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  1. Re:ROFL on Pakistan Bans 1600 Words and Phrases For Texting · · Score: 1

    No, it's not. People often confuse India as some sort of homogenous territory as far as culture is concerned. Traditions can vary greatly between different areas of the country. Personally, I have yet to meet someone here who is offended by my feet. o_0

  2. Re:ROFL on Pakistan Bans 1600 Words and Phrases For Texting · · Score: 1

    Not really. Regardless of how stupid they are, Pakistanis don't really want to die. India could wipe out Pakistan in a nuclear war significantly faster than they can take us out. What is worrying though is that China is giving them a hand with their military arsenal. Without their help, I wouldn't be surprised if Pakistan blows itself up with its weapons. It is what they're usually good at, no? :-D But all speculation apart, I really hope it doesn't come down to a nuclear (or any) war.

  3. Re:Was the test done with Lotus Notes? on Putting Emails In Folders Is a Waste of Time, Says IBM Study · · Score: 0

    Don't read this... it is a curse...

    I thought he was cautioning us about TFA before telling us his story

  4. Perhaps to one's surprise? on iPhone 4S Pre-Orders Sell Out · · Score: 3, Insightful

    WTF are you even talking about? iProducts have been selling out for a while now. How is this news?

  5. Wow on Newb-Friendly Linux Flavor For LAMP Server? · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    You sure have a lot of friends!

  6. I say stay away from D-Link too on Ask Slashdot: Good Gigabit 802.11N Home Router? · · Score: 1

    I've had only one D-Link product till now - An 803 adsl modem. They packed it with loads of features on the software side that the hardware clearly couldn't handle. It would hang randomly every few hours but got better when I disabled the firewall and some other stuff. Randomly slowed down and required a reboot to fix the issue. Finally crapped out a few days back and replaced it with a chinese adsl modem (tp-link) which works WAY better. Even the huawei (also chinese) that I had before the D-Link performed much better. I will never buy a D-Link again for the rest of my life!

  7. Eh? on Download.com Now Wraps Downloads In Bloatware · · Score: 2

    I haven't downloaded anything from them in at least half a decade. Just out of curiosity, what has anyone gone to their site to download in recent times?

  8. Re:I hate kids like this! on 13-Year-Old Uses Fibonacci Sequence For Solar Power Breakthrough · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The two aren't mutually exclusive!

  9. Re:Exe may be there, so? on Mozilla Firefox 6 Released Ahead of Schedule · · Score: 1

    Wow! I'm trying out Firefox 8.0a1 right now and it's got a much smaller memory footprint than Firefox 5. I hope it stays that way till tomorrow morning!

  10. Re:Exe may be there, so? on Mozilla Firefox 6 Released Ahead of Schedule · · Score: 1

    I went to Help->About Firefox and release version is 6.0. It says "You are currently on the release update channel" and not beta update channel. This is just confusing now.

  11. Re:Exe may be there, so? on Mozilla Firefox 6 Released Ahead of Schedule · · Score: 2

    I just downloaded and tried it out. The tab that auto loads when you first run a new version of Firefox is titled "Welcome to Firefox Beta" and the page itself says "You are now running Firefox Beta"

  12. Re:Yeah, welll ... on Facebook Exec: Online Anonymity Must Go Away · · Score: 1

    You're overestimating them. The only reason everybody's still there is because everybody's still there. The reason everybody got there in the first place was not because it was amazing, but because it was better than Orkut. Most who've tried Google+ think it's better than facebook. Deja vu? Perhaps the same can be said of congress. I'm not American so I'm not familiar with your politicians. But it could well be that they get re-elected because there's nobody better.

  13. Re:Yeah, welll ... on Facebook Exec: Online Anonymity Must Go Away · · Score: 2

    No no. Randi Zuckerberg is a dipshit whose business model revolves around getting hired by family! Regardless of her opinion on the matter or Facebook's vested interests in such a move, that was a stupid thing to say. Not something you would typically expect from a "marketing director".

  14. Re:Does this matter on Are We Seeing the End of Big Oil? · · Score: 1, Informative

    Of course it does. You encrypt using a somebody's public key. They decrypt with their private key. The client applications would manage the keyring and encryption/decryption without the user having to do much. In any case, chuck it. I don't want to run a parallel discussion on my article on this thread. The point I was making is that something (even if rather sketchy) that is tech related and quite relevant now is shot down but this story was posted.

  15. Re:Does this matter on Are We Seeing the End of Big Oil? · · Score: -1

    Such a slow news day and my story on secure social networking still doesn't get picked up | http://slashdot.org/submission/1744302/Cryptbook-The-future-of-social-networking But big oil does? WTF?

  16. Re:Again on Anonymous Hack One Gigabyte of Data From NATO · · Score: 5, Informative

    Of course it is! The US Govt commands such things all the time!

  17. Re:Get off my lawn! on The History of Ethernet · · Score: 1

    That only works with a sufficiently small UID

  18. Re:I can haz on Facebook Taking On Apple? · · Score: 0

    With a chair?

  19. Clever on Hacker Group LulzSec Challenges FBI · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Take a site down first and then make sure it stays down by slashdotting it.

  20. Re:Set piles of clothes out on Ask Slashdot: What To Do When the Rapture Comes? · · Score: 1
  21. Re:How about: Don't need cellphones/wifi in school on GSM Association Slams Euro Call For Ban On Wireless In School · · Score: 1

    Yeah, sure. Let's forego modern conveniences just because we did without them in that past.

  22. Re:paranoia ho! on Man Creates "Creepy" Stalking App · · Score: 5, Informative
    From the 'creepy' site

    Location information retieval from :
    Twitter's tweet location
    Coordinates when tweet was posted from mobile device
    Place (geographical name) derived from users ip when posting on twitter's web interface. Place gets translated into coordinates using geonames.com
    Bounding Box derived from users ip when posting on twitter's web interface.The less accurate source , a corner of the bounding box is selected randomly.
    Geolocation information accessible through image hosting services API
    EXIF tags from the photos posted.
    Social networking platforms currently supported :
    Twitter
    Foursquare (only checkins that are posted to twitter)
    Image hosting services currently supported :
    flickr - information retrieved from API
    twitpic.com - information retrieved from API and photo exif tags
    yfrog.com - information retrieved from photo exif tags
    img.ly - information retrieved from photo exif tags
    plixi.com - information retrieved from photo exif tags
    twitrpix.com - information retrieved from photo exif tags
    foleext.com - information retrieved from photo exif tags
    shozu.com - information retrieved from photo exif tags
    pickhur.com - information retrieved from photo exif tags
    moby.to - information retrieved from API and photo exif tags
    twitsnaps.com - information retrieved from photo exif tags
    twitgoo.com - information retrieved from photo exif tags

  23. Re:Caesium clock versus wild Caesium on Nuclear Crisis Stopped Time In Japan · · Score: 2

    How was this even modded insightful? It's like saying sports cars in Japan will have slower 0-60 times

  24. Re:this is the weirdest story ever on How the iPhone Led To the Sale of T-Mobile · · Score: 1

    What're you? A hippopotamus?

  25. Re:why? on AMD's New Flagship HD 6990 Tested · · Score: 1

    You don't seem to get the point? If there is even ONE title that supports such a configuration and if I want to play that title in such a fashion, I would need a graphics card like this. Yes?