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  1. Piffle on What Should We Do About Wikipedia's Porn Problem? · · Score: 1

    Never seen anything resembling porn on Wikipedia, granted I'm not looking for it, but without a link to the alleged porn I'm calling BS.

  2. Impossible on Ask Slashdot: Equipping a Company With Secure Android Phones? · · Score: 2

    Without full disclosure on the OS, the source, and hardware you can't guarantee its secure.

    I am guessing here, but it seems to me cell phones are designed from the ground up to be insecure.

  3. Really? on Grilling For Geeks · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why not take a day off from hardware/software and computers, regress to your caveman days and grill some meat, take a digital sabbatical.

  4. Laugh on New Music Boss, Worse Than Old Music Boss · · Score: 1

    Facebook page is filled with angry comments from their followers that seem to all be unsuccessful Canadian hip hop artists who proclaim:

    “We are gonna turn you into Lars Ulrich and bitch your band sucks anyway”.

    Man I haven't laughed out loud like this in a long time, and it's amusing because the image of the "unsuccessful Canadian hip hop artist" is J-Roc from Trailer Park Boys.

    I think the real issue with the "new boss" is you don't have it figured out yet, where the "old boss" was tried true and set in its ways, we are better off with the new boss, fuck the labels.

  5. Cool on MIT Creates Superhydrophobic Condiment Bottles · · Score: 1

    I've started storing everything in glass.

  6. Comments here on Facebook, Zuckerberg Sued Over IPO · · Score: 1

    Saying the investors deserve to get screwed because they didn't do their "due diligence". and in some ways that is fair, it's also a large part of the housing bubble that led to a complete economic collapse as people were buying houses at absurd prices with no money down and variable interest rate loans.

    So essentially the same people that want to get a fast buck and not doing the foot work to fully understand what they are getting into.

    You can blame the guys the set the bear trap all you want, and personally I think we should bring back the guillotine, but you have to consider the average persons inability/stupidity to do the math and understand the issues are really the main problem.

    If they had been smart enough they wouldn't have bought the houses or the stock.

  7. *shrug* on BSA Claims Half of PC Users Are Pirates · · Score: 1

    Just more hype to further the Internet lockdown.

  8. Ridiculous on Ultra-Orthodox Jews Rally For a More Kosher Internet · · Score: 1

    Try controlling yourselves for once, take some personal responsibility especially since your community is known for shunning members that turn in pedophiles.

    Google it.

  9. Easy on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Monitor Traffic? · · Score: 1

    HP ML110 Gen7 server running PFsense and various packages available for PFsense.

  10. Re:Hahahahaha on Zuckerberg Updates Relationship Status To "Married" · · Score: 2

    Who cares...

  11. Re:Not news on Zuckerberg Updates Relationship Status To "Married" · · Score: 1

    It's news because a nerd actually landed a girlfriend AND got married.

  12. Re:Hahahahaha on Zuckerberg Updates Relationship Status To "Married" · · Score: 0

    Nope he's right she has cankles, but hey love is blind right.

  13. Not really on U.S. Imposes Tariffs On Chinese Solar Cells · · Score: 1

    though critics said the decision may end up raising prices and hurting the U.S. renewable energy industry

    Only from corporations with the "take advantage" business model, possibly price fixing as well but the manufacture with some foresight can short sell them.

  14. Re:One are I *do* see participation... on Online Loneliness At Google+ · · Score: 1

    But then I have to sign up.

  15. Re:Google doesn't want participation... on Online Loneliness At Google+ · · Score: 1

    It isn't you just bought into the hype generated by the "insiders" that are going to clean the rubes financial clocks.

  16. The bad news on Ask Slashdot: Holding ISPs Accountable For Contracted DSL Bandwidth · · Score: 1

    They are over selling their capacity.
    They are not contractually obligated to give you the amount you thought you would get, unless you bought service with an SLA that states otherwise.

  17. Which makes me think on General Motors: "Facebook Ads Aren't Worth It" · · Score: 1

    How worthwhile are any of these ads that seem to be the primary monetization of the Internet?

    I never click on any of them, do you?

  18. Wait a minute... on Calculating Total Network Capacity · · Score: 1

    Seems no one really knows how much data their network can handle

    Doesn't that shoot a hole in the ISP's anti-bittorrent arguments?

  19. ANother example on An 8,000 Ton Giant Made the Jet Age Possible · · Score: 1

    Of how we are just living off the production of an earlier age, just a bunch of cavemen foraging in the garbage.

  20. Too late on Photographers, You're Being Replaced By Software · · Score: 1

    "Will we soon accept digital renderings in places where we used to expect photographs?"

    We already do, car advertising in particular, but soon, very soon, SITCOM's, movies, and other forms of "entertainment" will be done entirely in the digital domain, why pay for an actor when you can render him/her and get a perfect shot every time? NO attitude, no drug problems, no million dollars paychecks.

    Did anyone catch 2Pac's return to the stage? As cheesy as it was it is the holy grail, a performer in demand that never dies or creates other issues and is under total control.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGbrFmPBV0Y

    If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
    Omar N. Bradley

  21. Yawn on The 30 Best Features of Windows · · Score: 0

    Yawn...

  22. Re:Interesting technology on Microsoft-Funded Startup Aims To Kill BitTorrent Traffic · · Score: 1

    It isn't worth what they are asking, the old adage "It's worth what people will pay for it" applies, they won't pay anything, so songs on iTunes should be a dime to a quarter, movies 99 cents to two dollars.
    The only reason "they" got what they charged is because there was no other way to acquire the media, they controlled production and distribution, that no longer applies.

  23. Re:Microsoft failed at appeasing big entertainment on Microsoft-Funded Startup Aims To Kill BitTorrent Traffic · · Score: 1

    Apple isn't any better.

  24. Doing business with Russians is a bad idea. on Microsoft-Funded Startup Aims To Kill BitTorrent Traffic · · Score: 1

    But then the movie industry is rather thuggish too.

    The movie business has—yet again—run up record numbers at the box office. In 2010, theaters around the world reported a combined total revenue of $31.8 billion, up 8 percent from 2009. While the industry certainly has its share of piracy problems, they aren't affecting box office receipts.

    http://www.the-numbers.com/market/
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting
    http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/02/piracy-once-again-fails-to-get-in-way-of-record-box-office/

  25. Re:Interesting technology on Microsoft-Funded Startup Aims To Kill BitTorrent Traffic · · Score: 1

    as casual piracy really is hurting the industry.

    Really?

    The movie business has—yet again—run up record numbers at the box office. In 2010, theaters around the world reported a combined total revenue of $31.8 billion, up 8 percent from 2009. While the industry certainly has its share of piracy problems, they aren't affecting box office receipts.

    http://www.the-numbers.com/market/
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting
    http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/02/piracy-once-again-fails-to-get-in-way-of-record-box-office/