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  1. It is just me on Thor: The Dark World — What Did You Think? · · Score: 1

    Or if this turns into advertisements for nerds, I will walk someplace else. Movies from Holywood suck, sequels worse and I bet if this needs so much publicity, it is very bad.

  2. Re:Windows 8.x is horrible! on Microsoft Donates Windows 8.1 To Nonprofit Organizations · · Score: 0

    Yep, on a touchscreen is *really* good. Better than an iPad even. That Windows menus are wonderful btw, and that squares quite pretty lets say. Like the vomit of my cute puppy too... Are you for real?

  3. Re:that's just evil on Microsoft Donates Windows 8.1 To Nonprofit Organizations · · Score: 2

    It is plain obvious why. NGOs are one of the driving forces of the work landscape and a field of training for natives entering the IT field. This is a move to limit expansion and people getting know-how about open source alternatives in the 3rd world. Plus, they know they will lock them in additional software/services like Office 365.

  4. Re:A large segment of the market is not using the on Blockbuster To Close Remaining US Locations · · Score: 1

    hey, I am 40, and see a lot of movies in my computer and in my tablet, and don't live with my parents. I mostly stream my films to the TV when I share the experience.

  5. Talibans on The Feathered Threat To US Air Superiority · · Score: 1

    The birds are trained by Al-Qaeda, no doubt about it.

  6. Re:Already there on Microsoft Warns of Zero-Day Attacks · · Score: 1

    Why should they, killing the lucrative AV industry?

  7. Much more effective on Why Internet Explorer Still Dominates South Korea. · · Score: 1

    than the green dam project... ;) and far cheaper too.

  8. Re:The strongest evidence on Withhold Passwords From Your Employer, Go To Jail? · · Score: 1

    I remember also reading that he erased the configurations from nvram, leaving them in RAM, to thwart password recovery procedures, making the routers lose all the configurations if turned off.

  9. Re:Is it true? really? on MIT Wristband Is a Personal Climatizer · · Score: 1

    Obtuse? No sir, I am being sarcastic. I have seen already plenty of magic bracelets that could last a lifetime are there are some nice inventions called sweaters and gloves. That aren't patented btw. And I am not sympathetic for slashdot running continuously this patent advert. Did I offend you in any anyway? If I did, well, I really don't care. I am free to express my opinion, and if it smells like an advertisement to a con, looks like it and walks like it, it is really a con. And I guess that given the average reader of slashdot, that is a waste of time to try to advertise here this "fantastic" patent.

  10. It is not only hackers doing social engineer on Phone Calls More Dangerous Than Malware To Companies · · Score: 1

    Once an american network admin in an african country suggested me in very ambiguous terms, she was making a request from the FBI. And then people wonder why we think american people is dense. It ever anyone says that to you, tell them to sod off and send a written request.

  11. Re:"device explores human physiology" on MIT Wristband Is a Personal Climatizer · · Score: 2

    This isnt a story, this is an advertisement. Ban the guys that are modding this up.

  12. Re:A competing approach on MIT Wristband Is a Personal Climatizer · · Score: 1

    Hell, they didn't patent it either. Let me rush to the patent office, and I will be right back. Maybe I can send a patent of sweaters for wrists...

  13. Re:Termoelectrics on MIT Wristband Is a Personal Climatizer · · Score: -1

    You don't get do you? They managed to glue their "magic" bracelet to the MIT name, and free publicity. Even slashdot is getting in the bandwagon, which is not omen for what slashdot has become. Those students should get an MBA right now.

  14. Re:Other good paid email providers? on The Case Against Gmail · · Score: 1

    Quite interesting comment. Here upper management is looking is buying into Office 365, however a quick look at their downtimes SLAs is just enough to see they are a joke. I would be quite interested in knowing the details of your experience, have a look at email me, or be invited to join my linked.in at http://www.linkedin.com/pub/rui-ribeiro/16/ab8/434

  15. Is it true? really? on MIT Wristband Is a Personal Climatizer · · Score: 1

    In the last few years there have been a few wristbands designed by "NASA" and other places, and it is a very recurring theme for finding suckers. From the copper wristband in the 90s, that had tremendous health effects due to the metal blah blah, to the power silicon wristband which keeps your chakras happy, and which the idea is patented blah blah, the idea has been usually to sell a very cheap production item at luxury prices. The fact also this was presented in a MIT competition isn't the same as being developed by MIT, btw.

  16. Call the bulls by the names on RIAA Targets 21 Sites For Shutdown · · Score: 1

    RIAA is just a proxy for the big names of the entertainment industry. Hurt them where it hurst, in the wallet. Boycott movies and cable TV.

  17. Re:brace yourself on Telegraph Contributor Says Coding Is For Exceptionally Dull Weirdos · · Score: 1

    And this comment, and being modded to insightful, represents another problem. People see technical people in different light because they evaluate them by the patterns they know. Technical people, well, things people are dumb because they also evaluate them by the patterns they are used to. Management doesn't value technical people also because they rule by what they know or don't know, and because for them everyone are like "Betty" or the janitor, for that matters. I don't know what world you live in, but your Betty makes half the salary of a competent IT guy, and you can find Bettys by the dozens.

  18. Re:wrong target on UK Prime Minister Threatens To Block Further Snowden Revelations · · Score: 1

    Why only the Guardian? As far I am aware UK is in track well with China and Pakistan, having Internet censorship already in place.

  19. Re:I do agree with one point on Telegraph Contributor Says Coding Is For Exceptionally Dull Weirdos · · Score: 1

    I have no idea why they don't sink billions to make every kid a doctor or a rocket scientist. Asides from the sarcasm, sinking money in education is a well-known loophole to feed money to certain organisations that go hand-in-hand with power, namely the Catholic Church in strong Catholic countries like Spain and Portugal.

  20. Re:brace yourself on Telegraph Contributor Says Coding Is For Exceptionally Dull Weirdos · · Score: 2

    Not only coders. I worked as a technical consultants for years for a consulting firm. It payed above average, however pure technical consultants (or for that matter, technical subcontractors) were seen as lowly, simply because people in the upper management only understood management and pretty reports. Anyone who didn't migrate to that "stage" didn't get senior state, period. They went so far of their way, even lying in public about technical people that would be promoted to senior state soon, once they got in a multi-million project in their hands for Africa, and were terribly afraid people left during that project.

  21. Can he block lady Gaga too in the mix and X-Factor on UK Prime Minister Threatens To Block Further Snowden Revelations · · Score: 0

    Please, please. I don't care about politics, but would be his much greater fan from them on.

  22. Re:Puppet strings on UK Prime Minister Threatens To Block Further Snowden Revelations · · Score: 1

    It is not pressure, the UK is pleased to do back bending to the US all the time.

  23. Re:Some more star wars footage? on Lost Star Wars Footage Found On LaserDisc · · Score: 1

    Lucas ruined so much the memories of the first Star Wars for me milking it, that I think people would have to pay me to keep it.

  24. Re:Some more star wars footage? on Lost Star Wars Footage Found On LaserDisc · · Score: 2

    And now he is making publicity in slashdot hoping some sucker living in his parents basement is gullible enough to buy it.

  25. Re:Some more star wars footage? on Lost Star Wars Footage Found On LaserDisc · · Score: 2, Funny

    Goodgracious. As if the film was not already bad enough, and yet paying 700 dollars for that rubbish is quite over the top. Hey, if I tick the publicity button, do I get rid of this shameless plug to resell the worthless laserdisc?