jim_v2000 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Anyone else? (Score 5, Insightful) 162

by jim_v2000 on Thursday August 12, 2010 @11:09AM (#33228444) Attached to: EFF Reviews the Verizon-Google Net Neutrality Deal

>And having two giants acting like they can simply write legislature is balls to the walls wron

They didn't write any legislation. They wrote up some suggestions that the FCC and the Congress are free to use or discard. They have every right to do that.

Comment Re:So, regulation haters... (Score 1) 162

by jim_v2000 on Thursday August 12, 2010 @11:05AM (#33228380) Attached to: EFF Reviews the Verizon-Google Net Neutrality Deal

It's working pretty good so far, really. Are you having some kind of problem with your internet provider?

Comment Re:Choices (Score 1) 702

by jim_v2000 on Wednesday August 11, 2010 @06:53PM (#33222602) Attached to: The Case Against Net Neutrality

>This is one of the bigger problems caused by the threat of abolishing NN.

You're talking about something that does not currently exist.

Comment Re:Choices (Score 1) 702

by jim_v2000 on Wednesday August 11, 2010 @06:52PM (#33222590) Attached to: The Case Against Net Neutrality

In my town: Charter, Qwest, CVC, FireServe, Clearwire, AT&T, Verizon, T-mobile, Sprint, etc. And this is a small town.

It's not as monopolized out there as people happen to think.

Comment Re:Question (Score 5, Funny) 225

by jim_v2000 on Tuesday July 20, 2010 @06:46PM (#32971884) Attached to: Adobe Putting PDF Reader In a Sandbox

YEAH! And Microsoft WORD should only let you use WORDS...not crappy images and all that.

Comment Re:Prior art? (Score 1) 293

by jim_v2000 on Tuesday July 13, 2010 @11:34AM (#32888160) Attached to: Microsoft Applies For Page-Turn Animation Patent

The crappy software that came with my Lenovo tablet does this.

Comment Re:The Internet as a business (Score 1) 348

by jim_v2000 on Monday July 12, 2010 @05:28PM (#32879240) Attached to: The End of Free

Oh ideologues, you never fail to entertain. The internet wasn't invented to enable the freedom of information. It was meant to be a redundant military network.

Comment Re:How Quickly They Forget (Score 1) 348

by jim_v2000 on Monday July 12, 2010 @05:25PM (#32879214) Attached to: The End of Free

Let's see you use your DSL while waiting at the DMV.

Comment Re:2010: Year of the Linux Desktop (Score 4, Insightful) 105

by jim_v2000 on Wednesday July 07, 2010 @04:27PM (#32831060) Attached to: A Flood of Stable Linux Kernels Released

For a lot of people it is, for a lot people it isn't.

Comment I'm pretty sure (Score 4, Insightful) 191

by jim_v2000 on Wednesday July 07, 2010 @12:21PM (#32827676) Attached to: 'Robin Sage' Social Hoax Duped Military, Security Pros

that anyone in Iraq and Afghanistan could tell you where the soldiers are. It's not like they're hiding or something. The "geolocation" stuff is just silly.

Comment Re:An appropriate quote seems to be... (Score 1) 775

by jim_v2000 on Wednesday July 07, 2010 @11:30AM (#32826940) Attached to: Microsoft Out of Favor With Young, Hip Developers

Or they genocide you and your people. But we'll just pretend like history always turns out like it did for Ghandi.

Comment Re:1934 (Score 1) 371

by jim_v2000 on Wednesday July 07, 2010 @11:12AM (#32826660) Attached to: AU Band Men At Work Owes Royalties On 'Kookaburra'

What does the law have to do with it? The artist signs a contract with the record label, and that contract determines who owns the rights. There's no law that says that the rights automagically belong to the record label.

Comment Re:I seem to have missed why we'd want this (Score 1) 265

by jim_v2000 on Tuesday July 06, 2010 @04:45PM (#32817134) Attached to: IE9 Flaunts Hardware-Accelerated Canvas

It's HTML5...any retard can go look at the source to see if there's any shenanigans going on.

Comment Re:Could be useful as well as interesting (Score 1) 460

by jim_v2000 on Tuesday July 06, 2010 @04:12PM (#32816544) Attached to: Local Newspapers Use F/OSS For a Day

Uh....isn't that the same as telling a user to go buy something that works?

Comment Re:For a day? (Score 1) 460

by jim_v2000 on Tuesday July 06, 2010 @03:49PM (#32816082) Attached to: Local Newspapers Use F/OSS For a Day

How's that insightful? I'm not a huge OSS fanboy and I love the GIMP. I use it all the time for photo editing, conversions, and simple graphic creation. I used to pirate Photoshop to do the same thing, but the GIMP more than meets my needs.

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