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  1. Re:Not one link to the company in summary on $499 3-D Printer Drew Plenty of Attention at CES (Video) · · Score: 1

    Man, it really is "damned if you do, damned if you don't" around here. Someone else would have complained if they had, labeling it a Slashverstisement.

    Oh I just checked. They did provide the link. It's a tricky one though. The link to the company, XYZprinting, is hard to find. Check back in the summary and look for the underlined word "XYZprinting". Click that and you should go to the company website. I know, its weird, but there you have it.

  2. Yowza on Man Shot To Death For Texting During Movie · · Score: 1

    A 'more polite society' indeed.

  3. Re:I hope no one loses money, but... on Target Has Major Credit Card Breach · · Score: 1

    Uh huh... and how about the people who went during the other 18 days in the attack window? I've never shopped Black Friday (and sure as shit not Thanksgiving) but I'm one of the above.

    From the first line of the article:

    Target Corp said hackers might have stolen data from some 40 million credit and debit cards of shoppers who visited its stores during the first three weeks of the holiday season...

  4. Re:Pocket Computers on The World Fair of 2014 According To Asimov (From 1964) · · Score: 1

    WRT to the women in leadership roles: I don't have it in front me, but I seem to recall several mayors/governors of Terminus and other planets (the one that was formerly named after Elijah Bailey?).

  5. Re:My health is none of the government's business on Obamacare Software Glitch Will Limit Penalties Charged To Smokers · · Score: 1

    Not to say I disagree with your point, but... dude, the Daily Mail is not a source. Wikipedia would be better. Hell, Cracked would be better. It weakens your argument to link to it.

  6. Re:They're making friends like nobody's business! on MySQL Man Pages Silently Relicensed Away From GPL · · Score: 1

    What continuously baffles me is that they haven't managed to screw up VirtualBox yet (that I know of, I could be misinformed). Is the project just below the radar?

    Bill

  7. Re:Political aftermath on Massive Data Leak Reveals How the Ultra Rich Hide Their Wealth · · Score: 1

    There simply aren't enough mod points.

  8. Re:Historical significance on Linux Nukes 386 Support · · Score: 1

    I just imagined installing Server 2003 on an i386 and had an aneurpiuhheahlkaeg

  9. Re:Aw, hell no. I can already see where this is go on Dell Strays Further From Intel Chips, Donates ARM Server to ASF · · Score: 1

    No, what we need is for Nvidia to buy Via which would give Nvidia an in for x86 processors as well as many other similar markets.

    Also, Nvidiavia. Awesome name.

  10. Re:Apple moving heavily into wireless on iPhone 5 Scorns Standards Promise To European Commission · · Score: 1

    I see plenty of credit card machines at stores which support NFC payment. Sure, you probably won't see it in Kansas, but in my neighborhood in San Diego, California its not uncommon at all.

  11. Re:Very little to do with broadcast on Software-Defined Radio: the Apple I of Broadcast? · · Score: 1

    Software defined radio basically shifts the processing from hardware to software.

    So what you're saying is that we need hardware accelerated software defined radios?

  12. Re:Don't see the big deal on Microsoft Details Windows 8 for ARM · · Score: 1

    Yes, yes it does sound like the Apple approach. Which is largely disapproved of on /.

    Don't buy it is fantastic advice. I wasn't going to buy it in any case, but now thanks to this article, I have it in the back of my head to be sure to recommend that others do not buy it either.

    So, to paraphrase...

    "You don't like this article? Well then don't fucking comment on it then."

  13. Re:6 spinoffs on Chromium-Based Spinoffs Worth Trying · · Score: 1

    Seriously. This complaint is so tired.

    Excel? PowerPoint? Even "Word" isn't all that informative. Flash, Acrobat, Java, etc, etc. And these are the ones that everyone's mother might have heard of.

    If someone cares enough to try an application they aren't familiar with, they'll probably hear about these alternatives and add them to their vocabulary. I've never once overheard someone actually complain or become confused by a name that wasn't in the form of "[Application Domain] [Verb]", *except* on forums.

    Next up, lets complain about KDE, Gnome and Apple all putting K, G, or an 'i' in front of all their apps (and conveniently ignore the ones that don't use that convention to appear to make an insightful point.

  14. Re:Young women don't need makeup.... on US Watchdog Bans Photoshop Use In Cosmetics Ads · · Score: 1

    Um, actually, I'd like that.... slashfood.com^Whuffpost.com/food is boring :o(

  15. Re:It took Google 4 years... on Google Deploys IPv6 For Internal Network · · Score: 1

    Really? You don't think that a company the size and shape of Google might have a slightly more complex network than a shop of, say, 100 people?

  16. Re:Netflix on USPS Ending Overnight First-Class Letter Service · · Score: 2

    This is a case where a "Score:5" isn't high enough :o(

  17. Re:There wouldn't be any of this on Mexican Gov't Shuts Down Zetas' Secret Cell Network · · Score: 2

    The cartels are already dealing in these things. My thinking is that there is far less of a demand for these things than recreational narcotics. Your typical pothead isn't going to say "gee, pot is legal now, I guess I'll spend my money on automatic weapons and child prostitutes instead".

    Legalize pot, subsidize it for two years, and then run an ad campaign to encourage people to buy it local ("Buy American!"), if they're going to buy it. I think the cartels would be hurting pretty bad from that, at least in the short term.

    Of course, none of this will happen, so its sort of a moot point. Americans are too conservative, on the average to pass these sorts of policies.

    I could be wrong about all of this, but I don't really see many other people offering better suggestions.

  18. Re:There wouldn't be any of this on Mexican Gov't Shuts Down Zetas' Secret Cell Network · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Hmm. Seems to me the smugglers exist because there's a demand for their goods on the US side of the border. If those goods were legal here, the violence wouldn't be as much of an issue, and the smuggling business would become a more normal business. If there was no demand for narcotics on the US side, you'd be right about it not being our fault that smugglers exist. But there is, and they do, and so we are partially to blame.

    Legalizing marijuana would be a pretty big blow to the drug cartels. The human trafficking comparison is just a logical fallacy, as narcotics and human trafficking are (as you note) different things.

  19. Re:Congress, our representatives? on SOPA Hearings Stacked In Favor of Pro-SOPA Lobby · · Score: 1

    There would be no need to bribe anyone - they could do whatever they wanted anyway. The ability to 'grant favors' is intrinsically tied to the capability to punish or prevent.

    See also, Somalia.

  20. Re:Dead Man's Switch on Ask Slashdot: How To Securely Share Passwords? · · Score: 1

    Does it email you when it dies?

  21. Re:Does Everyone on CA own a Prius or Accord? on Google's Self Driving Car Crashes · · Score: 1

    Just chiming in to confirm a sibling post: Yes, in the Bay Area.

  22. Re:Even if they prove this on Court Filing On How 2004 Ohio Election Hacked · · Score: 1

    You're a fucking moron.

    Here are the reasons:

    1) If it could have been done once, it could be done again. Maybe you liked Bush as a president, but if someone opposite your political views used the same trick, you might feel different.
    2) It's still illegal, even if it happened 'back in time'. We don't just let crimes go because it happened 'back in time'
    3) It's highly unethical, to say the least. This would (should?) have fairly far-reaching implications on corporations involved with politics and government contractors.

    Please, please, please never breed or speak to anyone ever again. Or at least take some ethics classes. Consult your local community college. If you're old enough?

    Thanks.

  23. Re:Perhaps one of the biggest advances... on Apple WWDC: iOS 5, Lion, iCloud · · Score: 2

    The iCloud makes all of this possible. The data is persistent and secure forever, for all present and future devices.

    Simply: Wow.

    What color is the fucking sky on your world? How long do you measure forever? Five Years? How about twenty? Thirty? If Apple in 50 years even resembles Apple today, I'll eat my fucking flying car. Nevermind actually keeping this service running forever.

    I won't even go into "persistent and secure" or "all present and future devices". You apparently don't read the news enough to realize that both of those statements aren't even possible, let alone likely.

  24. Re:It was an execution on AP Files FOIA Request For Bin Laden Photos · · Score: 2

    The seals went in, took him unarmed, knelt him down in front of his family and shot him execution style in the head.
    The reports from both the administration and the family members after the fact pretty much confirm this but the press have gone so far out of their way to dilute the facts it's almost silly.

    I haven't read this anywhere. Citation? I'm not saying you're making it up, or that I'd even doubt it, but you're claiming that 'reports' are saying one thing and 'press' have said another, which seems a bit contradictory. Especially since plenty of press has no issue making the US look bad...

  25. Re:Arrogant Ignorance? on Why Does the US Cling To Imperial Measurements? · · Score: 1

    Duh, thats easy. 1760 Yards. That's 1776 (to commemorate our independence) - 16 (the number we divide up inches by, as you noted).

    It's simple, really.

    On a side note, I have a feeling that most people in the US could tell you how many meters are in a kilometer. Of course, I couldn't point down the road and tell you how far away a kilometer is, but I could probably get pretty close to a 1/4 mile.