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  1. good strategy on Adobe Bows To Pressure and Cuts Australian Prices · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That definitely makes them look not guilty.

  2. magic on Is It Possible To Erase Yourself From the Internet? · · Score: 1

    I'm not on the internet in the first place. Any site that asks for a real name didn't get one. I never touched myspace or facebook, etc. Even my Gmail name is fake. So I'm all set.

  3. Re:When this many people irrationally hate somethi on Surface Pro Sold Out; Was It Just Understocked? · · Score: 1

    Except you can still get an Iconia or any other vastly superior tablet with Windows 7 instead of Windows 8 and for less money.

  4. can someone explain this? on Surface Pro Sold Out; Was It Just Understocked? · · Score: 1

    I'm hearing everyone say it's so nice that they can finally run x86 apps on it. Well, not if it uses ASWD controls like our 3D landscape design software, unless you bring the cover/keyboard. But then it also requires a mouse wheel, 2nd mouse button, etc. So you better have a bluetooth mouse. Then does it even have the graphical power to run it? Can it run DirectX? What even are the WEI numbers for the CPU, graphics, etc?

  5. I have an idea on Should Techies Trump All Others In Immigration Reform? · · Score: 2

    I would have voted for visas for 50,000 smart foreign students graduating with STEM degrees from U.S. universities over bringing in 55,000 randomly selected high-school graduates from abroad

    Or we could hire Americans. First, it doesn't steal jobs from Americans. Second, it keeps talented individuals in their home countries instead of leaving their country with fewer skilled workers. That's kinda a big thing in 3rd world countries.

  6. seriosly on Australian Govt Forces Apple, Adobe, Microsoft To Explain Price Hikes · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Why does Australia actually get totally screwed on price all the time on everything? I mean, I hate those drunk alcoholic loud-mouthed mental patients but that usually doesn't translate into business price points.

  7. um no on Fragmentation Leads To Android Insecurities · · Score: 1

    Having everything all being exactly one way is one giant target for easy attacks. The more different, the better. They have this completely backwards.

  8. what I do on Ask Slashdot: Buying a Laptop That Doesn't Have Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    I own a computer repair store and 90% of my stock comes from a large, respectable pawn shop in town. I test it and review the error logs before buying. They have so many, I can target ASUS, Toshiba, Samsung, Sony, and MSI (aka the top 5 in reliability) and get it for a decent price with Windows 7. The #1 best buy right now is an i3 or even pentium B or AMD A8 or higher Toshiba Satellite laptop from the L7xx series. Those are practically flawless and use great internal parts. The price was nice brand new so now used they're quite low for what you get.

  9. What do they do though? on Parcel Sensor Knows When Your Delivery Has Been Dropped · · Score: 1

    My UPS guy is super nice so if a package looks like it went through a war, he says "That looks damaged. You might want to open it and check it out before signing for it." So if it's demolished, and I don't sign for it, then what? My senders don't insure stuff. I don't think UPS even offers insurance. What do they actually do? Just drive off with my package?

  10. bullshit on Deloitte: Use a Longer Password In 2013. Seriously. · · Score: 1

    Password vaults are likely to become more widely used out of necessity.

    BULLSHIT! If my password was omgponies1 then my new password is now omgponies1omgponies1. I can remember it and you can't crack it.

  11. tabloid headline-baiting bullshit on Apple Now the Top PC Vendor, For Some Values of PC · · Score: 1

    They're not PCs. The end. Why is slashdot now a tabloid for sensationalist headline bullshit?

  12. Hmmmm on Deloitte: Use a Longer Password In 2013. Seriously. · · Score: 1

    Deloitte predicts that 8-character passwords will become insecure in 2013

    I'm gonna say he hit the nail on the head there since 22 letter passwords were insecure in 2012.

  13. so steal the money on Researchers Demo Hack Against African Micro-Finance Accounts · · Score: 0

    So steal it! It's all our money anyway, lol. I guarantee the vast majority of those funds were stolen via fraud, from selling stolen items, or from selling illegal items. It's so bad, Africa shouldn't be allowed to have computers or money at this point so why exactly is this exploit not being released at this point?

  14. moral of the story on Is 'Brogramming' Killing Requirements Engineering? · · Score: 1

    Facebook was and is designed like crap and it works like crap. Lesson learned.

  15. WTFSRSLY?! on FTC Gets 744 New Ideas On How To Hang Up On Robocallers · · Score: 1

    the Challenge was issued to developing technical or functional solutions

    *69? Ummm
    1. find out where they're calling from
    2. fuck them up

    The telephone network is the telephone network. It's completely impossible to make an anonymous call. Your phone number is like your IP address but more exposed. It seems pretty damn obvious to me, except of course for digital phone. Even then, there's a handful of carriers and that's it and obviously that volume of calls could trigger a very simple pattern recognition system. AT&T can hand me an itemized bill of every single number I called all month. So can Time Warner. It's their fucking network! I bet the #1 suggestion was JUST FUCKING LOOK UP UP WHO THEY ARE.

  16. the fallout on Wall Street Journal Hit By Chinese Hackers, Too · · Score: 2

    They're going to have to rename the Streissand Effect to the Wen Jiabao Effect because this is bigger. Did they really think they could get away with this? There's going to probably be 24/7 news coverage, an entire 60 minutes episode on what a jackass him and his crooked family are, entire websites dedicated to this, and probably 100 stories about him in each of the newspapers this affected. I'd put that jackass on the cover for a week straight if I owned that paper.

  17. The truth comes out on Air Quality Apps and Bottled Air Thrive On Beijing's Pollution · · Score: 1

    NASA satellite photos show a thick grey haze has rendered the densely populated plains of North China invisible from outer space.

    Aha! So that was the plan all along.

  18. can't even write a summary accurately on Judge Koh Rules: Samsung Did Not Willfully Infringe · · Score: 1
    From the summary:

    She also ruled that there won't be any more money for Apple

    From the article:

    So, Samsung owes Apple US $1 billion for a non will ful infringement.

  19. followup on Chinese Hack New York Times · · Score: 1

    The Times detailed its assertions in a long article posted to the front of its Website Jan. 30. The attacks apparently began in early September, as the probe into Wen’s family approached its conclusion. While the hackers could have “wrecked havoc on our systems,” according to Times CIO Marc Frons, they focused on infiltrating dozens of employee computers.

    Unfortunately, they wreaked havoc on their grammar and spelling.

  20. I have an idea on NASA Says Asteroid Will Buzz Earth Closer Than Many Satellites · · Score: 1

    Put up a net, catch it, mine it, profit!!!

  21. obviously on Will Renewable Energy Ever Meet All Our Energy Needs? · · Score: 1

    The total energy contained in sunlight is quite high. I think like 2 square miles of 100% sunlight capture would power the entire united stated at 100% efficiency cuz it's like 1600W per square meter or something.

  22. Re:NDA? on Feedback On Simcity Gets User Banned From EA Forums · · Score: 1

    This is EA. I seriously doubt it. There's a lot of precedence.

  23. outsourced to China? on Feedback On Simcity Gets User Banned From EA Forums · · Score: 1

    I just heard an NPR story incredibly similar to this just this morning except it was the Chinese Communist Party suppressing all dissenting opinions and anything negative about them. Get ready for an epic level pushback/Streisand effect from this. It's already on Slashdot so really you don't have to "get ready" you get to "get popcorn" lol.

  24. I'm not buying it on Machine Gun Fire From Military Helicopters Flying Over Downtown Miami · · Score: 1

    They did THIS without warning anyone? Not one word about it? You've got to be kidding me. That's basically impossible. Obviously they were shooting energy burst rounds at an invisible alien ghost and now they're covering it up.

  25. Re:But I can do stuff with an Ultrabook on With 128GB, iPad Hits Surface Pro, Ultrabook Territory · · Score: 5, Informative

    I can do even more amazing tricks with my Toshiba Portege Ultrabook: run almost any software ever written, type on it with physical feedback (and backlit keys), attach USB flash drives to it, join a Windows domain, backup an entire disk image to external media on a USB 3.0 port, run MS Office, run Adobe CS6, upgrade or downgrade the OS, upgrade the RAM, upgrade the SSD, upgrade the webcam, and play legacy games. If anyone still thinks their ipad is an ultrabook, they're really not helping the "Apple fanboys are delusional" stereotype. I mean, yeah, they are and it's not a stereotype but still.