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  1. Re:hmmm on WWDC Sells Out In 2 Minutes; Ticket On eBay 45 Minutes Later · · Score: 1

    I heard there's an ipad 4 and it's EVEN heaver, gets hotter, and has worse battery life. Oh and it can only survive a 14 inch drop and requires an iwatch to operate properly.

  2. Re:here's the real question on Harvard To Close New England Primate Research Center · · Score: 1, Funny

    Well that's a seriously offensive statement. Monkeys with aids are just as fun and amazing and intelligent as ones without AIDS. See you at the cross burning, Adolph.

  3. Re:exactly the same as Blockbuster on Washington AG Slams T-Mobile Over Deceptive 'No-Contract' Ads · · Score: 1

    That makes sense because they are seriously handing money over to the phone manufacturer to subsidize the phone. It's not some theoretical thing.

  4. Re:exactly the same as Blockbuster on Washington AG Slams T-Mobile Over Deceptive 'No-Contract' Ads · · Score: 1

    You are, however, literally signing a contract though so it's not "no contract"

  5. hmmm on WWDC Sells Out In 2 Minutes; Ticket On eBay 45 Minutes Later · · Score: 4, Funny

    So can someone maybe get a leak of the attendee list so I can write a script that eliminates them from all my social media platforms?

  6. does not compute on Scientists May Have Detected Neutrinos From Another Galaxy · · Score: 1

    So why would a neutrino from a gamma ray burst in a galaxy far far away have more energy than one from a gamma ray burst within our own galaxy? And then there's the probability of being in the path of one in our own galaxy vs outside....

  7. exactly the same as Blockbuster on Washington AG Slams T-Mobile Over Deceptive 'No-Contract' Ads · · Score: 1, Insightful

    This is absolutely identical to Blockbuster's "no late fees...well unless you don't bring it back for over a week, then one giant one" problem. In that case though, I think 47 or so states sued them.

  8. here's the real question on Harvard To Close New England Primate Research Center · · Score: 1

    So a couple businesses went out of business in the area and long story short, I have some really nice tablets and chairs and computer monitors now. So the question is, are they going to auction off all the monkeys? Because that would be freakin awesome!

  9. best book ever on Ask Slashdot: Science Books For Middle School Enrichment? · · Score: 1

    my absolute favorite at that age was A Tale of Time City. I read about 300 books in 2 years back then and that's my absolute favorite. It's about a city that travels on type of the time cycle which is horse-shoe shape and they're approaching the gap and don't really know what to do. So they kidnap a girl from 1940's england or something like that because they think she's the legendary time witch who hides somewhere in the timeline or something like that. Turns out she's not but she can help find her. Then there's imprints showing up as ghosts all over the city from strong emotions in the past and rare ones guarded closely that are so strong and important, they're actually from the future. It's quite Dr Who, lol. Definitely the best freaking story ever and very entertaining to kids.

  10. Re:better idea on Boston Police Chief: Facial Recognition Tech Didn't Help Find Bombing Suspects · · Score: 1

    "Teenager Salah Barhoum’s face was plastered on the front page of the New York Post Thursday, labeling him and a friend [of] “Bag Men”"
    The newspaper said find him and they found him. So it double succeeded, just the paper was wrong about him being involved.

  11. Re:more like.... on Microsoft CFO Quits · · Score: 1

    I am yet to find a graphics card capable of rendering a desktop over top an active desktop layer at 60FPS, lol. Anyway, who was that one lady who got promoted after Windows 8 was a disaster? I think she was in charge of the Windows OS product or something but not just the UI. She got a big, giant promotion. I would have demoted her to valet parking attendant if it was my company and we also don't actually have valet parking but that would match my confidence in her abilities to manage anything.

  12. I think Apple and Microsoft are the new boogiemen after Microsoft and Apple and I do mean in that exact order, lol. Anyway, did you notice how it's funny that if I drove my car around and recorded a couple packets of unencrypted wifi data and got a 140,000 euro fine, people would be outraged. Since it's a billion dollar company, now all of a sudden the fine should go up. And yet, it's the same "crime." That's right up there with fines being higher for blacks because they're black.

  13. I'd replace it with a Twitter and Facebook page. 100 million humans have been known to beat a computer at facial recognition, especially when clothes and circumstances are added in.

  14. Re:Completely overblown on Drug Site Silk Road Says It Will Survive Bitcoin's Volatility · · Score: 1

    Hackers driving up the price, selling it down, crashing it lower with DDOSes, and then buying it back up. I can and did. Go back to angry troll land, you autistic dumbfuck.

  15. more like.... on Microsoft CFO Quits · · Score: 1

    More like he's going to spend more time with Windows 7. I'd be ready to shoot Windows 8 on site after almost a year of it. Why oh why won't that stupid lady who design the UI and Steve Balmer who supported it leave the company? This is classic toxic employee-induced mass quitting where in reality the 2 complete assholes should have left instead of all the good employees.

  16. idiotic on Japanese Police Urge ISPs To Block Tor · · Score: 4, Informative

    You can't "block tor." It's just 100% encrypted SSL web traffic. You'd have to block all SSL web traffic. Good luck with that.

  17. Completely overblown on Drug Site Silk Road Says It Will Survive Bitcoin's Volatility · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Besides one obviously fake spike and drop, the value hasn't changed much more than 20% in either direction lately that I've seen. Yeah, the dollar differences are insanely high compared to the last 2 years but from a percentage standpoint, the value hasn't changed much. Overall, it's still up significantly from 3 months ago.

  18. Re:And the risks ? on To Connect People Securely, Tor Project Seeks New Bridges · · Score: 1

    Lol okay, I'll correct me. I just researched it and bridges reside outside the "onion" part. They're allegedly still fully encrypted but you'll probably look suspicious to someone somewhere running encrypted connections to Iran constantly.

  19. wait, what? why? on To Connect People Securely, Tor Project Seeks New Bridges · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How about someone with a fiber connection that I keep hearing about on slashdot just opens vidalia and configures it to run as an intermediary node. Isn't that functioning as a bridge? I have a 10MB connection but the upload is 1MB and my computer doesn't run anywhere near 24/7 or I'd run an intermediate node that way. Why the hell is anyone bother with amazon web services? Just for the bandwidth? Because I think my i5-2400 could encrypt thousands of people's SSL traffic on the fly easily so that just leaves bandwidth. So is there something else I'm missing or can people with massive bandwidth easily self host a bridge?

  20. Re:And the risks ? on To Connect People Securely, Tor Project Seeks New Bridges · · Score: 2

    Now someone correct me if I'm wrong but there's entry node (which doesn't know if it's an entry or not) and a bridge then an exit node. The exit node, if the target website isn't using SSL, is vulnerable to looking like it's accessing whatever website/server the original viewer is on. So exit nodes are a bad idea. But bridges don't know the end target or whether it's an entry or intermediary bridge so basically it's just routing SSL traffic from one point to another and adding 1 more layer of encryption with zero ability for anyone to snoop at the content.

  21. Re:better idea on Iron Man 3 To Debut As a 4DX Film In Japan · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I noticed the low price of food in general let alone "theater pricing" on stuff like popcorn at other theaters. Then one of my friends who works at Screen Vision (Marcus-related advertising firm selling ads for before movies) said they pay sooooo much more to show ads in that theater because their people come and do counts for 5, 10, 15 minutes out from start time, etc and sell ads based on average number of people seated. It's A LOT because of the food orders. Like 10x higher. So 10x the ad revenue so cheaper food since more money can be made on advertising than food profits.

  22. Re:Awesome on Google Forbids Advertising On Glass · · Score: 1

    Google themselves, in a slashdot story, plus other slashdot stories from 3rd parties stated every one of those as existing or likely possibilities. Battery Phobia is an uneasy feeling while using any product that has a battery because you know that sometime in the future it's going to run out. Even at 90% battery, you feel like it's always there...waiting! It's constantly ticking away like a countdown to shutdown. Then you worry about when you can charge it and what you have to do that day and where the charger is and if you'll make it through a meeting without needing a charge or if using an app is draining the battery 5x faster or not.
    Needless to say, I only ever use a laptop when it's plugged in whenever possible.

  23. better idea on Iron Man 3 To Debut As a 4DX Film In Japan · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So there's that or a theater by me lets you place an order off a menu and you get a seat and table and then they bring the food out to you. I'd rather have that than fog and strobe lights in my face.

  24. Re:Anti-malware on servers?! on Botched Security Update Cripples Thousands of Computers · · Score: 1

    Our CRM, all of our other 3rd party software, Quickbooks, Active Directory, and ASP pages only run on Windows. That's our whole company.

  25. I saw this on Botched Security Update Cripples Thousands of Computers · · Score: 1

    I saw this at my shop the other day but unlike morons who put this on the server and hit delete on everything blindly, I thought "WTF" and did not delete them. In fact, you'd have to be pretty stupid to see those results and not think something was a bit suspicious. As for professional active mode, who knows.
    Also, what in the hell were they thinking putting software like that on a server? It sucks! It's a cheapo scanner that misses about 75% of malware. Yeah it's fast and popular but it's just awful. Even spy sweeper, ad-aware, and spybot all have better detections despite being way slower and having less user-friendly interfaces. I would never ever ever let crap like that on my servers.