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Comment Re:lengths companies go to (Score 1) 80

by shemyazaz (#41465599) Attached to: FTC And PC Rental Companies Settle In Spying On Users Case
I come from a poor family. My brother is still poor (despite my attempts to help him). Even when not working and living primarily on government benefits he is capable of finding the money to party. This seems to be common amongst the poor. $300 for a laptop wouldn't be a big problem if the proper priorities were in place and some saving was done. But I suppose the inability to do those things is at least in part related to the reason they are poor in the first place.

Comment Re:Offer people what they want (Score 1) 1004

by shemyazaz (#40066415) Attached to: Who's Pirating Game of Thrones, and Why?
I for one would be willing to pay for physical copies of most anime assuming that two conditions were met: 1. The price must be reasonable. I WILL NOT pay $30 for a DVD with 5 episodes of a 350+ episode series. Just not happening. 2. The translation quality needs to increase. Its sad when a group of people on the internet translating these things for free can provide better quality than a large company with paid translators. I pay for Crunchyroll because its cheap and convenient. The translations are pretty crappy, but simulcasts are nice.

Comment Re:Pirate bay sucks anyway (Score 1) 601

by shemyazaz (#39999801) Attached to: Microsoft-Funded Startup Aims To Kill BitTorrent Traffic
I've jumped on the crunchyroll bandwagon, although I really wish they would put a little more effort into translation. Sad that a legitimate company with paid translators produces such mediocre translations when a small group of hobbyists working for fun do so much better. They are good enough that I have more or less stopped torrenting anime though. Now they just need s decent J-drama selection. I'd love to be able to do this with shows like Once Upon a Time, and Grimm....but I refuse to pay to watch Hulu's commercials.

Comment Re:A better idea that a space elevator (Score 1) 356

by shemyazaz (#39304255) Attached to: Startram — Maglev Train To Low Earth Orbit

In addition, the estimated costs have got to be a factor of 10 too optimistic. 60 billion dollars? For something constructed of tens of thousands of miles of superconducting cable and a structure made to aerospace engineering tolerances that is 1000 miles long? Even 600 billion sounds optimistic for something that large.

Not to mention that the idea is that the entire tube holds a vacuum, which buoys it up, and it's held DOWN with tethers. How do you even construct that? There are no cranes to LEO. Even if you put them in place, and empty out the gas slowly so that it rises (without coming to a sudden stop at the end that breaks a tether), each segment is probably hundreds of pounds of metal. Imagine being miles in the air, wrestling with an enormous hunk of metal that's tied to the earth in what you can only hope is the right position, in order to get the end to line up with the last piece...

Well, okay, it sounds like a heck of an exciting job. But it also sounds like it could go wrong so terribly easily...

I don't think you quite understood this. the tube is not elevated because of the vac. Its elevated by magnetic levitation. the vac is to avoid all the problems associated with going 25,000mph inside a tube filled with air.

Submission + - JotForm domain shut down by US Secret Service (thenextweb.com)

Submitted by lomedhi
lomedhi writes: Probably in response to phishers using JotForm's free form service, the Secret Service has seized jotform.com, denying access to 2 million forms created by 700,000 users. The Secret Service is unresponsive. Who needs SOPA?

The service is now available at alternate domains jotform.net and jotformpro.com, but changing URLs is a serious inconvenience to some. Many are paid corporate clients. Among other things, iPad and iPhone apps that embed forms will have to be re-approved by Apple.

Comment Re:Dying from lack of surprise... (Score 1) 765

by shemyazaz (#38891365) Attached to: White House Refuses To Comment On Petition To Investigate Chris Dodd
So, let me see if I understand this. The American people should grovel at the feet of their government...begging for liberties like scraps from a dinner table. Those who express dissatisfaction with that arrangement should be "discouraged" from such expressions....as they are dangerous.

Comment Why? (Score 1) 209

by shemyazaz (#38151468) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Data Remanence Solutions?
Whats with the draconian data policies cropping up everywhere now? Even the company I work for is requiring HD destruction as opposed to just a decent low level formatting. Is there at least a good reason in this case?
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Submission + - Proposed AC Ban (washingtonpost.com)

Submitted by shemyazaz
shemyazaz writes: Liberal writer Stan Cox describes why he thinks AC should be banned for all but "necessary exceptions".

Comment WTF (Score 1) 163

by shemyazaz (#31372152) Attached to: Mariposa Botnet Authors Unlikely To See Jail Time
Ok, I can understand having muddy rules where the operation of a botnet is concerned, but what I do not understand is how they can get away with launching that DDOS attack. Shouldn't that be like large scale vandalism or something? Hard to imagine them getting away scott free.
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Funeral Being Held Today For IE6 Screenshot-sm 194

Posted by samzenpus from the good-riddance dept.
An anonymous reader writes "More than 100 people, many of them dressed in black, are expected to gather around a coffin Thursday to say goodbye to an old friend. The deceased? Internet Explorer 6. The aging Web browser, survived by its descendants Internet Explorer 7 and Internet Explorer 8, is being eulogized at a tongue-in-cheek 'funeral' hosted by Aten Design Group, a design firm in Denver, Colorado."

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