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  1. Re:iPhone 1 on Apple-1 Sells For $671,400, Breaks Previous Auction Record · · Score: 3, Informative

    This Apple I is signed by Woz and includes a signed letter from Steve Jobs. The previous owner also got the machine running again.

    http://www.macrumors.com/2013/05/25/working-apple-1-computer-sells-for-record-auction-price-of-671400/

  2. Re:Google has taken too long, buy openfeint on Google Leak Hints At an Android Game Center With Multiplayer Support · · Score: 1

    With OpenFeint already bought and shut down there would be little value to Google, better to buy one of the other actively running networks.

  3. Re:with frickin' lasers! on Navy To Deploy Lasers On Ship In 2014 · · Score: 1

    Make yourself white or reflective and you make yourself a more visible target.

  4. Re:Works for some, not for all on Ask Slashdot: Why Buy a Raspberry Pi When I Have a Perfectly Good Cellphone? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Redpark has gone through the MFi program so we don't have to.

    I mentioned this in a different post, but if you want to experiment with iOS accessories you can get the Redpark TTL Cable for iOS. More information here: http://www.redpark.com/c2ttl.html

  5. Re:Works for some, not for all on Ask Slashdot: Why Buy a Raspberry Pi When I Have a Perfectly Good Cellphone? · · Score: 2

    For $55, you can get the Redpark TTL Cable for iOS. More information here: http://www.redpark.com/c2ttl.html

  6. Following Betteridge's law of headlines on Can Innovation Be Automated? · · Score: 5, Informative
  7. Linked article has little to say on the issue on We Didn't Need Google's Schmidt To Tell Us Android and Chrome Wouldn't Merge · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The only bit of substance this article has is the quote from Eric Schmidt which is a partial quote which leaves out a very important bit. The fuller quote is: "Chrome and Android operating systems will remain separate products but could have more overlap ". When the article discusses Chrome it seems to be focused on Chrome the browser, not Chrome OS, which the linked Reuter's article properly does. The original article discusses the differences between Chrome and Android, but none of these differences preclude merging or otherwise combining the OSes. In particular, it is very possible that Google at some time will support running Android apps on Chrome OS or running Chrome OS apps on Android.

  8. Re:A cheaper, old school way on High Tech Vending Machines Transform IT Support At Facebook · · Score: 1

    You mean the slower, inefficient way? Yeah sure, you can stick with that.

  9. Re:What happend with trillions lost in Silicon Val on The Hypocrisy In Silicon Valley's Big Talk On Innovation · · Score: 1

    Minor nit-pick: AOL is not a Silicon Valley company. It was an important company in the 90s .com boom, but it is east coast.

  10. Re:that's my fantasy, too on Gnome Founder Miguel de Icaza Moves To Mac · · Score: 2

    My guess is that in this case this is an Ableton Libe problem and not an OS X problem.

  11. Battletoads, eh? on Groupon Still Losing Money, CEO Is Fired And Leaks Final Email · · Score: 2, Funny

    I have a theory of what the CEO was doing instead of fixing up Groupon.

  12. Re:Interesting...but.... on LG Acquires WebOS Source Code and Patents From HP · · Score: 1
  13. Re:The distinctive look and attitude.. on Doctor Who's Dalek Designer Dies At 84 · · Score: 2

    You're obviously making a ridiculous request. Of course, there aren't going to be London newspapers with titles like "we got a hell of a beating", with or without Panzers.

    How about you find a source that Panzer images were censored from British newspapers?

    In any case, the Daleks were introduced in 1963, so the British public would be well aware of the shapes of Panzers by then.

  14. Re:The distinctive look and attitude.. on Doctor Who's Dalek Designer Dies At 84 · · Score: 1

    eh? you know during WW II they had these marvelous devices called "cameras", they took "pictures" that were then reproduced in the "newspapers" of the times.

    I'm sure much of the British public knew what Panzers looked like during the war, even more so afterwards.

  15. Re:Medals for everyone! on New Medal Designed To Honor Cyber Soldiers · · Score: 1

    Thanks for that, good to know.

    In that entry only the one for the My Lai Massacre intervention strikes me as one which could be considered disobeying authority. I wonder how often disobeying authority and doing the right thing is rewarded.

  16. Re:Medals for everyone! on New Medal Designed To Honor Cyber Soldiers · · Score: 1

    Isn't that already included by default in all medals? I've never heard of an 'acting on your conscience' medal or 'doing the right thing' medal.

  17. Re:Pi Edition? on Mojang Releases Minecraft: Pi Edition For the Raspberry Pi · · Score: 4, Funny
  18. Re:Insult to Injury on Vote To Name Two Newly Discovered Moons of Pluto · · Score: 1

    It also has three known moons: Charon, Nix & Hydra. This just brings the number to five. A moon is a moon regardless of whether the thing it is orbiting is a planet or not.

  19. Re:The Surgeon General on Interviews: Ask James Randi About Investigating the Truth · · Score: 1

    That report that you linked to from the surgeon general is a summary report. It includes three pages of references which the summary was created from. You can go through those references if you want empirical data.

  20. Re:Don't they use Perforce internally? on Microsoft Embraces Git For Development Tools · · Score: 1

    It probably depends on the project, it appears that Perforce is mainly used, but git is also used. For example, the Android project uses git.

    http://www.quora.com/What-version-control-system-does-Google-use-and-why

  21. Re:Don't like it on GitHub Registers Its 3 Millionth User · · Score: 1

    > fauxgrammers and brogrammers

    You mean like the Linux project? Yeah, they're just a bunch of posers.

  22. Re:It's a great service on GitHub Registers Its 3 Millionth User · · Score: 1

    Github is much more than just git. It provides a number of services: issue tracking, update feed, project management, file viewing, etc. that raw git doesn't provide. My employer moved from their previous git-web system to Github Enterprise and it has been a joy to use.

  23. Re:Well and truly on Apple's App Store Tops 40 Billion Downloads; Generates $7 Billion For Developers · · Score: 1

    A high % of the apps on the store are free.

  24. Re:DRM-free largely stops at 1922 on Death of Printed Books May Have Been Exaggerated · · Score: 4, Informative
  25. Re:So what? on iPhone Infringes On Sony, Nokia Patents, Says Federal Jury · · Score: 1

    What's interesting is that Apple is a member of MPEG LA: http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/AVC/Pages/Licensors.aspx