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  1. cheese vs cheese brine on Wisconsin Begins Using Cheese To De-Ice Roads · · Score: 4, Funny

    timothy, if that's the same to you, have some with crackers.

  2. Re:Missed opportunity for Linux on PC Makers Plan Rebellion Against Microsoft At CES · · Score: 1

    Binary drivers and provide a stable ABI for binary drivers.

    +1. Exactly that, and everything else he said.

  3. Re:Ugh on PC Makers Plan Rebellion Against Microsoft At CES · · Score: 3, Insightful

    There is absolutely no need for Windows anymore, except for Gaming and editing MS Office documents.

    Or making money using Photoshop, Illustrator, Maya, Inventor, Autocad, Altium, VS, Vegas, etc...

    There are uses for computers other than browsing the internet, watching movies and playing games.

  4. Re:Expected on US Federal Judge Rules NSA Data Collection Legal · · Score: 1

    How much evidence are you prepared to ignore?

    All of it.

    Justin Bieber. Miley Cyrus. Legalizing drugs. Much more interesting.

  5. Re: Time to appeal on US Federal Judge Rules NSA Data Collection Legal · · Score: 1

    when it became a political liability

    Did it? Nobody got even as much as a slap on the wrist.

  6. Re:My Intel SSD sucks... on Power-Loss-Protected SSDs Tested: Only Intel S3500 Passes · · Score: 2

    My daughters WD 500 gig blue edition is damned near as fast loading levels in games.

    Without testing a different HDD in place of your drive, it's silly blaming it on the SSD. It can be anything from your motherboard, SATA controller, bad memory, cable, heck you might even have some malware installed.

  7. Re:So if you can build a cheaper equivalent... on What Would It Cost To Build a Windows Version of the Pricey New Mac Pro? · · Score: 1

    Because most people understand that there's no need to become fanboys and buy products based on their needs. This allows multiple companies to stay in business.

  8. Typing on a Macbook Air that has the imprint of the keyboard on its screen because of the way the screen closes. It drops out wifi periodically. I had a Macbook before where the plastic started cracking after 6 months and Apple refused to replace it, saying it's normal wear. So no, I don't buy that a newegg component will be less well designed.

  9. Popularity contest. on Memo To Parents and Society: Teen Social Media "Addiction" Is Your Fault · · Score: 1

    While I don't disagree that things have changed since I was a kid, let's not ignore what social media is: a non-stop popularity contest. Who has the most "friends", who says the most outrageous things, who shows most skin.

    Everyone wants to be the most popular. When I was growing up, the popularity contest was limited to hanging out after school, going out, parties. With social media it's constant. Kids nowadays can contest for popularity every waking moment of their day. If the internet and smart phones existed in our days, it would've been the same stupidity.

    Also, it's not just kids. My mother in law is just as bad, maybe worse. Same with all the moms at my kids' schools. So let's not throw only the kids under the bus.

  10. Do we want an erasable Internet? on Could an Erasable Internet Kill Google? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Sure.

    Can we have it?

    No.

    Wisdom goes that there are no stupid questions. This, however, is as close as you can get.

  11. Re:mobile is for a quick check on the go on Ask Slashdot: Why Do Mobile Versions of Websites Suck? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Bullshit. Apps suck even more. Get a device with a big enough screen, and use the desktop version of the internet.

  12. Re:Perceptions on Privacy Advocate Jacob Appelbaum Reports Break-In Of Berlin Apartment · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Let's just not get carried away and think that Russians, Germans, the Brits, Canadians, you name it, don't engage in similar activities. Maybe it's just that in those countries nobody has the balls to leak the info.

  13. Re:Why bother? on How To Avoid a Scramble For the Moon and Its Resources · · Score: 1

    Actually, you do. It just hasn't hit the headlines on Fox News yet.

    Say what? Where did this even come from?

    Instead of the sly comments, maybe you should look up our GDP/debt ratio, and pull your head out of the sand.

  14. Re:Missile Base on How To Avoid a Scramble For the Moon and Its Resources · · Score: 1

    At the Pentagon, in 30 years:

    "Oh, shit, the Chinese just launched a rocket at Justin Bieber's mansion!"

    "What's the origin?"

    "The Moon."

    "Oh, ok. I'm going fishing this weekend, so I have to run. Let's just deal with this Monday."

  15. Re:Why bother? on How To Avoid a Scramble For the Moon and Its Resources · · Score: 2, Insightful

    We don't.

    Yet.

  16. Re:"Truly free", but with Intel inside(tm) on Free Software Foundation Endorses a "Truly Free" Laptop · · Score: 1

    ...but with Intel inside..I laughed...

    Why does that make you laugh? Please, do tell, what's the open alternative.

  17. UK ISP Adult Filters Block Sex Education Websites Allows Access To Porn

    ^^^ you just won "the worst title" prize of the month

  18. Re:I hate change! on NASA's Greatest Challenges In 2014 · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure you've also noticed the extreme proportion of slashvertisements and click baits since timothy and the new owners took over. It's all about making hard cash now, news for nerds is the past. You are the product now, just like on facebook.

    Better disable ad blocking and start clicking those ads before it gets much worse.

  19. How much is that in drugs? on The FBI's Giant Bitcoin Wallet · · Score: 1

    Let's just say this silk road profit was made before the recent spike in bitcoin price, and divide it by ten, that's still $10 million. This is after he probably spent a whole lot on operations and lifestyle, and whatever he had stashed elsewhere.

    I have no idea how profitable the drug dealing business is, nor the pricing of drugs, but that sounds like a shitload of product sold.

    You must need a warehouse with employees to ship all that stuff. And how much jailtime do you get when they catch you with that many coins in your pocket, from selling drugs?

  20. Re:It's pretty simple on How a MacBook Camera Can Spy Without Lighting Up · · Score: 1, Interesting

    One of them geniuses? And he pulled out the schematics, or showed you the traces on the pcb? Care to share the proof?

  21. Re:Apple or Apple Corps on Unreleased 1963 Beatles Tracks On Sale To Preserve Copyright · · Score: 1

    But being accurate would attract much less clicks.

  22. Re:Heckler veto on Harvard Bomb Hoax Perpetrator Caught Despite Tor Use · · Score: 1

    stop over-reacting

    Yeah. Like telling people to just go back to their offices, because these buildings can take a couple airplanes flying into them.

  23. Like they give a shit. on Judge: NSA Phone Program Likely Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    They do what they want. Need court order? No problem, they just set up a secret court, that spits out authorizations, in secret, when they want it, they can even back date it.

    Oh, this shit is all illegal? No worries, nobody will go to jail. They'll just say it was to catch them pedophiles.

  24. Happy Bitcoin Day! on Bitcoin Inventor Satoshi Nakamoto Could Actually Be Group From Europe · · Score: 1

    Must be bitcoin day with all these articles popping up faster than ravioli in hot water.

  25. Re:Apple on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Secure Your Parents' PC? · · Score: 1

    Apple don't keep changing stuff around in their Mac OS, unlike Microsoft do with windows

    You obviously have not used OSX or Windows recently. I use both daily, and I have to tell you, every time I upgrade OSX, it takes a full day of work getting things back to usable.