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  1. Re:Brilliant? on Snowden Spoofed Top Officials' Identity To Mine NSA Secrets · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I don't see the CEO and division chiefs and department heads designing and operating the hardware and software themselves so someone from IT has to be involved regardless. That isn't ever going to change.

  2. sure on Snowden Spoofed Top Officials' Identity To Mine NSA Secrets · · Score: 1

    Yeah, hire that incompetent idiot who will design the security precautions wrong in the first place. That'll work a lot better.

  3. Re:so... on Un-Un-Pentium On Your Periodic Table of the Elements? · · Score: 1

    Since it was on slashdot, it's 100x stronger than graphene, can make solar panels 30x more efficient, can potentially cure cancer, makes electric car batteries more efficient, and is total and complete vaporware.

  4. worst idea since flying cars on Dispatch From the Future: Uber To Purchase 2,500 Driverless Cars From Google · · Score: 1

    All it takes is one single person to get hit by one of these and they're illegal in 50 states. Since Toyota can't even get their software straight in a non-driverless car, I'm thinking this is going to be a disaster. Then there's security. Yeah, it's Google but still, someone needs to mass hack these cars and crash them to prove that auto makers and security is about as great a pair as a 2 year old and a grenade.

  5. best idea yet on Ask Slashdot: Good Ideas For Creative Gaming With Girlfriend? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Since most of the suggestions above me weren't actually serious, I'll add play Neverwinter. It's free to play and the people are easy going and not psycho competitive and mean like LoL or Starcraft 2. The game itself is pretty fun and some content is pretty tongue in cheek. It's really easy to hop on and just do whatever together like a raid of dungeon or pvp and there's plenty of comical pvp groups like all 5 wizards who lose horribly or something. So yeah, definitely fun, free, modern, and it's really easy to give each other free stuff in game as a present :-)

  6. Re:obvious on Solar Eruption To Reach Earth Soon · · Score: 1

    Looooool who the hell modded that informative? OP here btw.

  7. saving them money? on Students At Lynn University Get iPad Minis Instead of Textbooks · · Score: 2

    Wow, just think how much more they'd be saving if it was a lower grade tablet that cost 1/4th the price like the Galaxy Tab 2 or Avatar Sirius or AGPTek anything or basically anything else that's at least better than Kocaso quality. Giving them a fragile, easily shattered, lucury premium overpriced tablet like an ipad is ridiculous. Plus, have you ever tried running itunes on a domain? It's basically a boat anchor.

  8. oh I get it on Ballmer To Retire · · Score: 1

    They make Windows 8, it sucked as well as the mobile devices, and then he's reorganizing drastically and then immediately leaving.
    So basically he started losing at the game because of a stupid strategy, flipped the board and the table over, and left. Great job!

  9. Re:completely crooked, biased summary on Don't Fly During Ramadan · · Score: 1

    Ugh, so much to add to even that. First, this article has basically nothing to do with Ramadan and absolutely has nothing to do with not flying during it. It actually technically never came up in the discussion. The author himself isn't calling for some sort of boycott. I'm actually fairly certain terrorists don't blow stuff up during Ramadan.

    So he's complaining that he tested positive for explosives multiple times and couldn't give a straight answer or proof about anything he was saying. He claimed they can't call his employers to prove he works there because they don't have phones and he doesn't have any of their cell numbers. He had no documents showing he recently moved but told them that anyway.

    If an arabic-looking person cancels their current renting arrangement and immediately after that goes into an airport, refuses to go through the security scanners, then tests positive for explosives, what the fuck do they think is going to happen? Besides the TSA agents and police and FBI clearly being idiots in that whole ordeal, I don't see anything wrong here. Plus, they let him go and let him fly out of the same airport the next day!

  10. obvious on Solar Eruption To Reach Earth Soon · · Score: 3, Informative

    The timing is just too perfect. This is obviously an alien missile testing our resistance to EM radiation and charged particles and stuff.

  11. Re:Steve Jobs Still A Better CEO on Ballmer To Retire · · Score: 4, Informative

    He was a borderline mental patient who did everything he could to try and ruin Apple but his staff and board and engineers reined him back into reality so they could release sort of good products. I wouldn't put Steve Jobs in charge of walking my dog because somehow he'd find a way to overheat it and embed a non-removeable battery in it.

  12. woooo! on Ballmer To Retire · · Score: 1

    Awwww shit, I'm getting a cake! FINALLY, my computer repair and sales store can make some damn money with the architect behind touch interfaces and Windows 8 gone. I ran out of used Windows 7 laptops a long time ago and since then, my entire laptop income segment is gone, sparing a few custom orders from Toshiba Direct with Win 7. Good riddance! I hope they replace him with someone who has a brain.

  13. completely crooked, biased summary on Don't Fly During Ramadan · · Score: 2, Informative

    Let me post my version of the summary:
    He had explosives residue all over him according to multiple tests
    - The End

    You can all put your race cards away now

  14. this is stupid on How Companies Are Preparing For the IT Workforce Exodus · · Score: 1

    computers and the internet started to get big when these people were about 35-40 so unless they went back to college, none of those people are working in IT. I know zero people above 55 working in IT and I know quite a few IT workers in general.

  15. orly? on Don't Fly During Ramadan · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "wondering when they had done it, wondering why they had done it"
    Really? You can't quite crack that mystery? Because you were suspicious and too many things added together to make you look like a terrorist. If you think they check someone's house because of race, you're an idiot. There's more to it than that. They take travel history into account, where and how you bought your ticket, your criminal history, your communication history, what type of cell phone you're using, what you're wearing, how many bags you checked. I could go on but hopefully you get it. You set off one too many flags in the system. Deal with it.

  16. Re:Babs, look what you did again on Canadian Hotel Sues Guest For $95K Over Bad Review, Bed Bugs · · Score: 3, Funny

    Indeed. They couldn't have shot themselves in the foot any harder if Barbara Streissand got in a fight with Anderson Cooper's news crew in the lobby.

  17. welcome to reality on Canadian Hotel Sues Guest For $95K Over Bad Review, Bed Bugs · · Score: 4, Funny

    If it was me the hotel was suing, I'd tell them to take up the complaint up with my department of go fuck yourself, of which Barbara Streissand is the department head.

  18. best evidence ever on Bradley Manning Wants To Live As a Woman · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    If ever I needed the shining example of the fact that people who think they should be the other gender simply are mental patients who need therapy, here it is.

  19. interesting timing on NASDAQ Trading Halted Due To "Technical Issue" · · Score: 1

    This happened right around the time that the new Neverwinter module was launched. Coincidence? I think not. Perhaps the people in charge installed the Neverwinter client and were playing the new area instead of monitoring the exchange.

  20. obvious on NASDAQ Trading Halted Due To "Technical Issue" · · Score: 2

    Must be Windows Updates forcing a reboot. That's usually the problem.

  21. So does anyone know what the stat bonus was on one of those necklaces? I'm thinking it would have a defensive buff but it could also be added damage as radiation to all weapon strikes.

  22. Can't 50MW run a decent sized city and a couple GW run a small country or US state? This is 5 TW of just solar? That's 5 million megawatts. There's just no way unless they covered their entire country in solar panels.

  23. When the cost adjustment shifts to maintenance instead of equipment loan payoffs, you'll like the price of solar.

  24. wrong wrong wrong on Amazon Angling For Same-Day Delivery Beyond Groceries · · Score: 1

    Obviously someone who has no idea what they're talking about wrote this article. The entire basis on Amazon's business model is a gigantic facility in a limited number of locations to save money and just ship everything. Newegg does things to same way and only has 3 major warehouses and those are the #1 and #2 largest online retailers in the US.

    Their entire business model collapses if they try to hold 5 of every TV model in 500 locations in large cities instead of 200 in three different gigantic locations. The real estate, tax, utility, labor, accounting, and inventory management expenses go through the roof and so do the prices. They're basically just Best Buy, Office Max, and Office Depot at that point where inventory is split across locations with a "best guess" mentality that never works out. Then, instead of customers coming to your one location, you have 50 drivers that have to go to the customers. That's notoriously more expensive for any business so they'd actually be higher priced than Best Buy. It's just a completely ridiculous idea that has no basis in reality.

  25. idiotic nonsense on Report: By 2035, Nearly 100 Million Self-Driving Cars Will Be Sold Per Year · · Score: 1

    In reality, they'll all be illegal in 5 years which will be about 1 year after people getting hit by them sue the driver and consumers suddenly aren't interested in them anymore.