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  1. Re:Meaning on Eric Schmidt: Anxiety Over US Spying Will "Break the Internet" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Probably. Breaking a business model and breaking the Internet are two very different things but they probably mean the same to him.

  2. Think of the weathermen! on Supercomputing Upgrade Produces High-Resolution Storm Forecasts · · Score: 1

    This thing is going to put all of the local weathermen out of jobs. I mean how can they predict the weather better than this thing? ;-)

  3. Dokuwiki if you must on Ask Slashdot: Multimedia-Based Wiki For Learning and Business Procedures? · · Score: 3, Informative

    I'm not sure using a wiki is really the answer but if you insist then try Dokuwiki. It doesn't get much simpler on the end user side when it comes to using a Wiki.
    https://www.dokuwiki.org/dokuw...

  4. Re:Carmack is a washed-up has-been nobody on John Carmack's Oculus Connect Keynote Probably Had Samsung Cringing · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure you misspelled Romero.

  5. Re:Third option on Users Report Warping of Apple's iPhone 6 Plus · · Score: 1

    Perhaps magnesium

  6. Re:Third option on Users Report Warping of Apple's iPhone 6 Plus · · Score: 3, Informative

    Titanium will bend but has better memory to return to the original shape. Carbon fiber should be stiffer to resist the flexing in the first place.

  7. Re:Does HFCS count? on Study Finds Link Between Artificial Sweeteners and Glucose Intolerance · · Score: 1

    That may be true. However, I find that for me avoiding HFCS leads to eating healthier foods.

  8. Re:Nope they are clever on Apple Locks iPhone 6/6+ NFC To Apple Pay Only · · Score: 1

    Exactly what strategic cleverness does it take to release something that many other people already have, where your success is based on you being the biggest company in the room?

    It's just enough to keep their loyal customers and make more money from them. They know most of their customers prefer new things simplified before being added. That's how Apple does it. It isn't for everyone (including me) but it works for them.

  9. Supply IS GREATER THAN Demand on College Students: Want To Earn More? Take a COBOL Class · · Score: 1

    Shocker. Economics 101. As the the pool of COBOL programmers is reduced the shops still needing them are going to have to pay more.

  10. I wasn't lying. I was mistaken based on what I had been reading about the issue. I refuse to use iTunes. It is absolutely one of the worst applications I have ever used.

  11. Spoken like a loyal subject.

    The issue isn't how easy it is to undo it. The issue is that you have to take action at all. Apple is taking advantage of a default setting in a way the user never thought it was intended.

    You sound just like some of the people in the early days of the spam wars "just delete it". Everyone knows that doesn't work and the problem only gets worse in the long run.

  12. Re:911 was down for us Friday night on Apple Outrages Users By Automatically Installing U2's Album On Their Devices · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "More importantly everybody knows Mac OS X needs multiple gigabytes free as memory swap space on it's startup disk. The general recommendation is 15% of the drive"

    Emphasis mine

    They may be lying but you are also being dishonest claiming that EVERYONE knows OS X needs 15% free space. I'm sure the number of people that know it is much closer to "No one" than "Everyone"

  13. Re:911 was down for us Friday night on Apple Outrages Users By Automatically Installing U2's Album On Their Devices · · Score: 0

    No, it actually becomes one of your biggest problems. Apple is showing a complete lack of respect for its customers ... uh I mean subjects.

  14. Re:Worst annoucment ever.... on Apple Announces Smartwatch, Bigger iPhones, Mobile Payments · · Score: 1

    and their aging customers who are having trouble reading the smaller screen .. .even with font sizes bumped up.

    Follow the money.

  15. Slime loss / long term survival on Restoring Salmon To Their Original Habitat -- With a Cannon · · Score: 1

    I would think they need to do more testing. Sure it looks cool and they appear to survive because we see them swimming afterwards. However, not all fish can tolerate a lot of handling and if they lose too much of their slimy outer coating they don't do so well.

  16. Re:Overhead on Ask Slashdot: What To Do About Repeated Internet Overbilling? · · Score: 1

    They are charging for the gross. tare + net

    https://answers.yahoo.com/ques...
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...

  17. Re: Not the PSUs? The actual cables? on HP Recalls 6 Million Power Cables Over Fire Hazard · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Even if someone dies it doesn't matter as long as it doesn't hurt the bottom line.

  18. Re:multi-drive RV tolerance?? on Seagate Ships First 8 Terabyte Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    One of the SAN vendors we met with a while back was arranging their drives within each drawer in such a way that it supposedly minimized/neutralized the RV effect.

  19. Re:Not the PSUs? The actual cables? on HP Recalls 6 Million Power Cables Over Fire Hazard · · Score: 2

    Outsourcing to the lowest bidder and then not adequately sampling items to verify they were made to spec.

  20. Re:Turn it around: on Illinois University Restricts Access To Social Media, Online Political Content · · Score: 1

    The library doesn't have unlimited porn, social media, music, etc etc but that is what the majority of the students are using the network for at the school. There isn't nearly as much "personal research" going on in a library as there is on the Internet.

    I'm not saying network access should be restricted. I'm just saying let's be honest about how it is being used.

  21. NFL is a business/monopoly on NFL Fights To Save TV Blackout Rule Despite $9 Billion Revenue · · Score: 2

    FCC should pull the rule to let supply and demand work it out.

  22. Re:Smokers on Smoking Mothers May Alter the DNA of Their Children · · Score: 1

    I like your style but I think we might have better luck starting small at first.

  23. Re:Smokers on Smoking Mothers May Alter the DNA of Their Children · · Score: 1

    My experience is different. My parents smoked 30+ years and they didn't die immediately from massive heart attacks as YOU would think. They developed quite a few health problems later in life which required many many meds and doctor visits over their last 10-15 years. Sure, insurance covered much of it but I gotta think the medical industry definitely makes out better if most of their patients are like my parents were.

  24. Re:Smokers on Smoking Mothers May Alter the DNA of Their Children · · Score: 1

    Do any of those have effect nearby non-users like smoking and "second hand" smokers?

  25. No reference checks on Peer Review Ring Broken - 60 Articles Retracted · · Score: 1

    If only the journals could run some kind of check to determine if "peers" are who they claim to be.... and only them.