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  1. After you drill the hole for the 3.5mm head phone jack, you have to purchase a special iPhone plug to make it waterproof again. I'd be willing to sell you the plugs for $10 each.

  2. Pre-Paid Verizon on Verizon Dropping Data Rates, But Current Customers Have To Call · · Score: 1

    45 a month for prepaid everything except data. Put it on autopay and get 1 GB a month and unlimited everything else. 4G speeds. for $20 you get a 3 GB bridge plan that lasts up to 3 months. Do the math and you end up with something like 2 GB a month, unlim everything else for around $53 a month. That is what I do.

  3. VLC Player Figured it out...well on Verizon Dropping Data Rates, But Current Customers Have To Call · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Ok so when I resize or move VLC player the audio has nothing to do with the display and it streams so smooth with no hiccups. Youtube, different story. You maximize the screen and you get a "blip" in the audio. You change angles and you get a blip in the audio. I am not a programmer but this just makes no sense to me why display has anything to do with the audio other than keeping in sync.

  4. Re:They said that about cell phones on The One Mistake Google Keeps Making · · Score: 1

    Robotic cars will show up at Google "plexes" aka, Google Corporate with dorm housing first. They will show up at all kinds of industry housing. Get from point A to B that is well defined. Then show up at colleges driving same route over and over again. The highway, and streets are fall down the road, literally.

  5. Interlock BEFORE a DUI on Drunk Drivers in California May Get Mandated Interlock Devices · · Score: 1

    If it were up to me, everyone that turns 21 and starts going to the bars should voluntarily install an interlock device for a year. Give them a year to know what it's like to be stuck somewhere because they can't blow into the device to start car. Teach the young ones how to NOT get a DUI in the first place.

  6. Re:Its like this... on Really, Why Are Smartphones Still Tied To Contracts? · · Score: 1
  7. thegiggling666@aol.com on AOL Finally Admits They Were Hacked · · Score: 2

    Just got an email from an aol account user 20 minutes ago from "thegiggling666@aol.com." All it said was something about Scanning of class A to C IP ranges for an unlimited amount of ports and about 20 other unique features of some product. Also a youtube link that I have yet to click on.

  8. Working but nothing gets done! on Slashdot Asks: How Does the US Gov't Budget Crunch Affect You? · · Score: 1

    I am lucky enough to still be working. About half the people I work directly with were furloughed immediately. Very hard to get work done when I need their expertise and coordination. Kind of pointless to be there honestly. Yes I can catch up on some things, but most "real" work needs their assistance. Also, lost a roommate who was here for FAA class. He was sent back on that Tuesday. Gov paid for it all. Now he will not get his promotion for being certified. Also, he will have to fly back and Gov will pay for the class a second time. I lost that income as well as a roommate.

  9. Re:Ban all marriage; civil unions for everyone! on Ron Paul's New Primary Goal Is "Internet Freedom" · · Score: 1

    I agree. Except for one thing. What if I want to marry 2 females? Why should the government restrict that? Why should we only be allowed 1 significant other when we might want 2 or 3 or 10?

  10. Re:Simple: don't know your password on US Judge Rules Defendant Can Be Forced To Decrypt Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    Willing to bet every bank keeps a record of pin #'s. So if you forgot, they can just get it from the bank.

  11. Re-Install my Pre-install please on Windows 8 To Include Built-in Reset, Refresh · · Score: 1

    Next thing you know, we will be using recovery disks to re-install the pre-installed software because it was corrupted.

  12. Android 10 Cents on Why We Agonize Over Buying $1 Apps · · Score: 1

    I bought my first App off the Android Market when they were promoting there 10 Cent deal during the holidays. I thougtht to myself, now that I have put in my cc number and i'm only clicks away from buying another one, I just might. Then the next 10 Cent app I went to buy it told me to enter all my info in again so I declined to buy it. The point is, I think the 15 cent app idea would have worked for their business model.

  13. Food on US Watchdog Bans Photoshop Use In Cosmetics Ads · · Score: 1

    Does the same thing apply to food advertisements?

  14. Re:No! Lasers don't blind pilots on Laser Incidents With Aircraft On the Rise · · Score: 1

    It may not blind someone but have you ever had a laser pointed at your face? It makes you want to duck and close eyes and look away. If you were a pilot and a laser was pointed at you, I be your reaction would be the same. I'd think to myself "someone is pointing a gun in my face and I'm about to be shot." or at a minimum "a laser will blind me (even though it probably won't do shit) so I better duck and cover"

  15. Re:This is good on Facebook Billionaire Gives Money To Legalize Marijuana · · Score: 1

    I just find it funny that they are basically getting rid of cigarettes in exchange for weed. You can't smoke at bars, schools, hospitals etc and the price is going up...now lets legalize weed. ha ha. I don't smoke either one but I find this whole thing just funny.

  16. Re:The danger of too many password requirements on 75% Use Same Password For Social Media & Email · · Score: 1

    !QAZ@WSX3edc4 Yeah I agree, I think its stupid. Also, the government mypay.gov site is horrible as well. You have to mouse click the password on a virtual keyboard with letters all scrambled. So everyone over your shoulder can see what your clicking. You click slowly because the keyboard is scrambled.

  17. Re:Ahh TI calculators on TI Calculator DRM Defeated · · Score: 1

    I missed about a month of multivarialbe calculus and showed up the day of the test without knowing ANYTHING. My 3 friends were studying there butts off and I said screw it, i'm programming everything in my calculator (89). I spent 4 hours hand typing all the things i would need. Step by step it would output the equations I needed. My friends thought I was crazy. I learned a lot about the test just from typing all that crap in. Well, I got a 100 on that test. Me and my friends always look back on that day and laugh.

  18. Re:why? on TI Calculator DRM Defeated · · Score: 1

    If someone is good enough to write the emulator on a calculater and pull that off. He really doesn't have to cheat in the first place. He is proablly leaps and bounds ahead of his classes anyways.

  19. Re:The only problem with that... on Google Nabs Patent To Monitor Your Cursor Movement · · Score: 1

    Do you honestly think they have not thought of these things? I'm not comp sci guy but it should be fairly easy to detect a "real" observation with mouse vs. an OCD mouse mover or a an idle mouse. I mean we can detect people's lies based on there face movements, why can't we detect people's observations with a mouse movement? If I do a google search and immediatley it opens up a page with 1 advert on the top...sometimes I hover over the advert but then see the same linke right below it which is not an advert. Depending on the company I click the advert or the link. For example, if its a business I don't much care for then I want google to get paid by them for the click. If its a business I want to survive, I reduce that cost by clicking the link. I do this withing milliseconds.

  20. Re:Don't need to have every car! Brilliant on When Will the Automotive Internet Arrive? · · Score: 0, Troll

    I like to call it the "passing" lane. If your not passing the car to your right then you need to get over to the right regardless of what speed your at. Pass or move over, thats it.

  21. Library, school, friends computers? on MA High School Forces All Students To Buy MacBooks · · Score: 1

    The only requirement I had through highschool was to type my papers. If you didn't have a computer you could use a library computer, school computer, friends computer or a typewriter. The point is, it needs to be typed no matter what your excuse is. The real world does not need excuses. Just get the job done. Even when I took AP C++ course in HS, nobody ever required me to have a computer. This is complete BS. The kids that WANT to learn about computers will, the others don't give two shits about it. I know a 28 year old friend who doesn't even know how to email someone. She works at Home Depot and she owns her own business on the side. She also owns a 250K house from SAVING money.

  22. Blue Tooth on Fines Fail To Curb Cell Phone Usage While Driving · · Score: 1

    Solution: Blue tooth keyboard that mounts to steering wheel so that half the keys are on left side of wheel and half on right side of wheel. It is blue tooth enabled to your phone. Either mount phone on steering whell or even better have a HUD on your windshield. I would have to say it would be more likely for me to crash during texting then during reading a text. I can type without looking so get me that keyboard!!!

  23. Re:Summary of /. Reaction to Proposal on Firefox To Replace Menus With Office Ribbon · · Score: 1

    When I right click on a word I expect certain things no matter where I right click. Copy, Paste, Spell Check, select all etc... Yes I use a lot of short cut keys but still, I love the fact that you can just right click and get a menu. Well, I may hate Ribbons now, but our younger generation will highlight something or click something and just expect certain options to allways be there. Why go WAY up to the top to change font size when I can barley move my mouse and change it with ribbon style?

  24. Re:Slashdot brainstorm here on Analyzing YouTube's Audio Fingerprinter · · Score: 1

    Why not encrypt the audio and have users download a special player that will decrypt at runtime. End user hears the intended audio and youtube only hears noise.

  25. Re:VRML and X3D on Google Brings 3D To Web With Open Source Plugin · · Score: 1

    NewSpin360 uses flash but this 3d is quite impressive!