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  1. poll it on One In Eight To Cut Cable and Satellite TV In 2010 · · Score: 1

    How many of you have made the switch to internet-only TV, or are considering it?

    sounds like the perfect topic for the next poll

  2. Re:Won't change the fact IIT is an awful school on Indian Tech Universities Put Lectures Online For Free · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I agree that it does not matter how much he/she makes, but the original poster's point of them being "money grubbers" does not hold up for me either. IITs spend more on every student in terms of facilities provided than they charge as fees, education being substantially subsidized at the IITs by the government. The professors are a mixed bunch, some of them are awful yes, but some of them are experts in their field and very good at teaching too (not always found together). And oh, next time you feel so insecure about the size of your member, its best not to draw attention to it in a public forum. Your post degenerates to a troll, and I won't be surprised if some mod soon comes along and does the needful.

  3. Re:Can't understand them on Indian Tech Universities Put Lectures Online For Free · · Score: 1

    It still isn't a bad idea to have some subtitles. It's not too hard to add them and would save a lot of inconvenience (going back and forth to exact times in youtube videos is not the easiest). Making the videos more accessible/user-friendly will only widen the audience, which is what they have been put up for in the first place.

  4. obligatory on Happy Pi Day · · Score: 1

    all of your bases are ours

  5. Re:Liars on Tenth Anniversary of First Commercial MP3 Player · · Score: 1

    but, but.... Apple Corp has always been at war with Apple Computers

  6. Re:Why not run it? on Lessig On Corruption and Reform · · Score: 1

    First look I read the title as 'Why not ruin it' :)

  7. Re:It's an accounting thing on An App Store For iPhone Software · · Score: 1

    From what I know, they charge less than 2% (unless you get to the really low prices like less than $2 or so)

  8. Re:It's an accounting thing on An App Store For iPhone Software · · Score: 1

    will translate into probably very little if any profit when you figure in the bandwidth and them eating the credit card fees, Credit card fees should be a very small percentage of the total, not significant enough on a per sale basis
  9. 1.4 billion light years on Black Hole Blasts Neighbor Galaxy with Deadly Jet · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The article states: Both galaxies are situated about 1.4 billion light-years away from Earth.

    and then goes on with: The offending galaxy probably began assaulting its companion about 1 million years ago...

    If the distance is 1.4 billion light years, light from the event should be taking that much time to reach us, and something that happened only a million years ago should not be visible yet.

    What am I missing here?

  10. Re:1 KM (0.6 miles) is close? on Google Maps GPS Simulator · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Not every invention you see started off being perfectly usable. That's what development is for. The very cellphones that one will be using this on were not exactly convenient to carry around once upon a time, were they?

  11. But.. on Windows Vista SP1 Hands-On Details · · Score: 1

    ..does it play Linux?

  12. terrified on Predator-Style Helmets Allow Pilots to See Through Planes · · Score: 1

    yaaaaarrrrrgggghhhhhhh!

  13. statistics on Where Are the Flying Cars? · · Score: 1

    so finally all the people who quote statistics about one's chances of dying in a road accident being greater than in a plane crash will be wronged

  14. Re:The Space Race is a Rich Nation's Game on Russia to Build New Spacecraft by 2020 · · Score: 1

    perhaps a better measure (granted, still not perfect) to look at would be GDP per capita on a PPP basis

  15. instead on Monitor Draws Zero Power In Standby · · Score: 2, Insightful

    why can't people just be disciplined enough to switch off their monitors before leaving for home/office?

  16. 162 years on Grid Computing Saves Cancer Researchers Decades · · Score: 1

    whatever happened to Moore's law?

  17. Re:Ballpoint pen theory of mass differential on Intergalactic Missing Mass Missing Again · · Score: 1

    or missing airline luggage

  18. Other news on Over-50s Invade the Social Networking Scene · · Score: 1

    In totally unrelated news, a mass exodus of teenagers who were erstwhile Facebook users begins

  19. Re:Makes perfect sense on Students Assigned to Write Wikipedia Articles · · Score: 1

    It shouldn't be all that hard to grade One way is asking the other contributors to the project to grade the student's contribution to the project, and the professor can then apply his/her judgment to assign the final score (if at all needed) Makes things so much simpler and better with the student making genuine efforts to contribute, the open source project getting an extra pair of hands and the prof not having to do the bulk of the evaluation/grading.

  20. Re:options on Anti-Terrorism and the Death of the Chemistry Set · · Score: 1

    almost got me arrested, and led in part to my expulsion from public school

    and yet you turned up on /.
    you've obviously turned out fine, bring back the kits I say

  21. Laundry on IBM Recycles Waste CPU Wafers Into Solar Panels · · Score: 1

    scrubbing waste silicon wafers clean

    Looks like Intel and AMD just found themselves a new dry cleaner

  22. Re:Damn on Slashdot Charity Buyers Donate Over $10,000 To the EFF · · Score: 1

    You could have put in the meaning of life in that hyperlink, wouldn't matter, no one here reads the articles anyway.

    Why would anyone pay to get a link saying 42? :-)

  23. Re:Semantics on Rochester Judge Holds RIAA Evidence Insufficient · · Score: 1

    I guess they decided on a slightly more subtle approach Are you accusing the *IA of subtlety? Suing grandmothers and small kids isn't exactly subtle is it.

  24. Re:Great Idea on String Theory in Two Minutes · · Score: 1
  25. Last post on Nintendo's Perrin Kaplan Takes A Bow · · Score: 2, Funny

    So this is Kaplan's last post then?