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Comment JULY 4th is a DATE (Score 1) 144

There's no "happy July 4th."

We don't celebrate July 4th, December 25th, October 31st, etc.

We celebrate the HOLIDAYS.

HAPPY US INDEPENDENCE DAY.

(and yes, as previous posters pointed out it's not an international holiday. Sorry Will Smith and ID4 crew.)

Comment GOOGLE is FREE to do WHAT THEY WANT (Score 1, Insightful) 133

Google can do what it wants.

In legalese, that would be: Google is not an arm of the government, is a corporation, and is free to do as its company governance determines is in the best interests of its shareholders.

Simply put, nobody forces users to choose to use google. There are plenty of search engines, some good, some bing, etc. Some don't protect your privacy, some duckduckgo. In the end if the choice is to use google there are advantages (they'll try to give you an answer they think you'll find useful) and disadvantages (Tim Wu might jump out from behind a bush and yell "aha!" at you).

Google's search algorithms have made this world a better place.

I'm glad they don't have to appease anyone to keep offering that superior product.

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Comment HOAX (Score 5, Insightful) 142

The OP includes a link to an IRAQ user saying he can't set up his Chromecast...

and a 9 day old post from someone saying they're now on the beta track and google saying they'll fix it.

Are we really to believe there's a great google conspiracy to disrupt chromecasts, and
in a week and a half NOTHING has been discussed, but now the only two links are
an IRAQI WINDOWS USER and someone who accidentally got into beta.

My money is on hoax.

Ehud

The Almighty Buck

Ask Slashdot: Making Donations Count 268

An anonymous reader writes: As a recent college graduate I now have a job and enough money to actually buy things and donate to causes. Up until now I really haven't been paying attention to which groups are best to donate and which are scams. For example, Goodwill seems like a great organization until you dig deeper and discover they hire under privileged and disabled people only to exploit the related government handouts instead of doing it to benefit those people. What are some quality organizations to donate to? Who do you donate to and why? I'm looking for improving the poor, supporting constitutional rights, and supporting issues many Slashdotters can agree on such as net neutrality and anything against the media companies. I don't care what political group the money ends up going to. The specific case is more important than some arbitrary label. I'm also in the USA, so foreign recommendations are probably less helpful.

Comment Awesome! Let's apply that to Senators as well! (Score 1, Interesting) 164

I'd like Diane Feinstein to be geo-fenced to keep her grubby little NSA-sucking
encryption-hating lying hands off of issues that are over her altitude or too far
for her eyesight to comprehend.

Geo-fencing for worthless corrupt senators. Now there's an answer.

Leave the drones alone. They are innocent of any wrongdoing.

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Comment Captain Hindsight (Score 3, Funny) 116

Oh good job, Captain Hindsight! You are absolutely right! Manning should have never been able to use a USB stick [takes notes]. Also Snowden should have never been given so much access [takes notes].

"...this would have never happened."

Oh excelsior! Your powers of observation and hindsight deduction are without compare. Between that and your three split infinitives all I can say is BRAVO, SIR, BRAVO! You truly have your finger on the pulse of ... everything that's that wrong.

Comment If security risks are no object... (Score -1, Troll) 208

...then why not complement your end-of-life Windows 7 with an older version of Chrome or FF. They support Java just fine, and the Java they support is no more of a security risk than your Windows 7.

There's a reason the rest of the world moved away from java and that's security, but if security risks are no object, you go, girl.

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