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  1. What's the big deal ? on Google Developers Create API For Direct USB Access Via Web Pages (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    A fairly trivial cgi can already do this with the user-space USB API.

  2. Why does anyone use Skype..? on Skype For Linux: Dead? Or Just Resting? · · Score: 1

    Google Hangouts is technically superior.

    Here's the proof (or opinion)
    http://www.cloudpro.co.uk/saas...

  3. Re:No. That is not the strategy on Rubio and Kasich Are Living Out a Classic Game Theory Dilemma · · Score: 1

    ...none of the GOP hopefuls will [win], either....>

    You could be in for a rude surprise.

  4. Re:Seriously?? on First Steps Towards Network Transparency For Wayland (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    A really stripped down server only runs 1 tty, and forces the use of ed. Anything else is just fluff !

  5. Re:Seriously?? on First Steps Towards Network Transparency For Wayland (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    What utter bullshit.

    I routinely use X forwarding on a 10 megabit LAN without any problems. More likely a poorly written application is to blame.

  6. Re:saner summary. on IT Worker Fired After Massive Georgia Data Breach Speaks Out (ajc.com) · · Score: 0

    Bullshit,

    It's not my job to protect my fucking idiot of a boss.

    It is my job to protect myself from him.

  7. Let me be - not the first - to call bulls*** on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Way To Approach Big Companies With Your Product? · · Score: 1

    ... invented a product that will prevent electrical related fires ...

    I think you have either:

    A very large ego
    A very poor understanding of electrical engineering
    Poor language skills (and thus haven't described your invention well)

    Regardless of which is true, all paths lead to most certain disappointment.

  8. Re:Litigious Much on "Clock Boy" Ahmed Mohamed Seeking $15 Million In Damages · · Score: 1

    No, it's not. Your understanding of what "theory" mean is the problem.

    Evolutionary "theory" has been proven, over, and over again. We can even demonstrate it very, very well with computer programs. We rely upon it for our daily lives when we eat meats, vegetables, grains, and fruits that have been anthropomorphically coerced to evolve to their present states. We see it happen in viruses, and fruit flies (to name but a few species) in our own very short life spans.

    Sorry, there is Zero debate about whether the theory of evolution is correct - at least among people with a brain.

  9. Re:Give me a raise on 'First, Let's Get Rid of All the Bosses' -- the Zappos Management Experiment · · Score: 1

    The idea of getting a raise is what's wrong.

    When you want to earn more money, you look for another job - internal or external - that pays more.

    Pay raises are - for the vast majority - little more than cost of living increases, which is a fairly trivial thing to include in any culture like this one.

  10. Re:Oh Great! More Central Planning! Just what we n on Obama Unveils Major Climate Change Proposal · · Score: 1

    29 MPH with a Ford Taurus, I know American cars are shit, but that's really bad.
    I can get at least 120 MPH with my Volkswagen Golf. I've gone up to about 145 MPH in a BMW X5 on a clear motorway in Croatia.

  11. A solution in search of a problem on US Navy Tests 3D Printing Custom Drones On Its Ships · · Score: 1

    Enough said

  12. Re:Bravo on How Developers Can Fight Creeping Mediocrity · · Score: 1

    He re-wrote the entire front end ?

    Another ass-hat !

    Real developer fix existing code, and don't resort to a re-write except as a last resort.

  13. Interstitial, eh ? on Google Studies How Bad Interstitials Are On Mobile · · Score: 1

    I didn't realize that "shit modal window that I have to close to read what I actually came to this web page for" had a name.

    I knew all those years of reading slashdot would pay off eventually.

  14. Re:Of course you are on Internet Dating Scams Target Older American Women · · Score: 1

    If you live in the village of Mittenwald, Germany you can drive to Brennero, Italy in an hour.

  15. Re:Of course you are on Internet Dating Scams Target Older American Women · · Score: 1

    Made me spit out my coffee !

    Well played, sir !

  16. Definition: Stupid on Internet Dating Scams Target Older American Women · · Score: 1

    "lacking intelligence or common sense."

    It is definitely common sense not to send $300,000 to a person one has never met face-to-face who claims to be taken ill in Ghana.

    Sorry, that is almost a textbook example of lack of common sense, and therefore qualifies as S T U P I D

  17. Great, please run it on on Computer Program Fixes Old Code Faster Than Expert Engineers · · Score: 1

    Windows NT 3.51, or Microsoft PowerPoint, or........

  18. I always assumed that on Ask Toolbar Now Considered Malware By Microsoft · · Score: 4, Funny

    loading all this crap was tolerated by Microsoft because it was the main impetus for people buying new PCs.

    Now that Android is taking over the personal OS landscape, and PC sales are dropping, MS doesn't gain as much as they used to, and now actually feels the pain from allowing this to happen, they decide to remove them.

  19. I guess they'll discover just how unpopular.. on PayPal Will Be Able To Robo-Text/Call Users With No Opt-out Starting July 1 · · Score: 1

    ...cold calling is when every customer they call demands to be removed from their user base.

    Goodbye PayPal.

  20. Re:it's not "slow and calculated torture" on Greece Is Running Out of Money, Cannot Make June IMF Repayment · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You forgot about the recent elections where Greece elected a government who ran on an anti-austerity (pro-communist) platform, just at the time when austerity was starting to actually work for their economy. The Greek people's propensity to turn to communism whenever they have a financial problem is a bit worrisome, since it shows how clearly deluded they are with respect to how well communistic economies have (and still do) behave.

  21. Am I the only one... on The Hoverboard Flies Closer To Reality · · Score: 1

    ...who's first thought was:

    Great ! Yet another noisy machine that ass-hates can use to destroy the serenity of a lake.

  22. Re:It is an ad. on How Google Searches Are Promoting Genocide Denial · · Score: 1

    Perhaps, but it originally referred to the extermination of the Jews about 25 years after Armenia.

  23. Weird math on LA Schools Seeking Refund Over Botched iPad Plan · · Score: 1

    Yep, you're right, $1.3 billion divided by 650,000 is almost $2500 per student.

    I guess you are a journalist, or is there another reason you would inflate $2000 per student to "almost $2500 per student"

  24. Re:no future for non-veterans on Feds Boost Goal To 75k New Solar Power Workers By 2020 · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Oh, I see, it's you who are a racist.

    It never occurred to me that you were making a correlation between Obama being black (which is not only not really true, but also totally irrelevant) and people refusing to enter the armed forces. See, the difference between me and you ( aside from me not being an ass-hat) is that I am essentially color blind. I almost never even consider a persons race as a trait worth mentioning. The whole concept of race - as it is commonly understood by ignoramuses like you - is unscientific, it is only a tool used by weak minds to justify their improper behavior..

  25. Re:no future for non-veterans on Feds Boost Goal To 75k New Solar Power Workers By 2020 · · Score: 1

    You've lost me with that very obscure argument

    Ignoring the fact that there hasn't been a draft since the end of the Vietnam war, how does entering the armed forces infer lack of racism - my experience in the service was that most demographics were fairly well represented (as one would expect), so the population of racists in the forces was - and probably still is - roughly equivalent to the population in civie land.