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  1. Re:Provoking on Machine Gun Fire From Military Helicopters Flying Over Downtown Miami · · Score: 1

    Couldn't have said it better myself. Also, I'm pretty sure that we have our own issues to deal with on our home front and it sure costs a lot of money for us to deploy soldiers on foreign soil...could be saved to reduce the deficit or even the debt.

  2. Re:King Bhumibol Adulyade on Thailand Jails Dissident For What People Thought He Would Have Said · · Score: 1

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DO1Q7F23DxM Ass pennies - Upright Citizen's Brigade - funniest skit they did.

  3. Re:Its vs. it's on What Did Google Earth Spot In the Chinese Desert? · · Score: 1

    Ha! It got labelled as Offtopic, but at least they changed their summary!

  4. Its vs. it's on What Did Google Earth Spot In the Chinese Desert? · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Learn the difference. It's is a combination of two very large words: it and is. Its is possessive.

  5. So... on Secession Petitions Flood White House Website · · Score: 1

    Why does opposing Obama so much that you don't want to be a part of the US anymore have to have something to do with race? I'm sure this is the case for some (maybe more than some), but I would disagree with almost everything that man does and stands for, whether he was white, black, or purple polka dot.

  6. Warning! (Non-Douche Answer Contained Within Post) on Ask Slashdot: Which Virtual Machine Software For a Beginner? · · Score: 1

    I use both VirtualBox and VMware Workstation. I prefer the VMware, but VirtualBox is free...I like free...so, for personal use, of those 2 options, I would use VurtualBox.

  7. Re:Tweedledee won ! on Barack Obama Retains US Presidency · · Score: 1

    Oh, really? How about when Clinton relaxed the lending restrictions on banks allowing them to make questionable and fiscally irresponsible loans? That was the beginning of the end. They all played a part in this, but don't blow hot air up my ass.

  8. Re:I don't get it on At $250, New Chromebook Means Competition For Tablets, Netbooks, Ultrabooks · · Score: 1

    No, it gives you a good idea that they're incompetent. You can download a free viewer program to read docx, regardless of whether you have MS Word 2007+ or not.

  9. Re:So fucking what? on Black Sheep Blackberry Blackballed By Business · · Score: 1

    Sounds like you need to update your OS. I have both Android and iOS mobile devices and they are able to automatically configure themselves with the exchange server. It even tries to find the exchange server based on your email address. Besides this is a one-time configuration issue and not enough to complain about.

    Unless your organization uses a cloud exchange service such as Office 365 - it does not discover this automatically, and you have to change your user name and mail server address. This is NOT a 1-time deal usually. Users sometimes have to delete/re-add their email account from the phone. Or do a hard reset to fix other issues on the phone. And if they are not techy, they will need to be walked through this every time. Can be frustrating

    Blackberry has its share of exploits. One was demonstrated at Pwn2Own which exploited the browser of a BB Torch 9800. This exploit could be used to install Flexispy. There was also a talk at DefCon 2006 where the BB could be exploited to get access to the internal LAN of the corporation.

    My point being that don't be so smug about the security of your device. There are exploits out there.

    Agree with you there, there are exploits for just about everything. But the organization will usually be best-served by making their devices as secure as possible, and the per-device AES encryption is pretty good

  10. Bresnan (now optimum) on Internet Providers To Begin Warning Customers Who Pirate Content · · Score: 1

    They've been doing this for years. Third strike, no more internet.

  11. Re:Tor on The Pirate Bay Starts Using Virtualized Servers · · Score: 1

    Sure, but they have to register with ARIN and give a legal business and the name of an officer for that business to attach to the ASN right? Seems less than completely safe.

  12. Re:Atlas Shrugged on Ask Slashdot: What Books Have Had a Significant Impact On Your Life? · · Score: 2

    I thought that was a fantastic book as well.

  13. Every couple weeks or so... on Ask Slashdot: How Often Do You Push To Production? · · Score: 1

    We try to complete a sprint every 2-3 weeks and then push to production. Occasionally (more often than I would like) there are hotfixes that need to be done in between. Scrum with agile software development.

  14. Re:Does anyone with a clue actually *use* this stu on VMware: Hey, Other Cloud Services Exist · · Score: 1

    I use the software service cloud for my personal and for work we have our DNS servers, web servers, load balancers, SQL servers, FTP servers all in the cloud. Works great, and has been an enormous money-saving option as our servers were at end of life.

  15. Re:Wow on Curiosity Spies Unidentified, Metallic Object On Mars · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No more moronic than supporters of any other party and most likely less moronic. What's wrong with supporting the idea of smaller government? It's one of the concepts that this country was founded upon.

  16. Re:Fighting Piracy is Good for Open Source on Illegal Downloading Now a Crime In Japan With Increased Penalties · · Score: 1

    The recording industry will never receive one more dollar from me. The artist may receive some money from me if they happen to be coming to my city and I go to their show. If music becomes unavailable for free, I will simply use a streaming service.

  17. Re:It is ugly though in Desktop mode. on Intel CEO Tells Staff Windows 8 Is Being Released Prematurely · · Score: 1

    Well, there ARE some of us using Windows 8 not on a tablet...

  18. Cavity search anyone? on Richard Branson 'Determined To Start a Population On Mars' · · Score: 1

    Imagine how bad TSA is going to be on your pre-flight screening to go into space!

  19. Re:Oh no! Regulation! on Verizon Offers Free Tethering Because It Has To · · Score: 1

    It's a downward spiral though - with the individual elements feeding off each other. The jobless people and illegal immigrants who are being provided for by the government (which is provided for by the people who work) with money which is therefore not available to be used for other programs. The money, if there is not enough, is then created by the federal reserve, further devaluing the American dollar, which makes it even less likely that minimum wage will be a suitable source of income. However, jobs like McDonalds for instance start employees at $10/hour, which surpasses the federal minimum wage by somewhere around 30%. I lived on minimum wage for many years, and with the help of scholarships and student loans, put myself through school and now make considerably more than what I was making before.

  20. Re:Oh no! Regulation! on Verizon Offers Free Tethering Because It Has To · · Score: 2

    Providing meaningless employment for people is NOT a solution. Where is the incentive to excel at what you do if others reap all the rewards from the fruits of your labors? There ARE jobs out there, the difference between people today and the people of let's say 50 years ago, is that the people of 50 years ago did not have the overabundance of social programs to fall back on in the event of a job loss or some other similar event. They had 2 options - 1: Go find a job (not necessarily the one you want, you may even feel you're "too good" for that job, but you take it) and provide for you and your family; or 2: Don't find a job (and starve).

  21. Re:Question: on New IE Zero-Day Being Exploited In the Wild · · Score: 1

    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/advisory/2757760 There's a list of what's affected on that page :)

  22. Re:Absolutely. on Hardware Is Dead — At Least Most Expensive Hardware Is · · Score: 1

    2 million pre-orders in the first 2 days is disappointing?

  23. Re:I'm sorry sir, but... on Nuance Launches Siri Rival "Nina" · · Score: 2

    Or you could just do it the way you did it before Nina was born...

  24. Re:Am I the only one that finds this creepy? on Pills With Digestible Microchips Approved By US Drug Agency · · Score: 1

    Think about it this way: You receive heavy narcotics for some supposed chronic pain that you have. But instead of taking the pills, you sell them (this can create quite the residual income for you). Your insurance or medicaid/care pays for the pills, and you also sign a contract with your doctor saying that you will take the medication as prescribed. Selling the pills, or taking them all in one day is a violation of said contract as well as an unnecessary drain on the healthcare system (be it private or government). Currently, the only way to check to see if you are taking them as prescribed, is when you come in to see the doctor, they take your blood and see if there is a level of the drug in your system (easily bypassed by selling all your pills and then saving one for the day of your doctor visit) - this system would negate that process. I think it's a good idea. They're obviously not going to put this in your Ibuprofin 800mg tablets to make sure that you're taking them, this will be for narcotics and possibly anti-psychotic medications to ensure that they are being used properly.

  25. Re:Forget this garbage on Google Drive Goes Live · · Score: 1

    ManBearPig!