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  1. Yes. I mean no. on Ask Slashdot: Do You Test Your New Hard Drives? · · Score: 0

    I actually throw mine in a bathtub.
    How did this make it to the front page, especially with SSD prices being what they are?

  2. Re:Unknown Hackers? on Chinese Spies Used Fake Facebook Profile To Friend NATO Officials · · Score: 1

    Story was meant to refer to the submitter's description, not the source article.
    I can see how you could have taken it to mean the article.

    Welcome to Slashdot. I'm old here.

  3. Unknown Hackers? on Chinese Spies Used Fake Facebook Profile To Friend NATO Officials · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Registering for Facebook with a fake name hardly qualifies as hacking.
    Surprisingly, the headline is more accurate than the story.

  4. I'll take my Earth medium rare. on Is the Earth Special? · · Score: 2

    Why are conditions that promote life rarer than ones that prevent it?

  5. Great, but... on Faster Algorithm for Sphere Packing Discovered · · Score: 1

    When is he going to develop an algorithm to determine the most efficient way to pack cylinders into rectangular (cuboid) shipping containers?

  6. The $200 Man (on contract) on Man Has Nokia Phone Embedded In False Limb · · Score: 1

    I don't know how many manufacturers will customize their product for a single customer, especially when that customization amounts to a case that's embedded in a prosthetic limb.

  7. Yes! Facebook+ on Facebook Makes Privacy Settings More Obvious · · Score: 1

    The discoverability of these features is almost as important as their existence.
    In place privacy controls let people make informed choices about what gets shared instead of having to correlate unclear descriptions from privacy settings page with the GUI and layout they're familiar with.
    Previously, I bet Facebook was betting that the difficulty of implementing privacy settings as user intended would be enough to have them choose the defaults thinking that increased access to their content by friends, and the net total increase in accessibility to people's information, would keep users engaged.
    They'd think that those users who would choose not use the network as a result or to lock their pages down into being mere mugshots wouldn't be useful to growing out Facebook, anyway.

  8. Just a spoon full of sugar... on Twitter To Meet With UK Government About Riots · · Score: 1

    I'm imagining the meeting of Twitter and the UK Government will look a lot like the animated scenes from Mary Poppins.

  9. Let me know when slashdot makes it in on "Woot" Becomes an Official Word · · Score: 1

    Slashdot, verb: to send a much higher amount of internet traffic to a website due to a link to it being included in a post on Slashdot, sometimes resulting in said site becoming inaccessible due to the increased load.
    also slashdotted

  10. I'm sure the decision... on Google To Acquire Motorola Mobility For $12.5 Bill · · Score: 1

    I'm sure the decision to acquire Motorola was made algorithmically.

  11. Aaaaaaaand on Popularity Trumps Privacy For Many On Facebook · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Those with no Facebook profile have the highest self esteem.

  12. Please forgive me... on Gizmodo Off the Hook In iPhone 4 Investigation · · Score: 1

    But here's a tweet of mine on the subject from a few months ago:
    "I think Apple should FedEx Jason Chen the yet to be released iPhone 5 just to screw with him."

    https://twitter.com/#!/JustinFreid/status/78269879458865152

  13. Netflix Killing DVDs Like Apple Killed DVDs on Netflix Killing DVDs Like Apple Killed Floppies? · · Score: 1

    DVDs don't need to be murdered, their lifecycle is coming to a close, anyway.
    They're natural environment, the DVD player, has been shrinking for years.

  14. Government Accountability on Green Card Lottery Judgment Favors Mathematical Randomness · · Score: 1

    Considering that holding the government accountable for official pronouncements it makes may actually be a more important legal value than strictly following the letter of the law, I believe the initial winners should be offered visas. Further, considering that the 50,000 person quota is arbitrary and that there's no distinct harm in allowing more people from this list to immigrate, the government should be compelled to both honor its initial announcement and then to run the lottery again following the court's interpretation of "in a strictly random order".

  15. Risking my positive karma... on New IMF Head Says US Must Raise Debt Limit, or Face 'Nasty Consequences' · · Score: 0

    I think she should be put under house arrest, under round-the-clock watch of armed guards, at her own expense in New York until she changes her tune.

  16. Google out socialed Facebook on Facebook Announces Video Calling With Skype · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Google out socialed Facebook with Hangout - it allows simultaneous video chat with multiple people and allows the group to watch a YouTube video and will probably soon allow sharing of stills and allow collaborative drawing or document editing, too.
    Facebook's repost here is a feature that Google integrated into its chat product long ago. Maybe this explains Mark's obvious chagrin in his Google+ profile picture.

  17. How carefully do their customers read the TOS? on VoIP Data and Google Maps Mashup Shows Live Calls · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'd like to think my VoIP provider doesn't have the latitude to publish my and my receiver's location in realtime, even anonymously.
    Certainly the content of the calls is still private, but maybe a lot of chatter between let's say Redmond, WA and Espoo, Finland could have suggested the recent deal placing Windows Phone 7 on Nokia handsets.
    Better read my terms of service...

  18. Stopped? on Apple Has Stopped iOS Downgrading · · Score: 2

    More like Apple has implimented another annoying, eventually to be circumvented, impediment to downgrading.

  19. Re:Leaving the top 10% behind in the initial relea on Is Final Cut Pro X Apple's Biggest Mistake In Years? · · Score: 1

    So in your hypothetical examples is Apple also forcing you to upgrade or disabling prior versions of the software?

  20. Re:What a concept! on Chinese Legislature Conducts Large Online Vote · · Score: 1

    Except that in this case, any non-party member who participated in this, let's say, survey hasn't had their vote counted for solvency in their lifetime.
    In the case of China, unless the technology to count these votes was proven anonymous, I'd bet this was intended to root out potential dissidents rather than to give power to the people.
    Besides, look at the results of the actual vote versus the surveyed votes to get a sense of how important people's opinions are.

  21. A solution in two words: on Have We Reached Maximum Sustainable Population Size? · · Score: 1

    Space elevator

  22. Re:Not enough really. on US Intelligence Agency to Compile Mountain of Metaphors · · Score: 1

    They should also include puns in their database if their intention is to create an archive of language in order to study how people understand the world around them.
    Remember, dead languages need to be encrypted.

  23. First Tweeted by @Muammar? on Libya Warns Against Use of Facebook · · Score: 1

    How did they get the message out?

  24. World's biggest... on Fun To Be Had With a 10-Foot Satellite Dish? · · Score: 2

    Bird bath

  25. How sad will it be... on Microsoft Shows Off 'Milo' Virtual Human · · Score: 1

    How sad will it be when Milo bluescreens?