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  1. Re:Prison population on Researchers Analyze Twitter To Find Happiest Parts of the United States · · Score: 1

    Louisiana has the largest prison population and is also the saddest place according to this study, coincidence?

    weird, considering you aren't usually allowed internet access in jail/prison.

  2. Re:A bit hard to enforce.... on Planetary Resources To 'Claim' Asteroids With Beacons · · Score: 1

    ... but the gun will be only cooling by radiating heat AND through the contact with your gloves. That may become uncomfortable rather quickly.

    ....

    Wouldn't that depend where you are in space? Sure, if you have the sun shinging on you, providing some heat, then the gun will get really hot fast, but what if you are far from the sun? Or the sun is blocked? Then it's really cold in space and I don't see the heat of the gun being that big of a deal.

  3. Re:International traties on Planetary Resources To 'Claim' Asteroids With Beacons · · Score: 1

    I thought corporations were people. Can't they roll over in their grave, too?

    Only if they are dead.

    They are soulless, does that count?

  4. Middle man his ass on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With an Advanced Wi-Fi Leech? · · Score: 2

    If someone is leeching your wifi, look up how to middle man attack. Steal all his info. Find out who you are dealing with. Be nasty. Be a dick back.

    Fight fire with fire.

    You get the picture I am making here? You have someone that keeps breaking into your wifi, so set a fucking trap.

    For the record, police are stupid as all fuck, and they won't do anything for you.

  5. Re:Upcoming XBox Bundle? on Microsoft Kinect 2.0 Specifications Leak, Includes Support For USB 3.0 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The goal behind including the Kinect 2 with every xbox 720 is for precisely that reason: game developers can't afford to devote much resources to Kinect 2 support because few people have them relative to the overall market (roughly a third of 360 owners). By including a Kinect 2 with every xbox 720, developers can rely on every gamer on that platform supporting Kinect 2. Suddenly what was an option can now be a requirement. We should actually see more innovation in this regard as a result.

    Based on the Wii, you fill get a bunch of games that would play fine on a gamepad, but they make it so you have to use the kinect. Which I personally find annoying. I prefer to game with a gamepad (or mouse & keyboard) over waving my fat arms around like i'm having a heart attack or something.

  6. Windows Blue Waffle on Report: Windows Blue Reaches Its First Milestone Build · · Score: 1

    It might sound neat, but no one really wants it.

  7. Re:Gambling Company taking a gamble? on Internet Poker Could Make a Comeback By Going Brick-and-Mortar · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Just like on me getting first post!

    err, once i learn to type properly. or something. sorry, public school education here.

  8. Gambling Company taking a gamble? on Internet Poker Could Make a Comeback By Going Brick-and-Mortar · · Score: -1

    Just like on me getting first post!

  9. Re:How to not make a high-profile company on Python Trademark Filer Ignorant of Python? · · Score: 2

    If I was registering a new company, the last thing I would want to give my company or servers etc is a name that already pulls up millions of pages in a simple web search.
    It just sounds like somebody was clueless and doesn't even know how people find services on the internet these days.

    Clueless management? Clueless CEO? Tell me it isn't so!

  10. Re:job based health care hurts haveing older peopl on Large Corporations Displacing Aging IT Workers With H-1B Visa Workers · · Score: 1

    job based health care hurts having older people work for companies.

    Bullshit. Corporate greed is what hurts older people.

  11. Re:But I'm telling you... on Canadian Court Rules You Have the Right To Google a Lawyer · · Score: 1

    Sure, like just reaching 80 would be enough to get into the raid. No, you'd also have to spend months grinding honor tokens, or whatever the fuck they're called now, for the entry level gear to get in.

    WoW-free for 2+ years - what a lucky escape.

    I thought WoW gave you a fully geared max level char with new games now?

  12. Re:Google is the new phone book on Canadian Court Rules You Have the Right To Google a Lawyer · · Score: 1

    I'm not seeing any particular reason that the time spent searching could not be supervised

    I'm not seeing any particular reason it would need to be supervised. The phone calls aren't. The last time I was arrested, I spent about four hours in a holding cell, and there was a row of phones along the wall. There were no restrictions on who we could call, or how long we could talk. There was no indication that the phone calls were being monitored, and it is illegal to record calls without notification.

    Having been arrest too many times, I can attest that the local jail is(was) set up like that. First room you have a bunch of free phones. Unfortunately, I have never been in that room longer then 10 mins. And I'm talking at least 20 visits to the room (I used to be a bad boy). After that room, you get put into rooms where you have to call collect to make phone calls. And you can spend 8 hours in that room.

    I haven't been to jail for about a decade (good boy now), so I don't know how they have changed it since then.

    Going to point out I remember when that jail had all free phones in it. Up in the cells (like 20 peeps to a cell), it would have one of those cheap phones that plugs into the wall. At least till some idiot tried to use it to beat someone down, then they took them out and put in the solid phones against the wall, call collect to make calls.

    Now in the day of Cell phones, who remembers phone numbers? I don't. The only phone numbers i remember is my own (and only my google voice number, have no idea what my cell phone number is), the phone from where I lived growing up, and oddly enough, one of my weed dealers who I have known for over 20 years. Anyways, they don't let you take the cell phone into jail with you (not where I live), so you don't have your numbers, unless you can convince the officer that takes that stuff to let you grab phone numbers off it. Chances are, you aren't thinking of that.

    Anyways, this is for when you get taken down to the jail, and most people I've ever noticed don't call lawyers, they call family and tell the family to get a hold of a lawyer or bail bonds person.

    I've never been rich enough to afford a lawyer, but thinking about it, jail doesn't seem to make it easy to call them, unless they accept collect calls...

     

  13. Re:What's the point? on NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN Uses 7.1 Billion Transistor GK110 GPU · · Score: 1

    All games that have the budget for graphics these days are targeted at console limitations. I can't really see any reason to spend that much on a graphics card, except if you're a game developer yourself.

    In case you've been living under a rock for the last 5 years or so, the 3D graphic cards do more then just play games, they use their FP processing power to, get ready for this, process stuff fast!

    OpenCL, CUDA, and sort of fun and exciting stuff. You want to bitcoin mine? Graphic cards dude!. You want to fold proteins? Graphic Cards dude!

    Graphic cards aren't about great graphic anymore, I mean, if they were, Nvidia and AMD wouldn't have much more powerful cards coming out then what is in consoles. No point in spending all the R&D when the software people are programming for last decade hardware.

  14. Re:Fuck, it's a 5 word title on Duke Nukem 3D Code Review · · Score: 1

    Find a job more suited to your lack of ability already (though I admit it's going to be hard to find a job that requires less).

    Timothy has been with slashdot for so long that he is no longer qualified to do anything else.

    I don't think anyone would hire him, the example of his work is on the internet for everyone to see, and he fails way too often.

  15. Re:Last Question on Does the Higgs Boson Reveal Our Universe's Doomsday? · · Score: 1

    Will we have enough time to build the machine to figure out the Last Question? That seems like the obvious solution to the problem. Why wait for some random alternative universe to appear, we'll just make one ourselves...like William Bell in one of the alternative timeline.

    How do you know every action we don't take doesn't make another universe? So while some might collapse in 10's of billions of years, some won't.

  16. Cost to much to be old on Large Corporations Displacing Aging IT Workers With H-1B Visa Workers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    As in, cost to much to pay older workers. Why? Because with corporations, greed matters I mean, the bottom line matters. Why should they pay people $60k a year when they can outsource it/hire cheaper foreigners in the states for $30k a year?

    Corporate Greed, giving your job to someone else for cheaper.

  17. Paper Bag Industry PR on Are Plastic Bag Bans Making People Sick? · · Score: 1

    Look, this is just PR from the Paper Bag industry, trying to drum up more business. Now that it cost 5 cents per bag, they have felt the sting.

    Please stop using these dirty reuseable bags that you are, you need to buy a fresh, clean, new paper bag (or 5!) everytime you shop.

    Please think of the children (of the stock holders)!!!!!

  18. I for one on Mussel Glue Could Help Repair Birth Defects · · Score: 3, Funny

    welcome our Mussel Glued Children of tomorrow!

    Hopefully they will be delivered in our flying cars that haven't shown up yet.

  19. L&O: SVU has prior art on French Police Unsure Which Twin To Charge In Sexual Assaults · · Score: 2

    Saw this on an episode of Law & Order Special Victims Unit.

    And they say television isn't educational...

  20. When Obama was elected, I had hope on President Obama Calls For New 'Space Race' Funding · · Score: 4, Insightful

    but then it changed.

    How about we stop the stupid war in the middle east, spend that money on some good old space programs? How about we stop bullying other nations and instead work with them with a common goal, like space travel/colonies?

  21. Re:DONT get a TV on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your Favorite Monitor For Programming? · · Score: 1

    Unless the TV can handle a high resolution you're not saving any money by getting one in the place of a 'real' monitor.

    seeing as most TV sold this days are 1080P, meaning they are doing 1920x1080 resolution.

    Computer monitors are barely beyond that.

  22. Re:Don't let Michael Hardy get it on For Your Inspection: Source Code For Photoshop 1.0 · · Score: 1

    Source code on the internet? Not safe from Michael Hardy.

    http://youfailit.net/?p=49

    http://better-explorer.com/blog/a-word-about-michael-hardy-copycat/

    This person likes to take peoples source code, recompile it with minimal changes (usually just taking the author out and putting in his name) and then sell it.

    Recently hit the Apple II scene trying to pass off Byte Magazines Solitare Game as his own, asking how to make copyright materials then wanting the person who wrong Lemmings for the Apple IIGS to unprotect it for him. lol.

    Anyways, great reading about a loser who profits via others work. But a source code thief and will find Michael Hardy's Photoshopped Photoshop 1.0 coming out soon!

    fuck, I can't type to save my life.

    he ask how to make copyright symbol, not materials. doh!

  23. Don't let Michael Hardy get it on For Your Inspection: Source Code For Photoshop 1.0 · · Score: 1

    Source code on the internet? Not safe from Michael Hardy.

    http://youfailit.net/?p=49

    http://better-explorer.com/blog/a-word-about-michael-hardy-copycat/

    This person likes to take peoples source code, recompile it with minimal changes (usually just taking the author out and putting in his name) and then sell it.

    Recently hit the Apple II scene trying to pass off Byte Magazines Solitare Game as his own, asking how to make copyright materials then wanting the person who wrong Lemmings for the Apple IIGS to unprotect it for him. lol.

    Anyways, great reading about a loser who profits via others work. But a source code thief and will find Michael Hardy's Photoshopped Photoshop 1.0 coming out soon!

  24. I don't get the flu. on When Google Got Flu Wrong · · Score: 0

    I don't get flu shots either. Maybe there is a connection.

  25. Re:Enter the modern world of ... on Surface Pro: 'Virtually Unrepairable' · · Score: 1

    Every clip, connector, screw, etc that is needed to make something 'repairable' adds weight, bulk, and cost. People have clearly demonstrated that weight, size, and cost win out over repairability when making their purchasing decisions. You can't lay it all (or even most of it) at the feet of the manufacturers.

    Yes, that is why MS used 28 screws to hold 2 pieces of metal in. Err, that isn't the point you are making is it?