSA, I.E. the government, piece meal is impossible. Once they have covert ISP level access, which they do, they have everything. This is like trying to stop a swat raid by adding a iron door to your house. Still not going to stop the battering ram which the courts will say was a ok.

  15. But does it come with a android rootkit? on Sony Thinks You'll Pay $1200 For a Digital Walkman · · Score: 1
    So it runs android apps hmm? Does it also delete your files deemed illegal and phone home your music tastes? I won't be surprised.

    It is also way too big. It looks about the size of a smart phone. All you really need is something the size of a shuffle but with a microSD slot. Lossless formats are not hard to decode, you don't need a lot of hardware.

  16. Re:Anyone can intercept SSH some of the time on Snowden Documents Show How Well NSA Codebreakers Can Pry · · Score: 1

    We can also potentially defend against this by using more certificate pinning and .....

    The only way to defend against this is to nuder the NSA or shut it down. Once you have ISP line access, everything else is trivial and the NSA (read the government) will always have that.

    The time after the end of world war 2 was the beginning of the end for the united states "as the best hope for the world". That is when all these national police state departments were formed. The FBI, the CIA, and the NSA. Things like Hoovers lists, CIA repeatedly over throwing south American governments, etc. None of these things were really necessary. Intelligence should have stayed a department of the military. FBI was also unnecessary. Police departments were already learning how to work together across state lines. The FBI was just a power grab at the federal level. The checks and balance system doesn't really work on departments like the FBI or NSA. It is too slow. and they are too big.

  17. Re:i like open offices on The Open Office Is Destroying the Workplace · · Score: 1

    Open offices don't really increase communication. Attitudes and culture do.

  18. Re:Our COO quit because of "open concept" on The Open Office Is Destroying the Workplace · · Score: 1
    Silicon Valley is full of manchilds ("manchildern"?) with infantile tastes.

    The New Yorker had a good piece on why their lounge chairs have very little to do with their success. http://www.newyorker.com/magaz... All the best engineers are 40 year olds, show up at 8 take an hour lunch and leave at 5. All the tech start-ups are still led by pitchman selling oil. Cubicles, now hated, were invented as a solution to the open office problems and were meant to improve worker comforts. And what was old is new again.

  19. Bah on US Army Could Waive Combat Training For Hackers · · Score: 1

    89% of bootcamp is about discipline and teamwork and learning you are always your Commanding Officers bitch. And it actually isn't that hard. I see no reason to remove it.

  20. Re:Are emails copyrighted ? on Sony Sends DMCA Notices Against Users Spreading Leaked Emails · · Score: 1

    this is a myth

  21. You FOSS tards are delusional on 2014: The Year We Learned How Vulnerable Third-Party Code Libraries Are · · Score: 1

    Then why are their so many more mission critical program ending bugs in FOSS software then closed source?

  22. Re:Use single vision on Ask Slashdot: Are Progressive Glasses a Mistake For Computer Users? · · Score: 1

    Take a tape measure and measure the exact distance to your monitors when working.

    Go to an optometrist and get a written prescription for that exact distance (bring the tape measure with you*) including the "PD", pupillary distance, at that range.

    that is genius

  23. Re:Vinyl's growth on Vinyl's Revival Is Now a Phenomenon On Both Sides of the Atlantic · · Score: 1

    (I'm a scientist, dammit).

    Protip: you are delusional.

    It is impossible to to be objective about a subjective experience. that is why even you 'scientists' use double blind studies and ask for peer review and repeatable results. You listed 4 paragraphs about why vinyls are Superior, half them only being about old releases which would not be relevant to new sales then in the last paragraph said your real reason. Because they are fun. This is classic rationaling. You can rationalize any behavior, to yourself.

  24. Re:Any actual examples? on Tumblr Co-Founder: Apple's Software Is In a Nosedive · · Score: 1

    The workaround is to not buy an iOS product till it is functional. My ipad1 which I still use and love has the worst text section stuff too. Touch screens in general seem to think they are doing you a favor by controlling the cursor for you. Try to fix a missed typed letter in a word without retyping the whole word....

  25. because FOSS is worthless on Tumblr Co-Founder: Apple's Software Is In a Nosedive · · Score: 1

    Face it. There are always problems like this when you try to run linux as a desktop. All the smart people in the projects are too busy trying to write Assembly code that is 2 lines smaller out of a million lines and all the dumb people are volunteer college kids with esoteric interests that switch projects every 5 months. Linux has been around for 24 years and it has never in any year been better then paid software for end users.