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  1. ADD Generation on This 1981 BYTE Magazine Cover Explains Why We're So Bad At Tech Predictions · · Score: 1

    Yeah, thats right, everything about how we predict anything boils down to one shitty cover from 33 years ago. Guess it is time to give up.

  2. Re:That's cute on Ask Slashdot: Are AdBlock's Days Numbered? · · Score: 2

    Exactly. Fuck Ads. Find another way to monetize. Especially you shitty sites that are doing nothing more than regurgitating articles disguised as something else for search engines. For the legit sites, sucks. Use your damn brain and iterate away from in my face ads for shit I am never going to click on and buy. Thanks.

  3. Re:Children with progeria make results inconclusiv on Biological Clock Discovered That Measures Ages of Most Human Tissues · · Score: 1

    Not necessarily. Think of it this way: Hang two wall clocks, one inside your house, and one outside. They both keep perfect time, but over time, the one outside, battered by wind, sea air, etc... corrodes quicker, the outside beaten all to hell. So, appearance is aged, internals are aged, but both can still keep the same time (up to a point of course) which is akin to what happens to kids with progeria.

  4. Re:None use intel or amd for graphics? on Steam Machine Prototypes Use Intel CPUs, NVIDIA GPUs · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This is why open source is a stupid idea. With closed source software, people have to PAY you for your WORK. With open source, everyone rips you off and you're left complaining about how they didn't contribute, with no recourse because you were dumb enough to work for free.

    Man if I had points, you'd get em. Complaining about doing work (free), that everyone uses, is anathema to open source. Either get on the boat or off - straddling the middle just makes for a good youtube video.

  5. Re:any pub is good pub on 20 People Shot With BB Guns At LG G2 Promotional Event · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Isnt that one of those sayings people who fucked up say to make themselves feel better? There is plenty of publicity that is horrible to receive, especially when unwanted. Anthony Weiner. You think the publicity he got made good for him imagewise? Pollwise? Granted, the guy was a dick to begin with, who would have voted for him, but the phallusy that all publicity is good, hardly.

  6. Re:Oh Shit! on 20 People Shot With BB Guns At LG G2 Promotional Event · · Score: 1

    Isnt that more equivalent to "I got the shits!" ?

  7. Re:Obligatory: on 20 People Shot With BB Guns At LG G2 Promotional Event · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You must hate classic 80's TV. WKRP reference FTW

  8. Booze Cruise on Radical New Icebreaker Will Travel Through the Ice Sideways · · Score: 1

    Ah, I can see it now! Start buying futures in the new line of Party Boats: "Now that we've broken the ice, what's your name?"

  9. Re:Still 32GB barrier on Love and Hate For Java 8 · · Score: 1

    Java 8 is still limited to 32-bit array indexes, meaning, e.g. that arrays of doubles are limited to 32GB. Java won't get true 64-bit support until Java 9 in 2016.

    32GB should be enough for anybody.

    Great reference, if I had the points, I'd mod you up.

  10. Re:Good on them on New Moons of Pluto Named Kerberos and Styx; Popular Choice 'Vulcan' Snubbed · · Score: 1

    Vulcan was thought to be between Mars and Jupiter by the ancient Greeks and Romans.

  11. Re:Holy Mackerel on Google Chrome 27 Is Out: 5% Faster Page Loads · · Score: 1

    You just don't get it man!

    Why would you not want to be riding a horse instead of upgrading to those fancy metal boxes with radios and seats and large storage space.

    Ridiculous! Progress is for all those crazy futurists.

    Gimme a plain transistor radio for all my news and entertainment.

    Get off my lawn!

  12. Re:What? What happened to 359? on Microsoft Unveils Xbox One · · Score: 1

    You can trust that the next one won't be called "Xbox Two".

    After the display I watched, I'd be suprised if there is a next one after the Xbox One. It seems they are playing themselves out the market rather easily. SteamBox and Ouya will most likely provide all the gaming needs we require in the near future, minus the draconian "ALL IN ONE" box bullshit idea. I have a PVR -- TV covered. Do I really need this multimedia center to be vastly overpriced and underpowered versus a 3 year old PC? to play MP3s and Fantasy Football? LOL. No thanks.

  13. Re:iSore? on Steve Jobs' Yacht Revealed · · Score: 1

    Seriously. If that is amazing design, I'll keep my 18' criscraft.

  14. Re:The movie is hit and miss on Blender Debuts Fourth Open Source Movie: Tears of Steel · · Score: 2

    This movie is hit and miss. The bottom line for the Blender Foundation is to get people talking about Blender. Nobody really expected their underdog 3d program to be able to produce amazing visual effects. The more of these movies they produce, the more people will be talking about Blender. However, what they could stand to produce are movies that tell a more compelling story. Is it visually compelling? Sure, but Tears of Steel leaves the audience with all sort of questions about what is happening, who the characters are, what is at stake....and we haven't a clue.

    Not sure I follow. The story is pretty straightforward. Tom fucked up 40 years earlier and told a machine he was not interested. Flash forward he is trying to amend that past mistake.

    I also disagree about story structure. Not everything has to be a formulaic question, research, resolution. Some of the greatest fiction of all time does not answer every burning question. The audience is left to fill in gaps where appropriate. Mystery is still a good thing in storytelling.

    Now I will grant that this needed a little more foreground story, but all the thematic elements were there to get a good idea of what and why things were happening.

  15. Finder of Lost Children on DARPA Unveils System Using Human Brains For Computer Vision · · Score: 1

    Perfect example, ties into google glass and is able to scan for missing/kidnapped children. Of course, the filpside, abuse way, finding cheating spouses. Information is neither good nor evil, just the users.

  16. Re:Good for Whom? on Amazon Now Discounting HarperCollins EBooks · · Score: 1

    You clearly have never read an unedited manuscript. If you had, you'd never suggest anyone with a computer writing a novel and having it published.

    So, for the first 5k years writings/books only made it because someone else edited someone else's work? That smacks of elitism and is a pretty poor counterpoint to the above.

  17. News for Herds? on Windows 8 Is 'a Work of Art.' But It's No Linux · · Score: 1

    I love tacos, they are a culinary masterpiece, but why do I keep eating pizza? A subjective opinion passed off as actual news; how novel.

  18. That Explains It! on Study Suggests You Can Learn New Things In Your Sleep · · Score: 1

    So, that is why my girlfriend remembers everything I say to her while she is asleep - it's the fart smell association!

  19. Accountants Rejoice! on Solid State Quantum Computer Finds 15=3x5 — 48% of the Time · · Score: 1

    Great, now some financier is going to get the brilliant idea to start using this to calculate my paycheck each week.

  20. All Your Bases Belonging to XKCD on And Now, the Cartoon News · · Score: 2

    Considering /. has become somewhat of a joke for news lately anyway, sure.

  21. Ignorance nor indifference is no excuse on Baby's First TSA Patdown · · Score: 1

    A charge to freedom should not include wreckless behavior that endangers all those who enjoy said freedom. A douchebag drunk on the road is already on the road. They made a choice to endanger others. Police cameras on the road are not cameras in your house, and what would you have the police do? Go back to hoping someone in society helps identfy people for them because of their limited resources? Drug testing where? Private buisnesses or schools or what? ID requirements for drugs, what is the problem? If you can buy the drugs, you most likely have ID.

  22. Job Offer right here.... on Best Way To Land Entry-Level Job? · · Score: 1

    I am hiring. Seriously. http://tbe.taleo.net/NA5/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org=MTVNETWORKS&cws=1&rid=207 If you even come close to those sets of skills listed, you will get considered. Honestly, I need someone who can code, yes, but is also hard working and willing to be part of a team, not a lone gunman. If you have ego or attitude, don't apply. If you can at least do python/c++ or C# don't hesistate to apply. Is that entry level opportunity enough for you? Cheers.

  23. Use what is appropriate not FUD on Why Some Devs Can't Wait For NoSQL To Die · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's a poor artist / programmer / cook / et. al. that blames his tools. If you know the problem, you use the best tool to solve it. SQL or Document-DBs or Graph-DBs whatever is the best fit to solve the problem is what you use. You don't go around saying something is crap because you have no need for it.

  24. DRM on Grateful Dead Percussionist Makes Music From Supernovas · · Score: 2, Funny

    So have they modified it enough to be an original work, or is the FSM getting ready to sue over copyright infringement.....

  25. How about on the job.... on Schooling, Homeschooling, and Now, "Unschooling" · · Score: 1

    No direct experience with unschooling, but I know plenty of slack asses who do unworking....