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  1. Re:Google thinks people shoud use their os, shocke on Sergey Brin: Windows Is "Torturing Users" · · Score: 1

    Mmm. On Windows 7 you can write "backup" in the search box and it will suggest "Backup and restore". So your it seems that your concern has been taken care of.

  2. Re:Price? on White iPhone 4 Coming Today · · Score: 1

    "But that's not the case. There is no payment for the handset included in the monthly ongoing cost."

    I don't agree with this statement.

  3. Re:Price? on White iPhone 4 Coming Today · · Score: 1

    Of course the plan contains repayment for the handset. Around here you pick a plan (0-40€) and then you may pick a phone (+5-25€ depending on the model) on top of that. And the phone is usually (not always) a bit cheaper than from the shop, because they get you as a customer for 2 years. It's the same for you, just without the choice.

  4. Re:Price? on White iPhone 4 Coming Today · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure that "You don't have a point, because the phone companies are ripping off the users (in certain markets)" is very good one. Perhaps this is something that should be changed?

  5. Price? on White iPhone 4 Coming Today · · Score: 4, Informative

    It will be available for a suggested retail price of $199 (US) for the 16GB model and $299 (US) for the 32GB model with a new two year agreement

    That's a crazy way to state the price. Or are the prices for the agreements always the same, whatever phone you choose

  6. Re:That's easy on Why Does the US Cling To Imperial Measurements? · · Score: 1

    Did he use imperial units?

  7. Re:Wrong problem anyone? on The Hobbit Filming at 48fps · · Score: 1

    What is the refresh rate on your computer display?

  8. Re:Obama acomplishments on Obama Administration Wants Your Old Email · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I know there was support for the war:

    Wikipedia:
    "A September 2003 poll revealed that seventy percent of Americans believed there was a link between Saddam Hussein and the attacks of 9/11.[190] 80% of Fox News viewers were found to hold at least one such belief about the invasion, compared to 23% of PBS viewers."

    Then again, the support wasn't exactly unanimous pre-war positions

    Opposition "Days before the March 20 invasion, a USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll found support for the war was related to UN approval. Nearly six in 10 said they were ready for such an invasion "in the next week or two." But that support dropped off if the U.N. backing was not first obtained. If the U.N. Security Council were to reject a resolution paving the way for military action, only 54% of Americans favored a U.S. invasion. And if the Bush administration did not seek a final Security Council vote, support for a war dropped to 47%."

    Wikipedia:
    "The legality of the invasion of Iraq has been challenged since its inception on a number of fronts, and several prominent supporters of the invasion in all the invading nations have publicly and privately cast doubt on its legality. It is argued that the invasion was fully legal because authorization was implied by the United Nations Security Council. International legal experts, including the International Commission of Jurists, a group of 31 leading Canadian law professors, and the U.S.-based Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy, have denounced both of these rationales."

    Moar Wikipedia:
    "Although it is popularly believed that Saddam Hussein had forced the IAEA weapons inspectors to leave Iraq, they were in fact withdrawn at the request of US Ambassador Peter Burleigh in advance of Operation Desert Fox, the 1998 American bombing campaign. After the build-up of U.S. troops in neighboring states, Hussein welcomed them back and promised complete cooperation with their demands. Experienced IAEA inspection teams were already back in Iraq and had made some interim reports on its search for various forms of WMD."

    I remember following the search for WMDs closely. The reports from IAEA indicated that there were none. I also remember the statements from USA that the WMDs exist and just have been hidden and that the IAEA people weren't up to the job.

    Do many people still order freedom fries there?

  9. Re:Obama acomplishments on Obama Administration Wants Your Old Email · · Score: 1

    Yes, it is different: we weren't attacked by Libya, so it isnt "national defense", and thus not really our military's role. Defending us against an actual attack, on the other hand, IS the role of our military; and I will note that unlike Obama's Libya, GWB had congressional approval for both Afghanistan AND Iraq (and in the case of Afghanistan, given the whopping 518-1 vote for the war, its REALLY disingenuous to "blame" GWB for it; he would have been impeached if he HADNT gone to war).

    I'm sorry, but could you explain again how exactly does dotting together "defending", "an actual attack" (with link to 9/11) and "Afghanistan AND Iraq" work? I'm sure they will find the WMDs in Iraq any moment now, and can justify it being "national defense"?

  10. Re:7 kids? And vacation home, and a place in D.C. on Congressman Wants YouTube Video Covered Up · · Score: 1

    Ideally yes, but this might actually make lobbying easier...

  11. Re:Surprised? on Carriers Delay Paying Japan's Texting Donations · · Score: 1

    Wireless company - Verizon, etc. They don't send the payment to mGive until you pay your wireless bill. Otherwise they are making a loan to the charity with no collateral. They DO have the cash, tho.

    Why? Don't you have vending machines you can call (or text) to and pay from your phonebill? I mean, you are the customer who paid the bill last month and the month before... Then again that would explain the higher prices for the things, when buying with cell...

  12. Re:Awsome! on Firefox 4 Released! · · Score: 1

    As far as I know, the prediction is based on what you actually go for after writing something, so if you write "s" and keep selecting slashdot, you will get slashdot as the first suggestion. I like the awesome bar. It is awesome. (well, actually it's just very good, but close enough). I don't really care about the bookmark suggestions (and I rarely get them), but the matches from history are useful.

  13. Re:Don't worry Citizens! on AT&T To Acquire T-Mobile From Deutsche Telekom · · Score: 1

    Oh yes, that's the way it works around here too. Although the amount of landlines is going down I believe. I certainly don't have one.

    My point wasn't well made, but I was actually thinking about mobile phones.

  14. Re:Don't worry Citizens! on AT&T To Acquire T-Mobile From Deutsche Telekom · · Score: 1

    Having to pay a rental fee for every phone in your home every month because you were not allowed to own your own phone wasn't exactly a great thing.

    So most people buy a phone and have a separate agreement for the actual connection in States?

  15. Re:American pride aside on NASA Buys 12 Seats On Soyuz · · Score: 1

    And more importantly ESA is already taken ^.^

  16. Re:Read this first on Third Blast At Japan's Fukushima Nuclear Plant · · Score: 1

    And yet it's better than anything reported in news...

  17. Re:If the Japanese can't do it on Nuclear Emergency Declared At 2 Plants In Japan · · Score: 1

    almost no radiation actually leaked at TMI, due to the dome, but it looks like the Japanese reactors are already leaking significant amounts of radiation

    I would like to know more about this significant amount of leaking radiation from multiple reactors.

  18. Re:EVE is terrible. on In Isk We Trust: the EVE Online IskBank Exposed · · Score: 1

    That sounds like fun ^.^

  19. Re:Not only graphics on How the PC Is Making Consoles Look Out of Date · · Score: 1

    Multiscreen isn't actually very expensive at all. (Unless we're talking about multiscreen gaming...) Just add a cheapish monitor, pretty much all display adapters support them. And having two screens is worth it. Personally, I like to have one a bit better screen, but the second can be pretty much anything.

  20. Re:Nokia did not sell Qt on Nokia Sells Qt · · Score: 1

    Well yes, declining market share, but the amount of sold phones was still growing. Of course, perhaps this will change now, but I wouldn't say they are doomed because of iPhone5, considering the various price segments. Their high-end smartphone strategy may (will?) be doomed if they are late.

  21. Re:Nokia did not sell Qt on Nokia Sells Qt · · Score: 2

    Well... If I've understood correctly, they are going to be making phones that use QT for at least 2 years anyway?

  22. Re:"Giving"? on Melbourne College May Give iPad To Every Student · · Score: 1

    So the College got the iPads for free?

  23. Re:Not bad on IPad 2 33% Thinner, 2x Faster, iOS 4.3 · · Score: 1

    I don't know anyone who believed that iPad 2 was going to have retina-display.

  24. Re:Just redo the buttons on Tolkien Estate Censors the Word "Tolkien" · · Score: 1

    See the http://www.tolkienestate.com/contact> contact form, they are actually encouraging people to write "tolkien" :p

  25. Re:And it's fucking irritating on Apple Deemed Top of Movie Product Placement Charts · · Score: 2

    Not physically, but every 'a bit too long shot' of item being marketed hurts my brain. Especially it keeps happening again and again. I really really hate Apple marketing. "Yes, I get it, he too is using an Apple computer, I saw it already." I'm sure that they are good computers, but oh god I hate the marketing. (Oh, some users too ^.^). Sony Vaio is another that appears a bit too often in films... (although, not so much recently).