Comment Re:Egon Gone (Score 5, Informative) 136
STREAMS! He crossed the STREAMS!
Comment Man, that sucks (Score 1) 136
I grew up on his 80's flicks.
Way too young in this day and age.
Comment Re:A phone is like a wallet nowadays. (Score 1) 197
My phone is not like a wallet. If someone steals my wallet, they have my ID, credit cards money, and all kinds of information that would help them steal my wealth and / or my identity.
If someone steals my phone, they have, well, nothing - well - unless they can somehow break the encryption on it. I'm not aware of anyone who has been able to steal information off of an encrypted phone, are you?
Comment Re:Well duh? (Score 1) 197
That's what prepaid service is for. Crooks don't have great credit usually so would be paying up front.
Comment Well duh? (Score 2) 197
If I'm a carrier, why would I NOT want to sell service to whomever stole your phone?
Since the carriers have no culpability in the theft of your device, the legal fiduciary obligation to the shareholders trumps any perceived moral obligation to you.
Comment Re:Requires consent of the user, sky is not fallin (Score 2) 177
So does installing the Ask Toolbar, but I'll be damned if I can find anyone who knew they had consented to installing it...
Steve Jobs To Appear On US Postage Stamp 184
Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes "Steven Musil writes at Cnet that the US Postal Service hopes Steve Jobs can do for it what he once did for Apple as the late Apple co-founder will be featured on a commemorative US postage stamp along with Johnny Carson, Ingrid Bergman, Elvis Presley, and James Brown. The former Apple CEO's stamp is still in the design stages and will be released at some point in 2015. Jobs, who passed away in 2011 after a battle with pancreatic cancer, has also been posthumously honored for his visionary achievements with a special Grammy Merit Award and a Disney Legends Award. Jobs was also inducted into the Bay Area Business Hall of Fame, has had a building at Pixar named after him, and was featured in an exhibit at the US Patent Office Museum. "The profitable first class mail business has been decimated by email over the past decade, thanks in no small part to the contributions of Steve Jobs and Apple," writes Derek Kessler. "It's no small feat to be so impactful that the USPS feels compelled to honor you despite the fact that the work that you've done is dismantling the core of their business.""
VA Tech Experiment: Polar Vortex May Decimate D.C. Stinkbugs In 2014 112
barlevg writes "Each fall, a team led by Virginia Tech Professor of Entomology Thomas Kuhar gathers brown marmorated stink bugs from around campus and plops them into ventilated and insulated five-gallon buckets designed to simulate the habitats in which the bugs naturally wait out the winter. While previous lab tests have shown the insects capable of surviving chills of -20 C, last month's polar vortex proved too much for the little guys, with only 5% surviving the sustained cold conditions. This suggests that the DC area's population of stink bugs and other overwintering insects should be much lower come spring than in previous years."
Comment Re:Author doesn't understand the NSA (Score 1) 324
What about the Americans arrested by local police based on intelligence provided by NSA, where parallel construction was subsequently used to hide the fact that ubiquitous surveillance is what got them caught?
Comment Wow, what a great racket (Score 4, Insightful) 137
I wish I could shell out 300 euro to have my next million-euro commercial product crowdsourced
Ask Slashdot: Should I Get Google Glass? 421
lunatick writes "I put in my application for Google Glass as a joke. I never figured I would be selected. Well in less than one week I got my invite to buy Google Glass. My main hold back is the $1500 price tag for a device that just seems to be a camera and navigation aid. Does anyone in the /. community have Google Glass and can they give some advice to the rest of us considering it?"
Comment Not the slightest bit new (Score 1) 58
We have a video conferencing device that does the exact same thing. Nothing new here.
Comment Re:Privatize ALL water (Score 1) 362
That is always the problem when you socialize the cost of using a limited resource and artificially increase demand by controlling the cost. You get people who waste the resource because "someone else" is really paying for it.
All goods and services purchased as utilities are limited in their quantity, but since consumers don't pay the "real" cost directly, they use more.
But, your obviously trollish tongue-in-cheek solution is not what is called for. Simply removing ALL government subsidies from basic utilities and requiring that the real cost be paid by the end users is sufficient, along with removal of barriers to adjust cost to be appropriate to the available supply.
Comment Re:Translation: Piss off, Peasants (Score 1) 245
Hyperbole would be more accurate than Satire.
The point was the fact that we have a telecom monopolist running a major executive branch agency when we were promised it would not happen, but the liberal elitists on Slashdot predictably latched on to the obvious hyperbole and decided to attack that, lacking anything substantive with which to argue against the facts.
Comment Lots of games: (Score 1) 669
Chess
Settlers of Catan
Axis and Allies
Cards Against Humanity
Go Fish
Battle
Checkers
Connect-4
Candyland
Sorry!
Hide and Seek
And, twice a year, pin the tail on the donkey.
