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  1. I like how they downgraded the latest paperwhite battery life so they could come out with this device that has the same battery life as the previous generations of paperwhite. I can only assume the voyage will be discontinued. I opted for a Kobo Glo HD with a 32gb card in it this time. Perfection. EPUB FTW!

  2. Re:States want "rights" over local broadband on AT&T, Comcast Kill Local Gigabit Expansion Plans In Tennessee · · Score: 0

    There are far more poor white people than there are poor black people. Therefore, your argument, "social programs that predominantly benefit minorities", fails. Visit the census website sometime and get educated.

  3. Speak or be spoken at... on John Cleese Warns Campus Political Correctness Leading Towards 1984 (washingtonexaminer.com) · · Score: 0

    The absurdity of the vocal minority can only be countered by being unequivocally more absurd and more vocal. The time for meekness is not now. Speak out and speak up!

  4. George Carlin may very well have been the most intelligent individual to put his thoughts to words ever.

  5. Re:The eco-balance of meat is abysmal. End of stor on Study Claims Lettuce Is "Three Times Worse Than Bacon" For GHG Emissions (cmu.edu) · · Score: 0

    Finally. Someone says lettuce is what it is: Garbage. It's not a diet food, it's not anything, It's a waste of arable land that could produce life giving calories for the world. Thank you.

  6. Thpthtptpptphthpt on Study Claims Lettuce Is "Three Times Worse Than Bacon" For GHG Emissions (cmu.edu) · · Score: 0

    So the all bean diet isn't worthy of consideration because I may just gas out the atmosphere? What about Mexico? Think of the children? Those poor stinky children!

  7. Insurance = Handouts = Corporate Welfare = Big Business I just wonder where the Democrats fall on this one?

  8. Worthless. The Alphabet agencies are liars. on Why Governments Lie About Encryption Backdoors (vortex.com) · · Score: 0

    They have failed to ever actually stop a crime they weren't complicit in. They certainly didn't stop the most recent one, even with all that knowledge they have been gathering....pop pop pop pop pop, people died from long ago radicalized Islamists who read green on the radar.

  9. Re: Lie? on Why Governments Lie About Encryption Backdoors (vortex.com) · · Score: 0

    There government isn't lying! The news tells me! The Muslims are coming to sharia our freedoms and circumcise our wives.

    Muslims don't circumcise, Jews do.

  10. Here is what they really have going on: They have found exactly those groups that simply can't afford much change, they have enacted their "trials" for data caps, aka 'We are doing this!' and they are leaching the wealth from the lowest denominator by force -- the South, where the money doesn't flow freely. They are finding out wrong. We called them and told them we plan to cancel our TV service when the data cap begins to cost money. (We will). Comcast is not the only option here but everyone has data caps already; it's a great big price fixing scam. The industry decided to make more money. Here is my personal story with these clowns. They have provided excellent availability to my home, no doubts there, although who knows if they even approach the speeds they lie about due to other network factors: I'm sure they count on that on court days and it's probably in the 900 million word contract you make with them. They also sub out all of their tech jobs to people who probably shouldn't drive a vehicle. I've had to help them several times. They just upped our bill by 20 dollars right before they announced their new 30 dollar add on called unlimited internet, which we already had. That is now 50 dollars more for an already ridiculous price. I went back and checked our usage and we burn through over 550gb a month. That is 1 TV and my computing usage, usually on Netflix, Amazon Prime, and YouTube for the majority of the B/W. This plan is designed to wring out cash from the middle class. They may even get push back, but the net result will be more profits, you can bank on that word.

  11. Old School Pr0n Audio Solution on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your Most Awesome Hardware Hack? · · Score: 0

    I took my headphones and spliced them into an rca cable so I could listen to porn audio in privacy from my vcr when I was younger.

  12. As a Service on First Windows 10 RTM Candidate Appears · · Score: 0

    My take from their listings and stuff is this: I will now no longer ever have what they like to term "business" features that I've paid extra to get in the past. I get the consumer model. They claim a plan to make money from search, games and apps. To me, that sounds like a requirement for software to meet certain criteria or be excluded from running because their new model would fail under heavy piracy, unlike the old model. I'm expecting the app world to shrink down, the requirement to get software from the Window's store becoming the inevitable model to secure profits, loss of choice in exchange for "security" in my spyware/adware laden approved app list. Everything that doesn't just jump on board likely won't be allowed to run without hobbling the security somehow. I'm expecting updates to be forced on me for "the good of all". Maybe not all updates, but definitely ones I may not want. There is no reasonable expectation of any privacy as usual per government mandates. In short, their entire new platform is designed to fall into a cesspool of ad laden software. I have a high degree of confidence you will start seeing ads delivered directly into windows itself if they can pull it off. All in all, it sounds like a recipe for failure after a short run to get everyone into the platform and then start forcing "features" that aren't popular on you because what are you going to do? Switch to Linux? No, most people couldn't even install Linux. I just went through several of the major distros and the install is botched on every one. Ubuntu completely failed within days, unable to bring up the WM, 4 different machines, exact same issue on all. Fedora installed fine, but updating was broken and had to be done manually in batches, for over 1200 updates, I did about 60 at a time. Slackware is well beyond anyone who doesn't know linux, it installed perfectly but then the onus is you to know everything to make that happen. Arch? Messy, I probably botched the install on this one, so Avg Joe?. Gentoo, purposely messy, I got it up and running to the point it was downloading........for hours, I cancelled, no time for that. Ubuntu, even if it did work, is about to sell out, you can see it coming. I ended up with Debian and decided to use that but then I had to go get my video drivers. I have dual monitors, that has to be set up, on ATI drivers, with instructions for 800 install switches pulled up in a term. Point is, I hate what Windows 10 stands for THIS MUCH.

  13. Packard Bell - Not even once on Ask Slashdot: How Much Did Your Biggest Tech Mistake Cost? · · Score: 1

    Somebody unhooked the cable from inside a cabinet to a spectrum analyzer I was trying to use to monitor a signal I was setting up to a satellite. I thought something was broken and was messing around with the controls to see if anything happened. I finally found the cable wasn't connected about the same time the satellite controller came across screaming that I was about to burn out the satellite. I didn't, but it was a very close almost. When I plugged in that cable there was a huge spike on the screen.

  14. Opinions can be objective, what are you talking about? What do you think objectivity is made of? It is opinion.You must have been severely compromised to put that off as normal.

  15. Thank you. I truly thank you. Nothing attached.

  16. Broke em on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your Most Unusual Hardware Hack? · · Score: 1

    I made a sensor system and controls for it that didn't use a commercial system for thousands less.

  17. Think of the degrees man!` on North America Runs Out of IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 1

    So many people will lose their jobs because they don't have degrees with this experience....

  18. If it doesn't involve butt-seks, then it isn't Hollywood. The agenda cannot be forgotten!

  19. Re:David Cameron is actually a genuine idiot on Cameron Asserts UK Gov't Will Leave No "Safe Space" For Private Communications · · Score: 1

    By choosing to vote, you already voluntarily put someone else in charge of your life. The very act is itself affirmation that you are either not smart enough or can't be bothered enough to rule your own life. Let that sink in a moment.....

  20. Doogle on Google: Stop Making Apps! (A Love Letter) · · Score: 1

    I haven't found any use of their other functions. Doogle Now, Doogle Orifice, Dootube is okay, the rest is bunk. I tried using Doogle office but my pad kept having to wait for docs and that literally killed it for me.

  21. Did anyone take anything seriously after they saw that name? I didn't. Those people get what they are too lazy to divert. I've been there, rode in on a train, hired a bum to get us to the liquor store (not joking, dude took my whole party to a big underground liquor store, after which we went to the House of Blues)

  22. Re:Won't somebody please think of the contractors! on Naval Research Interested In Bringing 3D Printing To Large Scale For Ships · · Score: 1

    Well, aren't you just totally informed, you must have been in the service as I was. I was SATCOM, we constantly had dudes in and out in Italy. I was once responsible for carting one team around and they lost their cargo so I took them to the local BRICO and helped the install.... they still lost their contract ( a side note, everyone else called one of the the team members 'ass crack', fat dude with saggy pants always saying he had a job with the NSA waiting... ), just my luck that I can't be putting that on my resume.

  23. This should read on The Plan To Bring Analytics To eSports · · Score: 1

    The scam to bring some kind of relevance to something totally irrelevant. It's just like sports, people watch them, but they created all those stat boards to try and legitimize all the jobs around them. In the end, they are useless figures on something that doesn't matter.