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  1. Unfair comparison on Why Tech Support Is (Purposely) Unbearable · · Score: 1

    The thing is, you're an apple user. So already we know right off the bat that you're likely not an idiot. I'd say probably a 80-90% chance you're not an idiot for a given Apple user. Dealing with Windows people, well that's what happens if you rape the judge's Daughter, Kill a bunch of people, Defraud rich people, things like that. I've had to deal with Windows people, briefly in the 1980s. They also used Unix machines and we had to walk them through how to use Windows. I've also had to help windows people since. Seems like it's the opposite - around a 80-90% chance the guy on the other end is an idiot. Once in a while, a complete idiot. Man, they can wear you down fast.

    There should be a test to even be able to use a computer or smart phone.

  2. Lawyer getting screwed? on Google Twists the Knife, Asks For Sanctions Against Oracle Attorney (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Was this our "feel good" article of the day?

  3. Star Trek was made when we were still doing Westerns. In fact DeForest Kelley, some others were in Westerns and he nearly did a western instead of the Star Trek gig. Created by Desilu Studios - Desi Arnez and Lucielle Ball, it was a big gamble. What could it be like out there. Fold this into a weekly tv show.

    Fast forward 10 years and we have Star Wars. A lot more time to imagine things. Not a TV show. Why are you wondering why there's such a big difference?

    Unfortunately I think we've stopped, somewhere in the 1980s. Nothing new has really come out since then. Just rehashed off the old stuff.

  4. Re:Control the food, you control the people. on Stop Bashing GMO Food, Say 109 Nobel Laureates (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Pfft, that's old thinking. Food is way to plentiful now. Just control the schools and political process. You know, like the crazy left has done in the US. Sprinkle in other bullshit like political correctness. If anything happens, have them focus on some other bullshit like Caitlyn Jenner. Nothing you say? Check out all the stuff you missed.
    http://www.conspiracyclub.co/2...

    First one is a doosey. All the whining, bitching and moaning over Bush's patriot act and without even a mention we have USA Freedom Act - the patriot act on steroids. I suppose pointing this out is racist or some other BS label the left loves to use.

  5. Re:Org-mode on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Preferred Note-Taking App? · · Score: 1

    Hillary, is that you?

    Easy mistake. She'll be using toilet paper for notes soon, in her jail cell.

  6. Still works on The WRT54GL: A 54Mbps Router From 2005 Still Makes Millions For Linksys · · Score: 1

    I have one in the hold pile of crap. I had to use it recently for a short time to bring wifi to another part of my house. Plugged it in, reset it because God knows I have no idea what the password or even the IP address to it is anymore. Poof, it's working just fine. I also have the big mother antenna on it. It's great in a pinch.

  7. Re:Amend the 2nd amendment on NRA Complaint Takes Down 38,000 Websites (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Not how rights work, maybe you were asleep during civics class?
    The Bill of Rights are limits on the Government. They prohibit it from doing certain things against We the People. It's not there to beat you over the head and say you must do something. Socialists like to make you do stuff or tell you that you can't do stuff. You know, they know far more about everything that you could possibly know.

    We wouldn't have anywhere near the problem we have if we could just get rid of socialists. Disarming is on their agenda, just look at rules for radicals. Remove religion, guns, well most of what's in the song "Imagine." With two exceptions these shootings are happening in "gun free zones." In Europe, 100% of them were in GFZ. So logic should say - get rid of them or require a hell of a big insurance plan (1B a least) for when one of those places is shot up, because it'll be shot up soon.

    I've been shooting for well over 40 years. I still haven't killed anyone. I hope I never do.

  8. Re:Pocahontas is on the warpath on Elizabeth Warren Says Apple, Amazon and Google Are Trying To 'Lock Out' Competition (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Not racist. She's not Indian - https://www.washingtonpost.com... . Just another white liberal chick.

    That makes her the racist. She should be required to leave the Senate over a lie like that.

  9. Re:Academic and member of the Democratic Party? on Elizabeth Warren Says Apple, Amazon and Google Are Trying To 'Lock Out' Competition (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    And isn't. https://www.washingtonpost.com... .

    Yet another lie from a Democrat... Shocked, Shocked I tell you.

  10. The chick that said she was an Indian and isn't.
    https://www.washingtonpost.com...
    Two Pinocchios.

    She should be run out of politics just as the Democrats keep telling us that everyone not a Democrat (or has fallen out of favor) should resign over a lie.

    Drop her mic.

  11. If you have to ask on IMAX Will Build You a Home Theater -- Starting at $400K (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    You can't afford it.

  12. No delemma. on The Moral Dilemma of Driverless Cars: Save The Driver or Save The Crowd? · · Score: 1

    The car logic would be able to predict such a condition and slow down way before this scenario would happen in the first place rendering this whole line of thinking moot.
    In the event that it happens anyway, go ahead and run 'em over. If they were stupid enough to get into the street in the first place, they deserve it. Darwin in action.

  13. I thought everyone knew about not doing dumb stuff like this no later than 1999. The Unix world knew that way back in the 1980s. So I suppose Windows is still around 30 years behind.

  14. Re:Help me out here... on US Customs Wants To Know Travelers' Social Media Account Names (helpnetsecurity.com) · · Score: 1

    They might make a mistake. Instead of telling them their facebook accountis "snow white", they put "evil killer guy". Then the guy is all surprised as he's gang tackled and dragged kicking and screaming into the back. "I meant snow whiiiiiiiite!" Slam!

  15. Re:No, we are not running out on Researchers Find Game-Changing Helium Reserve In Tanzania (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Well that's reassuring. Not that I doubt you, however I've been told all my life that we're running out. Could you site something that can reassure me? I mean I'm sure you're really a geologist and you really know what you're talking about, however if I told someone else they'd probably make fun of me. Some guy on slashdot say's we're fine! Might be hard to believe, however some people on slashdot aren't what they say they are.

    I've always wondered why the hell we don't fill balloons up with hydrogen. Perfectly safe for that and it would also contribute to some cool party tricks igniting them. It's also eco-friendly.

  16. Why post as AC? on .NET Core 1.0 Released, Now Officially Supported By Red Hat (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Dude, get an account already. You have the experience, this isn't hard. Otherwise as an AC, it's like should I really give a crap what this person is saying? They're probably full of it.

  17. Pull up the picture of (Trump, Hillary) before they're made up and they'd have nightmares for a week!

  18. I have to wonder if this is simply a LEO phishing attempt. I'd think we'd all know why they're doing it. They've told us according to the articles I've read. It's a punch in the nose to bloody it so they'll actually do their jobs. You know, actually patch machines, keep software up to date, things like that. A number of hospitals, they're version of windows is real old, not updated, easy pickins. One article said they even told the hospital many times over three years about it. Didn't move them at all. Ok, so scare the crap out of them.

    Takes that sometimes. Some people in management are really big into denial. Can't/won't happen to them, etc.

  19. The robots may think they need to take over the world to protect us. We're all a bunch of idiots if you just look at youtube stuff.

  20. Will they learn? on NASCAR Team Pays Ransomware Fee To Recover Files Worth $2 Million (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Have to wonder, now do they backup their stuff? Then, how long will they do that if they are. 3 months, 9 mo, year... Then why bother. Whammo!

  21. Concensus is on Ubuntu-Based Peppermint 7 Released (peppermintos.com) · · Score: 1

    Yawn. For a real distro, Fedora released 24 recently.

  22. Their 1776 moment on BBC: UK Votes To Leave The European Union (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Congratulations England! You're going to gain your sovereignty back. This is change that crazy radicals would have hailed 50 years ago. Now they don't like it because it's not their change. To be hip, this is it. Statism (all its forms, marxism, fascism, communisn... and so on), fails. It's failed everywhere it's ever tried. Once central government that doesn't give a rip about anyone but themselves. England's parliament was a law body in name only. All the decisions were really made in Brussels, by foreigners. Capitalism is the antidote to tyranny.

    Down with socialism.

  23. Could be the filter worked as designed. It sensed the e-mail coming form Hillary was total bullshit so it blocked them.

  24. When do they collect? on Europe's Robots To Become 'Electronic Persons' Under Draft Plan (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    If they have to pay into social security, then they must also be allowed to collect. Can't get something for nothing. So when is a robot "elderly" or when can they be "retired"? The company that paid into it should be able to collect.

    Sets up other stupid lefty things like can they join a union? What about sexual harassment? Do we have to be careful to not "offend" the robots?

    Yea, laugh now. See what happens.

  25. Re:I made them pay on Interview With A Craigslist Scammer (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Really? Suppose they were legitimate people and you sent them a bad check? It would be something if you have a warrant for your arrest for passing bad checks.