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  1. Re:Makes perfect sense. on Theater Chain Bans Google Glass · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If the device has flashing LEDs, bright backlights, etc., OK I see the point. If it simply bothers people that someone in there is a geek, then I'll just wait for someone to ban the gays, the blacks and my favorite annoyance, hipsters.

    I don't own the device and it'll be a long time before I'm convinced it wouldn't make me sick, but "We don't want none of your kind here" isn't an emotion I sympathize with from any establishment for any reason.

  2. Re:Makes perfect sense. on Theater Chain Bans Google Glass · · Score: 1

    It does if they want my continued business.

  3. Re:Makes perfect sense. on Theater Chain Bans Google Glass · · Score: 1

    Does google glass distract other people from viewing? Or is this just more paranoia about movie pirates masquerading as trendy tech-hate?

  4. Re:Price Wars on Netflix Trash-Talks Verizon's Network; Verizon Threatens To Sue · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is why you don't negotiate with terrorists.

  5. Re:Culpability at the Top on GM Names and Fires Engineers Involved In Faulty Ignition Switch · · Score: 1

    Sorry I meant car manufacturers, not dealers. I live in Texas I have a whole other hatred of car dealers.

  6. Re:Culpability at the Top on GM Names and Fires Engineers Involved In Faulty Ignition Switch · · Score: 5, Insightful

    While I've seen some engineers do bad things because they were afraid of management, I've never seen a situation in a company this size where the organization was good but one bad engineer was able to release something terrible with no oversight. This is almost by definition of what it means to be a good organization: you shoudl not place tens or hundreds of millions of dollars of responsibility onto your wage slave, no matter how senior he is (never mind that real physical injury may be involved).

    It's always, always been bad management, frequently that went straight to the top. But then with most American car dealers we already know that. I find it amusing that they blame the unions all the time, but my two "Japanese" cars, both manufactured in America, have been excellent and are still running flawlessly 9 years later, while my two "American" cars (made in Mexico) I was happy to be rid of at 5 years.

  7. Re:A boon for CAD, hopefully on 4K Displays Ready For Prime Time · · Score: 1

    pcb layers in Allegro are basically 2 dimensional, you'd need more than just monitor support. Also given a typical stackup for a PCB I'm not sure the "depth", unless exaggerated, would be so helpful. A motherboard is so many inches wide, but a pcb layer is somewhere around what, 8 thousands of an inch thick? Then if the fiber or prepreg is modelled it would appear to be "floating".

    A tool from Ansys called SiWave does this (including allowing layers to be exaggerated), I didn't find it to be useful for much more than helping me place probe points. Boards are just too damned flat.

  8. Re:Sweet, now we just need to wait for OS Support on 4K Displays Ready For Prime Time · · Score: 3, Informative

    I believe Apple just pushed a patch to mavericks with better 4k support. http://au.ibtimes.com/articles...

  9. No Way! on Curved TVs Nothing But a Gimmick · · Score: 4, Funny

    Curved TV's aren't better? I can't believe it!

  10. Re:There's a relationship... on Study: Stop Being So Cynical, You Could Give Yourself Dementia · · Score: 1

    Think of all the governments, corporations and rich people that'd profit from THIS!

  11. Re:#notallgeekyguys on Misogyny, Entitlement, and Nerds · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How could anyone even remotely think it's a "standard frustrated geeky guy manifesto". I would wager his particular problem is shared my more than a few people who visit this website, or at least was, long ago. I find it impossible to believe that most of us chose to blame women for not making themselves available to us in our every moment of need, to blame other men who were seemingly getting that treatment for our own failings, and in general feeling such an intense narcissism and sense of entitlement to think the whole world (men and women) owe to us our ideal experience. This guy was off his rocker, I don't know if his problem was psychological or poor upbringing, but I don't think in our most desperate hour do the majority of us think that we were OWED any form of gratification. Honestly the whole thing is insulting to men and this article, to geeks.

    As politically incorrect as it is to say, there is such a thing as 'boys being boys', as much as there is 'girls being girls'. I have limited experience with the latter, beyond cursory comments from my sibling. But boys will say stupid shit inspired by whatever transitory self-hating emotion they were inflicted with at the time, let loose with the grease of whatever chemical they chose to release it with. It may be hateful, self indulging, offensive or outrageous but it's usually done "with the guys" often after rejection or some failure. The emotion is vented. I don't believe for a minute that the majority actually believe their press, or would act on some idiotic revenge fantasy, or even remember their own bullshit the next morning. "Rape culture" is nothing more than vigorous internet trolling that has fed on itself and become a mythical monster that better adjusted males know is utter crap, but which the mentally unstable lock on to and embrace. It's as believable to me as video game inspired violence, in that it happens, but the problem was never the game. Does the presence of "pedo bear" imply the existence of a widespread pedophillia culture?

    This is just another excuse to be outraged. We can't blame guns because he killed more people with knives. So let's focus on the ravings of an obvious madman, and let's take them seriously!

  12. Re:... nobody is talking about the privacy violati on Iran Court Summons Mark Zuckerberg For Facebook Privacy Violations · · Score: 1

    That's not facebook, that's a bad employer.

  13. Re:Yea, I'm sure he gives a rat's ass. on Iran Court Summons Mark Zuckerberg For Facebook Privacy Violations · · Score: 1

    Lies. Here's a famous one:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...

    Extradition treaties generally have to work both ways or there's no incentive for others to honor them. Similarly if you sign the treaty and don't deliver, expect it to come back at you.

  14. Re:... nobody is talking about the privacy violati on Iran Court Summons Mark Zuckerberg For Facebook Privacy Violations · · Score: 1

    You're right, when I upload pictures of my drunken escapades to a social networking site to an account tied to my real name, and my real friends and family, I really do expect that they will be held in the strictest confidence.

  15. Re:Is this an ad ? on Is LG's New Ultra Widescreen Display Better Than "Normal" 4K? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    More pixels is always better if you're coding. However 21:9 does nothing for me, they should double down and go 32:9 and allow two host controllers (and selectably just one to drive both). It'll save me a bit of desk space and one power cord...

  16. Re:20,000 H1Bs for the country vs 320 million citi on HP Makes More Money, Cuts 16,000 Jobs · · Score: 3, Informative

    Sure, but that includes the elderly and children and people who dont' work, and people who work in areas not eligible for H1Bs. There are, and this is a hotly debated number, perhaps 2.4M STEM related jobs (of which HP itself only employs a cross-section of) and of that under 10% are open. There are over 11 million STEM degreed americans out there who have given up on STEM, probably due to dropping salaries and incessant layoffs.

    Anyway hopefully as HP lays off STEM job holders, the H1B count can be lowered by that number (some large fraction of 16K jobs). Of course that won't happen because salaries might go up.

  17. Re:Go die on With the Surface Pro, Microsoft Is Trying To Recreate the PC Market · · Score: 1

    They're doing a lot of good trying to recreate the market they killed in the first place!

  18. Re:"PAY ME MY MONEY, YOU LYING SUBHUMAN GARBAGE." on AT&T Hacker 'weev' Demands One Bitcoin For Each Hour He Spent In Jail · · Score: 1

    It kind of works for AT&T, Verizon, et. al. They are perhaps slightly more polite "Pay me my money, or else I'll throttle your bandwidth", but the implication that we're subhuman garbage is clear.

  19. Re:Pretty obvious on Why I'm Sending Back Google Glass · · Score: 2

    In TFA, he surprisingly had some good criticisms of the actual device. Unfortunately all that made it to the summary was the bullshit reasons regarding people's misunderstanding and misuse of psychology, and/or his discomfort with not looking people in the eye. I see a future were we just get used to it, the same as we ignore people checking their phone already.

    After we get past the nonsense, it seems the device itself has some design issues, though not all are issues i agree are issues (like maps using cellular data...I think that's the right way to do it unless the cell phone has wifi of course).

  20. Re:Just Tack on a Fee on Driverless Cars Could Cripple Law Enforcement Budgets · · Score: 1

    Yes and electric cars should also pay $1,000 in gas avoidance taxes to prop up the oil industry!

  21. Re:Protests were Illegal (and last Thursday) on Water Cannons Used Against Peaceful Anti-TTIP Protestors: the Next ACTA Revolt? · · Score: 1

    Even in the US protests have some constraints. Not on private property, no disruption of over people, etc.

    The right to protest is in our constitution, but it is a right whether a government supports it or not. It's simply that some governments punish protestors more vigorously than others. We all remember pepper spray cop, even here where protesting is "allowed".

  22. Re:Also credits the dude that keeps it running on Game of Thrones Author George R R Martin Writes with WordStar on DOS · · Score: 1

    Since all we got lately is "Dangerous Women", I'd say he's been loading everything into extended memory.

  23. Re:Also credits the dude that keeps it running on Game of Thrones Author George R R Martin Writes with WordStar on DOS · · Score: 5, Funny

    Poor guy has to dick with GRRM's autoexec.bat and config.sys every time he adds a new feast scene.

  24. Re:Such as Economist? on Ask Slashdot: Does Your Job Need To Exist? · · Score: 1

    In fairness, it's a dystopian nightmare only to over 99% of living humans. It works out quite nicely for everyone else.

  25. Re:Optimistic on Ask Slashdot: Does Your Job Need To Exist? · · Score: 1

    Or is the invisible hand meant to wave this problem away?

    It doesn't wave, it has this odd single finger gesture.