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  1. Re:Why? on The Next Keurig Will Make Your Coffee With a Dash of "DRM" · · Score: 1

    Either the coffee solution requires EXTENSIVE testing, or it requires minimal muss/fuss.

    Who said anything about requirements?

    These things seem mutually exclusive,

    This is where "to seem" bears its ugly teeth when one extrapolates based on a faulty and incorrect assumption.

  2. Re:Why? on The Next Keurig Will Make Your Coffee With a Dash of "DRM" · · Score: 1

    Not the guy you responded to but I use and am a big fan of the same thing.

    Doesn't that require a separate filter for each cup?

    Yeah, but they're cheap and very convenient for preparation and clean-up.

    And a tea kettle or some other 3rd party heating solution?

    Yes, but once you know how long it takes for e.g. a microwave to safely get a certain amount of water to the optimal temperature for a single serving it takes a very short amount of time. I know my microwave at home takes 2 min to get 12 oz of cold water to the perfect brewing temp.

    Also I know that the particular vessel I use to microwave water has nucleation points which allows the water to safely come to a roiling boil which keeps the water from superheating and exploding.

  3. Re:Why? on The Next Keurig Will Make Your Coffee With a Dash of "DRM" · · Score: 1

    This right here. Single cup of whatever happens to be my favorite coffee of choice at the moment, brewed to my exact specifications (many data gathered after *extensive* testing), with minimal muss and minimal fuss. As much as I like other brewing methods (moka pot, French press, Turkish coffee, other "hipster" methods...) this single-cup drip method takes the cake for excellent taste and convenience.

  4. Re:Chrome on Chrome 33 Nixes Option To Fall Back To Old 'New Tab' Page · · Score: 5, Informative

    Ctrl+k puts focus in the omni/address bar with a "?" which tells chrome you want to search rather than go to a url. Alternatively, you can add the ? as the first character in the address/omibar and this will also initiate a search rather than going to the site.

  5. Re:Kerbal Space Program! on Ask Slashdot: What Games Are You Playing? · · Score: 1

    The expansions enhance the gameplay to such a degree it's practically a new game. If you're enjoying vanilla Civ V then you're in for a real treat should you get the expansions, though you might want to wait until they have the (most likely forthcoming) "complete edition" upgrade which contains all the content rather than buying via the piecemeal approach.

  6. Re:Kerbal Space Program! on Ask Slashdot: What Games Are You Playing? · · Score: 1

    I just got into Civ V recently and got the monkey on my back too. To make it worse, Civ 4 complete was the humble bundle last week so I picked it up for cheap expecting to play it when Civ V lost its luster but now I'm engrossed in that game as well...

  7. Re:There are several good indie titles on Ask Slashdot: What Games Are You Playing? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    My pc can't handle Gone Home so I watched a let's play video to check it out, and damn, that was one touching story. Major nostalgia trip for me. I'd say it's more of an "interactive nostalgia storytelling" than a game though.

  8. Re:Beta interferes on L.A. Building's Lights Interfere With Cellular Network, FCC Says · · Score: 1

    I think that's actually a feature they play to implement *in* the beta.

  9. Re:Mourning Slashdot ;( on Silk Road's Ross Ulbricht's Next Court Date Set For November · · Score: 1
  10. Re:Why? on US Cord Cutters Getting Snubbed From NBC's Olympic Coverage Online · · Score: 1

    If you can get korean stations then your mountainous propagation theory doesn't hold water you "Typical idiot autist geek, incapable of thinking of the most simple and logical issues."

    PLONK

  11. Re:don't think this really works on phones yet on Dead Reckoning For Your Car Eliminates GPS Dead Zones · · Score: 1
  12. Re:fuck the beta: fonts edition on Silk Road's Ross Ulbricht's Next Court Date Set For November · · Score: 1

    My best guess is they're different accents based on your posting location. Helvetica is standard American English, Times New Roman is standard RP British English. At least that's how they sound to my eyes.

    The italics are just drunk.

  13. Re:Mourning Slashdot ;( on Silk Road's Ross Ulbricht's Next Court Date Set For November · · Score: 1

    The old page to purchase subscriptions and the FAQ which explains the subscription program.

    I've never heard of such a thing, and I think I've read at least the subject of every story posted here since Oct 1998 when I met the /. guys at the Atlanta Linux Showcase.

    You should take a remedial reading course if you missed this. It's been mentioned many, many times over the years. Or maybe get yourself checked for senility.

  14. Re: No thanks on Ask Slashdot: Why Are We Still Writing Text-Based Code? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but when you're high like on the Naked Now and you pull out all the little plastic cards so you can throw them into the air like pretty little snowflakes you're gonna make the crew of the Enterprise NCC-1701D have a bad time, even if you're fully functional and programmed in many techniques...

  15. Re:Friend of mine just got cheap drugs from India on Big Pharma Presses US To Quash Cheap Drug Production In India · · Score: 2

    Damn, now I'm depressed thinking about that poor miserable dog in the kennel in the basement. Maybe I need some doggy prozac.

  16. Re:Friend of mine just got cheap drugs from India on Big Pharma Presses US To Quash Cheap Drug Production In India · · Score: 1

    I don't know how I feel about antidepressants for dogs, or any other non-human animal for that matter. Can dogs be demonstrably depressed to a degree that they require medication rather than love and exercise? Or is this something that people who got a dog too big for their yard give to placate their pet when it spends 90% of its miserable life in a tiny kennel in the basement so it doesn't shed fur all over the sofa?

  17. Re:Why? on US Cord Cutters Getting Snubbed From NBC's Olympic Coverage Online · · Score: 2

    Precisely, so why should NBC have to pay for the bandwidth when there's already a well-established method of distribution in place which will cost them the same regardless of how many people consume that resource?

  18. Re:Why? on US Cord Cutters Getting Snubbed From NBC's Olympic Coverage Online · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's silly since it's still available over-the-air for free anyway. Do these "cord cutter" people not have antennas?

  19. Re:LHC didn't destroy the Unvierse? on CERN Wants a New Particle Collider Three Times Larger Than the LHC · · Score: 3, Funny

    Well, yes it did destroy the universe, but only after creating a new tiny universe which, incidentally, contained a tiny LHC to scale which was also creating a tinier universe which contained yet another tinier LHC and so on...

    Matter of fact, I think our universe is one of those tiny ones somewhere on the line and our perception of time just hasn't caught up yet.

  20. Re:Whoops! on Spectacular New Martian Impact Crater Spotted From Orbit · · Score: 2

    This is probably the one time in the history of slashdot I can see why the editor got the link wrong:

    1. The submitter failed to include a link in the original submission.
    4. And everything on slashdot seems to be out of order lately.
    2. The editors are probably, uhh, preoccupied.
    3. Soulskill probably still had the wrong link in the copy+paste buffer and didn't bother to check before posting.

  21. Re:How about a tethered kite instead of a drone? on A New Use For Drones: Traffic Scouting · · Score: 1

    Great idea! We can tie the kites to bridges. And power lines!

  22. Re:Beta delenda est! on Graphene Conducts Electricity Ten Times Better Than Expected · · Score: 1

    Burn baby, burn!!

  23. Re:Beta delenda est! on Graphene Conducts Electricity Ten Times Better Than Expected · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It's not a mere redesign, it's a fundamental change in the way slashdot works by changing what slashdot is all about. They should have waited until things actually worked before revealing the beta, but as it is, by forcing users to the fundamentally broken beta site they've shown that they no longer care about the community.

    Forcing users to a completely unusable site shows nothing but contempt for the users.

  24. Re:We don't know that. on Graphene Conducts Electricity Ten Times Better Than Expected · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I can assure you it's not the same AC over and over because AC comments are throttled by IP address.

    However, if slashdot dies because of this, it won't be because of Dice. It will be because like the dinosaurs, we couldn't adapt.

    Why should we have to adapt to garbage? I don't think anyone would refuse to adapt to a new paint scheme, it's the fact that the new site is fundamentally and functionally broken by design. The fact that dice felt now was a good time to start forcing users to something so broken shows that they have a fundamental misunderstanding of what this place is about. It's not that the beta site is a little buggy, it's that it is completely broken.

    At the very least they should have waited until commenting was at functional parity before revealing their hand but now it's too late, they have revealed the direction of things to come and it does not bode well for the future of the slashdot.org domain.

  25. Re:You are an audience on Not Just Healthcare.gov: NASA Has 'Significant Problems' With $2.5B IT Contract · · Score: 2

    I think you may be one of the few people getting "news" from slashdot. The rest of us come here *specifically* for the commentary, and yes, that makes us NOT an audience but a community. The "news" submissions are nothing more than a vehicle for things to discuss and that's how it has always been.

    To be honest I'm surprised someone with a 6-digit UID such as yourself wouldn't have realized this by now.