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  1. Re:Why go to work for Facebook post-IPO? on The Trials and Tribulations of a Would-Be Facebook Employee · · Score: 1

    I just wished they would throw me meaningful ads, rather than offers for siding while living a rented appt

  2. Now you know on Why Google Hired Ray Kurzweil · · Score: 2

    You ever wanted to know why Google wanted to look at your email, your instant messages, transcribe your phone calls, and all for free? This is why

  3. Re:Too Much on New York Culls Sex Offenders From the Online Gaming Ranks · · Score: 1

    I think this fails because there is nothing unusual about it. It is just cruel.

  4. Raspberry Pi stuff on Ask Slashdot: Gifts For a 90-Year-Old, Tech-Savvy Dad? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    A breakout board. A 16x2 LCD. A case.

  5. Re:Teaching with calculators on TI-84+C-Silver Edition: That C Stands For Color · · Score: 1

    We used a TI-83 in Calculus, in high school. It was required and if you didn't have one, they loaned one to you like they would a text book. Anyway, you could solve for the numeric answer when solving for things like derivatives/integrals, but the lessons always required the formula for the answer, so it didn't let anyone be lazy. It was there to verify your work and organize your workflow. It was valuable and anyone who says otherwise just mustn't know what they are doing

  6. Re:TL;DR? on Property Rights In Space? · · Score: 1

    So, the moon plot that I bought isn't really mine?

  7. Don't worry, there is plenty on Property Rights In Space? · · Score: 4, Funny

    There's plenty of space out in space!

  8. Re:So... on Nokia Dethroned As Top Phone Maker By Samsung · · Score: 1

    I hate Samsung already for their abomination of a line of BluRay players. They are as stable as WIndows 95 on a Cyrix processor and apparently, they don't give a hoot

  9. Re:I didn't know on Huge Site Ranking Dataset Donated to the Common Crawl Foundation · · Score: 1

    It is a data set about the internet. This saves you from having to crawl the web, analyze it, and build your own database.

  10. Re:A Pi store without Pi on Raspberry Pi Team Launches Pi Store · · Score: 2

    You can. I've ordered 3 on 3 separate occasions and got them in a week from newark/element14. Don't let the 0 next to availability scare you.

    Also, i'd imagine you are trying to grab a bunch of these for your students/class, which may in fact impact the availability for you

  11. Re:So what to buy now...? on AMD Radeon Performance Preview On Linux 3.8 · · Score: 1

    I run Windows 7, and play my games just fine with the latest Catalyst driver. I use it for coding and Diablo 3

  12. Re:So what to buy now...? on AMD Radeon Performance Preview On Linux 3.8 · · Score: 1, Informative

    The AMD APU desktop combos are a fantastic deal with great results (from a happy, cheap owner).

  13. Re:Name and Shame on Ask Slashdot: How To Collect Payments From a Multinational Company? · · Score: 4, Informative

    ask to talk to the person's boss, go all the way up to the CEO if necessary

    I wish I dealt with the people you have. Just a few months ago, I was having an issue with some large name super phone company, and after the first transfer and getting nowhere, I asked for another transfer to their supervisor. They told me there isn't one. No amount of negotiating was getting me past this person. I called back. I escalated up to the same person with the same results.

    My point being, the phone is the worst place to asset you mean business. Do it on notarized paper, by certified mail.

  14. Re:Why? on Why The Hobbit's 48fps Is a Good Thing · · Score: 1

    The sadness in me grows when I think Motion Blur was one of the last kicking features of the latter 3dfx line

  15. Re:Summary on Hotmail & Yahoo Mail Using Secret Domain Blacklist · · Score: 0

    So. Let the shit fly because it is already flying. Typical

  16. Re:Summary on Hotmail & Yahoo Mail Using Secret Domain Blacklist · · Score: 1

    Because my concern for the charities that can't go door to door, cold call, etc (just as effective as junk mail), is Nil. Just the same as most everyone on the receiving end of this garbage. Cost/benefit

  17. Re:Summary on Hotmail & Yahoo Mail Using Secret Domain Blacklist · · Score: 0

    Because, AS A CONSUMER OF EMAIL, I don't care about your conspiracy issues. Communication backward and forward offers alternatives (like you said). Forcing people in the world to deal with even more spam so those technologically inept can get their message to you is not a cost that I, AS A CONSUMER OF EMAIL, and the rest of us care about.

    As a matter of fact, I would quite welcome the same with paper mail. The only ones that would bitch at such a proposal would be those that want their stuff to get to you, even if you don't want it.

  18. Re:Summary on Hotmail & Yahoo Mail Using Secret Domain Blacklist · · Score: 1

    As a consumer of email, I would rather the 1% find a better way to communicate rather than stupify the email system even more to accommodate them

  19. Re:Summary on Hotmail & Yahoo Mail Using Secret Domain Blacklist · · Score: 2

    Spamhaus != 0 false positives. This guy sends the same email out to tens of thousands of people who tend to use Yahoo or Hotmail. They both block the messages as spam.

    Just FYI, I seen this guy bitching about it MONTHS ago. Apparently he still hasn't made a lot of headway. However, if you operate like a spammer (sending the same email to multitudes of folks, while relaying information about open proxy servers as information), then you will be treated like a spammer

  20. Re:Prior use on ITU To Choose Emergency Line For Mobiles: 911, or 112? · · Score: 1

    Not really. Make both available where both can be available. If 911 is a prefix in your country, use 112. If you have 112, use 911. Wait, that's practically how it already is!

  21. It may not be stupidity on North Korea's Satellite Is Out of Control · · Score: 2

    It may not be flat out stupidity. Perhaps it is a matter of not having the data required to make the appropriate calculations. We know everything in orbit, gravitational tug well beyond 20 decimal places on all faces of the earth. Just a couple of those missing variables could really make physics not work how you predict

  22. Re:Anyone in the world affected at all? on Linux Nukes 386 Support · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'm pretty sure there will be no one affected. When I tried getting linux running on a real 486, it was pretty close to impossible with every distribution that claimed 486 support. I'm guessing they test on qemu (486 emulation seems to emulate something more than a real 486). Not one of the maintainers seemed to care. I might add, Debian was the only actual linux to work.

  23. Re:Historical significance on Linux Nukes 386 Support · · Score: 1

    This isn't surprising or a new practice. BeOS originally targeted AT&T Hobbit processors. OSX was PowerPC.

  24. Re:Dammit on Linux Nukes 386 Support · · Score: 3, Informative

    You would have a really hard time maintaining it. The stuff that was removed allows them to change a whole mess of things that will become incompatible to backport from

  25. It isn't SO preposterous. Usually 10% effort takes 90% of the time (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle). Rather than charging every one a gross fee for the software in general, the ones who choose to use these features pay for a majority of the development time.