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  1. Re:so, the key to amnesty... on Microsoft Offers Pirates Amnesty and Free Windows 10 Upgrades · · Score: 1

    I prefer 1280x800 (16:10) better than 1366x768 (16:9). It is an IPS but a little dark from what I remember seeing the unit in the store. All in all not bad, but still prefer my Surface RT to this one (can hook up the Surface RT to a big monitor)

  2. Re:I just disproved 9/80 antivirus companies... ap on Panda Antivirus Flags Itself As Malware · · Score: 1

    Hey APK.. you only get to say something when you actually write a piece of software that does not need a 3 year education for the operator to work with it, and... err... you know.. .actually works, instead of just taking 100% cpu for 4 hours. when the same can be achieved with curl/wget, bash, grep, sort and cat under Cygwin in less than 3 minutes.... Your software does not work

  3. Re:These guys call me every few months... on Listen To a Microsoft Support Scam As It Happened · · Score: 5, Funny

    Last time I got one of these I was in a playful mood and pretended to be an illiterate, however I answered their questions like I was using a VAX via a green screen VT-100 terminal. Took them 15 minutes to say - "aaah, we are sorry, we don't support that". Especially when they asked me what is the key on the left of Alt and I told them I don't have an "Alt" but a "line feed".

  4. Re:Damn those martian colonists on Adjusting To a Martian Day More Difficult Than Expected · · Score: 1

    you mean "speed up" mars rotation

  5. Re:We were burgled but they didn't take anything.. on Gemalto: NSA and GCHQ Probably Hacked Us, But Didn't Get SIM Encryption Keys · · Score: 1

    Well, My home was burgled (lock was unlocked and locked) and all that was taken were two flash drives. A few books were also moved. I had hard times convincing the police to even file a report.

  6. Re:Or Slackware, Gentoo, or Devuan on Ask Slashdot: Migrating a Router From Linux To *BSD? · · Score: 1

    Actually MicroTik routerOS beats those, but I second pfSense. Just decrease the timer interrupt frequency on older hardware and you are in business.

  7. Re:Nothing has been lost! on Bitcoin Volatility Puts Miners Under Pressure · · Score: 1

    You see, that is the problem. Money value should not be made. Sums of money with fixed value should only be re-distributed. In the current system value (basically as debt) is created out of nothing so essentially numeric value is imaginable and superficial, thus fungible and practically nil. A system where the "money are made" by inflation does not in fact create value but on the opposite, nullifies value as it equates value to nothing (one day it is not there, the next day it is, and the next day it is not there again). It is a no different than a very long-term Ponzi scheme. If you want a real system assign a flat money allotment to each baby at birth and then let them spend it as they see fit. Corporations should not be able to own any money, except those paid to them by individuals in exchange for goods or services. That way money (value) will only be redistributed, but it will not be fungible, believe me, it will be quite tangible. Also, remove the public bankruptcy concept (private parties could still decide to cross out private debt) and remove interest in both lending and savings. Lend money 1:1, store money 1:1. yeah, it will be hard, very hard for 99.99% of the people who can't control their spending habits, but this is the only way to say money do actually have a non-imaginary value.

  8. Nothing has been lost! on Bitcoin Volatility Puts Miners Under Pressure · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It was never there in the first place. You can only lose your direct investment - electricity cost and some portion of the hardware cost as in case of hardware it still has some deprecated value. Market speculant crying that they couldn't unload in time and the risked turned out to be greater than they speculated they would be. Sorry, I have no sympathy for you. You have not created any product of value, so you cannot have lost anything of value. Calculating value on something you never had and losing said value is the same balloon American financial system has been pumping over and over again. It lost a lot of vapor in 2008 and required quite a lot of patching. GO cry somewhere else.

  9. Re:Arduinos and MCUs on Ask Slashdot: Options For Cheap Home Automation? · · Score: 1

    It's dirt cheap if you move to Belize and hire a buttler/majordomo and it bets your Arduino ten times.

  10. Re: Nosedive on Tumblr Co-Founder: Apple's Software Is In a Nosedive · · Score: 1

    Can't agree more. Just over the weekend I send Apple a feedback because of the ridiculous memory use of Safari in Yosemite. When they asked me to summarize the problem in one sentence (after giving the details) I wrote: "Crappy developers", and as a Product Manager I know better than to blame developers, but this time it is the architecture that is borked and developers who think RAM is limitless.

  11. Re:uh - by design? on Thunderbolt Rootkit Vector · · Score: 2

    Which is exactly what FireWire was vulnerable to like.. what.. 7 years ago. This is nothing novel.

  12. Re:Meaningless on Backblaze's 6 TB Hard Drive Face-Off · · Score: 1

    Well, don't keep the lawyers hungry. They have families to feed too.

  13. Re: Predictions on Utilities Face Billions In Losses From Distributed Renewables · · Score: 1, Insightful

    You took the words right out of my mouth. Where are my mod points when I need them.

  14. Punctuation? on Royal Mail Pilots 3D Printing Service · · Score: 0

    So Royal Mail put in place a service that 3D printing pilots for their par avion delivery? Gee I wonder if they will start printing the airplanes for the printed pilots to fly. I guess that would be fun.

  15. Re:Joyent unfit to lead them? on Node.js Forked By Top Contributors · · Score: 2

    Not only that. My native language is not English. My language does not have pronouns, the gender is directly expressed in the noun form. There are feminine single, masculine single, feminine plural, masculine plural, and non-gendered single. And you cannot just leave the common root as that would mean writing unfinished words. So you have to write quite a lot of duplicated forms if you want to cover everything. You can't just use the non-gender forms for one single but very important reason - it is extremely offensive, (to women, more so than to men), because the non-gender forms are reserved exclusively for inanimate objects. Using a masculine form when unknown is ok in respect of brevity, objectifying humans as inanimate objects (especially women) is not. Now, that is not to defend someone doing it in English, where it is perfectly fine to have the proper pronouns, and I don't know the cultural background of the person, but putting your values on people of other cultures just does not work.

  16. Re:show sco where to stick their license fees on SCO Targets US Government, TiVo · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I've just told for education that i'm gonna pay in nickels which i'm gonna put one by one it their ass.

  17. Initiate the attack! Now! on SCO Wants $699 for Linux Systems · · Score: 1

    SCO can put their licenses in ther ass. I'm not livin' in america, and american laws don't rule here. I'm not paing for any ot their legal stuff. Anyone to know SCO offices in europe? That would be a good reason to use some skills again. There are two SCO partners im my country. Tomorrow they will receive hell.