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  1. Re:I'm confused on Apple Patents Cutting 3.5mm Jack in Half · · Score: 1

    When that patent finally expires, the laptop world will be forever saved from broken power jacks, unless broken power jacks is good business for laptop makers.

  2. Re:Google? No. Apple? Maybe. on Can Google Fix the Cable Box? · · Score: 1

    Considering Apple charges $999 for a 27-inch screen now, I'd hate to see their TV prices.

  3. Re:At least... on USPTO Issues 8,000,000th Patent · · Score: 1

    They probably shuffled around the order they were granting/denying them in, so that they had a slightly less embarrassing patent for the milestone number.

  4. Re:Correction on Accused Teen Bomber Finds FBI Surveillance Team's Wireless Network · · Score: 1

    And a report of the FBI actually arresting the kid. Did you read the same article?

  5. Re:And... on Accused Teen Bomber Finds FBI Surveillance Team's Wireless Network · · Score: 1

    Unless it was a honeypot open wifi, to allow for packet sniffing. Admittedly, I don't know why one would try to cover their tracks by using a network by that name, even if they thought it was fake.

  6. Re:A few reasons G+ can't replace FB yet on Facebook Says That Google+ Has No Users · · Score: 1

    Yeah - and they can merge this into + like they did with Buzz.

  7. Re:Google+ dead on Facebook Says That Google+ Has No Users · · Score: 2

    Declaring something dead, before it's even officially released for everyone. Man, people on the internet these days.

    You mean like Google Wave?

  8. Re:Older people on Malicious Spam Spikes To 'Epic' Level · · Score: 1

    And if people that age have domain names, they're probably customers of Domain Registry of America

  9. Re:No custom maps on Rage and the Tech Behind id Tech 5 · · Score: 1

    It takes longer, but for a few years now, we've had the ability to page memory to disk.

  10. Re:Commies in space! on NASA Shoots Down Comet Elenin Doomsday Predictions · · Score: 1

    Apple Computer AND Apple Records for similarity to Lennon

  11. Re:I am still fuzzy on Cop Seeks Wiretapping Charges For Woman Who Videotaped Beating · · Score: 1

    You wouldn't say that if someone pointed an infrared camera and long-range eavesdropping microphone at your bedroom.

  12. Re:This guy is just blowing smoke. on Cop Seeks Wiretapping Charges For Woman Who Videotaped Beating · · Score: 1

    This. I always thought this country was messed up - had no idea that the rest of the world has this solved. This is exactly what I'd expect (held to a higher standard).

  13. Re:This guy is just blowing smoke. on Cop Seeks Wiretapping Charges For Woman Who Videotaped Beating · · Score: 1

    Welcome to the 1st Annual Slashdot Eggcorn Festival

  14. Re:Protocol overhead on The FCC Says ISPs Aren't Hitting Advertised Speeds · · Score: 1

    While we're at it, let's make hard drive manufacturer's hit the same standard. "We said gigabytes, not gibibytes, so we're good, right?"

  15. Re:Shine an optical mouse in your ear on Human Brain Is Sensitive To Light In Ears · · Score: 1

    Most people over the age of 20 lose that part of their hearing. I used to be able to hear it. Like the other response- it's the electronics actually making the noise. I could hear it from another room. Now I can't even hear it from right next to it.

  16. Re:Usefulness on Browser Wars Redux: This Time It's the Apps · · Score: 1

    Being pragmatic, I tend to develop for Firefox first, doing only things supported on IE7. I tend to get by with almost no hacks or IE-specific CSS. You can't do that if you support IE6 at all. You don't even get transparent PNG support.

  17. Re:Why shutdown the newest? on Obama Administration Closing Recently Opened Datacenters · · Score: 1

    With the waste in government spending, I would expect that they already closed all the old ones to build new ones. They just built way too many new ones.

  18. Re:Usefulness on Browser Wars Redux: This Time It's the Apps · · Score: 1

    As a web developer, let me say that IE7 and IE8 are hundreds of miles removed from IE6. Sure, they don't support enough web standards, but they also don't horribly break formatting for the standards they do cover. It's 100 times easier to make a modern site work on IE7 and IE8 than it is on IE6, especially when counting for all the hacks you have to do to work around specific rendering bugs.

  19. Re:I'm sure it was Zaphod Beeblebrox. on DARPA Loses Contact With Hypersonic Glider · · Score: 1

    At a probability of 4876134:1 against

  20. Re:HIV? on New Drug Could Cure Nearly Any Viral Infection · · Score: 1

    Withholding all treatment for those infected? Why wouldn't they reproduce?

  21. Re:simple consulting? on IBM Plays SimCity With Portland, Oregon · · Score: 1

    A 50 dollar license every 2 years for bicyclist over 18.

    Pair that with an exam so that bicyclists actually know how to interact at intersections, and I'm in.

  22. Re:Simple Solution on Perseid Meteor Shower To Be Hampered By Full Moon · · Score: 1

    I got that, and you surely don't mean Marvin. Why would he complain about destruction of the Earth, which we all know is blocking his view of Venus.

  23. Re:BSNES is perfect on A Quest For the Perfect SNES Emulator · · Score: 1

    That's the way I run mine on MythTV. I wrote my own menus, and when the emulators are launced from the menus, the Exit button on my universal remote is mapped to the keys to exit the emulator.

  24. Re:Chipsets on A Quest For the Perfect SNES Emulator · · Score: 1

    But are these running hardware chips or are they running general purpose CPU's with emulators?

  25. Re:Who gives a fuck? on Science Fair Entry Shuts Down Airport Terminal · · Score: 1

    I tend to walk right past these situations - for example if the store alarm goes off because they forgot to deactivate a DVD. If they dare touch me, they'd better know that the police would consider that assualt.