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  1. Re:The real issue on Bloomberg: Steve Jobs Behind NYC Crime Wave · · Score: 1
  2. Re:WTF, I shop there. on New Hampshire Cops Use Taser On Woman Buying Too Many iPhones · · Score: 1

    ...although the Nashua cops have a history of being shady...

    That's all that needed to be said.....

  3. Re:Only 3 years? Are you kidding? on Anthropologist Spends Three Years Living With Hackers · · Score: 1

    I think he's in my WoW guild now...

  4. Re:They lost me in Cataclysm on Review: World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria (video) · · Score: 1

    That wasn't until the end. BWD/Throne/BoT, then Firelands was painful for the less elite crowd (the people between the hard core and casual). The only thing I don't like about MoP is having to have the rep to get gear. I could understand that if they had tied the Tier pieces to rep, but if I valor cap, I don't understand why I can't get a less desired piece that will at least allow me to kill those stupid vermin and birds on my farm in a timely manner. (there are WAAAY too many things to kill when planting seeds.). My other gripe is more that I'm forced to remain on my main to be viable in raid when all I really want to do is finish leveling my other 10 alts so I can farm on them too....it shouldn't take 2 toons 1 hour to do quests for the farm, plus Golden Lotus, plus the other reps for the professions, plus....plus...plus....it's not the least bit alt friendly, which was what MY complaint had been all along during Firelands. (It's better than it was.....). Well, I'm not sure what I'm even trying to say anymore....except to point out that Cata wasn't flowing purples until Dragon Soul.

  5. Re:Single AZ my butt on Amazon EBS Failure Brings Down Reddit, Imgur, Others · · Score: 1

    EVERYONE knows that just Tea = Unsweetened Tea. No matter where you go, you have to ask for Sweet Tea to get it Southern style. Oh God. Sorry for just Redditing this thread.

  6. Re:Interestingly enough... on Amazon EBS Failure Brings Down Reddit, Imgur, Others · · Score: 1

    If I had points, I'd so give em here...

  7. Re:Diaspora? on Decentralized Social Networking — Why It Could Work · · Score: 1

    Who are you people and where the heck have you heard these things? No, really, advertise outside of the metro areas. Amazing what those hillbilly people will spread around. Wait, that didn't come out right. You know what I mean. (hinthint - Pinterest)

  8. Please don't hate me...but... on What Happened To Diaspora, the Facebook Killer? It's Complicated · · Score: 0

    who?

    Look, if you wanna make it big time, make sure people in Arkansas hear your voice. If you can get people in Arkansas to recognize your brand, you are golden. (Think about it before bashing me, please.)

  9. Re:"Open" on Why WikiLeaks' Spinoff OpenLeaks Failed · · Score: 1
  10. Re:Doesn't Really Help on Go Daddy: Network Issues, Not Hacks Or DDoS, Caused Downtime · · Score: 1

    Actually, the voice in my head is from Icecrown Citadel's Professor Putricide...."Good news, everyone! I've fixed the poison slime pipes!" (during the Rotface encounter)

  11. Re:You think this is a Game? on GoDaddy Goes Down, Anonymous Claims Responsibility · · Score: 1

    Considering GoDaddy didn't give a rats ass when they kept our website down for 2 weeks because they couldn't figure out how to manage ColdFusion (this happened right before they announced giving it up)....during this process in which they convinced us to PAY FOR 2 more years of ColdFusion hosting...in which 4 months into it they announced they were discontinuing ColdFusion.

    It doesn't matter if you like or hate ColdFusion, the point was they offered it, we paid for it, and they spent 2 weeks dinking around getting it back up running after they moved the site around to non-ColdFusion servers (without our request or approval.). I didn't choose GoDaddy to begin with, I was just stuck having to support it until those decision makers were kicked to the door. Good thing the website isn't that important, in our business. (We host our own email.)

    I personally grinned. Nothing annoys the shit out of me more than IT people that treat other IT people like crap and feed us full of crap (and we know it the minute they say it) and get paid so much to do it when you know damn well they don't do their job worth a crap.

    Sorry. Off tangent. Maybe I am still a little bitter from the whole experience with them.

  12. Re:Reporting to the FBI gets complicated, when . . on Ask Slashdot: Where To Report Script Kiddies and Other System Attacks? · · Score: 1

    I still have a computer sitting on the shelf labeled "Do not touch, property of FBI" from when I reported a compromised computer to them. That was in 2004. It's still sitting on the same shelf, just like it was the day I unplugged it.

  13. Re:The PC is Dying on PC Makers In Desperate Need of a Reboot · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Go to the airport. Look at an airplane. Now look at your tablet. Now back at me. Now back at your tablet. Sadly, you can't read the specifications and dimensions listed on the blueprint for that airplane on that tiny ass screen. Look at the Internet, and now back at me. Your ISP has blocked retrieving that file from the iCloud because it's "too large/over bandwidth limit/insert other MPAA/RIAA restriction".

    I'm telling you. Schools need to haul kids out to the field again. Let them get a real sense of what the rest of the working world has to deal with before they are allowed to make any decisions.

  14. Re:The PC is Dying on PC Makers In Desperate Need of a Reboot · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Stop that. Please, I beg of you. Stop saying PC dying. I have yet to see a tablet that can handle the Autocad/Mastercam/Catia drawings that we work with. I don't want to be stuck having to build this shit from scratch, or purchase a server just so people can use the software they have to use every day.

    Before you all go off on 'virtual server/blahblah' I'm telling you, we have tried, and nothing beats having each user have a PC at their desk using the software to do their work. Just because we can make the PC last 5 years before having to replace it, doesn't mean that the PC is dying.

    Keep your stupid investor hands off the PC market. Seriously. - Love, Aerospace Manufacturing

  15. That's All Fine And Dandy.... on Detecting Depression From How (Not What) You Browse · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I would prefer to see someone research radical changing of desktop configurations possibly indicating brain aneurysms. I have noticed twice in my working career that people that suddenly change their background color to something like magenta, or fiddle around with the size of their text non-stop (aka one day they contact support because the text is too small, next day they contact support because the text is too big.) end up within 6 months being in the hospital because of a brain aneurysm. No Joke.

  16. Re:Copyright violations on NASA's Own Video of Curiosity Landing Crashes Into a DMCA Takedown · · Score: 1

    Explain to me how this one went down. I still don't understand it. Sure, the video isn't gone, but there isn't a single portion of this video that ever touched by the people claiming the copyright. http://antimattertheinsane.blogspot.com/2012/06/wtf-auto-copyright-content-claim-fail.html

  17. Re:Don't be STUPID. on White House Refuses To Comment On Petition To Investigate Chris Dodd · · Score: 1

    "We don't want a society where the loudest bunch of shrieking zealots can pressure a criminal investigation by the mere weight of numbers." Really? That seemed to work so well when people were talking about a dress stain instead of the terrorist...

  18. Re:What if I prepaid multiple years? HELP! on GoDaddy Backs SOPA · · Score: 1

    We actually got our hosting refunded, because they were the ones that cancelled ColdFusion support....and we had no desire to recode the whole site.

  19. Re:Wait a minute... on Corporate Claims On Public Domain YouTube Videos · · Score: 1

    Thank you. Not to mention...1. the artist already got paid by the island for the ability to play the music and 2. I don't get paid for putting videos online. My youtube account is not set up to rack up money by AdSense for me. My youtube account is strictly for fun. 3. I didn't have the camera sitting beside the speaker, I was on the opposite side of the populated area. 4. I still don't understand how United States laws can even apply to a private island that isn't even on United States soil. 5. I still don't understand the mindset of wanting to get paid multiple times for the same thing. That's like if I had to pay a fee to the clothing designer every time I had my picture taken.....

  20. Re:Wait a minute... on Corporate Claims On Public Domain YouTube Videos · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Ya, back in 2004, I went on a Royal Caribbean cruise. One of the islands that they own, CoCo Kay, was one of the stops along the way. It was the first time I had ever been on a cruise before, and so at one point, on the CoCo Kay island, I just set my camera down on a picnic table and pressed record. I wanted to capture the music, the sound of the waves, the people walking past. I wanted to be able to go back to that moment in time.

    In 2006, I posted it on YouTube, because one of the family members wanted to see it, and my daughter had a friend in the Bahamas who wanted to show her family what CoCo Kay looked like (it's a ways away from Nassau..).

    In 2009, Sony laid claim to the video because of the music playing in the background, and slapped ads all over my video.

    In 2012, I will be putting my own content server up for me and my family, and screw the rest of those sites. Bye Facebook, Google+, YouTube. Don't need ya anymore.

  21. Re:This is why I will never trust cloud services on IT Pros Can't Resist Peeking At Privileged Info · · Score: 1

    Unless you are in a smaller company, where HR is also payroll, which is also accounts payable. Only recently did our company get large enough to actually split AR and AP. AP lady still does HR tho.

  22. Re:Municipal broadband is on its way, then on Web Usage-Based Billing On Its Way · · Score: 1

    Yes, I will. I cut the cord, I'm not afraid to cut out Netfix, YouTube, etc. I'm already pissed off at BigMedia, I'm already shunning new releases. Don't even tempt me into cutting them all out.

  23. Re:Why are we discussing this? on Cosmic Antimatter Excess Confirmed · · Score: 1

    Matters to me. My WoW toon is Antimatter, and my real name is Pamela. Talk about a brain esplosion.

  24. Re:This is plain stupid on RIAA Doesn't Like the "Used Digital Music" Business · · Score: 1

    mhm. Just stop spending money on big content/big media/big Hollywood. I did, and my life is a heck of a lot less stressful. I have more money to do what I want with it, and am not contributing to the blood sucking leaches that have no bones about stealing other people's content and copyrights, but then cry about theirs. I don't want their stuff legally or illegally anymore. Only artists that are 'with the times' get my cash.

  25. Re:Live in Oklahoma, work around the industry.... on Did Fracking Cause Recent Oklahoma Earthquakes? · · Score: 1

    I live in Northwest Arkansas and I can tell you that was the first time ever we felt Oklahoma earthquakes. Whatever you are doing out there, cut it out. Heck, we haven't even felt the ones they had just north of us......but that big one almost knocked the toaster oven off my computer desk.