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  1. But without Facebook how am I supposed to know what kind of ratchet stuff my neighbor's ex daughter in law's new step daughter is doing so that I can feel superior to my neighbor???

  2. Re:Obvious question... on Payphones Still Make Millions of Dollars (vice.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Higher than you would think. A lot of vending machines use them to report inventory to whoever is keeping them stocked.

  3. "Novelty Item" reviews will become non existent.

  4. Re:First thought... on Comcast Provides Uncapped 1 Gb Service To 1 Customer -- of 22.4 Million (myajc.com) · · Score: 1

    umm because I only get 200mbps down for the same price rite outside of a municipal fiber area.....

  5. People with a telephone line to their home are less likely to understand technology.

  6. This really helps soften the blow whenever they raise the rates on my internet.

  7. Jokes on them, my headless Linux box doesn't have a microphone. I will go back to playing my xbox1 on my Samsung tv while asking Siri for game pointers...

  8. No body actually read about it? on Russian Government Threatening To Block Reddit Over Cannabis · · Score: 2

    The post in question had nothing to do with cannabis. It was about indoor growing of Magic Mushrooms.

  9. Rain on Ask Slashdot: How Much Did Your Biggest Tech Mistake Cost? · · Score: 1

    I left the cover off of a $40,000 stabilized vsat antenna in a rainstorm once, That did about 10k in damage to the electronics inside. That's nothing compared to what our customers do though. Lets just say communications systems don't belong IN the ocean.

  10. adhesive, tape? on LG's 0.7mm Smartphone Bezel Is World's Narrowest · · Score: 1

    So it could use tape as apposed to tape?

  11. Maybe I have been out of college and in the communications business for to long, but it took me quite a while to figure out that LEOs was law enforcement officers.

  12. Easy fix on Reported iCloud Hack Leaks Hundreds of Private Celebrity Photos · · Score: 1

    There is an easy fix if you dislike a service required by a device. Don't use those devices.... There are options.

  13. it will go away in the workplace on Email Is Not Going Anywhere · · Score: 1

    It will happen around the time that we stop using paper...

  14. Re:Erosion is a myth on Grand Canyon Is "Frankenstein" of Geologic Formations · · Score: 1

    Watch it, I went to school in Louisiana and if this is sarcasm I will be upset.

  15. Ok and on The Geekiest Game Ever Made? · · Score: 1

    How do you drink to it

  16. Dig Deeper on DRM Has Always Been a Horrible Idea · · Score: 2

    Watson.

  17. And Terrorists to!!!! on Edward Snowden Leaks Could Help Paedophiles Escape Police, Says UK Government · · Score: 1

    There is an easy way to stop it all. Lock every one in solitary confinement.

  18. c band/ku band on Ask Slashdot: Good Satellite Internet For Remote Locations? · · Score: 1

    being in north Alaska you will be probably limited to C band. Your best bet is to probably find service on AMC11 and Galaxy 12. With those your elevation is only ablut 8.5 degrees so if you have any terrain to the south you will probably be out of luck. Any commercial C band provider will be open about there contention ratio. If you really want to shell out the money they will also be able to provide a dedicated link called SCPC(single carrier per channel). Any decent commercial can set you up with a quote.

  19. Re:Hardly surprising.... on Using Laptop To Take Notes Lowers Grades · · Score: 1

    I am the same way. When I was in school I would get permission to get copies of notes from the professor. Most of them would give me notes, but a few times I just got them from other people in the class.

  20. Re:That is true of all cheap 3D Printers on Breaking Up With MakerBot · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I remember when CD writers were like this, about 25%-33% you tried to burn were coasters because your machine couldn't keep the write buffer full, so you had this delicate balancing act of setting it to burn and OH GOD DON'T TOUCH ANYTHING and hope for the best. They still blew my mind with how handy they were, and now CD/DVD burners are so dirt cheap and reliable that it's hard to imagine the days when they were so sensitive. I figure in a few years, 3D printers will get similarly more reliable and mainstream, and continue to fall in price, until people are churning out all sorts of widgets without giving it much thought or worry.

    I have a TDK 4x4x8 cd burner that still to this day had not burnt a coaster. I had a Memorex 2x2x4 and a LiteOn DVD burner that was as you described....but I found if you buy good burners what you say is not a problem. When I replaced the aforementioned LiteOn I got a Plextor for ~$100 and have had no problems.

  21. Re:People are stupid on Own the Controversy! Blackbird DDWFTTW Up For Auction! · · Score: 1

    Thank you. That cleared it up for me.

  22. Re:People are stupid on Own the Controversy! Blackbird DDWFTTW Up For Auction! · · Score: 1

    Honest question, it has been a long time since I have thought about physics of this type. As the vehicle gets closer to the speed of the wind, the wind acting on the windmill reduces. Once the vehicle reaches the speed of the wind, there is zero wind force on the windmill. Am I wrong here? This is where my disconnect is on how this is possible.

  23. last week? on Special Ops Takes Its Manhunts Into Space · · Score: 2

    Is it a time machine??? How can he promise a conference last week?

  24. speech recognition. on Google Releases Chrome 25 With Voice Recognition Support · · Score: 2

    I'm 31 and I am the current generation of consumerists...I can type faster than I can talk (I am special because I was taught to type when I was 7). I was in high school before computers where common. kids now have been typing as long as they have been writing. I don't see speech recognition as being to terribly important, but it does have its use cases.

  25. Re:Nexus S on Honeycomb To Require Dual-Core Processor · · Score: 1

    Just to point out this article is about the tablet version. The Nexus S is not a tablet.