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  1. Betteridge's Law says: on Who Would Actually Build an Ubuntu Smartphone? · · Score: 1

    No

  2. Re:Star ratings are problematic on Amazon: Authors Can't Review Books · · Score: 1

    Another good xkcd about ebay feedback.

  3. Re:Is it just me, is this guy the voice... on 30 Days Is Too Long: Animated Rant About Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    Best YouTube comment on his video: "Your voice is the Windows 8 of voices."

  4. Re:MS Exchange support dropping is the real news on Gmail Drops Support for Connecting To Pop3 Servers With Self -Signed Certs · · Score: 1

    It was talked about a few days ago right here.

    The problem is that Apple doesn't support IMAP IDLE on iOS in order to improve battery life.

  5. Re:I'm served just fine by the free Google Apps on Google Axes Free Google Apps For Businesses · · Score: 1

    You don't lose access to accounts. You keep the number allowed when you signed up for the service. I have two domains on Google Apps: one I signed up when I was allowed 50 users, and one domain after they dropped the limit to 10 users. I can still use up to 50 accounts on the first domain.

  6. Re:Many of the links on Movie Studios Ask Google To Censor Links To Legal Copies of Their Own Films · · Score: 1

    Well, the reporter possibly checked

    Hold on, I'm going to have to stop you right there...

  7. Re:and then again how long are US bills and laws? on Adobe EULA Demands 7000 Years a Day From Humankind · · Score: 2

    Here, I think this is yours: <

  8. Re:any chance of getting those in the reg. version on Slashdot Mobile: Now For Tablets As Well As Phones · · Score: 1

    Parent is spam, copying comments and adding a link: original comment

  9. Re:context interpretation on Gold Artifact To Orbit Earth In Hope of Alien Retrieval · · Score: 1

    Looking through those somehow made me really happy :)

  10. Re:Always with the jabs on iOS 6 Adoption Tops 25% After Just 48 Hours · · Score: 1

    Nope, the Nexus S is still current. I have one with Jelly Bean through the official updates.

  11. Re:Always with the jabs on iOS 6 Adoption Tops 25% After Just 48 Hours · · Score: 1

    Even the Nexus phones are generally abandoned about 1.5 years after they are FIRST sold

    I have a Nexus S that was released December, 2010 running Jelly Bean through the official OTA updates. The Nexus One came out January, 2010 and supports up to Gingerbread 2.3.6 which was released September 2011. That's 1 year 9 months, and it didn't get Ice Cream Sandwich (October 2011).

    So you have one Nexus phone was kept current for 1.75 years, and two Nexus phones that are still current (1.75 years for the Nexus S and 10 months for the Galaxy Nexus so far). And you want to make the generalization that all Nexus phones get abandoned after 1.5 years?

  12. Re:Global Visual Culture From Preshistory to 1800 on Art School's Expensive Art History Textbook Contains No Actual Art · · Score: 1

    I've you haven't seen it yet: Google Art Project

    Google street view style 360 degree angle views through the museums and incredibe high resolution images of each painting, fully zoomable to where you can see cracks in the paint.

  13. Re:strange end result on Is the Can Worse Than the Soda? · · Score: 1

    Are Cokes in Mexico still sugar instead of hfcs? That would doubly good!

  14. Re:Silly on Is the Can Worse Than the Soda? · · Score: 1

    political genus

    Just curious - what species are in that genus? The only one I'm familiar with is politicus douche-maximus.

  15. Re:Official Chrome Extension by YouTube does the s on YouTube-MP3 Ripper Creator Takes On Google · · Score: 2

    You can't honestly think that the developer of that extension is actually youtube.com. Just look at the screenshot with the drawn-on red arrows...

    Also note that an official app would have a green check next to the developer as seen in the official YouTube app.

    A list of all Google extensions is here.

  16. Contribute to Open Source on Ask Slashdot: What To Do Before College? · · Score: 1

    Find a project that you interests you, maybe even software you use already, and try to fix some bugs.

    Looks great on résumés as well as being a good learning experience.

  17. Re:Waiving your rights... on New Sony PSN ToS: Class Action Waiver Included · · Score: 1

    This makes me sad :-(

  18. Re:One goddamn claim on Samsung Cites 2001: A Space Odyssey In Apple Patent Case · · Score: 1

    any features shown with dashed lines are not part of the "claim"

    Oh good, they're not trying to patent people. Whew.

  19. Re:One whole month! on New Twitter-Based Hedge Fund Beats the Stock Market · · Score: 1

    Derren Brown did a similar thing with placing bets on horses

  20. Re:Ack! on Canada To Adopt On-Line Voting? · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, I'm sure the code will not contain any ACKs

  21. Re:Google+ Google's answer to Facebook on Google Takeout Lets You Easily Export From Circles · · Score: 1

    The story ran yesterday.

  22. Re:rerip your CD collection on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Scrub Pirated Music From My Collection? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, re-ripping the album is usually easier than cleaning off the digital dust that accumulates.

  23. Re:A bad idea. on ICANN To Allow .brandname Top-Level Domains · · Score: 1

    There's no functionality lost. Explanation without being a fuckwad: Ctrl+L highlights the entire bar, to either enter an address, or to search. Ctrl+K enters a '?', which if you type after that will always perform a query. You can also manually type in the '?'.

  24. Re:Yeah sure on Sophisticated Voice Commands the Next Big Step For Smartphones, Says Woz · · Score: 1
  25. Re:If you ever have children, don't make my mistak on Fetus Don't Fail Me Now: How Scientists Raise Children · · Score: 1

    Phil: Blobby, like Bobby, only with an l
    Lem: Don't name it or you won't want to eat it. Remember Chester the carrot?
    Phil: Yeah, I miss him