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  1. What you welcome is unlawful. Sorry, but no.

    Just because you would like some privacy due to rudeness doesn't mean it's anywhere near legal.

  2. Re:11% fuel efficiency improvement on Will Your Next Car Be Covered In Morphing Dimples? · · Score: 1

    If every car looks this way, the argument of "ugly" is nonexistent. 11% economy would pay off to everyone at all times, including for EV's as well. It's not whether you drive a lot or not, it's just a flat benefit.

  3. Re:right-wing spin on IRS Recycled Lerner Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    Open source = anti-IRS?

  4. Re:I'll buy anything from China except food on Chinese-Built Cars Are Coming To the US Next Year · · Score: 1

    This would have been an entertaining troll if it wasn't posted 24 hours later and actually was interesting.

  5. Re:I'll buy anything from China except food on Chinese-Built Cars Are Coming To the US Next Year · · Score: 1

    Fruit juices should not be consumed at any time. That's not even having to do with china as much as it's explicitly unhealthy to drink your meal's calories via sugar. A glass of juice has the sugar content of 2-3 pieces of the same fruit or more, even if it's 100% real and organic/natural juice.

    Smoothies/juice combinations involving vegetables are always healthier.

  6. Re:Whelp... on Chinese-Built Cars Are Coming To the US Next Year · · Score: 0, Troll

    Please tell us what brand you plan to buy that doesn't include chinese parts, so we can begin pointing fingers and laughing at you.

  7. Re:I'll buy anything from China except food on Chinese-Built Cars Are Coming To the US Next Year · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Have you tried buying vegetables, fruit or grains and actually cooked things into what you wanted? Most people in most parts of the world (including in China) refer to that as food - and it isn't made in a processing plant.

    I know cooking is hard from your mom's basement but I do think she has a kitchen.

  8. Re:Redbox Instant on Netflix Trash-Talks Verizon's Network; Verizon Threatens To Sue · · Score: 1

    The product is as equally made of fail as the marketing. The adoption of redbox instant is basically nonexistent, and ti's just as poorly developed with a fairly limited selection.

  9. Re:SubjectsInCommentsAreStupid on Did Russia Trick Snowden Into Going To Moscow? · · Score: 1

    Of course he can't produce evidence because he isn't stupid and doesn't carry any.

    Not everyone is as stupid as when the government says "Trust me".

    Then again, let me know how that's working out for you so far.

  10. Re:50MB = 750$ on AT&T Charges $750 For One Minute of International Data Roaming · · Score: 1

    Say what?
    It's not a contract if you get a foreign sim. It's a non-contract plan. It also takes 10-30 seconds and if you don't know how to do it, the place who offers the foreign sim will do it for you.
    You pay X dollars, and when that X dollars is up? So is your service.

    How do people not understand how international phone systems work? Have you never left the fucking country ever?

  11. Re:t-mobile on AT&T Charges $750 For One Minute of International Data Roaming · · Score: 1

    After 5GB on the ATT "unlimited data", which I am 100% certain to the point of being willing to bet money and/or my life that you have never reached it on mobile data, you are dialed back to dialup speeds. Literally from 12mb/s to 512kb/s. That's what "unlimited" is and why it's in quotes.

    You could hit more than 5GB on wifi, but if you hit 5GB through mobile data and don't have tethering you are sent back to 1989.

    If you pay for tethering, you don't have the same unlimited, and means you are not on the unlimited data plan, either. You're also paying twice for the same usage, so enjoy.

  12. Re:t-mobile on AT&T Charges $750 For One Minute of International Data Roaming · · Score: 1

    You don't need a multi sim phone.

    You take the AT&T sim out, you put in a foreign sim. When done, put at&t sim back in.

    Why the hell would you need a 2nd sim?

  13. Re:A number of countries?? Say it ain't so! on Vodafone Reveals Warrantless Wiretapping · · Score: 1

    US citizens haven't been control of our government since around the 80s. For the most part we are ignored and stifled unless enough of us get together and coordinate which happens once in a blue moon. Don't believe that 1 incident per 1-5 years is equivalent to "citizens control the gov't", because it's corporations that do.

  14. Re:t-mobile on AT&T Charges $750 For One Minute of International Data Roaming · · Score: 1

    Unlimited data is not unlimited data, and their international coverage caps out at 1GB.

    Just get a foreign sim card and people can stop dealing with this weird crap where they pay excessive amounts for standard service.

  15. Re:50MB = 750$ on AT&T Charges $750 For One Minute of International Data Roaming · · Score: 1

    It is to be outlawed, as long as you live in the EU. In the US, no such luck. Instead, you have a "stupid tax", for people too fucking stupid to install a foreign sim card in their AT&T sim card friendly phones.

    This isn't that complicated and AT&T is shit, but it's not that hard (and a whole lot cheaper and more convenient) to get a sim in a foreign country and basically treat it the same as your home wireless service - just with substantially better reception.

    Having to "turn on" data temporarily in a foreign country is the first sign of a mistake.

  16. Re:Offer a ROI? on This 360-Degree, 4K Video Camera isn't Getting Kickstarted (Video) · · Score: 1

    I disagree 100%. The quality of the video that comes from this camera looks more like 4 1080p cameras at best and 4 480p cameras in reality.

    I think the idea of a 4k panoramic camera is good, but I haven't seen a single video from their kickstarter that wasn't absolutely grainy as shit and significantly worse than the average smartphone.

  17. Re:Offer a ROI? on This 360-Degree, 4K Video Camera isn't Getting Kickstarted (Video) · · Score: 1

    It also looks like crap, which is amusing as the actual slashdot news post for this camera implies entirely differently.

  18. Re:Ellsberg got a fair trial on Daniel Ellsberg: Snowden Would Not Get a Fair Trial – and Kerry Is Wrong · · Score: 3, Informative

    This is 100% incorrect.

    He cannot be guilty under any circumstances, until tried by the laws at hand.

    You are just as bad as Kerry and just as unconstitutional in your argument.

  19. not quite on China Looks To Linux As Windows Alternative · · Score: 1

    Considering that XP is pirated in China to a significant percentage less than 99%, you're missing that if everybody is using Linux nobody is going to be buying MS anything at all. Effectively total market lockout. Which can affect the NSA as well.

    Truthfully, this probably won't affect anything.

  20. Re:thank you Snowden on Why Snowden Did Right · · Score: 1

    Please stop begging the question. We have no way to ever quantify that, and it simply doesn't matter.

    The information is out there, and all we can do is hopefully move forward as a society as a result.

  21. Re:Pretty obvious on Why I'm Sending Back Google Glass · · Score: 1

    Every display is retinal, because it uses your retinas.

    Your post is bullshit, whether you're implying apple (as the poster below) implied or not.

    When displays aren't retinal, that might actually be the key to success.

  22. Re:/. Poll: Worst offenders on RFC 7258: Pervasive Monitoring Is an Attack · · Score: 1

    You are correct that it's both the ISP's and the governments.

  23. Re:Nvidia blows too with drivers on The Truth About OpenGL Driver Quality · · Score: 1

    It's all anecdotes, and anyone who believes personal anecdotes is a fool and deserves to lose their money to a corporation on their foolish decisions. Which is how our economy operates, anyway.

  24. Re:Nvidia blows too with drivers on The Truth About OpenGL Driver Quality · · Score: 2

    This is correct. We had more competition in terms of choosing graphics cards in the past, it didn't mean they were actually competitors or even tried to not do a completely shit job that didnt' help anyone in the long term.

    Intel doesn't give a shit even today as far as graphics - good luck getting any launch game to run on any integrated graphics platform on a screen above 1024x768, where even a $50 card from literally anyone else will do better than the extra $50 intel is charging people to have an IGP. Hell, even AMD's hybrid solutions do better for gaming by an order of magnitude. What intel is open sourcing is not a solid 3d background, but a pile of unused 2d renders and basically nothing. It would not be unlike taking mono on linux and saying that Microsoft "gave up the crown jewels for linux" when it's explicitly untrue.

    Meanwhile, AMD is budget constrained and not the best, Nvidia is proprietary as fuck (and tries to encourage everyone else to be, look at PhysX's bullshit proprietary nature), and Intel is shit. People don't build gaming rigs with an intel IGP in mind. Our options are just as relatively poor as they were back in the day, just newer hardware/better software.

  25. Re:Probably saved more lives with jamming on FCC Proposes $48,000 Fine To Man Jamming Cellphones On Florida Interstate · · Score: 1

    Most likely killed a bunch of people by affecting fucking 911 calls.

    Let's not focus on the pedantry of acting like the jamming was ever acceptable at any point and debating the result, because the jamming wasn't even legal in the first place.