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  1. Re:Are you sure? on Samsung May Overtake Intel As World's Largest Chip Maker In 2017 (pcmag.com) · · Score: 2

    they said it twice - isn't that enough!

  2. Re:Project Fi on Slashdot Asks: Which Wireless Carrier Do You Prefer? · · Score: 2

    Hey, have you ever even been to Bum Fuck, Nowhere you insensitive clod?
          Project Fi works fine here, especially in our city center (central Bum Fuck). Perhaps you were on the very outskirts of Bum Fuck, or maybe in our sister city Western Bumble Fuck, Nowhere when you had reception issues.
         

  3. Smell ya later Time Warner. on America's Most-Hated ISP Is Now Hated By Fewer People (oregonlive.com) · · Score: 1

    I, for one, am fed up with the awful customer service at TIme Warner, but I have good news - I'm going to switch to a shiny new company called Spectrum and I'm sure everything will be better. Eat my shorts Time Warner!

  4. finally on Google Releases Open Source 'Guetzli' JPEG Encoder (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    about time google started to use middle-out compression techniques, but I feel bad for the little guys they stole it from.

  5. Unlimited funding! on Researchers Store Computer OS, Short Movie On DNA (phys.org) · · Score: 3, Funny

    The $50 amazon gift card was a genius idea. With PCR they will become infinitely rich off of those alone!

  6. Re:Sounds good to me on 'Uber Is Doomed', Argues Transportation Reporter (jalopnik.com) · · Score: 1

    I tip inversely to the amount of odor in the car, be it the excessively potent air freshener (eau de carcinogen) or the smell of the driver's last five meals lingering about. It's really unpleasant to have an olfactory experience on your journey somewhere and a lack of odor is rare these days and deserves reward.

    Also why the hell aren't you tipping Uber Drivers? If their car doesn't smell I tip them too. Newbies might say they can't accept it, but they don't exactly come running after you if you leave a five spot on the passenger seat.

  7. things are pretty sad with the world if we have serious concerns that recommendations to take 10,000 steps in one day might hurt someone.

        The whole drink 8 glasses of water a day thing is probably more of a risky recommendation for certain pre-existing conditions, but c'mon. Any health / exercise recommendation should be taken with caution if your health is on the far end of the bell curve.
    This is a ridiculous criticism.

  8. Re: Just pay the Royalties on Music Torrent Site What.CD Has Been Shut Down (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    "whatever though"

                  you clearly have never been on What.CD

  9. only fair if the coast guard gets sharks with lasers.

  10. Re:There is an old saying in business on Netflix Now Only Has 31 Movies From IMDB's Top 250 List (streamingobserver.com) · · Score: 1

    yes they have learned that by increasing their rates they make more money. That's why they just raised them again recently.

  11. Re:And this is...news? on Yelp Employee Posts Open Letter About Cost Of Living And Low Wages, Gets Fired (modernreaders.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    This isn't fricking europe. She should be saving up to live in a socialized country if she is looking for handouts and the ability to constantly bitch.

  12. Re: Sure Jan on Degradation of Lithium Batteries Shown In Real-time (ucl.ac.uk) · · Score: 1

    you must be a lawyer or a politician with that kind of defense.

  13. Re: Sure Jan on Degradation of Lithium Batteries Shown In Real-time (ucl.ac.uk) · · Score: 1

    http://www.amazon.com/Ultralif...

    but they are crap - it's a lie, they don't last that long - lawsuit waiting to happen, better to keep on throwing out batteries and putting new ones in each year like our grandparents did.

  14. Re:Behaviour in the past? on Should Edward Snowden Trust Apple To Do the Right Thing? · · Score: 1

    Define spies. Google has turned data over to the feds that has led to US citizens being arrested. Google cooperates with China's great firewall policies and therefore contributes to human rights violations. Google is as evil as they come when it comes to data security and protection, do not consider your data secure with them.

  15. Re:Actually the key issue is China couldn't do it on Microsoft Manufacturing Surface Hub In the US · · Score: 1

    CNN.

  16. Re: In other words on Microsoft Manufacturing Surface Hub In the US · · Score: 1

    define pretty close...

  17. Re:Real banner week for the TSA... on TSA Fails To Find Links To Terrorism of Airport Workers · · Score: 1, Troll

    The TSA is backed by PETA avidly and they are doing an excellent job per PETA standards / expectations. Almost every TSA employee you see would be unemployed and abusing small animals at home if the TSA did not give them somewhere to go for 8h a day. So next time you see one of them yank a tracheotomy tube out of a child in a wheelchair or cavity search an old woman, just remind yourself of all the safe pets out there.

  18. They will Steal Old People's Medicine on Building Amazon a Better Warehouse Robot · · Score: 1

    In some circles this is also being referred to as the "Put mommy out of a job contest"

  19. Re:Some more incredibly vague questions for you on Ask Slashdot: What Interesting Things Can I Power With an External USB Battery? · · Score: 1

    A> Brawndo is the only acceptable answer. Why would you put anything else in there?

    B> Variations on miniature versions of vibrating equipment to stimulate genitalia are the best answers for this demographic.

  20. Re:In other words on Netflix Is Experimenting With Advertising · · Score: 0

    Yeah, just like their heads span when people left them when they decided to both raise fees and drop all decent programming by going streaming only.

    All of these moves are coldly calculated. They will win no matter what, your departure will not make anything spin I assure you. They are an essentially zero competition industry. They will become progressively more and more evil until someone else comes to market, but they have a massive head start, and I haven't even heard rumors about competition other than Amazon, but they're nowhere close.

  21. Windows 8.2? on Windows 10 Release Date: July 29th · · Score: 2

    I still don't really get what 10 is bringing to the table. It seems like such a minor upgrade - skipping two version numbers is such a farce. The video on that page that highlights 10's new features is such a laugh. It flashes to the same start screen like 8 times with a mouse icon just about to click on a microsoft word icon (brace yourselves!). I can tell from the flashy music that this windows 10 experience must be intense, but saw no objective evidence that it does anything new whatsoever.
        I actually want to see microsoft do well - I think the Surface is an incredible piece of hardware, and it would be great to see the OS and the app store catch up, but 10 just looks like a skin package for win8.

  22. Re:Web sites on Popular Android Package Uses Just XOR -- and That's Not the Worst Part · · Score: 2

    it was pretty good broccoli beef, you have to admit.

  23. Re:My favorite one... on Apple Posts Guided Tours of the Features and Functions of the Apple Watch · · Score: 1

    standards will slip on this as well though. It used to be if you wanted to understand someone on a phone call you would use a land-line - now we just accommodate really poor audio quality. Don't believe me? Ask a transcriptionist what it's like to transcribe something from a cell phone.

  24. Re:Preaching to the choir on Why You Should Choose Boring Technology · · Score: 1

    gold.

  25. An Ebola proof computer? An anti-virus program that works in tropical climates and even when soaked in bodily fluids?

    Must have been developed by John Mcafee.