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  1. Re:I think both sides should call each other out. on China Calls Out US On Internet Freedom · · Score: 2

    Unless aggressively pushing means using bombs to push, then it's not such a good thing.

  2. Re:What could possibly go wrong? on Scientists Aim To Improve Photosynthesis · · Score: 1

    You know who else produced regrettable artwork? Hitler. The plants would produce bad artwork too. Ergo, they are equivalent to Hitler and must be stopped at all costs!

  3. Re:Hummm... What? on EU About To Vote On Copyright Extension · · Score: 1

    Patents would delay that drug's release, but once the patents expire, you can be your ass someone would make it. Curing tons of diseases at once would make one super rich.

  4. Re:Editor ? on Apple AirPlay Private Key Exposed · · Score: 1

    This being Slashdot, we know the answer is English tenses.

  5. Re:.NET does not have the same problems as java on Are Computer Crooks Renting Out Your PC? · · Score: 2

    There is a .NET plugin, it's called Silverlight, available for Windows and Mac OS X, plus it's basically what you have to use to write WP7 apps.

  6. Re:Nope on Could You Pass Harvard's Entrance Exam From 1869? · · Score: 1

    I used to attend a Catholic school, and even it didn't have a Greek course. They had Latin, of course, but no Greek. Maybe I'd have to go to an Orthodox school for that.

  7. Re:Nope on Could You Pass Harvard's Entrance Exam From 1869? · · Score: 2

    This is especially true with regards to languages; Greek and Latin are optional, if even available, while it seems as though they were mandatory back then.

  8. Re:is there anybody here... on Afghanistan Called First "Robotic War" · · Score: 1

    I don't know about now, but at least in 2007 60% of Iraqis thought that attacks on US forces were justified. A vast majority of Sunnis and Shiites also oppose the American military presence; only the Kurds support American troops being there. Source: http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2007-03-19-iraq-poll-day2_N.htm

    Afghanistan is more favorable to the US, though not all roses.

  9. Re:is there anybody here... on Afghanistan Called First "Robotic War" · · Score: 1

    I haven't been there, but apparently some geologists (or whoever does this work) have: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/14/world/asia/14minerals.html

    "The United States has discovered nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, far beyond any previously known reserves and enough to fundamentally alter the Afghan economy and perhaps the Afghan war itself, according to senior American government officials."

    It was even covered on /.: http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/06/14/0652217/1-Trillion-In-Minerals-Found-In-Afghanistan?from=rss

  10. Re:Was Microsoft Riight? on Apple's Secret Weapon To Win the Tablet Wars · · Score: 1

    A doctor's office that I go to uses the iPad to replace a patient's chart. I assume they have some internal web page where the pick a patient and it loads whatever they need.

  11. Re:What's funny is on Drug Runners Perfect Long-Range Subs · · Score: 1

    There is a black market because of age restrictions and taxes. Cigarettes especially have super high taxes on them, and black market dealers don't collect them. Or check ID.

  12. Re:no suprise on China To Overtake US In Science In Two Years · · Score: 2

    I learned things in high school that my parents didn't get taught. Trig and calculus weren't taught to them from what I gather. My grandpa has a high school diploma but can't do algebra. It may be they are exceptions, but I wouldn't just assume they were taught more back then. We need some facts.

  13. Re:Man up and learn emacs? on Why Mac OS X Is Unsuitable For Web Development · · Score: 2, Funny

    That's like saying man up and go see a Justin Bieber concert while prancing around in a field of flowers dressed in all pink.

    I think you meant "man up use cat".

  14. Re:Copyright law out of whack warning on Can You Really Be Traced From an IP Address? · · Score: 2

    It's not amazing to me. History is full of business models being propped up by legislation and cronyism, copyright laws being no exception. Benjamin Franklin lobbied for paper money so that he could get a job printing it (decades before the American Revolution), so it's a time honored tradition in this country.

  15. Re:Goodbye Nokia, it was nice knowing you. on Nokia - No More Symbian Phones After 2012 · · Score: 1

    Qt was native code, Microsoft currently doesn't let third party developers write native code for WP7.

  16. Re:The end of Nokia on Nokia - No More Symbian Phones After 2012 · · Score: 2

    I've been writing an internal application for WP7 (small company, chose WP7 for some reason) and I think the actual OS itself could be OK, maybe even good, but it's got tons of WTF moments. Like how I have to change the phone's orientation to get access to the address bar in IE, or the ancient version of IE used; they could have at least used something between IE 8 and 9 and upgrade when needed. The marketplace sucks currently; once they add search it'll be OK on the devce.

  17. Re:Isn't this contradictory? on Microsoft Sniffs Out Unused Wireless Spectrum · · Score: 2

    Cat6 has a maximum length of 100m (330 feet or so) for 1Gb Ethernet and below; faster speeds get less. Are you sure wiring rural areas with that is going to be cheap? You'll need more than just better cables; IIRC the distance comes from the travel time for a signal, and after 100m the latency is such that two stations will transmit at the same time, not knowing the other one is transmitting. So you'll need a switch or certain hubs (Class 2?) roughly every 100m.

    There are plenty of areas with more than 100m of distance between houses, let alone the CO. 1 mile would be about 1600m, so if you must have cat6, that'd be 16 100m segments. Maybe add another 1 or 2 to account for patch panels, slack in cables, etc. That'd suck a lot.

  18. Re:Ehh on India To Ban .xxx Domain · · Score: 1

    Just because every other culture may have had a caste system doesn't make the criticism less valid. They still have problems with the caste system to this day.

  19. Re:Either/Or on Motorola May Ditch Android, Revive ARM Partnership · · Score: 1

    iOS is not just the iPhone; it's also the iPad and iPod Touch, which is part of the reason why their installed base is so high.

  20. Re:Sensational! on Fukushima Radioactive Fallout Nears Chernobyl Levels · · Score: 5, Funny

    You rang?

  21. Re:So.... on Half of Used Phones Still Contain Personal Info · · Score: 1

    Thts juhst owt uv tha kwestyun

  22. So.... on Half of Used Phones Still Contain Personal Info · · Score: 2

    So, anyone got a phone I can have? I promise to whipe it

  23. Re:Better Internet for Everybody on Phony Web Certs Issued For Google, Yahoo, Skype · · Score: 3, Informative

    Yeah! We should ban such third world hellholes as the United States, Japan, Canada, Italy, Germany and the United Kingdom! They are all in the top 10 for spamming, according to Spamhaus. The others are China, Russia, Brazil, and Argentina.

  24. Re:Interesting idea on Firefox 4, A Day Later · · Score: 1

    Nah, we'll just be in awe of their mad skillz and ability to own us.

  25. Re:Nobody is completely bad on From Redmond With Love · · Score: 1

    It's nice most of the time, but there are WTF moments sometimes. I'm working on a WP7 app (don't ask...), and the XAML preview is totally busted. Something in my layout is killing that part of VS, but it works on the phone and the emulator just fine. The syntax highlighting for that part of the app is totally destroyed too.