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  1. Re:Careful! on Joss Whedon Releases New Film On Demand · · Score: 1

    Unless you actually know what was going on, shove your assumptions where the sun don't shine.

    This was the first bad HD streaming experience in years and the connection has performed without problems throughout the long easter weekend as well (over here that was an extended weekend from Friday to Monday). HD streams by other sites didn't cause any problems either, the problem was reproducible across tabs and browsers and using the web developer tools you could practically watch the stream arrive too late, piece by piece and with not nearly enough overlap to provide seamless playback.

    If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, ...

  2. Well .... on Women Increasingly Freezing Their Eggs To Pursue Their Careers · · Score: 1

    Talk about an off-site backup!

  3. Careful! on Joss Whedon Releases New Film On Demand · · Score: 4, Informative

    The movie was worth the five bucks to watch it on Vimeo, but their Flash-based player (no quick way to switch to an HTML5 version) resulted in such a choppy playback that the constant pauses and buffer attempts added another half hour to the whole thing.

    Since it's a 95 minute movie we're talking about a quarter of the time being spent on just waiting for the fucking site to do its job again.
    Before anyone asks: The 100MBit connection has never been a problem before and the necessary software was up to date as well.

    Hope you'll have more luck. Except for the predictable end it's quite a nice movie.

  4. Re:Can the writings be read? on Is Germany Raising a Generation of Illiterates? · · Score: 1

    That joke of a reform is the reason why the people who were in school during that time don't really give a fuck about the topic anymore.

  5. Re:Daily Astroturf on How Facebook and Oculus Could Be a Great Combination · · Score: 1

    Dome kind of Goatse mirror?

    Accept no substitutes!!!

  6. Re:The Inner Light on Why Darmok Is a Good Star Trek: TNG Episode · · Score: 1

    Don't forget "Lessons", the last chapter of "The Inner Light".

  7. Re:Let's hear about the exceptions for once on GCHQ and NSA Targeted World Leaders, Private German Companies · · Score: 1

    It would be more interesting to hear who they're *not* spying on these days.

    A much shorter list like that would certainly save a lot of time.

  8. Re:Good for NSA on NSA Hacked Huawei, Stole Source Code · · Score: 1

    A company deliberately installing back doors to the world wide Internet.

    So, we're now talking about the NSA backdoors in routers made by US companies?

  9. Re:This is indeed a service problem on Controversial Torrent Streaming App 'Popcorn Time' Shuts Down, Then Gets Reborn · · Score: 1

    There's an iTunes store in most European markets, but it's more of an afterthought where the original videos are usually inacessible and you only get localized/dubbed crap even though the original version is right there next to it on the server.

  10. So? on 1GB of Google Drive Storage Now Costs Only $0.02 Per Month · · Score: 1

    It's now subsidized by the NSA?

  11. Re:Boeing making self-destructing phone? on Sundar Pichai: Android Designed For Openness; Security a Lower Priority · · Score: 1

    True to their defense contractor traditions they'll probably try to destroy it by way of a drone strike.

  12. Re:"Seems pretty neutral" on YouTube Ordered To Remove "Illegal" Copyright Blocking Notices · · Score: 1

    You know you're in trouble when even a big music corporation criticizes you as a hindrance to the transition into the digital age.

  13. Re:Draconian GEMA on YouTube Ordered To Remove "Illegal" Copyright Blocking Notices · · Score: 1

    Some numbers to put the parent post into perspective:
    http://apps.opendatacity.de/ge...

  14. Yes, but Google was faster on 'CandySwipe' Crushed: When Game Development Turns Nasty · · Score: 1

    ;)

  15. Re:What matters is what they do next on China's Jade Rabbit Lunar Rover Officially Declared Lost · · Score: 1

    Considering how many probes were lost to various factors over the decades, coming this far on their first try actually wasn't half bad.

  16. Re:How do I disable beta on China's Jade Rabbit Lunar Rover Officially Declared Lost · · Score: 1

    There should be a link in the page footer.

  17. Re:Insert on First Global Map Outside the Solar System · · Score: 1

    The red version is much better.

  18. Re:Ugly on Slashdot PT Cruiser Spotted In the Wild · · Score: 4, Informative
  19. George Carlin on Bees Are Building Nests With Our Waste Plastic · · Score: 0

    Anyone else reminded of this?
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

  20. Re:Hypocrites on EU Commissioner Renews Call for Serious Fines in Data Privacy Laws · · Score: 1

    Actually, with the US' entrenched practice of case law, where judges rely on how other judges interpret how other judges interpret (...) certain aspects of the constitution, it's impossible to put a number on it even after including all the other laws concerned.

  21. Re:Clearly losing money? on The Hobbit and Game of Thrones Top Most Pirated Lists of 2013 · · Score: 4, Funny

    The same logic by which the NSA all but shoving a microphone up your ass has prevented trillions of terrorist attacks!

  22. Re:Obvious Question on What Would It Cost To Build a Windows Version of the Pricey New Mac Pro? · · Score: 1

    Glad to be or service! ;)

  23. Re:Obvious Question on What Would It Cost To Build a Windows Version of the Pricey New Mac Pro? · · Score: 1

    That's old news!
    Ever seen the default theme of Windows XP?

  24. Re:Obvious Question on What Would It Cost To Build a Windows Version of the Pricey New Mac Pro? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, maybe for the on-board computer of a clown car.

  25. Re:Obvious Question on What Would It Cost To Build a Windows Version of the Pricey New Mac Pro? · · Score: 2

    April 1?