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  1. Re:Nope. on The Pirate Bay Claims It Is Now Hosting From North Korea · · Score: 1

    They could probably get more in negotiations for shutting them down later. TPB is being invited to become a bargaining chip.

  2. Re:And what is wrong with concentration camps? on The Pirate Bay Claims It Is Now Hosting From North Korea · · Score: 1

    Sovereign territory != Concentration camp.

  3. Re:It's Tor, not TOR on Bradley Manning Makes Statement · · Score: 1

    That's BTW , BTW.

  4. Re:nice efficiency there on Bradley Manning Pleads Guilty To 10 Charges · · Score: 2

    If the US government could simply claim copyright on their secret documents, the resolution would've been pretty easy and non-controversial.

  5. Re:nice efficiency there on Bradley Manning Pleads Guilty To 10 Charges · · Score: 2

    What he leaked was kitten tame compared to the kind of stuff that was going on in WW2.-

  6. Re:What is a browser anyway? on Pixel Picture Clearer? Google Ports Office-Substitute To Chrome OS, Browser · · Score: 1

    And that's why HTML is not very good for doing visual things. HTML's original purpose is directly at odds with the roles it is being asked to perform today.

  7. Re:This is good news on Terminator Sparrows? · · Score: 1

    Wait, is this about Robin being killed?

  8. Re:Jesus God on Terminator Sparrows? · · Score: 1

    Heh. The banner ad at the bottom of the page is for Aerospace/Defense Whitepapers from IBM

  9. Re:Interesting fact on Long-Lost Continent Found Under the Indian Ocean · · Score: 1

    Wow. Think about MS much?

  10. Re:MS Offfice 2013 - Javascript apps on Ask Slashdot: Spreadsheet With Decent Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    No good. Once you hit Enter, Excel will shout it back at you.

  11. Those interested may want to tune into the 24 Hours of Le Mans this year. A hydrogen fuel cell electric car - the GreentGT H2 - will be running unclassified (meaning no points or trophys) as the experimental 56th entry.

  12. Re:MS Offfice 2013 - Javascript apps on Ask Slashdot: Spreadsheet With Decent Programming Language? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What, exactly is wrong with =AVERAGE()?

  13. Re:just use virtual machines on Retail Copies of Office 2013 Are Tied To a Single Computer Forever · · Score: 1

    But you haven't come up with a technical solution. You've come up with a work-around and called it a solution. It may not even be legal.

  14. Re:eInk on Ask Slashdot: What Features Belong In a 'Smartwatch'? · · Score: 1

    You're right. You also don't want it glowing in the dark at a movie theater.

    I think if I wanted to sell a smartwatch I'd create a few different form factors and send blanks out to watch makers so they could focus on the 'jewlery' aspect. Then people could buy a Timex iWatch or a Tag Heuer iWatch. Each watch maker could preload apps to complement the style (stop watches for sporty watches, or maybe Open Table for a more elegant model).

    Oh, and a 'quiet-mode'. If I'm in a job interview I don't want my watch begging for my attention.

  15. Re:Go up not over on Ask Slashdot: Programming / IT Jobs For Older, Retrained Workers? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    As an industrial electrician it seems to me that you could get into IT by following the wires. The cloud is going to require a lot of power; If you know how to provide that power there should be plenty of opportunties to get into server rooms. You could be doing the specs for server installations and be spreading your tentacles ever inward..

  16. Re:You old farts and your pensions on Ask Slashdot: Programming / IT Jobs For Older, Retrained Workers? · · Score: 1

    Um, his pension fund?

  17. Re:Text editors are still around. on The History of Visual Development Environments · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No, because I'd be wasting time reinventing things that have no business being reinvented. Using common controls such as those in the VCL encourage code re-use. While you are (re)designing a declarative language, I will be implementing more features.

    And there's a reason why IDE's tend to be tightly bound to a platform. All of the cross platform solutions turned out to be inferior because they were limited to the lowest common denominator. Applications that aren't so limited work better because they take atvantage of all the features of the environment and fit better within it. This is why Apple limited iOS apps to native apps.

  18. Re:Why? on DNA Confirms Parking Lot Remains Belong To King Richard III · · Score: 5, Funny

    Good. Now we can clone him and open Plantagenet Park.

  19. Re:There's really only one thing to say on Smart Guns To Stop Mass Killings · · Score: 1

    No, really it's easy. All we need to do is to program the three laws of robotics into them. Problem solved.

  20. Re:The 51st State? on Property Rights In Space? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    We planted a flag. That's how these things are done.

    Later on, the shooting starts.

  21. Re:Seeing how most companies won't migrate... on Microsoft Has Been Watching, and It Says You're Getting Used To Windows 8 · · Score: 0

    The Start Menu is still there. It's just full screen now. And you can fit more than 10 applications to launch on it (or fewer, if you prefer). I've read one complaint that the Start Menu hides the desktop, but I don't care about looking at the desktop when I'm starting a new app. Why would I? And the Start Menu still appears and disappears quickly.

    It really not much of a change if you stay away from metro apps (those are good for 'leisure mode')..

  22. Re:Poor Sample Pool on Microsoft Has Been Watching, and It Says You're Getting Used To Windows 8 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well, if the population being measured does not include the 'tech-savvy', the results suggest a pretty successful transition.

  23. Re:you are crazy on Ask Slashdot: Interviewing Your Boss? · · Score: 3, Informative

    He said interview, not hire. It's generally a good policy to get many people involved in the interviewing process.

  24. Re:around coliseum in rome streets? on FIA Adds Rome To Formula E 2014 Inaugural Season · · Score: 2

    I was excited when I first heard about this series as I thought we'd see competing technologies competing on track. But this is just going to be a bunch of identical electric cars bought from a single source.

    Meh.

  25. Sounds good except.... on The Coming Wave of In-Dash Auto System Obsolescence · · Score: 2

    "MirrorLink also provides a mechanism that ensures only approved applications are accessible while driving. Applications will be approved using a standardize testing process that will be introduced later this year."

    I don't need that bit. Look, all I need is a wireless peripheral standard that will allow my smartphone/credit-card-computer (which will live in my wallet in 10 years) to make use of my car's (touch?) display(s), speakers, microphone, keyboard, mouse, various buttons...or whatever else it may have. I want the same functionality in my house, at the office and in my hotel room.