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  1. HUGE missed opportunity... on US Embassy Categorizes Beijing Air Quality As 'Crazy Bad' · · Score: 1

    to show a picture of mel brooks sniffing a can of air.

  2. ask to see a server they configured on Measuring LAMP Competency? · · Score: 1, Informative

    The answer seems simple. Ask for guest access to a server that they configured. If they don't have something like that you could set up a simple lamp server and have them perform some basic tasks.

  3. Re:Not thinking this through, George... on George Lucas C&Ds 'Lightsaber Laser' · · Score: 1

    Its a trap! He can't repel firepower of that magnitude!

  4. Re:Unfortunately on iOS 4 Releases Today · · Score: 1

    Compatibility with all devices would fly in the face of steve's vision! Apple doesn't want cross platform apps. They want developers to take advantage of apple's latest innovations!

  5. Re:Teach the kids to learn... on Most Useful OS For High-School Science Education? · · Score: 1

    I also think R is a good language to teach students. I used matlab for my engineering degree, but my girlfriend uses R for her science degree.
    I still love matlab, and its definately the industry standard, but it costs too much. R is the next best thing and its free!

  6. opera mini is a straw man on Apple Approves Opera Mini For iPhone · · Score: 2, Informative

    I just tried it and it's pretty clear why Apple approved it. Opera Mini is so vastly inferior to the built in safari that all of the non-slashdotites who try it will instantly lose any desire they had for alternative browsers.

    Even the nytimes site that is in the default bookmarks is unreadable, and when you try to two-finger zoom in it moves you to some pre-set zoom level that's too far in.

  7. i'll believe it when i see it on Multitasking In For iPhone 4.0? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think i've heard this before...

  8. slashvertize much? on Western Digital Launches First SSD · · Score: 1

    this is a blatant reprint of some corporate press release.

  9. Re:Usefulness of touchscreens is overrated. on Membrane That Turns Any Surface Into a Touchscreen · · Score: 1

    i would rather use a mouse that "just works" than a touch screen that i had to bring in for regular maintenance.

  10. Re:Usefulness of touchscreens is overrated. on Membrane That Turns Any Surface Into a Touchscreen · · Score: 2, Informative

    most of the touch screens used in point of sale (i.e. cash register) applications are old resistive touch films. This tech suffers from the drawback that in order for the resistance of the film to change you have to physically deform it to register a touch. This opens you up to all kinds of mechanical fatigue problems like the one you're talking about. Capacative touch systems (like the iphone) which work by sensing the proximity of your finger electrically don't have this problem. The material in the article sounds like an evolution of resistive touch, so it would probably still wear out after a lot of use.

  11. can't say i'm surprised on Google Attackers Identified as Chinese Government · · Score: 2

    now that its clear that the attackers were government agents the question is what will the US state department do.

  12. Re:lol @ 'finally standing up' on Xbox Live Class Action Being Investigated · · Score: 2, Insightful

    i bet you're a lawyer aren't you.

  13. Re:For crying out loud; on Marge Simpson Poses For Playboy · · Score: 5, Funny

    don't have a cow man

  14. Re:Is this related to the next story? on FBI Cracks "Largest Phishing Case Ever" · · Score: 1

    The moral of the story is that we can eliminate all spam and phishing by signing Robert Mueller up on every spam list we can find.

  15. Re:Won't this eventually defeat the purpose? on Google Buys reCAPTCHA For Better Book Scanning · · Score: 1

    in addition to just showing a scanned word, the captcha image is contorted and corrupted. This makes captchas much much harder to solve compared to standard OCR problems. Improving and perfecting OCR is unlikely to have as much of an adverse impact on captchas as spammers hiring poor folks to solve them.

  16. Re:Chemically inert, they mean on Bacteria Used To Make Radioactive Metals Inert · · Score: 1

    It sounds like this might be a bad thing. I'm no mining engineer, but you might be able to flush a mine with water and then use this bacteria to efficiently extract uranium from the resulting water-uranium slurry.

  17. Douglas Adams beat him to it on Why Motivation Is Key For Artificial Intelligence · · Score: 1

    with Marvin the paranoid android

  18. Re:overhyped on Robotic Mold · · Score: 1

    I'm not trying to knock the guy for getting research money. I'm a researcher myself. I just think that getting funding for research isn't news. Discovering something as a result of your research is.

  19. overhyped on Robotic Mold · · Score: 1

    this is just another article about someone getting research money.

  20. Re:Running out of cats? on Apple To Ship Mac OS X Snow Leopard On August 28 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can't wait for OSX Lolcat!!

  21. dinosaur comics covered this DAYS ago on NASA Discovers Life's Building Block In Comet · · Score: 2, Informative
  22. Re:Presence of Restoration Effects in These Subjec on Genetic Mutation Enables Less Sleep · · Score: 1

    We would need a sample set much larger then 2 to draw any meaningful conclusions. We'll probably have to wait fro the mouse studies to answer your questions.

  23. Re:FARK on How Artificial Leaves Could Generate Clean Hydrogen · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'll finally be able to realize my dream of directing a live action movie adaptation of super mario galaxy starring ron jeremy!

  24. Re:WTF? on School System Considers Jamming Students' Phones · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry but the idea of letting students collaborate using their cell phones is really naive. The first thing most students would do is use them to chat about the latest episode of Lost or something equally disruptive. Don't get me wrong, i'm not trying to say kids these days are any lazier or distracted then i was (after all I am reading slashdot from work). I'm just saying that it would be advantageous to the learning process if we could remove the temptation. Letting students chat about whatever they want in class would be like giving away free bacon at the gym.

  25. Re:These things are largely useless on What to Do With a $99 Wall Wart Linux Server · · Score: 1

    "As a web server, you might as well be using the computer you're on, or, if you're servering outsite your LAN, you should pay for real webhosting.

    These days many people only have laptops, which aren't viable as a web server because you're constantly picking them up and taking them with you. If they bought one of these it could serve as a cheap permanent home computer, but it could be a link from their laptop to their home network.