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  1. Re:What happems on In a Symbolic Shift, IBM's India Workforce Likely Exceeds That In US · · Score: 1
    Businesses aren't making $17,000 a year, the average employee is.

    People aren't buying IBM machines; businesses are. One would assume that the low employee pay would help businesses be able to afford the expensive computers.

    The people making $17,000 a year are buying cheap, disposable items made by people making $5,000 a year.

  2. Re:Centralized development considered harmful ; on Apple Axes Head of Mapping Team · · Score: 1

    JFYI: Developers and Quality Assurance folks can fake location data for testing purposes. No need to test anywhere outside of the testing labs, if done correctly.

  3. Re:Search for spherical neodymium magnets... on Buckyballs Throws In the Towel · · Score: 1
    Captain Literal strikes again!

    My Turn:
    You can shut down a company, but I don't see how one can shut down a magnet.

  4. Re:Demestically developed? on China Building a 100-petaflop Supercomputer Using Domestic Processors · · Score: 1
    So because stealing things has happened in the past, it's OK to do now and in the future?

    Unclean hands aren't an excuse for further wrongs.

  5. Re:Let them on Brazilian Newspapers Leave Google News En Masse · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The "problem" is shifting useage patterns. The solution is to shift the business model accordingly. Blaming Google on user's constantly changing behavior is easier than adjusting a business model.

  6. Re:There are much better ways to spend money on DHS Gets Public Comment, Whether It Wants It Or Not · · Score: 2

    That should not cause trauma to any mentally healthy, well-adjusted individual.

    Based on your statement, there is an implied assumption that only mentally healthy, well adjusted people should travel (or be allowed to travel). I do not think that this is what you intended to say.

  7. Re:Unless it's in the United States on Why Juries Have No Place In the Patent System · · Score: 1
    You do realize that China is the largest producer of gold, right?

    Most folks who believe that our currency's value should be tied to an arbitrary metal don't seem to like this fact.

  8. Re:A better idea... on Experts Develop 3rd-Party Patch For New Java Zero-Day · · Score: 1

    Or just someone who has experience in this industry.

  9. Re:Launched? Unveiled? on Microsoft Unveils First New Company Logo In 25 Years · · Score: 2

    The original Microsoft logo had the 'f' and 't' touching as well; this is a design decision for nostalgic purposes.

  10. Re:Team Fortress 2 on Microsoft Taking Heat For Five-Figure Xbox 360 'Patch Fee' · · Score: 1
    And your experience must be true for everyone?

    Different people use the same device differently. I'll bet that the person you replied to plays at least some different games than you do, therefore their Xbox 360 experience may indeed be different than yours.

    Now go kill some bad guys.

  11. Re:I don't see much to miss on DirecTV Drops Viacom Channels · · Score: 1
    Well it's a good thing that all of their subscribers have the exact same taste as you, then.

    Sometimes, things that don't affect us at all will affect others in a significant way.

  12. Re:Reliability and usability count, too on Former Microsoft Exec: Microsoft Has "Become the Thing They Despised" · · Score: 1

    You can disable that, you know,

  13. Re:Um... on The Long Death of Fat Clients · · Score: 1

    I believe the goal for this idea was to have a browser that uses very few resources and is very fast, and the user has the option to add only the functionality that they desire. The effect is to allow the user control over how much of their system's resources their browser uses.

    There are many people who would like to use the web who have slow or unreliable internet connections, or have impairments that force them to access information differently than the rest of us. Thus, a text only browser makes sense for a blind user with text to speech software installed. A browser without sound capability installed isn't wasting resources for playing sounds for a deaf user. Not enabling video makes sense for those with limited network connectivity, such as folks in developing countries or those who travel to remote areas for a living.

    We're not all the same, so this idea makes a lot of sense to me.

  14. Re:Huh? on Google Touts Worker Tracking As Own CEO Goes MIA · · Score: 1
    Good question. Here is another:

    "Are you seriously thinking that any company will ever use Maps Coordinate to track the location of companies' corporate executives?"

  15. Re:Where would their customer base come from anywa on Heathkit Educational Systems Closes Shop For Good · · Score: 1

    You already have the knowledge to do all of the things that you mentioned on your own. Kits are a "one stop" solution for others to learn these things; the kits easily address the inevitable "Where do I start?" question that curious novices will ask before beginning to learn.

  16. Re:So, they returned a server on FBI Caught On Camera Returning Seized Server · · Score: 1

    Sell it to China.

    Otherwise known as Recycling.

  17. Re:LOL scrubs on MIT Tetris Hack: Source Code Released · · Score: 3, Funny

    Seriously. Machine language input by punch cards or GTFO.

  18. Re:What sort of guarantee backs up the 20 year lif on $60 Light Bulb Debuts On Earth Day · · Score: 2

    Does your experience concern Philips CFLs? I have one that has lasted since 1998.

    So this means... that all Phillips CFLs will last 14+ years? No, it means that one did. It says absolutely nothing about the quality and longevity of all other Phillips CFLs manufactured in 1988.

    Anecdotal evidence is... anecdotal.

  19. Re:A transcript: on US and China Held Secret Cyber Wargames · · Score: 2

    Replying to self to add a link for context: http://www.duke.edu/web/DRAGO/humor/gazebo.html

  20. Re:A transcript: on US and China Held Secret Cyber Wargames · · Score: 2

    US: I cast... magic missile
    China: Why you cast magic missile? There nothing to attack!

    US: But you just said: "You see a well-groomed garden. In the middle, on a small hill, you see a gazebo."

  21. Re:I Don't See the Parallelism Here ... on Student Charged For Re-selling Textbooks · · Score: 0
    So you are arguing that, as a free citizen, it is OK for you to purchased illegal copies of a book? Or are you arguing that no written material should be able to have copyright protections?

    Also, what does the size of the publishing company have to do with publishing/copying rights?

  22. Re:Autism on Lack of Vaccination Sends Babies In Oregon To the Hospital · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Different people can have different relationships? Because that would be the only way to explain this disagreement.

    Tomorrow's lesson is called "Not everybody is like me."

  23. Re:So this boils down to... on Ask Slashdot: My Company Wants Me To Astroturf, Should I? · · Score: 1

    That's because you're IN group B, you not-so anonymous shill....

  24. Re:McAfee for insulin pumps next on McAfee Claims Successful Insulin Pump Attack · · Score: 1

    Relax, it's all part of the conspiracy.

  25. Re:Patent on Supreme Court Limits Patents Based On Laws of Nature · · Score: 1

    You can, but you need to add "while using a computer" or "while connected to the Internet" in order for the patent to be granted with minimal review.