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  1. Re:Really on YouTube Removes Video of Reactions To Being Videoed · · Score: 1

    Most people don't buy things to become social pariahs (which describes your Google Glass owner above).

  2. Re:I don't on Developers Rolling Out Pebble Smartwatch Apps · · Score: 1

    It's so funny when people say things everyone knows is wrong...

  3. Re:Geotarding? on Google To Buy Waze For $1.3 Billion · · Score: 2

    Their first move will be to laugh and point at Facebook. This was a move to keep Facebook out of the game.

  4. Re:Apple on Google To Buy Waze For $1.3 Billion · · Score: 1

    It was actually a move to fend off Facebook.

  5. Re:Well... on Hacker Exposes Evidence of Widespread Grade Tampering In India · · Score: 1

    I was whooshed...

  6. Re:and how many people just cramed the test on Hacker Exposes Evidence of Widespread Grade Tampering In India · · Score: 3, Informative

    It definitely does not represent standardization to a score of 100. It's not an even distribution of peaks. It is pushed up above the failing mark, and there is no gap from 94-100. Furthermore, all the different tests in different subjects show the same gaps. This is not reasonable at all.

  7. Re:Well... on Hacker Exposes Evidence of Widespread Grade Tampering In India · · Score: 1

    It's being done by the tester, not the students, possibly to keep some people (in specific regions) out of the school they want.

  8. Re:Reddit threw the findings into doubt on Hacker Exposes Evidence of Widespread Grade Tampering In India · · Score: 2

    I thought so too, but the problem is when you overlay the various tests for different subjects, they all show the same missing points. Standardizing different tests (in different subjects) would not produce identical gaps when overlaid unless all 150,000 students performed exactly the same for each subject – which is just not believable.

  9. Re:and how many people just cramed the test on Hacker Exposes Evidence of Widespread Grade Tampering In India · · Score: 4, Informative

    The test results were manipulated. There are missing scores (from 1-100) on a test taken by 150,000 students. That is not possible. They have been bumped up to passing. The graphs show jagged peaks separated by gaps rather than a curve. Unless his data is incomplete or has been manipulate, there is no reasonable explanation for the jagged charts.

  10. Re:I wonder if there is a connection... on Footage Reveals Drone Aircraft Nearly Downed Passenger Plane in 2004 · · Score: 1

    It became available on YouTube in 2006. People are paying attention to it now because of the Euro Hawk's issues. Nothing terribly coincidental.

  11. Re:must be a joke on Chicago Sun Times Swaps iPhone Training For Staff Photographers · · Score: 1

    Apologies for replying to myself... This may be a sign the newspaper is going to a digital-only format in the not-too-distant future.

  12. Re:must be a joke on Chicago Sun Times Swaps iPhone Training For Staff Photographers · · Score: 5, Informative

    They replaced their pool of photographers with freelancers (sports, feature stories, breaking news, etc...). In addition, reporters will now carry iPhones in part to capture low resolution video for their website. It's not really the DSLR v iPhone the headline claims.

  13. Re:im confused here on Canon DSLR Hack Allows It To Shoot RAW Video · · Score: 1

    "Maybe the sensor will survive being powered for far longer than it was designed to, or maybe it will overheat and be irreparably damaged."

    One of the few intelligent points in this entire conversation.

  14. Re:News at elleven on HTC Does What Google Wouldn't: Sell an LTE Phone That Sidesteps AT&T · · Score: 1

    I think you mean Apple waited for LTE components to become less power-hungry and for the carriers to deploy LTE. Also, your remark is non sequitur, since the point is that Apple was the first to sidestep AT&T with an LTE phone. PERIOD.

  15. Re:LTE Nexus 4 Coming in May on HTC Does What Google Wouldn't: Sell an LTE Phone That Sidesteps AT&T · · Score: 2

    Apple has already been selling an LTE phone that sidesteps AT&T since last year, so this article is making a big deal about nothing.

  16. Re:News at elleven on HTC Does What Google Wouldn't: Sell an LTE Phone That Sidesteps AT&T · · Score: 1

    True. Besides, Apple has already been selling an LTE phone (iPhone 5) that sidesteps AT&T since last year.

  17. Re:News at elleven on HTC Does What Google Wouldn't: Sell an LTE Phone That Sidesteps AT&T · · Score: 1

    Apple has already been selling an LTE phone that sidesteps AT&T since last year:
    http://store.apple.com/us/buy/home/shop_iphone/family/iphone5

  18. MacBook Pro: How to remove or install memory on Ars Reviewer is Happily Bored With Dell's Linux Ultrabook · · Score: 4, Informative

    The current generation MBP has user replaceable RAM and storage. You're confusing the current generation MBP with Macbook Airs and Retina Macbook Pro. Apple even has a support document on the site "MacBook Pro: How to remove or install memory" that covers the current generation MBP introduced in June 2012 (http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1270).

  19. Re:FRACTALS !!! on High-Speed Camera Grabs First 3D Shots of Untouched Snowflakes · · Score: 2

    The photos are only 2D -- in some cases as low resolution as 1.2 megapixels. It is only the actual snowflakes themselves that are 3D as opposed to the standard 2D-like images of snowflakes we normally see. To print actual snowflakes in 3D will require different equipment and another method of photography.

    As far as #D fractal software, there doesn't seem to be a shortage.

  20. Published on Mar 7, 2013 on Swedish Engineer's RC Plane Gets a Balloon Lift To Space · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Total flight time was 108 minutes. Total distance between launch and landing site was 101km.

  21. Re:No way to see! on Ask Slashdot: How Can a Blind Singer 'See' the Choirmaster's Baton? · · Score: 1

    Seems like the obvious solution is to have a seeing member of the choir tap on the blind persons arm or back.

  22. Re:The King is dead on Apple Devices To Outsell Windows For First Time Ever In 2013 · · Score: 1

    I guess the author forgot about 1984-1990

  23. Re:Why the crypto? on Open Sauce Foundation Created · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's a stupid April Fools gimmick...

  24. Headline and Summary Mismatch on Testers Say IE 11 Can Impersonate Firefox Via User Agent String · · Score: 5, Informative

    Wouldn't a better headline be "IE 11 user agent string changes from MSIE to IE," since most of the summary is about that?
    The headline isn't even discussed in the summary.
    However, it's obvious the standard ability of browsers to report a different user agent for dev and testing has been sensationalized here just for click generation.

  25. Re:Seriously. on Ask Slashdot: New To Linux; Which Distro? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    +1

    I hate following a link from a search engine, just to see a snarky "go to a search engine" reply for the question I searched.