JoeyRox - Slashdot User

Comment Re:French citizens should be looking at Greece (Score 0) 334

by JoeyRox on Monday June 29, 2015 @10:53PM (#50016371) Attached to: Uber France Leaders Arrested For Running Illegal Taxi Company

Ironic considering you typed your anti-capitalist rant on a device made possible by the hyper-competitive, capitalist computer industry.

Comment Re:French citizens should be looking at Greece (Score 1) 334

by JoeyRox on Monday June 29, 2015 @10:48PM (#50016349) Attached to: Uber France Leaders Arrested For Running Illegal Taxi Company

France doesn't have that problem? Tell that to all the wealthy ex-pats who left the country after France was proposing a 75% income tax. And you think corruption is unique to Greece? Btw, "There, fixed that for you" went out with Barney 5 years ago. He was the purple dinosaur btw.

Comment French citizens should be looking at Greece (Score 0) 334

by JoeyRox on Monday June 29, 2015 @07:40PM (#50015465) Attached to: Uber France Leaders Arrested For Running Illegal Taxi Company

To see what their future holds. Over-regulation, anti-competitive policies, protected public worker class, and oppressive taxes. A perfect recipe for insolvency and economic depression.

Comment Sounds a lot like the gold bugs (Score 0) 359

by JoeyRox on Monday June 29, 2015 @10:22AM (#50011315) Attached to: Greek Financial Crisis Is an Opportunity For Bitcoin

If the success of an asset or currency is predicated on a doomsday scenario then that asset/currency is doomed itself.

Comment Now Li-Ion batteries can burn 1.5 to 1.8x longer (Score 5, Funny) 132

by JoeyRox on Sunday June 28, 2015 @06:01PM (#50008145) Attached to: Samsung Nanotech Breakthrough Nearly Doubles Li-Ion Battery Capacity

For those cozy nights by the fire.

Comment tl;dr: meh (Score 1) 187

by JoeyRox on Friday June 26, 2015 @02:15PM (#49996743) Attached to: My United Airlines Website Hack Gets Snubbed

And more meh.

Comment Expensive? That's the cost of one hammer (Score 1) 192

by JoeyRox on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @01:07AM (#49967493) Attached to: The US Navy's Warfare Systems Command Just Paid Millions To Stay On Windows XP

Nails extra

Comment Re:People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones (Score 1) 368

by JoeyRox on Sunday June 21, 2015 @01:49PM (#49957163) Attached to: Taylor Swift: Apple's Disdain For Royalties Is 'Shocking, Disappointing'

Example of her auto-tuned studio performance vs her actual voice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Comment People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones (Score -1, Flamebait) 368

by JoeyRox on Sunday June 21, 2015 @01:44PM (#49957147) Attached to: Taylor Swift: Apple's Disdain For Royalties Is 'Shocking, Disappointing'

The fact that Taylor Swift even has a career even though it's obvious the woman can't sing should encourage her to keep her mouth shut about the industry and just be happy that she earns millions from tone-deaf tweens.

Comment So that means it's free to everyone (Score 5, Funny) 281

by JoeyRox on Saturday June 20, 2015 @07:06PM (#49953765) Attached to: Windows 10 Will Be Free To Users Who Test It

Because we've all been beta-testing Windows since forever.

Comment BB should patent how to run a company into ground (Score 2) 67

by JoeyRox on Tuesday June 02, 2015 @12:04PM (#49822743) Attached to: Blackberry Defeats Typo In Court, Typo To Discontinue Sales of Keyboard

Since they did such a great job of self-immolation.

Comment But they find 100% of penises and vaginas (Score 1) 357

by JoeyRox on Tuesday June 02, 2015 @09:47AM (#49821657) Attached to: US Airport Screeners Missed 95% of Weapons, Explosives In Undercover Tests

http://time.com/3822487/tsa-se...

Comment Windows 7 was last real version (Score 4, Insightful) 154

by JoeyRox on Monday May 11, 2015 @12:38PM (#49665577) Attached to: Windows 10 the Last Version of Windows? Not So Fast.

Version 8 and above are empty vessels for Microsoft's beyond-the-desktop ambitions.

Comment This is horrible news (Score -1, Flamebait) 304

by JoeyRox on Friday April 24, 2015 @04:56PM (#49547573) Attached to: Microsoft, Chip Makers Working On Hardware DRM For Windows 10 PCs

For the last ten people on earth still consuming content on PCs instead of tablets, phones, and Smart TVs.

Comment My prediction for the Apple Watch's success (Score 1, Flamebait) 174

by JoeyRox on Friday April 24, 2015 @04:22PM (#49547317) Attached to: Apple Watch Launches

I think the first generation will sell the most units and each successive generation will sell in fewer and fewer numbers. This is because IMO the watch is a novelty item without much utility and those buying it will quickly reach the same conclusion and never buy it again.

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