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  1. Re:Good Ole Southern Cackalacky on Teacher Suspended For Reading Ender's Game To Students · · Score: 0

    THEY ARE FILMING NOW!!! started on Feb 27th!!! and Harrison Ford is in it!!! sweet!!
    Ender's Game

  2. Music and Lasers on Ask Slashdot: How To Give IT Presentations That Aren't Boring? · · Score: 0

    Go to Amazon.com pick up the set of three laser pointers (has one red, one green, and one blue violet) the set of three is less than $30. Blue Lasers dont show up as birght to human eyes, but work great for presantations to get people to check out the screen. I find when i mix up using the green and blue between hot points in topics it catches their eye. hard to be a technphile and not turn your head to check out a shinny laser dot ;-) Head on over and pick up some great jamming music. with a tech side. example Sound Tribe Sector 9, they are great and use PCs to make a lot of the music but also play real instruments over the techno type tracks. If you end up playing some Flight of the Concords in the mix you will sure get there heads off the table laughing.

  3. Re:One acronym solution: on Browsing the Broken Web: a Software Developer Behind the Great Firewall of China · · Score: 0

    there is always a free way to do things, ask me first. http://www.vischeck.com/vischeck/vischeckURL.php @answerbird

  4. Pre-Ordered On Amazon on Diablo 3 To Be Released On May 15th · · Score: 0

    got mine ordered now.. was waiting for the date, now that they gave one I placed the order (plus it is right next to my b-day, if they are close to the May 15th day)

  5. Re:will solo force you to be online all the time? on Diablo 3 To Be Released On May 15th · · Score: 0

    not correct.. there is always a way around that. -in fact i am playing the Beta localy on my PC now no internet needed. Proxy Server anyone?

  6. Re:The key is "unrelated" on Multiword Passwords Secure Or Not? · · Score: 0

    even with unrelated words, a Dictionary attack will render them useless, speaking from experience I have seen one where a person was using DogsEightME and was cracked pretty darn quick.

  7. Post PC World? on 'Of Course We Are In a Post-PC World,' Says Ray Ozzie · · Score: 0

    that is so very funny my Bacon Mt. Dew almost shot out my nose. Everywhere i look i see desk top PC. yes more and more, non-techies are using "Smart Phones" but that doesnt make the user smart. and the more and more Apple dumbed down products there is the more these sudo-technophiles less and less savvy as those of us that grew up with keyboards laying around and more than one open PC in their home. (okay so yeah dad designed mircochips which gave me an upper hand) But the PC - like the other Slash Doters pointed out. means Personal Computer. If you had a dick tracy watch on your wrist, there you go that is a touch screen video conferance call maker designed with a software, so there you go a portable PC. I think Pads will dye out so very quick. havent any pointed out flexable LCD screens, your next Pad, might actully fold out from your pen, or use your skin as a touch pad. in three years mark my words. Apples Products will not be around or the same at all.

  8. Re:more laws on Smartphones More Dangerous Than Alcohol, When Driving · · Score: 0

    heheheh.. not on the Phone at Infineon, but with a headset connected to a pit crew. i think that was more distracting then when i call my wife on my way home from work to tell her how bad the traffic is ;-) and isnt that what Voice to Text speech rec is for? doenst everyone use it? hehehehe i'm not the one to talk to about this as i BOYCOTT Data plans. (yes even with my Xperia Play) I only use my phone in my car to talk to people, but i wanted to i could use my google voice and do speech to text all day long driving backwards in a parking lot with one knee. I have driven before from Walnut Creek, CA to San Fran with out using my hands. I have drove long distances on Route 66 while everyone was in the back seat of the car. using three brooms.

  9. Re:more laws on Smartphones More Dangerous Than Alcohol, When Driving · · Score: 0

    I like your banning idea. works great, but add in 3 strikes and your DL is gone forever! and then people would actully listen and be better. oh & my supurb driving skills have landed me wins in local races at Infineon raceway, as well as never have been in an accident that was my fault. only been hit once and that dude was drunk.. but i saw him coming and avoided a bad accident to where his car was totaled and I could drive away with my minor rear end damage. i guess those days at the race tracks have paid off.

  10. Re:more laws on Smartphones More Dangerous Than Alcohol, When Driving · · Score: -1

    I dont think talking is going to distract me (but i am well above average in every aspect) . And if you cant talk and drive at the same time, then your license should be taken away. that should be part of all the new driving tests. you have to call and talk to a memeber of your family for 10min while navigating the streets of San Francisco.

  11. File this under: WORST IDEA EVER on Valve Reportedly Working On 'Steam Box' Gaming Console · · Score: 0

    what really? this day and age would dummy's really buy that? even if they are not in the know (meaning a techie who knows that any PC nowadays can hook up to a TV) why bother? this all goes back to my whole point of, there is no reason to buy an XBox, since most of all the games for it are released in PC format anyways and my home PC and Laptops are more powerful than a XBox.

  12. Re:more laws on Smartphones More Dangerous Than Alcohol, When Driving · · Score: 1

    agreed.. they just need to enforce it for real. What i dont get. is those lame people with expensive cars that do not have bluetooh built into their stereo cant go out and spend $20 on a head set? i mean really now.. I have 5, two in each car and one back up at home. my new car has bluetooth built in so i dont even need the 2 in there, they are just there to give to silly people that dont have them. I see more and more accidents early in the mornings now than ever and i am sure it is because people are checking their status updates as they are drving to work. join me in the FBT4All (Free BlueTooth for all). and dont drive too close to me, as i will have my Jammer on, no GPS or Cell activity by me on the way into work.

  13. Re:Android version? Sweet! on Optimizing Your Caffeine Intake With an App · · Score: 0

    thanks! needed the non iOS one. and yeah dont know why this was posted on Slash dot anyways. good idea to sell to geeks, but they made it free. so i am betting a better version will be out on the iOS with in a month.

  14. Sony Rules! A+ to you on Sony Raises Price of Whitney Houston's Music 30 Minutes After Death · · Score: 0

    Good work Sony, that is something that Apple would have done had they owned it ;-) Supply and Demand has been around forever. I will now go out and buy MORE Sony products.

  15. Boycott on AT&T On Data Throttling: Blame Yourselves · · Score: 0

    Dont use data! Wifi only people.. if we all do so together for a week, they wil be forced to start charging less for something that costs them less to use in the first place. yes your texts and FB posts all use less data than a simple 2min phone call. so why are you paying for it?

  16. $25 not enough.. but where is the cut off? on Online Privacy Worth Less Than Marshmallow Fluff Six Pack · · Score: 0

    but where is the cut off? and can't google track what your searching on with Chrome anyways? why would they pay you for something they could track you on for free? might as well get the $25 then.. got a lot in my Amazon wish list if anyone wants to help donate ;-) .. example: Diablo 3

  17. Re:thanks.. dont have to get it now on Book Review: The Windup Girl · · Score: 0

    HEHEHEHE thanks.. i dont think these people have any idea who I am

  18. Re:thanks.. dont have to get it now on Book Review: The Windup Girl · · Score: 0

    not like this book is Hitch Hickers Guide or anything. if it ever gets to video... i'll boycott it then too. I almost thought about getting it.. but now i'm going the other way. it is funnier that way. with out humor we as a people will not grow.

  19. Re:Good book, but has some holes on Book Review: The Windup Girl · · Score: 1

    agreed! i mean really now.. Water Wheels have been used forever!

  20. Re:thanks.. dont have to get it now on Book Review: The Windup Girl · · Score: 0, Troll

    "complained about people like you" I could say the same you I guess.. but what I am wondering is the personal attack on me? I said that the review was in-depth.. very informative on the book.. much like Cliff Notes.. yes reading Cliff Notes is not reading the real book, but will give you the just of it to get you by without spending tons of time reading something that has already been complied for you. Now I’m betting you’re a Troll. & the ancient Greeks loved me when I was there. & children of Privilege? my parents died when i was young and have had to do everything on my own. and have made it from being homeless to being a manager at a bank and own a home, have a wife and a son, two cars, and more PCs than you. My intellectual Laziness includes taking courses at MIT, developed the RE-Maxx reality website for the first two years it was up. I am MCSE+I cert, A+ cert, HVAC trained, able to work on Freon units in Cali, Trained Sword fighter, and much more.. ohh i see more replys are coming..

  21. thanks.. dont have to get it now on Book Review: The Windup Girl · · Score: 3, Interesting

    such an indepth review i feel like there is no need to get it now.

  22. Use a high power Laser to sign your names on Ask Slashdot: Techie Wedding Invitation Ideas? · · Score: 1

    you could use a high power Laser to sign your names on the cards or boards you are useing. QR code to a Direct video of you two doing a Robot dance to some Futurama Techno music.

  23. so?... A true Technophile knows an xBox is a PC on Xbox 720 Might Reject Used Games · · Score: 1

    A true Technophile knows an xBox is a PC, and I have a high end gaming rig and gaming laptop. Why oh why would i pay for an xbox? Cant upgrade it when new tech comes out.. and i can get all the games on the PC (cheaper too). --- yes yes yes.. i am an avid Sony tech.. and have everything Sony under the sun (well Vita is ordered and coming soon).

  24. Dont Use a Cloud EVER! on What Happens To Your Files When a Cloud Service Shuts Down? · · Score: 1

    has to be the lamest idea ever. If you dont back up your files you need on DVD and lock them up in a fire proof safe in your home and the 2nd copy in your banks Lock Box then you deserve to loose all your data. If you need to share with many users there any many other ways to do so then to put them on a website hosted by who knows.. and you trust them to keep it safe? I mean really now.. not that hard to set up your own FTP server and share with your friends and family.

  25. Re:Controllers on PS4: What Sony Should and Shouldn't Do · · Score: 1

    My Keyboard will navigate the menus.... Although it is a Game Shark Keyboard made for the PS2, works great on my PS3. also the bluetooh keyboard that hooks ontop of the Ps3 contorller is a very very nice set up and LOVE the mouse feature on it.