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  1. And a collective sigh of relief... on George Lucas: "I'm Done With Star Wars" · · Score: 1

    And from us star wars fans let me say THANK YOU George.

  2. Must be nice to be at a wealthy company on Zuckerberg To Take 2 Months Paternity Leave To Give His Kid a Better Outcome (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It's great when all these very wealthy/successful companies can afford to just hand out massive benefits , but for the majority of companies that are no way as successful (and also provide most of the jobs in the USA), they simply can't afford to pay people for months while not working

  3. Buy them Macs with AppleCare. on Ask Slashdot: Good Subscription-Based Solution For PC Tech Support? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Best money I ever spent on my parents (and me). Apple handles EVERYTHING -- their tech support is amazing for people. Don't subject your elderly parents to a Windows PC offshore tech support experience where they play the blame game (MS says call manufacturer, and then manufacturer says call MS). Or better yet, just get then iPads...

  4. Re: A plea to fuck off. on A Plea For Websites To Stop Blocking Password Managers · · Score: 1

    Have you used LastPass? LastPass has several options to not re-enter a master password if you choose:
    1) If you have an iPhone you can unlock the vault with TouchID 2) Create a 4 character pin

    Both of these are enabled after x minutes that you set post entering your master password. Between having a passcode/touchID to unlock the iphone, having to enter last pass master password, and then having a secure pin post master password I feel it is secure enough for my needs.

  5. Saying about fields with word "science" in title on As Big Data Plateaus, Data Science Education Grows · · Score: 1

    If a field has the word "science" in the title, it's probably not science.

  6. Re:Just copy iMessage already on Google Hangouts and SMS Integration: A Mess, For Now · · Score: 1

    Seriously, what is so damn hard about integrating SMS with messaging.

    except please don't copy iMessage's "feature" where it tells you the message is delivered but the recipient never gets it.

    Never happened to me. I bet most people who had claim this happened didn't understand the difference between the GREEN text for SMS and the blue text for iMessage

  7. Just copy iMessage already on Google Hangouts and SMS Integration: A Mess, For Now · · Score: 1

    Seriously, what is so damn hard about integrating SMS with messaging.

  8. Why does Adam Nimoy need external funds? on Adam Nimoy "For the Love of Spock" Documentary On KickStarter · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Nimoy made millions of dollars (articles point to 45 million -- http://www.foodworldnews.com/a... ) . What happened to all of that or did Adam not get any inheritance?

  9. It succeeeded due to it's copyright infringment on The Revolution Wasn't Televised: the Early Days of YouTube · · Score: 5, Informative

    The reason YOuTube was successful at the start was it was full of nothing but copy protected content posted illegally. People seem to forget this, but in the early days that's all people used it for until Google swooped in and gave it plenty of cash to change.

  10. Re:They always [conveniently] miss facts... on How, and Why, Apple Overtook Microsoft · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Did you notice how most of them were before the return of Jobs at an older and wiser stage of life?
    I don't think the U2 ipod represents a huge flop given all the other ipods were doing well, and the cube is a fantastic design that was just too expensive (some would say it birthed the current Mac Mini).

  11. Re:Economics on Box Office 2014: Moviegoing Hits Two-Decade Low · · Score: 1

    I think the rise of cheap home theater is why people aren't bothering as much with going to the theater (I stopped going to theaters years ago, my home theater is far more pleasant)

  12. Glad to hear it's not their just pathetic jerks on Why Lizard Squad Took Down PSN and Xbox Live On Christmas Day · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So they ruin the day both for thousands of kids with new consoles and the tech support/security teams for the companies who now have to come in to work on Christmas. I have another theory why they do this on Christmas -- this group of hackers (at a psychological level) are just sad and lonely people who are angry with the world and want to ruin the joy/fun for others.

  13. Re: Google Picasa 3 on Ask Slashdot: Best Software For Image Organization? · · Score: 1

    Spot on. Picasa is fantastic.

  14. Re:Get an MBA on Ask Slashdot: Are Any Certifications Worth Going For? · · Score: 1

    What's co.com?

  15. The kids first comment will be... on Chicago Mayor Praises Google For Buying Kids Microsoft Surfaces · · Score: 5, Funny

    This isn't an ipad? Crap this sucks.

  16. why? isn't 7.1.2 already jail broken... on Georgia Tech Researchers Jailbreak iOS 7.1.2 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Congrats on jailbreaking an os which is already jail broken?

  17. Re:my ipad 2 still works on Do Apple and Google Sabotage Older Phones? What the Graphs Don't Show · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You must not be very observant or extremely patient if you think iPad 2 is the same "use speed" as it was 2-3 iOS versions ago. It's tremendously slower under iOS 7...

  18. The company that makes water piks... on DARPA Successfully Demonstrates Self-Guiding Bullets · · Score: 1

    So teledyne will be able to use this technology to improve their water pics!

  19. Re:It's the end of the world as we know it. on ARIN Is Down To the Last /8 of IPv4 Addresses · · Score: 0

    "It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine"
      --- REM
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

  20. Re:get rid of salary pay / make it have a high lev on New French Law Prohibits After-Hours Work Emails · · Score: 1

    In the 1980's, IBM (among others) invested lots of money to have legislation passed that makes programmers, engineers, and sysadmins into "salaried professionals" so that they wouldn't have to pay overtime.

    What legislation was this specifically that forced these folks to be "salaried" because I never heard of such a thing?

  21. Re:Well, that took a while on Microsoft Launches Office For iPad: Includes Word, Excel, and PowerPoint · · Score: 0

    All while google harvests tons of information about android users....

  22. Re:Let me guess... on DirectX 12 Promises Lower-level Hardware Access On Multiple Platforms · · Score: 2

    Of course, how else will MS force Windows 8 on people...

  23. Re: Until you experience the speed ... on Google Fiber Launches In Provo — and Here's What It Feels Like · · Score: 0

    Uh the max speed you get on a gige line is about 80MB/s. The theoretical Max is 100MB/s. I don't think you got 400MB/s on your slightly better consumer router. That's not possible on gige

  24. Re:What!? No mention of War Games! on A Short History of Computers In the Movies · · Score: 1

    I love my acoustic coupler!!!

  25. What!? No mention of War Games! on A Short History of Computers In the Movies · · Score: 2, Insightful

    For kids of the 1980s this movie was first exposure towards the medium. Additionally it heralded the dawn of the hacker and government misunderstanding of the hacker capabilities -- specifically some of the problems Kevin Mitnick faced. Really surprised it wasn't mentioned.