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  1. Youtube casting fatally broken. No longer usable. on Chromecast Update Bringing Grief For Many Users · · Score: 4, Informative

    This update hosed casting Youtube from my Android phone. It constantly loses the queue. It constantly plays audio only with no video. If another user connects to YouTube the queue is lost. Users constantly booted from being connected. The currently playing box in the lower right disappears preventing any way of controlling the remote device you're casting to. There could not have been any testing prior to this release.

  2. Re: Slashdot today. on Scientist Says Potential Signs of Ancient Life in Mars Rover Photos · · Score: 3, Insightful

    More like koala tea. All jokes aside, this place isn't what it used to be... :( at its best its usually just inward bickering back and forth instead of discussion. I don't know where to go for insighful intelligent discussion online anymore.

  3. Re:"As we migrate our audience" on QuakeNet: Government-Sponsored Attacks On IRC Networks · · Score: 1

    Here here!

  4. Re:Beta a Bust on QuakeNet: Government-Sponsored Attacks On IRC Networks · · Score: 1

    They should permanently keep it at beta.slashdot.org. It's trash.

  5. Re:Americans don't know how to care for animals on Animal Drug Investigation Reveals Pet Medication Often Doesn't Work · · Score: 1

    I think unfortunately most Americans are asied on bits and lumps of dried meat and canned foods. I'm American and our culture here is very much to toss in our mouths anything tasty. There is absolutely zero awareness that our bodies are both physically and chemically comprised of the nutrients we ingest. I try to inform others about this and am often looked upon as a health nut for just encouraging ingestion of real food. Nothing extreme, just actual food. We are raised on foods that solely come from packages, whether plastic or metal so the idea of real food perplexes many.

  6. Re: In the moment!? on A Year With Google Glass · · Score: 2

    There is a Black Mirror (tv show) episode which portrays this scenario. It's a frightening idea.

  7. Re:Eh, what? on Europe Needs Genetically Engineered Crops, Scientists Say · · Score: 5, Informative

    Very true. Production is not the bottleneck; it's distribution which often times is hindered due to political reasons. We are not at peak production either.

  8. Re:There's plenty of food. on Europe Needs Genetically Engineered Crops, Scientists Say · · Score: 1

    This is absolutely correct. I wish I had mod points.

  9. Re:Use film to inspire scientific dreaming on NASA Considers Putting an Asteroid Into Orbit Around the Moon · · Score: 1

    I agree with everything you said... education is key. Growing up in a small football town with terrible education my parents were early internet adopters and gave me full access to it. It utterly opened my eyes to a bigger more amazing world beyond small-town football and religion. I hope to see amazing changes with information access and specifically web-based schooling to provide quality education independent of geography, local funding, etc.

  10. Use film to inspire scientific dreaming on NASA Considers Putting an Asteroid Into Orbit Around the Moon · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It would be spectacular if movies were made based upon potential Nasa missions and the awesome adventures that would entail. Perhaps that would get through to the masses. Unfortunately these thins are so mind-boggling to our uneducated masses that they don't see the amazing technical feat and engineering this requires, nor the art and wonder of it all. It's beyond their culture of lulz, shopping, and life stress. We love our movies though and they can still help us remember how to dream. I'd love to see a resurgence of sci-fi with an aim at inspiring us to push forward.

  11. Re:Thank you on Richard Stallman: 'Apple Has Tightest Digital Handcuffs In History' · · Score: 1

    Where has all the old crowd gone? Or have they converted as well?

  12. What if I only have 4 fingers? on Apple May Remove the Home Button On the Next IPad · · Score: 1

    ... you insensitive clod!

  13. Re:Heh on Young Employees Pose Increasing Risk to Networks · · Score: 1

    Wow. You seem pretty upset about the parent's post. All he did was post his observations about the actions of his co-workers. Are you one of the older people he was mentioning?

  14. Re:Right General? on Air Force Cyber Command General Answers Slashdot Questions · · Score: 1

    IDK, my BFF Lord?

  15. MOD PARENT UP! on Young IT Workers Disillusioned, Hard to Retain · · Score: 1

    This hit the nail on the head.

  16. Re:HIstory of the dial tone on GOOG-411's "Biddy-Biddy-Boop" Sound Backstory · · Score: 1

    Me too.... me too....

  17. Re:What is wrong with Slashdot/rendering? on Researchers May Have Found Cause of Type 2 Diabetes · · Score: 1

    They are testing some god-awful piece of crap new comments system.

    Hopefully it won't stick. IT SUCKS!

  18. Re:The problem, I think, is lack of community on White House E-mail Scandal Widens · · Score: 1

    Excellent points.

    There is certainly a lack of community. I think that lack of community also contributes to depression and an overall sense of "doom" in the country. People are much more disconnected from others than they used to be. We separate ourselves more and more, working hard to get our own little boxes to live in away from everyone else. If you truly look at our society, it is scary. We isolate ourselves from friends and family only to do things that are much less important in our overall lives.

    I'm 23 and in college and I feel like there are very few places where I can become part of a community. There are organizations on campus and fraternities but they feel like they are only a patch to the bigger problem. My mom is widowed. Where does she fit into community in this day and age? She doesn't unless she goes to church. There's not much else around here. It's sad.

  19. Easy as 1, 2, 3. on Music Industry Looking for Lyrics Payoff · · Score: 1

    1. Sell CD with lyrics no one can understand.
    2. Sell lyrics so people can tell what their songs are saying.
    3. PROFIT!

  20. Re:Service? on Man Arrested for Wireless Piggybacking · · Score: 2, Interesting

    A friend of mine is a registered sex offender: she flashed someone on campus and a cop saw it. Sex offender for life. Everyone who hears it asks if she is a pedophile or raped someone. The sex offender title ruins people's chances for things such as jobs and living happily with neihbors for life. It's an awful system.

  21. Re:It's certainly a better method..... on The U.S. Navy's Doctrine of Laser Eye Surgery · · Score: 1

    New technology allows for a much greater treatment area with technology such as CustomVue. Also, bladeless cornea flap cutting is now becoming more common place with IntraLase. Lasik doesn't have these old problems anymore.

  22. The real question is.... on Police Launch Drones Over LA · · Score: 2, Funny

    ... Does the NSA have a live feed into the drone's microphone?

  23. Re:What a ridiculous response. on Librarian Suspended over Patrons' Web Access · · Score: 1

    The difference is that your examples involve violence.

    Violence is OKAY. Sex is NOT. Violence is a completely natural action. Sex is the ultimate sin and cannot be allowed to continue. Think of the children! Oh wait... no children without sex... We must figure out a way to procreate via violence!

  24. Re:Slashdotted? on FedEx Cracks Down on Box Furniture, Citing DMCA · · Score: 1

    7) PROFIT!!!

  25. Re:What was the point of this mission? on NASA Debates Second Discovery Repair · · Score: 1

    I always wonder the same thing. Why isn't there any talk of what they are even DOING up there!?