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  1. Re:interesting on SEC Alleges 'Bitcoin Savings & Trust' Is a Ponzi Scheme · · Score: 1

    Paypal?

  2. Re:I hope it explodes and kills him on Version 2.0 of 3D-Printed Rifle Successfully Fires 14 Rounds · · Score: 1

    You really are a pretty bad person.

  3. Re:My first anomynous coward post on Slashdot on Campaign To Kill CAPTCHA Kicks Off · · Score: 1

    LOL I have to submit a Captcha code to post this to Slashdot, I love the irony!

    How is that ironic?

  4. Re:Security hole? on YouTube Adds Play Icon To Page Titles To Show Which Tabs Are Making Noise · · Score: 1

    ...er, no. Each page is in charge of itself, setting the icon when that page has playing content. There is nothing about iterating over what tabs you have open or other nonsense.

  5. Re:Next Doctor on New Doctor Who Actor To Be Revealed This Sunday · · Score: 1

    Jesus flipping Christ. Christopher Lloyd would make such a good Doctor.

  6. Re:I would love to wait on New Doctor Who Actor To Be Revealed This Sunday · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately the broken cog in your story is that you're not really the user group he's referring to. Don't think that you're the norm, that everyone legitimately has access to this but chooses to pirate for usability reasons.

    It's also worth mentioning in your example, you're actually depriving the network of advertising revenue by pirating it, unless you also watch it that day later as it shows up on your local network.

  7. Re:People hate change on A Year of Linux Desktop At Westcliff High School · · Score: 1

    That doesn't really make his point any less valid, mind you. I'm sure there are people out there who use MS Paint and have no issues with its featureset.

  8. Re:High School for Girls Academy on A Year of Linux Desktop At Westcliff High School · · Score: 1, Informative

    I haven't heard the typical result for Windows 7 being "meh"

    In terms of ordinary end users, Windows 7 has surpassed Windows XP for quite a while now. The business world is another story.

  9. Re:Apples to Oranges on Apple Faces New China Worker Abuse Claims · · Score: 1

    Wow who actually modded that up. It's painful to read.

  10. Re:hello on Robot Produces Paintings With That 'Imperfect' Human Look · · Score: 1

    Holy quote cherry-picking! Why don't you finish reading the posts you reply to.

    It might be different elsewhere but not in the west.

  11. Re:In fairness on 55,000 Sign Twitter Abuse Petition After Jane Austen Campaigner Threats · · Score: 1

    His point, regardless if it's valid or not in this instance, is how much we the reader see in books that isn't actually there. Due to our own personal beliefs, we see things relevant to those beliefs in the books we read, when more often than not the author never actually intended for such a secondary meaning in the first place. It can become so pervasive that the original intent of the author is completely lost as these secondary meanings become accepted as the truth.

  12. Re:hello on Robot Produces Paintings With That 'Imperfect' Human Look · · Score: 1

    Well, of course a condo is a type of apartment by the very meaning of the word, but you'd be hard pressed to find someone owning or renting a condo from calling it an apartment. Having an apartment has a pretty solid meaning over here, and a condo is higher on the scale of ownership so people will call them condos. It might be different elsewhere but not in the west.

  13. Re:hello on Robot Produces Paintings With That 'Imperfect' Human Look · · Score: 1

    Paid off the mortgage on their apartment?! Holy cow! That's great!

  14. More waste. on Every Public School Student In LA Will Get an iPad In 2014 · · Score: 1

    Why an iPad? Seriously if they want to go the tablet form factor there are plenty of alternatives that are cheaper and just as bit as good for the job involved.

    This is just another throw-technology-at-the-problem situation that will, yet again, produce no observable benefits. $30 million only for the first 31,000 students. What a joke.

  15. Yes. Absolutely. on Would You Let a Robot Stick You With a Needle? · · Score: 1

    A nurse once tried to draw blood from an acquaintance of mine, and ended up paralyzing him for over a year before he managed to get the use of his arm back. They were sure he was never going to have the feeling returned to his arm. If the machine can reliably find the right areas the stick then more power to them. With nurses and other individuals, it's still often a matter of trial an error, especially on certain patients with harder to find veins.

  16. AWS GovCloud on Ask Slashdot: Secure DropBox Alternative For a Small Business? · · Score: 1

    This is exactly what the system is designed for: https://aws.amazon.com/govcloud-us/

  17. Re:Who has the biggest kitchen sink? on Love and Hate For Java 8 · · Score: 1

    That isn't even close to what is happening here, though.

  18. Re:Who has the biggest kitchen sink? on Love and Hate For Java 8 · · Score: 1

    I agree that Java is basically playing catch-up with C#, but I don't agree that taking concepts that are useful in C# and implementing them in Java which is a very similar language is illegitimate, unless they half-ass the implementation.

  19. Re:Who has the biggest kitchen sink? on Love and Hate For Java 8 · · Score: 1

    So...the language should never advance in areas where it is lacking?

  20. Re:Here's another reason to hate NetFlix on Why Netflix Is One of the Most Important Cloud Computing Companies · · Score: 2

    I don't see the big deal with this, honestly. This is primarily a problem for individuals who have a problem managing their budgets. When they see $10 in their account and think it's OK to spend $10 despite prior commitments like Netflix, they need to keep better track of their money and where it's going. I say this as someone who frequently had this problem when I was just starting out.

    I, too, prefer to simply pay bills rather than having it automatically deducted, but I won't raise a stink if it isn't an option. It's just so low on my radar that it's not worth the effort getting upset.

    For the record, your friend should call her bank and arrange to have overdrafting disabled as it is never worth the fees involved. That system is your bank screwing you far more than Netflix ever can. Every bank can do this as far as I know. Then when Netflix tries to debit a card with insufficient funds, it will simply fail.

  21. Re:The Greatest Lying Mouth of All Time(tm) on Congress Voting On Amendment to Defund NSA Domestic Spying Tomorrow · · Score: 2

    You are truly an idiot if you believe such a common alias could be easily tied to the person you're replying to. Be honest, how many normal "spacepimp" profiles did you go through on Google before you found the incriminating furry one you could attempt to use to devalue his post?

  22. Re:Fingerprint it! on Ask Slashdot: How To Deliver a Print Magazine Online, While Avoiding Piracy? · · Score: 1

    This sort of thing actually happens, dude. In fact there have been particularly unscrupulous ones that even use child porn to trap their victims in the legal system.

  23. Re:This goes against slashdot doctrine! on Around 2,000 Fukushima Workers At Risk of Thyroid Cancer · · Score: 1

    You are an idiot.

  24. Re:Headline epic fails. on MIT Uses Machine Learning Algorithm To Make TCP Twice As Fast · · Score: 1

    That's girlintraining for you.

  25. Re:US rental industry is insane on Piracy Rates Plummet As Legal Alternatives Come To Norway · · Score: 1

    He said "either."