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  1. Re:When will slashdot follow? on Facebook Puts Users On Suicide Watch · · Score: 0

    Most people who joined facebook in their teens are no longer be teens.
    How can it still be called a "teen phenomenon"?

    They still exist in their pre adult world.

    When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

  2. Re:uber sucky sucky on Uber Offers Free Rides To Koreans, Hopes They Won't Report Illegal Drivers · · Score: 0

    "Sucky Sucky" every time I see this I have to think of Afro-Asian Boy .....

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

  3. Have you unfucked your own country yet? on US To Monitor Air Quality In India and Other Countries · · Score: 1

    A lot of that pollution is caused by the way you exploit foreign countries for their slave labor.
    Has anyone reinstated the environmental protection laws that G. W. Bush removed?

    Not to worry, though.
    Soon, USA allies will be able to strike eco terrorist harboring countries with your drones - got to love it.

  4. Re:someone explain for the ignorant on Credit Card Fraud Could Peak In 2015 As the US Moves To EMV · · Score: 1

    Happened to my mother. She forgot her wallet in a taxi and lost a few thousand Euro in the process.
    She tried to contact the cab company to trace down the driver instead of immediately registering the card as lost/stolen ... stupid move.

    She did not have the pin written down but the pin was still cracked within a few hours. The thieve went to different banks and withdrew as much money as the limit allowed (each bank has their own limit).

    The police and bank told her that she is at fault because these cards are not crackable. Apparently this has been challenged in court but the court confirmed the "uncrackable" claim of banks.

    http://www.finanzen.de/news/15...

  5. Might be interesting... on PC-BSD: Set For Serious Growth? · · Score: 0

    I am currently investigating alternative operating systems because I don't want systemd on my boxes. Not looking forward to any dependency issues if I decided to "unfuck" a modern Linux distro.

    *BSD is looking more and more attractive.
    It won't be PC-BSD on my servers but running it as my main OS should teach me a lot in no time.

    Guess "the old guys" where right after all. Linux has been and always will be a bit of a toy.

  6. Re:Tor Project Should take some responsibility on The Dark Web Still Thrives After Silk Road · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Why not blame ISPs and other network operators?
    They are enabling all the criminal activity on the Internet, with or without some sort of VPN to hide behind.

    Next thing you know, people are prosecuted for what they say because it caused someone else to go nuts .... ohh wait a minute ....

  7. Re:"computer hacking" the convenient catch-all on Swatting 19-Year-Old Arrested in Las Vegas · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Your police is partially to blame as well.
    I live in Germany go try and SWAT me, good luck.

  8. Re:Fraudulent herbal supplements? on Major Retailers Accused of Selling Fraudulent Herbal Supplements · · Score: 1

    It may work for some/most fish but not all.
    Buy a piece of actual wild salmon and a piece of farmed. Just looking at it you will see WAY more fat in the farmed variety. Salmon is already very fatty and the farmed variety is .... almost nasty (does depend on time of year).

    Now making something where the quality matters. Sushi with farmed salmon is .... interesting.

    The problem is not cause by some label or eating wild animals. Endless greed of corporations and the new status symbol of "daily evening dinner with meat" may be the root.

  9. Re:Fraudulent herbal supplements? on Major Retailers Accused of Selling Fraudulent Herbal Supplements · · Score: 1

    ... it's pointless trying to force the egg company to campaign against itself via mandatory labelling.

    Where do you shop? I have the choice between BIO, free range, caged and eggs from torturted hens.

    I am glad to see that manufactures have started to put labels on their products telling me where their eggs come from. I am avoiding products that will not tell me and spend a bit more for products that do.

    GMO is similar. While the practice may not be bad, the business model of those companies is. I want the products label as not to support endless greed disguised as the act of attempting to feed the world.

  10. Re:Simple solution on Ask Slashdot: Where Can You Get a Good 3-Button Mouse Today? · · Score: 1

    Just realized that I wheel click a lot more. 70% of URLs I open I wheel click to open in a new tab.

  11. Re:Simple solution on Ask Slashdot: Where Can You Get a Good 3-Button Mouse Today? · · Score: 1

    Again what is the big deal with the wheel click?

    In X, highlight to copy text and click the wheel to paste .... done.
    You need to practice this for 3 minutes to ensure that you don't scroll the wheel while clicking.

    To the OP.
    A wheel with click offers more functionality then a mouse without a wheel. Not sure what you work on all day but I scroll most of the time and only wheel click .... maybe 30 times a day.
    Using a Logitech B110 here, cheap as fuck but works well.

  12. Hey guys on FDA Approves Implantable Vagus Nerve Disruptor For Weight Loss · · Score: 1

    I just registered "HackMyFoodDevice.com" to exchange ideas on how to fool that damn thing.
    People with the rubber bands around their stomach manged to defeat their overload and I am pretty sure we can as well.

    Come, visit and don't forget to walk by the buffet over there.....

  13. Re:What could go wrong on Museum's Adults-Only Nights Show That Alcohol and Science Are a Good Mix · · Score: 2

    Still shaking my head reading that comment about the "adult activity".

    When I was a kid, my mother ordered a pigs stomach and eyes from the local butcher so we could dissect them in school. That was .... 6th or 7th grade.

    I am so glad I don't have to grow up today.

  14. Re:just curious... on Know Your Type: Five Mechanical Keyboards Compared · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Two lines into the summary and I felt like a total idiot for not having major issues typing on my laptop all day long.
    Now, where did I put those gold plated fiber optic cables again ....

  15. Re:Tree of liberty on UK Man Arrested Over "Offensive" Tweet · · Score: 1

    I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended. --LT

  16. Re:youmail on The Slow Death of Voice Mail · · Score: 1

    Sadly, though, not all carriers offer to disable voice-mail.

    I have the same problem. My provider keeps torturing the shit out of me when I look at other service offerings. Wish there was something I could do to improve my service ... maybe I need to come up with a new word or action.

    How about "switch" .... sounds interesting.

  17. Re:youmail on The Slow Death of Voice Mail · · Score: 1

    What's the polite way to continue?

    I know this is a very tough problem but you could prevent this by turning the feature off.
    This is one of the first things I do when I get a new phone or switch providers.

    Voice mail off and caller ID on, done.

  18. Re:from the what-until-they-get-a-load-of-this dep on Amazon "Suppresses" Book With Too Many Hyphens · · Score: 1

    actually.We.Are.More.Into.Dots.Around.Here

  19. Hope it works better then my wallet on RFID-Blocking Blazer and Jeans Could Stop Wireless Identity Theft · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Paid extra for an RFID blocking wallet. Tested it out the next time I had to pay for lunch with my RFID card.
    Placed wallet on reader, card is somewhere in the middle, beeep, thanks for you payment - fuck.

    My wallet is a "Protact" with the A written like a German AE. 100% rip off, hope these pants are better.

  20. "bring in their own originals to duplicate" on Royal Mail Pilots 3D Printing Service · · Score: 0

    And they have the nerve calling us thieves for downloading duplicated computer files.
    As soon as a government agency does the same thing - gawd we are innovating and offering a great service to the public.

    Fuck You!

  21. Re:Who is going to get the pink slip on Sony Pictures Computer Sytems Shut Down After Ransomware Hack · · Score: 1

    One can only hope it hits the right people. Those fucking idiots who demand we open the network to the "bring your device from home" crowd.
    Remember when your network admin told you that it is a stupid idea - well here you go.

  22. Re:The Fix: Buy good Chocolate! on MARS, Inc: We Are Running Out of Chocolate · · Score: 1

    Your body would thank you for it!
    Eat one every now and then instead of one every day. You spend the same but will value "the one" much more.
    The better ingredients also make for a better product which in turn improve your experience even more.

    I still remember Hershey from my time in the USA. I wouldn't call it chocolate ....
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...

  23. Re:The Fix: Buy good Chocolate! on MARS, Inc: We Are Running Out of Chocolate · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Everyone who voted insightful REALLY needs to go to one of those companies and try good chocolate.
    I don't each much chocolate so I only but the HQ stuff now. Milka, Mars or even Ritter - they suck compared to a good, higher coca content chocolate.
    I get mine from a shop selling coffee because just a chocolate, average coffee tastes .... less then average.

    You only live once. Stop stuffing low quality shit into your mouth!

  24. Stop the race to the bottom on MARS, Inc: We Are Running Out of Chocolate · · Score: 1

    Let's hope this ends the race to the bottom of price and quality.
    Reality, brown food color (blood) + "natural" flavors - chocolate even cheaper.

  25. Re:What's that smell? on FreeBSD 10.1 Released · · Score: 3, Funny

    That smell comes from that dead penguin over there. It blew its head off after failing to become the desktop OS during the past 20 years. To top it of, more and more server admins have started moving to *BSD.
    He just could not take it anymore - SystemDisconnected