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  1. calm the hell down on Polar Vortex Sends Life-Threatening Freeze To US · · Score: 1

    Wow, it's -15F in WI this morning. Last week it as -9F, so the fuck what? Oh look, we're all still alive. Everyone needs to grow some balls, stop calling it life threatening, and put on a coat.

    "If you're under 40, you've not seen this stuff before.'" except in 1996 so no. Oh, and it was very similar about 4 days ago too.

    Also, it's more commonly called "vortices" not "vortexes."

  2. Re:2X Client RDP/Remote Desktop on Ask Slashdot: Best App For Android For Remote Access To Mac Or PC? · · Score: 1

    I also use 2X to avoid being a bypass tray "printer sprinter" for custom photoshop print jobs. I don't think it works past a LAN though but I've never tested it.

  3. No, no, NO! NOPE! Nah ah. No, they aren't on Are Tablets Replacing Notebook Computers? (Video) · · Score: 1

    One is ARM, one is x86. One you can type 100 WPM on, the other you can type about 15 WPM on. One has an optical drive, one doesn't. They aren't even comparable computing devices.

  4. let's break it down on New Study Shows One-Third of Americans Don't Believe In Evolution · · Score: -1

    Nobody was around to witness and prove beyond a reasonable doubt that evolution occurred. We only have suggestive and circumstantial evidence. There was also recently strong evidence that the universe is a simulation. Also, nobody can explain certain codependent gender traits. Consider mosquitoes. To have the females reproduce the way they do, in the same generation there would have to be a matching but completely different mutation that matches in a male and they'd have to mate and they'd have to have multiples of each gender offspring that all survive. The probability exceeds the number of mating pairs in millions of generations by over a trillion to one.

    So if liberals use logic and reason and science instead of religion (i.e. lack thereof) to assess evolution, they would find it difficult to prove and deeply flawed. But no, "Christians are wrong because I'm not one" is the entire basis of their argument.

    And anyone who doesn't believe in natural selection and adaptation is an idiot.

  5. I get it on The Rise of Hoax News · · Score: 1

    People have so much fun with all the purposeful news pranks on April Fools Day that the major news outlets decided to do it year round. See, the explanation was simple after all.

  6. article won't load, don't need it though on What Would It Cost To Build a Windows Version of the Pricey New Mac Pro? · · Score: 0

    I've built about 250 custom PCs at my shop and I'm thinking I can cut that by half to a 1/3 and still have a 10 year useable life rating on all the parts. So yeah, Apple Tax indeed.

  7. I have a better idea on Apple Again Seeks Ban On 20+ Samsung Devices In US · · Score: 1

    How about Apple just cut their stock price in half right now and skip the whole legal battle. Then they can focus on shooting themselves in the foot, making their products worse, and pissing off their customers.

  8. Should be in the US too on Apple Fined In Taiwan For iPhone Price Fixing · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    every small shop and large carrier everywhere has to charge the same price for Apple products like the iPhone. That's why most don't bother selling them. When my company just recently reviewed which phone model to get, they were flexible on every phone pricing and had credits etc except iPhones. So Apple priced themselves right out of the market. One of our Apple fanboy employees still looked into them but even they couldn't justify that idiotic of an expense for a fragile phone model.

  9. dumbest defense ever on Ulbricht Admits Seized Bitcoins Are His and Wants Them Back · · Score: 1

    What is he, high? "I'm not the owner of the site but by sheer coincidence, I own a buttload of bitcoins and want them back." I wonder if he knows that those bitcoins were tied to lots and lots of Silkroad transactions. What an idiot!

  10. foot targetting successful, fire the shot! on RSA Flatly Denies That It Weakened Crypto For NSA Money · · Score: 1

    So weakening your product for bribe money = bad. Lying about it in the face of clear evidence = complete corporate suicide. Sell your stocks because it's goodbye RSA.

  11. Re:The craptastic Windows 8 is Microsoft's time bo on Microsoft's Ticking Time Bomb Is Windows XP · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Hey genius, basically every netbook in the world ships with 1GB of RAM and Win7 needs 0.9 to boot. Also the chip is equivilant to a 2001 Pentium 4. So maybe you're just an idiot for buying it and it's not Microsoft's fault. Hmmmm.

  12. a 3rd option on Microsoft's Ticking Time Bomb Is Windows XP · · Score: 0

    Or put Windows 7 the fuck back on sale and make millions!

  13. wrong on The FBI's Giant Bitcoin Wallet · · Score: 1

    There are multiple exchanges that have more bitcoins overall and larger individual wallets.

  14. damn right they'll sell them on Mark Zuckerberg Gives $990 Million To Charity · · Score: 0

    What a crap gift, lol. Facebook stocks have a 100% chance of going down the toilet in the next 5 years. I'm not surprised it said they'll sell them off immediately...although telling people that will drop the price ahead of time.

  15. Typo in headline on Apple Pushes Developers To iOS 7 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    It's supposed to say "Apple pushes developers to Android"
    By the way, it's around 6:1 now for android to apple phone counts.

  16. Re:lol unions on Amazon Workers Strike In Germany As Christmas Orders Peak · · Score: 1

    Wrong. New companies just opening would offer 12 hour days and not employe children as a marketing ploy to the customers and then all the workers would leave for that. Then one would open offering 8 hour days and steal more workers.

  17. inaccurate statement in the FBI addidavit on Harvard Bomb Hoax Perpetrator Caught Despite Tor Use · · Score: 1

    "TOR, which is also available free of charge on the Internet and which automatically assigns an anonymous Internet Protocol (“IP”) address that can be used for a limited period of time."
    Considering that's not really how it works, I'm surprised this expert agent was able to track him down at all, lol. Although...
    "KIM explained that he sent all of the bomb-threat e-mails from his MacBook Pro Laptop"
    Now that narrows it down a bit in the access logs. I still can't figure out how they can detect the difference between TOR traffic and normal encrypted traffic like HTTPS-related traffic on their network. There had to have been 100 people on Facebook whose traffic looked exactly like Tor traffic. Is there some sort of initial identifying burst when Tor first launches that identifies the traffic?

  18. unnecessary and inferior on Datawind Not Blowing Smoke: $38 Tablet Coming To the US · · Score: 1

    I set a world record in a game with over 10,000,000 players with this one:
    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834686016
    And it has a dedicated GPU and 1GB of DDR3. Not 512MB of DDR3 or 1GB of DDR2 like others.

  19. lol unions on Amazon Workers Strike In Germany As Christmas Orders Peak · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I didn't like my old job because the pay and benefits were unfair. Now I got a new job and the pay and benefits are good. That's what I think of unions. Oh and here's the kicker: the former company was doing terrible financially. A union would have made them go bankrupt.

  20. welcome to 2010 on Bitcoin Inventor Satoshi Nakamoto Could Actually Be Group From Europe · · Score: 1

    This was also discussed 3 years ago on the bitcoin forums. Good job, news people!

  21. not surprising on Pulsar Gets the Munchies, Snacks On an Asteroid · · Score: 2

    If an asteroid "landed" on earth, it wouldn't go back up either. So yeah, this isn't terribly surprising that other massive bodies om nom nom asteroids too.

  22. better idea on Senators Propose Bill Prohibiting Phone Calls On Planes · · Score: 1

    I propose they pass a bill stating that people should get the fuck over it. I'm capable of making a quiet and non-annoying call in a public area. Others are not. That's just how it is. Tell them to quiet down or ignore it.

  23. idiotic math on Bots Now Account For 61% of Net Traffic · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Wow! So if I remember correctly from past Slashdot stories, 61% of internet traffic is boys, 60% is netflix, 50% is youtube, and 42% is bittorrent. That's TRULY astonishing when you think about it. I mean 213% is a lot!

  24. Turn it into a real LAN party on The New Kings of Kong · · Score: 1

    I'd love to troll them by going there and basically turning it into Xbox Live meets every LAN party ever. I'd start swearing at Donkey Kong and calling his mother a whore and accusing him of aimbotting and cheating and hacking and exploit-using and stealing my loot drops.

  25. gee on Wikipedia's Lamest Edit Wars · · Score: 1

    It's almost like it's a really bad information management model or something.