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  1. Re:manufactuers and telcos fault again on Half of Used Phones Still Contain Personal Info · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It would not shock me if Microsoft took security more seriously than Apple.

    Microsoft products are the target of more attacks.

    Microsoft has more business customers.

    I just got a new phone and have no idea if I successfully deleted everything from my old phone. It seems clean, but maybe I should just take it apart into little pieces and be done with it. I usually leave old phones in the donation bin at work, though.

  2. Re:Short Version for the Lazy on Upgrading From Windows 1.0 To Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    Anything that popular would have been part of the Microsoft regression test suite for DOS compatability under Windows.

    Obviously once they abandoned 16 bit apps when going to 64 bit Windows they would have been removed.

    It's more amazing to me if some obscure old corporate app works than WordPerfect.

  3. Re:$200 million? on National Broadband Map Shows Digital Divide · · Score: 1

    Agreed. I looked up my house, my mom-in-law's condo and my mom's house.

    All three are incorrect in significant ways.

  4. Re:Uh... on How Your Username May Betray You · · Score: 1

    I absolutely cannot imagine that the people who actively care about being tracked - enough to disable cookies - would not have thought of this on their own.

    So far as i know, the two user names i use the most are always me. I have never had one of them be already in use, and the other it happens only rarely.

  5. Re:DMCA to the rescue? on Woman Gets Revenge Courtesy of Google Images · · Score: 0

    I don't really see how much of this is libelous. The full list of captions I found is listed out below.

    The only things that might be libelous are that he's gay and likes Kenny Loggins. Personally I'd be more concerned about the Kenny Loggins thing, that just shows bad judgement. Is being called gay considered libel any more? I have no idea.

    Don't you have to prove that these statements are false in a libel suit? So the kid would have to prove that he doesn't like Kenny Loggins, isn't gay, and hasn't engaged in anal sex. Better to just let it go.

    • Like a virgin, assfucked for the very first time.
    • Kenny Loggins is my savior
    • Mulan
    • My dream and my cardigan
    • Take me or leave me
    • To be or not to be? LOLJK I can't read
    • My sneaker collection makes me jizz in my pants
    • No homo, bro. LOLJK all homo
    • Every man's prison dream
    • I whip my dick back and forth
    • You got into Harvard? I got into AMDA.
    • Why so serious?
    • I be up in the gym workin' on my two pack.
    • I'll never talk again. Oh boy you left me speechless from deep throating you
    • Eat, sleep, theater. Repeat.
    • The stars are blind.
    • Bitches love my mom jeans
    • V-Necks mom jeans.
    • Today for you, tomorrow for me
    • Come here big boy.
    • I take cybersex to a whole new level.
    • Eat nuggets. Sleep. Sing. Repeat.
    • Two words: Bobby Kingston.
    • Her eyes prevail
    • I can show you my dick.
    • Can you like say something dirty?
    • ONly thing to do? Jump over the moon.
    • I can't be tamed.
    • Johhny Rockets all day every day
    • I'm the next Jim Carey.
    • This diva needs his stage.
    • Louis Vuitton dons
    • KFC
    • Chicken Nuggets Breakfast Lunch and Dinner.
    • Breakfast of champions: 8-piece McNugget Meal.
    • Here... now you will always have the key to my heart.
    • My dad makes movies in our basement. What does yours do?
    • You make my ass feel shiny and new.
    • No day but I'm gay
    • Floppy
  6. Re:Wow on Bill Gates Says Anti-Vaccine Effort Kills Children · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure if you mean ghosts or goats, but hey, it works either way!

  7. Re:Add Bill Maher to your list on Bill Gates Says Anti-Vaccine Effort Kills Children · · Score: 1

    I don't know where you got your medical degree, but my wife's Rheumatologist wants me to get a flu shot every year because of her compromised immune system (due to the drugs to treat her arthritis.)

  8. Re:So all SCO has left is lawsuits? on UnXis Group To Acquire SCO · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I know of a large SCO customer who is running OpenServer 1.6 in a VM rather than pay for upgrading the thousands of systems to a version that can support modern hardware like sat a and USB.

  9. Re:SCO has a software business? on UnXis Group To Acquire SCO · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think you will find that there is still a large installed base of SCO products in the various vertical markets. It's hard to change that sometimes.

    None of that, of course, means that anyone is still paying for support...

  10. Re:XBL cheating? on Xbox Live Labels Autistic Boy "Cheater" · · Score: 1

    Before people start to flame, the stepson is now twenty.

  11. Re:XBL cheating? on Xbox Live Labels Autistic Boy "Cheater" · · Score: 1

    The fact that you found Halo stats for an 11 year old kind of throws Mommy's judgement into question, too.

    Or an Xbox Live account for that matter.

    I don't play this kind of video games, I'm forty-two and my idea of a good game is tetris, Pac Man or lately Fruit Ninja. But I've heard my stepson on the ps online stuff. No way would i let my 11 year old, especially one with cognitive disabilities, on that.

    Am I out of line here??

  12. Re:Facebook discovers HTTPS on Facebook Launches Social Login and HTTPS · · Score: 1

    I actually know all my "friends" personally, but I couldn't identify most of them from their photos.

    They're mostly high school friends who I haven't seen in person for almost 25 years.

    One guy looks just like his dad used to, and one of the women has a distinctive face that I have no problem recognizing as her.

    Oh and there's my sister, and my uncle's lady friend. I could identify them.

    But mostly not.

  13. Re:Ewww ... on Law Firm Sues Taco Bell Over Lack Of Beef In "Beef" · · Score: 1

    Have you eve had a plain, fresh double cheeseburger?

    Can be very good.

  14. Re:Ewww ... on Law Firm Sues Taco Bell Over Lack Of Beef In "Beef" · · Score: 1

    As served, McDonald's isn't anywhere near what you'd like to think is ground beef ... it's a slurry of whatever meat they can get off the bones without crushing them; ground up in a paste, spiced, probably has some filler and binders added, and then smooshed back together as a "beef patty", frozen, and then fried.

    As they say, citation needed?

  15. Re:Ewww ... on Law Firm Sues Taco Bell Over Lack Of Beef In "Beef" · · Score: 1

    Why don't people want to believe that McDonald's burgers are all beef?

    Ground beef isn't that expensive.

    Especially when you use so much you could buy it on the futures market...

  16. Re:Oh come on... on UK Cosmetic Retailer Lush Targeted By Hackers · · Score: 1

    God, do you work for Lush?

    Call Macy's. Ask for the Lush counter.

    Don't ask if it's natural, don't ask anything else. Just tell them that your mother likes things with a very mild scent, one of your workmates said Lush was good, and ask if it has a mild scent or if it's pretty strong.

    If you can't tell on your own then maybe you have some level of anosmia.

    Further..... we're arguing about cosmetics on Slashdot. What the fuck. Can we just stop now???

    Moderators, please. DON'T MOD EITHER OF US UP.

  17. Re:Oh come on... on UK Cosmetic Retailer Lush Targeted By Hackers · · Score: 1

    noxious/näkSHs/ Adjective: Harmful, poisonous, or very unpleasant.

    I find Lush products to be noxious. My wife also finds their products to be noxious.

    Lush sells a heavily-scented product line. If you don't believe that I don't know what to say.

    It has some of the strongest, most intense scents I have ever encountered. I would rather stand down-wind from a hog farm than in an aisle full of Lush products.

    If your lady has you convinced it's more lightly scented than other products, your lady is fucking with you.

    It may be all natural, and you appear believe that the all-natural nature of it makes it acceptable to your medical condition.

    My mother has asthma and is highly bothered by any strong scents, to the point that she has sent students in her classes to the restroom to wash lotion off. I doubt Lush would be any better for her than kerosene fumes.

    When I walk near their part of the cosmetics department I find the overwhelming scents emanating from the Lush products makes it difficult to breathe and I hurry through what I find to be a highly unpleasant experience to the rest of the store.

  18. Re:Oh come on... on UK Cosmetic Retailer Lush Targeted By Hackers · · Score: 1

    I doubt much is online sales. The noxious fumes from their heavily scented products make a trip to Macy's highly unpleasant if you wander into the wrong part of the store.

  19. Re:David Cook on Are 10-11 Hour Programming Days Feasible? · · Score: 1

    If this is correct, leaving without moving may not be much of an option - afaik Kalamazoo, MI isnt exactly a technology hot-bed.

  20. Re:YRO? on Jerry Brown Confiscates 48,000 Cell Phones · · Score: 1

    It is the convention for auto mechanics to provide their own tools and tool-boxes, at least in some segments of the industry.

    This can amount to tens of thousands of dollars of investment, often purchased from a tool truck at an exceedingly high interest rate over time.

    This was, at least, the case 10 years ago. I doubt things have changed.

    The muffler shops I was involved with provided one or two of the most specific or esoteric tools, and the major equipment (bender, lifts, compressor.) The mechanics provided all hand and air tools.

    Although they had experimented with providing tools in the past, they found that the loss rate was too high to continue. People are much more careful to not lose a socket if they paid $20 for it themselves.

  21. Re:The good and bad... on Verizon Finally Unveils Apple iPhone · · Score: 1

    Next time ask to look at a receipt instead of asking the help - or buy a cup of coffee. It'll be printed on there.

  22. Re:open source ipad on Crowdfund a Moon Monolith Mission? · · Score: 1

    To me the key, overridingly cool feature (having just travelled) of an iPad is the TSA doesn't think it's a computer. So it just stays in the bag like any other electronic toy.

  23. I have a 120... on Some Hard Drive Nostalgia To Start Off the Year · · Score: 1

    Despite being a fortune level company, there's a lot of scourging for hardware. I happen to have a pile of hard drives I offer to people who come looking, and start out with "I have a 120 you can have."

    They then reply "120 G? Great!"

    At which time I'm forced to admit it's M.

  24. Kind of like work... on Should Colleges Ban Classroom Laptop Use? · · Score: 2

    I haven't been in school since 1990, but sometimes at work, someone will insist that people close laptops during a meting.

    Its usually either a self-important, ignorant project manager or a director.

    Because they take notes in their stupid leather bound book, they assume the rest of us should too.

  25. Re:Never understood pulling the plug on Kin on The 57 Lamest Tech Moments of 2010 · · Score: 1

    The Kin is actually back on the market, but as a feature phone rather than smart phone. One of the biggest problems with it the first time around was that it required a data plan, but it wasn't a smart phone.

    I seriously considered getting the re-issued Kin, because it can use a WiFi network to browse the web and not require the data plan. There's enough free WiFi out there that it seemed like a good plan.

    Then I found out it couldn't import my contacts from the Verizon Backup Assistant (or anything else), it doesn't have voice dialing, and it doesn't have a memory card slot, and I can't buy programs from Verizon's feature phone store.

    If I can't have voice dialing and Tetris on my phone I don't want it.