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  1. Re:lol on Pot Smokers Might Not Turn Into Dopes After All · · Score: 0

    All it takes is one case and it can convince anyone. Statistics aside, it's the same way we can be sold on anything. Would you like to see how this vacuum works at 7pm while you're eating?

  2. Finally on U.S. Congress Authorizes Offensive Use of Cyberwarfare · · Score: 0, Troll

    We've been holding on to this power for too long. Time to actually use it against China.

  3. NCAR on Ask Slashdot: Science Sights To See? · · Score: 2

    The National Center for Atmospheric Research, known as NCAR: http://ncar.ucar.edu/ Located in beautiful Boulder, CO, the Super Computer BlueFire http://www2.cisl.ucar.edu/docs/bluefire-user-guide is a great attraction if they let you go inside, but you can still see it outside the glass. Once you finish there, you can see all the great architecture by I.M. Pei (IIRC), and see awesome weather results like a tornado tube and understand all the different clouds, etc.

  4. Trade on 35 Million Google Profiles Collected · · Score: 1

    Isn't it something we all agreed to: trade ease of use and functionality with a little bit of privacy loss?

  5. | Dream on Valve's Newell: One-Price-For-Everyone Business Model 'Broken' · · Score: 0

    This sounds like total crap. If I "make friends" with more people, then I'll be charged less a month? Then some 13 year old will figure out a way to make a buck off a guide called "Geek to Everyone's Friend in 7 days" which will make him very popular with his other geek friends, and change the face of gaming as we know it.

  6. Re:WMI on Ask Slashdot: Moving From *nix To Windows Automation? · · Score: 1

    Agree with above post. Powershell is going to be your bread and butter. I've been working in a Windows Environment for over 6 years and Powershell is by far the most useful thing. It's the Admin Console for Exchange 2007 and up, Sharepoint 2010 and up, and a slew of other products. If you want to get your hands dirty in Powershell, a good way to start would be to read the articles posted on EE. Experts-Exchange.com has a few Powershell articles to get you up and running relatively easily. And yes, I may have written a couple of articles on there. http://www.experts-exchange.com/Programming/Languages/Scripting/Powershell/A_4327-PowerShell-Where-do-I-start.html Good luck and Powershell is extremely worth your investment of time.

  7. Online Gaming on Software (and Appropriate Input Device) For a Toddler? · · Score: 1

    I would be interested in the same thing. My daughter is 9 months right now, but I don't want her touching my computer. I got my nephew a "my first laptop" kind of thing from the store and it has word puzzles and things, but he's also 6 and knows letters and words pretty well. What I'm going to do for my daughter is probably get her a cheap laptop and let her have at it. Online they have some pretty good games too for kids. I think one of them is Nick Jr. With just a mouse, they can interface with many games, which is doable for an 18 month old I would assume. Maybe online is your answer. http://www.nickjr.com/kids-games/

  8. Re:International? on Google Voice Apps Arrive For Android and Blackberry · · Score: 1

    I'm currently using Google Voice, and it doesn't listen to me when I tell it to call people. Unfortunately, it doesn't have Voice Recognition for anything. Just voice transcription services for the voicemails. As for transcribing the email from Spanish to English or something like that, as for right now, Google Voice is only US numbers as far as I'm tracking, so I wouldn't expect the ability to transcribe. If GOOG-411 goes international, then you will probably see a shift towards more languages, since the Google Voice Transcription service is directly related to the data culled from GOOG-411, which is also just US at the moment, as far as I'm aware.

  9. Re:File a police report _now_. on A Teacher Asking Students To Destroy Notes? · · Score: 1

    Do we even know if the school was a college, I.E. the student was paying money to attend, or some public high school. In what college do you leave your stuff out for anyone to paw through? Maybe the kid was on recess and left his book bag in his cubby, and we are going a little bit extreme assuming that the faculty will actually do something about it. I agree with the parent poster where it's a tyranny because I really can't see that happening at the college level. A lot of kids assume their teachers know what best, but a lot of college students would fight back immediately like all the comments are suggesting. When you're fighting a system like a public High School, who usually wins?