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  1. Because 3D TV did so well on 3D Cameras Are About To Go Mainstream · · Score: 1

    Can't find a home where people aren't wearing those uncomfortable glasses! You certainly can't find anything but the glasses-free 3D 4K curved LED TVs at the store. Yeah, I won't be buying one.

  2. Re:Free? Where is the money coming from? on Obama Proposes 2 Years of Free Community College · · Score: 1

    There's plenty of ways to go to college for free: scholarships, employment continuing education programs, and your parents just to name a few. What I've been saying for a long time is we need to tell people that you don't have to go to college. A lot of colleges are offering degree programs for what is in fact really just a trade. So you get a blue-collar trade job that you could've really Been trained for on the job, but now you've paid the college markup for that training. I also don't like the idea of kids who don't like school being forced to go to college by their parents simply because it's free. Some of those kids don't want an education and will ultimately end up failing at those last two years of effort. They could skip all of that,save their parents a lot of money and heartache, And go right to flipping burgers and scrubbing toilets. God bless those toilet scrubbers and burger flippers, because we need them just like we need doctors, lawyers, and engineers.

    And what will this do to the quality of education? Seems like whenever the government gets their hands on the bill for service they discount the shit out of it and the quality suffers.

  3. And they didn't prove shit on Why Lizard Squad Took Down PSN and Xbox Live On Christmas Day · · Score: 1

    DDOS attack doesn't prove shit about security. Fucking little script kiddies. This was a case of the bullied bullying someone else for a change. Grow some dicks and go stick it in something, losers.

  4. Hate is a nice word here on Book Review: Build Your Own Website: A Comic Guide to HTML, CSS, and WordPress · · Score: 1

    I feel like I'm always tricking WP into doing what I need it to do. It tries to imitate functionality of real CMSs, but does so about as well as my 2-year-old can do brain surgery. It's gotten to the point I refuse to work with it. I'd rather take the loss of business. Sure it's what the "cool kids use," (cool kids that smoke) but it's not worth taking years off my life.

  5. Re:Man, am I old ... on Backblaze's 6 TB Hard Drive Face-Off · · Score: 1

    I first had an 80 meg hard drive and had no idea what that meant. Then after a couple years of school, I filled it up with documents and basic programs. Upgraded to a 400meg hard disk with windows 3.11 and thought I'd never run out of space. Then I learned what doom, wolfenstein, and a bunch of other games was and I ran out of space. Then a ginormous 4gb disk came out and I bought one. Dude, I'll NEVER run out of space! Then MP3s went on the rise and oops... out of space. The Zip disk gave me some wiggle room, and I still have one for nostalgia. 19.2 gig quantum Bigfoot. Pirated divx movies and napster/kazaa/limewire clogged that one up. 500gb drive filled with mountains of digital pictures and home videos. Finally 1tb seems livable... for now. But then it comes to backing it up and hosting my digital media on my media server: 4tb and its holding its own... for now. :)

    These upgrades are getting less and less frequent... we've come a long way, baby!

  6. Re:Yes, go ahead...Blame Apple on Behind Apple's Sapphire Screen Debacle · · Score: 1

    They gambled and lost.

  7. Funny I just cut yesterday on Cutting the Cord? Time Warner Loses 184,000 TV Subscribers In One Quarter · · Score: 1

    The wife and I were paying $100 a month to watch just several channels. Hulu has about half of what we like to watch for less than a tenth of the price. On top of that, they DRM every damn thing. I setup my own homebrew DVR with MythTV (mostly because the cable company's dvr suuuuucked) and couldn't watch many channels. I wasn't breaking the law with my DVR, I just wanted to watch TV my own way and not theirs. So Hulu was the best middle-of-the-road solution out there. It's hard to beat the price, the commercials are quick and it is on demand programming.

  8. Re:Semantics on The Inevitable Death of the Internet Troll · · Score: 1

    That means you're allowed one sexual advance. If she rejects you, then no more. Otherwise it becomes sexual harassment.

  9. Less tinkering, more using on Ubuntu Turns 10 · · Score: 2

    I have less and less time to tinker with linux to make it work. Started using KDE, but kept running into issues where it refused to let me login - just get a blank desktop. Went to Xubuntu, but half the time I suspended my laptop it would refuse to wake completely unless I restarted lightdm, which restarted my session. What a productivity killer. I recently went back to Ubuntu and Unity and haven't had such problems. I gotta give Ubuntu credit, they make it a nice and easy experience, which Joe Schmoe who just wants to check his email likes.

  10. Re: Just tell me on Positive Ebola Test In Second Texas Health Worker · · Score: 1

    Hahahahahahahahahaha. Funniest shit I've read all day.

  11. Get a small fish tape from your local hardware store and run Cat6. I did it over the period of a few nights climbing around in my attic. It was way too hot in Florida to do it in the day. Other options include running it up the wall and out the cap by your roof edges. You could just drill through the wall to the outside like the cable companies do. I wish more houses came wired with the stuff but even the newest ones don't.

  12. Re:The whole juror system needs to be abandoned on Study Weighs In On the Reliability of Eyewitness Testimony · · Score: 2

    And what's your problem with accuracy exactly? Is it finding too many innocent people guilty or vice versa? And what methods do you propose take over? The telescreen? Mass surveillance of every moment of our lives? Not at the cost of right to privacy. Take some comfort in knowing our justice system is intended to let guilty men go free over incarcerating innocent men.

  13. Go teach on Ask Slashdot: Finding a Job After Completing Computer Science Ph.D? · · Score: 1

    I thought that's what PhDs are mostly for.

  14. Re:Multiple devices, works great on Ask Slashdot: Is iOS 8 a Pig? · · Score: 1

    If you jailbreak, do a fresh install via iTunes as opposed to OTA.

  15. Hold on a sec on Apple Outrages Users By Automatically Installing U2's Album On Their Devices · · Score: 1

    It's on my phone but I'd have to download it to icloud. All they did was add it to your ethereal icloud music library. It's not taking up any space in your iDevice unless you download it.

  16. Re:Breast super bowl ever on Net Neutrality Comments Surge Past 1.7M, an All-Time Record For the FCC · · Score: 0

    Here here! Now let's turn on some primetime TV. VIOLENCE, BLOOD, AND GORE! Don't stare at those boobies, Timmy, your mom says they're evil because she feels inept with her tits you sucked the perkiness out of. Awe, still I love ya son, the site of those eggs on a fork reminds me watch my cholesterol.

  17. Re:Good on Net Neutrality Comments Surge Past 1.7M, an All-Time Record For the FCC · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The number of corporate dollars will surpass the number of comments. I think the exchange rate of comments to dollars is pretty lopsided. Guess which way it it skews.

  18. Sum up nutrition on Link Between Salt and High Blood Pressure 'Overstated' · · Score: 1

    There is not one food that's bad for you, it's bad quantities of food. Hell, you can survive small exposures to highly toxic substances as much as you can have a serving of potato chips from time to time and remain healthy. My BMI is about 33 because I love the quantities.

  19. Re:I used it for about a year on The State of ZFS On Linux · · Score: 1

    I'm using Ubuntu server with ZFS and haven't had such issues after updating it other than it changing /dev/disk/by-id. I had to seek a little help with it to fix and it turned out being 2 commands and my ZFS array was up and running again. I love it flexibility as far as drives go like you described: you can make things work in the fashion of duct tape and extension cords. Performance and reliability is great for a home server when you compare the price of a high-end true RAID card. Haven't had a real issue with ZFS yet (knock knock).

  20. Half-assed work on FAA Scans the Internet For Drone Users; Sends Cease and Desist Letters · · Score: 1

    Instead of finding a solution for the problem (drone crashes and public safety) they just remove the problem. Cut off your leg to fix your broken toe.

  21. Ummmm on Apple Denies Systems Breach In Photo Leak · · Score: 2

    I thought Find My iPhone didn't lock accounts after too many failed logins? This was discussed in many twitter conversations yesterday and how the script used no longer works since apple updated the system. I call that a failure in Apple's security. Who the hell forgets to put in that kind of fail safe anymore?

  22. Re:It's easier than that on Low-Carb Diet Trumps Low-Fat Diet In Major New Study · · Score: 1

    So eating a recommended calorie intake based on my BMI and weightless goal (and I was never hungry) is bad? I was eating far too many calories to begin with. Combine with exercise is bad, too? So I guess I should've picked up some ephedrine pills.

  23. It's easier than that on Low-Carb Diet Trumps Low-Fat Diet In Major New Study · · Score: 1

    Just restrict calories. I lost the most weight doing that. I was eating 2200 calories a day and I was never hungry except when I woke up in the morning. After mastering the calories, I went to restricting sodium and increasing protein while decreasing carbs. Just one step at a time. It eventually became habit. Exercising is a must to maintain (or increase) lean tissue. The net result should be fat loss.

  24. Never had an issue on Ask Slashdot: Linux-Friendly Desktop x86 Motherboard Manufacturers? · · Score: 1

    Ever. I've used motherboards from Dell, HP, Intel, Gigabyte (which had issues with windows interestingly, piece of shit and I'll never buy again), and Asus.

  25. US government be like on Comcast Tells Government That Its Data Caps Aren't Actually "Data Caps" · · Score: 1

    Comcast: this animal which walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, fucks like a duck is actually not a duck.
    US gov: we see your point.