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

    Well they did add Gary Haber after he was dead. Zombies can be pretty convincing.

  2. Re:Time Shifting? on Ford, GM Sued Over Vehicles' Ability To Rip CD Music To Hard Drive · · Score: 4, Funny

    They went to the trouble of selecting The Coraline Theme. That shows they have some dedication. The nefarious threat of having the power of a $40 mp3 player built in to vehicles should be reckoned with and you have to applaud them for choosing Wordpress for their method to do so.

  3. Re:They will need some actual product on 3-D Printing Comes To Amazon · · Score: 2

    They are so literally retarded that by seeing them you forget what the term literally means.

  4. Re:Strength on 3-D Printing Comes To Amazon · · Score: 1, Funny

    What they mean is there is literally a bazillion materials. So many materials that if you saw the list you'd literally die.

  5. Re:this post brought to you on Oracle Offers Custom Intel Chips and Unanticipated Costs · · Score: 1

    Reading the article it seemed pretty pro Oracle in that they have a unique offering their competitors cannot get that is tailored to their database software. The idea that the processors can activate cores on their own doesn't seem to be an issue as the up charge is per processor. Maybe I'm ignorant and having multicore systems be treated as a multiprocessor system, but the person licensing should be fully aware when buying grossly overpriced hardware to run their grossly overpriced software what they are getting in to and will happily pay for the performance.

  6. Re:Well, to be fair... on eSports Starting To Go Mainstream · · Score: 1

    Chess players are drug tested like athletes in traditional sports. Wonder if eSports will do the same.

  7. Re:Why does Apple charge for Mac OSX? on Mac OS X Yosemite Beta Opens · · Score: 5, Informative

    The don't charge for Mac OS X actually anymore. Didn't last revision cycle and the previous two versions were $29 and $19 respectively.

  8. Re:Its not just low end phones on Why My LG Optimus Cellphone Is Worse Than It's Supposed To Be · · Score: 3, Informative

    I shop specifically for a phone that doesn't have terrible software, or can take Cyanogenmod. The S3 had laughably bad software, which I replaced immediately after getting my free Dropbox space. I got a Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 and without Cyanogenmod it just sits.

    Bennet should have enough sense to buy a decent phone even if getting a cheap one. Most complaints in the article could be solved by replacing the keyboard and messaging apps. Screen capture is pretty easy via app also. What's more, after penning the first article about getting a terrible phone, wouldn't a rational human being not get another terrible phone or at least return it within the two weeks when it is painfully apparent they made a mistake?

  9. Re:What Could Go Wrong? on New Toyota Helps You Yell At the Kids · · Score: 1

    The ball gags would be nice for some adults too. They could sell quite a few of these fetishmobiles.

  10. Hair Stylist on Ask Slashdot: Future-Proof Jobs? · · Score: 2

    Get some experience doing nails just in case.

  11. Re:So this means... on Economist: File Sharing's Impact On Movies Is Modest At Most · · Score: 1

    I was using a figure greater than the world's GDP to make it an obvious exaggeration, but that's a huge whoosh. Software piracy was supposed to be $59 billion in 2010 and movie piracy $58 billion in 2011. The figures are made up and don't matter. It's just numbers to help Washington justify staying in their back pockets. The notion of a lost sale becomes pretty apparent when you see people who fill terabyte hard drives with terrible music. When a college student with an income downloads in a quarter more content than they will earn in a lifetime you can hardly consider that person as a lost sale.

  12. Re:I'll confess on Economist: File Sharing's Impact On Movies Is Modest At Most · · Score: 1

    January is when they let people's wallets recover.

  13. Re:So this means... on Economist: File Sharing's Impact On Movies Is Modest At Most · · Score: 2, Funny

    They were losing trillions of dollars a day before their efforts and probably are only able to write down a few hundred billion in losses at the hands of these insidious thieves. I'd say you'd be a fool to not think their efforts were worth it.

  14. Re:Bill Gates on Tor Project Sued Over a Revenge Porn Business That Used Its Service · · Score: 4, Informative

    The Joint Photographic Experts Group probably had a hand in this too.

  15. Progress Quest on Dwarf Fortress Gets Biggest Update In Years · · Score: 3, Funny

    More of a Progress Quest fan. No sense learning all those commands when the game can do it for you.

  16. Re:Christmas is coming early this year on TSA Prohibits Taking Discharged Electronic Devices Onto Planes · · Score: 2

    Most non-Samsung phones have batteries that are not accessible, including the Nexus 5, most LG, most Motos, and tons of others. Many Samsung owner I know don't know they can replace their battery also. Most don't know the difference between a SIM and MicroSD card either.

  17. Re:Yammer on Employees Staying Away From Internal Corporate Social Networks · · Score: 1

    At the time I was trying Yammer out it did not have support for animated GIFs. If it did I'd probably be able to get 99% of my job done by reducing email server's load of animated deliciousness.

  18. Re:Better yet... on Ask Slashdot: Choosing a Web Language That's Long-Lived, and Not Too Buzzy? · · Score: 5, Funny

    +9001 Funny.

  19. Re:DLC? on The Rise and Fall of the Cheat Code · · Score: 2

    downloadable content. Day one downloadable content is the real cancer where you don't get the whole game unless you pay extra.

  20. Re:Dup on Florida Man Faces $48k Fine For Jamming Drivers' Cellphones · · Score: 5, Funny

    timothy's best posts are dupes. It's the original stuff that you need to watch out for.

  21. Re:Tuning it out? on The Bursting Social Media Advertising Bubble · · Score: 1

    For the $50 promotional advertising credit I got with my dog's Facebook he pulled down 7,500 fans. Granted he is not a brand, but there is some effectiveness with them. I personally haven't used Facebook outside of the pages (which are naturally ad free), so I can't testify to the experience for those who do. I don't want to keep tabs on people, but Squinky demands fame.

  22. Re:Got the name wrong on Oracle Buying Micros Systems For $5.3 Billion · · Score: 1

    The company's name is MICROS Systems, Inc.. Not that bad a job butchering it really by omitting the Inc.

  23. Re:Just in! on Microsoft's Cloud Storage Service OneDrive Now Offers 15GB For Free · · Score: 2

    It's pretty amazing news really when you think that there are only a dozen or so other companies that are better liked and have better offerings doing the same thing for free.
    In all seriousness though at $7 a month for 1 TB and Office 365 the people who still insist on Microsoft Office are getting a pretty good deal compared to $10 a month for 1 TB and Google Apps. I personally prefer Google Apps over Microsoft Office and prefer not having to use either in general, but the interoperability between other people still stuck in Office is undeniable. A few phone calls from people who use Office everyday but have no clue what they are doing who struggle with files from Google Docs makes having a copy around worth it.

  24. Re:really be an opportunity for us... on Synaptics Buys Key Apple Supplier · · Score: 1

    No way. Apple left them for dead when they leaked new iPods. They can kiss Apple's business goodbye very soon unless they have something important patent wise that precludes them from doing so.

  25. Re:Not disabling ads on Cable Companies Use Astroturfing To Fight Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    It not working takes out the incentive to moderate and log in, though.