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  1. the real problem on Utilities Battle Homeowners Over Solar Power · · Score: 1

    Maaaaaaaaaaaybe the utility companies should have put up wind turbines and electric plants of their own! That would have solved the problem ahead of time. I can see how, if they're worried about budgeting and income, that a magical device that sits there and makes money for free without fuel would be looked over when designing a new power plant.

  2. pretty dumb on Kingston HyperX Predator SSD Takes Gumstick M.2 PCIe Drives To 1.4GB/sec · · Score: 1

    The #1 feature of a half gumstick-sized SSD was that you could add two drives to a laptop with an empty WAN or Bluetooth slot. These twice as long drives don't fit in any laptop I've ever seen. So why even bother? Solder the chips directly to the PCI-E card. It's not fitting in anything but a desktop. Either that or just don't try to make drives that big and make an ultra-fast medium capacity drive for laptops so I can add a 1Tb 2.5" drive to the normal bay and have the perfect laptop.

  3. even worse on Resistance To Antibiotics Found In Isolated Amazonian Tribe · · Score: 1

    Studies (well okay, movies) have proven that bacteria from other planets and other outer space sources are even worse than remotely evolved ones on Earth.

  4. Re:DOJ Could Nix Comcast on DOJ Could Nix Comcast-Time Warner Merger · · Score: 1

    They really do need to make it illegal to be Comcast. Everything about them is illegal.

  5. Re:shocker on LA Schools Seeking Refund Over Botched iPad Plan · · Score: 2

    The way I heard it, they were ebook readers with web browsers. That's all they used them for. An Avatar Sirius version 2 could do that for $85 and that's not the bulk price I get from my vendor.

  6. Re:let me explain my strategy on Can Online Reporting System Help Prevent Sexual Assaults On Campus? · · Score: 1

    My taser looks like a flashlight. That's because it is a flashlight. Good luck identifying it or knowing it's in my pocket. And no, they couldn't likely take 2 items off opposite sides of my body at the same time nor know that they were there.

  7. Re:Isn't Cheaper, the American Dream? on IT Worker's Lawsuit Accuses Tata of Discrimination · · Score: 1

    Perhaps they should throw the corporation in jail then.
    By the way, a company named "tata" is sued for discrimination and it's not sexual? I guess nobody there had very nice ta ta's. Seriously, Tata?!?!? WHO PICKED THAT?!

  8. shocker on LA Schools Seeking Refund Over Botched iPad Plan · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Back that train up to the point where they initially picked iPads over Rockchip, Google Nexus, Avatar, Dell Venue, anything from ASUS, the Samsung note series, and about 5 other solid competitors. All of those were cheaper, sufficiently fast, cheaper, more durable, cheaper, more serviceable, and CHEAPER. That's how you know the entire project was crooked and completely derailed from the System Development Life Cycle process.

    Whether the guy in charge was a criminal-level Apple fanboy bordering on mental illness or getting some sort of crooked kickback is still being determined in court but if they want a refund, look to the guy who fucked up the whole project in the first place. The vendors certainly won't give you anything. They'll just blame him.

  9. Re:"deserves" on Seattle CEO Cuts $1 Million Salary To $70K, Raises Employee Salaries · · Score: 2

    Right, every poor person is poor due to back luck, not personal decisions and life choices. You know, just like everyone in prison is innocent. Just ask them. Poor people being poor because they got sued by someone or got screwed by their medical insurance company or because they were in a coma for a year is the exception to the rule. The vast majority of unsuccessful people career-wise are that way because they didn't do what they needed to do to get a better job.

  10. let me explain my strategy on Can Online Reporting System Help Prevent Sexual Assaults On Campus? · · Score: 1

    Don't drink and do carry a taser and pepper spray. Who thinks my strategy is more effective?

  11. "deserves" on Seattle CEO Cuts $1 Million Salary To $70K, Raises Employee Salaries · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I worked and worked and worked during high school, got perfect grades, completed college with two 2-year degrees in IT, applied to many different jobs, worked crappy jobs to have something to put on my resume, and at 24 I was hired as head IT manager at a 100 person company. I "deserve" the wage I get paid (well below $70,000 actually).

    Some entitled, pro-union asshole doing semi-skilled that may or may not have graduated high school and has the job they do because of a criminal history does not deserve $70,000 per year. So all those assembly line/Taco Bell/Walmart people saying they want a "living wage" and $15/hr, maybe you shouldn't have fucked your life up. You made your bed, now sleep in it. If you want to "fix" your situation because you think you got your shit together now but no employer agrees, start your own business and get rich if you're right.

  12. but seriously, no air gap on Calling Out a GAO Report That Says In-Flight Wi-Fi Lets Hackers Access Avionics · · Score: 1

    I mean to say there is a potential air gap with 2.4GHz and bluetooth and who knows what else if someone's laptop or smartphone was hacked remotely. But the cockpit door is RF shielded so that's the end of that.

  13. go one further on 'We the People' Petition To Revoke Scientology's Tax Exempt Status · · Score: 1

    They should classify them as religious terrorists for extortion and other threats that they constantly participate in. That would end it right there.

  14. that's a fun call on Denver TSA Screeners Manipulated System In Order To Grope Men's Genitals · · Score: 2

    Sorry, honey, I had to take a later flight because there was an anomaly in my genital area.

  15. Re:Erm.. Why a computer? on Allegation: Lottery Official Hacked RNG To Score Winning Ticket · · Score: 1

    WRONG. They have photon splitter quantum mirror thingies as PCI cards now - as seen on Slashdot. It does something with fiber optics where the photo has precisely 50% chance of going left or right after hitting some kind of quantum mirror thing. Over a trillion results, the variance was like 50.00000000000001% or something.

  16. Re:Erm.. Why a computer? on Allegation: Lottery Official Hacked RNG To Score Winning Ticket · · Score: 2, Informative

    They have been proven statistically not random.

  17. the real problem on Legislation Would Force Radio Stations To Pay Royalties · · Score: 1

    They should get a fine for overplaying a song. That would end the largest problem in the history of radio.

  18. drama queen on Bolivia Demands Assange Apologize For Deliberately False Leaks To the US · · Score: 0

    What a drama queen. What were they going to do, fire a missile at his plane? His life was never in danger. His stuck up ass was just a little delayed. Ohhhh no, how inconvenient.

  19. It's true! on Acetaminophen Reduces Both Pain and Pleasure, Study Finds · · Score: 4, Funny

    I took some Tylenol this morning for a headache and when I showed up, the support tickets were still bullshit, someone still claims I didn't fix something correctly, and I still hate my job and everyone there. Now I know why :P

  20. Re:nonsequitur on Report: Chinese Government Plans To Put 3D Printers In All Elementary Schools · · Score: 1

    First of all, it was a beautiful peanut shape. Second, I also used to be a college math tutor. I have basically no art skills so don't ask me to model a person in 3D but I should definitely be able to make geometric shapes based on just math. Unfortunately, that wasn't the case.

  21. Re:the superbowl of stupidity on Report: Apple Watch Preorders Almost 1 Million On First Day In the US · · Score: 1

    That's not good at all. Apple used to be known for ease of use without reading the manual but now with the latest iCloud and Apple account issues and lack of compatibility with micro-SD cards or direct USB transfer of anything ever, they're losing it. It sounds like this product has gone completely off the cliff when it comes to ease of figuring out the UI. That's very bad.

  22. money money money on Nearly Half of Game of Thrones Season 5 Leaks Online · · Score: 1

    They should perhaps consider selling to a real network that people actually watch or licensing to a streaming service so they can actually make some money off the show. HBO is a giant black hole of not making anything on your show.

  23. the superbowl of stupidity on Report: Apple Watch Preorders Almost 1 Million On First Day In the US · · Score: 3, Informative

    Smartwatches were the #1 most returned tech item of 2014. Some models were as much as 60% returned! They're absolutely despised by anyone who has used one. I'm one of newegg's product testers and I tested the 2nd generation of Samsung smartwatches. I and everyone gave it a horrible review then I sold it. But this time around, it's Apple fans buying the product. So who will win in this epic battle of Apple false superiority and arrogant smugness versus the strong urge to return their useless, annoying product.

  24. a bit young on Report: Chinese Government Plans To Put 3D Printers In All Elementary Schools · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm an absolute expert at photoshop and I know HTML design inside and outside. I'm a pro 3D landscape designer for my work and last time I tried a 3D modeling program, I couldn't make heads or tails of it. After hours I gave up, having barely made a peanut shape. If I can't do it, I don't think elementary children and their teachers can. They could simply download premade 3d models but that's not usually the point of doing it in schools.

  25. "dark" energy is stupid on Supernovae May Not Be Standard Candles; Is Dark Energy All Wrong? · · Score: 1

    Dark matter aka matter that doesn't interact with other matter or most radiation and simply causes gravity is unlikely but plausible. Dark energy, energy that doesn't interact with matter but does interact with matter to accelerate it outward doesn't even make sense at a basic level. I thought expansion was based on the dopplar effect on wavelengths of light from all stars. Since when was it based on supernovae?