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  1. Re: Just run it on OpenBSD, for crying out loud. on The Nightmare On Connected Home Street · · Score: 1

    Just like my house can have as many rooms as I want as long as I build them all myself. "u-compile" software is not for mass markets. Yes anyone can do it with after a serious Google session but that is more work than the average person will do for any kind of software.

  2. Re:An interesting caveat on $57,000 Payout For Woman Charged With Wiretapping After Filming Cops · · Score: 1

    Not to troll, but not following an improper order should not be something of which you can be "guilty." If he orders your to wash is car or pay for his coffee are you still "guilty" if you do not comply?

  3. Re:Oh...I dunno... on Is Bamboo the Next Carbon Fibre? · · Score: 1

    It's true, and the next thing in computing is cellular automation!

  4. Re:Free Video Download on Google Using YouTube Threat As Leverage For Cheaper Streaming Rights · · Score: 1

    So you've never used video on demand?

  5. Did they say they were going to wire your eyes open and give you the AdSence Ludovico treatment? No, they are giving people the option to reduce the price of an appliance by having ads show up on it. If there is an option to buy full price with ads disabled (like most ad revenue based apps) then what's so evil about it?

  6. Re:better question... on Google Foresees Ads On Your Refrigerator, Thermostat, and Glasses · · Score: 1

    Hell yeah. Run ads on my washer and dryer too if it means they are cheap/free. Its the same idea as free apps but free appliances are actually useful.

  7. Re:Why? on Silicon Valley To Get a Cellular Network Just For Things · · Score: 0

    To improve the customer experience!

  8. Re:Drunk on FBI Need Potheads To Fight Cybercrime · · Score: 1

    It is insane how much caffeine some people run on. Seeing people drink 2 XL coffees an hour for a 12 hour shift makes my weekend pub crawl look like the church picnic.

  9. Re:Electric Vehicles are NOT ZERO EMISSIONS on Airbus E-Fan Electric Aircraft Makes First Flight · · Score: 1

    Never! We will keep it up until every one re-buys everything they already own, THEN it will come out that they not only have a carbon foot print but it's bigger than that of the new hemp powered hot air balloons!

  10. TFM on Ask Slashdot: What Should Every Programmer Read? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Everybody should RTFM.

  11. Re:How about "no thanks" .... on Google Testing Gmail Redesign · · Score: 1

    Not changing the UI slows down cashflow in cloud/web/consumer stuff, the more they change the more money changes hands.

  12. Re:Obviously on Ask Slashdot: Does Your Job Need To Exist? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    As a maintenance electrician at a facility that runs a blast furnace I don't work every minute of my 12hr shift but when something does come up it I have to run, coke is not a cheap fuel to waste. My employer understands this, having me in the building to fix one problem all day can save them thousands in down time and lost product. I don't think they are about to consolidate me out of a job any time soon but that doesn't mean they wont try. Service contractors of every kind are getting more popular with businesses that have frequent need for repair or troubleshooting of equipment.

  13. Re:Apocalypse, Really? on The Upcoming Windows 8.1 Apocalypse · · Score: 1

    Bingo, if it fails on >25% of hardware I would be happy to scream "M$" with the rest of the herd but I've seen it update fine on Lenogo, Dell, my custom build (and Surface Pro) with no problems. The hardware driver hell that comes along with some brands of laptops lately is brutally frustrating.

  14. Re:There we go on NASA Developing Robotic Satellite Refueling System · · Score: 2

    Much the same way that you colonize a planet, you let robots do the ground work and move in once the wifi is set up. Its not economical to make people work in any hazardous environment if the robots have free electricity a la Sol. Let Branson build a orbital skydiving resort up there if he wants, the quicker we get construction robots in space the quicker the rest of us can move up there.

  15. Re:Camazotz! on Most of What We Need For Smart Cities Already Exists · · Score: 1

    Wasn't there a bit in the Hitchhiker's Guide about how its a bad idea to give personalities to infrastructure? The Guide never lies, leave the machines dumb.

  16. Re:Meh on Lytro Illum Light-Field Camera Lets You Refocus Pictures Later · · Score: 4, Informative

    The resolution at this point doesn't matter, this is a demo product that will only by bought by future investors and camera heads (quite possibly myself included). The
    rest of your lens woes don't really apply with a plenopitc camera, the DOF is calculated when the image is made, if they can get DOF with unlimited depth they can
    get ultra thin just the same way. They also boast that you can use lenses with no aspherical elements which means making addon lenses would be very cheap on
    future versions of this camera. A tilt lens is not required with a plenoptic camera, it captures all parts in focus and then calculates the distance and angle you pick for
    a plane of focus, you could even have a calculated "surface of focus" that is wavy or bent.
     
    If they make enough on this one their next camera should be photographer's dream.

  17. Re:Thank goodness for these experts. on Experts Say Hitching a Ride In an Airliner's Wheel Well Is Not a Good Idea · · Score: 1

    They go on to say that you should not set yourself on fire or enjoy a nice hot cup of bleach on a cold day.

  18. Re:That's a strange definition of "rich" on In the US, Rich Now Work Longer Hours Than the Poor · · Score: 1

    Actually I went right into trades as an electrician (the diagnostic and repair type, not the 'put a plug in your bathroom' type). No student loans for me!

  19. Re:That's a strange definition of "rich" on In the US, Rich Now Work Longer Hours Than the Poor · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How about 'People with 60k in student loans work more hours.'

  20. Re:Fuck Google on Google Buys Drone Maker Titan Aerospace · · Score: 1

    I know, don't feed the trolls but when did war driving turn into a bad thing? Was it when it stopped being internet hipster enough because 'big data' started to do it?
     
    if paranoid = 1 {
      Lock up your wifi
    }

  21. Re:here's how stupid this is on AMD Unveils the Liquid-Cooled, Dual-GPU Radeon R9 295X2 At $1,500 · · Score: 1

    That's why cars and trucks are all directly air cooled right? Liquid cooling lets you increase the surface area of your radiating element while moving it away from the important parts of your process, without using heat pipes (also liquid cooling) you can't get anywhere near the same surface area as a radiator on a CPU/GPU cooler. The only time you see direct air cooling is to cut costs or save space or weight.

  22. Re:ads on Yahoo May Build Its Own YouTube · · Score: 1

    Do you also like regular, free, user generated content? Because that's the only way you are going to get it.

  23. Re:Not everyone is destined to be a rocket scienti on Job Automation and the Minimum Wage Debate · · Score: 1

    All of those interesting, niche, "hobby" jobs are more than saturated by people who excel at them. If I could get by on my hobby YouTube channel I would but there are already 100 others out there who have filled the market, extract more revenue and can devote more time to it.
     
    Doing electrical maintenance on automated lines I see a lot of people who are only cut out for braindead labour, when they get replaced by new equipment they don't get offered a new job doing something more "human" they go to the next factory and pack boxes, or load materials into other equipment. Without some serious education changes there is a BIG demographic of people who can not do anything but the most basic of jobs. It will be a problem sooner than later.

  24. Re:More Corporate Greedmeisters on AT&T Exec Calls Netflix "Arrogant" For Expecting Net Neutrality · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You mean like right now? You don't get rich by working hard. You get rich by being born rich, by fucking over other people, by being really lucky or by being REALLY fucking smart. Of all of those cases only one of them involves hard work and not many people are born smart enough to come up with a real money making idea.

  25. Re:Slippery slope on Google Blurring Distinction Between Ads and Organic Search Results · · Score: 1

    A Google search result link is barely as long as a tweet, the two are hardly comparable.