Salo2112 - Slashdot User

Comment I have no interest in a Tesla (Score 1) 455

by Salo2112 on Wednesday June 18, 2014 @07:43PM (#47267931) Attached to: NADA Is Terrified of Tesla

but I would love their business model to be used by all auto manufacturers.

Comment As good as European cars? (Score -1, Flamebait) 431

by Salo2112 on Tuesday June 17, 2014 @12:52PM (#47255353) Attached to: Chinese-Built Cars Are Coming To the US Next Year

Please - the German word for "pedestrian" is Volkswagen.

Comment Lawn mowers (Score 1) 432

by Salo2112 on Sunday May 25, 2014 @01:18PM (#47087947) Attached to: Has the Ethanol Threat Manifested In the US?

The guy who I take my lawn mower to tells me the Ethanol gas is damaging lawn mower engines. Not sure if the newer ones are engineered to burn E-gas, but the older ones certainly aren't. So you go out of your way to a marina to get unadulterated gas for your mowers.

Comment Platform Apps (Score 1) 164

by Salo2112 on Friday April 25, 2014 @10:10AM (#46840547) Attached to: Facebook Data Miner Will Shock You

The first thing all the security people tell you to do is turn off platform apps, and this site does not work without them. Nice.

Comment Shuffles (Score 1) 386

by Salo2112 on Thursday April 24, 2014 @08:23AM (#46831675) Attached to: iPad Fever Is Officially Cooling

I hope they keep making shuffles - great for wearing when you exercise. I can see losing the classic iPods - the cell phone makes them redundant, but until they make phones small enough to clip to your workout gear, there's a place for the shuffle.

Comment Re:Fuck that guy. (Score 4, Informative) 397

by Salo2112 on Wednesday March 19, 2014 @08:52PM (#46529839) Attached to: Jesse Jackson To Take On Silicon Valley's Lack of Diversity

so unless Jackson thinks HP should hire unqualified people just because they are black or latino, he should probably focus his efforts earlier in the pipeline

He does.

Comment 50 thousand new residents (Score 1) 398

by Salo2112 on Monday January 27, 2014 @11:27AM (#46080671) Attached to: Detroit Wants Its Own High-Tech Visa

doing what? Haven't most people left because there aren't enough jobs? You want to pay off your debts, charge people an exit tax.

Comment Cash for Clunkers (Score 1) 635

by Salo2112 on Sunday January 19, 2014 @04:06PM (#46007161) Attached to: U.S. Teenagers Are Driving Much Less: 4 Theories About Why

The crappy cars teenagers had access to were destroyed by the Cash for Clunkers program.

Comment Re:Time for change (Score 1) 494

by Salo2112 on Monday November 25, 2013 @12:54PM (#45515793) Attached to: Healthcare.gov and the Gulf Between Planning and Reality

Evidently, you are unfamiliar with our form of government: this project was the responsibility, solely, of the executive branch, and the President is already limited to two terms. Congress was not a part of the failed implementation.

The task was simple. Make a friggin website that takes user input and spits out insurance options. If this happened where I work, they'd fire the whole lot without question. Probably enact some kind of legal investigation as to where all the money went too.

If Congress can't handle a simple friggin website project, it's time to clean house and Enact term limits. Restructure the entire congressional seating process, and give people more control over who's buying the laws for us. It's time to change that whole mess.

Comment Re:Strange times (Score 3, Funny) 125

by Salo2112 on Friday November 22, 2013 @10:01PM (#45497641) Attached to: Failed Software Upgrade Halts Transit Service

Patch *Tuesday*. Duh.

Comment That's how it works for me (Score 1) 196

by Salo2112 on Friday October 04, 2013 @12:17PM (#45036769) Attached to: More Evidence That Piracy Can Increase Sales

I never would have bought an Evanesance album had I not downloaded it for free and decided they were way too good not to support buy buying their alums.

Submission + - Bitcoins siezed in drug bust (postandcourier.com) 1

Submitted by Salo2112 on Sunday July 07, 2013 @07:37AM

Salo2112 writes: In a case believed to be the first of its kind, federal authorities have seized a Charleston man’s virtual currency due to an alleged drug law violation with possible links to a shadowy online black market.

Comment It leads to the bad habit of.... (Score 3, Interesting) 359

by Salo2112 on Tuesday June 18, 2013 @01:30PM (#44041241) Attached to: My view of touchscreen laptops:

touching non-touchscreens, which smudges them up. Low ring in Hell....

Comment A master volume control (Score 1) 262

by Salo2112 on Saturday June 08, 2013 @07:18AM (#43945137) Attached to: What Features Does iOS 7 Need?

I would love to be able to lock down the volume so my autistic son, who lives on the iPad, doesn't max out the volume on everything he does.

Comment Re:Oh, the irony! (Score 1) 291

by Salo2112 on Sunday February 10, 2013 @07:06PM (#42853745) Attached to: Apple Said To Be Working On a 'Watch-Like Device'

I enjoy long walks - for exercise and stress release. I don't want to be in communication with anyone, but I do want to know roughly how far I have walked and when I should be heading back in, and for this, a watch is perfect.

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