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  1. Re:Watch them on Ask Slashdot: Good Low Cost Free Software For Protecting Kids Online? · · Score: 1

    This is about home use, unless you intend to have net nanny installed at all the Library computers, schools and at their friends' houses. You can only supervise them at home, so that's what my post was about. Show interest so you are not just snooping, surf together, spend time with them until they learn from you what is good and bad on the net, then give them their own user account on the PC and let them loose.

    It's no different to teaching them to use a knife or scissors. You do just give them the tools and say go play? No, you sit with them and show how it's done, do it with them until you think they can safely do it alone. The net is no more or less dangerous.

  2. Re:Watch them on Ask Slashdot: Good Low Cost Free Software For Protecting Kids Online? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but your dad clearly never had to worry about you being interested in girls.

  3. Re:Watch them on Ask Slashdot: Good Low Cost Free Software For Protecting Kids Online? · · Score: 1

    Isn't that what passwords are for? Now they cannot go on the computer without permission and supervision. When they are mature enough, you can give them their own account and you teach them to be responsible for what they look at. Children don't need 8 hours of computer use a day. I'm sure you can find a way to be interested in what your child is looking at online, a tablet computer is great for sitting on the couch and browsing the net together with child on knee.

  4. Re:How long until Google notices? on Interview With Mozilla's Ryan Merkley: Tracking the Trackers · · Score: 3, Interesting

    And if Google withdraw their funding over this Collusion addon, how do you think that will look?

    As far as I know, Google have been very upfrontabout what they have on me and what they use that information for. Collusion doesn't change anything for Google, especially if they respect the DNT option. I think Google would be quite alright with this, as what it really does is reveal how much OTHER people are tracking about you, and not telling you about it. Especially if OTHER people are ignoring DNT.

    Like it is said, if you have nothing to hide from Collusion, then you have nothing to fear.

  5. Google! on Google Launches Endangered Languages Project · · Score: 1

    Go raibh míle maith agaibh!

  6. Re:Not a good precedent on US District Court: Game Elements In Tetris Clone Infringe Tetris Co.'s Copyright · · Score: 2

    Not really. You see, Tetris is a very simple game, there's no hidden levels of depth to it. It's blocks falling and you arrange them to make lines that disappear.

    There does not need to be more games involving blocks that fall and need to be arranged into lines so they disappear.

    Call of Duty, though, can have different stories to tell in the campaign, can have different mechanics for weapons, different maps, multiplayer options, squad sizes. There's plenty of scope for the games to be sufficiently different.

    Just like you can have Bejeweled, Bubble Shooter and others where you have different puzzle, but some comparable qualities, you don't have falling blocks of set shape, but you do have "create a pattern to make items disappear for points"

    What you have here is a game that is so similar to Tetris that it is not innovative, just a clone to take advantage of Tetris' success.

  7. Re:TV vs. movie on The Hobbit's Higher Frame Rate To Cost Theater Operators · · Score: 1

    The scene in Inception with all the exploding market stalls only works because of the use of slow motion. You get a feeling of "wow that's so detailed" because it is slowed down enough for you to perceive all the individual bits of shrapnel in the explosions. Now, if it was shown at 48 fps, then they would not need to use slow motion to capture all the detail, and thus show it at normal speed for, possibly, greater effect, as you get the detail AND the velocity together.

  8. Re:Awesome on The Hobbit's Higher Frame Rate To Cost Theater Operators · · Score: 1

    They should make movies circular, as that is the most efficient way to get the greatest area for the smallest perimeter. It would also feel more natural since our eyes are circular too.

  9. Re:Awesome on The Hobbit's Higher Frame Rate To Cost Theater Operators · · Score: 1

    How with the characters in the movie react to it?

  10. Re:Ztimulated? on Google To Pay $0 To Oracle In Copyright Case · · Score: 1

    At the same time we should do away with the common misconception that they go "PEW PEW PEW".

  11. Re:year of the? on Microsoft To PC and Tablet Makers: You're Not Our Future · · Score: 1

    Does this count?

  12. Re:year of the? on Microsoft To PC and Tablet Makers: You're Not Our Future · · Score: 2

    My god, could you imagine what will happen when instead of windows having to conform and support all the various different hardware it has to run on, the manufactures will have to conform to one hardware standard, and windows will become a much simpler piece of software, a much more stable and secure platform.

  13. Re:Let's hope not... on Samsung Focusing On Phone Software · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but Cyanogen was all cool because you had to root your phone and load it up. You were rebelling and being all hipster. Now if Cyanogen is simply par for the course of a Samsung phone, everybody will lose interest.

  14. Re:LOL on Six Arrested Over Japanese Android Porn Virus · · Score: 1, Funny

    No, Android was the subject of the porn. Those crazy Japs!

    (sorry)

  15. Re:Suing the ACS, really? on FunnyJunk Sues the Oatmeal Over TM and "Incitement To Cyber-Vandalism" · · Score: 1

    Wait, /. isn't mainstream press?

  16. Re:Just curious: practical applications? on US Regains Supercomputing Crown, Besting China and Japan · · Score: 2

    42

  17. Re:Would love to know... on Facebook Settles 'Sponsored Stories' Suit For $10M To Charity · · Score: 2

    Saw the design plans for that place, looked a bit small tbh. Need to make it at least 3 times bigger.

  18. Quick! on Ask Slashdot: How To Evacuate a Network · · Score: 2

    To The Cloud!

  19. Re:No... on Bonobos Join Chimps As Closest Human Relatives · · Score: 1

    I wonder if I can get his dog to train my wife.

  20. Re:uninteresting consequence of the decimal system on Bonobos Join Chimps As Closest Human Relatives · · Score: 1

    I saw a documentary on that recently. Turns out that the 'Engineers' of all life on Earth, tried to wipe us out. The most likely theory for why is that they intercepted a transmission of Jersey Shore.

  21. Re:Bonobo Chimpanzee on Bonobos Join Chimps As Closest Human Relatives · · Score: 2

    If animal A can interbreed with animal B, and animal B with C, but A cannot with C, then you cannot define the species.

    Seriously, if A can breed with B, then we have a scenario where A is male and B is female. This makes the Pairing between B and C such that B is female and C is Male. Animals A and C could never (successfully) breed as they would be both male.

    Also B is somewhat of a slut.

  22. Re:Not exactly 90%.... on Antibody Cocktail Cures Monkeys of Ebola · · Score: 2

    A gun is a very good weapon because you can, with practice, chose the person you want killed. A virus is not a weapon, but instead a Doomsday device. If a nation decided it wanted to attack America by deploying the bio-weapon in JFK, they will kill their own country too, as the virus spreads back home. They could try to close their borders, but something WILL get through, especially a retaliatory strike. Even if you defended yourself, you would kill or doom the rest of the world.

    No, if you are creating a virus, you want it to be a tactical weapon, one that can target just the people you want dead, and not you, your allies and countries you rely on for export/import.

  23. Re:Related story from last year on MIT Creates Glucose Fuel Cell To Power Implanted Brain-Computer Interfaces · · Score: 1

    And Silicon has been tested safe as an implant for years.

  24. Re:Spokeo is wildly inaccurate on Spokeo Fined $800K By FTC For Marketing Its Services To Employers · · Score: 1

    Well, going around calling yourself 'Lord' is going to lead to errors like this.

  25. Re:old problem on Police Using YouTube To Tell Their Own Stories · · Score: 1

    And hopefully, if everyone is busy staring eachother down with their cameras in hand, they won't be so easy to start anything violent. That is, of course, until someone gets camera envy.