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  1. if history is any guide.... on Microsoft Reacts To Feedback But Did They Get Windows 8.1 Right? · · Score: 1

    All good things start at the top.
    If the top is unchanged, then nothing below it will be.

  2. When it becomes popular on Ouya Android Game Console Launches, Quickly Sells Out · · Score: 2

    It will get sued for patent infringement.

  3. All new twinkies! on The Glorious Return of the Twinkie · · Score: 4, Funny

    Same great product! Without that heavy union after-taste.

  4. using twitter hotline? on US and Russia Set Up Cyber Cold War Hotline · · Score: 4, Funny

    @putin, WTF is up with goddamn @assad?
    @obama, you have no proof #WMD.
    @putin, no proof, WTF were those #sarin loaded missles?
    @obama, perhaps #israel fired them and put blame on #syria.
    @putin, you are a pussy.

  5. Here is one: on Seeking Fifth Amendment Defenders · · Score: 1

    Q) Did you do it ?
    A) No.

    You are convicted on other evidence, and now you are
    on trial for perjury.

  6. is this simply the anti google measure? on Facebook Silently Removes Ability To Download Your Posts · · Score: 1

    Allow Bing access to internal posts, but shut out google?

  7. well yeah? on Latvian Police Raid Teacher's Home for Uploading $4.00 Textbook · · Score: 2

    this is practically the definition of willful copyright infringement.
    I wont say the punishment was just, but it should have been expected.

  8. Was sorry to see hypercard go. on Google's House of Cards · · Score: 1

    When you think of devices with small screens,
    the idea of a card paradigm is better than a "page" or a "screen".

    The distinction is important. People intuitively know that a card usually
    expresses a single idea, and that is likely to be part of a larger collection
    of cards (frequently sequential)

    So Kudos to Google, and I hope they can make it work.

  9. so I tried it on Bing Translator Adds Klingon · · Score: 1

    but the klingon font it used does not seem to be widely circulated,
    which means.... lame

  10. Re:I hope on Engineering the $325,000 Burger · · Score: 1

    Don't forget to "supersize" it.

  11. not sure quite how that applies here.
    vacuuming applies to unused portions of the disk,
    not memory allocated by malloc.

    I can see similarities, but since postgres *knows* what
    space can be reclaimed, and what can not, then it has
    all the benefits of a GC'ed language, and could benefit
    by applying GC prinicples used by other languages that
    do GC well (i.e. java)

  12. except if there was not that silly concept of requiring periodic
    "vacuuming". This drives me up the freaking wall!

  13. here it is.. on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Sell an Algorithm To Venture Capitalists? · · Score: 1

    while(I produce revenue) {
            give me money ;
    }
    take most of whatever is left ;
    buy yourself something nice ;

  14. Re:Aliens would be as interested in us as... on Why We'll Never Meet Aliens · · Score: 1

    yes, that was my point

  15. Aliens would be as interested in us as... on Why We'll Never Meet Aliens · · Score: 2

    about as much as Europeans were interested in the Africans.
    But that did not stop them from coming to Africa.

  16. It is common knowledge on Ask Slashdot: What Should Happen To Your Data After You Die? · · Score: 2

    St Peter asks your for all social media passwords.
    I, for one, would want to make sure those accounts no longer exist.

  17. I am sure it will croak soon. on "Lazarus Project" Clones Extinct Frog · · Score: 4, Funny

    comment

  18. Re:Just lie on Don't Want a Phonebook? Give Up Your Privacy · · Score: 1
  19. Re:Just lie on Don't Want a Phonebook? Give Up Your Privacy · · Score: 1

    But then you probably violate the terms of service of the website, which, in turn,
    makes you a criminal under the computer fraud and abuse act.

  20. Better to admit to being hacked on Microsoft Admits To Being Hacked Too · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Than to admit to certificate management incompetence.

  21. You mean Reagan ? on Missile Defense's Real Enemy: Math · · Score: 1

    sp - 5

  22. why are you managing your own email? on Ask Slashdot: Name Conflicts In Automatically Generated Email Addresses? · · Score: 1

    Tell everyone to get a gmail account and be done with it.
    *you* don't have to worry about spam.
    *you* get to downsize IT.
    And it costs you $0.

  23. Business user is not dead on Will Microsoft Sell Off Its Entertainment Division? · · Score: 1

    Microsoft has lost the popular consumer, most likely for good.
    It has not lost the business user, and probably never will.

    You might find that Microsoft completely spins off Windows OS,
    and focuses on products for all OSes, and getting them to
    interoperate well. It is business products that make Microsoft IMHO.

  24. it is very easy on Ask Slashdot: How To Stay Fit In the Office? · · Score: 1

    do:
          Exercise 1/2 hour every day.
          Pack your lunch
          Eat foods that are nutritious with large volume

    dont:
          Eat any fast food
          Eat out of open containers
          Consume enough alcohol to make you tipsy

  25. as a complement for the raspberry pi on Ask Slashdot: Gifts For a 90-Year-Old, Tech-Savvy Dad? · · Score: 1