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  1. Re:Free copies of office on Aussie Government Proposes OpenDocument As the Standard Format · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I imagine people that make the conscious choice to use a product that is not the norm to be happier with it than those stuck using Office for whatever reason, or that didn't like the non status quo product.

    The same can be said for Linux users for example, people that use it prefer it over MS, but there's plenty that tried it once and it didn't meet their needs.

  2. Re: Internet connection on Chinese Hackers Steal Top US Weapons Designs · · Score: 1

    Isolating the rotor design reminded me of what is described here.

  3. Re: Internet connection on Chinese Hackers Steal Top US Weapons Designs · · Score: 1
  4. Re: Preserve Cultural Heritage on Star Wars Episode 4 To Be Dubbed In Navajo · · Score: 1

    I'm betting the words space and ship are in there to some extent. Ship probably being adjectives added to the word canoe and made compound. Space likely would be something closer to sky, still, it's a pretty safe bet that words to describe the place where the stars are exist in every language (except the mole men, they don't see the stars).

  5. Re: Paypal suck. on PayPal Denies Teen Reward For Finding Bug · · Score: 1

    /. Has spinny wheel loadings all the time now.

  6. Re: Internet connection on Chinese Hackers Steal Top US Weapons Designs · · Score: 1

    Wasn't this over separation of designers one of the problems with bowings new plane?

  7. Re: Internet connection on Chinese Hackers Steal Top US Weapons Designs · · Score: 1

    Does the article say it came over the internet?

  8. Re:Is it new? on One-Time Pad From Caltech Offers Uncrackable Cryptography · · Score: 1

    It sampled every 20 milliseconds, and sent that as a number. I think you could call it digital.

  9. Re: The car sales industry is notoriously broken on Tesla Motors Repays $465M Government Loan 9 Years Early · · Score: 1

    Where I am they often do that, but they also register the car for you. The fees are based on the state you are registering in (this is DE/PA, in DE we have no sales tax, but there is some type of fee based specifically on car price that they charge for registration), but I'm not disincentivized to shop in PA.

  10. Re: The car sales industry is notoriously broken on Tesla Motors Repays $465M Government Loan 9 Years Early · · Score: 1

    Don't most states collect the sales tax at registration?

  11. Re: It's about time! on Tesla Motors Repays $465M Government Loan 9 Years Early · · Score: 1

    Most I've seen do, but it passes after a year.

  12. Re:rather have money on Do Developers Need Free Perks To Thrive? · · Score: 1

    no, more the nagging issues that require actual care (e.g. shoulder that clicks and sends sharp pain when arm is elevated).

  13. Re: Opera with text-only on Google Chrome 27 Is Out: 5% Faster Page Loads · · Score: 4, Informative

    Links (elinks I think is the package name) is a console browser with some CSS layout support (unlike lynx when I replaced it).

  14. Re:rather have money on Do Developers Need Free Perks To Thrive? · · Score: 1

    The problem with a high-deductible plan is that it disincentives being healthy.

    So much as looking at a scalpel is going to cost damned near 5 grand (1200 deductable, the 80% coverage to 5k out of pocket).

    I may as well not have health insurance at that point. Or only emergency coverage. Yes the point is to save, and everyone wins, but in 15 -25 years, when my cohort reaches middle age, and we haven't been going to the doctor as things crop up, it's going to suck for those left with the bill.

  15. Re: Not for Serious Gunowners on Working Handgun Printed On a Sub-$2,000 3D Printer · · Score: 1

    The 3d printing tech is rapidly increasing. It's good to have the discussion now, rather than later. Of course, if home made fire arms remain legal, then it's a non issue.

  16. Re: Waiting for the nanny statists on Working Handgun Printed On a Sub-$2,000 3D Printer · · Score: 1

    thank you for that laugh kind sir.

  17. Re: Meh on Jolla Announces First Meego Phone Available By End 2013 · · Score: 1

    I'd buy one just to look at the battery tech that can teather in any meaningful way with a week between charges.

  18. Re: Easy on Ask Slashdot: Wiring Home Furniture? · · Score: 5, Interesting
  19. Re: What's really needed... on Password Strength Testers Work For Important Accounts · · Score: 1

    I don't think it needs to be particularly accurate even.

    If I'm not mistaken, the token changes every 30, and the server allows for a shift of one token in either direction (90 second window).

    If you slide to one of the non centered tokens, the server makes note, and rec enters you. Considering my crappiest clock (my car) gains about 5 minutes a year, any regular use password (monthly or so) would be fine with even a sloppy clock.

  20. Re: No reproduction on 9th Grade Science Experiment: Garden Cress Won't Germinate Near Routers · · Score: 1

    I don't really want to speak on the validity of these things, but it's not new:

    http://m.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-11/wi-fi-radiation-killing-trees

    There was another article posted here about an amateur scientist I believe that had evidence of plant damage from cell or WiFi.

  21. Re: Meh-and-a-half. on Google Betting Its Google+ Systems Know What's Best For You · · Score: 2

    You're last paragraph reminds me of how much I liked buzz :-(

  22. Re:How many of these planets are habitable? on 'Einstein's Planet' Becomes First Exoplanet Discovered Using New Method · · Score: 2

    I think that closer to 100s years, and it sounds no crazier than trying to go from England to India the long way in the 1400 (not everyone made it, and but for an entire continent in-between, everyone would of died).

  23. Re:Nothing wrong with it, but... on Larry Page's Vocal Cords Are Partially Paralyzed · · Score: 1

    Wired is in business because they figured out that basically free print ($.50 an issue) laden with adds translates really well to actually free and laden with adds on the internet.

  24. Re:How many of these planets are habitable? on 'Einstein's Planet' Becomes First Exoplanet Discovered Using New Method · · Score: 1

    I see no reason to think generation ships won't be practical in the next few hundred years. It'll be one way, but people will risk it (and pay to).

  25. Re: Whats the purpose of this on Vulnerability Found In Skyrim, Fallout, Other Bethesda Games · · Score: 1

    OK, I was just guessing, not OP.

    The main app I can think of that wants admin for what I assume is shadiness is Super, but that's not steam. I'm pretty sure an old steam game I purchased asks, but I wouldn't bet to n it.