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  1. Re:Easy Peasy on Firefox Advances Do-Not-Track Technology · · Score: 4, Funny

    Don't you mean browser.privatebrowsing.allowNSASpying=false?

  2. Re:Should Have be Charged With Treason on US Charges Edward Snowden With Espionage · · Score: 2

    Haven't you been paying attention? They are

  3. Re:If ever there was a role for drones... on U.S. House Wants 'Sustained Human Presence On the Moon and the Surface of Mars' · · Score: 1

    I honestly don't know if they can fly. Atmospheric density and all of that

  4. Re:Gov. Work on Transgendered Folks Encountering Document/Database ID Hassles · · Score: 2

    Ten years ago, I wouldn't even think that such a database exception would ever exist. It seemed like same-sex marriages would never be legal anywhere here in the states.

  5. You know what to do on Disease Outbreak Threatens the Future of Good Coffee · · Score: 1

    Screw gold, the USD, and bitcoins. Start hoarding cans of coffee

  6. Re:Let the Internet fix this flaw on Google Asks Government For More Transparency, Other Groups Push Back Against NSA · · Score: 1

    Those are layers on top of TCP/IP. Fix it on the protocol underneath

  7. Re:Not very surprising on Scientists Explain Why Chairman of House Committee On Science Is Wrong · · Score: 1

    Dennis Miller, is that you?

  8. Embezzler's Dilemma on Seeking Fifth Amendment Defenders · · Score: 2

    Scenario: I work for a bank, and I embezzle money by coming back to the bank after hours and doing transfers between accounts and changing the books to make it seem legit. One night I see a fellow employee in the office with the president, when no one should be there (including me). The employee pulls out a gun, shoots the bank president in the head, turns around, sees me, smiles, and takes off.

    If I report the murder, I only have the 5th amendment to protect me from being found out about my embezzlement, which has NOTHING to do with the murder.

  9. Re:A simple question I have wanted to ask: on A Serious Proposal To Fix Windows 8 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Because of the vision of the manager at the top of the pyramid

  10. Re:I was born in the wrong era... on Managing an Elite eSport Team · · Score: 1

    and has been proven that it is entirely possible with today's technology to walk down near every path of a chess game

    No, no it hasn't. The number of moves playable in a game keeping the game under 40 moves is ~10^43. It is estimated that the total amount of moves past that is 10^10^50. This is more than atoms in the universe (~10^80)

    http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Chess.html

  11. Re:And Unity Still Sucks on How Unity3D Became a Game-Development Beast · · Score: 1, Informative

    Too many layers of abstraction. Think of this as the SDL of 3d game engines

  12. Re:20MBit on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Future of Old Copper Pair Technology? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Your copper twisted pairs for DSL go to the closest CO (less that 600 meters/2000 feet). A T1 can span MILES

  13. Re:Our local department has this on Montreal Union Wants a Camera On Every Policeman's Uniform · · Score: 1

    Yeah. This is when it conveniently becomes broken (I have a buddy with a brother that is a cop, in Ohio, and this absolutely happens)

  14. Re:Coding Architecture Models on When Smart Developers Generate Crappy Code · · Score: 1

    Neither are templates/generics, but these new C++/Java/C# folks fight to the death to avoid class inheritence

  15. Re:No! on Google Rolling Out Gmail Redesign · · Score: 1

    One thing that is broken is I can't "hide" shit in my inbox that isn't spam and I don't want to see. I'd love to hide the Papa Johns, DealExtreme, etc from view in my inbox, but still have them in their own (filter) pseudo-folder.

  16. Re:wayland on Vastly Improved Raspberry Pi Performance With Wayland · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You show me documentation on how to write an X video driver, and I'll friggin do it. There is no consistency between the drivers at all to even snag one as a "template". There is no article/paper that I could find that says "Here is how you develop an X video driver".

  17. Re:Fuck you, MS on Xbox One Used Game Policy Leaks: Publishers Get a Cut of Sale · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is what they WANT you to think

  18. Re:Surcharge on AT&T Quietly Adds Charges To All Contract Cell Plans · · Score: 1

    No, there was no trial period. You paid from day one. My intention was to pay for one month and be done with it. I didn't use the service past the first initial day. I wanted nothing prorated, just my money back for a second month charge which should have never happened since I called and canceled the service on day two.

  19. Re:Surcharge on AT&T Quietly Adds Charges To All Contract Cell Plans · · Score: 1

    get yelled at and treated badly by their 'customer service' for 3-4 hours as you escilate up the chain

    The one and only time I ever dealt with AT&T was back in the days of Windows 95, and I signed up for their internet service via the convenient icon already on my desktop. I only needed the internet for a day, and the following day, I canceled it. A month later, my card got billed. I called them and they didn't care. I tried to escalate the situation, but I only got a single transfer and that person REFUSED to transfer me anywhere else. She said she was the last stop in the line and there is no way I am getting past her or getting my money back. I actually had to go to the bank and fill out paperwork to have the charges reversed and a new card issued

  20. Re:Still slower than AMD on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Offers 2,304 Cores For $650 · · Score: 1

    I'm sure you meant "except their APU platform"

  21. Re:Just so you know on Intel's Linux OpenGL Driver Faster Than Apple's OS X Driver · · Score: 1

    ATI Mach64

  22. Re:Never thought I'd see FUD from Open Source on MariaDB vs. MySQL: A Performance Comparison · · Score: 1

    So, IE6

  23. Sad, but true on Trade Group: US Software Developer Wages Fell 2% Last Year · · Score: 2

    Also, the option of turning to outsourcing creates less pressure to increase wages

    WORKER: I would like to discuss a raise to my salary
    BOSS: No, you aren't getting a raise. Hell, you should be HAPPY to get what you are getting. I could get 10 guys from Infosys for what I am paying you!

  24. Re:Same company is going after Canadians on Federal Judge Dismisses Movie Piracy Complaint · · Score: 0

    Perhaps I watched the first 30 seconds and realized it is a Lebanese version, so I deleted it. Then I found out that I got a drive-by java exploit installed on my machine from the torrent site that I downloaded it from, so I did a clean install of Windows, JUST to be sure. Where are we at now?

  25. Re:LibXUL on Win32 approaching 4GB memory limit on How Maintainable Is the Firefox Codebase? · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a good point to refactor