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  1. Why would they last 20 years? on $60 Light Bulb Debuts On Earth Day · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How are they gonna make money when eventually everyone has one of these and it takes 20 years for it to die...

  2. Back in the early 90's on 30 Blu-ray Discs In a 1.5TB MiniDisc-Like Cassette · · Score: 1

    I was proud to sport my Yellow weather resistant walkman now I'd rather get a bad case of haemorrhoids than to own anything Sony.

  3. Ahhh 1997 on Google Drive Launching Next Week With 5GB Free Space · · Score: 1

    when geocities, freeyellow, angelfire and etc... offering 10mb was plenty.

  4. Exactly! on Netflix CEO Accuses Comcast of Not Practicing Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    That's why I've been saying for years. Network providers should be just that provide internet access. If they expand into media like you see so often these days there needs to be some regulation.

    Seems there's a potentially HUGE market for wireless/wifi internet providers that can offer unlimited data transfers to customers. They wouldn't have their hands tied like some of the loca IPS's here where they have to lease the lines from the major providers which get money from everyone regardless if they are from a small local ISP.

  5. Website idea on Paramount Claims Louis CK "Didn't Monetize" · · Score: 1

    We need a site/app where people like LCK can post info of up and coming self produced shows to get the word out. I bought his special but only by chance when I saw a post about him on Michael Geists websites. $5 was a hell of a deal and I'd be willing to buy buy buy at that price.

  6. Wait didn't LCK on Paramount Claims Louis CK "Didn't Monetize" · · Score: 5, Informative

    turn his work into money while while also giving his viewers get a good laugh. Shit not that I think about it, I got a two for one deal for my $5 and LCK got a new fan.

    Thanks LCK!

    Also didn't he donate some of the profits and share quite a bit of it with his staff? Good god we should hang him for such charity and make him lose his copyrights.

    Rather than hoard the vast new profit from the digital download sales, CK said he plans to split it up among various people and organizations. The comedian explained that $250,000 would pay for the standup special and $250,000 would be disbursed as bonuses to people who work for him. Also, CK plans to donate $280,000 to five different charities, including the Fistula Foundation, Green Chimneys, Charity:Water, the Pablove Foundation and micro-loan non-profit Kiva. That leaves CK with $220,000 for himself.

    “Some of that ($220K) will pay my rent and will care for my children. The rest I will do terrible, horrible things with and none of that is any of your business. In any case, to me, 220k is enough out of a million,” CK said, adding that he’s always viewed money as a resource rather than something you keep for yourself.

  7. Re:DCMA on Heavyweights Clash Over Policing Repeat Copyright Infringers · · Score: 1

    Accused by copyright holders or convicted in court of law repeat offender?

  8. I still have an Win 2000 Pro on Windows Vista Enters Extended Support · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    disk and installed in on a spare latop not too long ago. Shit that thing flies even compared to lxde distros.

  9. Want to be free people to terrorists on Innocent Or Not, the NSA Is Watching You · · Score: 1

    blow that place up and you'll have our support and gratitude.

  10. So now we need on 42% of Worldwide Households Expected To Have Wi-Fi By 2016 · · Score: 1

    some technology to inter connect those routers/networks for free internet. Then the corporation can rape the existing Internet to their hearts content.

  11. Another good site on Pirate Bay Promotion Attracts Over 5000 Artists · · Score: 2

    that I try to promote when I can is http://www.ektoplazm.com/ Tons of good free electronic music on there.

  12. Re:Well I say on EA Defends Itself Against Thousands of Anti-Gay Letters · · Score: 1, Insightful

    As a Christian, while I don't approve of homosexual activity

    So you don't approve to something that is real in nature but you do approve of god?

  13. I will be soon... on Millions of Subscribers Leaving Cable TV for Streaming Services · · Score: 1

    Normally I just pay my cable bill and never pay attention to it till I finally look and i was paying $78 for second tier. WTF? My jaw dropped. So made an executive decision to get an Unlimited Internet package from TekSavvey ( I'll get both cable and dry loop adsl for redundancy) and I'm slowly compiling a list of sites/services that I can use to watch on tv. Its not easy especially when you have kids and a 92 year old grandma living with you but I have the grandma take care off ass news I can OTA and I got an Asus 0!play mini for her and been downloading shows like I Love Lucy, Threes Company, Golden Girls and etc... for her to watch.

    Looking forward to be cable free in two months...

  14. Re:Club of Rome Study 2 on MIT Institute's Gloomy Prediction: 'Global Economic Collapse' By 2030 · · Score: 1

    As energy use increases, energy will get more expensive, providing pressure to use less energy or find more efficient ways to use energy.

    When have we seen this in history? Never, as it would take enormous amount of self discipline and population contribution for this to work and humans are so greedy that i'll just cause a WW3 and were be back at it when 1/2 of the population is gone.

  15. Re:How about ruling Monsanto is contaminating on The Supreme Court To Rule On Monsanto Seed Patents · · Score: 2

    Exactly they should be charged with environmental contamination.

  16. Re:Too late for me on Google Strikes Deal With Paramount · · Score: 1

    Well its not that easy. First there really isn't any good entertainment content on YouTube unless you're 13 years old and get a laugh out of retards.Gimme some good Sci Fi like http://www.pioneerone.tv/ (Which I donated twice to) and I'll watch I started my boycott by not going to the movie's and I haven't been to one movie since before Iron Man 2. I just couldn't spend $40-50 between me an my son to watch some shitty movie which I might as well buy a big screen tv and just buy the DVD's at pawnshops.

    I did buy the Louis CK show that he release and it was worth every penny http://www.engadget.com/2011/12/22/louis-ck-makes-1-million-in-12-days-proves-that-drm-free-conte/. I haven't bought commercial music for ages but I still do download old stuff and have about 400 cd still. My tastes changed a little and I get quite a bit of music from http://www.ektoplazm.com/

  17. Punishment on Anonymous Claims To Have Defaced Hundreds of Chinese Government Sites · · Score: 1

    Will any admins or the people who run those sites now be punished by the CN gov to show them as an example to others to keep security tight?

  18. Too late for me on Google Strikes Deal With Paramount · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I just pirate all I can. Yes I don't fucking care anymore especially with the media companies trying hard to turn Canada into some lock down DRM utopia. I have aprox 500 dvd's of which half were bought new and rest at pawn shops. I have no intention of giving the studios any money until they stop trying to take away my ownership right off an item and stop trying to get politicians to pass insane laws.

    Also HOW MANY FUCKING MOVIES must be remade from 20 year ago?

    Support your local Pawn Shop and Pirate!

  19. Re:Yeah but does it work on Linux? on The State of the Diablo 3 Beta (Two Videos) · · Score: 1

    Where do the Humble Bundle stats fit in with your assertions?

    It fits in nicely, I've bought two of them as all computers in my house have Linux on them.

    Also there's the little fact that Linux users on average will pay more for the game unless Humble Bundle stats lie.

  20. Who is going to afford on Flying Car Makes Successful Maiden Flight · · Score: 2

    the mechanical inspections for this thing if they want this contraption to be commonplace. I can see industry using it but yah you really want to leave it parked on the side street, nothing could go wrong with that mid air.

  21. Re:Always amazes me on German Court Rules Rapidshare Is Legal, But Must Adjust Content Policies · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why is it okay for Rapidshare to make money off copyrighted content but not the creators? As some one that lives off copyrighted content why do they have more rights than I do? I spend years creating the content that they casually hand off to anyone with a computer. My creditors would point out that I'm far from rich yet the owners of Rapidshare make serious money off copyright holders. Take away the profits and the creators will vanish. I couldn't care less about the distributors I'm talking about the creators. As a creator I'll tell you now if you give all the profits to groups like Rapidshare then there will be no new content. They aren't the heroes it's the content creators who have been screwed over by the distributors who paid them $0.10 on the $1 and now the file sharing services that pay zero cents on the dollar!. Support the artists and screw the corporate lackies including Rapidshare!

    Seems to me your method of making money is dead. Sitting there and bitching about it will do nothing and legislating will take year and years to lock up the illegal distributions methods while new ones pop up. So wouldn't it be about time to change careers like the majority of the population or embrace the interweb as the ultimate distribution channel and work your way up to success. Mind you, you still need to produce something worth while as like with antiques all of a sudden those rare ones seem to be popping up all over the place because of people using the Internet to connect with each other, No where there were only a few, there a hundreds and technology killed that scarcity.

    Here you go http://www.engadget.com/2011/12/22/louis-ck-makes-1-million-in-12-days-proves-that-drm-free-conte/

  22. Thansk for the warning on Gawker Media To Require Commenters' Facebook, Twitter, Or Google Logins · · Score: 3, Insightful

    on telling us your devs are not capable of doing their jobs and letting me know I can't use your site because I don't want to use any of the social sites.

  23. Technology, education and Hydroponics on Ask Slashdot: How To Feed Africa? · · Score: 1

    Throwing food at them just extends their demise, giving them technology to build their own tools for survival is what will fix that. I'm sure there are tens of thousands of bright minds in Africa ready to be creative if they just go the means and the tools

    Hydroponics; Forget about soil, you don't need it but if you do want to use a substrate than there's Rockwool (they use fibreglass insulation back in the day), Clay Pebbles aka Hydroton, Coco Fiber and Peat. A lot of the plants can be grown in Deep Water Culture, Aeroponics and Aquaponics which require no substrate at all. All you need is access to fresh water and design way to recapture the water that is transpired through the plants and recycle it. Maybe some kind of fully sealed greenhouse where water vapor is recaptured. Mind you you'd than have to supplement co2 but that can be done with burning propane/ng which also creates water vapour which could be captured.

    From http://www.ucar.edu/learn/1_4_2_18t.htm

    Plants transpire vast quantities of water - only one percent of all water a plant absorbs is used in photosynthesis; the rest is lost through transpiration. In one growing season, one corn plant transpires over 200 liters.

  24. Re:Partner with YouTube or Vimeo, or do HTML5 plea on Ladies and Gentlemen, Welcome to SlashdotTV! (Video) · · Score: 1

    Suck for you but what do you know works fine on my preferred ways like on my laptop and HTC Amaze.

  25. He said on Richard Clarke: All Major U.S. Firms Hacked By China · · Score: 2

    'The U.S. government is involved in espionage against other governments. There’s a big difference, however, between the kind of cyberespionage the United States government does and China.

    Kinda like

    'The U.S. government is involved in torture against non US citizens There’s a big difference, however, between the kind of torture the United States government does and China.