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  1. Eating and shitting aren't our purpose, that's like saying my cell phone's purpose is to consume battery.

    It's a byproduct of the actual purpose.

    To fuck and suffer.

    Or more elegantly, to fuck and be fucked in return.

  2. Re:Ponder this on Former NSA, CIA Director Michael Hayden Sides With Apple Over FBI (foxbusiness.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What was the point of human existence before computers?

    I doubt it's changed.

  3. Re:Simplistic on Future of Employment: How Susceptible Are Jobs To Computerization? · · Score: 1

    tell that to IBM's Watson....

    http://www.digitaltrends.com/c...

  4. Re:Tesla enables Edison to win the endgame? on How Tesla Batteries Will Force Home Wiring To Go Low Voltage · · Score: 2

    200+ vs MILLIONS of installations of AC

    yes, 200 is a handful in comparison.

  5. Re:Stripped down version on YouTube Going Dark On Older Devices · · Score: 2

    Yeah the problem with those features being broken is that when they update the keys on BlueRay discs, you're fucked.

    You have to buy a new DVD player.

    Let's say they DID work..... but sony decided not to bother updating your blueray player because it's >2 years old ....once again you're fucked.

  6. Re:Pro-Boy Bias? on Will Elementary School Teachers Take the Rap For Tech's Diversity Problem? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is absolutely correct, I have kids and the school system is definitely set up for the women.

    Boys get in trouble just for being boys. All of the ages things are learned at is in sync with when girls mature and are ready for the teachings.

    School is not biased towards the boys at all.

  7. Bullshit Stats. on As Amazon Grows In Seattle, Pay Equity For Women Declines · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Except that when you look at pay equity with relation to what role/job they pay, this feminist bullshit disappears.

    When you look at the overall without understanding it at all.....it looks like we live in a sexist society because women choose more emotionally rewarding careers than financially rewarding.

  8. Re:Answer needed on Verizon's Accidental Mea Culpa · · Score: 1

    because Verizon is being paid by their customers to access this data.

    Why should verizon have any peering agreements with anyone?

    Why not just operate their own network that doesn't peer out to the internet as a whole?

    As a customer of an ISP, I'm not paying for the ISP to deliver me to their own internal network. I'm paying them to deliver my data to the peered connections. ALWAYS.

    If my ISP has one peered connection that's beyond capacity, I expect them to upgrade it, as it's the cost of doing business.

    And especially when it's cheap. This is chump change to them, and Level3 even offered to pay for it..... why is verizon saying no?

  9. Re:I disagree on Verizon's Accidental Mea Culpa · · Score: 2

    This is a peering agreement, not a service agreement. Even if it were a service agreement, then it should be Verizon paying Level 3 so that verizon's customers can access the content they want.

    Peering agreements don't usually pay each other because both networks gain advantage from the peer-connection.

  10. Re:In Verizon's defense on Verizon's Accidental Mea Culpa · · Score: 2

    Horseback?

    From Verizon, I'd be surprised if they were even given shoes.

    End Of the Year is a schedule determined carefully by verizon so that Verizon can figure out how to offer their own competing service "Without the problems of netflix!" ....or possibly because Verizon has to force netflix into a complex solution to hide the fact that it's a simple problem.

  11. Re:PR needs to talk to tech on Verizon's Accidental Mea Culpa · · Score: 2

    It is painful how true that is.

    Most of the time they get away with it, I'm just ecstatic that they didn't this time.....and soooo badly......

  12. Before on German Intelligence Employee Arrested On Suspicion of Spying For US On Bundestag · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What the article gets wrong and EVERYONE forgets is that the spying did not start AFTER 9/11 but BEFORE new york was attacked.

    This was not in response to the twin towers, this was well under way before then.

  13. Re:Except, of course, they have to prove you can on Mass. Supreme Court Says Defendant Can Be Compelled To Decrypt Data · · Score: 1

    Two Factor doesn't work like that.

    Two factor only works when authenticating to a service, not decrypting a volume.

  14. Re:So what...? on Driverless Cars Could Cripple Law Enforcement Budgets · · Score: 1

    Agreed, it's very frustrating how few people understand the broken window fallacy

  15. Re:SubjectsInCommentsAreStupid on Ask Slashdot: Easy-To-Use Alternative To MS Access For a Charity's Database? · · Score: 1

    How is SQL express a solution when he specifically stated MYSQL was a bad idea due to technical limitations?

    With 0 technical expertise, SQL Express is still going to need a custom web frontend for access to the data etc.....

    I do'nt disagree, that Star/Libre/Open office base isn't a worthwhile solution, but MYSQL vs MSSQL is the same issue.

  16. net neutrality on WSJ Reports AT&T May Be Eying a $40B DirecTV Acquisition · · Score: 5, Insightful

    All the more reason net neutrality matters. A LOT.

    Hmmm, do I want the disney internet, or the work internet, or the Time-Warner internet, or the HBO internet...

    It will become mindless channels instead of the broad communication tool it is now

  17. Re:This is true. on More On the Disposable Tech Worker · · Score: 1

    .... I'm confused as to how this is liberalism???

  18. Sync on Hardware and software on Linux May Succeed Windows XP As OS of Choice For ATMs · · Score: 1

    So, I'm all for them switching away from MS....

    But the idea that they need to sync their software upgrades with their hardware upgrades is RIDICULOUS.

    Are you kidding me? How do they deal with patches? How do they deal with exploits?

    Hardware on an ATM can't get replaced THAT often and if that's when they want to run software updates?

  19. Government sponsored on Bitcoin Exchange Flexcoin Wiped Out By Theft · · Score: 2, Interesting

    So..... here's the thing.... .... while I'm no user nor defender of bitcoin, the idea seems fun...

    except you're pissing off the biggest governments in the world (US, Russia, China) by creating a currency they can't control........ currency is used as a method of control ...now if I have an army of digital terrorists (APT's) and a digital currency that may undermine my rule........

    well I know exactly what I'm going to do. I'm going to steal and terrorize anyone who accepts it.

    Flame was ridiculously amazing, and those same programmers are still at work doing SOMEthing..... I'd bet they had a hand in some of these.... they seem too well co-ordinated, first one, then as the media coverage starts to die, another....and wait a week, we'll hear of a third.

  20. Amazon on With 'Virgin' Developers, Microsoft Could Fork Android · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The reality is that this is an opportunity for Amazon.....

    Amazon has an app store, they could have the ability to sell Blackberry, IOS, Android apps all from the vendors so that when you buy an app it's device agnostic.

    Then the app-stores that are phone specific now become ONE app store that allows you to take your apps with you. One App store that you can pick which version/compatibility to install.

    Amazon just needs to be able to import your Play Store Sales, and Apple Sales so that you can get those apps from them.

  21. I worry about the script kiddies on EU Secretly Plans To Put a Back Door In Every Car By 2020 · · Score: 2

    ...suddenly a vulnerability is found and a kid rips off the first DDOT (Distributed Denial of Transportation)

    and all of London's cars come to a grinding halt...

  22. Re:Of course it is here to stay on Senator Dianne Feinstein: NSA Metadata Program Here To Stay · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The useful ones.

  23. Re:In terms of the overall system on Ford Will Demo Solar-Charged Car At CES · · Score: 1

    then you can only half go there.

  24. Re:Thomas Edison on Ask Slashdot: When Is Patent License Trading Not Trolling? · · Score: 2

    Yeah, Edison profited off the research of his students, and everyone around him......a bad example to be used if they want to prove patents are useful.

  25. Yahoo on Secret Court Upholds Phone Data Collection · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So is the Secret Court lying, or is Yahoo's Marissa, google, lavabit and a handful of other companies that supposedly challenged their compliance lying?

    because someone is, and my guess is the people that are running the 'secret' courts are lying.