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  1. Re:Anti-competitive on Apple To Face Lawsuit For iMessage Glitch · · Score: 1

    Seems to be an oversight on apples part. But then it should easily be fixed with making it easier to change this info via a website login. A service they don't provide, so maybe they're playing dumb.

  2. Work around for temporary scenarios on Apple's Revenge: iMessage Might Eat Your Texts If You Switch To Android · · Score: 2

    My wife broke her iPhone so she switched back to her old non-iPhone until we could afford a new one. I kept seeing similar issues where my iPhone would insist using iMessage for her number and would hang trying to send a text. Solution was to tap and hold on the message, after hitting send, and select send as text message. It would keep sending as a text for a while but I'd have to eventually "remind" it when it would forget.

  3. Re:That big? on US Nuclear Missile Silos Use Safe, Secure 8" Floppy Disks · · Score: 1

    Phrasing, dammit!

  4. Two ways to look at it on Male Scent Molecules May Be Compromising Biomedical Research · · Score: 1

    What's the baseline stress level? It would answer the question: do men cause 33% more stress or do women aleviate 33% stress? And I call bullshit on it anyway because I can tell you who stresses me out the most in order: my mom, my grandma, my sisters and my wife.

  5. Fair? on Oklahoma Moves To Discourage Solar and Wind Power · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't fair share of the maintenance cost go into the cost per kilowatt hour? Sorry, but this smells like energy providers can't take the heat and they're penalizing solar/wind power generators in an effort to make them go "the hell with it" and sell their equipment on eBay.

  6. Re:linking to fox news? on Expert Warns: Civilian World Not Ready For Massive EMP-Caused Blackout · · Score: 0

    Wouldn't you need a small blackhole to make an EMP? That would suck up the entire universe!

  7. Re:*Yawn* I'll Wait for the Mint Edition on Ubuntu Linux 14.04 LTS Trusty Tahr Released · · Score: 1

    There are alternative WMs available. Unity works pretty well on my wife's net book. However on my laptop, I prefer kde with all it's bells and whistles. Be thankful you have a choice.

  8. Re:Militia, then vs now on Retired SCOTUS Justice Wants To 'Fix' the Second Amendment · · Score: 1

    I believe our founding fathers left it that way in the event out own government became tyrannical. The British was our government at the time and continued to proverbially heat the water to the point of tyranny. They accepted the possibility of it happening again.

  9. Re:Awwww on Saturn May Have Given Birth To a Baby Moon · · Score: 1

    :shakes head: then people flush them down the toilet...

  10. Re:Why do people listen to her? on Jenny McCarthy: "I Am Not Anti-Vaccine'" · · Score: 1

    Craig Ferguson had a great bit about this, but used Tom Cruise as an example. "He's an ACTor. Not a DOCtor. They sound similar but are not the same thing!" McCarthy is a bimbo. I'm not sure how you make the connection to doctor from there unless you watch too much Grey's Anatomy.

  11. Futurama quote: Take some zinc or echinacea! on Australia Declares Homeopathy Nonsense, Urges Doctors to Inform Patients · · Score: 1

    Or a big fat placebo. It's all the same crap!

  12. Maybe he's FOS? on Why No Executive Order To Stop NSA Metadata Collection? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps it's simply lip service? He's talked about putting limits on data collection, but to me it sounds more like "Ok, I poured a little water on the fire but you guys have one more chance to not let the cat out of the bag."

  13. Re:Android = Linux (being torn up) on Ask Slashdot: User-Friendly Firewall For a Brand-New Linux User? · · Score: 1

    The biggest issue with android is all the malware that was thought to be innocent software. Most of your core software for Linux is made be reputable organizations. That said, the software that make up the services people use Linux for is large and complex and requires much more work than say a phone app. Sadly, the openness of Linux can give it a bad name when ignorant fucks like yourself can't tell the difference between them.

  14. Re:Democracy requires opinion. on Was Eich a Threat To Mozilla's $1B Google "Trust Fund"? · · Score: 1

    No one believes that. A quote from the Drew Carey Show explains exactly how many people think: "What good is democracy if you don't get what you want?" Therefore, in the view of those people, all differing opinion should be humiliated into silence.

  15. Use your heads on Was Eich a Threat To Mozilla's $1B Google "Trust Fund"? · · Score: 1

    This is abso-fucking-lutely ri-goddamn-diculous. So many of these organizations bitching about Mozilla are relying on Javascript! I can't wrap my head around such stupidity. It's bad to use a web browser Mozilla created far before they hired a guy who donated his own money to Prop 8, but you can use a programming language he created just because you can't do business without it? Kick rocks. They guy is entitled to his opinion just like the rest of those assholes.

  16. Windows thinking on Ask Slashdot: User-Friendly Firewall For a Brand-New Linux User? · · Score: 0

    Firewalling is a windows necessity with nasty shit piggy backing in on exploits in legitimate shit, not so much in Linux, however. If you're using client applications (web browser, email client, etc) then they will only open up sockets when needed and not open ports to receive traffic. And I agree with what I read above: if you know what services you're starting, you don't need a firewall.

  17. Re:More reason to keep using Firefox! on OKCupid Warns Off Mozilla Firefox Users Over Gay Rights · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't call this a Chic-Fil-A. They're anti-gay lobbying is done with corporate funds. This is just one guy donating his own money. It's his opinion and he is allowed to have one. I can stand by him for having an opinion even though I don't agree with him.

  18. Why are companies servicing stolen phones??? on Smartphone Kill-Switch Could Save Consumers $2.6 Billion · · Score: 1

    I worked at a retailer a while back whom had a number of Sprint phones. A guy I worked with stole a demo model unbeknownst to us. Sprint didn't worry about it. They just sent us a new phone. The guy attempted to activate the phone and got busted because sprint had the serial of the phone. Then went to jail.

    My wife's phone was stolen and I hoped to see it returned or hear something from Verizon, but all they did was motion for cash for a new phone. So putting a stop to this is possible. However, the wireless companies apparently choose to look the other way when Joe Thug tries to activate a phone he stole and then could be said to be dealing with stolen property.

  19. Antivirus on Ask Slashdot: Preparing For Windows XP EOL? · · Score: 1

    My employer is planning on falling back to antivirus for defense. I work at a hospital with thousands of workstations almost all of which are XP. While I don't do any real browsing at work other than following weather in the event it's severe or big news stories, many people do and lack the "common sense" antivirus suite in their head.

  20. Shocker on Florida Judge Rules IP Address Can't Identify a BitTorrent Pirate · · Score: 0

    And I thought Florida was just a state where you could get away with murder.

  21. Re:CNN's Black Hole theory... on New Information May Narrow Down Malaysian Jet's Path · · Score: 1

    You mean government officials don't know everything? C'mon, if Schiavo said a tiny black hole would suck in our entire universe, then obviously science will bend to her words!

  22. Re:Watch out on Malaysian Flight Disappearance 'Deliberate' · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "What country is that?" "I dunno, but let's free the shit outta it!" :KABOOM!:

    Look at our ever-climbing debt ceiling. Our government hasn't learned shit.

  23. Seems like a rogue pilot on Malaysian Flight Disappearance 'Deliberate' · · Score: 2

    I'm inclined to lean toward this being a rogue pilot. Since 9/11 I feel like hijacking a plane is a really bad idea with a low chance of success. Perhaps I have some culture bias; in the United States, I'm sure there would be some opposition to a plane being taken over. Personally, I would assume the worst would happen and I'd be in the opposition. Bias set aside, if the passengers had no indication there was deviation to the flightplan, then there would be no opposition. The most likely way of not arousing suspicion would be if all events transpired exclusively in the cockpit.

  24. Looks familiar on Walmart Unveils Turbine-Powered WAVE Concept Truck · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I saw this at EPCOT like 15 years ago, except it was made by Volvo. I'm not sure what the advantage is of the driver being in the middle.

  25. Re:Why is C# .Net used for medical devices? on Healthcare Organizations Under Siege From Cyberattacks, Study Says · · Score: 3

    Rapid application development perhaps. Hospitals are trying to get these systems up and running for the sake of cash deposits and reimbursement from Uncle Sam and every company who can write software, good or bad, wants a piece of it. And yeah, it may run on windows. One of the fluoroscopes in my lab runs Win2K.