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  1. Re:the mac phenomenon on Watch Dogs Graphics and Gameplay: PC Vs. Xbox One, With Surprising Results · · Score: 1

    Here's a current gen deal: xbox 360 for $150
    Deal has expired; but they come and go.

    http://slickdeals.net/f/555149...

    Oh, you mean the xbox one or PS4; well those are the latest gen, but xbox360/PS3 are still current gen.
    In fact, they are much better consoles to own for now. More games. Cheap games. Used games available.

    I love stupid people.

  2. Re: Redneck roadhouse on Tor Project Sued Over a Revenge Porn Business That Used Its Service · · Score: 1

    I've lived in South Carolina for 31 years (since birth). Trust me, the term is quite alive and well around here. As a matter of fact hate for Northerners is much stronger than racism these days and has little to do with the Confederacy. There's just a cultural divide. We've had 150 years to integrate the races and for the most part the southern whites and the southern blacks get along fine, but I can't hear a Brooklyn or Boston accent without anger stirring from within.

    Don't worry about, I live in the North (well, Northwest) and we refer to you southerners as Rednecks, hillybillyies, racists and of course, you are all a bunch of interbreeding good old boys.

  3. Re:the mac phenomenon on Watch Dogs Graphics and Gameplay: PC Vs. Xbox One, With Surprising Results · · Score: 2

    In the old days, we all had windows desktops which could be modded and used to play games in addition to it's usual uses.

    Now all the kids (and myself) only own Mac laptops, and don't want to buy a windows desktop just to game.

    So the easy choice is to drop $200 no a game console to augment the Mac.

    Let know know when you find a current gen console for $200.

  4. Ya, not surprised on Microsoft Kills Off MapPoint and Streets and Trips In Favor of Bing Maps · · Score: 0

    This is what corporations are about. But up the smaller successful offerings so people can use your crappier offerings for a price.

  5. Re:more leisure time for humans! on Foxconn Replacing Workers With Robots · · Score: 1

    Karl Marx saw this coming over 150 years ago

    The final end result of mass mechanized production is that the available workers will far outnumber the available jobs, and this is the problem that communism was intended to solve.

    Unfortunately, communism has earned a fatally bad reputation after being misused by so many dictators during the 20th century.

    That is because you can't put all the power into the hands of the few. Doesn't matter which type of government you run, if you leave the power in the hands of the few, corruption will happen, always.

  6. Re:"Good faith" on Qualcomm Takes Down 100+ GitHub Repositories With DMCA Notice · · Score: 2

    The DMCA does not allow you to refuse to process notices due to unpaid processing fees. Therefore, if they refuse to pay the fee, you are still required to process all their notices anyway, or you lose safe harbor.

    Okay, then let's do this the way. If you don't pay the fines, then your DMCA notices are put in the low priority queue. You pay your fines, we put you back in the high priority queue.

    That works for Netflix & Comcast, so I don't see why it shouldn't work for DMCA notices.

  7. google doens't need to stir up dissent on Google Reinstating Some 'Forgotten' Links · · Score: 5, Insightful

    People see this law for what it is, a way for the rich/politicians/scum to get rid of stories that make them look like the twats they are.

  8. Other side of the equation on Study: People Would Rather Be Shocked Than Be Alone With Their Thoughts · · Score: 1

    I have trouble focusing my thoughts on stuff for longer then 20 seconds at a time. I can do it, but I have trouble, very easily distracted, mainly by my own thoughts.

    Now my ADHD doesn't like me doing nothing for 15 minutes, but I can be alone with my own thoughts, dang, it's how i entertain myself.

    TBH, I'd probably space out and not even realize 15 minutes have gone by.

    I live alone, I prefer to be alone, my biggest contact with people is thru online video games. And most the time I'm trying to kill them (just kidding, I play EQ2 mainly, love raiding).

    We are social creatures, but get the fuck off my lawn before i shoot you.

  9. Re:"Good faith" on Qualcomm Takes Down 100+ GitHub Repositories With DMCA Notice · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's too bad that there's not a higher bar for "good faith." It'd be nice if it could be more readily disproven, in some cases.

    "I did a Google search for [term] and have a good faith belief that there's no possible way any of the results could be non-infringing. Because I can't believe that any of the results could possibly be non-infringing, I'm not going to examine any of the results more closely. I require you to remove all these results I came up with or be subject to liability under ridiculous laws if it turns out my head isn't *completely* up my ass. In addition, unless you can *prove* that I'm not acting in good faith, through a time-consuming and expensive process, there's absolutely nothing you can do about it! Have a nice day! ---Jackass-in-a-suit"

    Screw good faith. Places need to start charging to process DMCA notices, and then when they get fake or bad, or just plain wrong notices like this, you then charge them 1000x the price. They don't pay? Then you don't process any more DMCA notices from them.

    I thought we were about capitalism, this is capitalism at it's finest. Money is the only thing these people/corporations understand, so speak their language. They want to not be responsible about DMCA notices, then make it cost them.

  10. Re:Ah on Cybercrooks May Have Stolen Billions Using Brazilian "Boletos" · · Score: 1

    A Boleto is essentially a document that allows a customer to pay an exact amount to a merchant.

    So, like, a bill. How unlike us stupid norteamericanos, who of course just pay completely random and imprecise amounts to merchants.

    (Cue all the people telling me how stupid and parochial I am ... but it would have been nice if the article actually explained this thing.)

    I get bills all the time, I don't pay most of them.

    Hmm, that makes me wonder, can I just start sending official looking bills to people and see if they pay them?

  11. Re:Over-reacting is required on Ask Slashdot: Hosting Services That Don't Overreact To DMCA Requests? · · Score: 1

    Charge for DMCA take down request. Charge 100x for fake/bogus/false ones.

    Not sure why places don't do that, If i was google, I'd charge a $1000 for every false/wrong DMCA notice I got, I'm guessing that will start getting people checking them before sending them.

  12. Breeding with another humam? on Tibetans Inherited High-Altitude Gene From Ancient Human · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Wish I could get laid...

  13. .. (Religion isn't that big in Germany anyway,...

    Ya, I bet it's hard to be religious in a country that has in most recent history tried to eradicate a religious population. You just don't know when your religion is going to be next...

  14. Re:Not for deaf/hard of hearing... on Unintended Consequences For Traffic Safety Feature · · Score: 2

    Please don't do an audio countdown. It doesn't work for us hard of hearing people.

    Doesn't work for us that have our music players on. Plus you got the noise of the traffic, so it would need to be loud, which probably would then be heard by the cars, mainly if they have their window down and no music playing.

    How about you use crappy LCD screens that you pretty much have to be in front of it to see, so the people in the cars would be at the wrong angle to see it?

  15. Re:Non-compete agreements are BS. on Amazon Sues After Ex-Worker Takes Google Job · · Score: 2

    But it is impossible to "not use any confidential information he had access to" without surgery. It's in your brain, you will use it if the situation arises.

    I'm waiting for a Restaurant to sue another Restaurant when the chef changes job.

    "He can't boil water without using the techniques he learned at our restaurant!!!"

    stupid gits

  16. Re:He's lucky they didn't kill him. on Baton Bob Strikes Back Against Police That Coerced Facebook Post From Him · · Score: 1

    He's lucky they didn't kill him.
    In our state the cops have killed people with their batons, tasers, pistols and assault rifles for less than this. Of course, every time this happens the cops get off scott free without even a reprimand and with full paid leave during the "investigation" into the "incident". Cops are killing citizens left and right. These are not isolated incidenses but a problem with police mentality. Kill first, ask questions later.

    oh, you must live in Washington State.

  17. Re:All smart watches suck on Disappointed Woz Sells His "Worthless" Galaxy Gear Watch · · Score: 1

    If you aren't happy with the current features of a smart watches then sit down and make your own, that's what I did, so instead of complaining I just solved my own issue.

    I just strap my cellphone onto my wrist.

  18. Fluffy the Vampire Squirrel Hunter on 'Vampire' Squirrel Has World's Fluffiest Tail · · Score: 1

    New series on the WB coming to you this fall:

    Fluffy the Vampire Squirrel Hunter.

    Join Fluffy and her team of misfits battle the increasing population of Vampire Squirrels.

    Ya, sorry, I know it's stupid, I'm out of weed currently.

  19. But not the USA? on Court Allowed NSA To Spy On All But 4 Countries · · Score: 1

    So I noticed they didn't say the USA was one of the countries the NSA can't spy on, so I guess nothing is changing?

  20. Re:I'm waiting for ... on FreeDOS Is 20 Years Old · · Score: 1

    http://www.reactos.org/

    Oh ya, that. Maybe when it's 20 years old, it might be out of alpha...

  21. Re:Seattle has a date? Nice!!! on Seattle Gets Takeout By Amazon · · Score: 1

    I seriously doubt you've ever seen it in public here. I've lived here 42 years, and I have never seen marijuana in private, much less in public. It is still illegal to smoke in public even after this half-ass legalization attempt. In fact, this fake legalization effort has actually clarified the law on just how much more illegal it is now. The SPD will still ticket you. The ticket is only $27, but it certainly is illegal.

    Born and raised in Seattle (45 years) and I can state for a fact that me & my friends have no problem smoking it outside, on the street. I pass by people almost every day on Capital Hill that are smoking since the decriminalization of it. Before that, I'd run into people smoking weed outside about once a week.

    And I'm going to point out, if you've never seen anyone smoke marijuana in private, I'm not surprised you haven't seen anyone smoke it in public. You seem to have a very sheltered life, mainly if you lived in Seattle for 42 years and haven't seen any sight of the mighty marijuana. Shit, I grew up in this christian home, where we had to go to church and follow all those rules. I was a pretty naive kid and a bit sheltered, but I not only had seen marijuana by the time I was in 6th grade, I'd seen peeps smoke it and knew what it smelt like. Yes, in Seattle, the place you claim no one smokes.

    We don't care if smoking outside is illegal. We didn't care that smoking weed was illegal a year ago when we smoked it, we didn't care 20 years ago when we were smoking it. It didn't stop us. So thinking that saying it's illegal and you'll get ticketed by the Seattle Pigs is really pointless. We don't give a fuck. Either take a hit off that joint, or pass it.

  22. Re:Book Resale value on Update Your Shelf: BitLit Offers Access To Ebook Versions of Books You Own · · Score: 3, Informative

    So, i have to physically damage my book by writing in it, and it will prevent the next guy down the line from ever participating in such a scheme.

    um, photoshop the writing in?

  23. Re:No bounds checking? on KeyStore Vulnerability Affects 86% of Android Devices · · Score: 1

    No bounds checking? In a security module of Android? Duh! What sort of idiots do they have coding this thing?

    Can't we put bounding checks into the compiler?

  24. Re:Gardeners have already known this on Air Pollution Can Disrupt Pollinating Insects By Concealing the Scent of Flowers · · Score: 1

    Shh. If you tell people that they won't know that this has been known since we started agriculture. As a useful tip: Planting tobacco plants mixed with plants that are sensitive to pest infestations will help minimize it.

    I heard what is better is to plant marijuana between your corn plants.

  25. Seattle has a date? Nice!!! on Seattle Gets Takeout By Amazon · · Score: 1

    Well it's about time someone takes out Seattle. Ever since we legalized marijuana, Seattle has just been sitting in a cloud of smoke. I think a date with Amazon will provide the kick Seattle needs to break out of this pot haze and become a productive city of the USA again!