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  1. Silly business - costs on T-Mobile Returns To Unlimited Data Plans · · Score: -1

    I don't understand how people justify these ludicrous bills. Wifi everywhere, get fring+skype, gtalk for texts when you can, then pay as you go passed that. Platinumtel offers sprint service with whatever sprint android phone you have (through ptel.ws byod). I pay ~4.50$/month (after 180$ evo 3d craigslist + 40$ byod). Families must be in the multiple hundreds and I laugh out loud every time I see 1-5% of peoples income go toward phones. Yeah yeah you use your phone? Fine, I hope you like paying an extra 80$, or 17.77 times more than I pay. For one, that's 8 pizzas, 2 raspberry pis, 5+ indie games, a new set of memory, or an ssd EVERY MONTH For a family, thats a 24" monitor, .1 motorcycles, or a new processor EVERY MONTH. I don't understand the priorities but more power to ya.

  2. Auto-immune on Being Too Clean Can Make People Sick · · Score: -1

    Being too clean also brings forth a prevalent and more dangerous issue in recent decades: auto immune disorders, which is more deadly than having an impotent immune system. Also with antibacterial soap brings: anti-bacterial resistant infections, of which many people carry today. In the US, around 2.8% of people have just one of these resistant infections: MRSA. Disclaimer: didn't read the article. Sources: Wiki, Graham P, Lin S, Larson E (2006). "A U.S. population-based survey of Staphylococcus aureus colonization". Ann Intern Med 144 (5): 318–25. PMID 16520472.

  3. Re:Don't do it on Generic PCs For Corporate Use? · · Score: -1

    It worked fine for me so far (a year). I'd think it would work for programmers/sys admins who can administer their own systems. We saved a grand up front for each system and haven't spent a dime yet for replacements, even though we budgeted. What gear are you guys getting that breaks in 18 months? Hard drives break plenty, but that's it. That happens no matter what, and is an insignificant cost. My western digital caviar experience is too positive to be swayed otherwise, and I can't wait until SSDs because solid enough to last as long as ram. On top of that, we can upgrade our stuff for cheap. How does that figure in to dell? Still tax deductible, that seems a moot point. If it's all about money, why would I not squint at prices? Also, we use fedora. I'm sure windows increases the cost a ton. We got i5 750s, 4GB memory, 1TB WD hdds, gtx 260s, and premium asus boards. Cost effective, fast, solid.

  4. Re:What they NEED to hear!? Goebbels quotation?? on Does Personalized News Lead To Ignorance? · · Score: -1

    Need to hear? As if there were some morality associated with hearing particular events some group of people attribute importance to? Need to hear it or else what? To me I'd think the only logical conclusion to me not hearing news is that I wouldn't be informed of it, not like I 'm any less of a man. Want != Need, and different people have different wants.

  5. proletariat on Barack Obama Wins the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize · · Score: -1, Troll

    Don't jump the gun... with insane health reforms he might incite the US to civil war. I know I'm more annoyed at him than at W.

  6. Re:128 bit OS? on Microsoft Leaks Details of 128-bit Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    Vista eats that for breakfast, I need my 340.3 undecillion bytes!

  7. pics on Algae First To Recover After Asteroid Strike · · Score: 1

    Pics or didn't happen!

  8. Re:Driving While Distracted on Federal Summit Eyes Crackdown On Texting While Driving · · Score: 1

    It's not the common sense of the driver, but the law enforcer. The law enforcer can already pull someone over if they deem it dangerous, while they probably won't pull them over while texting if it's not dangerous. Yes, I believe there are safe texting while driving scenarios, but this law rules them all out at the get-go.

  9. better alternative on Honda's Answer To the Segway · · Score: 1

    I thought http://www.superbike.co.uk/imageBank/2/2007_CBR600RR.jpg was their response to segway. Cheaper, safer, faster, cooler.

  10. Re:WTF Summary on Google Buys reCAPTCHA For Better Book Scanning · · Score: 1

    They could have a list of possibilities, generated by computer or human. Then- They throw out the same word several times and aggregate the answers. Comparing elements in the aggregates they see how many people chose a particular word. When the probability that the word is wrong reaches near zero, they introduce it to the database. Don't know how they did it, that's just one of the ways they could have. Not a cure-all, but it helps with the scans I suppose.

  11. Bandwidth note on SA's Largest Telecomms Provider vs. a Pigeon · · Score: 1

    If the trial is any indicator, then the speed of the pidgeon was 4096MB / 68 minutes * 60 seconds/minute = 1.003921569 MB/s. Even if they fail, I wouldn't consider Telkom a terrible ISP, given this test alone.

  12. Re:The VA would like to apologize for EVERY on VA Mistakenly Tells Vets They Have Fatal Illness · · Score: 0

    It's the doctor's they employ, obviously. The VA picks the doctor leftovers. You can't honestly believe all doctor's are created equal? Bad doctor's exist - and more are on the payroll of the US government rather than private practice. Seems like the comment was just nitpicky without any real point.

  13. Re:Obligatory on The Problems With Porting Games · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Troll? Really?

  14. Re:You No Take Mao's Candle!!! on Blizzard Awaits China's Approval For WoW Relaunch · · Score: 0, Insightful

    The Chinese Communist party got tired of people taking their candles.

    Parent != Troll. If I had mod points I would mod you up funny. Too bad people mod ignorantly... topical jokes are cool. What's slashdot for anyway?

  15. Rephrase on Firefox 2.0 Update To Remove Phishing Detection · · Score: -1, Redundant

    "This move ought to result in an increased adoption of Firefox 3.0 and other browsers, unless it goes unnoticed by most users." Rephrase: More people may move to firefox, unless they don't.

  16. Painful on Why Auto-Scaling In the Cloud Is a Bad Idea · · Score: 0

    "then determinate what the best way to respond is going forward." Sometimes some things are bettered not left not unsaid.

  17. Re:Oh Great .... on New Contestants On the Turing Test · · Score: 0

    WTF vim was dropped because it was perfect, STFU. Vim pwns emacs anyday. No question vim.

  18. Re:Reach for the switch... on New Contestants On the Turing Test · · Score: 0

    "don't delude yourself. what you experience as "consciousness" is merely the unintended side-effect from the flux of chemical causality occurring in your brain."

    This presupposes the universe is solely material, which is still unproven and so far unprovable. Don't assert such things unconditionally!

  19. Re:Lieberman The US Traitor on YouTube Bans Terrorist Training Videos · · Score: 0

    No.

  20. That's what we need... on Nathan Myhrvold and the Business Of Invention · · Score: 2, Funny

    An idea pimp!

  21. firefox 3b5 on Acid3 Test Released · · Score: 0, Redundant

    ...Gets a 66/100