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  1. Re: Under what authority? on Police Shut Down Anti-Violence Fundraiser Over Rapper's Hologram · · Score: 2

    It it was private event, then the police should not have been responding unless the people in charge of the "private" event called and told them to. When the police enter a "private" event without being summoned and do what they did, then they are even more at fault than if they entered a "public" event. The rules of free speech have no connection to public vs. private and any time the government attempts to limit your right to free speech, it is a violation of the 1st Amendment.

  2. Re:Opus is like Jesus on Berkeley Breathed Revives Bloom County Comic Strip After 25 Years · · Score: 3, Funny

    He just awoke from a 25 year nap - everything since the last Bloom County strip could have been just a bad dream...

  3. Re:Avoidable? on Google Self-Driving Car Rear-Ended In First Injury Accident · · Score: 1

    Did you read the article and watch the accompanying video? The car was tracking the cars in front - the cars behind - the cars across the median going the other direction, etc...

  4. Re: Maybe... on Citizenfour Director Sues To Find Out Why She Was Detained Every Time She Flew · · Score: 5, Insightful

    By that logic, ever defense attorney - even public defenders, should be treated to equal or greater scrutiny as they primarily associate with people believed to be guilty - and go the extra mile to convince the public and the powers that be that they are NOT guilty.

  5. Re:It all depends.... on Iowa Makes a Bold Admission: We Need Fewer Roads · · Score: 1

    He's also with the Iowa DOT. In Iowa, streets and roads are the responsibility of the City and/or County in which they reside - the DOT is responsible for Highways, Interstates and Interchanges.

  6. Legislation to the rescue! on Mystery "Warm Blob" In the Pacific Ocean Could Be Causing California's Drought · · Score: 3

    California lawmakers are currently writing up new legislation that bans warm blobs and requires warning labels on any existing warm blobs.

    Problem solved!

  7. Re:Preloaded Crapware? on Report: Samsung Replacing Its Apps With Microsoft's For Galaxy S6 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Did all those people asking also say "And once you take your crap off, don't put anyone else's crap in it's place?"

    If not, it's really their fault for not being specific...

    You can always root and uninstall or freeze apps you don't want.

  8. Re:Why would anyone buy something from those catal on Smartphones, Tablets and EBay Send SkyMall To Chapter 11 · · Score: 1

    With their profit margin, they only had to sell what, one or two items a day to break even...?

  9. Re:Worst idea ever. (Well, one of them). on FDA Approves Implantable Vagus Nerve Disruptor For Weight Loss · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Back in 2000 I started taking an OTC weight loss pill that contained Ephedrine. It completely killed my appetite. Often times at work I would only notice it was lunch time because it had gone quiet as everyone had left for lunch. Without intentionally changing my diet, with the exception of ditching soda for iced tea, I lost 85 pounds in 10 months. I still continued to eat the same foods, but didn't snack or eat other than meal time because I had no desire for food. I did not exercise at all, unless you count the walk back and forth to my car in the parking lot... Once I stopped taking those pills, I slowly put the weight back on and by the time it became an issue the FDA had banned the sale of Ephedrine based diet pills. I tried the new non-Ephedrine version of the pill and it simply didn't work - I was still hungry and wanted to snack. If they could implant something in me that gives me the same lack of appetite, I would sign up for it in a heartbeat.

  10. Re: This is why I like analog gauges... on Ammonia Leak Alarm On the ISS Forces Evacuation of US Side: Crew Safe · · Score: 4, Funny

    A standard US shit ton = 2.65 metric shit tons, or 78.1 US crap-loads.

  11. Re:Fine, as long as I can delete them on Google To Require As Many As 20 of Its Apps Preinstalled On Android Devices · · Score: 1

    When I got my Samsung Note 3 there were several shortcut icons that looked like pre-installed apps, but were really just shortcuts to where you could download the free app(s). That way the part that comes pre-installed is tiny (probably only a few kilobytes), just enough room for a URL and an icon. If they went that route, so that it looked like the apps were there, but didn't eat up storage space, then most people wouldn't have an issue.

  12. Re:Why all the separate PLAY apps? on Google To Require As Many As 20 of Its Apps Preinstalled On Android Devices · · Score: 1

    Play Books, Play Music, Play Newstand, etc. are the applications you use to view/play the media that you bought in the Play Store.

  13. Re:Guess I'll have to use google wallet or paypal on Amazon Is Killing Off Its Free P2P Money-Transfer Service WebPay On October 13 · · Score: 1

    I dipped my toes into the Bitcoin world, just to say I'd done it... My $0.1245 worth of bitcoin is now worth $0.0955 Yeah, that's a lot better than keeping my money in a bank...

  14. "older iPads" on E-Books On a $20 Cell Phone · · Score: 3, Informative

    What "older iPads" had 3.5" screens? Did you mean iPhone?

  15. Netflix Time Now? on Babylon 5 May Finally Get a Big-Screen Debut · · Score: 4

    Maybe they could get around to putting the series up on Netflix so that the rest of the world, other than hardcore scifi nerds, will get a chance to view it and be ready for when it comes to theaters?

  16. Re:As someone who... on Google To Close Its American Moto X Factory · · Score: 1

    I buy stuff from Hong Kong on ebay all the time - you can get items shipped from there for $0.00 - $0.99 shipping and handling - sure it takes 7-10 days to show up, but if they can ship that package 1/2 way around the world for $0.99, why does it cost $7.99 - $10.99 to get the same package shipped from 2-3 states away?

  17. Re:The year of the Linux Tablet on Android Beats iOS As the Top Tablet OS · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "premiere tablet platform"?

    Biased much?

  18. Re:Obviously.. on Steve Jobs To Appear On US Postage Stamp · · Score: 3, Funny

    It will only be available in one color, that no one really wants, to begin with, and then ~6 months later, it will become available in the color you really do want, forcing you to buy a second roll of stamps... That's what the USPS is counting on - selling twice as many stamps!

  19. Re:SMS without a telephone number? on Swarm Mobile's Offer: Free Wi-Fi In Exchange For Some Privacy · · Score: 1

    You sign up for a free number from something like Google Voice and you can text only over WiFi with that...

  20. Re: Where's the outrage?! on CyanogenMod Installer Removed From Google Play Store · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And there are ample anti-malware/anti-virus apps available for Android in the Play Store. I'm on my 4th Android phone and have installed all kinds of software, legit and less so, and have yet to encounter any malware or viruses. Know how many are available in the Apple iTunes store? Zero. If they allowed one to be listed, it would be admitting that their precious iPhones are vulnerable.

  21. Re:Not the same... on The US Now Faces the Same Dilemma Over Drones As It Did Over Nuclear Weapons · · Score: 2

    yet...

  22. Swatch(tm) makes a video watch for that purpose... but they call it the Twatch(tm)...

  23. Re:about the same as my android on Woz Says iPhone Features Are 'Behind' · · Score: 1

    If you root your phone and install an ad blocker (I use AdAway by Dominik Schürmann), then most of those "free apps w/ ads" become "free apps".

    If it's an app I like, I'll usually pay the $1 (or more) to buy it - I've purchased over 50 apps through the Google Play Store - usually ones that were part of a $0.99 sale, but a few others that I use all the time, like Titanium Backup and CoPilot GPS because they were definitely worth more than the few dollars they cost.

  24. Re:OK. Next? on 64GB MS Surface Pro Only Has 23GB of Free Space · · Score: 1

    Then root the damn thing and un-install all that crap!

    My first Android phone was the HTC Desire from US Cellular - it was actually a pretty decent phone, but they partitioned the memory and only allowed you access to a small partition - the rest contained the OS plus all of the bloatware that USC wanted on the phone - Myspace? Seriously? In 2011 you're still putting Myspace in the system partition where it can't be uninstalled?

    Long story short - rooted it, repartitioned the storage area and installed a "stock without all the bloat + Apps2SD" ROM and after that it truly was a good phone.

    I'm on a Samsung Galaxy S III now - rooted it right away and uninstalled (after backing up) any crappy bloatware I didn't want.

  25. Re:It seems arrogant on Ask Slashdot: Best Free and Open Source Apps For Android? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Without knowing which app, we can't know for sure if it was pulled. The App Store filters (by default) apps based on whether they are compatible with your device(s) -- if you de-registered your old device and only have the new device registered,then incompatible apps will not be shown.