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  1. Re:Freedom of Speech? on Federal Bill Would Criminalize Revenge Porn Websites · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

    And, as we learned from "People vs. Larry Flint" (and other, less popular, sources), porn is speech...

    However disgusting, "revenge porn" ought to remain legal...

    Cough. Your freedoms end where other's begin. Cough.

  2. Re:Why Ubuntu?! on Tesla Model S Has Hidden Ethernet Port, User Runs Firefox On the 17" Screen · · Score: 1

    Elon Musk is no ordinary car dealer. Perhaps he could totally understand. Where many car dealers would consult their Chilton's, not find the problem or time to fix, and just make up something which allowed them to smile broadly, very broadly indeed.

  3. Re:The internet of things...that might get you kil on Nest Halts Sales of Smart Fire Alarm After Discovering Dangerous Flaw · · Score: 1

    Some things are important enough to

    a) keep simple, and
    b) keep offline

    While that's true, it's also flying in the face of Progress We must strive to make things as complicated and feature rich as possible (and also shiny).

    See, it worked, it detected the fire by melting. Success!

  4. Re:Sounds Prudent on Nest Halts Sales of Smart Fire Alarm After Discovering Dangerous Flaw · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just goes to show, there's no such thing as enough SQA...

    Sometimes I wonder if there such a thing as *any* SQA...

    This mesage appproved by Slashtod Quallity Assurence

  5. Re:Go out and smell the flowers once in a while on Start-Up Founders On Dealing With Depression · · Score: 1

    Seriously, a little work-life balance? Radical concept, I know.

    My oldest sister informed her work-aholic husband she was tired of him not coming home from the office, he was already a success and it was time to delegate some responsibility. He didn't take it seriously and was shocked when she finally filed for divorce.

    IMHO, she could have found more to do with her own time, but guess she was too lovey-dovey to be alone.

  6. Go out and smell the flowers once in a while on Start-Up Founders On Dealing With Depression · · Score: 4, Insightful

    People who spend dark to dark in their offices often lose sight of life, while scrambling to the top. Give your endorphins a chance to work out, too. We're all headed to the grave, make sure your journey there isn't all work and no play.

  7. Re:Open source compiler on .NET Native Compilation Preview Released · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Isn't it time for yet-another-language? How about C$ ?

  8. Ah... on .NET Native Compilation Preview Released · · Score: -1, Troll

    Now for bloat at twice, or even three times the speed!

  9. Re:Chinese getting uncomfortable... on China Cracks Down On Bitcoin, Cuts Off Exchanges' Bank Access · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Or you know, a well known totalitarian government stamping out a black market currency, you know, to control their citizens, like they've been doing forever.

    Funny how they can be all quiet on things like this, then go at them like a rancor beast.

    Fear is a great motivator. Anything they can't control makes their fearful.

  10. Re:another interesting fact on Details You're Not Supposed To See From Boston U's Patent Settlements · · Score: 1

    This alone is qualification for him to be a doctor.

  11. I hope this is BS on ZunZuneo: USAID Funded 'Cuban Twitter' To Undermine Communist Regime · · Score: 1

    Because doing anything like this ultimately is counterproductive if found out.

    Considering the nature of Cuban propaganda, it will use this, whether it's true or not, as another banana skin to hurl at the US foreign policy.

  12. Re:How does this affect dual-system chipsets? on Russian GLONASS Down For 12 Hours · · Score: 2

    I found they gave the impression things were going better with my GPSr, I synched with satellites quickly, but once in a while I'd have wild, like 1000+ foot inaccuracy. The issue would resolve after a day or so. The last time it happened I disabled GLONASS and haven't used it since. Having it does create a larger constellation to use, but only so long as they all work from the same page -- where they think they are.

  13. Re:Warning Shot on Russian GLONASS Down For 12 Hours · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Careful when you shoot across bows. World Wars are easy to start, not always so easy to finish the way you want them to.

    I doubt the US would do it, if we did want to disable it for any reason, such as missile guidance, we wouldn't tip our hand so casually.

  14. I don't miss them. on Russian GLONASS Down For 12 Hours · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I used them along with the US GPS satellites, until a couple months back, but found I was having some serious accuracy issues. Disabling them resolved the issue and I haven't used them since. GPSr unit: Garmin Oregon 600

  15. Re:Gee, so only a year of screaming on Microsoft: Start Menu Returns, Windows Free For Small Device OEMs, Cortana Beta · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's because they can't use their usual solution which is "you need to upgrade to the next version"

    The next version is a trap!

  16. Re:Gee, so only a year of screaming on Microsoft: Start Menu Returns, Windows Free For Small Device OEMs, Cortana Beta · · Score: 1

    Bringing back what never should have been taken away - it's the new innovation.

    the older innovation was buying up companies which developed technology you were unable to.

  17. Re:EC2 likely too expensive.. on Ask Slashdot: Do Any Development Shops Build-Test-Deploy On A Cloud Service? · · Score: 2

    Amazon just did a huge price drop on all of their AWS services, it might actually have gotten to an affordable level.

    There's two "affordabilities"

    1. Nearly free, as in beer.

    2. It's up when we need it to be. If an outage costs us, that's factored into "affordable" and may be a cost we can't afford.

  18. Re:50%+ cheaper not to use the cloud on Ask Slashdot: Do Any Development Shops Build-Test-Deploy On A Cloud Service? · · Score: 2

    It is 50%+ cheaper if you use in-house hardware. This assumes that you are a trained system administrator and you purchase energy and cost efficient hardware. Also, your data will be yours and not Amazons.

    With reliability of the Cloud we're not considering it ... yet.

    Once Cloud is considered reliable and secure, we'll look at it.

    Until then .. spinning drives are way cheap.

  19. Re:Back in my day on How Far Will You Go For Highest Speed Internet? · · Score: 1

    I'm happy with a 5 MB connection, I hardly tap it out and the matter of bandwidth caps is also a consideration - I'm not planning to pay money when I hit a cap, it's better to just take a vacation from the interwebs.

  20. Re:heck no on How Far Will You Go For Highest Speed Internet? · · Score: 1

    Tropics are overrated and the humidity plays havoc with connectors. The margaritas are good, though.

  21. Re:Victoria on Your Car Will Tell You How To Hit the Next Green Light · · Score: 1

    Some in California, but as California driving is often one endless slog from light to light at sub-tortoise speed, the dream of making the next dream may elude some people their entire lives. I see movies, TV shows, even video games, about people racing around cities like LA or SF and there's, like almost no traffic, that's how I know it's not mere fiction, but pure fantasy.

  22. Re:We are the geeks, we are not tools for non-geek on Indie Game Jam Show Collapses Due To Interference From "Pepsi Consultant" · · Score: 2

    A good allegory to this is the Simpsons episode with the "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show" show. A bit long for my ADD, but makes the point.

  23. Re:Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra on Indie Game Jam Show Collapses Due To Interference From "Pepsi Consultant" · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Part of the problem here is "downing their tools" which is an idiom that is not used in American english. While I was able to take a guess at what it meant it is confusing and awkward to those who are not familiar with the idiom.

    Mr. Smith, there will be no put-downs in this meeting.

    Yo! I'm down with that.

    Our dog is too old, so we're putting it down.

    Rather than go uptown we're going downtown, Saturday night.

    Looks like it was written by a claw shrimp - they live down deep.

    The network is down, looks like switch failure.

    Way, down upon the Swanee River, far, far away...

  24. Re:More reason to keep using Firefox! on OKCupid Warns Off Mozilla Firefox Users Over Gay Rights · · Score: 1, Informative

    Longtime Firefox user here and traditional family values supporter. I don't even know what OKCupid is, have no plans to visit that site, will definitely keep using Firefox!

    It's probably a dating site -- no interest in validating their behaviour by visiting the site and potentially generating ad revenue for them. It's just the latest Chik-Fil-A.

  25. I'm worried there will be... on The Connected Home's Battle of the Bulbs · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...an app for that.