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  1. Re:The Problem is Monopoly, Not Bundling on Unbundling Cable TV: Be Careful What You Wish For · · Score: 0

    Cable TV is not an essential service. It's one that most people choose to spend money on but they don't need it like food and shelter.

  2. Re:In the name of Allah ! on Gunmen Kill 12, Wound 7 At French Magazine HQ · · Score: 1

    Do you mean like the guy in Calgary recently who killed eight people and then himself, the people in the US who go on shooting sprees, the drug gangs in Mexico, child rapists across the whole world, ....

  3. Re:Don't see the point on How Long Will It Take Streaming To Dominate the Music Business? · · Score: 1

    I thought I'd try them and it was a terrible experience signing up. I must have typed my password wrong in the sign up page because I couldn't sign in. I tried to reset my password and it said there was no active user with my username or email. When I attempted to contact the support I wrote up a detailed description of the situation. I left out the "zip code" (why are they using zip code which is an American term on a Canadian site I don't know) because I never entered one yet which caused the site to come back and say it was a required field. Unfortunately it blanked out all of the other fields when it came back.

    How the hell does a company with such bad site design get a market cap of $4B? I used it for five minutes and went away so frustrated that I never want to use their product again. And I never even really got to use their product because their site was so poorly designed.

  4. Don't see the point on How Long Will It Take Streaming To Dominate the Music Business? · · Score: 1

    I'm not a fan of streaming. It would be okay for when I'm at home but when I'm out it would just drive up my cell bill for the data usage. Plus there are a couple of areas in my normal trips that have bad coverage which would mean the streaming would stop.

    I hated when one of my favourite podcasts went streaming only. I always forget about it. Before it would download automatically and would show up in my podcast player every week. I found a lot of great new bands that way. But the CBC changed it because they wanted to more accurately count the number of people listening.

  5. Re:One way to look at it on Professor: Young People Are "Lost Generation" Who Can No Longer Fix Gadgets · · Score: 1

    Many of those cheap things are made so that you can't get into them without breaking them. They are so inexpensive that repair isn't designed into them. For example the plastic case snaps shut or a rivet is used instead of a screw. I tried to get into a cheap blender to see if I could fix it but ended up busting the case.

  6. Re: Its a cost decision on Professor: Young People Are "Lost Generation" Who Can No Longer Fix Gadgets · · Score: 1

    I needed to replace one of the wheels from the upper tray in my Maytag dishwasher. Found out that they didn't sell just the wheel and would have to replace the whole tray at a cost of over $300. I made something up to work as a replacement instead.

  7. Re:just submitted comment to whitehouse.gov on US Slaps Sanctions On North Korea After Sony Cyberattack · · Score: 2

    Of course it was an inside job. Where do you think Kim was last fall when nobody saw him for a month? In the hospital? No, he was working as a sys admin at Sony installing the necessary software to pull of this hack.

  8. Re:Don't mess with my jetset lifestyle on Aircraft Responsible For 2.5% of Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions · · Score: 1

    I would love to see some high speed rail built in Canada (Montreal-Ottawa-Toronto and Calgary-Edmonton corridors) but adding stops adds more than just a few minutes per station. It's not just the five minutes you stay at the station you miss. You also lose time decelerating and accelerating for the stop too.

  9. Re:me, too!1! on Private Russian Company Proposes Lunar Base · · Score: 1

    A lunar base would be handy too.

  10. Chris Hadfield - Made space cool again on Slashdot Asks: The Beanies Return; Who Deserves Recognition for 2014? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Don't know if it was this past year or from 2013 into this year but he captured the attention of many people who forgot about space.

  11. Re:Rubbish on How Amazon's Ebook Subscriptions Are Changing the Writing Industry · · Score: 1

    The summary tells you how it's split up.

  12. Re:Rubbish on How Amazon's Ebook Subscriptions Are Changing the Writing Industry · · Score: 1

    Yes, as you get more readers there is more money to share between the authors. However if you get people that read a lot of books then the money is split between more authors (unless they binge on a particular author). So they are hoping for lots of people to sign up that read books slowly.

  13. Re:Shop elsewhere... on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Companies With Poor SSL Practices? · · Score: 1

    If you can tell them why you are going to shop elsewhere. How are people going to change their practices if they don't know why they are losing business? It may not do any good telling them but not informing them definitely won't help their security practices.

  14. Had a couple of companies email me passwords on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With Companies With Poor SSL Practices? · · Score: 1

    Eventually started sending them a link to this write-up about Companies Mailing Passwords".

  15. Re:The idea is interesting but I'm not convinced. on 5,200 Days Aboard ISS, and the Surprising Reason the Mission Is Still Worthwhile · · Score: 3, Insightful

    They might want to be running a bunch of experiments on the way to and from Mars just to fill up the time. I doubt that they would want the days to end up looking like one another. Better for the people to be kept so busy that they don't notice the time passing by rather than trying to figure out what to do with time on their hands.

  16. Re:Right. on Did North Korea Really Attack Sony? · · Score: 1

    Or the hackers watched the movie and just couldn't justify being that mean to anyone who would download it?

  17. Re:Motive on Did North Korea Really Attack Sony? · · Score: 2

    Here's a wild idea, let the people of North Korea decide their fate. Maybe they wouldn't like the idea of a bunch of westerners coming in and saying you belong with them now. I thought the whole point of a democracy was in being able to decide your own fate. Sorry, I forgot. You're only allowed to chose one that the Americans approve of it seems.

  18. Re:I'm the app's developer. Happy to answer questi on App Gives You Free Ebooks of Your Paperbacks When You Take a "Shelfie" · · Score: 1

    I would guess because the publisher only purchased the rights for the book in certain countries.

  19. Re:Not before they allow bowling on Should Video Games Be In the Olympics? · · Score: 1

    Before they put bowling in I'd want to see ultimate as a game. It has the ideals that the Olympics used to stand for plus it's exciting to play and watch.

  20. Re:So, then... on Sony To Release the Interview Online Today; Apple Won't Play Ball · · Score: 1

    How will you tell the difference from the movie then?

  21. Re:I never have understood on Serious Economic Crisis Looms In Russia, China May Help · · Score: 2

    Only the U.S. remained relatively untouched by the war.

    Helps when you stay out of it for half the war.

  22. Re:Surge pricing during security incident on Uber Pushing For Patent On Surge Pricing · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It isn't the first time this has happened to Uber. Maybe they should adjust their system so that if they see a sudden spike in requests it alerts the humans for instructions instead of just jacking up the price. They could put in scheduled events, like the end of a sporting event or concert, so that it wouldn't bother them.

  23. Re:Good luck to him on Can Rep. John Culberson Save NASA's Space Exploration Program? · · Score: 2

    Establishing a colony on the moon makes a great test bed for sending people on to Mars and if anything goes wrong they are three days away from Earth. If anything goes wrong on a Mars trip you are a minimum six months away. You can't even have a video chat in an emergency due to the time lag. And there is science that can be done on the moon. Chris Hadfield thinks that the moon should be our next step into the cosmos instead of Mars and I'm not going to argue with him.

  24. Re:Core business? on Marissa Mayer's Reinvention of Yahoo! Stumbles · · Score: 1

    Hotmail went to live.com.

  25. Re:Missed the Boat by about 15 years on Marissa Mayer's Reinvention of Yahoo! Stumbles · · Score: 2

    Don't be so hard on them... their weather app for the iPhone is nice.