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  1. Question is stupid on Ask Slashdot: SIM-Card Solutions In North America? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Instead of asking Slashdot such a silly question you could also just google getting a gsm sim card in the us.

    Lo and behold!

    #1) "The best Prepaid SIM Cards"
    #2) "SIM Cards - Best Buy"

    It's been trivial to do this for about a decade and 5 seconds of googling got me the answer. This is one of the stupidest ask slashdots ever, and they are almost all incredibly stupid. I'm not looking and I'm going to guess tImothy put this story up.
    checks the top of the page
    Yup. Fuck timothy.

  2. Re:Spend money. on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Ensure Creative Commons Compliance At Your Company? · · Score: 2

    You might as well say "don't be cheap, hire a photographer to take the pictures." Obviously while rights management for CC pictures is a small difficulty, raising the funds to pay for photographs is a large difficulty that has its own headaches and expenses.

  3. Re: Holy crap that's expensive on Amazon Announces 'Fire Phone' · · Score: 1

    S5 is smaller, better screen (even if it's .1" smaller), better camera, faster, has a micro SD slot, replaceable batter better build quality (my wife recently got the S5 over the similar Nexus 5). Water resistance is kind of cool, I've heard of people destroying their phones that way.

    Not that the G2 is a crap phone, I just think something you spend a lot of time on is probably worth spending an extra $.35/day or whatever that works out to.

  4. Re:Big fuss over nothing on Washington Redskins Stripped of Trademarks · · Score: 1

    How has "redskin" turned into a term of honor or a word to be proud of? Nobody would ever say it now, unless it's in a historical context or when talking about the sports team. It's an archaic, vaguely racist term from a time when Indians were generally depicted as war-like savages. It's like a Chinese person saying "Chinaman" is a term to be proud of,

    And I think you'll find not all Indians are offended at the drop of the hat, or non-Indians aren't. If you really are Indian you have very weird self-identity issues.

  5. Re:prices on Amazon Announces 'Fire Phone' · · Score: 1

    but not a lot of people are buying them on Amazon

    Yup. The top two selling phones are Windows, so obviously Amazon top-100 sellers are not representative of larger trends in the marketplace.

  6. Re:Holy crap that's expensive on Amazon Announces 'Fire Phone' · · Score: 1

    If we're actually going to use logic on this... You're likely to drop/break that phone in the first 6 months.

    I've never broken a phone. If 6 months was the expected lifetime, I'd pay extra for some kind of insurance plan.

    Chinese phones work on unlocked GSM and work fine on AT&T, TMobile, or all the various cheap monthly plan services.

  7. Re:Holy crap that's expensive on Amazon Announces 'Fire Phone' · · Score: 1

    $400 LG G2s are nowhere near as good as a $650 Galaxy S5, though. I can't tell strangers how to spend their money, but personally most people I know, and myself, use their cell phone enough that it's worth spending an extra $250 spread out over the course of two years.

    And whether you have a 2-year contract or not is basically not a factor, my wife and I don't, and it seems T-Mobile and AT&T have both made monthly plans the focus of their marketing. I just said 2 years because that makes it about a dollar/day and sounds like a reasonable length of time to hold on to a phone.

  8. Re:Holy crap that's expensive on Amazon Announces 'Fire Phone' · · Score: 1

    A lot of people spend a lot of time on their phone. Maybe 30 minutes or more. If your phone lasts you a couple years, paying a dollar a day for a phone that is (and let's be honest) substantially better is probably worth it.

    If you don't use your cell except for emergency phone calls, yeah what the hell, get whatever's cheapest.

  9. Re:It's an artform on Even In Digital Photography Age, High Schoolers Still Flock To the Darkroom · · Score: 1

    Yeah sure, the camera's auto-settings can do a better job with instant results. And a computer can do calculus equations lickety-split. The point isn't to have students take the best pictures possible, but to have them learn photography.

  10. Re:It's a hipster thing on Even In Digital Photography Age, High Schoolers Still Flock To the Darkroom · · Score: 1

    The lenses for a Nikon FE will work fine on a current Nikon DSLR. If they were prime lenses, the optics are about the same as with modern lenses.

  11. Re:I actually read the article... on EU May Allow Members Home Rule On GMO Foods · · Score: 2

    Many problems with your scenario...first of all, commercially grown bell peppers (and other vegetables) are not all of the exact same variety. Sure, there's more popular varieties, but different climates and soils call for different varieties. They use different peppers in California than they do in Minnesota (and it's not just economy of scale - California climate and soil is favorable to bell peppers).

    Also, even within the same variety of plant, there are genetic differences, even if they're very similar. A doomsday virus that kills one variety of bell pepper isn't likely.

    Also, have you ever looked in a bell pepper? There's a lot of seeds. Should a miracle happen and (say) Anaheim Bell Peppers no longer can be grown, it would be easy for another variety to take its place very quickly. There are seeds banks around the world, private growers, etc. The extinction of most varieties of bell peppers just is not going to happen.

    Farmers don't re-seed from their own crops, and (in the first world at least) haven't done so for 70-80 years. So the fact that most farms choose to raise the most popular variety of peppers in a non-factor into the genetic diversity of the crops.

  12. Re:Eat healthy anyone? on EU's Top Court May Define Obesity As a Disability · · Score: 1

    Many of the longest-lived populations in the world, populations with low rates of obesity, have high-carbohydrate diets. Much higher than in the US.

    Insulin is released more from protein than from carbohydrates. Eating them together releases more insulin still! Insulin is simply not a "get fat hormone" and you should ignore any source that tells you it is. Insulin suppresses appetite, this is very well established. It's junk science.

  13. Re:Eat healthy anyone? on EU's Top Court May Define Obesity As a Disability · · Score: 2

    Why? I don't eat a strict diet like that, I eat nothing like that in fact, and I'm not a fattie, and my health checks come out about perfect. Japan has the world's longest lifespan, nobody there is eating brown rice or whole grains quinoa.

    Governments shouldn't tell people how to eat, especially when the specifics of what's healthy aren't exactly understood. There's a lot of evidence that meats are an important part of a healthy diet.

  14. Re:Please make it a mental one on EU's Top Court May Define Obesity As a Disability · · Score: 1

    I am not obese, I appreciate all the cheap calories from corn syrup. Before corn subsidies there were wild price fluctuations in food, not just those that use sugar but also in alternate grains and in meat. It's good domestic policy. Why should stupid people who can't limit themselves force the US to cancel a policy that works well? Anyway, if it wasn't subsidized corn syrup, fatties would find some other cheap food to stuff their faces with, or would just pay the extra money.

  15. Re:Protecting the Weak from the Strong on Interviews: Bruce Perens Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    Why shouldn't the weak get WMDs, why does only the government (the strong) get to arm itself with nuclear weapons? So the idea is "people can protect themselves with weapons, but not the really powerful ones?"

    And who makes the determination that a weapon is too powerful for an individual? The government? Why shouldn't each individual himself be allowed to decide how powerful of a weapon get gets? If I want to arm myself with a few grenades, a bazooka, and some C4, why should some Washington bureaucrat tell me I can't?

  16. Re:What's this internet thing you speak of? on Behind the Great Firewall: What It's Really Like To Log On From China · · Score: 2

    Send enough traffic over an IPSec tunnel in a short enough period of time, and expect it to be suddenly blocked one day, only to work again in just a few days.

    This. It's totally arbitrary. Also it's a two-tier system, where many things are easily proxied around, while some sites (pornography, Falun Gong, Tian'anmen) can't be.

    I think mostly the point is to inconvenience and be protectionist rather than block. Sure you can get on twitter if you really want, but your average Joe in China doesn't want to bother figuring out proxies just to get some stupid cat picture, so they turn to Weibo or some wannabe-twitter site like that instead.

  17. Re:About damn time! on Civilization V Officially Available On Linux For SteamOS · · Score: 1

    I prefer Civ 3, I don't like how game companies release unfinished product, but to be fair the game is currently a whole lot better now than it was in the first month, you just need to have the expansion packs. Most people would call it the best Civ yet.

  18. Re:Yay DRM on Civilization V Officially Available On Linux For SteamOS · · Score: 1

    Yup, all my Commodore 64 games are stored with their cracks on handy 5.25" disks.

  19. Re:Slashdot technophobes on Theater Chain Bans Google Glass · · Score: 1

    But of course people in the 1880s had valid concerns, and in the last 120 years a lot of laws and social pressures have developed regulating the use of cameras. Without which, people would still find the use of cameras objectionable. Many of the issues haven't been entirely worked out - a couple week ago there was a story about how Germans needed to get rid of naughty photos of their exes if asked, and many people didn't seem to like the idea.

  20. Re:Get rid of NASA on Getting the Most Out of the Space Station (Before It's Too Late) · · Score: 1

    The Apollo Program showed it was capable of getting people to the moon, but the point of NASA isn't just getting people to the moon over and over, the point is to eventually establish a permanent, expanding presence in space. Pointing a V-2 rocket up at the sky is effective but is also a dead end.

    And of course the space program had problems under the Airforce.

  21. Re:"No reliable solution" on Apple's Revenge: iMessage Might Eat Your Texts If You Switch To Android · · Score: 2

    Is this 2002? All the plans by all the companies include unlimited texts, including low-end $30/month plans. I only know one person who pays to text (after reaching a certain amount), this person has stuck with his same phone contract for more than 10 years.

  22. Re:Insert any city here on Could High Bay-Area Prices Make Sacramento the Next Big Startup Hub? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    But I could almost see Davis/Sacramento becoming a tech hub(unlike, say, Montana or Arizona), since it's a relatively easy interview/move for tech workers currently in the Bay Area. Certainly it would take a long time & a lot of luck to become anything somewhat comparable to Silicon Valley, but I could see it as a satellite of the Silicon Valley.

  23. Re:Worms are a poor model on Cellular Compound May Increase Lifespan Without the Need For Strict Dieting · · Score: 2

    This would be an extraordinarily easy thing to data mine. The fact that no correlation has been found (even though people know other things about the children of older women, eg they are more likely to suffer from a number of conditions) leads me to believe there's no correlation.

  24. Re:Peer review on Momentous Big Bang Findings Questioned · · Score: 1

    Well it's easy to believe that "you're getting in trouble for calling the pope an idiot" wouldn't fly, so they gave him trumped-up charges. Like maybe you condemn the US President in the press, so you get prosecuted for some unrelated charge of smoking a joint. Just sayin'.

  25. Re:Governments need the source code on The Man Behind Munich's Migration of 15,000 PCs From Windows To Linux · · Score: 1

    Are you saying there's no vulnerabilities in Linux? Or that nobody would ever intentionally put a vulnerability in Linux? Or just being mean?