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  1. Camo pants have large side pockets on the legs. You can put a chain saw in them.

  2. Re:No. on Ask Slashdot: Would You Use A Cellphone With A Kill Code? · · Score: 1

    That's the idea. Stay the fuck away.

  3. Re:Why yes on Ask Slashdot: Would You Use A Cellphone With A Kill Code? · · Score: 1

    I don't keep anything on my phone that isn't pretty much publicly available. If I had anything sensitive my phone is the very last place I'd put it. I've already decided that if I go out of country my smartphone isn't traveling with me. I'll pick up an old Note2 and if they want to look at it they can enjoy the hell out of it. If, I'm into anything at all illegal I'll buy a burner phone at my destination, use it and toss it. (hypothetical of course)

  4. The most important thing about open source is you're free from all the BS in a proprietary license. You don't have to worry about swapping software or how you use it and all the other crazy BS that MS limits you with. Want to use it in a VM? No one cares! I migrated a friend to Linux after he upgraded his Windows box with a new hard drive and video card and it started bitching about verification. He called up MS and they gave him some crap and he got a little angry. I installed Ubuntu (this was before Unity) and he was happy as he could be with it.

  5. Re:So this mobile hotspot thing... on AT&T Undercuts Verizon, T-Mobile With New Unlimited Plan (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I think you actually have to root the phone to make it hard for them to find out. The funny thing is that I have AT&T Next and I get 30GB a month, not unlimited and I can use ALL that for hotspot. If I don't use all 30GB it rolls to the next month(only) so I get another chance to use it. If I switch to "unlimited" I only get 22GB, limited hotspot and it's actually more money. That's a hell of a marketing plan they have there.

  6. Re:Yes, but it won't happen any time soon on Can Streaming Companies Replace Hollywood Studios? (vanityfair.com) · · Score: 1

    Avatar was pretty good but it never looked like more than a cartoon to me.

  7. Re:Yes, but it won't happen any time soon on Can Streaming Companies Replace Hollywood Studios? (vanityfair.com) · · Score: 1

    I like Streep as an actress but I knew her acting as a Rocker was a stretch. She played it for all it was worth but the movie sucked. Yes, without Streep it would have been straight to video.

  8. Re:Lets See on Can Streaming Companies Replace Hollywood Studios? (vanityfair.com) · · Score: 1

    But then I'd eat popcorn a dozen times a month instead of maybe 6 times a year.

  9. Re:Dont THINK for your self - ITS a CRIME on Open Source Car-Hacking Tool Successfully Crowdfunded (kickstarter.com) · · Score: 1

    You must think they just give him a box with a button and when he feels like it he can just press it and the missiles leave.

  10. Re:"borrow money to make it through the month" on Scraping By On Six Figures? Tech Workers Feel Poor in Silicon Valley's Wealth Bubble (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    isn't this the God's own truth? If you make more than subsistence and aren't saving money you're asking to get screwed. I'm amazed how many people I know that have 2K play money after bills every month and don't have 2K in savings.

  11. Re: Poor on $100k? Sure on Scraping By On Six Figures? Tech Workers Feel Poor in Silicon Valley's Wealth Bubble (theguardian.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Buy some shingles and a ladder. It's not rocket science. Where I live you can hire 3 latinos to help you with it for 10 bucks an hour each plus a couple of six packs (at the end of the day). Anyone can put down shingles, my 60 year old sister did it on her house.

  12. As an avionics tech working civil service for the US Air Force I made 28 dollars an hour. I was among the highest paid in a labor type of job. It was good, interesting work too, I loved it. I hated a lot of the idiots in charge that made my job more difficult than it needed to be but we managed to do a lot of good stuff despite them. One thing about Federal service as a civilian, you learn quickly that about 80 percent of management is at best incompetent and care about little except their next promotion. The higher you go the bigger the idiots until you get to the top where at the executive level you have some really smart people and a lot of people that only know how to kiss ass and baffle people with bullshit.

  13. Re:Rose tinted glasses on The Only Thing, Historically, That's Curbed Inequality: Catastrophe (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    But most of California's population is in a few counties. Over half the population of California resides in 5 counties. Over a fourth of Californians live in Los Angeles county. The 5 bottom counties combined have less than 50 thousand people.

  14. Re:Yes, but it won't happen any time soon on Can Streaming Companies Replace Hollywood Studios? (vanityfair.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I can't believe what actors make for a picture. Millions of dollars for what often turns out to be a flop. Meryl Streep got paid 5 million for her role in Rick and the Flash which was a pretty mediocre film but managed to actually gross about 40 million against it's 20 million dollar budget. Meryl Streep was a quarter of that budget and by modern Hollywood standards that salary isn't all that outrageous. Actors in Hollywood's heyday worked a lot, lot harder and made a lot more movies than the elite Prima Donnas that grace the silver screen nowadays. Mega millions for films that are mega flops. They think streaming is the reason they're losing revenue? I'm sure it isn't helping but a lot of the stuff on TV today is better than the average studio movie. They're losing money because they suck.

  15. Re:Lets See on Can Streaming Companies Replace Hollywood Studios? (vanityfair.com) · · Score: 2

    You're kidding I know. The only valid comment was the one about audience behavior. Well, food maybe although I like theater popcorn. I go to the theater strictly to see blockbuster movies on a giant screen and with immersive sound. It's an expensive treat but some movies just Must be seen on the big screen.

  16. Re:Dont THINK for your self - ITS a CRIME on Open Source Car-Hacking Tool Successfully Crowdfunded (kickstarter.com) · · Score: 1

    A really quick debate. Maybe 2 minutes. In reality, if Trump started giggling and ordered a nuke launch there's an almost certainty that someone will pump a bullet in his head. If the Russians are over the border into Poland and bombers are in the air then they'll probably go along with it. The guys in the silos have no idea what's going on. They get a launch order and it validates then they turn the keys. At the Joint Chiefs level things are a lot less automatic. The Chiefs have some latitude with an order that is obviously nuts. There has to be a credible threat. If you believe that the president can just arbitrarily launch nukes on a whim and out of the blue you have no idea of the character of the people that serve in the US Armed Forces.

  17. Re:Dont THINK for your self - ITS a CRIME on Open Source Car-Hacking Tool Successfully Crowdfunded (kickstarter.com) · · Score: 1

    I can tell you've never been in the military. Google Douglas MacArthur for an example of people in the military and how they feel about obeying presidential authority. He's just one in a long line of Generals and Admirals that had problems with Presidents. Ultimately the US military answers to the president as Commander in Chief but it's hardly a lickspittle relationship.

  18. Re:Yeah, but WHEN? on Professors Claim Passive Cooling Breakthrough Via Plastic Film (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    We threw bones and had this guy with bones sticking through his nose and ears and lots of freaky tattoos and piercings that read them. Not much different from today now that I think about it.

  19. Re:Yeah, but WHEN? on Professors Claim Passive Cooling Breakthrough Via Plastic Film (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    The only thing keeping me on the grid is the price of batteries and the other associated electronics needed for a home system. The panels are the cheapest part of the system.

  20. Re:Democracy Fail on Professors Claim Passive Cooling Breakthrough Via Plastic Film (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    No, fuck you.

  21. Re:Democracy Fail on Professors Claim Passive Cooling Breakthrough Via Plastic Film (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    You're the type person that should be shot in the head. Mao was a motherfucking mass murder in the same style as Stalin and Hitler. Fuck him in the eye socket and you too.

  22. Too good to be true. on Professors Claim Passive Cooling Breakthrough Via Plastic Film (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 1

    This seems to be an incredible invention that will be a game changer. Passive cooling on the order of what this article talks about would seem to be too good to be true. If it is true these guys should be filthy rich soon.

  23. Re:Rose tinted glasses on The Only Thing, Historically, That's Curbed Inequality: Catastrophe (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    I think the cost of living going out of sight is what happens when too many people pile up in one place and strain the resources there.

  24. Re:Rose tinted glasses on The Only Thing, Historically, That's Curbed Inequality: Catastrophe (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Flour, milk, salt, baking powder and shortening and we got biscuits!

  25. Re:Rose tinted glasses on The Only Thing, Historically, That's Curbed Inequality: Catastrophe (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Vegetable aren't exactly pricey. What costs most is meat. It wasn't that long ago that meat was a thing for Sunday Dinner or special occasions. Meals cooked at home are not expensive if made from scratch. What costs is prepared "ready to eat." You can live on minimum wage if you don't live in an area with an exorbitant cost of living. You wont eat at Applebee's and TGI Friday's every night but you can do well enough.