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  1. Re:Best of luck on working while relaxing on Ask Slashdot: Suggestions For Taking a Business Out Into the Forest? · · Score: 1

    Well it's not necessarily "relaxing from [enormous] stress" of answering support tickets or whatever. Just changing the scenery and getting new experiences while still earning money.

    As I can work remotely, I've been thinking about something like this, just with travel in general and not camping because camping is fucking miserable. As is, I go to the office (which is now 5 minutes away after they moved it closer to my apartment), sit there for 8 hours and then, unless there's a specific event I'm attending, I walk back home. This shit gets old after a while.

    Instead, I could easily be on the beach in Thailand all day and then work in the late afternoon and then still hit some parties if I wanted. Or travel around, or do whatever. The point is, you still do the same work, but get to experience new things instead of grinding through the home->office->home routine every single day.

  2. Re:Wrong people to strip on Chris Christie Proposes Tracking Immigrants the Way FedEx Tracks Packages · · Score: 1

    It didn't seem like he was talking about the Mexicans running over the border. But people like me who fly in with valid B2/whatever visas, who are then thankfully untracked once in the country. Getting the visa and fingerprinted at every entry was unpleasant enough, and although this bullshit clearly has no chance of being implemented, something like this would could be the final straw that will get tourists or business visitors reconsider coming to the US.

  3. Re:naysayers are missing the point on Ten Dropbox Engineers Build BSD-licensed, Lossless 'Pied Piper' Compression Algorithm · · Score: 2

    It's not useless - it can be decoded by dropbox when serving the files.

    Seriously, it's that simple: users upload existing files to dropbox, they get loslessly compressed by this algorithm, and decompressed on access. Bam.

  4. Re:Problem with the solution? on Why In-Flight Wi-Fi Is Still Slow and Expensive · · Score: 1

    What he says is trying to say is "run the sims", but what he actually does is "play the Sims"

  5. I agree but... yeah, depends on the group and circumstances. I was just at an outdoor party a couple of days ago and everything was going ok until the group I was part of launched a horribly racist/xenophobic conversation. There was no way I'd get into that argument so I just distanced myself a bit and started dicking around with my phone. Meanwhile the other group was engaged in an obnoxious drunken conversation.

    What I really have a problem though is when someone pulls out their phone while I'm mid-sentence talking to them without so much as "sorry gotta take it" or something (because of course it's stupid facebook bullshit), and just proceed to text something. What the fuck. If you don't want to talk to me then just don't.

    So yeah I'd say phones are inappropriate at social events but there are clear exceptions to the rule.

  6. Re:Nice. on Girls Catfish ISIS On Social Media For Travel Money · · Score: 1

    So you think somehow the gangs of LA are going to magically protect you from someone driving a garbage truck full of explosives into your neighbourhood or from a stranger walking up to you hacking at your head with a machete?

    The OP was probably referring to LAPD. But your point still stands, admittedly.

  7. Re:My ancient i7-2700 on 10 Years of Intel Processors Compared · · Score: 1

    What's an i7? I'm still using the C2Q 6600 in my main desktop. It does just fine even in modern games, although I am planning to finally upgrade once Skylake CPUs our available.

  8. Re:I hope they fixed the size issue. on GCC 5.2 Released · · Score: 2

    Conclusion: never use iostreams.

  9. Re:This is not some nefarious plot on AMD Catalyst Linux Driver Performs Wildly Different Based On Program's Name · · Score: 2

    I thought this stuff was common knowledge, and I just fucked around with OpenGl a little.

    Basically as you said in the initial post, the driver developers constantly need to write special cases for various games so that they work correctly and users don't whine on their forums. Either because the game developers are doing something crazy and/or stupid, or if they really encountered an edge case.

  10. Re:w/AWD and inteligent speed/traction control on "Ludicrous Speed" For Tesla's Model S Means 0-60 MPH In 2.8 Seconds · · Score: 1

    What's "unnecessary"? Somehow I don't see
    "Officer, I had to gun it to make the next green light!"
    working very well.

  11. Re:Why all the Safari/Apple hate ?... on Is Safari the New Internet Explorer? · · Score: 1

    Though probably he's 90 and completely senile :D

  12. Re:Office Space Solutions on Lawsuit Filed Over Domain Name Registered 16 Years Before Plaintiff's Use · · Score: 1

    I was getting really disappointed in slashdot that nobody noticed this until I got to your post. Better late than never, thanks!

  13. Re:Same here on CDC: Americans Getting Heavier, Average Woman Weighs As Much As 1960s Man · · Score: 1

    Don't eat vegetables and fruit that contain a lot of sugar either.

  14. Re:inconsistency is the constant at Microsoft on Microsoft's Skype Drops Modern App In Favour of Old-Fashioned Win32 App · · Score: 2

    You have a shitty laptop.

  15. Re: This seems foolproof! on Russian Space Agency Misused $1.8 Billion, May Be Replaced · · Score: 1

    That's a badass-looking tunnel by the way.

    The construction started 20 years ago but still, of course it's somehow way cheaper than Russia's clusterfuck even adjusted for inflation.

  16. Re:Sample questions on Al-Qaeda's Job Application Form Revealed · · Score: 1

    Those sound like school math test questions, not job interview ones.

    Estimate how many infidels there are in the middle east right now that need killing.

    Please talk about a time you had a disagreement with a Shia colleague and how you handled it?

    How many sticks of dynamite can you fit in a Peugeot sedan? Before the suspension starts to visibly sag?

    Explain Jihad to an 8-year old in 3 sentences or fewer.

  17. Re:Peanuts compared to their value on Study Reveals Wikimedia Foundation Is 'Awash In Money' · · Score: 1

    Youtube is a commercial operation and they'll have a lot more lines of business: marketing, sales, legal and what not., who'll almost certainly make up a significant part of the workforce.

  18. Re: Article author has no idea what SAP security i on Top Cyber Attack Vectors For Critical SAP Systems · · Score: 1

    I think you mean GLOBAL for all.

  19. Re:Hey morons on Oculus Rift Launching In Q1 2016 · · Score: 1

    The only reason Gear VR isn't vaporware is that Samsung told Oculus to stop whining and fucking ship something already. Otherwise they'd be still be talking about shipping a dev preview version or something.

  20. Re:acceptance is the only fair outcome on Scientists Have Paper On Gender Bias Rejected Because They're Both Women · · Score: 2

    That's a ridiculous argument you're making. Just because women have it bad at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder (unlike men??), doesn't mean it doesn't suck for them in STEM when compared to men, which is the test you should be making. I suspect this has partially something to do with opinions like yours.

  21. Re: "Surge Pricing" on How Uber Surge Pricing Really Works · · Score: 1

    Who are you going to kill when there's nothing to buy because the idiots before you panicked and bought 10 times more than what's necessary to survive?

  22. Re:This is fucking stupid. on Researchers Developing An Algorithm That Can Detect Internet Trolls · · Score: 2

    Thickness of skin has nothing to do with it, I'm pretty much impossible to offend or seriously piss off. The real problem with trolls is that they're a huge waste of everyone's time, even if you can ban/ignore them, you still have to read their posts at least once first.

  23. Re:Not Just apple. on Does USB Type C Herald the End of Apple's Proprietary Connectors? · · Score: 1

    Lenovos have had identical power connectors for like a decade on the ThinkPads, only the most recent models switched to a new square connector.

    There's an upper limit on the power USB-type C supports, which might not be enough for workstation class machines.

  24. Does that mean on Rosetta Photographs Its Own Shadow On Comet 67P/C-G · · Score: 2

    Six more weeks of winter? Brrr.

  25. Re:You mean BMW numbering? on Intel To Rebrand Atom Chips Along Lines of Core Processors · · Score: 1

    Bzzzz! Wrong!

    http://www.bmw.com/com/en/newv...

    http://www.bmw.com/com/en/newv...

    http://www.bmw.com/com/en/newv...

    http://www.bmw.com/com/en/newv...

    http://www.bmw.com/com/en/newv...

    Nice try, but their new scheme makes no fucking sense at all so don't worry about it.

    Before the recent change there was nothing to be confused about - you had most models in various body styles: coupe, convertible, sedan, or wagon. Of course it'd look ridiculous if they made even more (expensive) variants of the same car so they had to make a bigger mess to hide it.