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  1. Re:complain on Google Doubts Apple Will Approve Its New Maps Application · · Score: 1

    Complain to Google about planting false stories in the media? Good idea. The Map+ app that uses "Google Maps APIs to call wirelessly for location, routing or point-of-interest (POI) data" is currently getting 1-star reviews. It doesn't work because Google is blocking the app's access to the API. Why would Apple include a broken app in a featured category (Maps)? All of the speculation about app rejection is FUD on Google's part, when they are the ones preventing the API from being used in the Maps+ app.

  2. Do Not Track? on Graphics Cards: the Future of Online Authentication? · · Score: 1

    How long before we have to worry about our graphics cards leaking personally identifiable information?

  3. HA HA on Ubuntu Will Now Have Amazon Ads Pre-Installed · · Score: 1

    HA HA!

  4. Re:Like any of them poor countries can afford Appl on Major Backlash Looms For Apple's New Maps App · · Score: 1

    You have turn-by-turn navigation for IOS from Google in Mexico???
    I didn't think so. Waze and the other turn-by-turn navigation for IOS are unaffected.
    However, now we have an additional choice.

  5. Re:demographic? on Apple Announces iPhone 5 · · Score: 1

    It means the 32% market share for non-IOS tablets may be exaggerated by manufacturers reporting sales into the distribution channel rather than to actual consumers.

  6. Re:Simply amazing on Mario Bros. Clone Released For Atari 2600 · · Score: 1

    To start level, press fire button at intro screen (That shows world level and lives). Move left or right to move left or right.
    Press the fire button to jump. Press Up to run and to shoot fireballs if you are FireMario. Press Down to duck or to go down an open pipe. To finish a level, run into or jump on flagpole. The higher you land on it the more points you will get. The status bar on the left of the score is your timer. Don't let it run out! The status bar on the right of the score is your coin counter. It will go up one block every 8 coins. At 64 coins it will reset and you will earn an extra life. Going down the mid-level pipe also acts as your checkpoint, so if you die you will continue where you came up from the pipe. Yellow blocks are bonus blocks. Smash them to get a coin or power up. Red blocks are bricks. When big you can get rid of them by smashing them. You can go from Mario to Super Mario to Firey Mario. Vice versa when stunned by an enemy.

  7. Re:Groupthink? on Has the 3-D Hype Bubble Finally Popped? · · Score: 1

    You are wrong again.
    You think the lens in my iPhone doesn't focus? Most smartphones do indeed focus.
    Mobile phones that have fixed-focus lenses rely on wide angle lenses due to their large depth of field.

  8. Re:Groupthink? on Has the 3-D Hype Bubble Finally Popped? · · Score: 1

    No. Not at all. you got it 100% wrong.

    In your link '"acceptable" focus' does not mean perfectly in focus. It actually means slightly out of focus.

    I'm a photographer and I can tell the difference between a photo shot at infinity and one that was shot within the lens' focal range regardless of aperture settings (larger are always better for extreme depth of field).

  9. Re:Groupthink? on Has the 3-D Hype Bubble Finally Popped? · · Score: 1

    At such a small size, and having been sharpened after reduction, the second image is useless to demonstrate that everything is slightly out of focus.

    At infinity, everything is equally out of focus -- not perfectly in focus at all.

  10. Re:Easy peasy on World's Hardest Sudoku · · Score: 1

    Here is another solution (there are more than one):
    8 1 4 2 5 3 6 7 9
    9 2 3 6 7 8 1 5 4
    5 7 6 4 9 1 2 8 3
    1 3 5 9 6 7 8 4 2
    6 8 2 3 4 5 7 9 1
    7 4 9 1 8 2 5 3 6
    4 5 1 7 2 9 3 6 8
    2 6 8 5 3 4 9 1 7
    3 9 7 8 1 6 4 2 5

  11. Re:Is it safe? on Full-Body Airport Scanners Downsizing For Doctors/Dentists · · Score: 1

    It was a book first, you know?

  12. Re:X-rays were safe too. on Full-Body Airport Scanners Downsizing For Doctors/Dentists · · Score: 1

    US patent D149088, Jean Otis Reineeke, "Design for x-ray shoe fitting cabinet", issued 1948-03-23
    US patent 1614988, Lowe, J.J., "Method and Means for Visually Determining the Fit of Footwear.", issued 1927-10-05

  13. Re:Patent trolling is the new iWhite... on Sale of Galaxy Nexus Banned in the US · · Score: 1

    This is not a "look and feel" case or decision. What are you going on about?

  14. Re:Please Help Me Through Demonstration on FunnyJunk Sues the Oatmeal Over TM and "Incitement To Cyber-Vandalism" · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Where in the summary did you provide any context for the news? You are not writing about a feud between well-known characters such as Steve Ballmer and Sergey Brin. There is no reason we should know who these people are and care about this issue solely based on your summary. Aside from the players, the issue being argued isn't clear, and the summary devolves into a he said, she said ramble.

  15. Re:Only in 2012 on FunnyJunk Sues the Oatmeal Over TM and "Incitement To Cyber-Vandalism" · · Score: 3, Informative

    As an article, "the" is always lowercase in title case sentences...unless it is part of a proper noun. Samzenpus is one of the most illiterate editors ever.

  16. 13-year-old girl wrote summary. on FunnyJunk Sues the Oatmeal Over TM and "Incitement To Cyber-Vandalism" · · Score: 0, Troll

    The summary is so poorly written, assuming that the reader knows and cares about tiny details and any of players, that I am finally convinced the real Slashdot is dead.

  17. Re:FIRST things FIRST on At Canadian Airports, Your Conversation May Be Remotely Recorded · · Score: 2

    Egg meets face.

  18. 40,960 Mbps has already been done. on German Cable ISP First To Deliver 4700Mbps Internet Connection · · Score: 1
  19. Re:How do you review this sort of thing on "Open Source Bach" Project Completed; Score and Recording Now Online · · Score: 1

    The "passing notes" you describe appear to be grace notes.

    Some of the markings indicate a turn rather than a trill.

  20. True Grilling for Geeks - Not an Ad on Grilling For Geeks · · Score: 2

    The submission is an ad. True geeks aren't just about gadgets, but rather they focus on being knowledgeable in a particular field.

    When it comes to grilling (and real BBQ) this is the ultimate geek reference:
    BBQ FAQ

  21. Re:Not just Apple on Apple Tells Siri To Stop Recommending Nokia · · Score: 1

    There were only 5 reviews of the Nokia, and some of the other "smartphones" were tablets. I don''t think the reviews on Wolfram Alpha were all that objective. Obviously Apple was embarrassed, but perhaps the weak results (lack of reviews) should have been filtered out rather than the brand (Nokia).

  22. http://tpb.fl.ax/ on The Pirate Bay Suffering Global Outage From Massive DDoS Attack · · Score: 2

    http://tpb.fl.ax/ [tpb.fl.ax] was posted as a workaround on the official Pirate Bay Facebook page [facebook.com] since the blog was also under DDoS attack.

  23. Re:Market forces on DDR4 RAM To Hit Devices Next Year · · Score: 1

    "Just like AT&T beige phones were rented and not sold, these computers also wouldn't be your property,"

    It is precisely the US gov't that you should thank for rectifying that situation. The rest of your post is equally baseless and ill informed.

  24. Patexia on Is Google the New Microsoft? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I don't know, but Patexia seems to be a front for someone according to the bias in all of their articles over the past 2 years as seen by a Google search.

  25. Weekly World News on How Romanian Fortune Tellers Used Google To Fleece Victims · · Score: 1

    This seems to be the Euro version of Weekly World News, considering the reporting quality (or lack of) and other dubious stories: How long until someone posts this fake story from the site to Slashdot?