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  1. Re:Why I got a Pebble on Ask Slashdot: What Can I Really Do With a Smart Watch? · · Score: 2

    Best part is when you're in a meeting and your phone buzzes, you can just check your wrist to see what it was which is far more discrete than pulling out your phone, unlocking it, and then finding the right app.

    Or you can just get a Windows Phone which shows all of the message indicators on the lock screen.

  2. Re:So if it were violence against white men on Australian Target Stores Ban GTA V For Depictions of Violence Against Women · · Score: 1

    You have no sense of historical context, do you?

  3. Already exists on Windows 10 Adds Battery Saver Feature · · Score: 0

    Stupid fucking article. The exact same thing exists in the current Windows Phone 8.1. Looking at it on my phone right now. The wording is even exactly the same.

  4. Re:You can pry my wallet from my... on The Cashless Society? It's Already Coming · · Score: 1

    No, they love people like you. They get 2% of everything you spend!

  5. Re:Yawn ... on Microsoft Azure Outage Across the Globe · · Score: 1

    Right. If this company's total IT budget is more than $80K, then they should be using the cloud instead of having in-house IT. $80K is about the cost of *one* decent admin. That doesn't include hardware, software, or the rest of the IT staff, either.

  6. Re:Wow, I'd be pretty angry on Microsoft Azure Outage Across the Globe · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, CIOs and other execs just see the numbers on a spreadsheet and don't take the costs of outages that you can't control into account.

    You're just pulling that statement out of your ass. Most people who run large companies aren't stupid, and I'm sure that many of them do take into consideration the costs of outages.

  7. Re:Yawn ... on Microsoft Azure Outage Across the Globe · · Score: 1

    Sure, but when you have outages and stability issues which impact your business, is it really a good trade off?

    It depends. Sometimes, yes.

  8. Re:Oh no on Study: Body Weight Heavily Influenced By Heritable Gut Microbes · · Score: 1

    Here we go, endless posts about how it's all down to pure willpower and entirely the fault of the individual.

    Hey, if you know of an example where mass was spontaneously created without the addition of energy, it's vitally important that you tell somebody. Physicists everywhere need to know if there's a place in our universe where the law of conservation of mass doesn't apply (in general relativity, of course).

  9. Oracle on LHC Data Generation Expected To Scale Up To 400PB a Year · · Score: 1

    I doubt that OpenStack can handle it, but if they have the $$ for it, I'm sure that it's no big deal for Oracle.

  10. Re:Zero emissions on UN Climate Change Panel: It's Happening, and It's Almost Entirely Man's Fault · · Score: 1

    Comparing health to the price of gas is moronic. Anybody who values a robust economy more than health can go suck on a tailpipe.

  11. Re:Zero emissions on UN Climate Change Panel: It's Happening, and It's Almost Entirely Man's Fault · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Class warfare has nothing to do with it, you thick shit. The wealthy run the large companies, which in turn own the governments (at least in the US), who make the decisions not to do anything about climate change, and also to spew utter horseshit like, "There's nothing we can do." Regular people aren't the ones clamoring to do nothing about climate change.

  12. Re:Zero emissions on UN Climate Change Panel: It's Happening, and It's Almost Entirely Man's Fault · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's time for the alarmist side to stop pretending there are any policy choices on the table to prevent the warming they are predicting.

    What the *fuck* are you talking about? There's plenty of stuff that can be done. The only reason that they're not being done is that the wealthy would have to foot the bill, and they don't want to.

  13. Re:Profit Robbing Fees, is this a Fox News HL? on Why CurrentC Will Beat Out Apple Pay · · Score: 1

    Apple Pay cost them no more than a regular credit card transaction.

    Right. Apple is providing Apple Pay out of the goodness of their own heart, I'm sure.

  14. Re:I don't blame the retailers on Rite Aid and CVS Block Apple Pay and Google Wallet · · Score: 2

    Apple doesn't get a penny from the end user or from the retailer

    So they're doing this out of the goodness of their corporate heart?

    If you believe this, then I have a bridge to sell ya'.

  15. Re:IBM no longer a tech company? on Ballmer Says Amazon Isn't a "Real Business" · · Score: 1

    Amazon is clearly a business.

    No, it isn't. Anybody can create an organization that sells a dollar for $0.99. That's not sustainable, and that's not a business.

  16. Re:Confucius say: on Apple Announces iPad Air 2, iPad mini 3, OS X Yosemite and More · · Score: 1

    Spending lots of money on PC hardware is pretty silly, as far as I'm concerned. There's more refurbished/used hardware that one could shake a stick at and it's absurdly cheap. Buying expensive PC hardware is like buying really expensive disposable pens: It's a waste of money, usually.

  17. Smaller, Tesla, smaller! on Tesla Announces Dual Motors, 'Autopilot' For the Model S · · Score: 1

    I'd buy one in a heartbeat if they made a model that wasn't so damn big.

  18. Neat. on The $1,200 DIY Gunsmithing Machine · · Score: 1

    Guns.

    Neat.

    *yawn*

  19. Re:It's true on Former GM Product Czar: Tesla a "Fringe Brand" · · Score: 1

    Speak for yourself. I see, on average, one a day, and I know several people that have one. I'd buy one if I liked large cars, but as soon as they come out with a smaller model, I'm buying one, no question.

  20. Re:You have to have a car payment to drive? on Miss a Payment? Your Car Stops Running · · Score: 1

    If you buy a used car, it will run into problems. If you go to a mechanic with even the smallest of problems, they will quote you $500

    I think that you perhaps have a lot to learn about cars.

    EVERY car has problems. They're mechanical things. Mechanical things break and wear out. If you're smart, and buy reliable things like Toyota Corollas, etc, they have very very few problems. If you're insistent on buying notoriously unreliable cars, then you're likely to have more problems. The idea that new cars are problem-free is absurd, and it's not likely that paying the huge new car price just to avoid paying potential mechanic's fees is a financially smart move, ever.

    I don't know what kind of "mechanics" you go to, but I haven't had a +$500 repair in well over a decade. It sounds like you're A. buying bad cars and B. don't know enough about cars to know if a mechanic is ripping you off or not.

  21. Re:Which bacteria? on Irish Girls Win Google Science Fair With Astonishing Crop Yield Breakthrough · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's helpful if you read the fucking article: "We decided to use Rhizobacteria as this was the group specifically mentioned by our science teacher. We used one acidic strain (r.leguminosarum) and one basic strain (r.japonicum)."

  22. Re:Looks like someone didn't upgrade to iPhone 6 on Ask Slashdot: Is iOS 8 a Pig? · · Score: 1

    The comment was about expecting a new OS to run on year old hardware. My point was that MS's OS's regularly run on 10+ year old hardware without any problem, and that Apple consumers don't see any problem with having to buy new hardware so often.

  23. Re:Emma Watson is full of it on Emma Watson Leaked Photo Threat Was a Plot To Attack 4chan · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Wow, I didn't know guys like you still existed! Look, I understand it's frustrating that no chicks will bang you, but that's because you're a douchebag. Hope that helps.

  24. Re:Looks like someone didn't upgrade to iPhone 6 on Ask Slashdot: Is iOS 8 a Pig? · · Score: 1

    You can't seriously expect a new OS to run well on a one year old iPhone 5S?

    That's funny, because I certainly do. But then again, I use Windows so I guess my expectations are a bit higher, in terms of longevity...

  25. Re:Credit cards? on Home Depot Says Breach Affected 56 Million Cards · · Score: 1

    Wow, I'm surprised at that. I'm a member of three different credit unions, and none of them charge for stuff like that (if for much at all). Very strange!