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  1. But it's all for your own good! on The Privatization of Copyright Lawmaking · · Score: 1

    no text

  2. MIDI Controllers do exactly that on Ask Slashdot: Physical Input Devices For Developers? · · Score: 1

    Let your interfaces speak MIDI and experiment with some conrollers, they start at about $50 (Korg Nanocontrol). There's not much risk in trying as MIDI has been there for a long time.

  3. Re:How about for paramedics? on Device Detects Drug Use Via Fingerprints · · Score: 1

    Well, not quite all of us. But who do you think might be working at the "Führerscheinstelle"?

  4. Re:What's their incentive to pay on Hamburg To Fine Facebook Over Facial Recognition Feature · · Score: 1

    Freeze payments from European advertisers to FB or vice versa and confiscate the $420k. That's what they would do in case FB refused to pay. BTW: They are not a German company and they are not bound to German legislation, ok. So I am going to start a business in Berlin, Germany and sell copies of Windows 7 Ultimate Pro for a fiver. I'm not a US comany, so why should I fucking care about Mickeysofts "intellectual property"? Notice something?

  5. Re:Nothing to see here on Solaris 11 Released · · Score: 1

    Linux won't even boot on sun4u machines :(

  6. Re:lost a friend over installation of KDE 4 on Ask Slashdot: Unity/Gnome 3/Win8/iOS — Do We Really Hate All New GUIs? · · Score: 2

    So why are you trying to "improve" other peoples computers, if you don't even know how to setup the bloody backdrop? Supposed you know how to do it eith GNOME, why did you chose KDE, then? The problem is that you thought something that you have not even tried yourself could be adviseable for someone else. Sorry, but this is exactly the sort of crappy "expertize" everybody is fed up with. Man, think for yourself, try to learn from your mistakes instead of complaining about what is your own mistake.

  7. I don't care on Ask Slashdot: Unity/Gnome 3/Win8/iOS — Do We Really Hate All New GUIs? · · Score: 1

    ..and I don't want to know. I just want my minimize button and my window selector back!

  8. Survey finds water in ocean on Survey Finds Cheating Among Students At All GPA Levels · · Score: 1

    at all levels. Read all about it...

  9. Re:Rap music on Mathematically Pattern-Free Music · · Score: 2

    Funny, but even more incorrect than many will realize. The earlies known forms of vocalized music (or melodic lyrics) in ancient Europe were "chanted" poems or longer lyric works like Ovidius' "Metamorphoses". They must have been quite similar to rap music.

  10. Re:This just in! on Apple Threatens Bistro Over "AppleADay" Name · · Score: 2

    We could rename them to "liberty pears"...

  11. When Geeks Meet on When Geeks Meet, Are They More Likely To Have Autistic Kids? · · Score: 1

    They are more likely to have hypochondric kids? Maybe, maybe not. I suppose they are moke likely to have kids with hypochondric parents who do not have a clue what autism really is. Hint: It is not exactly the same as being afraid of girls or being too lazy to leave your mom's basement.

  12. Re:vi 'til I die! on Vim Turns 20 · · Score: 1

    wq!? WTF? You mean "[ESC]:x" - or why would you write and force quit for a single document that you just created?

  13. Re:Not a troll but.... on Ask Slashdot: GNU/Linux Laptops? · · Score: 1

    Fine, fine, and I built PCs from components I bought off folding tables at the computer swap, too. But I don't think I ever owned a laptop that didn't come with Windows.

    I did. It was a Compaq 286 LT+docking station running DOS. A really beautiful machine then - I even had a portable ink-jet printer for it. It must have been extremely expensive, but I got it just slightly used from someone who had the cash -and got a huge rebate- but no real use for it. Unfortunaltely I could not get replacement batteries for it after they stopped the series.

  14. Re:It would be neat... on German Satellite To Fall From Sky · · Score: 1

    Is it you, Mr. Westerwelle?

  15. Get screwed - now for only $200! on Kobo To Release Android Tablet E-Reader · · Score: 1

    Another product that will force you to reduce your reading to what one particular vendor thinks is good for you. Who in the world is buying this crap?

  16. Cheapest possible?! on Britain's Broadband Censors: a Bunch of Students · · Score: 1

    You mean... there are no monkeys anymore in Gibraltar? But that's terrible!

  17. Re:sorry no on Facebook Sued For Violating Wiretap Laws · · Score: 1

    It's not only dumb fuck advertising, There also is dumb online games advertising, dumb TV-show advertising, dumb fashion advertising...

  18. Re:Awesome... on Scientists Build Wireless Bicycle Brakes · · Score: 1

    Don't forget to buy six dozen sets of batteries,,,

  19. Re:So? on OpenOffice Is Dying (And IBM Won't Help) · · Score: 1

    Oracle, more precisely, insisted on owning the OpenOffice brand (+domain +infrastructure) while refusing to found the project or even to give any comment about it's future after the takeover. That's why Libre Office and the Document Foundation are existing at all. A lot later, as it became obvious that Libre Office would dominate, Oracle tried to jump on the train again. IBM would be very stupid to "help OpenOffice" i.e. pay Oracle's bills.

  20. Re:This is nuts on VeriSign Wants Ability To Suspend Domains Without Court Order · · Score: 2

    Which is very close to the truth in case of VeriSign.

  21. Re:Of Course... on VeriSign Wants Ability To Suspend Domains Without Court Order · · Score: 3, Informative

    IIRC, ICANN/IANA tried to sue them out of business in the late 1990s when they partially screwed up DNS (replacing NXDOMAIN answers with their "domain finder" landing page). VeriSign won in the last second using legal tricks and soon made friends with similar minds in the US gov. Since then they grew rapidly and -which irony- went from rogue provider to "security provider" and even CA. Wikipedia has some very insightful articled about the "domain finder" affair.

  22. Re:I guess I always assumed... on Graphene and Quantum Hall Effect Could Help Redefine Metrics · · Score: 1

    But the lump of metal is located "somewhere" i.e. outside the U.S. So it can not be used. Now, we have an american definition of "kilogram" and kilograms have become a real unit, ready to be used in the real world. As soon, as someone can claim intellectual property, that is.

  23. Re:Corps make it illegal to not do business their on Amendment: Violation of ToS Should Not Be a Crime · · Score: 1

    This is not a specifically american problem. Crap will always swim on top of the stream, no matter where on earth you are. (It meight rotate clockwise or anticlockwise, though.) In a highly competetive world you need to be greedy for power to accumulate enough of it to make a difference. In other words: you really have to be a bastard.

  24. Re:Shocking. on Senators Slam Firm For Online Background Check · · Score: 1

    There was. Not even so long ago, It was until the mid-nineties that you broke something or used it up and took it for granted that the replacement you bought was a lot better than what you had before. And no, we did not use to wear onions on our belts, these days...

  25. Re:This is Slashdot . . . on Siemens To Exit Nuclear Power Business · · Score: 1

    Is your bedroom, by any chance, located directly under a power line?