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  1. Re:Only regulations create monopolies on Where the Candidates Stand On Net Neutrality · · Score: 2
    It looks like you've totally lost the plot.
    Competition can only flourish to the benefit of the consumers when these companies have to abide by comparable and preferably national rules.
    Having them decided at local level is simply highly inefficient for *all* parties involved.
    Let companies, as service providers, compete on services rendered for the price the market supports, not by allowing them to do back room deals with strong interests and thus taking away any choice for the consumer.

    At all points the interests of the consumer should top those of the companies, they don't have to provide a service when they feel it's not economically feasible.

    Net neutrality is all about opening up, not about limiting.

  2. Re:Do the candidates know what Net Neutrality mean on Where the Candidates Stand On Net Neutrality · · Score: 2
    Most of your examples are possible in the net neutrality rules we have in (certain) EU countries.

    When an ISP wants to offer certain filters like Christian fundamentalist, they can, it's just that they'll have to make an open pipe available for the basic price and not put any barriers in the way of the consumer wanting such.

    And that's the beauty of NN, there's a basic not artificially restricted internet where it's left to the consumer to decide what extra services he wants to buy.

  3. Re:Do the candidates know what Net Neutrality mean on Where the Candidates Stand On Net Neutrality · · Score: 1

    Even if NN were a real possibility (which it isn't)

    Then why does it work in Europe?

  4. Re:1600x900 is *good*? on The ThinkPad Goes Ultrabook — ThinkPad X1 Carbon Tested · · Score: 1

    It gets worse, the thing sells here in The Netherlands with a 1366 x 768 screen...

  5. Re:legacy problems of thinkpad remain(made worse.. on The ThinkPad Goes Ultrabook — ThinkPad X1 Carbon Tested · · Score: 1
    Basically they should just have left the touchpad off the computer, who uses them anyways?
    I'm serious, these things don't even get close to the usability/ accuracy of a mouse or trackpoint with three buttons and only cause your cursor to jump when typing.
    With the useless trackpad out of the way we could have had a proper keyboard layout with full size PgUp/PgDn Home and End buttons.
    Yes shiny screens are an insult to the user.

    I do like the hinge system where the opened screen raises the computer off the desk giving an improved ventilation.

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    Teun

  6. Not having either on Ask Slashdot: I Want To Read More. Should I Get an eBook Reader Or a Tablet? · · Score: 1
    Not having either I could very much imagine a general purpose tablet taking my attention away from the book as does my laptop.

    An e-paper reader can be used in full daylight, a tremendous advantage.
    Plus they are not expensive.

  7. Re::facepalm: on Kentucky Lawmakers Shocked To Find Evolution In Biology Tests · · Score: 1

    The sort of technological challenges that NASA addresses help science and humanity forward.
    It might not be directly aimed at a (name your pet cause) but it's such high-standing technology that it is instrumental or even defining for many other fields.

  8. Re:Sounds like the gym membership problem on Joyent Drops Lifetime Account Holders · · Score: 1

    I knew all this physical exercise causes dumbing down.

  9. Re:It's the government's fault. on Joyent Drops Lifetime Account Holders · · Score: 1

    LOL!

  10. Re:This is a cinch for a perl/python programmer on Kentucky Lawmakers Shocked To Find Evolution In Biology Tests · · Score: 1
    The extremist/ creationist friendly questions all have an answer set in stone, you can just memorise them.

    Science is usually in motion and you'd have to reason to find the best answer, this would not make a level playing field!

  11. Evolution is just a theory on Kentucky Lawmakers Shocked To Find Evolution In Biology Tests · · Score: 1

    Representative Ben Wade stated that evolution is just a theory, and that Darwin made it all up. Representative Wade has clearly and carefully observed his electorate, even in families with 5 or 6 generations alive there is no perceptible progress!
    So by consequence evolution does not exist.

  12. Re:The "war" on religion on Kentucky Lawmakers Shocked To Find Evolution In Biology Tests · · Score: 1

    Implying that Knowledge does a bad job selling it's ideas.

  13. Re::facepalm: on Kentucky Lawmakers Shocked To Find Evolution In Biology Tests · · Score: 1

    Voicing opposition against the best example of applied science in the last decade(s) and in a thread about the horrors of Kentucky's most backward policy makers is trolling, no slagging of Apple is going to turn it around.

  14. Re:Smoking Crack on US Court Sides With Gene Patents · · Score: 1

    Providing the interpretation is indeed going to be along these lines +1 insightful.

  15. Re:Linux on Mac?! on Linux Is a Lemon On the Retina MacBook Pro · · Score: 1

    Duh, it's a standard option of KDE to pin a window either always to the foreground or always to the background.

  16. Re:Hi-Res? on Curiosity's Latest High-Res Photo Looks Like Earth · · Score: 1

    Under the environmental circumstances that is high resolution.

  17. Re:Disgusting. on Microsoft Revamping SkyDrive · · Score: 1

    The better brands have your remote date encrypted, that way it's safe from thieves even though you can still lose it.

  18. Re:Disgusting. on Microsoft Revamping SkyDrive · · Score: 1

    I think you mix up Dropbox and Webdavs, it's the latter that shows the remote files as part of your tree, Dropbox only shows a local copy unless you use a browser and get on the net.

  19. Re:... then don't go there? on Saudi Arabia Objects To Proposed .gay gTLD, Among Others · · Score: 1

    These Islamists have convinced themselves it is a form of cleansing.

  20. Re:Does ICANN answer to Saudi Arabia? on Saudi Arabia Objects To Proposed .gay gTLD, Among Others · · Score: 1
    The USofA has the .us TLD, the fact that it's not often used is immaterial.

    .com is with the other 3-letter TLD's available for international use.

  21. Re:Contrary to my morality on Saudi Arabia Objects To Proposed .gay gTLD, Among Others · · Score: 1

    Because taxpayers aren't a homogeneous group it remains a form of censorship, one group telling another what to do or not.

  22. Re:men having sex with men IS a different matter on Saudi Arabia Objects To Proposed .gay gTLD, Among Others · · Score: 3, Informative
    Indeed, according to the warped Muslim beliefs of Saudi men you can do all kinds of otherwise forbidden things with persons that are still of the age of innocence.
    I have personally seen large buildings where under-age kids were censoring foreign printed publications before distribution.
    A rather shabby piece of cleric would first investigate the magazines and newspapers and specify what needed to be cut out.
    These examples were then hung on the wall and the kids went to work, no damage to them when they had to handle all these photo's of insufficiently dressed people because they were of the age of innocence.

    A brochure for expensive yachts and boats was nearly the worst victim, on virtually all photo's there were people in states of undress so in the end there would be little left of the magazine if not for the fact that the importer of the yachts paid extra to have the kids use sharpies to paint clothes on the bikini babes and yacht men in shorts.

    A sick society.

  23. Re:Here come the drones! on Ecuador To Grant Assange Political Asylum · · Score: 1
    Wow!

    The ultimate conspiracy :)

  24. Re:Here come the drones! on Ecuador To Grant Assange Political Asylum · · Score: 2

    At least three things in that last sentence don't correlate, Poland was and is overwhelmingly for the EU, they were already a member by the time the plane crash happened and the crash was on Russian soil, a country that is not so happy with Poland getting cosier with the West.

  25. Re:How was it measured on CERN Physicists Generate Hottest Man-Made Temperatures Ever: ~5.5 Trillion K · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure about this particular case but at this range measuring the radiation or frequency/wavelength (or colour) is often used as the indicator.