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  1. Re:Some cinephile will just want a Cinemascope rat on LG Introduces Monitor With 21:9 Aspect Ratio · · Score: 1

    And they'd be angry that very few films are shot that way. This 21:9 monitor is a waste of time and space.

  2. Re:Tor on How Websites Know Your Email Address the First Time You Visit · · Score: 1

    Not me. I'm behind ten proxies and use Tor for everything. I use throwaway e-mail addresses from places like Mailinator. I even registered my gmail account using a hospital courtesy phone... that was in another country. My friends joke that I'm paranoid of the government. No, I could care less about the government... it's all the corporations!

    What laughable BS. And yet you still signed up for a Gmail account.

  3. Re: And Yet on Google Sync Clobbers Chrome Browsers · · Score: 1

    baloney. couldn't get anything. sourceforge, slashdot and freecode all down etc were down. front page was not visible

    Turn on your computer next time.

  4. Re:The summary is stupid, just as obvious on How Corruption Is Strangling US Innovation · · Score: 1

    I'm confused. Are there a lot of copyright holders in the Tennessee 7th District? Because I had this silly notion that US Congressman were supposed to represent the PEOPLE in their district, and not the highest bidder.

    You do realize that people hold copyrights.

  5. Re:Apple bashing on Australian Police Warn That Apple Maps Could Get Someone Killed · · Score: 1
  6. Re:Apple bashing on Australian Police Warn That Apple Maps Could Get Someone Killed · · Score: 1

    I regularly make the run along the B400 to see the family (regularly - about once every month). I always plug in the GPS, but it's more for watching my speed and that I always turn it on than anything else.

    They have this magnificent device built-in to cars these days called the speedometer. You probably have one already! :P

  7. Re:WTF do you people do with this stuff? on Ask Slashdot: Old Technology Coexisting With New? · · Score: 1

    Same. Never had a lot of old crap to begin with, which helps. I do have a 400MHz Sawtooth G4 that I'm trading to a guy for some guitar FX, but I haven't actually used it for anything in 2 years or so. Had to finish off "FutureCop" on the VooDoo 1 card first! :D

  8. Re:tech is a fairly broad category on If Tech Is So Important, Why Are IT Wages Flat? · · Score: 1

    Stop eating out for lunch everyday, that's a few grand or so a year right there.

  9. Re:Those who forget history on Historians Propose National Park To Preserve Manhattan Project Sites · · Score: 1

    And yet this is the same Kucinich who thinks vaccines cause autism, despite all recent history to the contrary: http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/12/04/1740211/congressional-committee-casts-a-harsh-eye-on-vaccination-science

  10. Well, yes. on Ask Slashdot: Do You Still Need a Phone At Your Desk? · · Score: 1

    I work in a secured location. No cell use on the floor for non-managers, no personal webmail or social network access, etc. Fine by me. I rarely ever use my desk phone, but it's handy for when I need it.

    There is the option of a software phone & headset, which I may switch to next year if I end up using my desk phone more than a dozen times over the next 6 months.

  11. Re:Congress Sucks on Congressional Committee Casts a Harsh Eye On Vaccination Science · · Score: 1

    Being mortal, much like yourself, I do understand that if it comes to getting a disease that could be debilitating or fatal, I certainly don't want to go into debt trying to avoid death.

    And therefore you will have found the cup with the poison is closer to you.

  12. Re:Half the length of a novelette on Adobe EULA Demands 7000 Years a Day From Humankind · · Score: 2

    OK, so about ten years ago before my kids were old enough to enter into contracts, I simply had them install my software for me, meaning that no one read and understood the EULA. How are these abominations in any way enforceable??

    Bullshit, You never did this.

  13. Re:Microsoft never ceases to amaze me on Steve Jobs Was Wrong About Touchscreen Laptops · · Score: 1

    Solid state? Funny, my 5th generation iPad has a hard drive.

  14. Re:Um, have you used OSX recently? on Steve Jobs Was Wrong About Touchscreen Laptops · · Score: 1

    Their touch interface in all those cases are their multi-touch trackpads. No touchscreen needed.

  15. Re:Did Zuckerberg ever have to get past HR? on Just Say No To College · · Score: 2

    Yes, because they're going to be waiters and baristas forever until they die.

  16. Re:Advice from a DAE veteran on Slashdot Asks: SATA DVD Drives That Don't Suck for CD Ripping? · · Score: 1

    You seem knowledgeable in this area, so I'll ask my question here.

    Why is all this necessary? I can hear no difference between a ~256Kb VBR 44.1KHz sample MP3 and FLAC,

    YOU can't. Others can. Or would prefer a loss-less version of their audio.

  17. Re:Fraud? on FBI Dad's Misadventures With Spyware Exposed School Principal's Child Porn · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    These programs are malware and spyware and use the same methods to stay on as virii. .

    "Viruses." Moron.

  18. Re:It doesn't compete with tablets on Why Microsoft's Surface Pro Could Fail · · Score: 2

    Go to BestBuy. They've got a whole shelf of what they call "ultrabooks" for under about $500-$600. Although they just look like smaller laptops or bigger netbooks to me. Not even very light-weight. I think the term ultrabook was pretty quickly co-opted by the marketing folks.

    Fucking LOL. "Ultrabook" is a marketing term that Intel invented to push laptop makers to clone the MacBook Air. "Co-opted" my ass.

  19. WTF is all this extra BS in the submission? on Ask Slashdot: DIY 4G Antenna Design For the Holidays? · · Score: 1

    "Although being able to hear the blood pulse through your ears and enjoying the full milky way is nice, " - Irrelevant to the question.

    "...this land is so flat and so devoid of light pollution that the tower and all windmills are supernovas on the horizon at night." - Turn down your bloom settings.

    " Usually I use my rooted Galaxy Nexus to read Slashdot, reply to work e-mails, etc." - Irrelevant to the question. Who cares what device you use and whether it's rooted?

    And more. You could have said this in about 5 or 6 sentences.

  20. Re:A bit of advice for our friends to the North on Canada Prepares For Crackdown On BitTorrent Movie Pirates · · Score: 1

    The G20 stuff you mentioned was for the G8, up in cottage country. G20 was downtown Toronto, where they spent a billion bucks to build fences along the Gardiner.

  21. Re:Nothing new here on Windows 8 PCs Still Throttled By Crapware · · Score: 0

    Uptime is irrelevant for the home user. No one cares.

  22. Re:Why don't they use natural gas instead of diese on Datagram Recovers From 'Apocalyptic' Flooding During Sandy · · Score: 1

    Storage, for one. What happens when your gas pipeline is disrupted?

  23. Re:News for Netflix fans on Statistics Key To Success In Run-and-Gun Basketball · · Score: 1

    Relatives who are fans of televised sports are often the major obstacle in a nerd's effort to get a household to switch from cable or satellite TV to Netflix.

    Then that nerd should butt the fuck out of their relatives' business. If they want to pay for cable or satellite in order to get the programming they want, why the fuck is the nerd even getting involved?

  24. Re:Begining to end??? on Highway To Sell: AC/DC iTunes Snub Finally Over · · Score: 4, Informative

    More like, where was all the outrage when AC/DC were selling 45s and other singles?

  25. Re:Sounds like a campus speech code on You Can't Say That On the Internet · · Score: 1

    Catholics are definitely Christian. That whole believing in Christ thing for one.