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  1. Retina Display! on LG Aims To Beat Apple's Retina Display · · Score: 1

    This term "Retina Display" makes me angry

  2. Re:Oh dear. What happened to a BBQ being simple? on Grilling For Geeks · · Score: 1

    Winning!

  3. Thermometers are helpful tech on Grilling For Geeks · · Score: 1

    I use an infrared thermometer to check the temp when slow cooking. Every other item I use has been available for at least 50 years.

  4. Budget way too high on Ask Slashdot: How To Shop For a Laptop? · · Score: 1

    That's an insane budget considering the power that can be had for half that or less. I'd suggest grabbing something for around $500 and book a vacation with the remaining $1500

  5. Re:$299.00 on Ask Slashdot: How To Shop For a Laptop? · · Score: 1

    There's not much to break really. As long as the hinge is well designed and there's ample cooling, even a budget laptop should last many many years. Outside of specialty rugged laptops like the Toughpad, more money doesn't buy a longer lasting system.

  6. Re:Less eye candy on Aero Glass UI No More On Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    64bit fwiw this same limit applies to linux as well.

  7. Re:What Year is it, Again? on Ask Slashdot: Skype Setup For Toddler's Room? · · Score: 1

    You sir, 1. Obviously doesn't have kids 2. Like to make the question fit your answer even if it doesn't 3. Are a smug douche bag

  8. Re:hope it was worth the megan's law list on Man Protests TSA With Nudity · · Score: 1

    "American cops are scary and can easily ruin your life so keep your distance and act inconspicious when you can't" ftfy

  9. Re:It just works. on Macbook Owner With Defective GPU Beats Apple In Court · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "hand built" You mean you slapped some components into a case and installed your own OS? It appears you can't OUTPERFORM a Mac for a fraction of the price like the rest of us system builders, which makes you a failure as well

  10. Re:What did we expect? on Losing the Public Debate On Global Warming · · Score: 1

    I don't keep up well enough to make it a rhetorical question, I was asking honestly, not baiting. When I think high profile names that support ending the drug war, that's my list. My Democratic Governor (John Lynch) and President Obama refuse to even engage in honest discussion on the issue.

  11. Re:What did we expect? on Losing the Public Debate On Global Warming · · Score: 1

    Ron Paul, Gary Johnson, William F Buckley (deceased) are a few just from my head.. Which D's are advocating ending it?

  12. Re:Haven't had bad luck lately... on Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn Resigns After $1.7 Billion Loss · · Score: 1

    Not in New Hampshire

  13. Windows 7 Media Center on Ask Slashdot: How To Make My Own Hardware Multimedia Player? · · Score: 1

    Happy HTPC user for 9 years now. Windows Media Center Is the only 10ft PC display that I've been satisfied with the HD Television performance on. Media Browser plug in for local media. It's stable and easy to use.

  14. Even worse on Arizona Attempts To Make Trolling Illegal · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's not just trolling "annoy or offend" could literally be applied to every word ever written.

  15. Re:Maybe if it was accurate... on Wind Map of US Will Blow You Away · · Score: 3, Informative

    This seems to visualize surface winds. Radar (precipitation aloft) is moved by winds higher in the atmosphere. There's often a disconnect in the direction of surface and elevated winds. Check out a Skew-T Sounding and you can see the larger vertical wind profile.

  16. Re:Possibly less emoticons? on Patent Troll Targets Samsung and RIM With Emoticon Button Patent · · Score: 1

    I have a patent on "loose" being the opposite of "win"

  17. Re:Rule #1 on Ask Slashdot: What Are Your Tips For Working From Home? · · Score: 1

    10 years+ working from home. My wife and 8 year old have been 100% respectful of it the entire time. For me it's a complete non-issue. Biggest drawback for me is missing out on office social interaction.

  18. Re:ground effects lighting on UK Plan Would Use CCTV To Stop Uninsured Drivers From Refueling · · Score: 1

    What on earth are you talking about? When people run out of gas, they're not going to be at a gas station in a position to "beg" for gas. They're going to be on the side of the road. I guarantee you that far more brilliant folks have run out of gas. Based on the logic you've used in these few posts I've read, it seems like number is probably near 100% of them.

  19. Re:ground effects lighting on UK Plan Would Use CCTV To Stop Uninsured Drivers From Refueling · · Score: 1

    I've never made a mistake in my entire life.

  20. Re:Why is this different than fingerprints? on New York State Passes DNA Requirement For Almost All Convicted Criminals · · Score: 1

    Dexter did it (on TV) by taking a toothbrush.

  21. Re:Let the paranoid run loose! on NSA Building US's Biggest Spy Center · · Score: 1

    Except that in the case of packets, they can be captured and sent along without any disruption to the parties exchanging them. So it's more like being able to discover all the gold by forcing everyone to participate in gold detection (to their detriment) before sending out the mining crew.

  22. Re:Floppy... on White House CIO Describes His 'Worst Day' Ever · · Score: 1

    You could go with a USB floppy controller. http://shop.deviceside.com/prod/FC5025

  23. Re:Easy! on 'The Hobbit' Pub Threatened With Lawsuit · · Score: 1

    You could try McDowell's
    http://blog.moviefone.com/2010/09/11/famous-movie-locations-mcdowells-from-coming-to-america/

    That could be a really interesting case, potentially infringing on both Coming to America and McDonald's

  24. Re:WTF on TVShack Creator's US Extradition Approved · · Score: 1

    They did the same thing to Gary Johnson, also not a shill.

  25. The point of the talk on A Better Way To Program · · Score: 1

    The talk was not about revolution in programming. It was about a person defining a principle and using that to guide what they do. In this case, the speaker, decided that creative designers need feedback, and he created these demos to show how feedback can improve some simple situations. If you didn't watch the video, you look very stupid criticizing it. This discussion is one of the worst I have ever seen. You may be a great programmer, but you have a closed mind and made a bad decision to post about something you know nothing about.