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  1. Re:Intriguing but... on Animated Presentations Using SVG · · Score: 3, Funny

    Could you make the background cornflower blue?

  2. Re:Step One: on Qualcomm Calls To 'Kill All Proprietary Drivers For Good' · · Score: 1

    (for those who rtfa on the slides)

    This font color scheme was called "angry fruit salad" where I used to work.

  3. Re:250GB on Comcast Not Counting Their Video Service Against Bandwidth Cap · · Score: 1

    250GB This is better than what ATT is providing me now that I've been capped at 150GB on ADSL. I only average 30GB but I'm considering going to the limit to make a point, albeit a small one. I don't like being bullied into a Uperverse plan. The prices go up and the services go down, and the stockholders cry MORE!

  4. Re:Timmeey! on Ladies and Gentlemen, Welcome to SlashdotTV! (Video) · · Score: 1

    I was gonna reply but the video wouldn't upload.

  5. Re:Cuts both ways on Senators Ask Feds To Probe Facebook Log-in Requests · · Score: 1

    The Constitution protects your possessions and papers from unreasonable search and seizure

    I thought the same thing about my urine, but SCOTUS didn't. If its not invasive to ask for a drug test why won't my boss take one randomly at my request? Given their performance lately we need random drug testing in congress!

  6. Re:One of the next big things? on 'IMAX Movie of Body' Allows Stanford Geneticist To Stop Diabetes In Its Tracks · · Score: 1

    a lot of opportunity for medical monitoring

    Continuous blood sugar monitoring would require a supply of reagent to react with glucose and need constant refills. There are no currently known properties of dissolved blood sugar you can measure without a direct chemical reaction.

    If you want near continous measurements you can get software and data cables but they never come free or included, and lately they only send data to a website and not your own computer. Gotta love the business approach to healthcare.

    You left out "and promptly patented." After 10yrs of diabetes and only 4yrs of insurance I can say costs for monitoring have only increased. I had a cheap monitor with a $0.50 per jab consumable but it was sourced overseas and discontunied locally. Now I can pay over twice as much or file the obigitory begging forms to the mfg's of said devices. If I had government insurance they would send two free devices, and bill the government for the higher priced consumables.

    In America you can find better healthcare but you can't pay more.

  7. Re:flag en masse on The Worst Job In the Digital World · · Score: 0

    I would prefer flooding them with pictures of everyone in a turban and claiming its Allah. The entire middle east is banned overnight.

  8. Re:*yawn* on New ZeuS Botnet No Longer Needs Central Command Servers · · Score: 1

    Scam 1,000,000 people out of a cent each and nobody in law enforcement will care.

    If you have an MBA you get a pass on these "crimes", capitalism depends on them. I just love paging through someone's AT&T bill playing "find the scam", when the victim asks "Am I being cheated?".

  9. Re:The hate on Gates Foundation Makes Progress On Reinvented Toilets · · Score: 1
    Computer industry in the crapper and all I got was a new itoilet. The man was, is, and always will be a greedy turd. Bill Gates 2.0 didn't build the american computer industry he raped it for a profit and then sold it for his new life. I want the hours of my life back for all those install codes and failed WGA checks.

    I earned this hate, I'd like to punch him in the nose.

  10. Re:Politicians excepted, of course on FCC Cracks Down on Robocalls · · Score: 2
    "If I were to cuss and swear at you then you would put our number on a list of people not to call again. Please put our number on that list."

    I give one warning then I talk really dirty to them, they usually threaten to charge me with making sexually abusive phone calls. They get all quite when I explain. It's not phone harassment if they called me!

  11. Re:My guess on Eye of Tiger Composer Sues Gingrich To Stop Campaign From Using Song · · Score: 1

    Some people doubt evolution because humans are obviously too superior to be descendants of primates. Primates fling pooh at each other, humans have politicians.

  12. Re:I'd start by shooting the Captain.... on What To Do With a 1,000 Foot Wrecked Cruise Ship? · · Score: 2

    I can't fathom how such a pathetic human being ever made Captain.

    I only got a quick look, and I'd say he's a photo opportunity. I can just hear the conversation in HR/Marketing, "Well the computer actually steers the ship so the captain should be seen by the guests." The whole cruise line company should be shut down for this level of stupidity.

  13. Re:Thanks a bunch on Symantec Admits Its Networks Were Hacked in 2006 · · Score: 1

    I can't imagine that the enterprise version is any less crappy than the home version is.

    The enterprise edition of Symantec has one redeeming quality, it doesn't expire. Some of my computers have been running it over 10 years with NO ransom fees, but without software support.

    I made grandma an enterprise user years ago, it's better than nothing as it keeps well known pests away. Grandma won't run Linux she likes her Juno mail client.

  14. Re:So they pissed on the enemy on The New Transparency of War and Lethality of Hatred · · Score: 1

    America is supposed to be better than that. You are why we aren't.

    So bullets aren't disrespectful to humanity but urine is? I know I shifted the target from enemy to humanity, but I think its the real issue. Try to stay on target.

  15. Re:Listened to reason? on Crowdsourced List of SOPA Supporters · · Score: 1

    This is how dangerous this law is. I could shut down Makezine for copyright violations

    Only if you contributed megabucks to the friends of copyright congressional fund.

  16. Re:And I was worried on Upcoming Changes To 'Ask Slashdot' · · Score: 1

    Keep laughing, that erudite retard at oracle makes six figures stringing PR shit together.

  17. Re:why 380v? on Are Data Centers Finally Ready For DC Power? · · Score: 1

    At the pc power supply's first conversion stage the 110 vac is rectified and or doubled then smoothed to (~250-380 vdc) then chopped and transformed to 12v an 5v. Further filtering and more conversion to 3.3 v and lower depending on the motherboard. Lower dc voltages and higher currents are harder to switch on and off in case of a malfunction. There is much to consider about where, when, and how much dc voltage you want. My home solution would differ from that of a large data center, but 380 vdc sounds ok for this application. Standard pc power supplies can consume this with little or no modifications.

  18. Re:It makes sense if you think of it on Why America Doesn't Need More Tech Giants Like Apple · · Score: 1

    If the objective is creating jobs then what you want is creating inefficiency: lots of small companies that employ people below their full capacity. Large companies are experts at employing as few people as possible.

    Well done Sir, I think you've cracked it. Do we spread "it" around (99%) or pile "it" all up and put the megaprofits overseas in a tax free account (1%). The biggest problem we all face is letting the 1% make the decision!

  19. Turbo on Verizon Announces Pay-Per-Use 'Turbo Boost' For Smartphones · · Score: 1

    Didn't we leave this turbo marketing turd behind in the 80's? Please get NASA started on the B ark, before its too late. I think I saw turbo toothpaste just recently and it lessened my will to live.

  20. Re:Who is this guy? on Helping the FBI Track You · · Score: 1

    It is easy to be anonymous when nobody cares who you are. If he were a celebrity with public interest, a very different result would occur.

    Celebrities should try it, tell the media everything and always plug your favorite charity. After a few months of unlimited self promotion the media will avoid them like the plague. Do you remember the kid on the playground yelling "look at me" or just how annoying he was?

  21. How many kids does Bill Gate have? on Bill Gates On What Business Can Teach Schools · · Score: 1
    I'm a parent and throwing Phds / politicians at the problem is how it got fudged up in the first place.

    The current administration of schools is a bigger problem, we have them all chasing test scores.

    Tell Mr. Gates to find a cure for rampant greed, the top %1 have taken enough already.

  22. Re:so a typo is now unlawful access? on Security Researcher Threatened With Vulnerability Repair Bill · · Score: 1

    Accidentally walking into a neighbor's apartment is an accident. Doing it repeatedly because now you know they leave the door unlocked is a crime.

    It's more like every room can be unlocked with its room number. Security like that is priceless, dare them to take you to court.

  23. Re:Google is squishy soft on business identity on Google's Real Name Policy, Why You Are the Product · · Score: 1

    Because of Google's "we don't care who you are" policy about advertisers, ... Most of those scams depend on advertiser anonymity.

    Product fights back: If you want my privacy gone, expect to give up your's. Every officer's name of every company responsible should be on every ad. It would be fun to make a top 500 list of ad douche bags. Maybe publish their fb likes, home address, bank balances, children's names, hell its only their privacy.

  24. Re:Work and study on Laptops In the Classroom Don't Increase Grades · · Score: 1

    I'd much rather employ someone who knew how do do computer assisted research or build a spread sheet to calculate unit costs than someone well versed in memorized facts that are obsolete as soon as you walk out of the test hall.

    Not if you work in HR, meaningless test scores and certs rule!

  25. Re:Who cares? on Which Company Is the Largest? · · Score: 1

    Used to be Apple users telling Jobs he had a big one, now Walstreet wants to admire it also.