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  1. Re:No chance on The Inevitable Death of the Internet Troll · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Seems like you are likening legitimate issues to trolling. Busting down barriers for women's rights and segregation are valid. Comparing trolling grammar to suffrage is a bit of a leap.

  2. Re:No SD card, non-removable battery on Google Announces Motorola-Made Nexus 6 and HTC-Made Nexus 9 · · Score: 1

    Get a Blu Dash 5.5 or something like that then. There are a ton of choices. Blue, ZTE, Huwei, and others all make things with plenty of choices. I'm not going to suggest someone buy some farkle brand in order to simply disprove that there aren't modern phones with replaceable batteries.

    I don't consider Apple, Samsung, HTC, or LG to be any less evil than the next one. Couple in whatever your carrier is, there is little to no chance there isn't a scumbag or two in the experience.

  3. Re:No SD card, non-removable battery on Google Announces Motorola-Made Nexus 6 and HTC-Made Nexus 9 · · Score: 2

    Galaxy S5 Google Play Edition

  4. Re:i could make a comment but... on Texas Ebola Patient Dies · · Score: 1

    I could point out that you did make a comment, but I'm not going to.

  5. Graphics Card News on NVIDIA Launches Mobile Maxwell GeForce GTX 980M and GTX 970M Notebook Graphics · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Graphics card news has been virtually the same since 1999 with the exception of not seeing games that meet future gen card specs on launch. The incentive to run your current gen games at faster than eyeballs speed on a laptop has to have lost its charm when people who purchase high end laptops would prefer portability of ultra books and anyone who demands the performance and travels can ship their desktops to the competitions they are in to need them.

    The launches of the laptops that actually support these just felt flat to me from what I saw. Honestly who wants that big a hunk of appliance on their lap at this age? The audience for laptops as big as early 2000 era laptops has to be getting slim. With laptop sales being so flat and performance gamers being what they are it doesn't make any sense for the people who have bought $600 cards every six months to want to be behind again on a $3000 lappy.

    Maybe I'm just getting crotchety and I have a 670M.

  6. Re:Time for some crapflooding. on Adobe Spies On Users' eBook Libraries · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If they aren't encrypting they probably aren't set up on whatever is reading these for SQL injection or all sorts of other fun. Could be hilarious actually.

  7. Re:Alternate title on Why Military Personnel Make the Best IT Pros · · Score: 4, Insightful

    or Dice Clickbait Cancer

  8. Republic Wireless on Ask Slashdot: Is It Worth Being Grandfathered On Verizon's Unlimited Data Plan? · · Score: 1

    $40 unlimited. nuff said.

  9. Re:Stop blaming the Soviets on Aral Sea Basin Almost Completely Dry · · Score: 2

    Perhaps to you, but to Russia at the time they valued the industry over nature. I'm sure now that the area affected is no longer part of Russia they have no intention to get rid of farmland to improve nature in countries they no longer control.

  10. Re:Why? on Grooveshark Found Guilty of Massive Copyright Infringement · · Score: 1

    Why did I have to perform a search on dogpile to figure out Bing was?

  11. Re:Swift is MIA in TFA on Building Apps In Swift With Storyboards · · Score: 2

    This is the first Dice article I've seen linked and it did not disappoint when it came to disappointing. I think anyone who has looked at Mac OS X from even the most casual development end or UI customizing end already knows at least a little Interface Builder. I was using it in the first four releases of OS X to fix poorly designed interfaces just because as a graphic artist things like that drive you crazy and it is just as easy to edit the nibs than to explain to the devs.

    You are absolutely right. This has nothing to do with programming and very little to do with Interface Builder.

    Apple's own docs are way better a starting point than this cringeworthy shameless Dice promotion with third rate screen shots. They could have at least had someone with a bit of experience make the screens so it didn't look like it was done by someone who hasn't ever used the application.

  12. Re:Someone's going to complain on Drones Reveal Widespread Tax Evasion In Argentina · · Score: 1

    a) Their constitution is based on ours. b) It's not really standard surveying work when it is targeting a specific area to collect money from tax evaders with drones and it is most certainly invasive if they are comparing it against people's tax documents.

  13. Subject lines that serve as the body on US Strikes ISIL Targets In Syria · · Score: 1, Funny

    Grind my gears.

  14. Re:Can't be pirated? on U2 and Apple Collaborate On 'Non-Piratable, Interactive Format For Music' · · Score: 2

    I already can't listen to U2, so I think they are well on their way.

  15. Re:Let me help them on Indiana University Researchers Get $1 Million Grant To Study Memes · · Score: 1

    He had a meme, but he ated it.

  16. Re:Informative winners list on The 2014 Hugo Awards · · Score: 2

    Considering it was one spot from the bottom of the list you only disregarded Game of Thrones.

  17. Re:Not a single link on Helsinki Aims To Obviate Private Cars · · Score: 1
  18. Re:Offtopic: Messages and Karma Lost on Feds: Red Light Camera Firm Paid For Chicago Official's Car, Condo · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm sure we can rule out posting offtopic as a possibility.

  19. Re:In b4 hipsters on World of Warcraft: Warlords of Draenor Launches Nov. 13th · · Score: 1

    That's why I like ProgressQuest. The gear farms itself. No subscription fees.

  20. Re:Automated notice not necessary here on Comcast Drops Spurious Fees When Customer Reveals Recording · · Score: 5, Funny

    In my state all the calls are recorded anonymously for my safety as well as the safety of my country. Freedom isn't free after all.

  21. Re:Gonna get sued! on iFixit Takes Apart the Oculus Rift DK2, Finds Galaxy Note 3 Display Inside · · Score: 2

    Samsung would sue if someone sold their displays with their logos on them without their consent. In this case Samsung is providing the displays for the device as part of a partnership as referenced in the fine article and even links to said partnership.

    A common part is a huge deal when the common part is the logo for the company. That's typically a counterfeit product.

  22. Re:Gonna get sued! on iFixit Takes Apart the Oculus Rift DK2, Finds Galaxy Note 3 Display Inside · · Score: 5, Informative

    Or they are partners.

  23. Re:Gonna get sued! on iFixit Takes Apart the Oculus Rift DK2, Finds Galaxy Note 3 Display Inside · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I doubt they would partner with them and then sue them over it.

  24. Re:Do I need to be concerned about this? on "BadUSB" Exploit Makes Devices Turn "Evil" · · Score: 2

    nah. dunk your computer and USB device in holy water and it's good to go again.

  25. Re:Time Shifting? on Ford, GM Sued Over Vehicles' Ability To Rip CD Music To Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    Correction, they lost him. Maybe he was what was holding them back from the other 160,000 members.