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  1. don't get fickle now on Photographer Threatened With Legal Action After Asserting His Copyright · · Score: 1, Interesting

    At your leisure, go find a post about big business with a takedown notice. You'll see comment after comment basically stating "fuck big business and da police!" Then ask yourself if you feel any different reading this article and, if you do, go fuck yourself. I know Schwager is embarrassingly manic, but look past that. See how easy it was for Jo Schmo to get a takedown granted without going through the courts? He shared it on the internet and, assuming she had even considered its copyright, Schwager had no idea who it belonged to or the license behind it.

  2. Pump and dump baby! on SEC Calls For Review of Facebook IPO · · Score: 1

    I'm sure there was a great margin of get-rich-quick hype around this.

  3. Re:wink wink nudge nudge on Warmest 12-Month Period Recorded In US · · Score: 1

    My father works in Europe, old Yugoslavia, where they've had one of the harshest winters he's ever experienced there. So how about you look on the other side of the world and ask them how it's going? Wait, that'd be un-American.

  4. Netflix made this mistake on Hulu To Require Viewers To Have Cable Subscriptions · · Score: 1

    Smart move to sell off the company to cable companies, or is it a trap by cable companies? Subscribscriptions will certainly drop once this gets rolling and devalue their service. That would be to the cable companies advantage. Only reason I have cable tv now I because my wife watches programming Hulu simply doesn't carry (or didn't). I'd dump my channels and pay for the less expensive Hulu in a heartbeat if I could.

  5. Re:two RJ-45 per room on Ask Slashdot: Building A Server Rack Into a New Home? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps we should stop feeding the troll (yeah I'm guilty there). At least he takes his aggression out on us here rather than on the family at home. :)

  6. Keep it simple? on Ask Slashdot: Building A Server Rack Into a New Home? · · Score: 1

    I pulled all my cat5 myself in an existing structure into my garage and tied it all into a little switch on a small shelf. The cable modem and wireless router is by the tv and attached to said router. In my mancave is a repurposed desktop tower with WHS2011. I thought about doing the whole rack mount thing but I really had more flexibility with the tower setup (drive bays, upgrade room, and such) and there are many many home server storage solutions on the Internet. I put mine in a glass cabinet on an old entertainment center and installed a couple of USB powered fans on the back. If I need to do anything local on the server, the tv in there has a VGA input. Works beautifully. In fact, considering the space you need for a rack, I don't think I'd have it any other way.

  7. Re:two RJ-45 per room on Ask Slashdot: Building A Server Rack Into a New Home? · · Score: 1

    Hahaha Wow. No. Thats a bad kitty. Who let you in here? For any serious data transfers in the home, wifi is a bad idea. Even Ethernet over power lines is bad (802.11n is more cost-to-performance effective). It is really worth the effort to pull the line. It would take me 8 hours to ghost my laptop with about 60 gigs vs about 2 over gigabit LAN. I don't always keep the laptop on the wire, only if i have a large transfer and it is too big for portable storage. If you have television coax, you should be able to pull the Cat-5 or whatever twisted pairs through the same hole in the wall cap from the attic. I did this and replaced the wall plates with a coax and cat-5 combo. Was an easy weekend project done in the winter. Fishtape and electrical tape helps.

  8. Re:It's despicable, but... on Reddit Subpoenaed In Wrongful Death Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    If he was known to be suicidal, I'd think his family needs to be filed against for failing to get him evaluated (voluntary or not).

  9. Re:Why? on Why CISPA Is a Really Bad Bill · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm not so clear on exactly how they get to vote for their own salary adjustments. I wish I could do that at work! But go up to your congressman and say: hey, I want to pass a bill to allow the people to vote for your salaries. It won't work. "Yeah, constituent, let me get right on that after we fix the economy, healthcare, and this little energy situation."

  10. Re:Error My Ass on NBC Apologizes For Editing Zimmerman 911 Call · · Score: 1

    Jut imagine what they get away with. This is a real tragedy. NBC pulling this kind of stunt leaves me thinking (and it's not the first time, all news companies do it) what kind of intentional misreporting they get away with. Even as a Florida resident, I dislike this law. I'm surprised this doesn't happen more often. I avoid serious confrontation in public just because of this law. A guy shoves you at a concert, do you fight back? Hell no. Leave the situation. Maybe cowardly, but fuck it I'm alive.

  11. Re:Remember folks weather isn't climate, unless it on Historic Heat In North America Turns Winter To Summer · · Score: 1

    Hey hold on. People I know in Europe are complaining of an unusually hard winter this year.

  12. Re:Reminds me of those School Laptops on New Samsung TV Watches You Watching It · · Score: 1

    Actually, there was a light that came on those laptops. That is what raised suspicion, but the school lied about it with some cover story. As you know, they were later caught.

  13. Re:WARNING on All Video Games Cause Aggressive Behavior, Say Two US Congressmen · · Score: 1

    Very true. Ever tried to have a friendly political chat with your friends? It goes from discussing the issues to personal attacks on irrelevant issues.

  14. Re:You don't say on George "geohot" Hotz Arrested In Texas For Posession of Marijuana · · Score: 1

    Correlation != causation Steve Jobs did lots of drugs and I can't think of anyone who won't say he was a visionary to some extent.

  15. Clarify... on X-Prize Founder Wants Ideas For Fixing Education · · Score: 1

    Are we talking college or high school? If it's the latter, then quit teaching kids to pass a standardized test and actually educate them. Let the kids who don't want to go to school drop out and get work. Seriously, the world NEEDS toilet scrubbers and burger flippers just like we need doctors and innovative visionaries. We'd save an assload of money to better educate kids who really want to learn than wasting it on kids who go to school because we obligate them to.

  16. God dammit on Ford Tests DIY Firmware Updates · · Score: 1

    I think I read a similar story about Ford doing this and it's old fucking news. I have a 2008 Dodge Charger I'be been updating the Mygig software on since I bought it. Comes in the mail as a DVD or I can download an ISO from a fan site.

  17. Ha! Ha! on Anonymous Supporters Tricked Into Installing Trojan · · Score: 1

    Once again Anonymous has proven it isn't about robbing the rich and giving to the poor. They're out to fuck anyone who will sip from their cocktail they left unattended. Those who were compromised: you deserved it, now learn from it.

  18. Re:Yes on Are Rich People Less Moral? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think traffic laws is an inaccurate correlation. What about people at the corporate executive level? Don't give pay raises, cut benefits and jobs, but the CEO will get his bonus for saving money doing that. I've never felt a squeeze on my paycheck with my employer like I have the past couple years, but we keep seeing the big wigs getting their raises and bonuses. So yeah, I'd account some lack of morals there.

  19. Prime example on Active Video Games Don't Make Kids Exercise More · · Score: 1

    That DDR game from about 10 years ago. At the that time i was in high school, I wasn't a marathon runner but was in average shape. That game would wear me out. The reigning champ of DDR: a morbidly obese kid weighing in at 300 pounds.

  20. An old design on Ask Slashdot: What Would Real Space Combat Look Like? · · Score: 1

    When I was in high school a few friends and I tackled this for a game design. We decides lasers were too impractical for the energy required to do any damage so we went with rail guns and "kinetic rounds" (bolts) as an explosive propellant would send ships flying across the galaxy. Battles took place at a distance and we eliminated the need for fighters with our story line.

  21. Bargain brand on AMD: What Went Wrong? · · Score: 1

    In my opinion, AMD has always been the poor man's Intel. You'd really get what you paid for. If it's the performance you wanted, then go for it. However, often times a lesser Intel chip would match performance (if it didn't out perform in some applications) of a newer AMD chip for much less cash.

  22. One obvious reason on Aderall Or Nothing: Anatomy of the Great Amphetamine Drought · · Score: 1

    More and more people are taking it for weight loss. Americans are fat and we need a miracle diet pill. Never mind if it makes us act insane.

  23. I don't think any one cares when simply listening to an album. Maybe they aren't investing money in room acoustics because the return on that investment?

  24. Re:If selling is legal.. on Selling Used MP3s Found Legal In America · · Score: 1

    I emailed my dad an album I bought. When I want to listen to it, he transfers ownership to me. Then I transfer it back to him. That works out, right?

  25. I'll say it again on Senator Rand Paul Detained By the TSA · · Score: 1

    The terrorists aboard the planes on 9/11 didn't use guns or bombs, but only knives. As George Carlin said: "There are no bombs. The whole thing is fucking pointless!" Yeah, a guy did try to sneak some C4 aboard in his shoe, but lighting it with a match only makes a smoke bomb.