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  1. phone location on Facebook Is Using Your Phone's Location To Suggest New Friends (fusion.net) · · Score: 1

    You are the product, not the customer when it comes to facebook.

  2. It's hard to justify spending 800 bucks on a new smart phone every year or two.

  3. Programming on Slashdot Asks: How Did You Learn How To Code? · · Score: 2

    I started when I was 15 years old (that would be 1992) on a Commodore 64. I wanted to write a program that would generate character sheets for me in Dungeons and Dragons and print it out. Then my Dad asked me to write a program for currency exchange. I think he even used it once or twice. LOL. I guess today I would be working on Java or Raspberry Pi projects. Learning was much harder then because there was no internet but the programming (BASIC) was much less complicated,

  4. Re:From Samsung? on Samsung Wants To Bring Back the Flip Phone With Bendable Screens · · Score: 1

    Smart TVs are the devil

  5. bah sprint on Sprint Begins Punishing Customers For FCC's Net Neutrality Rules · · Score: 1

    I'm sure the 12 people that use sprint will be very upset.

  6. Re:At the risk of getting downvoted into oblivion. on Facebook's Absurd Pseudonym Purgatory · · Score: 1

    Facebook users are the commodity. never forget that. They sell your data to marketing companies and make a pretty penny doing it. They just want to make sure their data is as accurate as possible.

  7. are you for real on Do Robots Need Passports? Should They? · · Score: 1

    I hope no one is paying this guy money to do his "research". What a phenomenal waste of time. Lets give birds passports too, and the wind. The wind definitely needs a passport.

  8. I didn't see anyone talking about home Automation. There are some decent options for automating lights and other things such as irrigation control, door locks and thermostat control. Lighting control is fun to play with, and you can set up a server or web appliance to control it though a web page. One thing that i'd like to have working is a camera on the front door so I can use a tablet to look and see if I want to bother answering the door.

  9. Re:20% to 40% ??? No. Just no. on How Tesla Batteries Will Force Home Wiring To Go Low Voltage · · Score: 1

    It's probably Sears who wants us to go and buy all new DC appliances.

  10. Dear Customer on Google Offers Cheap Cloud Computing For Low-Priority Tasks · · Score: 0

    Google has decided to triple the cost of your off site services. Please send a cheque for $10000 today. We'll keep your data nicely safe and locked away where you can get it as soon as you pay your new ransom I mean SAAS fee.

  11. speaking as a man all i can say is on Men's Rights Activists Call For Boycott of Mad Max: Fury Road · · Score: 1

    STFU you don't speak for me.

  12. Entitlement on Is IT Work Getting More Stressful, Or Is It the Millennials? · · Score: 1

    So are we saying that the millenials aren't a bunch of entitled rude asses?

  13. Re:Reality on Accessibility In Linux Is Good (But Could Be Much Better) · · Score: -1, Troll

    man if you don't like the way developers do something, and it is open source, create a fork and fix it. Don't complain on forums.

  14. Re:Bigger picture on Accessibility In Linux Is Good (But Could Be Much Better) · · Score: 1

    Well if those businesses can't use Linux because some feature isn't available, then they should hire developers to create that feature. Or stick with Windows. They need to figure out which will cost them less. They shouldn't need to lean on other developers to do their work for them. Worst case, they can create their own GUI that will meet whatever needs they have. Developers will do the work that makes their work usable for the most people. The big picture you talk about seems to be your point of view. I'm sure it's a big deal to you, but maybe not so much to other people.

  15. Reality on Accessibility In Linux Is Good (But Could Be Much Better) · · Score: 1

    The reality is, most developers have a fixed and small amount of time to develop product. They aren't going to work on features for 2% of people when features that 50% of people can use need work.

  16. Expect truth? on Verizon Tells Customer He Needs 75Mbps For Smoother Netflix Video · · Score: 1

    To expect the truth from any cable, internet or cell phone provider is a foolish foolish thing. They are more or less marketing companies. Marketing companies get paid to lie. They get paid to deceive to maximize profit. Like that merger between AT&T and Comcast. In what universe would that help the consumer? It's insane that anyone would think that, except the politicians paid by the lobby groups to believe. There's nothing we can do about it really, just grin and bear it as we get screwed equally between the large corporations and the government.

  17. Lying stealing thugs on Music Industry Argues Works Entering Public Domain Are Not In Public Interest · · Score: 1

    Well we know that the music industry is not a bunch of lying stealing thugs, just look at how they treat musicians. So we have no choice but to believe whatever self serving garbage they serve up as legitimate information.

  18. Cry more please on Groupon Refuses To Pay Security Expert Who Found Serious XSS Site Bugs · · Score: 1

    Man I wish this guy would shut up. He didn't follow the rules but he still wants his money. Tough crap. Quit crying and move on.

  19. Re:Cautionary Tale? on Chinese Scientists Claim To Have Genetically Modified Human Embryos · · Score: 2

    Luckily this is in China where they are forward thinking.

  20. Re:Arbitrary major version jumps on Linux 4.0 Kernel Released · · Score: 1

    Do you work for Sage?

  21. International law on UN To Debate Lethal Autonomous Weapons · · Score: 1

    People who stand around shooting their mouths of about "breaking international law" really need to learn what the fuck they are talking about. Show me the treaty that talks about autonomous weapons, and who is a signatory to it.

  22. tough noogies on Evolution Market's Admins Are Gone, Along With $12M In Bitcoin · · Score: 0

    It's hard to feel sorry for a bunch of criminals who get screwed over by other criminals. They should all just gun each other down, save us the court costs.

  23. Re:The best trick on Ask Slashdot: Parental Content Control For Free OSs? · · Score: 1

    I don't need to be responsible for my kids, my computer will be. It's ok. Really.

  24. Math on Can Students Have Too Much Tech? · · Score: 1

    The first time that some body said to me, "I don't need times tables I have a calculator." I died a little inside.

  25. Brutal Company on Intuit Charges More For Previously Offered TurboTax Features, Users Livid · · Score: 1

    I have never been a fan of Intuit. They have highly questionable business practices and I feel are very lacking in business ethics. Their competitor is much the same. At least here in Canada there is no decent company providing any accounting software. Make your own I say, at least you know who's douching you then.