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  1. Re:The real market on New Keyboard Accessory Shocks Users When They Try To Go On Facebook · · Score: 0, Troll

    No need for this device, you just fire the fucks who are Facebooking on the companies dime.

    You're at the office to work, not post pictures of what you did last night and chat with your friends. Its not play time, its not fun time. Its work. Do your damn job and go play on the Internet on your own fucking time asshole.

  2. No confirmation on Google Breaks ChromeCast's Ability To Play Local Content · · Score: 2

    There seems to be a lot of raking Google over the coals ... but the only thing we have here is a single report, approved to the slashdot front page by timothy.

    At this point, since not a single person has confirmed it on here, I'm inclined to believe there is no such breakage and this is just another example of timothy approving something stupid that he shouldn't be allowed to even read, let alone approve.

  3. Lack of reliability on Dark Day In the AWS Cloud: Big Name Sites Go Down · · Score: 1

    How is it that AWS is less reliable than the 4 Windows machines I get stuck managing? One of which has had a failed CPU for a few years now ... yet its still going.

  4. Re:Too little too late on Windows 8.1 RTM Trickling Out, With Start Menu and Boot-to-Desktop · · Score: 1

    I'd wager a good amount that you dick around for hours making linux 'work appropriately' as well as I've never met anyone who installed Linux who didn't dick with it endlessly.

    In which case, the problem is clearly yours, regardless of OS.

  5. Re:iTunes next? on Google Breaks ChromeCast's Ability To Play Local Content · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Have you not been paying attention to the last 10 years? Apple has repeatedly shown they've tried to beat down this sort of restrictive shit.

    Remember who resulted in music losing DRM.

  6. Re:Logical enough... on Teens Actually Care About Online Privacy · · Score: 1

    Does your average expert sniper necessarily know the metallurgical properties of gun barrels or the physics of optics?

    Now days? Almost certainly, yes. Modern day military snipers are some of the smartest people on the planet, contrary to what you clearly think. They most certainly understand the optics and to some extent metallurgy. They know how their scopes work, and what exactly each type of bullet is going to do on impact. You can ignore this and pretend that just because they can't describe it using chemical and physics formulas that they don't understand it, but I'd argue they understand real world physics better than 90% of the 'physicists' out there.

    No, they don't know how the metal reacts in the lab. They don't work in a lab. And few metallurgists would be able to tell you the information about bullet impacts and how the bullet fragments in each situation like a sniper talking his trade.

    When did you train snipers, 1903?

  7. Re:An astute lack of information on Inspired By the Peter Principle: the Peter Pinnacle · · Score: 4, Funny

    Jokes on you. You actually read an article timothy approved. You kind of deserved to be trolled at this point.

  8. Re:News? on NSA Cracked Into Encrypted UN Video Conferences · · Score: 0

    But OMG snowmen manning or something

  9. Re:So much for the US Tech Industry on NSA Cracked Into Encrypted UN Video Conferences · · Score: -1, Troll

    And every single one of the things you mentioned are geek toys. Way to utterly miss the point. Seriously, half your list is programming languages? You're an idiot.

    iOS is about as far from OSS as you can get, you know, the parts people pay for .... guess what ... NOT OSS.

  10. Re:So much for the US Tech Industry on NSA Cracked Into Encrypted UN Video Conferences · · Score: -1, Troll

    Because all of the alternatives suck absolute ass and are more or less unusable unless you have a trove of Linux gnomes in the basement managing the shitty software to the point of making it work?

    The same reason open source rarely gets used, it is, with very few exceptions, always half-assed incomplete software that requires a techie to just get it close to working when there aren't problems. Throw in some weird little quirk and you need a team.

  11. Re:The dilema ... on NSA Cracked Into Encrypted UN Video Conferences · · Score: 2

    In your sad little world perhaps.

    If governments believed that, the entire world would constantly be at war since everyone does it to everyone.

    The world is bigger than your fantasy.

  12. Re:.02 from someone who hasn't been a C, E, or O on Microsoft Needs a Catch-Up Artist · · Score: 1

    On the contrary, about one in a thousand is the rate of properly formatted documents I see now days. If you're setting a font or font size in your document, you're doing it wrong.

    Formatting documents is so far from solved its not even funny. All we have now is the ability for people to make hideous docs with all sorts of shitty custom fonts, sizes and colors applied rather than proper formatting, such as just tagging the title as a title and headings as headings and leaving the actual display style out of the document.

  13. Re:Catch up artist? on Microsoft Needs a Catch-Up Artist · · Score: 1

    How did they 'cut off the oxygen' with their first products? You seem to think they were always a massive company that owned the market. They didn't get that until the 90s at least.

  14. Re:If Windows were free I still wouldn't want it on Microsoft Needs a Catch-Up Artist · · Score: 1

    My sources say its pretty nice actually. I've not seen it myself, but it kind of has to be non-shitty to accomplish what they do, even if you don't realize that.

  15. Re:Catch-up because on Microsoft Needs a Catch-Up Artist · · Score: 2

    Buying the network doesn't release the network from its contractual obligations, try again.

  16. Re:Contact TEPCO, Now! on How To Monitor Leaky Radioactive Water Tanks · · Score: 1

    Switch to the ATmega internal clock, and use the serial port directly rather than through the USB to Serial secondary ATmega.

    No, the voltage regulator isn't going to give a shit about the radiation in this case. Pretty much everything else are passive elements without worries.

    Lets be clear: There are systems to do this that are so cheap and certified that TEPCO could by them and NEVER notice the error on the books, but making an Arduino usable in this situation is trivial as well.

    The idea of actually using a hacked together solution for this is stupid, but possible. Buying a 2k 'certified' unit that just measures the internal level via an external sensor on the side of the tank would be much more intelligent.3

  17. Re:Why not WiFi on Ask Slashdot: 4G Networking Advice For Large Outdoor Festival? · · Score: 2

    www.google.com

    What you should have done from the start is call Verizon/AT&T/WhoEverYourBiggestLocalProvider is and have them resolve the issue. This is WAY beyond your level if you're asking slashdot.

  18. Re:antenna array on Ask Slashdot: 4G Networking Advice For Large Outdoor Festival? · · Score: 1

    aah, the good old magical signal booster scam.

  19. Re:Need Wireless Source not Cellular Carrier on Ask Slashdot: 4G Networking Advice For Large Outdoor Festival? · · Score: 3, Informative

    y that owns a house or business with a good cable internet connection and redistribute down to the fest yourself using 5.8ghz bridging

    Which would be against the ToS of pretty much every ISP on the planet. Thats a stupid suggestion, and a good way to get yourself in trouble.

  20. Re:Contact TEPCO, Now! on How To Monitor Leaky Radioactive Water Tanks · · Score: 1

    You put the sensor in the tank, the Arduino outside the tank. The radiation is mostly beta and won't make it through the tank wall anyway.

    Also, 'radiation hardened' ATmega chips are readily available to anyone, so a radiation hardened Arduino is as well. Just swap out the one that comes with it to the ones they make for these places. Before you lose your shit, you might want to get a clue about what is actually available.

    Certified? No of course not, but do you want no monitoring that will never work, or uncertified that might work?

    Of course, an ultrasonic sensor is pretty stupid to use. A simply float mechanism and deboucer is FAR more intelligent.

  21. Re:Traffic Intercept and VPN on Ask Slashdot: How To Diagnose Traffic Throttling and Work Around It? · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, for a VPN this is much more difficult since the Internet hops are hidden via the tunnel.

    No they aren't, you just trace route to the VPN host.

    If the tunnel is PPTP, thats probably why it sucks, PPTP is horrible without perfect low latency connections. ... When did MPLS become a tunneling protocol instead of a switching protocol? You can't exactly use it outside of your own network. I guess you could technically piggy back it on top of some other protocol, but thats like running iSCSI over SCSI, which you connect to over iSCSI.

  22. OMG NSA SPOOK SCARY! on Ask Slashdot: How To Diagnose Traffic Throttling and Work Around It? · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Seriously, get a grip. Your precious little VPN is something they do not give a single flying frak about.

    IF they did, you would never know. Duping a packet to another port for the NSA costs you exactly 0 in latency. Its done in silicon, and its no different than a broadcast packet as far as the hardware is concerned, i.e. 0 performance penalty.

    You're pointing fingers at people and you have no clue whats going on. I can say that safely from your post.

    As they say, when in America ... when you sound of pounding hooves ... you don't look for Zebra's, you look for horses.

    I suggest you look for a more sane reason, start by dropping your paranoia.

  23. Re:Just wanted you youngsters to know on New, Canon-Faithful Star Trek Series Is In Pre-Production · · Score: 2

    Thank god someone still remembers a time before this politically correct bullshit where boys can't play with BB guns, firecrackers or touch a lighter.

  24. Re:How? on New, Canon-Faithful Star Trek Series Is In Pre-Production · · Score: 1

    And that is inconsistent because ?

  25. Re: How? on New, Canon-Faithful Star Trek Series Is In Pre-Production · · Score: 1

    And when you adjust for inflation ... how did it do comparatively, em?

    Its trivial and common for new movies to vastly outgross a 20 year old version. Its called inflation. Look it up. Happens ALL the time, and not just with movies.