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  1. Re:What are you downloading? on Ask Slashdot: What To Do About Repeated Internet Overbilling? · · Score: 1

    Not having cable TV and using Netflix/Hulu/HBOGo/etc regularly could EASILY break 150GB a month.

  2. Re:BOO FUCKING HOO! on How the USPS Killed Digital Mail · · Score: 5, Informative

    No it's not. The problem with USPS is that they have to pre-pay pensions 70 years out. No other Government agency or private company needs to do this, that's purely USPS regulation thanks to Congress. That is their main hurdle, not the unions or employees "getting paid too much" (seriously, do you even know any postal workers?).

  3. Re:Hello? Security? on ByteLight Unveils NFC Alternative Called Light Field Communication · · Score: 1

    You're new to the whole Apple thing, aren't you? Why use tech the plebs use when you can use something else entirely and try to force everyone else to make the switch too?

  4. Re:Ironic on Wii Outselling Wii U, Only 160,000 Units Shipped Last Quarter · · Score: 2

    So you want Nintendo to have 6 brand-new 1st party developed games at launch? Name one console that has done this in the history of consoles. Go on. Try it.

    Also, a Zelda FPS is the dumbest idea ever. Your idea of refreshing a genre is by shoehorning another tired genre into it?

  5. Re:Eh, that's it? on Samsung Unveils the Galaxy S4 · · Score: 1

    Yeah man, I like my phones to be made of glass so that the slightest little bump can crack the thing into billions of pieces. Not to mention the thing getting covered in fingerprints. Face it, Apple products look really great when you're first opening the box, and never again. It's the Apple way!

  6. Re:Not a huge surprise... on Hacker Skips SimCity Full-Time Network Requirement · · Score: 5, Funny

    So is EA going to be demanding a refund?

  7. Re:Sensationalism? on Steam Hit By 'No Connection' Error Worldwide · · Score: 1

    Wow. The Valve bite-n-smile shills are out in force today.

    Steam sucks, shill, because DRM sucks. There's no disclaimer on a product that says "BTW, this product will not work for XX hours a year on average because the DRM servers occasionally go down." Perhaps that should be a requirement.

    Yeah they do, it's called the EULA.

  8. Re:"Beyond" the far side? Huh? on NASA Pondering L2 Outpost, Return To Moon · · Score: 1

    Regardless, the concentration of melanin in human skin does not have a demonstrable relationship with mental ability. If it did, there would be a profound trend in medical literature, as people would become dumber after summer sun exposures. This does not occur. Therefore, the color of the skin is meaningless for the ascribed metric.

    Excuse me, have you ever seen Jersey Shore? Not to say you're wrong, I just had to throw that out there.

  9. Re:Correct me if I'm wrong... on HTC Unlocks Its Own Phones · · Score: 1

    You're wrong. All you need to do is give them your serial number from under the battery compartment. Where you bought the phone has no bearing on it whatsoever.

  10. Re:Competition is good on HTC Infringed Apple Patents, Says ITC's Initial Determination · · Score: 1

    Virtual machines offer more security. These days it's not a phone, it's a computer, data security is a very big problem.

  11. Re:Yes. on Has the Console Arms Race Stalled? · · Score: 1

    Ever hear of the "new" game type called Payload? There's plenty of official maps. Nevermind the loads of high quality community made maps out there. Play on better servers if you don't want to play the same 10 maps.

  12. Re:no substitute for the real thing on Ask Slashdot: DOSBox, or DOS Box? · · Score: 1

    eDuke32 is your friend.

  13. Re:Long term... on Ask Slashdot: DOSBox, or DOS Box? · · Score: 2

    The DOS partition isn't the problem at all. It's that DOS doesn't run on modern hardware.

  14. Re:Don't be evil on Why Google Should Buy the Music Industry · · Score: 2

    Remember, Google is a for profit company with shareholders. They can't purchase something expensive, hemorrhage cash on it, and expect the shareholders to accept that.

    ... like Youtube?

  15. Re:This is why I have given up on Adobe on Inducement To Piracy, Adobe Style · · Score: 1

    Yeah, Ardour is really not as good as ProTools... which is sad because Digidesign/Avid is far worse than Adobe is. Their software is buggy as hell and not at all backwards compatible.

    How ProTools got to be "industry standard" I'll never know, it's a steaming pile of shit.

  16. Re:Vendor lock-in .... on Inducement To Piracy, Adobe Style · · Score: 2

    Really? You're going to tag on the cost of CS5 to your clients bill? I don't know what kind of "serious and professional" work you do but if anyone did that in most industries they'd be looking for a new client.

  17. Re:radical news! on The Simpsons Reviewed For Unsuitable Nuclear Jokes · · Score: 1

    If anything, Orwell was wrong. Aldous Huxley's idea for the future was actually far more accurate.

  18. Space Lawyer? on First Space Lawyer Graduates · · Score: 1

    Is it anything like the Space Pope?

  19. Re:Comcast has a monopoly in many markets on Comcast Floats a 250GB Monthly Bandwidth Limit · · Score: 3, Insightful

    As much as people hate Comcast, dialup isn't really an option these days. I just LOVE to wait 10 minutes for a page to load or a day or so to watch a 5 minute video.

  20. Re:Denatured alcohol on Consumer Ethanol Appliance Promised By Year's End · · Score: 2, Informative

    Not true. The quotas DO matter. The exception-rule is not outside of the quota. If you have family in the U.S., you get pushed up to near the top of the list and someone else gets bumped off and has to wait longer.

  21. Re:Is that even legal? on Upcoming Firmware Will Brick Unlocked iPhones · · Score: 1

    But it wasn't working 100%. It was connecting to the wrong network. Something must have been wrong!

  22. Re:Has he put his money where his mouth is? on Trent Reznor Says "Steal My Music" · · Score: 1

    Did you even read what you linked to? There was a fallout between him and his partner, John Malm. This is the record company he's trying to break away from.

  23. Re:Oh boo hoo on The Morality of Web Advertisement Blocking · · Score: 1

    Why would I want to waste bandwidth on things I can't see?

  24. Re:Linux has always had "safe mode". on New Failsafe Graphics Mode For Ubuntu · · Score: 1

    Yes but if you ever want your distro to be used outside of a tiny minority of geeks, some compromises must be made.

  25. Re:The results... on Music Listeners Test 128kbps vs. 256kbps AAC · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That depends on what the files are being used for. Lower bitrate for a lossless encoder is bad for portable devices because it's harder on the processor, which kills battery life.