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  1. Re: Actually you can on Pepe the Frog's Creator Is Sending Takedown Notices To Far-Right Sites (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Did you suffer a large head wound? Killing off a character is not relinquishing control. If so... Lets look at the long list of things you could try and profit over and get sued...

  2. Re:Fired! on Ask Slashdot: How To Own the Rights To Software Developed At Work? · · Score: 2

    I wish I could give you more points also. Exactly what I was thinking. The OP is being paid to write software for the company he works for, the OP is smoking crack.

  3. Re:Insteon on Ask Slashdot: Options For Cheap Home Automation? · · Score: 1

    I was thinking the exact same thing!

  4. Re:Fairly simple solution on Crowdsourcing Confirms: Websites Inaccessible on Comcast · · Score: 1

    which is what I meant... but I was too excited for an actual first post...

  5. Fairly simple solution on Crowdsourcing Confirms: Websites Inaccessible on Comcast · · Score: 0

    Do not use comcast DNS... just use googles.

    https://developers.google.com/...

  6. Re:What could possibly go wrong on NASA Wants To Go To Europa · · Score: 1

    Is it me or does everyone fail to think it is a reference to something other then 2010....

  7. Re:Cost-benefit analysis on NY Police Get Tall SUVs To Combat Texting While Driving · · Score: 1

    why would you not wear a seatbelt? That just seems stupid... What is the downside of wearing one.

  8. Re:rob this person for guns here on New York Pistol Permit Owner List Leaked · · Score: 1

    How is Data that is already public be leaked? AFIAK the data was public when the website was published, if it was not then that data was out in the open for more then a few days anyway.

  9. On topic... real cost... on Is It Time For the US To Ditch the Dollar Bill? · · Score: 1

    SO let me get this striaght...

    I pay 50 cents a year to use dollar bills and not have a pocket full of change like I do when I am in the UK?

    I'm totally OK with this.

  10. Wow!! no one has said these. on Ask Slashdot: Mathematical Fiction? · · Score: 1

    The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling - Historical Fiction about Babbage.

    The Ghost from the Grand Banks by Arthur C Clark - extensive subplot around chaos and fractal theory.

    You can also make an argument about the Foundation series from Asimov being math based. The entire series is predicated on using math to predict the future and Humanities actions.

  11. Re:Botched that landmark on Apple To Stream a Product Launch Live For the First Time · · Score: 1

    Works fine from iOS or Mac OS... They should have stated that on the website. When I use windows it just says try again later....

  12. Re:Simple on Ask Slashdot: Actual Best-in-Show For Free Anti Virus? · · Score: 2

    I find the free MS product excellent, unobtrusive and very very effective. I have way less issues then anyone I know with norton....

  13. There is NO WAY this is correct. MATH INSIDE on Ubisoft Claims PC Piracy Rate of 93-95% · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Lets do some math....

    The last ghost recon has sold 1.03 million units so far world wide. Which assuming the 95% piracy rate means 20.6 million units would have been sold or 14.7million units at the 93% piracy rate.

    The original Bioshock on xbox360 only moved 2.53 million units worldwide, and we can assume a very low piracy rate as it was on Xbox 360 only. That game was a huge hit, the Last Ghost Recon did well not amazing.... So you are saying that between 5-9 time more people played Ghost recon vs Bioshock? Yes the lat Ghost recon has cross platform but even if you take that into account...

    Anyone else see the math issue?

    Data pulled from here. http://www.vgchartz.com/game/43311/tom-clancys-ghost-recon-future-soldier/

  14. Re:lots of options on Ask Slashdot: How To Run a Small Business With Open Source Software? · · Score: 1

    My thoughts exactly. Quickbooks works, the format is transferable to almost everything. You know the taxes will work out, and hell buying it itself is a business writeoff.

    I am all about open source solutions for small offices, but do not skimp on your financial software. It will pay off much more in the long run.

    The fact that quickbooks can handle everything from POS to inventory to payroll with no issues and little to no training, makes it a very obvious choice.

  15. Re:Single Sign on aka FB on Ask Slashdot: What's Holding Up Single Sign-On? · · Score: 1

    That is a good point...

    But in order to have a trusted SSO you need something like facebook or google, and there are going to be tradeoffs. Personally google, is bad as that PW has way to much private info tied to it. Facebook can function as a catchall for less restrictive security needs for a generic SSO...

  16. Single Sign on aka FB on Ask Slashdot: What's Holding Up Single Sign-On? · · Score: 4, Informative

    FB is becoming more and more of a single sign on.



    The real reason holding it back is people that make the websites are either to lazy to include it. ie blogging sites. Or want increased security aka financial sites.

  17. I think you are looking at this wrong on Asking Slashdot: Converting an SUV Into an Hybrid Diesel-Electric? · · Score: 1

    1st You understand that Hybrids with regen braking makes more sense in SUV's look at the Chevy hybrid trucks awesome gains for in town milage.


    Why reinvent that wheel, if your going to do this look at Natural gas instead of Diesel.... Look at turbines on constant velocity driving a generator... These all make more sense then what you are proposing...

  18. Re:Heard about Marathon on Aleph One 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Marathon was the 1st full featured FPS. Sure Wolfenstien and Doom beat it, but Marathon was the first true 3d game. Doom was actually a 2d game that faked the vertical component.

    Marathon was the first that allowed networked game play. Had all the major multiplayer modes, king of the hill, tag, DM etc. Marathon was really the seminal FPS that set the stage for all other games. It is still impressive in the level design and storytelling given the minimal resources available at the time. It beat Unreal and Quake by a few years to the market.

  19. Re:Let's see: on Ask Slashdot: Good, Useful Free Software For Gifts? · · Score: 1

    VLC for sure

  20. Goodbye Yelp on Google Acquires Zagat · · Score: 1

    Sorry Yelp,

    You had a good run but it appears that Google will be destroying you in the next year.

    Yours Truly,
    A future former yelp user

  21. Airwolf! and dirty video on Ask Slashdot: Can You Identify This UAV? · · Score: 2

    I think Bellisario should sue... They totally ripped off the Airwolf intro music.


    On a side note I love how they took the festo smart bird video and dirtied it up to look military lol...

    http://www.festo.com/cms/en_corp/11369_11439.htm#id_11439

  22. Thanks! on Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot · · Score: 1

    Thank you good sir!

    This is the end of an epoch. For those of us lucky enough to be around from the first steps of the Internet as we know it today, what you have created has become a part of our lives, an indispensable news source, source of humor, and knowledge of all things that matter to us. Let us not forget the internet term that you accidentally created. We will tell our children what being slashdoted means, when they use it with no idea of from whence it came.


    I salute you sir! Good luck in all your future endeavors, Slashdot is not dead, and long live Slashdot!

    Foo2rama

  23. Re:Tesla Roadster stops along with Lotus Elise on Tesla Will Discontinue the Roadster · · Score: 1
  24. Re:Tesla Roadster stops along with Lotus Elise on Tesla Will Discontinue the Roadster · · Score: 1

    The Roadster is on the same platform as the Exige/Elise. While it may not be on the same DOT waiver, Lotus is shutting down the tooling for that platform. The only reason I am saying it may not be on the same DOT waiver is I cannot find that part of the DOT website.


    Either way the article is wrong, for one reason or the other that platform will no longer be made, this is really old news in the auto community. It is not being stopped because it was a failure.

  25. Re:Tesla Roadster stops along with Lotus Elise on Tesla Will Discontinue the Roadster · · Score: 1

    Exactly, the Elise/Exige losses the DOT waiver for the old standard airbags later this year, hence the stoppage of sales of the Elise/Exige and Tesla Roadster.