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  1. Re:What is Trump-hating Lauren Weinstein Capable o on Asus ZenBook UX305CA Shows What Skylake Core M Is Capable Of (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    I think you're in the wrong story bud.

  2. Perhaps this explains my Garmin on GPS Always Overestimates Distances (i-programmer.info) · · Score: 3, Informative

    I began running 5ks recently and the watch consistently reports my distance as 100 - 150 meters short of 5k when I finish. It is also fairly inaccurate in reporting my current pace particularly when I've turned a corner or made any kind of deviation from a straight line really. I've been running long enough at this point to know when I'm running a 9 minute/km pace (yeah, I'm a turtle) but my watch will occasionally say I'm running a 7 minute km.

  3. Re:Next RadioShack on Staples To Buy Office Depot For $6.3 Billion · · Score: 1

    I'm not surprised. I'm sure they make most of their money on government and corporate contracts. Here in Georgia, at one time, they had the contract to supply the government with office supplies.

  4. Re:Unlimited = No Sharing on Ask Slashdot: Is It Worth Being Grandfathered On Verizon's Unlimited Data Plan? · · Score: 1

    Just piling on the bandwagon. You can absolutely use your phone as a hotspot. In fact, the FCC made them allow it. http://venturebeat.com/2012/07...

  5. Yes, they matter. on Do Specs Matter Anymore For the Average Smartphone User? · · Score: 1

    I recently switched from Verizon to Cricket to save some money and went from a Galaxy S4 to a Galaxy Express. The S4 was snappy, no lag opening apps, unlocked right away and so on. The Express would often lag switching apps or even unlocking the screen. When I had it synced via bluetooth with my car stereo and I would skip a song, it would take 3 or 4 seconds to actually skip, where the S4 was instantaneous. I know it seems petty, but when you're used to speed, it's hard to go back. I ended up biting the bullet and getting a Nexus 5. Life is good again.

  6. I'm no hardware expert on U2 and Apple Collaborate On 'Non-Piratable, Interactive Format For Music' · · Score: 1

    I'm no hardware expert so the following question isn't rhetorical. How hard is it really to capture the audio output going to your speakers? Unless they put some kind of encryption into them like with HDMI, it seems to me that they are a little short sighted to say the least saying this is non-piratable.

  7. Re:They always told me I was so smart... on It's Dumb To Tell Kids They're Smart · · Score: 1

    I was in a similar situation. My parents always told me I was so smart because I could do some things on the computer so I pursued a career in IT. Most miserable 10 years of my life. What was once a hobby, became a chore that I wasn't any good at because I only enjoyed doing the things I was interested in. If I wasn't interested in it, like networking, servers, and such, I completely lacked motivation to do it. I've since found my passion and am on my way to working in that field.

  8. Re:Best secure email? on Google Spots Explicit Images of a Child In Man's Email, Tips Off Police · · Score: 3, Informative

    I use runbox. Secure email based out of Norway. https://runbox.com/why-runbox/...

  9. Why was I an underachiever? on Black Holes Not Black After All, Theorize Physicists · · Score: 1

    I should have tried harder in high school and college so I could really understand all this space stuff.

  10. Depth perception? on Airbus Patents Windowless Cockpit That Would Increase Pilots' Field of View · · Score: 1

    How would this effect the pilots depth perception? If it did, would it even matter?

  11. Re:All smart watches suck on Disappointed Woz Sells His "Worthless" Galaxy Gear Watch · · Score: 1

    No, but I own a small shop with a couple of rental computers and I'm seeing more and more (young) people who don't even know access the web on anything other than their smart phone let alone write software and build a circuit.

  12. Re:All smart watches suck on Disappointed Woz Sells His "Worthless" Galaxy Gear Watch · · Score: 1

    Because, you know, everybody is an engineer.

  13. Re:I skipped Windows 7... on Windows 9 To Win Over Windows 7 Users, Disables Start Screen For Desktop · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Just wait for a few iterations of Mac OS until Apple says the latest one will not work on your still perfectly functional hardware.

  14. Re:Democrats voted on House Majority Leader Defeated In Primary · · Score: 1

    In theory it gets atrociously bad politicians out of office. I've never seen it work in practice though. They did it to Cynthia McKinney here in Georgia but then the voters in that district got stuck with Hank Johnson who thought Guam was going to tip over so I don't think they really came out ahead on that one.

  15. Re:Can I play with my friends? on Grand Theft Auto V For Modern Platforms Confirmed · · Score: 1

    It's technically possible. War Thunder just arrived for PS4 and there is cross-platform gameplay. PS4 players are easily denoted in-game by the * next to their name which doesn't do them any favors since the general consensus is that keyboard/mouse controls are far superior to controller.

  16. So other comcast customers can stroll through and leech my bandwidth, that I pay for? Good thing I don't use a comcast wifi router.

  17. This is new? on Apple's Revenge: iMessage Might Eat Your Texts If You Switch To Android · · Score: 1

    This was happening to me 2 years ago. How is this just now becoming "news"?

  18. Who cares? on Steve Jobs Defied Convention, and Perhaps the Law · · Score: 0

    When you've got billions of dollars in the bank, who cares if what you're doing is illegal. The worst that will happen to large corporations is some fines numbering in the millions which is peanuts to them. Now if you or I did this, we'd be out of business.

  19. Self-cleaning or just repellent? on Nissan Develops a Self-Cleaning Car · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Self-cleaning sounds a whole lot cooler and is a better marketing term, but it's not really self-cleaning, it just repels things. Not really the same thing.

  20. What's in a name? on Elite Violinists Can't Distinguish Between a Stradivarius and a Modern Violin · · Score: 4, Funny

    New violins don't have cool names like Stradivarius though. That name is so epic, it could make anything look or sound high brow and expensive. Stradivarius Coffee, home of the $75 latte. Stradivarius Bounce House, let your kids bounce around for only $125/hr. Stradivarius Water, Anything less, will dehydrate you, only $49.99 per 8oz bottle made out of the finest Stradivarius plastics. With a name like that, people will pay anything.

  21. Not according to my microbiology instructor on Can Science Ever Be "Settled?" · · Score: 1

    He insists that since scientists just attribute whatever they can't explain to "random chance" (Can't recall ever hearing one actually utter those words) there must be an intelligent designer. Yeah, I'm dropping the class and complaining to the department head. 'Merica.

  22. Another misleading title on NASA Scientists Find Evidence of Water In Martian Meteorite · · Score: 0

    I read the title and thought they'd actually found water, only to find out it was hundreds of millions of years ago that it was there.

  23. Everyone always seems to forget... on Spotify's Own Math Suggests Musicians Are Still Getting Hosed · · Score: 1

    Middlemen aside, everyone always seems to forget that you have to price a product at what the customers are willing to pay for it while still making a profit for yourself after paying royalties, salaries, etc.... If the artists feel they aren't getting paid enough through this medium, they need to branch out to other mediums and find other ways to make money on their product. They can't just say "I want X amount of dollars each month or X amount for each play" and expect any sane businessperson to take them seriously without factoring in the costs associated with offering the service.

  24. VPN on File-Sharing Site Was Actually an Anti-Piracy Honeypot · · Score: 2

    That is all.

  25. So are Preppers still crazy? on DoD Declassifies Flu Pandemic Plan Containing Sobering Assumptions · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Shutting down interstate travel, social distancing, sequestration. Seems like I may need to start stockpiling that water, food and ammo.