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Comment Re:Different types of terms (Score 0) 175

by jd2112 on Monday June 22, 2015 @08:22PM (#49966229) Attached to: MEAN Vs. LAMP: Finding the Right Fit For Your Next Project

As long as they don't replace it with Erlang, because then it would just be LAME.

What does web development have to do with MP3 encoding?

Comment Re:Playing devil's advocate here... (Score 1) 668

by jd2112 on Sunday June 21, 2015 @09:56PM (#49959151) Attached to: Is the End of Government Acceptance of Homeopathy In Sight?

What's wrong with having placebos? Placebos work.

Placebos are an excellent treatment for hypochondria.

Comment Re: that's funny... (Score 4, Informative) 368

by jd2112 on Sunday June 21, 2015 @01:19PM (#49957011) Attached to: Taylor Swift: Apple's Disdain For Royalties Is 'Shocking, Disappointing'

Metallica greedy is when you sue your fans.
I used to like Metalica but i haven't listened to them since they started suing fans.

Comment Cost too high... (Score 1) 162

by jd2112 on Saturday June 20, 2015 @11:59AM (#49952017) Attached to: Kim Jong Un Claims To Have Cured AIDS, Ebola and Cancer

If I have to go to North Korea I think I'll take my chances without that drug. (That is assuming it works, And I don't think it's quite the right time for this broken clock to be right.)

Comment Re:If there are patent issues (Score 2) 355

by jd2112 on Wednesday June 17, 2015 @11:15PM (#49934479) Attached to: Reasons To Use Mono For Linux Development

There are patent issues with every technology.

there are no patents on C++ and even if there were they would have expired by now.

None of which will prevent some unscrupulous parties from patenting decades-old technologies with our wonderful approve-happy patent office meaning you can spend a shitload of money licensing bogus patents or several shitloads of money fighting it in court.

Comment Re: Who the fuck would use something like that? (Score 1) 206

by jd2112 on Monday June 15, 2015 @07:39PM (#49917781) Attached to: LastPass Reporting a Security Breach, Including Authentication Hashes and Salts

I have a photographic memory. Unfortunately the film is bad.

Comment What site? (Score 5, Funny) 99

by jd2112 on Sunday June 14, 2015 @09:16PM (#49911137) Attached to: ISP Breaking Net Neutrality? The FCC's Got a Complaint Form For That

My ISP appears to be blocking fcc.gov.

Comment Re: Other reasons (Score 1) 306

by jd2112 on Sunday June 14, 2015 @08:01PM (#49910905) Attached to: The Danger of Picking a Major Based On Where the Jobs Are

$40K in sillicon valley is like part time minimum wage pretty much anywhere else.

Comment Cloud computing (Score 2) 67

by jd2112 on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @09:26PM (#49880401) Attached to: A Computer That Operates On Water Droplets

Taken to a new level

Comment Re: Slashdotters (Score 1) 181

by jd2112 on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @07:46PM (#49880001) Attached to: Ghost Towns Is the First 8K Video Posted To YouTube -- But Can You Watch It?

....and then turn up the volume to 11.

Comment Re: No matter the platform ... (Score 1) 117

by jd2112 on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @01:17PM (#49876957) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Should We Expect Attacks When Windows 2003 Support Ends?

If you are willing to pay a few metric shittons of money. Extended 2003 support is insanely expensive.

Comment Re:Of course they did ... (Score 2) 294

by jd2112 on Tuesday June 02, 2015 @08:53PM (#49827189) Attached to: Senate Passes USA Freedom Act

... it's the goddam Freedom Act.

It's like calling it the "Save The Little Kitty Cats Act."

The Terrorists envy our freedom so this law takes what remains and holds it for safekeeping.

Comment Re: Simplistic (Score 1) 385

by jd2112 on Sunday May 31, 2015 @06:34PM (#49811117) Attached to: Future of Employment: How Susceptible Are Jobs To Computerization?

With all of the beatings of dead horses going on I would think horse whip manufacturing would be highly automated by now. Hell we should have dead horse beating robots by now.

Comment Re:Spikes (Score 1) 125

by jd2112 on Friday May 29, 2015 @09:00PM (#49803077) Attached to: Florida Hospital Shows Normal Internet Lag Time Won't Affect Remote Robotic Surgeries

"Hello? Comcast? Can you transfer me to the Kabul office? I need gigabit service to a hillside fifteen miles outside of... Hello? Hello?"

Sure, We can be there next tuesday sometime between 8am and 4pm local time.
(3 weeks later, after 5 cancelled appointments)
Sorry, that location is outside of our service area.

Comment Re: Sure, let's make everything tiered (Score 1) 392

by jd2112 on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @11:41AM (#49782971) Attached to: Volvo Self-Parking Car Hits People Because Owner Didn't Pay For Extra Feature

Known to cause cancer to the state of California. Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball.

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