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  1. Re:My experience setting up my grandparents' roku. on Ask Slashdot: Video Streaming For the Elderly? · · Score: 1

    I agree with all this. I am well past 60 and Roku was drop dead easy, helped me kill cable too.

  2. broccoli on A Scientist's Quest For Perfect Broccoli · · Score: 1

    Well IMO steaming broccoli is the problem, never really liked it much that way. Now baked in the oven is a game changer for me, love it love it, oh and raw isn't bad either.

  3. bay area on How Silicon Valley's Tech Reign Will End · · Score: 1

    The bay area has one great thing going for it, as I sit in 105 degree heat, its weather. A few days with a little heat, some rain, smog gets blown to other parts of the state. I lived there for many years, Fremont, Saratoga, San Jose, Redwood City. It started to get a little crowded for me so I left but I sure do miss it's weather.

  4. Re:Cloaking first? on Duke University Creates Perfect, Centimeter-scale Invisibility Cloak · · Score: 1

    Now that is funny! oh and of course we are! lol

  5. Re:Who started it? on US Suspects Iran Was Behind a Wave of Cyberattacks · · Score: 1

    I am an American Indian, what was that again?

  6. Re:No worries on Court Finds In Favor of Libraries In Google Books Affair · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Well having worked in a couple of libraries, after fines clear no records are kept. I can tell you a total of books you've checked out but there is no way to see what books they were. Yeah they an change this but as of today, nothing is there.

  7. Re:Sucks to be siri on Google Puts Souped-Up Neural Networks To Work · · Score: 3, Funny

    I've often wondered how "sucks" got to mean something bad.

  8. Re:But that's not the real problem. on To Encourage Biking, Lose the Helmets · · Score: 1

    Well the arguement goes like this, at least it did for motorcycle helmet laws. Sure if you choose not to wear one please don't, just sign a waiver you will be responsible for ALL your care in case of serious injury. I do not want to pay for your brain damage care because you CHOSE not to wear a helmet. Also we need to teach bicycle driver they are a vehicle, not a pedestrian, and do NOT have right of way like a pedestrian, at least in this state.

  9. only ones on Ask Slashdot: Hearing Aids That Directly Connect To Smart Phones? · · Score: 1

    The only ones I found that worked well at all were 12 thousand dollars, they used bluetooth , phones, ipods were crystal clear, but so was the price, same amount I put down on the house I'm living in. So I still say huh a lot, lol

  10. Re:Wrong question on Are Commercial Games Finally Going To Make It To Linux? · · Score: 1

    Boy isn't that the truth! I have never had a problem with HP in Linux or using Windows. that said I never have gotten the HP suite to work anywhere. Bloated, confusing, crashes, you name it. Their software is as bad as their printers are good.

  11. could help on The Implications of Google Restricting Access To Anti-Islam Film · · Score: 1

    Well maybe if Google gave an "opt out" button so the people in the mid-east would realize the vast majority of people in the US don't care to see this video and actually think it's disgusting just like the Virgin Mary made out of tampons. I never saw that either and just like this video I hope Karma catches up to the 'artists' .

  12. Re:Hmm... on Iran and North Korea Team Up To Fight State-Sponsored Malware · · Score: 2

    Perfect, I'm reading the same thing I'm thinking on /. I need to see a doctor.

  13. Nothing on Ask Slashdot: How To Best Setup a School Internet Filter? · · Score: 2

    Been working in Education for the last decade and I can say give it up. I have never seen any filter work more than a day at best. Lightspeed whatever just doesn't last very long. Kids start with proxy, but quickly switched to stealing passwords. The school year is only a week old and I have already seen a fairly complete list of staff passwords and ever our sys admin password. Get a Federal approved filter and do the best you can, keeping the systems working will kill all the time you have believe me.

  14. and? on GAO Sting Finds More Fake Military Parts From China · · Score: 1

    news flash... Governments lie, all governments all the time.. new around here?

  15. Used to be part owner in a day care a few years ago. Disney sent us a letter about paying to show their movies at the day care. I sold the business after that so I am not sure where this went, I just laughed.

  16. Re:If they were manned aircraft would it be an iss on FAA Bill Authorizes Surveillance Drones Over US · · Score: 1

    And privatization means the police can hire companies to do things the constitution won't let them, pesky little laws.

  17. Re:Incentives for Space Travel on Next-Gen Spacesuits · · Score: 1

    Agreed. Now for the tinfoil hat. We seem to have lost our will to explore space, it's not just money, people hardly care about space travel anymore. Reminds me of the Mule in Asimov the Foundation Series. Remember all the SF stories of Aliens denying us the right to space? Why send ships to stop us when just a few mental tweaks will take care of it? My only hope is breaking the heliosphere is a tripwire like the obelisk in 2001. I know I gotta turn off the TV. But Momma thats where the fun is.

  18. Re:So when will there be affordable cards on AMD's New Radeon HD 7950 Tested · · Score: 1

    Quiet computer? Well I bought a 4870, which just burned up, thank god. I got tired of leaving my computer on all night because I couldn't go through boot up without my computer sounding like a jet plane taking off and waking the whole house. At least I could control the fan in Windows for gaming but in Linux it just sat there at 5k rpm. Well at my old age I went back to school and gave up gaming, no time or money for a video card that costs as much as a console. BTW playing even WoW, or Rift at ultimate caused the card to run at 100c, scared me, probably explained the burned up board. So its win win I get to play with Linux again, and I have my day for me. No more ATI for me, second expensive card I bought from them and both didn't work out so well.

  19. Re:I won't on How Will You React To Twitter's Regional Censorship Plan? · · Score: 1

    Lol my mom worked as a physicist at SLAC in the 70's, when she won CB'er of the year. I still remember how proud she was of that. BTW Twitter? Closed my account.

  20. Re:Our own backyard? on SETI To Scour the Moon For Alien Footprints? · · Score: 1

    I'm reminded of that X-files show and the cockroaches, aliens everywhere, using swarm tech, lol. If the Panspermia theory is correct aren't we the aliens?

  21. interesting on DigiTimes Lends Credence To Apple-Branded TVs For 2012 · · Score: 1

    Interesting, when you combine this with the story on Yahoo http://finance.yahoo.com/news/tv-prices-fall-squeezing-most-070009145.html. Good luck to Apple, seems they are gonna need it.

  22. Re:Wow on HIV Vaccine Approval For Human Trials · · Score: 3, Insightful

    IMO it pays the lawyers, who put everything but curing you as a bad side effect. "Hey we warned ya it would fall off, see, turn the page over."

  23. Re:Another step on Scientists Developed Artificial Structures That Can Self-Replicate · · Score: 2

    Ugly bags of mostly water

  24. cheat free? on Reaction To Diablo 3's Always-Online Requirement · · Score: 1

    So a permanent connection will make the game cheat free? Why cheat when it will only take more cash to get what you want. Runaway inflation and taxes in the real world will kill this game in no time IMO. WoW seem to have done OK with the"rampant" cheating going on. Squeezing every penny, when your making billions, never works out well in the end.

  25. Wait on AT&T To Start Data Throttling Heaviest Users · · Score: 1

    You mean AT&T actually connects cell phone calls?, wow wish I signed up for that option, I keep getting 2 week old text messages. Maybe