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  1. Re:So what does it cost in USA? on ITIF Senior Fellow Claims "America's Broadband Networks Lead the World" · · Score: 1

    Lucky you. I pay 40$CAD for a shitty 2.5/0.5 connection.

  2. Re:distributed? on How To Block the NSA From Your Friends List · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We need a "Facebook is not the Internet" campaign.

  3. Re:Write your list on notebook paper on How To Block the NSA From Your Friends List · · Score: 0

    Write your list on notebook paper. Never take a picture of it or video of it. Lock it in a safe. Nuke the safe from orbit. That's the only way to be sure.

  4. Re:Firefox support on Google Enables VP9 Video Codec In Chromium · · Score: 1

    Switch user agent to iPad, it works in 95% of the time.

  5. Re:NIST definition - Cloud computing on Can Red Hat Do For OpenStack What It Did For Linux? · · Score: 1

    In short, the hardware is virtualized and virtual machines run inside the virtual hardware sounds like running a GameBoy emulator for PSP inside a PSP emulator for Windows.

  6. Re:Cute. Too bad it won't scale up... on Teen's Biofuel Invention Turns Algae Into Fuel · · Score: 2

    East coast, nowhere near the freezing parts. We've had around 5 to 10C for the last three days or so. If it snowed I wouldn't even be surprised.

  7. Re:And the point would be...? on Echolocation For Your Cell Phone · · Score: 2

    You just said that 3D mapping with only four microphones is useless in the real world.

  8. Re:iPhone App on Echolocation For Your Cell Phone · · Score: 0

    And "PC" used to mean "Personal Computer", not "Windows". Get over it.

  9. Re:but what of the privacy implications?!! on Echolocation For Your Cell Phone · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Apple collects and stores all of your searches, sells location information to the highest bidder, and could give a flying fuck through a rolling doughnut about your privacy.

    I think you're confusing Apple with Google.

  10. Re:Cute. Too bad it won't scale up... on Teen's Biofuel Invention Turns Algae Into Fuel · · Score: 2

    Sun? What the fuck is that?

    Signed,
    a Canadian.

  11. Re:BUT... on China Bumps US Out of First Place For Fastest Supercomptuer · · Score: 4, Funny

    it will probably crash at least three times a week

    So we know it runs Microsoft Windows. U.S.A.! U.S.A.!

  12. Re:NIST definition - Cloud computing on Can Red Hat Do For OpenStack What It Did For Linux? · · Score: 4, Funny

    The fact that "cloud computing" needs 1.5 pages for definition alone is proof that the concept was created by the Marketing Department of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation.

  13. Cloud computing platform on Can Red Hat Do For OpenStack What It Did For Linux? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    After all these years I still don't know what that is supposed to mean. I know about servers, FTP, server-side languages, etc. But "cloud computing platform" just sounds like a buzzword clusterfuck from the marketing department.

    If I look on wikipedia then even a simple website with a CMS is "cloud computing".

  14. Re:just FYI on Apple Details US Requests For Customer Data · · Score: 4, Funny

    11 people were killed by toddlers accidentally firing guns in 2013

    Guns are safe! Ban toddlers!

  15. Re:just FYI on Apple Details US Requests For Customer Data · · Score: 2

    Another fun fact, terrorists don't tend to post giant posts on public areas like Facebook, Twitter, or Verizon text message with giant keywords like "nuclear bomb" and "terrorist attack" nor do they do it on the internet or a blog.

    So by saying "nuclear bomb" and "terrorist attack" on a forum like Slashdot, by your logic, I've just been flagged as a non-terrorist?

    For your information, I use nuclear bombs all the time in Starcraft II. Godamn zergs.

  16. Re:More Startling still......... on Archaeologists Discover Lost City In Cambodian Jungle · · Score: 1, Funny

    He was one of the Beatles, right?

  17. Toxic chemicals? on Future Astronauts Must Deal With Toxic Chemicals In Martian Soil · · Score: 1

    That's not toxic chemicals, that's black oil.

  18. Re:The Eye of Google on Google Floats Balloons For Free Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    I think 20km up in the stratosphere doesn't qualify as "over his house" anymore.

  19. Re:I thought that Loonies... on Google Floats Balloons For Free Wi-Fi · · Score: 2

    AC is not a troll. Off-topic maybe, but not troll.

  20. Re:It Would Be Great Fun... on Kickass Torrents' KAT.ph Domain Seized By Philippine Authorities · · Score: 1

    Well, yeah, we can debate wether or not there is actual losses because there's a lot of "IFs" involved, but if we take for granted that there IS losses, it should be the same as the sticker price. In the case of songs, it's an average of 99 cents on almost all Internet music stores.

  21. Re:We need more than that on Birthday Song's Copyright Leads To a Lawsuit For the Ages · · Score: 1

    Write software for banks and get a fixed percentage or amount for every transaction? How does half a cent sounds?

  22. Re:It Would Be Great Fun... on Kickass Torrents' KAT.ph Domain Seized By Philippine Authorities · · Score: 1

    You must work for the industry for suggesting something as stupid.
    1. You're asking the government to waste an average of USD$5887 to incarcerate someone for 90 days
    2. 90 days is extreme for something like copyright infringement
    3. The real losses are nowhere near what the MPAA and RIAA wants you to believe. If they can sell a song for 99 cents then the actual damage for downloading a song is 99 cents, not thousands of dollars. You really need to watch this and get back to reality.

    Insane people like you are the reason why the USA is in rapid decline and under so much debt.

  23. Re:The damage must be incalculable on Kickass Torrents' KAT.ph Domain Seized By Philippine Authorities · · Score: 1

    Wait their currency is actually called... "PHP"? O.o

  24. Re:Interesting on Kickass Torrents' KAT.ph Domain Seized By Philippine Authorities · · Score: 1

    They just went over his head? It doesn't matter if the guy was listed as the domain administrator or not, the real control is at the DNS servers themselves.

  25. Comments in next story on Apogee Suing Gearbox Over Unpaid Royalties For Duke Nukem Forever · · Score: 1

    Anyone else not seeing the comments in the A350XWB story?