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  1. Ads don't help on The Rise of Netflix Competitors Has Pushed Consumers Back Toward Piracy (vice.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    It doesn't help when they put ads on the service. Amazon Prime Video has started randomly putting ads between show which is annoying but they also have copied what older ads used to do which is pump of the volume for ad which is really annoying.

  2. Re:Banned because Kaspersky patched NSA/CIA backdo on Kaspersky Software Banned From US Government Systems Over Concerns About Russia (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Most important fact, you can't trust any thing a slashdot user with a 4 digit UID says.

  3. Re:You Really Want To Go Down This Road MS?? on Microsoft Signature PC Requirements Now Blocks Linux Installation: Reports · · Score: 2

    The defective Lenovo defaults also block Windows reinstalls... In other words this is Lenovo's fault.

  4. Re:Dumbest rivalry ever on Google Uses Surface Books To Show Off Chrome Battery Improvements (windowscentral.com) · · Score: 1

    Funny none of my network monitoring systems show this data transfer. Could it be that Microsoft hacked my Cisco switch, my router, and the Linux VM I use for monitoring?

  5. Re:Microsoft is "igniting" PC sales... on Microsoft's Mission To Reignite the PC Sector (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    You can't trust people with low UIDs!

  6. Re:If you don't like it.... on Jewish School Removes Evolution Questions From Exams · · Score: 0

    Are you a young Earth creationist?

  7. Re:if you want a trusted proxy.. on Most Alarming: IETF Draft Proposes "Trusted Proxy" In HTTP/2.0 · · Score: 1

    Ken Ham has lots of followers but that doesn't make most all of what he says true.

  8. Why? on Slashdot Tries Something New; Audience Responds! · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why say anything it isn't like you are going to listen or act on our concerns.

  9. Do you have the same concerns about evolution?

  10. Re:unacceptable on GIMP, Citing Ad Policies, Moves to FTP Rather Than SourceForge Downloads · · Score: 1

    I searched for VLC, 7-Zip, and Firefox on Bing and the official site was the first one in the results list each time and was labeled as such.

  11. Re:Science, or sinecure? on Nebraska Scientists Refuse To Carry Out Climate Change-Denying Study · · Score: 3, Insightful

    So should government fund Young Earth Creationism "Research" / Intelligent Design research?

  12. Re: no thanks on Building an Opt-In Society · · Score: 1

    "© 2007 Association for Comparative Economic Studies. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved" :)

  13. Re:Thus: on Nvidia Removed Linux Driver Feature For Feature Parity With Windows · · Score: 1

    Where is that from?

  14. Re:Microsoft seem determined on Microsoft XBox One Kinect Will Not Work On Windows PCs · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Because if you say anything positive about Microsoft you are evil, a shill, etc....

  15. Re:HAHAHAHAHAHA on Microsoft To Abandon Windows Phone? · · Score: 5, Informative

    No you deserve -42 for believing a /. headline about Microsoft. The article says the following at the bottom, "On the other hand the OS support date is reset with any never version of the OS, so a Windows Phone 8.5 or 9 update in November 2013 would bring along its own 18 month of security updates. Microsoft has already promised all current Windows Phone 8 handsets will receive the next major version of the operating system."

  16. The editors can't read. on Microsoft To Abandon Windows Phone? · · Score: 2, Informative

    On the other hand the OS support date is reset with any never version of the OS, so a Windows Phone 8.5 or 9 update in November 2013 would bring along its own 18 month of security updates. Microsoft has already promised all current Windows Phone 8 handsets will receive the next major version of the operating system.

  17. Re:Not all "blasphemy" is religious in nature... on EFF Looks At How Blasphemy Laws Have Stifled Speech in 2012 · · Score: 1

    Please tell me whom you believe my opponents are?

  18. Re:Not all "blasphemy" is religious in nature... on EFF Looks At How Blasphemy Laws Have Stifled Speech in 2012 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "a skeptic of $prevailingOpinionOnHighlyPoliticizedTopic in the scientific community."

    You are going to have to get used to the idea that evolution is supported by evidence and that the Earth really is billions of years old.

    Sorry

  19. Why is this here? on DNC Salute to Vets Featured Backdrop Of Russian Warships · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Why is this on /.?

  20. Re:WTF. on Torvalds Takes Issue With De Icaza's Linux Desktop Claims · · Score: 1

    "The fact that Microsoft did a cut off the knees of .NET is going to boomerang against Microsoft anyways" You might want to tell Microsoft that because they apparently don't know it.

  21. Re:Where is that first post on Windows 8 RTM Benchmarked · · Score: 2

    He has a 4 digit UID so don't trust a damn thing he says.

  22. Re:Whatever . . . on Microsoft Working On "Surface 2" Tablet · · Score: 0

    Is the childish and completely wrong Windows isn't a real OS crap ever going to stop?

  23. Re:are linux and osx... on Microsoft Working On "Surface 2" Tablet · · Score: 0

    Funny I have no problem at all using Windows 8 with a keyboard.

  24. Re:Opensource and MPL? on Pixar Demos Newly Open-Sourced OpenSubdiv Graphics Tech · · Score: 1

    Here is your proof.

    Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL)

    This license governs use of the accompanying software. If you use the software, you accept this license. If you do not accept the license, do not use the software.
    1.Definitions
    The terms "reproduce," "reproduction," "derivative works," and "distribution" have the same meaning here as under U.S. copyright law.
    A "contribution" is the original software, or any additions or changes to the software.
    A "contributor" is any person that distributes its contribution under this license.
    "Licensed patents" are a contributor's patent claims that read directly on its contribution.

    2.Grant of Rights
    (A) Copyright Grant- Subject to the terms of this license, including the license conditions and limitations in section 3, each contributor grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free copyright license to reproduce its contribution, prepare derivative works of its contribution, and distribute its contribution or any derivative works that you create.
    (B) Patent Grant- Subject to the terms of this license, including the license conditions and limitations in section 3, each contributor grants you a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license under its licensed patents to make, have made, use, sell, offer for sale, import, and/or otherwise dispose of its contribution in the software or derivative works of the contribution in the software.

    3.Conditions and Limitations
    (A) No Trademark License- This license does not grant you rights to use any contributors' name, logo, or trademarks.
    (B) If you bring a patent claim against any contributor over patents that you claim are infringed by the software, your patent license from such contributor to the software ends automatically.
    (C) If you distribute any portion of the software, you must retain all copyright, patent, trademark, and attribution notices that are present in the software.
    (D) If you distribute any portion of the software in source code form, you may do so only under this license by including a complete copy of this license with your distribution. If you distribute any portion of the software in compiled or object code form, you may only do so under a license that complies with this license.
    (E) The software is licensed "as-is." You bear the risk of using it. The contributors give no express warranties, guarantees, or conditions. You may have additional consumer rights under your local laws which this license cannot change. To the extent permitted under your local laws, the contributors exclude the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement.

  25. Re:Qt: the missed opportunity on Digia To Acquire Qt From Nokia · · Score: 1

    What is hard about downloading and installing Visual Studio Express?