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  1. Re:That. on Man Ordered To Apologize To Wife On Facebook · · Score: 1

    With a mantra like that, no one is surprised that you are single.

  2. Re:UK mags rock on Ask Slashdot: Does Europe Have Better Magazines Than the US? · · Score: 1

    So they buy more cheap crap,& they buy more expensive crap....so: we just buy more [crap]? I'm quickly not seeing how this could possibly be reated to Magazine quality and selection.

  3. Re:You're not allowed to hate in America on Police Investigate Offensive Wi-Fi Network Name · · Score: 1

    Insightful? The liberals I know love passing nanny laws to remove people's rights. "because it would be better/safer/nicer/more fair/moral" that way. They would love to make guns illegal (no proven reason, they just don't like them). They would love to make saying offensive racists words illegal. Both of these are conversations I had with registered democrats, and lifetime do good liberals with in the last 2 months. And both of them would violate parts of the constitution.

  4. Re:yeah on Google Caught Misbehaving By Kenyan Startup · · Score: 1

    you stupid American?

    hey, lets not drag me into this.

  5. Re:two suggestions on Ask Slashdot: Mirrorless, Interchangeable Lens Camera Advice? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I hate to break it to you but the FULL AUTO ZOMG setting will make your pictures look just as horrible as a cell phone.

    I disagree, ...strongly

    DSLR has a larger sensor and gets in more light. This will let you take pictures of things you simply can't take pictures of with a cell phone camera:
        Things moving faster than a snail
        Things not in a perfectly lit room

    For taking pictures at dawn/dusk, to action shots of your kids&friends just playing around, simply: size of the sensor, decent optics will tear apart your cellphone.

  6. Re:Apparently... on Judge Dismisses 'Other OS' Class-Action Suit Against Sony · · Score: 1

    Prove it. A trained monkey can click "I Agree", that doesn't pull me into a contract.

  7. Re:Looks like drones aren't just for governments. on Anti-Whaling Group Using Drones To Find Whalers · · Score: 1

    They don't require this necessarily. Make a decent enough AI that will fly to the place to take pictures, then fly back, and you don't need to communicate with it at all. At a little bit of image recognition and only have it take pictures of things that don't look like ${Background} then it can stay out their for a while search and return back to upload when it's micro sd card is full.

  8. Re:convenience over quality on Netflix CEO Comments On Recent Decisions · · Score: 1

    I know you said it was "beyond description", but I was wondering if you could please explain as if I were an eletrical engineer what it means to have a f.i.r. equalization over the "frequency and time domains" versus a standard f.i.r. filter.

  9. Re:SEARCH!!!! on Help Shape the Future of Slashdot · · Score: 1

    this is true with many websites; I would not make this a high priority for slashdot. Why do you assume that some /. programmer is going to beat google at its own game? I guess they could simply put one of those "search this site with google" boxes, but you already know how to do that so....

  10. Re:Easy on Help Shape the Future of Slashdot · · Score: 1

    hmm, how about a +1/-1, where you fill in the blank and simply describe why you upvoted/downvoted a post

  11. Re:Tech problems make the site less fun.... on Help Shape the Future of Slashdot · · Score: 1

    this++
    The login link from trying to comment should keep the postid around (Get/post style) so that when your login is done it brings you back to that post.

  12. Re:Which is what, exactly? on Ron Paul Suggests Axing 5 U.S. Federal Departments (and Budgets) · · Score: 1

    ahhhhahahaha, this

  13. Re:How about closer? on The Dead Sea Scrolls and Information Paranoia · · Score: 1

    The charge is for their storage and organization. Any time you get a test done, you should also ask for a copy for your personal records, then you can already have it. They aren't hoarding information about you; you lazily didn't keep it yourself and are paying them for the service of keeping it for you.

  14. Re:Why use a social networking site if... on Facebook Cookies Track Users Even After Logging Out · · Score: 1

    Because my world is not as black and white as yours. I don't mind sharing some things about me, what I'm doing, and what I'm browsing with the world and a little more with my friends. That doesn't mean I want to share everything.

    You say you don't understand this 'sky is falling' mentality, but your only suggestion to the common annoyance, "I wish facebook didn't track so much" is "UNPLUG."?! Your suggestion goes against your own complaint.

  15. Re:Price of a textbook. on Details About Raspberry Pi Foundation's $25 PC · · Score: 1

    If what you said were true, then in K-12, there would never be homework, because homework is a form of learning something yourself. If what you said were true, then I never would have had lab classes in undergrad, and I never would have had TA groups in grad school. The reason that you spend more time studying yourself at a "University" is because you are growing up and there is more information, more quickly. But this is not a black and white thing, from K-12-Undergrad-Gradschool, it is simply a gradient of slowly being expected to learn more and more without the direct help of an adult.

  16. Re:EXACTLY! on Environmental Enforcement Agents Targeting Guitars · · Score: 1

    Do I even have to say citation required? Or can I just scream "troll" as loud as I can and hope you hear it through the internet?
    Your choice.

  17. Re:God Particle on No Higgs Just Yet · · Score: 1

    shitstrirring

    word is hilarious!

  18. Re:perhaps better if it didn't Wikipedia exist on Wikipedia Losing Contributors, Says Wales · · Score: 1

    if you don't like wikipedia, but like a certain search engine like google, why not just filter it out like this: "http://www.google.com/search?q=carbon+-wikipedia"

  19. Re:The big thing I don't get on Women Arrested For Refusing TSA Search of Children · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't be surprised if the patriot act made 'loitering' at a major airport illegal.
    IANAL

  20. Re:A novel idea... on Weather Satellites Lose Funding · · Score: 1

    We do not have choose your own taxes in america, and we aren't going to start it over the f\/ck!ng weather satellites.

    "I'm sorry sir, I know you walk to the bus and back for work, but you are too poor to know whether or not it is supposed to rain today"

  21. i'm so excited on Massive Black Hole Devours Star · · Score: 1

    ULTIMATE vor (the universe episodes)

  22. Re:A-PPolice State. on Apple Bans DUI Checkpoint Apps · · Score: 1

    haha, Hilarious!

  23. And that people being sued frequently are told by their lawyers not to talk about the case.

  24. Re:Firesheep? on Researcher Hijacks LinkedIn Profiles Using Cookie · · Score: 1

    Yes, in fact the guy who wrote fire sheep did it to shine light on how ubiquitous the problem was. That it doesn't do much good to have a secure authentication, if the trusted session cookie is sent in the clear. I think a technical term for this is called "sidejacking."

  25. Re:great! on Matlab Integrates GPU Support For UberMath Computation · · Score: 1

    Isn't that always the case? A slight demand for something ( easy gpu programming at the matlab/octave level ), a company starts up to offer that service. Over time, if there is enough general demand, people start putting code snipits into the FS community, and it becomes a project, and over a 2 year period it becomes usable. But in the intervening period a company is trying to make money on this recent need that will become almost common place in a few years.

    As far as matlab vs octave- There are still some basic things that are a PITA on octave. Building Graphs with different fonts and getting everything in it's right space is almost impossible (when I tried it 6 months ago). I looked at examples with latex syntax, that embed gnuplot requests and they still didn't work. I ended up just making a basic graph, and annotating it in gimp. Other than that, I love templating control and image algorithms in octave.