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  1. Re:$19,000 — half the cost tuition and room on College Offers Athletic Scholarships To Gamers · · Score: 1

    last i read only a minority of people in europe go to college, unlike the USA

  2. Re:Are customer able to evaulate that objectively? on The Bursting Social Media Advertising Bubble · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    so you're the fool buying carbon credits, a tesla and lots of green labeled craP?

  3. Re:Are customer able to evaulate that objectively? on The Bursting Social Media Advertising Bubble · · Score: 0

    this is done by celebs and models. your platonic female friend or booty call probably won't influence you to buy anything because of her facebook posts
      i like my kindle app and this one person i know she loves the Nook along with another of my facebook friends. and there is no way you can get me to buy the nook over an ipad mini

  4. Re:Two things every bubble has in common... on The Bursting Social Media Advertising Bubble · · Score: 0

    yeah, but this time we have real eyeballs. not the fake ones from 14 years ago

  5. maybe because people are different? on The Bursting Social Media Advertising Bubble · · Score: 1

    i know single people who are always going out to bars
    single people hacking away on tech
    married no kids who are always chilling out somewhere
    and lots of other kinds of people

    why would i want to buy everything they buy? even then you can have a group of a dozen girls and some will have expensive and snobby crap, others wal mart crap, others the hipster overpriced crap, etc

  6. Re:He doesn't understand net nutrality. on Robert McMillen: What Everyone Gets Wrong In the Debate Over Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    and like every networking company that speed is on the ISP's network, not the entire internet like some retarts like to claim now. and even then it's all shared bandwidth with others in your networking segment. always has been.

    the reason netflix is fast here in NYC is because cablevision has an open connect appliance and netflix has their own presence in downtown manhattan in the same building as every ISP and networking provider in the area. when i stream netflix here it comes from 10 miles away. if you want to live way out in the sticks, don't expect everyone to serve you

  7. sender pays to send their data or traffic has been around for a long time until netflix started playing games and demanding free bandwidth as a competative edge

  8. Re:Everybody is wrong... on Robert McMillen: What Everyone Gets Wrong In the Debate Over Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    CDN's have been around since the late 1990's
    google and other edge providers have been doing direct connections to ISP's for a long time as well

    today's net neutrality arguments seem to be done by a bunch of blogger retarts who think Netflix should get everything for free because they like netflix and hate cable TV. and they have no idea how the internet really works and think everything is streamed or sent thousands of miles via tier 1 backbone networks which isn't true at all. everyone has been staging their content as close to the users as possible for many years now and spending a lot of money to do it

  9. coding is the blue collar job of the future on Computational Thinking: AP Computer Science Vs AP Statistics? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    when everyone knows how to code expect it to be the factory work of this century. find some pictures of early 20th century offices where everyone sits at a desk in a huge room with no dividers. it's already here again

    the value is going to be figuring out algorithms to make sense of the huge amounts of data being collected. the code to implement the algorithm will be your average low wage job

  10. Re:I just want to know on Teaching College Is No Longer a Middle Class Job · · Score: 1

    a lot of people go to school to another state
    used to be you went to your state school. now kids want to be independent and fly off to some school a thousand miles away. a state school in another state and pay out of state tuition and room and board

    a lot of people who went to college in the 70's and 80's also worked full time or part time and lived in crappy apartments. now the kids aren't working and borrowing their living expenses for four years

  11. Re:It's too slow. on Ask Slashdot: Best Way to Learn C# For Game Programming? · · Score: 1, Troll

    everything is faster than java

  12. Re:Car analogy? on Will 7nm and 5nm CPU Process Tech Really Happen? · · Score: 2

    same with cars

    30 years ago you had an AM radio, you needed a V8 for 190hp and dozens of features we take for granted today may have been thought of to be only on ultra luxury cars. not like we had navigation, blue tooth and lots of other gizmos in cars. a lot of the safety features and the new features people want suck up gas as well

  13. what was the excuse for 90nm again? on Will 7nm and 5nm CPU Process Tech Really Happen? · · Score: 1

    i remember in the 90's everyone swore it was impossible to go under 90nm how 1GHz was the maximum speed you could get

  14. Re:Pablum For Peons on US House of Representatives Votes To Cut Funding To NSA · · Score: 1

    you assume it never happened
    for all you know there is a mini money printer at langley

  15. Re:Easier on Researchers Find "Achilles Heel" of Drug Resistant Bacteria · · Score: 1

    not in biblical times, back then it was like 900 years

  16. Re:or else how about on 2 US Senators Propose 12-Cent Gas Tax Increase · · Score: 1

    tell that to the bike nuts in NYC
    they want the city to build bike paths and the drivers to pay for it

  17. Re:Hybrid/Electric? on 2 US Senators Propose 12-Cent Gas Tax Increase · · Score: 1

    and why not?
    you must be a republican where you want government to build stuff and no taxes to pay for it

  18. Re:"long career in IT" on Ask Slashdot: How To Bequeath Sensitive Information? · · Score: 1

    long career of inserting punch cards into computers

  19. Re:Who has the big red button? on Google and Microsoft Plan Kill Switches On Smartphones · · Score: 1

    you don't
    you trade your phone in to a legit business and they have a deal with apple and everyone else to reformat the phone and disable any kill switches

  20. Re:They never answered the question... on Google and Microsoft Plan Kill Switches On Smartphones · · Score: 1

    try being single and going out to drink all the time and having it stolen while drunk because you leave it on a bar or just lose it or going home alone at 2am on a deserted subway train

  21. Re:whistling on IRS Recycled Lerner Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    if they used MS Exchange then you can have email delivered to the pst file which means it will be deleted from the server after a few weeks and probably won't be in any backup. or you can configure deleted mail to be deleted automatically and not sit in the hidden location for a month.

  22. BUY NOW because you have to be ready on 4K Monitors: Not Now, But Soon · · Score: 1

    when the 4K content starts coming out
    because you know, they will stop selling these soon and you will never be able to buy one to view all the 4K content coming out soon
    or they will drop in price to the point where kids can afford them on their allowance, but you have to buy it NOW and Before this happens just to be the first one to watch 4K content

  23. Re:Market on U.S. Democrats Propose Legislation To Ban Internet Fast Lanes · · Score: 1

    i remember those days. the dial up ISP's used to disconnect everyone who spent more than an hour logged in because no one ever had enough ports available for all of their customers. best you could do was try to dial a non local number and pay for it on your phone bill instead of it being free

  24. Re:just label ISP's as common carriers already on U.S. Democrats Propose Legislation To Ban Internet Fast Lanes · · Score: 1

    except that all the regional bell companies were common carriers and charged for terminating calls onto their networks
    kind of like almost every video provider out there pays commercial CDN's to host their content or transit network to carry. the CDN's in turn pay the ISP's for bandwidth. kind of like the RBOC's of old. almost everyone except your precious netflix who is trying to get special treatment with having ISP's host their CDN for free

  25. Re:Market on U.S. Democrats Propose Legislation To Ban Internet Fast Lanes · · Score: 1

    you're an idiot
    their TOTAL DEBT outstanding is like $45 BILLION. Time warner is around $20 BILLION. AT&T and Verizon are probably close to $200 billion but that includes their other businesses.
    it's in that website you linked to