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  1. Can't do it one way, do it the other I guess on Are Windows XP/7 Users Smarter Than a 3-Year-Old? · · Score: 1

    First they tried pushing a desktop environment into a mobile one, now they are doing a 180 and pushing a mobile environment into a desktop one. I expect the results to be a duplicate of the previous, not improving where they want to and hurting the other. It makes no sense to me, they could have done something really revolutionary if they were going to throw the baby out with the bath water but instead they do this.

  2. Re:Does this affect legitimate online pharmacies? on Visa and MasterCard Take Fight To Scammers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Depending on the medication, the affects on you would let you know fairly soon. If it's for pain relief for instance and you aren't getting any, good bet you got scammed. However, if you are shipped placebos and they actually cure your pain, did you really lose? Rhetoric question, of course you did on value and taking unknown substances but if it really is just a water pill or whatever, you come out good if it actually cures your symptoms by not having to worry about the slight chance but possible harmful side-effects.

    That's my ramblings for the time being.

  3. Re:Seems obvious to me on Judge Rules Defense Can Use Trayvon Martin Tweets · · Score: 1

    I should clarify another point real quick. I meant tried, not prosecuted in the above so all the facts are heard and not just the wild media speculation. If you knew nothing about it and only heard news reports you would assume Zimmerman approached him and shot him when he was looked at funny or something else absurd.

  4. Re:Seems obvious to me on Judge Rules Defense Can Use Trayvon Martin Tweets · · Score: 1

    And so much for formatting....it worked in preview, no clue what happened there.

  5. Seems obvious to me on Judge Rules Defense Can Use Trayvon Martin Tweets · · Score: 1

    Time to update the Miranda warning to include: 'Anything you Tweet or post can and will be held against you in a court of law'? Although I am assuming (hopefully correctly) that the above is in jest, It seems obvious to me that it would be the case without needing any clarification on the matter specifically when a person's character is to be determined. Anything you say means just that, not just in front of an officer. This is a touchy case for a lot of reasons, although I am in favor of prosecution from my limited knowledge of the case just on him being told not to follow the suspect any longer. Had he simply done that we wouldn't even be having this discussion. Fact is, social media postings and school/work/ect records are used all the time, the only difference is this case is all over the media.

  6. Re:who will get the most use out of this? on Real-Time Cyber-Attack Map · · Score: 1

    It would seem to me that the "honeypots" wouldn't employ their state of the art security they develop in response to how the attacks take place thus not allowing crackers to test out their own advancements against a target known to deploy the advancements they are seeking to get around.

  7. Re:Disadvantaged vs advantaged on How Do You Spot a Genius? · · Score: 1

    *I obviously fall into the less than intelligent catagory. It's suppose to read "..discard the gifted and those with well above average intelligence.

  8. Disadvantaged vs advantaged on How Do You Spot a Genius? · · Score: 1

    Without getting into the main topic being discussed, I would argue that is the biggest downfall of the public school system, at least in the U.S. We are so dedicated to pampering the less intellectually capable that we complete discard the gifted and those with well above intelligence.

  9. Re:Anyone find out how to opt out? on Paypal Slips 'No Class Action' Clause Into Policy Update · · Score: 1

    The government laughs in your general direction. Corporations, more rights than people since 1776.

  10. Re:"Slipped In?" Didn't you get the memo? on Paypal Slips 'No Class Action' Clause Into Policy Update · · Score: 1

    The original heading was Paypal jumps on the "No Class Action" bandwagon with privacy change. Editors gonna edit.

  11. What is an unused currency? on Vast Bulk of BitCoins Are Hoarded, Not Used · · Score: 1

    What is an unused currency? Not a currency at all. While some will say that hoarding is a function of currency but there also has to be widespread use of said currency. I'm sure they are holding, speculating that they will be worth more kind of like you would with precious metals but when the vast majority of the currency is being privately held and never circulated that stunts the growth of a relatively little known outside of a tiny fragment of the population. The catch-22 that there isn't much that can be purchased with them is that until they are seen as a safe and widely used form of currency there won't be more items to spend that currency on.

  12. Obviously the problem isn't "hail-apps" on Uber Gives Up On New York Taxi Service · · Score: 1
    The problem is that the companies themselves didn't develop them. The update might as well as read as such:

    Update: 10/17 00:48 GMT by S : Here's TLC's perspective, in the words of Commissioner David Yassky: "In recent months, as e-hail apps have emerged, TLC has undertaken serious diligence and is moving toward rule changes that will open the market to app developers and other innovators. Those changes cannot legally take place until our developers get a system in place and we control all the profits, in February.

  13. I get this is /. but come on on Texas Schools Using Electronic Chips To Track Students; Parents In Uproar · · Score: 1

    Where is the outrage? I know this has turned into a forum to practice your online stand-up routine for most posters but how isn't this a gross invasion of a person's rights? /. use to be up in arms over anything that could be linked to invasion of privacy.

    First it's schools, than the work place and next thing you know it's in your cars, phones, wallet. Do teachers not take roll call anymore?

  14. Let's protest Google... on Thousands of Muslims Protest 'Age of Mockery' At Google's London Headquarters · · Score: 1

    ..over something 99% of us didn't watch and show the world we are fanatical nutcases who won't stand for something that happened on the other side of the world by 1 guy nobody knows, and let's kill a few people so everyone understands we are a peace loving people....seriously, shit is ridiculously stupid. Don't watch it, ignore it and it will go away. A whole portion of the world has let 1 individual do exactly what he sat out to do. You dumbasses let him win with your ignorance and inability to turn the other cheek.

  15. 833.9 mph actually on The Tech Behind Felix Baumgartner's Stratospheric Skydive · · Score: 1

    According to This article at USA Today he hit 833.9 mph

  16. File this under.. on How Facebook Can Out Your Most Personal Secrets · · Score: 1

    No fucking shit...facebook and privacy have no business going in the same sentence together.

  17. Dedication in "About" on Ask Slashdot: Dedicating Code? · · Score: 1

    I don't know what your project is but if there is an About or similar area simply list her among the info provided. You don't need to draw attention to the fact that it's your dead grandma (that will seem morbid I'm sure to some users). Just a name at the top or something. It will make you feel better if nothing else. Drawing attention to it in an app that makes no sense to do so wouldn't be the best idea. Just a simple reference to her name somewhere, somehow in a way that is feasible and non-intrusive and doesn't force the user to think about mortality.

  18. Welcome to Slashdot on The Surprising Truth About Internet Censorship In the Middle East · · Score: 2

    Where the obvious and un-newsworthy are posted with impunity. Please give me more stories with studies finding tv as a babysitter is bad, religions are oppressive or fanatical and governments only care about their own interests.

    With that out of the way, a fanatical religious leader who holds authority via his office over his people only leads to more extremes of the above mentioned.

  19. Re:Helicopters on Seattle Police Want More Drones, Even While Two Sit Unused · · Score: 1

    *Ability to PREDICT the future...my fingers must already have that technology.

  20. Re:Helicopters on Seattle Police Want More Drones, Even While Two Sit Unused · · Score: 1

    Now add in the future the predict future crimes and have an ex-hobbit tired of following Frodo around as the brains behind the operation and we are all set for a B-level sci-fi future.

  21. I'm dumber for having taken the time to read TFA on Why Eric Schmidt Is Wrong About Microsoft Not Mattering Anymore · · Score: 1

    MS is in no way a direct competitor of Google anymore so he is completely right. Apple and their mobile devices, Amazon and cloud services, facebook and social media. Though facebook doesn't deserve the right to be call a member among the "Gang of Four". Not yet anyway. They hang at the whim of the fickle user much more than the other companies in the list do, ask MySpace or even their own stock prices. They might become worth what they tried to sell themselves as but not for a long time or some major innovations happen to allow them to capitalize on their potential.

  22. Re:I know you're trolling on Study: Kids Under 3 Should Be Banned From Watching TV · · Score: 1

    I'm all for your sterilization plan. If you ran for president on that platform I'd be the first in line to vote and send a list of candidates that need to be moved to the front of the list. I was being over the top for one reason, it's a waste of time to bother with these regulations or guidelines...those that would follow them already do, those that require the boob-tube to distract their kids so they don't have to be parents won't listen to them anyway.

  23. I remember this story! on A Day in Your Life, Fifteen Years From Now · · Score: 1

    Same one I heard in 2000, 1990, and 1980....I'm still waiting on the hover board, personally.

  24. Wait, DOCTORS and GOVERNMENT?!? on Study: Kids Under 3 Should Be Banned From Watching TV · · Score: 1
    Here we go again...while I agree that you should be a PARENT and not let you child sit in front of the damn tv all day, this is not the place for doctors to be giving government guidelines to pass into law, because that's what these studies are typically used as proof for...needing yet more laws to govern your very existence. The problem is parents being lazy son's of bitches that don't care to spend their extra time actually being parents and raising healthy and responsible children.

    There already is a guideline that says you shouldn't put your infant in front of the tv as a full time babysitter, it's called common sense. Thing is, no amount of doctor recommended or government regulated amount of tv time is going to change the lazy bastards who shouldn't have had kids to begin with and only end up being one extra, unnecessary hassle for parent's it doesn't apply to. Just watch, I guarantee it.

  25. Re:About time, really. on Study: Kids Under 3 Should Be Banned From Watching TV · · Score: 2

    What's even more ridiculous than you finding away to bring your pony fetish into this is the fact that a study even had to be done to confirm this. Welcome to the wonderful world of getting paid to study the obvious.