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  1. orly? on Microsoft May Finally Put Windows RT Out To Pasture · · Score: 1

    "It just didn't do everything that you expected Windows to do"
    It's almost as if it was written on a completely different processor architecture even! Oh wait...

  2. STILL not accurate and STILL misquoted on SSD Manufacturer OCZ Preparing For Bankruptcy · · Score: 5, Informative

    Their drives don't have a high failure rate! They're not unreliable! It was all based on a single study that showed a high return rate. That was because the morons at OCZ released them with beta level firmware that made the first batch of 3 and 4 series drives not be recognized 100% of the time by many BIOSes. I built over 50 computers with OCZ SSDs and about 40 of them had to be flashed to the latest firmware before they operated correctly. After that, zero out of 50 came back in 2 years so that means zero failed. They used 9000 write cycle flash memory instead of, for example, Kingston HyperX 3K's 3000 rating. They had an internal, firmware-based TRIM style sweep in case your OS didn't support TRIM too. They were one of the best drives out there.
    Unfortunately, I hate them because they decided to "stop being competitive" and single handedly drove up the price of SSDs basically by price fixing. Their drives went up 50% in price overnight. That was such bullshit, they deserve bankruptcy.

  3. Re:Sell now. on Bitcoin Tops $1,000 For the First Time · · Score: 1

    Actually, MTGox lets you set price selling triggers where if the price drops to a price, then you sell it. So you can basically say if the price drops 10%, sell everything. You have to use a scripted bot or something for that feature but they do it. Then you'll never be too far off from whatever it peaks at. Of course, if there's a giant sell offer and no matching buy offers, it will whiz past your sell offer like lightning :-P It DEFINITELY is going to crash back down to $200-500 though.

  4. about to fall on Nasdaq 4000 — This Time It's Different? · · Score: 1

    Apple and Facebook are obviously about to drag a significant portion of the index down with them as they're crashing and burning in the near future. Considering what percentage they cover, I'd pull all of your money out of NASDAQ ASAP after Christmas shopping season.

  5. Only idiots even attempt it on A Real-Time Map of Travelers Suffering From the Thanksgiving Storm · · Score: 3, Informative

    If you want to get to a place on time at the same time as everyone else, flying will not do it. Either leave before most people do or take other means of transportation. You'd have to be a complete idiot or new to flying to not know that.

  6. what the hell is wrong with Arial? on Sex Offender Gets New Hearing After Hearing Officer Rants Against Arial Font · · Score: 1

    Arial is the best font ever made. It's readable from the farthest distance and at the highest speed. Serifs are just bullshit that get in the way. Times New Roman is for idiots who don't know how to change the default font in their software. All websites I design and all documentation I make are in Arial. This guy should be fired just on the basis of how wrong he is.

  7. The end all solution on Ask Slashdot: What Review Sites Do You Consult For IT Equipment? · · Score: 1

    I'm an invite-only special EggXpert reviewer for Newegg. They send me stuff for free and let me keep it if I thoroughly test and benchmark it and then post an honest review. A lot of times it's really good gear but once we got a not so great item and all 10 of us tore it a new ass on the review. Newegg demands that we not always post positive reviews just to make the vendors happy. They chose to participate in the review generation program with no guarantee that it would be good. It's just to get reviews at all so someone buys their product over others. So I'd go to newegg for more honest reviews. I very rarely see a suspect one even from the public.

  8. Re:I will spend thanksgiving with my co-workers to on 23% of IT Workers Spend Thanksgiving With Coworkers · · Score: 3, Funny

    If we stole the country from Native Americans through trickery, scamming, and crooked contracts but every square inch of Europe was taken over by bloodthirsty dictators, kings, emperors, etc surely that deserves even more of a holiday, right? Maybe killsgiving or genocide-o-rama.

  9. Wrong wrong wrong! on Study Suggests Link Between Dread Pirate Roberts and Satoshi Nakamoto · · Score: -1

    I didn't even RTFA because there is no point. Any idiot in the BTC community knows Satoshi didn't invent bitcoins. He wrote a book about it that outlined the theory of how it could maybe work. Some developers are the ones who use the book as a basis for the bitcoin network. Dread Pirate Roberts is quite likely one of those original developers. Not many people know who they are as far as I can tell. It doesn't make sense though because investing in bitcoins from the start would give anyone more than enough money. Running silkroad would be necessary.

  10. what it will really learn on CMU AI Learning Common Sense By Watching the Internet · · Score: 1

    After about a month, I'm pretty sure it will be saying "Humans are evil, racist, angry, horrible people. They must all die! Also, cats are adorable and cannot spell."

  11. the cold weather problem is real on Electric Cars: Drivers Love 'Em, So Why Are Sales Still Low? · · Score: 1

    Nobody seems to know what the heck anyone means by the cold weather problem. First, you run a heater that's probably at least a 1000W ceramic and there goes your range. Second, we have a golf cart at my landscaping company. In the winter, it runs slowly and runs out quicker and doesn't charge all the way. That's because when batteries that size get cold, they drop about a half volt to a volt. So that effectively limits the "range" of our electric golf cart. The gasoline cart goes faster because it's fuel injected and the oxygen density is higher so it sends in more fuel to compensate. It's like a mini-turbo or RAM air.

  12. Re:2 Words on Electric Cars: Drivers Love 'Em, So Why Are Sales Still Low? · · Score: 1

    I live in Wisconsin and in the winter every vehicle I've ever driven goes a lot faster due to higher oxygen density. There, take your math and throw it out the window because that's real.

  13. here's where this is going on Project Free TV, YIFY, PrimeWire Blocked In the UK · · Score: 1

    This is a stupid waste of time. People will make hundreds of forums dedicated to simply posting the torrent file itself. Or people will resort to pastebin or something since it's a glorified text file. Blocking the torrent conglomeration sites is useless because the torrent file itself can be posted anywhere else. People can simply e-mail them to each other even.

  14. unless... on FEC Will Not Allow Bitcoin Campaign Contributions · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What if they're from a corporations? I heard they're allowed to buy elections now so who cares if it's variable worth, probably laundered money?

  15. Neverwinter is excellent on Ask Slashdot: MMORPG Recommendations? · · Score: 2

    Neverwinter is free and doesn't pressure you to use their in game currency buying system ever. It is sort of pay to win but you can also just get the gear in like 1 week of trying. The whales carry the company easily. I gave em $50 on principle and now I have a 110% run speed pig and some sick gear :-D It's very fun and you can level up quickly. Everyone's pretty nice for the most part, though not as much so as DDO. The #1 best part is that it relies heavily on realtime reflexes and strategy instad of grinding for the best gear in the game. At an 8000 gear score, my cleric outscored people with 13,000 gear scores. It's about actual talent and you don't see that in MMORPGs anymore. I'd recommend anyone pick it up and play it.

  16. Re:AMD on Xbox One Released · · Score: 1

    Well, considering real gamers buy real computers and they outsell consoles by a vast margin, who cares about console hardware? Right now Radeon graphics cards are very competitive and settling for a Richland APU is a reasonable low end gaming choice so I'd say AMD will do alright. As for consoles, fuck those joystick monkey idiots.

  17. not that big of a mystery on Elevation Plays a Role In Memory Error Rates · · Score: 1

    "However, it's not clear what causes this smaller-scale effect."
    Servers are made out of metal and have EM fields! This isn't hard.

  18. not unusual on Scientists Forced To Reexamine Theories In Light of Massive Gamma-Ray Burst · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    So they're wrong about well established fact again. Wonderful. I'm sure dark matter exists though. The only evidence is math but still. I mean they have a planets with oxygen count for about a 1000 light year radius and can't even tell what's in the atmosphere on a moon inside our own solar system but I'm sure everything else astronomers do is 100% accurate.

  19. Re:They sold out a long time ago on Mozilla's 2012 Annual Report: 90% of Revenue Came From Google · · Score: 1

    Are you missing the point or what? Any business that gets 90% of its revenue from one place is going to fail. That's WAY too fragile. Also, their #1 sponsor makes a competing product with theirs. Firefox is screwed.

  20. Re:Rocket the security world? on Researcher Offers New Perspective On Stuxnet-Wielding Sabotage Program · · Score: 1

    Stuxnet, Skynet, what's the difference?

  21. well that's just redundant on Australia Spied On Indonesian President · · Score: -1, Troll

    I sent a very well written, less wordy version of Snowden's release to major news outlets but none of them ran with that version for some reason. It said:
    Everyone spied on everyone all the time.

  22. they're targetting the wrong resources on Google's Wind, Solar Power Investments Top $1B · · Score: 1

    What they need to do is capture the energy of all the hate for the Google+ comments on youtube. That's got to be a few megawatts.

  23. The king of SATs on Ask Slashdot: Cheap Second Calculators For Tests? · · Score: 1

    You gotta go with my #1, the TI-36x Solar. It's ACT and SAT allowed so if anyone has a problem with it, they're making it up.

  24. looool on Military Robots Expected To Outnumber Troops By 2023 · · Score: 1

    That is NOT what Will Smith said about robots, lol.

  25. Is this supposed to be hard? on SourceForge Appeals To Readers For Help Nixing Bad Ad Actors · · Score: 2

    Are they even seriously asking right now? All of them. 100% of them. Fucking pick one at random. They ALL have undesireable, misleading, coinstalled crapware. None of them don't have it. How else can I phrase it so these dishonest scam artists?