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  1. Re:textbook publishers use all kinds of BS to keep on Latvian Police Raid Teacher's Home for Uploading $4.00 Textbook · · Score: 2

    shit and legal threats

    Ah the American dream :)

  2. Re:Soviet Strong on Opportunity Breaks NASA's 40-Year Roving Record · · Score: 1

    Absolutely

  3. Re:BUYING SLASHDOT ACCOUNTS on 97% of Climate Science Papers Agree Global Warming Is Man-made · · Score: -1

    Eight out of ten cat owners said their cats preferred Crack Cocaine :)

  4. Re:Soviet Strong on Opportunity Breaks NASA's 40-Year Roving Record · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I know sorry USA also had 1st semi re-usable space craft, 1st docking in space and 1st Geo synchronos. However if you look at it pre 1966 it's pretty one sided with I think the only NASA 1st being having two manned space craft within 200 yards of each other whilst in orbit. It all changed when Sergi Pavlovich Korolyev died he had essentially blagged the Soviet space program from the start (They only let him launch Uri Gagarin because he told them they needed someone to man the radio).

  5. Re:Soviet Strong on Opportunity Breaks NASA's 40-Year Roving Record · · Score: 5, Funny

    Soviet Union

    1st Satleite to orbit Earth

    1st Animal in space

    1st Man in space

    1st Woman in space

    1st multiple personnel in space

    1st Object into inter planetary space

    1st lunar probe

    1st Venusian probe

    1st Martian probe

    1st Space walk

    1st space station

    NASA

    1st Cokacola in space

  6. Interesting on Brain Zapping Improves Math Ability · · Score: 2

    It makes me wonder if there's any correlation between maths ability and epilepsy?

  7. Re:Old School B-) on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With a Fear of Technological Change? · · Score: 1

    it wont do anything to programming.

    I disagree the need for cross platform support has changed how systems are designed. In the olden days you would normally have had all the business logic on the client app with perhaps a little with the back end DB. Now with apps having to run on so many different technologies (Thin/Faqt Client, Web, Android, Apple, Atom, Kindle etc) it's changed the whole design paradigm to everything working off of web services and just the presentation aspect being handled in the client technology.

  8. Re:Another job is lost. on Robotic Bartender Assembles Your Drink, Monitors Alcohol Consumption · · Score: 1

    At least, until we get robots that pass turing test. Then we're all fucked.

    I was just hoping for robots with tits :)

  9. Re:Price? on Google and NASA Snap Up D-Wave Quantum Computer · · Score: 1

    No so impressed the only articles I can find seem to be either un peer reviewed or if they are the peer appears to have a conflict of interest. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21829173.500-commercial-quantum-computer-leaves-pc-in-the-dust.html

  10. Re:I can't wait to see this battle on Google Demands Microsoft Pull YouTube App For WP8 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Did Microsoft reply to a totally different statement from google?

  11. Re:Adult human skin cells on Scientists Clone Human Embryos To Make Stem Cells · · Score: 2

    What the summary also neglected to point out is that we've been cloning Embryonic Stem Cells for over five years all they are doing is making it more reliable and retaining 100% compatibility with the donor (Something they had issues with previously)

  12. Re:not just iTunes on iTunes: Still Slowing Down Windows PCs After All These Years · · Score: 1

    Yep pretty much any software that come preconfigured under Windows :(

  13. No Linux version? on iTunes: Still Slowing Down Windows PCs After All These Years · · Score: 1

    It still surprises me that Apple never released a Linux version of ITunes particularly given that OS-X is based on a Linux port!

  14. Re:why does your phone need software running on yo on iTunes: Still Slowing Down Windows PCs After All These Years · · Score: 2
    Start Run Services.msc

    Badum!!!

  15. Re:Microsoft Research on Microsoft Patents "Cartoon Face Generation" · · Score: 1

    You will of course let me know when they patent the "Face Palm"

  16. Fucktard on Saudi Arabian Telecom Pitches to Moxie Marlinspike · · Score: 4, Insightful

    He didn't come running to slash dot he posted it to his blog! Someone else posted it to slash dot so take your foot out of your mouth and shove it back up your arse.

  17. Re:"Artificially mimic" on Plug Into a Plant: a New Approach To Clean Energy Harvesting · · Score: 1

    Ahh woodwork finally adapts plug-in and play :)

  18. Re:News for nerds on When Vote Counting Goes Bad · · Score: 1

    since there's potentially a cost with voting, I have no idea if that even further mires things in.

    Personally if I'd been sad enough to vote on this I'd be thinking class action, however, I have a life :)

  19. Re:Nothing new ... on Name.com Resets All Passwords Following Security Breach · · Score: 1

    Good grief if their security is that bad why the **** are their customers letting them store CC details?

  20. Re:Duh on Are Some of North Korea's Long-Range Missiles Fakes? · · Score: 1

    Also obviously they are parading a variety of missiles which may have different purposes (Nuclear, Satellite, Conventional etc.)

  21. Re:The machine exists on Dissecting RSA's 'Watering Hole' Traffic Snippet · · Score: 2

    So you proved that the VM exists and doesn't exists and is therefore in superposition but thus far this only proves cloud entanglement :)

  22. Hmmm on Box With Hidden Camera Travels Through the Mail · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Can we get the guys at Atheist Shoes to do the same :)

  23. If you think that's bad on It's 2013, and Windows Activation Is Still Frustrating · · Score: 1

    Try upgrading from Server 2012 Evaluation Edition to Server 2012 Fully licensed. It's not just jumping through hoops its a whole damn Gimcana.

  24. My tuppence on Microsoft's "New Coke" Moment? · · Score: 1

    MS Just hit the 100Mileon licences sold on Windows 8 http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/07/us-microsoft-windows8-sales-idUSBRE94603220130507 so TFA is just more MS bashing bigoted FUD

  25. Re:Population control on A Case For a Software Testing Undergrad Major · · Score: 1

    Hmm I'm just wondering. Programmer turned Tester is that like Gamekeeper turned Poacher :)