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  1. Re:Fire Phone is for cows. on Amazon Stops Selling Fire Phone · · Score: 1

    At least it's better than the Golden Girls intro song.

  2. Re:then why not do so? This is the Youtube app, no on YouTube Reportedly Bypassing Ad Blockers On Google Chrome · · Score: 1

    You think a company like Google needs to see a browser extension to know how people block ads?

  3. Re:After the Mozilla fiasco, they will be careful on Where the Tech Industry's Political Donations Are Going · · Score: 1

    Of course, most conservatives these days seem to think that they're all millionaires who are temporarily down on their luck, even when they're living in a trailer, so they could very act the way you describe anyway

    I know what you are trying to say here but you are wrong. The problem with statements like yours is they are too simplified.

    For example, during the gay marriage debates, how often did you hear about the fallouts from states that did enact this law? Did you hear on the nightly news all the religious orphanages that were shut down by the state since they wouldn't allow kids to be adopted by non-traditional families?

  4. Re:You keep using that word. I don't think it mean on T-Mobile Starts Going After Heavy Users of Tethered Data · · Score: 4, Informative

    Blaming their customers for their own mistake and calling them "thieves" is pretty low.

    You realize that wasn't actually a real quote, right?

  5. Re:More spyware and ads? on Microsoft Builds Open-Source Browser Using HTML, JavaScript, and CSS · · Score: 2

    I'm a linux / android guy who only uses windows on my work assigned locked down laptop. But my desire to run those OSs stems from their open source nature (although it did start with a frustration of windows - but that was over 10 years ago.)

    But I have been reading a lot of stories on slashdot that at least some divisions are becoming open source friendly.

  6. Re:Ironic on Ashley Madison CEO Steps Down, Reporter Finds Clues To Hacker's Identity · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Trump isn't remotely honest, but he does say the xenophobic things

    Please keep making comments like this. Comments like this are what is fueling Trumps campaign.

    We are so fucking sick of being called out as racists or mean or anti-woman or anti-science or whatever sanctimonious bullshit phrase you want to throw at us.

    And yes, I'll get a flamebait mod with a few smug responses like "well then don't be conservative" or some variation of that but these comments are getting old.

    Just look at this thread...
    http://slashdot.org/comments.p...

    For me to defend Bush makes me sick but these lies and name calling are getting ridiculous. And we are not really even into the primaries yet!

  7. Re:More spyware and ads? on Microsoft Builds Open-Source Browser Using HTML, JavaScript, and CSS · · Score: 1

    lso I thought open source was Unamerican according to MS?

    You are referencing a statement made almost 15 years ago. Shocking that a culture can change, right?

  8. Re:*BUSH* administration?!?! on How NASA Defended Its Assembly Facility From Hurricane Katrina · · Score: 1

    And to add, if it's not a paid for democrat, then why are none of the democrats or progressives calling out these lies? Do they really add to any conversation?

    In this thread alone...

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    And I haven't refreshed the page otherwise I'd probably see more.

  9. Re:*BUSH* administration?!?! on How NASA Defended Its Assembly Facility From Hurricane Katrina · · Score: 1

    Wow. I'm sorry but these posts are too common and too frequent for me to believe that this is not a democrat propaganda. Post often enough and people believe this shit - or at least start sub consciously believing the spirit of these posts.

    If this was a MS or Google shill, they would be called out in a New York minute. Hell, they at least are more subtle than this.

    It's a real shame what politics have come too.

  10. Re:Because its not just a NASA facility on How NASA Defended Its Assembly Facility From Hurricane Katrina · · Score: 3, Insightful

    New Orleans on the other hand was crumpled like a beer can under the might of Katrina, and smelted in the incompetent furnace that was the Bush administration.

    You mean because of the governor and mayor, right? Bush had to wait until the state authorize the use of the military to jump in. Or do you want the president to have the power to jump in and take control of a city?

    His failure - if you have to find one - is that he didn't publicly chastise the governor until the governor was shamed into doing that. Unfortunately, that was not his style - otherwise he would have blamed 9/11 on the Clinton administration since that is when most of the preparation and planning took place.

  11. The problem is that both the Republicans and Democrats want the illegal immigration to continue so they offer lip service to the securing the border but focus on using "keeping families together" as an excuse to keep everyone illegal here.

    Can you imagine how different our job market would be for our unskilled labor force without the millions of illegals here working for scraps?

    The thing is, the Democrats want the illegal immigration because minorities typically vote Democrat. Republican leadership wants it to continue because the leadership has already been bought by corporations that want the free/cheap labor.

    Fortunately, people are starting to see through that.

  12. Re:So if I'm CEO at a tech company, block google? on Google May Try To Recruit You For a Job Based On Your Search Queries · · Score: 1

    Sign them all in under a fake user account and you are set :)

  13. Re:So I guess CEO's don't get hit with non-compete on Former Apple CEO Creates an iPhone Competitor · · Score: 2

    They may be able to successfully sue you for NDA violation, as long as they have a sufficient factual basis to show that it was more likely than not that you had actually violated the NDA.

    That would be difficult to prove in this case since he has been gone for 20 years and apples reputation for keeping it's trade secrets secret.

  14. Re:In other words. on Kansas Secretary of State Blocks Release of Voting Machine Tapes · · Score: 0

    I thought there was no voter fraud? Isn't that what is said when states try to pass voter id laws?

  15. Re:Colour me suprised on Analysis Reveals Almost No Real Women On Ashley Madison · · Score: 4, Interesting

    About 18 months after my wife died, I went on POF and was on it for about 6 months. I didn't want to date anyone from work and am to socially awkward to meet people at bars or clubs.

    There are an amazing number of available woman. It took me a while getting used to how fast people moved on a first date - even on a lunch first date.

    That said, I met a few quality people and am now engaged with someone I met from that site.

  16. Re:Exceeds state authority on California Bill Would Dramatically Limit Commercial Drones · · Score: 1

    You are quoting me quoting the poster above me.

  17. Re:Exceeds state authority on California Bill Would Dramatically Limit Commercial Drones · · Score: 1

    Maybe this is exactly why California is proposing the bill - to wake the FAA up and get them to do something

    I believe Arizona and a few other states tried passing immigration laws that mirrored the federal ones since they felt the federal ones were not being enforced and wanted to "wake up" the feds to that problem. It didn't work out for them and probably won't for California, either.

  18. Re:FedEx and UPS manage it with no problem... on California Bill Would Dramatically Limit Commercial Drones · · Score: 1

    One difference is that when something falls out of a UPS or Fedex truck, it's not falling from 350 feet onto someone.

  19. Re:There needs to be a standard device on When Should Cops Be Allowed To Take Control of Self-Driving Cars? · · Score: 1

    cities are going to require that the devices, deployment and maintenance be paid for by the manufacturers.

    So paid for by the consumer, then?

  20. Re:So don't put it in backwards? on Backwards S-Pen Can Permanently Damage Note 5 · · Score: 1

    Of course we did. I wouldn't expect an attendant to assume we had a desiel car..

    The store manager came out afterwards and said not to worry. The fuel was interchangeable and we would be fine driving away.

  21. Re:I hope it's easily disabled on Virgin Media To Base a Public Wi-Fi Net On Paying Customers' Routers · · Score: 2

    Honestly, the history of private companies having great security... sucks...

    So.. same as government then..

  22. Re:And yet, even at 24, it's not the year of Linux on Happy Birthday, Linux! An OS At 24 · · Score: 1

    Wow - remind me not to invite you to my birthday...

  23. Re:Same with a Note 4? on Backwards S-Pen Can Permanently Damage Note 5 · · Score: 1

    I went with the note 5 instead of the edge + to save myself 100 dollars but don't really plan on using the pen.

    I am so used to typing that holding a pen is uncomfortable for me.

  24. Re:So don't put it in backwards? on Backwards S-Pen Can Permanently Damage Note 5 · · Score: 1, Interesting

    But the gas one fits into the diesel tank. In the the states that required the gas attendants fill the tanks, they filled my mom's diesel engine with unleaded. That sure messed up our road trip.

  25. This is a huge design flaw? on Backwards S-Pen Can Permanently Damage Note 5 · · Score: 0

    I just got my note 3 5 a few days ago. You have to really not be paying attention to make this mistake - especially to the point of breaking the locking mechanism.

    That said, you can go into the s-pen setting and turn off the pen detection and it will work just fine.

    There is an xda thread on this.

    http://forum.xda-developers.co...