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  1. Re:No shit on Large-Scale Dietary Study: Fats Good, Carbs Bad (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Mt. Dew throwback also has like 20 less calories.

  2. Re:Socialism stifling innovation on Google To Comply With EU Search Demands To Avoid More Fines (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 2

    As long as they're making more money than they're spending they'll stay.

  3. Re:The missing part of the equation on Ask Slashdot: Is Leasing a Smartphone Better Than Buying One? (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It isn't though. at 18 months you can turn it in and get a new one, or at 24 months your phone is paid off and you own it.

  4. Re:The missing part of the equation on Ask Slashdot: Is Leasing a Smartphone Better Than Buying One? (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    No you don't. The turn in is at 18 months. 24 months it's yours.

  5. When I bought the 6S+ on Ask Slashdot: Is Leasing a Smartphone Better Than Buying One? (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    I made a spreadsheet and compared my options, leasing through Apple, leasing through AT&T or buying it outright. Here's what I discovered, if you're buying the AppleCare plan they're all the same price. Apple's lease came with AppleCare, the other two did not. If you're like me, and hang on to an iPhone for two years since AT&T dropped the early upgrade option then you're going to need AppleCare because iPhones always break in some way within that first year. But here's the best part, I pitted AT&T against Apple, got to avoid the upgrade cost (which is total BS) and got free cases for all the phones I upgraded. Now I originally got the iPhone 3G, paid a down payments andand got an AT&T plan, then every year I would be eligible for an upgrade, but you didn't have to turn your phone in back then, it was the phone with a contract plan. I would then sell my old phone and use that to pay the down payment on the new one. Eventually AT&T offered a $15 discount if you were no longer on a contract. So it made it worthwhile to buy a phone.

  6. Re:The missing part of the equation on Ask Slashdot: Is Leasing a Smartphone Better Than Buying One? (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    You pay it all off in two years with the lease though.

  7. Re:The restaurant industry's in a slump on To Survive in Tough Times, Restaurants Turn to Data-Mining (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    "according to the tech wizards who are determined to jolt the restaurant industry out of its current slump." From the article synopsis, so which is it, are they bounced back or in a slump?

  8. Re:Are you saying... on To Survive in Tough Times, Restaurants Turn to Data-Mining (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    There were some that did, like the ones that mostly acorns since that was what was in their area. Too bad their teeth all rotted.

  9. Re:Officially Pissed Off on How the NSA Identified Satoshi Nakamoto (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    We just need gov apps, where everyone gets to vote on how money is spent, you'll need 65% or more to get the money spent. Watch how everyone ends up wanting a smaller government because we can't agree on much except a few things to fund.

  10. Re:Display screen on Ask Slashdot: Best Non-Smart TV Sets? (slashdot.org) · · Score: 1

    I found a 50inch that was under a grand. These prices seem pretty good, but lack HDMI or the other hookups. Is there a dongle that I can use?

  11. Personally with Netflix's lack of content and not for me originals I'm closer than ever to cancelling.

  12. Re:what an idiot on A 2:15 Alarm, 2 Trains and a Bus Get Her To Work by 7 AM (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    She's doing what lots do, and that's maximizing her retirement. She has probably lived/worked in the most expensive areas because that's how their retirement is based.

  13. Re: I took the bus once on A 2:15 Alarm, 2 Trains and a Bus Get Her To Work by 7 AM (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't push when you poop, if you do you won't be able to hold your bowels when you're an old person.

  14. Re:Need vs Politics on From Google To Yahoo, Tech Grapples With White Male Discontent (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Everyone can put "I do not wish to disclose" though, so it seems the requirement isn't much of one.

  15. Re:In the words of Orange45 on Google Cancels Domain Registration For Neo-Nazi Website Daily Stormer (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    "Freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences." When did this become the new catchphrase of the internet to justify their doxxing? If you aren't free of consequences for speech then you have no freedom of speech. That's a fact.

  16. Re:Stuff that they don't track on Microsoft Dismisses Consumer Reports' Surface Complaints, But Doesn't Offer Much Evidence · · Score: 2

    Nah, my windows phone was having issues too with shit they should have easily fixed. Windows 10 is just buggy as hell.

  17. I know a girl that used to work for Blizzard on Blizzard Starts Drive To Recruit More Women and Ethnic Minorities (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    She won't even play their games and hates them a shit load. They probably have other issues than hiring.

  18. Re:Unrealistic expectations on Salesforce Fires Red Team Staffers Who Gave Defcon Talk (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    A cell phone you don't need to refill every month, but stays active like maybe a $1 a month, just to leave in your car's glove box that needs to be recharged every month or two. That's the dream.

  19. Re:Kinda makes me wonder on Americans Are Dying Younger, Saving Corporations Billions (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    As long as you stay away from Carbs you should be good to go on your yummy bacon diet.

  20. Re:Piracy vs Disney on Disney Ditching Netflix Keeps Piracy Relevant (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    It's funny that you point that out, except for Dr. Strange very recently I do watch very few Disney owned things. They've just gone downhill on a lot of their quality including Marvel the last few years.

  21. Re:Shame on Disney Ditching Netflix Keeps Piracy Relevant (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    They've also owned Miramax and other companies for a while.

  22. Re:Shame on Disney Ditching Netflix Keeps Piracy Relevant (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    All 3D printing DRM type of crap would say otherwise.

  23. Re:It's even better than cool; it's UNcool to NOT on Disney Ditching Netflix Keeps Piracy Relevant (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    I can buy digital copies of most Disney movies from my phone right now on multiple platforms. I can also purchase physical ones, same with HBO for these as well.

  24. Re:Progress of the Arts and Sciences on Disney To Pull Its Movies From Netflix and Start Its Own Streaming Service (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Hulu has several shows that neither of the other two have. I find a lot of overlap in Amazon and Netflix, but I do have cable with HBO which really makes Amazon only good for their own content.

  25. Re:Progress of the Arts and Sciences on Disney To Pull Its Movies From Netflix and Start Its Own Streaming Service (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The lame Marvel movies they've been releasing and a few tired Star Wars movies that I still haven't seen (I even went to the theaters for the prequels) aren't enough to make me want a Disney streaming service unless it was only $2.99 at most per month.