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  1. The demise of email? A laughable idea.. on Email Is Not Going Anywhere · · Score: 1

    Try getting your subscriotions on twitter or facebook. Want privacy in your communications? On facebook? Hah.. There's always some idiot saying that "this or that" is on it's way out.But when something's really on it's way out you don't have people write that because everybody already knows.

  2. Re:Oh, come now on Hemp Fibers Make Better Supercapacitors Than Graphene · · Score: 1

    Hemp is the common name for a whole species, of which marijuana is a subspecies. So it's a non statement, like saying "dogs are not poodles". Poodles are dogs though, just as pot is also hemp. It's quite a surprise that hemp is so increadibly useful. You would think that it's just because smokers are so supportive that they would find 1001 other uses, but no, in fact, it really is a wonder plant.

  3. Re:Microsoft on Skype Blocks Customers Using OS-X 10.5.x and Earlier · · Score: 1

    Who owns skype now?

    I'm surprised nobody answered in a whole week. M$, of course...

  4. Re:This is just evil. on Watch a Cat Video, Get Hacked: the Death of Clear-Text · · Score: 1

    It appears the ISP has to be complicit in this process.. and of course they would never agree ;-)

  5. HE should get a medal on Swedish Dad Takes Gamer Kids To Warzone · · Score: 1

    Good to see some parents still have a good amount of common sense.

  6. Just a reflection on the "real" world.. on Web Trolls Winning As Incivility Increases · · Score: 1

    It's only a reflection on the real world, with a significant percentage of troublemakers.. Of course the 'net would reflect it..

  7. Here's what's much better than Hi-res.. on Google's Satellites Could Soon See Your Face From Space · · Score: 1

    I would rather that google had a legitimate *real time* display on it's google earth so that I'm not looking at some piece of land that was photographed in 2009.. THe resolution on Google Earth is appaling, and streets is better, but beinmg six years out of date makes it useless fior my needs. I once was trying to send someone a screenshot of my address to help them find it.. being in the country it can be difficult.. but I'd onl;y been living there 5 years and still that was too recvent, as all google streets showed where I lived was shrubbery. where I am currently is at least 3 years out of date, and the best resolution I can get shows my entire property as a big blurry white blob. I think they've got a little bit more work to do than they're letting on

  8. So people don't steal free software? on Free Copy of the Sims 2 Contains SecuROM · · Score: 1

    Giving copies away.. and still has antipiracy software that registers as malware to AV apps.. Hmm free software bundled with malware? That sounds more like one of those seedy pxrn apps .. I thought this was made illegal years ago.

  9. Re:Typical on Bose Sues New Apple Acquisition Beats Over Patent Violations · · Score: 1

    ALso, noise-cancelling technology isn't unique to, or even invented by BOSE. It's, AFAIK, a military patent.. and used in almost every modern headphone and smartphone made.

  10. Re:Typical on Bose Sues New Apple Acquisition Beats Over Patent Violations · · Score: 1

    Bose knew all about Beats long before Apple aquired it. So obviouslyu theyre only trying to squieeze apple. MAybe their shares are down? Maybe they went from a promising PA company to a late nite tv hawked "Super sound radio" company..

  11. Perhaps, and OK, the guy that sent the tweet was ruder than the agent ever was, but the principle that "free speech" casn be coerced against via blackmail is an old communist trick. Welcome to the Soviet Socialist Republic of America!

  12. Re:Let's just hope... on Ebola Outbreak Continues To Expand · · Score: 1

    THere certainly IS an airborne mutation. Even this one is, slightly. Ands it has a 7 day incubation. That's why iot's been spreading so adly over a quarter of the size of the African continent.

  13. Re:Think of it as evolution in action on Ebola Outbreak Continues To Expand · · Score: 1

    At least an autistic wouldn't malke that mistake.

  14. Re:Would love to give it a whirl... on Mac OS X Yosemite Beta Opens · · Score: 1

    Because it HAS to be better than Mavericks.. is why..

  15. Re:McCarthyism v2.0 on The Secret Government Rulebook For Labeling You a Terrorist · · Score: 1

    These days, you don't even have to be a dirty commie, or Chinese, or both, to be Anti-American; the Commander-in-Chief hisself is one.

    But that's not true. The Commander in Chief IS a "dirty commie". Born and raised as one all his life..

  16. Re:McCarthyism v2.0 on The Secret Government Rulebook For Labeling You a Terrorist · · Score: 1

    And all you need to do to raise suspicion in the US as a "terrist" is to know all of the constitution and recite it when the opportunity arises, and have an American flag outside your house. Couldn't happen up here, of course. No "self respecting" Canadian would ever be caught flying the Canadian flag outside their house, (on their backpacks, OK yeah) and they either don't know we even have a constitution (with no teeth, admittedly) or think the US one has always applied here.

  17. Re:Its real purpose is to reduce competition for t on States That Raised Minimum Wage See No Slow-Down In Job Growth · · Score: 1

    I believe, one of your founding fathers said any company that can't afford to pay a living wage to it's employees doesn'[t deserve to staay in business...

  18. Well.. duh! on States That Raised Minimum Wage See No Slow-Down In Job Growth · · Score: 1

    We could have told you that.. no , wait.. we frikken DID! Over, and over, and over, and...

  19. Never happen.. on World Health Organization Calls For Decriminalization of Drug Use · · Score: 1

    Never happen, so don't wait for it. Governments don't ever restore human rights that they have been habitually trampling on, except behind the barrel of a gun.

  20. Re:lawsuit? on Australian Website Waits Three Years To Inform Customers of Data Breach · · Score: 1

    Except police banks and card issuers were all told.

    And the credit card issuers didn't tell their customers?

  21. Re: Free at last on Google To Stop Describing Games With In-App Purchases As 'Free' · · Score: 1

    I'd have to agree with you. I personally like pinball, and when the games gave a reasonable return to the creator, I'd see new *unique* games appear somewhat regularly. Now all the quality creators have stopped.. a perfect example is Little Wing. Now there's only two or three creeators that still regularly make them, and although both use In-app syustem,one sells them for between 4 to 8 bucks each depending on the features, and the other 3 to 4. The ones that charge a buck or two are usually atrocious. The rest of the quality ones have just stopped altogether. And boxed games, the kind that were 100% unique, such as, say, "adventure pinball" ? Loong gone, I'm afraid. Nobody thinks even $20 is reasonable, when it used to be pretty cheap for a good game...

  22. Re:Nice try, but on Malaysian Passenger Plane Reportedly Shot Down Over Ukraine · · Score: 1

    Sorry.. that is the video that has a creation date of the 16th of July.. explain that.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMgIpC-bCfQ

  23. Don't jump to conclusions.. on Malaysian Passenger Plane Reportedly Shot Down Over Ukraine · · Score: 1

    The video that inplicates the pro-russian seperatists has a creation date of the previous day before the plane was shot down. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

  24. Re:No shit really? on Why the FCC Is Likely To Ignore Net Neutrality Comments and Listen To ISPs · · Score: 1

    "the worst possible system, except for all the other systems" LOL!

  25. Re:Also human on Sony Forgets To Pay For Domain, Hilarity Ensues · · Score: 1

    Anyone on Slashdot who gets smugly superior about this and how "stupid companies are" is just being a hypocrite. We have ALL forgotten things in our lives. We've all forgotten an event we were supposed to be at, a bill we were supposed to pay, something we were supposed to bring with us. It happens.

    What's more, everyone has been in a situation where something didn't happen because they, and everyone else, assumed someone else was going to deal with it. You don't go and check on everything that ever happens around you or involving you, you mentally categorize things you are and are not responsible for and ignore the latter.

    So ya, companies, which are made up of people, can fuck up too. It's amusing, but perfectly normal.

    Hah . This is a little bit more than "just forgetting things" It's their bloody JOB.. I mean.. "aw shucks general, I forgoit to reset the safety on that nuke over there" "That's OK sonny boy, we all forget things once in a while..Heck I remember when mah division flattened that village because I forgot to send the recall order" .