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  1. Re:May I point out the obvious, please? on Would the Developing World Use E-Readers More Than Laptops? · · Score: 1

    Actually one thing I've always wondered is why they don't come with a solar panel built into the back of them

  2. Re:Text to speech on Would the Developing World Use E-Readers More Than Laptops? · · Score: 1

    It does a fairly decent job but when I use it on my Kindle I'm reading along with it (does wonders for my reading comprehension), so I can filter out most of the weirdness. One of the books I read used a few new lines then centered *** followed by a few more new lines for "scene changes" and it would say AsteriskAsteriskAsterisk.

    If you can put up with the weirdness it works just fine.

  3. Re:text to speech: librivox on Would the Developing World Use E-Readers More Than Laptops? · · Score: 1

    Hmm I'll look into that.

    Is there a system for rating readers? I once got a copy of an audiobook for "There will be Dragons" and it was bad the guy lost his place quite a bit.

  4. Re:Push it further. on X Prize $30 Million Robot Race To the Moon Is On · · Score: 1

    That's exactly what I was thinking, do a maned mission to the moon. Land on the moon and before you climb down the ladder take your probe and literally drop kick it out of the lander onto the surface of the moon.

  5. Re:Lack of imagination on Infertility Could Impede Human Space Colonization · · Score: 1

    Fooling around on an Orion space craft could be interesting, judging from the acceleration profile.

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/xeni/272469365/

  6. Re:Medicare bigger than DoD, Social Security close on Science Programs Hit Hard By Proposed Budget · · Score: 1

    Yeah but it doesn't stop them from raiding it for funds from time to time.

  7. Re:Not so scared of Army control on Out of Egypt Censorship, US Tech Export Under Fire · · Score: 1

    Weren't they actively suppressed by the Egyptian government?

  8. Re:Hmmm on OpenLeaks Founder 'Crippled' WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    [Citation Needed]

  9. Re:Taxes on Amazon Pulling Out of Texas Over $269 Million Tax Bill · · Score: 1

    Yeah it's referred to as a Use Tax, and it doesn't only affect online stores it also affects stuff you bought in another state, you are suppose to pay the difference between their sales tax and you state's use tax. Naturally you don't get a refund if that value is negative.

  10. Re:oh noes! on Can World Governments Veto Your Domain Name? · · Score: 1

    What subject are you teaching? If they know any internet memes then they know that one.

  11. Relies on Jailbreaking on iPhone Attack Reveals Passwords In Six Minutes · · Score: 2

    Root access is there anything it can't do?

  12. Re:Government is not about freedom on The Relationship Between FOSS and Democracy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Sure you can. Some of the southern states tried to fork the USA a while back. Main project said balls to that, and burned a lot of the "rebel" developers' houses and brought them back in line.

  13. Re:I though streaming solved all this? on LG Wants PlayStation 3 Banned From US Market · · Score: 1

    Video is heavily compressed and the audio is even worse. Streaming does not match the quality of BD

  14. Re:Is it safe? No. on Private Space Shuttle Flights · · Score: 1

    Amusingly enough one of the theories behind the expression of "bought the farm" is from when fighter pilots were in training they flew over farm lands. When one crashed into a farmers barn the farmer sued for damages and the payout covered the mortgage on the farm.

  15. Re:Sweden and United Kingdom has similar laws on Wikileaks' Assange Begins Extradition Battle · · Score: 1

    Question why do people care if Sweden is a NATO-member-in-disguise? Just wondering

  16. Re:there's a deeper backstory here. 2 things: on Japan's Elderly Nix Robot Helpers · · Score: 1

    There's no racism like Asian racism

  17. Re:Physics on Neal Stephenson On Rockets and Innovation · · Score: 1

    OT, but did they ever come up with a mathematical answer as to why bee fly?

  18. Re:Google and Microsoft, please... on Microsoft Vehemently Denies Google's "Bing Sting" · · Score: 0

    In newer incarnations of Superman his is more or less invincible to physical attacks, but he is very vulnerable to magical attacks.

    I suppose the question is are Goku's special attacks physical or are they more magical in nature?

  19. Re:Whose propaganda is this anyway? on Has China Already Flown a Space Plane? · · Score: 1

    Question: Wasn't this found out to be the fact after the cold war? From my understanding USSR would make outrageous claims and the US treated it as fact, and would then build something.

  20. Re:HAil China! on Has China Already Flown a Space Plane? · · Score: 1

    .... You do realize that US troops are in Korea because of China right?

  21. Re:During arrest on FBI Executes 40 Search Warrants For 'Anonymous' · · Score: 1

    Did he or a parent have it changed to that a while ago?
    /curious

  22. Re:Science is being bullied on Teachers Back Away From Evolution In Class · · Score: 1

    Don't blame all religion blame the Evangelicals, Europe doesn't really have them so they don't have these problems.

  23. Re:Economic Collapse due to Class War on Official — Economic Crash Not Computers' Fault · · Score: 2

    There's a subtle difference and if you look at the rest of his they will help reinforce my point. A greedy person will screw someone over for a buck no doubt for the sake of having the buck, but OP is saying that the rich are screwing people over simply for the sake of not allowing the average person have anything.
    His other statement:

    http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1969586&cid=35023076

    >>They do not care about net profitability. They care about power and control, which comes from wealth inequality. They want the poor to be very, desperately poor and thus easier to control. Overall, their tactics might make our society poorer, but they only care about relative wealth, not absolute wealth. If there were a way to make everyone on the planet 1,000 times richer than the richest man alive today, say the invention of true nano-asemblers, the wealthy sociopaths would fight it tooth and nail. They do not want everyone to be fabulously wealthy. They want to be wealthy, while everyone else is poor.

    Ok I have no clue how to quote properly and I'm not 100% certain that link works properly

  24. Re:LOIC cannot work anonymously on Police Arrest Five Over Anonymous Attacks · · Score: 1

    Really I can respect that then, assuming that they are willing to accept their punishment

  25. Re:good job on Police Arrest Five Over Anonymous Attacks · · Score: 1

    Or maybe they were idiots and were really easy to catch.