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  1. Re:Electronic Sabbath on Toronto Family Bans All Technology In Their Home Made After 1986 · · Score: 1

    Yay for moving the goalposts.

    What you said, and what I was replying to was about going no further than walking distance on a Sunday. You said nothing about disagreeable weather or whatever. I don't as it happens own a car at the moment, so the idea of being restricted to being within walking distance does not fill me with dread.

    Yay cluelessness.

    The goalposts haven't moved.
    I'm still talking about going somewhere on Sunday that is more than walking distance. I'm only giving a reason as to WHY you'd want to do that. You seemed to be completely unaware of why it might be an issue that you couldn't go out of walking distance on Sunday.

    Yeah, people in 1986 were dying in the street in droves

    Maybe not droves, but they were dying in situations where a cellphone might have saved them or helped them.

  2. Re:Electronic Sabbath on Toronto Family Bans All Technology In Their Home Made After 1986 · · Score: 1

    I guess you've never really lived anywhere that has extremely disagreeable weather where a sunny sunday might mean the only day its worth going anywhere to do anything. unnecessarily knee-capping yourself is just silly.

    Just like the parents in the article, beyond how ridiculous they were, they went over board.
    She talks about deleting her facebook..
    why?
    It's not in your house. Leave up a note saying you're gone for a year and pick it up when the year is over
    Why completely cancel the the cellphone?
    It's still useful in an emergency, and again, outside the house. Use it only when you're out and about as a "car phone" at the very least. With the rule that it stays in the car or something like that when at home.
    What happens if you're out and about and you have a medical emergency? I guess we can just die like we would have in 1986.

  3. Re:Electronic Sabbath on Toronto Family Bans All Technology In Their Home Made After 1986 · · Score: 1

    And its' no longer out of the ordinary when it's regularly scheduled to happen every single saturday night.

    We also had a lot of power outages when I was young, great fun when a tree branch cuts off the power to the area for several days during an ice storm and your pipes burst and flood.

  4. Re:Electronic Sabbath on Toronto Family Bans All Technology In Their Home Made After 1986 · · Score: 1

    no lights? It's fine if you want to say no computer/TV for a day or something like that.. but that's just a bit ridiculous. Did you ride a horse to the store? That basically means going nowhere outside of walking distance on a Sunday..

  5. Re:Moo on Study Shows Professors With Tenure Are Worse Teachers · · Score: 1

    Or is it that non-tenured teachers are trying to become tenured?

    If you take away the carrot maybe everyone stops trying.

  6. Re:Victim Belt on Lowell Observatory Pushes To Name an Asteroid "Trayvon" · · Score: 2

    Yeah because Anne Frank and Trayvon are remotely in the same league.

  7. They've almost driven it into the ground on Skype: Has Microsoft's $8.5B Spending Paid Off Yet? Can It Ever? · · Score: 1

    Microsoft has just about destroyed skype, so don't worry. They're keeping with their business model. Their latest version on android introduced numerous device and app breaking bugs making the software nearly unusable. The inability to make a useful bug report really shows us what Microsoft brings to the table.

  8. Re:Pointless on New, Canon-Faithful Star Trek Series Is In Pre-Production · · Score: 1

    you forget that there are series out there made by fans.. if they aren't going to stop them they won't stop this.

  9. What part of the "the second link is 4 years out of date and doesn't justify your douchebaggy attitude" did you have trouble understanding?

  10. I read it, please stop pretending that you didn't post 2 links.

  11. In 2009, it consumed energy from the following sources

    2013-2009= how much?

    and if you don't care about it, why come here and post about it in such a douchebaggy manner?

  12. There is nothing that says condescending douchebag more than starting your reply with "took like 30 seconds of googling". But hey pointing out that said colossal douchebag provided out of date irrelevant information in a fast changing industry and did so in a douchbaggy manner is somehow the one who deserves to be chastised.

  13. Re:NO NO NO on Germany Produces Record-Breaking 5.1 Terawatt Hours of Solar Energy In One Month · · Score: 1, Troll

    30 seconds of googling to get 4 year old statistics. Wow.. what a great locator of information you are. They've obviously been improving renewable energy so those statistics are outdated and not remotely useful.

  14. Yahoo has a thing against Dead people on Yahoo Deletes Journalist's Pre-Paid Legacy Site After Suicide · · Score: 1

    This is just a phase Yahoo is going through. Yesterday they informed me, like it was a good thing, that they had gone in and edited my address book without my permission and deleted an entry belonging to a friend who passed away many years ago. I think it's pretty clear that Yahoo seems to have some kind of hate on for dead people and legacy accounts. Thanks yahoo! I'll be sure not to die while using your service.

  15. The limits of Google’s openness on Google Blocks YouTube App On Windows Phone (Again) · · Score: 3

    Speaking of openness,
    hey microsoft, whose leg do I have to hump to get through to someone who speaks passable english and can address bug reports?
    Your android version of skype is completely and utterly broken and has been for weeks.
    From a complete lack of a button to get into an existing call that hasn't been picked up. skype inexplicably dumps you from the call screen while it's ringing with no way to get back in if you want to hang up prior to it being answered or say if you reach an elderly person who doesn't believe in voicemail which means the voice just rings forever)
    to ghost rings which simply refuse to stop ringing even after you've signed out of and terminated the skype app. Not only do they continue during your call making it impossible to talk to the other person, after you sign-out, terminate the app from memory, your phone is still somehow still ringing requiring your to actually restart your device to make it stop.

    Maybe if you got your act together people might be more willing to cut you some slack, but lets face facts. You're a shit company, with shit methodologies, and nobody really cares about your struggles.

  16. Korea on Ask Slashdot: When Is It OK To Not Give Notice? · · Score: 1

    In Korea, employees are not legally required to give notice to quit, most places try to put clauses in requiring 30 days notice, but they're not legal and aren't enforceable.
    Employers are required to give extensive notice before letting someone go except in rare circumstances where they can prove they had to let that person go that very minute.

    and Korea has extensive defamation laws so employers really have to think twice about bad mouthing a prior employee.

  17. Kickstart for TV on Why Internet Television Isn't Quite Ready To Save Us From Cable TV · · Score: 1

    Why not a model like this:
    Organization wants to create a TV show,
    they create a budget
    they crowd-fund it using a kick starter style method
    All the people who support it get first access on air date. It's released to the general public 1 week/1 month later/3 days earlier on the pirate bay
    Each season they fund again.

    TV becomes democratic. TV shows which flounder are unlikely to get funded for another season, we find out what people really want to watch.

  18. Re:indictable offense? on SF Airport Officials Make Citizen Arrests of Internet Rideshare Drivers · · Score: 1

    That's not what it is. It says they sent warnings to the companies, not the individual users of the app. How would the airport know if someone is there to pick up their friend or picking up someone via a rideshare app anyway?
    In order to arrest someone for trespass, they'd have to be personally notified prior that they weren't welcome on the property.

  19. Re:stupid on Campaign To Kill CAPTCHA Kicks Off · · Score: 1

    purging the spam comments isn't even half the problem. I recently set up a site for a small hobby group here using Joomla with K2. As they only had a few members and were migrating people from a facebook group to their site, they didn't really feel the need for a lot of things, like captchas on the blog comments. 2 months after we set it up, I get a panicked text about how it isn't working and the hoster had shut down their site. After getting access to site, I found there were hundreds of thousands of blog comments which had basically been posted at once by some spam bot.

    Captchas enabled, no problem since. Screw blind people. If they want a site to even use, they'll just have to deal with it. not that I think they'd be much for a bike club..but I could be wrong..

  20. Re:The benefit is in custom parts on Study Finds 3D Printers Pay For Themselves In Under a Year · · Score: 1

    How detailed are these things? Can they print really fine detail?
    If they could.. they might be useful for say a table top DM. Rather than running out and trying to buy miniatures, baddy of the week could be printed up, a coat of primer and slap some paint on him. there might be an application in certain hobbies.

  21. Re:indictable offense? on SF Airport Officials Make Citizen Arrests of Internet Rideshare Drivers · · Score: 1

    I'm still not sure how picking someone up at the airport would even qualify as an infraction.

  22. indictable offense? on SF Airport Officials Make Citizen Arrests of Internet Rideshare Drivers · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Is picking someone up at the airport an indictable offense?
    reason #8732 not to fly to the US...

  23. Re:really.. on RHex Robot Shows Off Parkour Moves · · Score: 0

    barely thigh high things, not even barriers, things like those island square benches, or stuff like that, and if you want to talk about smart, how about just opening a door rather than stopping, assessing it, leaping off 2 walls and diving through a tiny window above the door without knowing what's on the other side.. if you think you're capable of that and it's smart, you really shouldn't be worried about catching your toe on a short little obstacle, especially one which you pretty much have to go out of your way to encounter.

    Parkour is no remotely about quickly and efficiently..it's about showing off and pretending that's what it is about. It's like the pro wrestling of running.

  24. Re:Darmok and Jihad at Viagra on Signs Point To XKCD's Time Ending · · Score: 1

    if I had a penny for every back to the future quote someone felt the need to dredge up..

  25. really.. on RHex Robot Shows Off Parkour Moves · · Score: 1

    hurling yourself quickly and efficiently past whatever obstacles are in your path while maintaining as much momentum as possible.

    If this were true, then we wouldn't see all these videos of people doing weird 2 handed hops over things that are either not directly in their path or barely thigh high.