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  1. Re:Libraries on Internet-Deprived Kids Turning To 'McLibraries' · · Score: 1

    Even then, a wifi router is, what, $30?

  2. Intel already does this on Is Intel Planning To Kill Enthusiast PCs? · · Score: 1

    There's a few CPUs Intel already makes that has this situation. The pins go on the socket side and are spring loaded instead. Dell seems to be a big fan of this design on the Optiplex line, even though RMAing the boards requires stick-on plastic caps that, as often as not, don't stay grippy through shipping...

  3. Re:The Most Secure Mobile OS on Ask Slashdot: Most Secure Mobile OS? · · Score: 1

    Android Trojans might be found in dodgy third party app sites, but are quickly squashed in the Android Market (now called Google Play after one of the dumbest re-names in memory).

    Clearly you weren't around during the .com bust when KPMG was renaming itself to something stupid every eighteen minutes. Or missed the rapidfire Pacific Northwest Bell > US West > Qwest > CenturyLink stupidity.

  4. Re:The Most Secure Mobile OS on Ask Slashdot: Most Secure Mobile OS? · · Score: 0

    What did I just read? Go take a look at reality...

  5. Woot, so we cured cancer. on Drug Turns Immune System Against All Tumor Types · · Score: 1

    Now can we cure stupidity?

  6. The way I was taught... on You're Driving All Wrong, Says NHTSA · · Score: 1

    ...was 9 and 3. The way I still drive. Another thing: THUMBS OUT. Steering wheels, particularly on commercial vehicles, have the potential to rip your thumbs off in normal operation if you wrap them inside the wheel.

  7. About time! on US Puts Tariff On Chinese Solar Panels · · Score: 1

    I'm OK with this.

  8. Things I learn... on 51% of Internet Traffic Is "Non-Human" · · Score: 1

    Did not realize there were that many furries out there. Though, it makes sense, we make the internets go.

  9. Not sure if trolling or... on Astroturfing For Speed Cameras · · Score: 1

    ...just really stupid. How is enforcing the laws on the books a cash grab? Driving is a privilege, and one that comes with dire consequences when performed wrong. Just slow down and obey the speed limits. You'll save fuel compared to getting trapped by every red light from going faster than the signal timing, wear and tear on your car, and you'll have more time to react to hazards and emergencies.

  10. I, for one, on Can Microsoft Afford To Lose With Windows 8? · · Score: 1

    really hope they can't. And hope Windows 8 bombs spectacularly in the box office.

  11. Re:Visual appearance of Google Maps is supreme on Apple Switches (Mostly) To OpenStreetMap · · Score: 1

    Go get yourself a rendering tool and customize how OpenStreetMap renders for you to your heart's content.

  12. Re:Awful data on Apple Switches (Mostly) To OpenStreetMap · · Score: 1

    It takes Google years to update data. Big parts of North and Northeast Portland were out of date following a 2006 reconstruction of a few major streets, and street names are frequently long out of date on Google Maps. Bonus: When Google's outright wrong, they're *really* wrong. Quebec Provincial Route 355 goes nowhere near Oregon, but Google Maps was convinced that US 30 didn't exist (but Q355 did in it's place). At least when OSM is wrong, you can fix it and it goes live the moment you upload.

  13. Re:OSM complete coverage on Apple Switches (Mostly) To OpenStreetMap · · Score: 1

    True, but on the other hand, it's not missing entire countries. Go ahead, try to get directions in North Korea on Google.

  14. Re:hahaha on Apple Switches (Mostly) To OpenStreetMap · · Score: 1

    Oddly enough, there's schema for trash cans and stop signs.

  15. Re:hahaha on Apple Switches (Mostly) To OpenStreetMap · · Score: 0

    Want to know how I know you didn't get the joke?

  16. Re:Supremacy Clause on State Legislatures Attempt To Limit TSA Searches · · Score: 1

    I'd rather pay taxes than deal with the TSA. My tax dollars pay for things like K12 education, basic infrastructure, and the national parks. Actual, tangible benefits that I enjoy quite a lot. Meanwhile, at the airport, number of terrorists caught by the TSA = 0. Number of terrorists caught by aware passengers acting on their conscious in good faith = all of them.

  17. Re:Supremacy Clause on State Legislatures Attempt To Limit TSA Searches · · Score: 1

    10th Amendment says it's the other way around. Oregon has quite successfully argued this when defending it's Death With Dignity Act (making available doctor assisted suicide for terminally ill patients) and the Oregon Medical Marijuana Act, though examples are by no means limited to this. What you said only applies in states that have no spine and no understanding of state's rights.

  18. Re:Nice! on Unconstitutional Video Game Law Costs California $2 Million · · Score: 1

    Leave it to California to find new and innovative ways to EPIC FAIL.

  19. Re:Politicians care about votes not money on Unconstitutional Video Game Law Costs California $2 Million · · Score: 1

    It's my turn to say "fuck."

  20. Re:Nice! on Unconstitutional Video Game Law Costs California $2 Million · · Score: 1

    Except in the case of politicians who actually embezel cash for themselves, I dont think billing politicians for bad decisions is a good idea, because it means that only the super rich could afford to be politicians.

    In what way is that different than it is today?

  21. Re:USA? on Lenovo Ordered To Refund 'Microsoft Tax' · · Score: 1

    BudCom's literally the only reason I can think of that would prevent me from advocating nuclear annihilation of that otherwise completely pointless WASP nest of a city.

  22. Re:'wireless' is generic, wifi is not! on Super Wi-Fi Isn't Really Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Now I wanna try wifi over CB.

  23. Re:So when did... on AT&T Caps Netflix Streaming Costs At $68K/Yr · · Score: 1

    The bulk discount isn't available anymore, and there's a lot of territory whose ONLY phone company and ONLY internet access is AT&T Wireless. Think Oklahoma, and you don't have to go far, either; step out of the big cities just past where the electric and water grids go and *boom*, AT&T Only. Worse yet, despite receiving Rural Broadband money from the FCC to provide flat rate unlimited access to places like this, yet decided to slam everyone off the flat rate plan onto the metered plan without notice out there, something most people didn't discover until they had a $25,000 phone bill.

  24. Facebook has no room to speak on Facebook, Twitter, and Myspace To Google: Don't Be Evil · · Score: 2

    Seriously, they've been doing the exact same move with Facebook posts and the Like buttons with Bing for, what, two years now?

  25. Re:Resistance? What resistance? on Google Fiber Work Hung Up In Kansas City · · Score: 1

    No doubt. Heck, Google could just get on US 75 South and stay on it until they hit Tulsa, Oklahoma. It's not like they don't already have Cherokee localization on search. And given that it's a tech-saavy market that Verizon, Cox and AT&T treat like rubes, Google would have instant market share as long as they try to be competitive with internet pricing in the rest of north america, and not internet pricing in Tulsa.