taxtropel - Slashdot User

Comment GoPro is Evil (Score 0) 83

by taxtropel on Tuesday December 25, 2012 @12:40PM (#42387973) Attached to: Foxconn Invests $200 Million In GoPro

GoPro has single handedly ruined the ski industry. As a pro skier and snowboarder I have seen this first hand. GoPro has made people believe that if they have $200 (to buy a camera) they are gonna get discovered and become big time pros with a red bull contract. When the reality of the situation is that those same idiots are tearing off downhill completely out of control. Wrecking and hurting others in the process. I don't take issue with the camera but I do take issue with the image GoPro is trying to sell. Similar in effect to the tobacco industry advertising, only with much more traumatic implications.

Comment I can sum it up in one word (Score 0) 188

by taxtropel on Wednesday June 06, 2012 @04:01PM (#40236551) Attached to: Inside the Death of Palm and WebOS

Graffiti

Comment Dropped (Score 0) 156

by taxtropel on Monday August 29, 2011 @12:50AM (#37238788) Attached to: Mandriva 2011 Out

I dropped mandrake linux when they fired the founder back in 06(?) After that I switched to LFS (and BLFS). Currently my new laptop hosts Ubuntu until I can get a new LFS built.

Comment Spouse (Score 0) 312

by taxtropel on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @01:19AM (#36880258) Attached to: I would soonest put my trust in a ...

Mmm...mechanical sex...so tasty...

Comment w00t (Score 0) 626

by taxtropel on Sunday July 24, 2011 @05:26PM (#36865100) Attached to: For Texas Textbooks, a Victory For Evolution

Go Science!

Comment Sweet (Score 0, Flamebait) 208

by taxtropel on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @05:33PM (#36244304) Attached to: Apple's iOS 4 Hardware Encryption Cracked

Way to go ElcomSoft! Good to see hackers sticking it to the once hacker-originated Apple Computers Inc. Sad to see that Apple Computers has become another catholic church style entity.

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