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  1. Re: I am not alone when I say.... on HBO To Offer Online Streaming Without TV Subscription · · Score: 1

    Does chromecast work on my television that only has VGA or Component? What about my raspberry pi driven LCD mounted next to my bed? They will never touch the lucrative market of Free Open Source Software users until they remove the DRM and start accepting DogeCoin without having to use a third party to accept said coins. I can live with giving them a throwaway email address, but some of us still value our privacy as well.

  2. Re:No. Just no. on A Production-Ready Flying Car Is Coming This Month · · Score: 1

    A solution in need of a problem. We have airplanes, we have cars, and we have the information superhighway.

    We don't need flying cars, we just need a different kind of software.

  3. Elon Musk had nothing to do with this on A Garbage Truck That Would Make Elon Musk Proud · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The only purpose for putting Elon Musk's name in this is to grab the attention of the reader by dropping a popular name, I'm sure that he isn't proud of this truck; the article doesn't even mention his name. I'm sure that the "editor" that put this up didn't even realize they weren't talking about Elon Musk, they just skimmed through, saw "Tesla Co-Founder" and assumed said article was about Musk... I want to even say that the two aren't even on good terms anymore for some reason, something the "editors" should have looked into.. I'm with Steve Jobs on this one, Bloggers are not Journalists.

  4. Re:Alright smart guy on Ask Slashdot: Is iOS 8 a Pig? · · Score: 1

    It would still be a problem because Apple shouldn't allow the upgrade to be installed on a device which can't run it properly.

    Yeah, and if they didn't allow you to upgrade the OS on an older phone, everyone would be complaining and saying that Apple should leave that choice to the end users...

  5. Re:CDC guilty of correlation == causation on Link Between Salt and High Blood Pressure 'Overstated' · · Score: 1

    We're also modest, which you can see by the parent comment's "Funny" moderation.

    Slashdot: Modest, smartest, and best-looking.

  6. Re: Where are these photos? on Reported iCloud Hack Leaks Hundreds of Private Celebrity Photos · · Score: 5, Funny

    When will people reach out to the public and let them know the benefits of F/OSS? Had they been running OpenBSD this would have never been an issue as they would have never gotten the camera to mount.

  7. Re:Workstations ? on IBM Gearing Up Mega Power 8 Servers For October Launch · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yeah, while the demand may be high right now because of large, existing customers, the ones working out of their homes, working out of small labs, and running small businesses (think of apple's roots) will eventually be the ones moving on to the larger challenges, and start working with medium-sized and then fortune-500 businesses.

    Unless IBM thinks that people that come from big money, big data, and big education (think of uber) will be the ones to contend in this area.

    This is classic IBM, and it will probably never go anywhere. If it does, it will be replaced by someone with the same vision as them, a tall wall between small and enterprise-grade businesses, people, education, and money. Who can blame them? It's very profitable.

  8. Re:I don't know how they pay on Ask Slashdot: Future-Proof Jobs? · · Score: 0

    $500 / hr to the contractor with all of the equipment, $12 / hr to the illegal immigrant they put through the classes.

    You're right, it does pay well!

  9. Re: Murphy says no. on Ask Slashdot: Unattended Maintenance Windows? · · Score: 0, Troll

    This guy probably is the tech but is wanting to spend more time with his family or something.

    Probably settled down too fast and can't get a better job now. My advice: don't settle down and quit using your wife and children as excuses for your career failures because they'll grow to hate you for it.

  10. Schedule some days as offset days on Ask Slashdot: Unattended Maintenance Windows? · · Score: 1

    You just need to schedule some of your days as offset days. Work from 4pm to midnight some days so that you can get some work done when others aren't around. Some days require you being around people, some days command you be alone.

    Or you can just work 16hour days like the rest of us and wear it with a badge of honor.

    If you are your own boss and do this, you can earn enough money to take random weeks off from work with little to no notice so that you can travel the world, and do some recruiting while doing it so that you can write the expenses off on the company.

  11. Re:so how is Kickstarter not liable? on $500k "Energy-Harvesting" Kickstarter Scam Unfolding Right Now · · Score: 1

    3.5 Pass the bar exam.

    You still have to sit through law school pretty much everywhere now. No more passing the bar and becoming an attorney. I've looked at this, changing it would be hard. Considering sitting through law school, but I'd rather not if it could be avoided. Just remember, if your small business is incorporated, it is a person, and you can't represent another person in court. One lawsuit could ruin your company and you'd be stuck watching the ship go down, trying to fight for it would be futile as you'd just be thrown out of the courtroom.

  12. Re:Cash and checks on Credit Card Breach At P.F. Chang's · · Score: 2

    Checks are more insecure than credit cards...

  13. Re: Gimmick on New Car Can Lean Into Curves, Literally · · Score: 1

    People that drive these cars only keep them a few years, depending on the length of the lease.

  14. Re: Weak article, weaker report on YouTube Releases the Google Video Quality Report · · Score: 4, Informative

    Link to the tool instead of sifting through several lame blogs: http://www.google.com/get/vide...

  15. Re:The US will of course forbid this on SpaceX To Present Manned Dragon Capsule · · Score: 3, Informative

    Musk is actually a huge Obama supporter, and Obama has been seen talking to, giving praise to, and visiting with Elon Musk. SpaceX and Elon Musk have been a huge part of the Obama Space Strategy. Any anti-obama sentiment comes from the ending of Republican-politican-approved programs, such as the Space Shuttle through companies like ATK and Boeing.

  16. Re:Does not matter on The World's Worst Planes: Aircraft Designs That Failed · · Score: 1

    Yeah, you can't make a list like that without this one on it. Like they say in the aviation industry: If it looks right, it files right. Probably why Boeing lost to Lockheed for the X-35 contract. Even if it had worked, we would have been the laughing stock of the world when they saw that and said, "Ah, the Americans are here."

  17. Fly past the modern-looking junky blog site on How To Find Nearby Dark Skies, No Matter Where You Are · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here is the real site with the actual map: http://www.jshine.net/astronom... I love how the most modern looking sites with all the share, like, and tracking code embedded into them have the least amount of information...

  18. Re:Author doesn't understand Fermi's Paradox on Are Habitable Exoplanets Bad News For Humanity? · · Score: 1

    Another scenario would be that they are using types of communication that are unbeknownst to us, be it Neutrinos or some sort of "subspace" FTL communication.

  19. Re:Talk is cheap on Russia Wants To Establish a Permanent Moon Base · · Score: 1

    The companies with these proposals need to send some of their men to the United States so that they may learn how to lobby a government.

  20. Laziness on Wi-Fi Problems Dog Apple-Samsung Trial · · Score: 1

    This system should have never been designed to be used over a wireless network.

  21. Re:Does everything need to be smart? on Nest Halts Sales of Smart Fire Alarm After Discovering Dangerous Flaw · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but the WiFi Router is going to be plugged into a telephone, coax, or fiber line that is just as vulnerable to being cut.

  22. Re:Op Out Knowledge? on Should Patients Have the Option To Not Know Their DNA? · · Score: 1

    Say that to any child currently attending a state-mandated educational institution.

  23. Re: I've implemented something similar on MIT Researchers Create Platform To Build Secure Web Apps That Never Leak Data · · Score: 1

    * three patents

  24. Re: I've implemented something similar on MIT Researchers Create Platform To Build Secure Web Apps That Never Leak Data · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I agree in that this won't be implemented because of the business implications but would also go on to say that this solution is unoriginal and undeserving of all the pomp and circumstance that the media and the educational institutions are giving it, before we know it they're going to give out Ph.D's and there patents for a high school paper on using electrolysis to make hydrogen and oxygen. Call the press!

  25. Wrong price point, wrong demographic, wrong style on Transformer-Style Scooter Lets You Ride Your Briefcase To Work · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Business professionals such as attorneys and executives are the only people still using briefcases, middle management and your average run of the mill desk jockey might buy one of these as a toy, but not at this price point. You'd have to get it down to the sub-$500 level to hit that target market. This thing is defective by an order of magnitude on many levels.