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Comment Re:Get rid of those things (Score 1) 944

I bet some people with brains also might have dimmers. Even the best dimmable CFL dims nowhere near as nicely as a good incandescent. Some high-end LEDs dim a little better but hum and flicker is still a huge widespread problem with these. Some people with brains also like saving money. CFL only saves money after quite some time - for short term applications incandescents are a cost saver.

Comment yeah right (Score 1) 616

This is the same government that specifically said it was not running the exact kind of spy program Snowden described? The same government that had authorized robotic drones to spy on and kill it's own citizens?

Well I for one trust them, let's bring him home, what could go wrong?

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Submission + - Google Kills Cloud Connect (google.com)

binarybum writes: To keep their focus on Google Drive, Google is discontinuing Cloud Connect, the free plug-in that automatically saves Microsoft Office files from Windows PC's to Google Drive, and it will no longer be available to use after April 30th, 2013. An advantage of Cloud Connect was that files could be easily accessed and edited from the drive without having to save all your drive contents locally.

Comment Re:Privacy and etiquette (Score 1) 155

Axe is a very crude approximation - you know those commercials aren't real right??

  "Its very hard to function in society when every single person you meet is trying to manipulate you and has more Intel then a cold war spy beureau."

agreed, but it's hard to see this NOT happening and relatively soon. Counter-measures will need to be employed. Security will become paramount.

Comment Re:Public Shaming (Score 1) 247

I do the same thing with email and my domain name. I suspect that while sometimes the lists are being compromised, other times the companies are selling the lists to spammers for extra cash. I do address the companies when this occurs, and usually the response is something along the lines of ' you have no idea what you are talking about, spammers use random generators and word lists - your experience is likely purely coincidental' (I call total BS on this since you would clearly be receiving all kinds of spam from the exact same sources at other emails on the domain - btw, Xlsior must work in customer service for one of these companies =) Then I capitalize on the unique address and create a filter.
    Since you mentioned the idea of posting the info here, I'll get a grudge off my chest. One of the heaviest spam loads I received was years ago from J&R (jr.com). They didn't handle it well, and I still avoid orders with them despite their established reputation as a top electronics distributor. In fairness it was over 10years ago, so I'm not suggesting this is still going on there, but simply to point out that blowing off customers trying to help point out some kind of abuse in your system leaves behind a very foul taste.

Comment Waterfox (Score 1) 209

Good news. Even if it doesn't result in 64 bit final products soon it should provide more material for the Waterfox project to develop upon. As long is there is developer support from Firefox for the 64bit the onus is on the developer advocats of 64bit computing to prove that it can show a significant enough performance enhancement to be taken seriously and pushed to mainstream.

Comment Re:Scare quotes (Score 4, Insightful) 537

I do have to wonder, though, where can we draw the line where stupid things like this don't happen to innocent people, but that real terrorists can't take advantage of those lines.

There is no such line, and I think that most Americans will agree that the one that has been drawn is much more in favor of stupid things like this happening to people than we would like to settle for.

    The important thing to remember is that security is far from free - and the TSA continues to exclusively prove that the dollars being spent on its services only put people at greater risk by diverting funds from more effective investments.

Comment boo-yah (Score 1) 213

A. So who wants to email Crystal Cox with an expensive offer to have this slashdot article removed in order to protect her reputation?

B. Crystal Cox is a good name for a very high end line of dildos

C. Have you seen this person's website? It only manages to make you hate her more (enough so that you stop caring about the fact that she is also completely mentally ill).

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