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  1. Get into team sports. on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Stay Fit At Work? · · Score: 1

    Fact that team mates rely on you will build self-discipline. I'm playing ice-hockey for 3 years now. I raised my physical fitness considerably and skipped just a couple tranings a year.

  2. Re:Everyone was thinking it, I Just said it. on Long-Lost Continent Found Under the Indian Ocean · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Actually it's more likely to be Lemuria not Atlantis.

  3. Got idea from TV? on QR Codes As Anti-Forgery On Currency Could Infect Banks · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dude probably is watching too much TV where you can burn down computer by scanning bones

  4. Trial period? on One Company's Week-Long Interview Process · · Score: 1

    Don't you guys have trial periods in US? Like for the first month each party can terminate contract without any notice.

  5. Re:Are we talking human on human battles? on Ask Slashdot: What Would Real Space Combat Look Like? · · Score: 1

    Don't mix exploration and warfare. Mankind can send probe out of solar system or put rover on Mars but I don't see any tanks even on Moon.

  6. Re:Android tablets on Samsung Tablet Ban Lifted For Most of EU · · Score: 1

    How about countries that don't have wide spread WiFi?

    Here my mates with a tablet use 3G a lot more than WiFi.

    Parent already told that he has 3G enabled smartphone. So what stops you from creating Wi-Fi hotspot on phone and connect tablet to it?

  7. Re:Not gonna happen in stock Android on Cyanogenmod Puts Users in Control of Permissions · · Score: 1

    Not to mention the fact that not all countries are supported for Google checkout merchant account. It's not like I want to become millionaire by selling wonder app, but it's only way I am able to get new hardware to test aps on. And becoming full time app developer one day would be nice too.

  8. Re:Who Cares?? Its None Of Our Business on Thousands Marched Against Censorship · · Score: 1

    In Western culture, capital punishment is the answer to the actions performed by the individual which are equally if not more distasteful. Save the prison space for those who can be redeemed for their misdeeds.

    Yes and wikipedia lists those "Western culture countries" for you (Capital punishment)

    China, Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, United States, Yemen, Sudan, Vietnam, Syria, Japan, Egypt, Libya, Bangladesh, Thailand, Singapore, Botswana, Malaysia, North Korea

    So "Don't judge and you won't be judged". Maybe even for some amputation may help to redeem their misdeeds much faster than imprisonment. Where is the red line you draw? Where the media or church tels you?

  9. Re:Who Cares?? Its None Of Our Business on Thousands Marched Against Censorship · · Score: 1

    not be oppressed, injured, or even killed

    Capital punishment looks like killing people to me. Should I as citizen of EU enforce it to you?

  10. Both on The Tablet Debate: 3G Or Wi-Fi? · · Score: 1

    Is it so expensive to have both in one device? I defiantly prefer WiFi but 3G is useful in cases when you are outdoors and need some information badly. Like when the movie starts or where my favorite band is playing tonight. I use my android phone all the time during Friday nights to decide where to go next or to show funny YouTube clip I found. Still I don't know if I would bring tablet with me in such ocations if I would have one. On other hand, I've used phone as car gps a lot of times and then tabled would more handful. For those rare cases when I need WiFi to download large files and I don't have such luxury I wrote small app for that. That simply remembers list of files to download and when WiFi is available it downloads them. It's in the market but I won't give the link here due to ethical reasons.

  11. Re:A modest proposal on Rock, Paper, Shotgun Call For Worldwide Game Release Dates · · Score: 1

    Completely agree with you. And that applies to other media too. Why should I wait for movie to arrive to my country a month or in worst cases 6 months after premiere? For some content it wont arrive at all. For example, The Big Bang Theory has season 4 already and there is no channel available that would even start showing season 1. And I technically live in Europe not some "mambo jambo" island in the middle of ocean.

  12. Re:In the suicide-bombing age... on Cold Warriors Question Nukes · · Score: 1

    Don't mix survival of species and survival of western values. That's not the same. If we take into account birth ratio in countries that have adopted "western values" and that have adopted "religion", I guess evolution will bet on religious nut folks.

  13. Stripped. on House Fails To Extend Patriot Act Spy Powers · · Score: 1

    So that means, I wont get stripped (virtually) when I go to US? Hm, then I may remove US from my blacklist.

  14. Re:attorneys on Assange Could Face Execution Or Guantanamo Bay · · Score: 1

    Why do you think you can trust Sweden? It's not like they did everything right in the past - Swedish extradition of Baltic soldiers

  15. Re:For the airplane geeks... on Magnetic Pole Shift Affects Tampa Airport · · Score: 1

    GPS is not used because is expensive but because system owned by US military. You can't expect all civilian airplanes in world to rely on system owned by one govement.

  16. Re:What use is it? on Razer Unveils Portable Gaming Device Concept · · Score: 1

    Vote parent up. On screen buttons are designed to bee easily accessed by mouse but shortcuts on keyboard for fingers. If I'm not looking at keyboard then how it will improve my SC2 gameplay? Was the screen touch screen? If yes then game controls should be redone, I don't think that using finger as mouse pointer will work good enough. It's strange how seemingly unintuitive mouse have become more simple and intuitive than pointing a finger.

  17. Re:Yeah - Why not add a Federal Perjury Charge... on Anonymous Now Attacking Corporate Fax Machines · · Score: 1

    you should do your best to make yourself a small target.

    Ouh, west west, thats how you fight for your rights? I'm not big fan of Anonymous, but, seriously? Duck and hide so Big Brother wont have any interest in you?

  18. Re:Meanwhile, in Japan on 68% of US Broadband Connections Aren't Broadband · · Score: 1

    4G is in early testing in some towns, but for youtube HSDPA is good enough.

  19. Re:Meanwhile, in Japan on 68% of US Broadband Connections Aren't Broadband · · Score: 1

    Latvia is still lagging behind with miserable 500Mbps

  20. Re:Barbarians... on Facebook Postings Lead To Arrest for Heresy In the West Bank · · Score: 1

    Who are you to say that "western values" are the best values or do they even can be applied there. Maybe you are western value fanatic. And I have heard that some western value fanatics fight to force them on others. How does it differ one fanatic from other?

  21. Re:Not like cowardly Westerners on Facebook Postings Lead To Arrest for Heresy In the West Bank · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It does not work that way. For each force there is counter force. The more Israel will push Palestinians the more radical they will become. Look at Germany and Russia after WW1, look at Korea. Keeping 2M people imprisoned like that is on thin line to become a genocide.

  22. Re:There is still long way to go on The Android Invasion Cometh; Is Resistance Futile? · · Score: 1

    When you go to ATM they run special version of Windows CE.

    Not sure about that. I have seen WinXP screensaver on ATM more than once. Needless to say, I didn't try to withdraw any money.

  23. Re:How? on A Tidal Wave of Java Flaw Exploitation · · Score: 1

    Yes, who does not hate all these windows update services, for java, for chrome, adobe. When computer starts to slow down, especially for win xp, first thing I do is to look up all these quickstarts and updates and turn them of through msconfig.

  24. Re:I'm not sure we get to decide on United Nations Names Ambassador To Aliens · · Score: 1

    Haven't you plaid Civ? Maybe they pushed on interstellar travel tech tree not AI. No one says that our (earthlings) technological development course is only one.

  25. Re:Why would the US / EU want to broadcast Democra on Some Countries Want To Ban 'Information Weapons' · · Score: 1

    Estonia and Latvia have fascist apartheid laws, denying citizenship rights to one quarter and one third of their respective population.

    Let's just stop here. Can't speak of Estonia but Latvia has one of the most liberal citizenship laws in EU. I believe that knowledge of official language, state history and national anthem is not so much to ask. There other problems like willingness of non citizens to get citizenship (till now it much easer to get Russian visa for non citizen than citizen) and lack of motivation from government part. But you cant call it fascist state or fascist laws.