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  1. Re:People are desperate for culture on Rhode Island Comic Con Oversold, Overcrowded · · Score: 1

    I live in San Diego, attended the comic con for decades. Haven't been since '05 or '06, it just got too damn crowded.

    Too bad, I used to really enjoy it.

  2. Hate it on Ask Slashdot: Where Do You Stand on Daylight Saving Time? · · Score: 1

    Pick one and stay with it. Don't care if it's normal time or DST, just leave it the fark alone.

    Remember a few years back when the congress clowns decided to futz with the DST dates? I've got 3 clocks that automatically change the time. Based on the old dates. So now I have to manually set my clocks, then a few weeks later do it again. I swear at congress the whole time I'm futzing with them.

  3. Re:I hate these "get out the vote campaigns on Boo! The House Majority PAC Is Watching You · · Score: 2

    Newsflash: there's an election in 6 months. If you can't find time to register then it has nothing to do with your schedule, you just can't be bothered.

  4. I hate these "get out the vote campaigns on Boo! The House Majority PAC Is Watching You · · Score: 2, Insightful

    As well as those "register to vote the day of the election" deals. If you can't be bothered to pre-register to vote, or need to be pestered to vote, then you probably get 100% of your info on candidate's and issues from the mailers and TV/radio commercials. In other words, you've just digested a load of garbage and have nothing with which to make an informed choice. Uninformed voters are assholes, keep them out of the voting booth.

    I'm fine with you voting in a way I think is repugnant, as long as you've done a bit of research and actually have a reason for voting the way you do.

  5. Re:Who needs a damn computer anymore? on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Make a High-Spec PC Waterproof? · · Score: 1

    It's going into urinals to measure the strength and duration as the night wears on.

  6. Re:Tesla wasn't the target, it was China on Michigan Latest State To Ban Direct Tesla Sales · · Score: 1

    My 9 year old car has 62k miles on it. Half those are long trips (vegas, sacramento, yellowstone, etc). During the week I mostly get around on a bicycle, the car is used when I either need to go 10+ miles or carry stuff.

    So yeah, unless the car has a 400 mile range (or a 5 minute recharge), electric won't work for me.

  7. Re:May I suggest on No More Lee-Enfield: Canada's Rangers To Get a Tech Upgrade · · Score: 1

    Almost any brand will do.
    Providing the proper "re$pect" is donated to the proper palms.

  8. Re: Whose? on Feces-Filled Capsules Treat Bacterial Infection · · Score: 1

    I presume it takes quite a while to process stool into a consumable pill, and to make sure the poo isn't going to give you something else.

    According to Mary Roach it only takes a few minutes.

  9. Mary Roach's Gulp on Feces-Filled Capsules Treat Bacterial Infection · · Score: 1

    has a chapter on this, done up in her usual hilarious style.

    The capsules are clear because they have to survive the stomach to get the icky contents into the intestine. For whatever reason they only make those capsules clear.

  10. Please call this "the snappening" on More Details On The 3rd-Party Apps That Led to Snapchat Leaks · · Score: 1

    If there is a god of truth and justice, the fappening is being followed by the snappining.
    / not a snapchat user
    // nor 4chan
    /// nor TPB, um, I plead the 5th here.
    //// stupid is as stupid does

  11. Re:Maybe on Ex-NSA Director Keith Alexander's Investments In Tech Firms: "No Conflict" · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Not only that, seems like for the last 10-20 years I haven't voted for the candidate I like most, but for the less evil candidate. They all want to fuck me up the ass and I'm forced to choose lube or no lube.

  12. In November, nothing much is going to change. We'll still have a shitty Congress because people think all the others suck but their guy and there are the folks who hate the otherside so much, they won't dare for them - you know the whole lesser evil bullshit.

    Maybe for you, but for me I'm voting against 90% of the incumbents. Won't matter, but at least I pay attention and try.
    / live in CA
    // explains a lot
    /// how in hell has Boxer survived for so long? Woman is a retarded idiot.

  13. Re:IE 6? on Windows Users, Get Ready For a Bigger-Than-Usual Patch Tuesday · · Score: 1

    Yeah, my old XP laptop is in the closet, should I pull it out tuesday and let it upgrade?

  14. Welcome to the free market on Senators Threaten To Rescind NFL Antitrust Exemption · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You charge too much for tickets/parking/hot dogs/beer, people don't go see your games. Threatening to not allow fans who won't bend over and lube up see the game is IMHO seriously bad business practice. Want to entice fans to games? Don't charge $500 per game for a family to go.

    / haven't been to a game in 15 years
    // prefer watching it on TV
    /// except for the damned commercials
    //// then again, when I went to the game they had "commercial timeouts".

  15. Who would google these one at a time? on Google Threatened With $100M Lawsuit Over Nude Celebrity Photos · · Score: 1

    Better to get them all via TPB or isohunt or some other torrent site.

  16. I put the speaker in iPhones, what do you do? on China Worried About Terrorist Pigeons · · Score: 2

    I stick my finger up pigeons butts.

  17. Lousy return on Mystery Gamer Makes Millions Moving Markets In Japan · · Score: 0

    He bet 15 billion and made 50 million. That's about a 0.3% ROI, which IMHO falls into the noise range. Guy is more lucky than good.

  18. Re:Yep on Yahoo Shuttering Its Web Directory · · Score: 1

    The fact that the marketers have pushed their New! Improved! products for small, portable computers doesn't mean that the old products have suddenly lost their capabilities. It just means that some of the customers have been persuaded to switch to other things that may or may not be any better.

    Maybe up until a year or so ago. Now websites are converting to the Metro interface, which prefers splashy pictures over descriptive text. Those bookmarks get deleted (nbcnews.com anyone?)

    In addition more and more websites just don't work anymore. Why, I don't know. Examples? Both tdameritrade.com and vons.com don't work under Chrome, but do under Firefox. I read fark daily, at least once a day I find a site that won't render under Chrome (I don't bother firing up FF for those). Seems like every month one of my bookmarks gets deleted because it no longer works with Chrome.

    /tdameritrade worked fine on my WinXP + Chrome last November
    // did not work on my 8.1 + Chrome last November
    /// vons worked fine on my 8.1 + Chrome up until a couple months ago
    //// now trying to login does nothing.
    ////. Yes, I've tried both sites with all plugins disabled under Chrome
    ///// No joy
    ///// If a site won't work with Adblock+ I won't be going there much anyway.
    ////// I haven't installed Java on my Win 8.1 lappy, mebbe that's the problem.

  19. Re:They Hadn't Already? on Yahoo Shuttering Its Web Directory · · Score: 1

    Alta Vista used to be top dog in search. Then in 94/95 they decided to rank paid advertisers at the top of searches. I and many others dropped AV and went looking for alternatives. Google came out the winner. I never did get into Yahoo's categorization, always preferred to just search on what I was looking for.

  20. Re:Linux is dying thanks to systemd. on Yahoo Shuttering Its Web Directory · · Score: 0

    Why do I think parent AC and replier AC are the same AC?

  21. Re:Why didn't they just ask Federico Faggin? on Why the Z-80's Data Pins Are Scrambled · · Score: 2

    I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that, due to how primitive the tools were back then, when they got a signal to a pin they celebrated without worrying which pin it came out on.

  22. Re:And there's the reason why... on Google's Doubleclick Ad Servers Exposed Millions of Computers To Malware · · Score: 1

    You will reconsider when sites tell you to disable all ad blockers and hosts files that block ad sites or you will not be able to view the content.

    No I won't. I'll just remove that site from my bookmarks file and never go back.

  23. Re:Why is Alibaba selling IPO in USA? on Why a Chinese Company Is the Biggest IPO Ever In the US · · Score: 2

    My understanding is they had to do a bit of exchange shopping before they found one to do the IPO. IMHO, it's a Chinese company with Chinese books, AKA probably cooked. The ownership is pretty muddled.

    IMHO, if you read the ra ra stuff (sell direct from China, network effect, economy of scale, etc) it looks like a great stock. But if you're a nervous nellie like me the Chinese accounting and muddled ownership make me think of Monty Python's RUN AWAY RUN AWAY.

    Cramer loves BABA, interesting to see where the stock is in 6 months, and if the stock tanks what the effect on Cramer will be.

  24. Re:"CipherShed" on TrueCrypt Gets a New Life, New Name · · Score: 2

    I suggest TrooKrypt.

  25. Re:It's the early morning people who are nuts on 'Why Banana Skins Are Slippery' Wins IgNobel · · Score: 3, Interesting

    When I was young I was a night owl, even working the night shift for 4 years. Got a day job that kinda killed that, then in my mid-30s I decided I wanted sunlight when I got off work so I turned into a morning person. I'm up 5-6 AM every day with no alarm.