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  1. Chinese Win on Archos Gamepad Released In the USA · · Score: 1

    So far the JXD S7300 is cheaper and has been getting better reviews, aside from a few hardware faults with the controls and poor soldering jobs.
    http://www.jxd.hk/products.asp?id=627&selectclassid=009006

    Cheaper too. And these chinese tabs tend to get lots of good community support.

  2. Re:Its first major toll on Electronics Arts CEO Ousted In Wake of SimCity Launch Disaster · · Score: 0

    I would like to point out that there is no "official" rule on the apostrophe and can' ac'tually be use'd when'ever.
    What they taught you in school was generally accepted, but in no way set out in stone.
    Example: Grocer's, Grocers' and Grocer' are all grammatically correct.

  3. Because of reasons on Game Site Wonders 'What Next?' When 50% of Users Block Ads · · Score: 1

    In the past month, many if my regular sites have been flagged by Google for malware and when resolved it was all down to malicious software being served by their ad provider.

    For the first time in years I visited Youtube on a freshly installed system without any addons installed, and it blew my mind how many ads there were. The main page had about 3 ads including a huge video ad in the middle. This was on a netbook and so the time it took for the ad to load was not appreciated. I loaded a music video and there was a video ad, a popup on the video, and that annoying frame around official music videos that show the next crappy pop star (in this case it was Nicki Minaj, and that was really unappreciated).

    Some sites that I do visit ask me to turn it off and they so far have only served me very simple image ads or text ads which I don't really mind. It's when an ad starts playing animation and/or audio that I block them and sometimes just block the site itself completely.

    You don't need to be intrusive to sell your product. It just annoys the end user. I don't remember a single flashy ads name, so that obviously does not work (in my case).

  4. Re:Keep Granpa Lucas Out on Lucas Says Ford, Fisher and Hamill May Return For Next Star Wars · · Score: 0

    DuckTits (oooh ooooh)

  5. Well Yeah on Scientists Transplant Functional Eyes On the Tails of Tadpoles · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "they showed learning behavior when confronted with electric shock." You shock anyone's little nub's of flesh enough and they tell you anything you want to hear.

  6. Re:Sorry, little retro rockets won't work for that on Neil deGrasse Tyson On How To Stop a Meteor Hitting the Earth · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm going to assume Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson is a much better source than you.

  7. dsploit on Ask Slashdot: How to Pimp My Android Tablet? · · Score: 1

    Install "dsploit" and mess around with your friends and family. It allows for changing all the image in someones browser with a specified image, and you can do the same with text. Made my friend think she was being haunted by changing her name on Facebook to "you're next" and all her images to scary faces that say things a virus wouldn't know.

    And she had no idea because I was on my tablet.
    There is also password sniffing and such but I'm not interested in that.

  8. Re:Sooo on Parcel Sensor Knows When Your Delivery Has Been Dropped · · Score: 1

    I ordered a MicroSD card and a mini Wireless N adapter from TigerDirect and the box was huge and full of several feet of brown paper packaging it's ridiculous. Like, 10 feet of paper. Same thing when I ordered speakers from Amazon. The warehouse is only a couple of towns away and the box was 3-4 times bigger than the item and full of paper.

    On the opposite side of it I received an HDD from eBay which only had one layer of bubble wrap and an envelope. Worked fine, but the contrast was amusing.

  9. Re:Existing non-electronic variant on Parcel Sensor Knows When Your Delivery Has Been Dropped · · Score: 3, Funny

    *attack=attach.
    Ugh. Though I gave myself a funny image of a UPS man mauling a shock sticker.

  10. Re:Existing non-electronic variant on Parcel Sensor Knows When Your Delivery Has Been Dropped · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Exactly this, So much simpler and easier since you need to get the sender to apply it, and they are more likely to attack the shock stickers apposed to hacking together a wireless g-sensor. Unnecessarily high-tech solution to a low-tech problem.

  11. Wow on AT&T: Don't Want a Data Plan for That Smartphone? Too Bad. · · Score: 1

    Is it really just the state of the American system that is so corrupt that a company can get away with this, or is this prevalent elsewhere? Obviously /. features predominantly American news so I can't tell if my views are skewed or not.

    If it does seem to be mostly American; Bloody hell you guys need to step up your game. I've never heard of a Canadian company do this. We have Bell, Rogers, Virgin, Telus and WiND and I could never imagine any one of those company doing this. They do some pretty scummy stuff to pull in money, like crazy overage charges, but even the guys with the most push like Bell don't dick around with people that much. These guys are fighting each other over customers constantly. Is there not much choice in America for service providers?

    I can't see this being any type of legal. What agreement could possibly allow this and still be upheld in court?
    The entire thing is just... my mind...*poof*

  12. Re:iPhone 5 is faster.. for a few minutes maybe. on Mars Rover Curiosity: Less Brainpower Than Apple's iPhone 5 · · Score: 1

    As a previous poster had pointed, astronauts are not far enough out of orbit for the electronics to be in danger of cosmic rays as they are still within the protection of the Earths atmosphere.

  13. Re:I'm curious to see how many retailers actually on Credit Card Swipe Fees Begin Sunday In USA · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Doesn't matter. Working in retail I learned that individual customers are very much unimportant. Just because you come in every week and buy a couple things doesn't make you a valued customer and your business will not be missed. The majority of people will not care and will continue doing what they have been doing for years. Don't kid yourself in thinking your storming off will teach anyone a lesson. The clerk does not care (and they never do), the store does not miss your purchase, and the next customer moves ahead in line that much faster. Most often the clerk will joke about you with their colleagues about that guy who couldn't afford the fee and he got mad and left. Made us put his items away too. What a prick.

    Carry cash or use a debit card. Might as well make it easier for yourself than anyone else.

  14. I know on Craters Quickly Hidden On Titan · · Score: 1

    It must be all the frozen Ewoks: http://youtu.be/5r_TlPwZOvU

  15. Re:Mac OS my a$$ on Meet "Ophelia," Dell's Plan To Reinvent Itself · · Score: 2

    Don't need to RTFA but at least RTFS properly.

  16. Re:Doomsday clock on The World Remains Five Minutes From Midnight · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's not really a prescription. It's more symbolic, since it is decided by a group of persons on when and where to move the hands of the clock.
    Whether there is physically a clock, or if it is all symbolism I'm not entirely sure.

    In the end (ha!) the clock has lost most of it's shock value and is mostly ignored.

  17. Aw Yeah! on NASA Awards Contract To Bigelow Aerospace For Inflatable ISS Module · · Score: 4, Funny

    Bouncy Castle INNNNN SPAAACE!

  18. Re:Grammar Nazi Attack on Smartphones: Life's Remote Control · · Score: 3, Informative

    "Two specific situations call for the use of a comma before "and." The first is created when we have three or more items in a series."
    Well that is embarrassing for you. Please try to learn the language before you claim to be a master of it.

    http://www.getitwriteonline.com/archive/020204whencommabfand.htm

    Now since the English language is quite a flexible one and an overused comma is very common, most people tend to let that kind of thing go.
    Unfortunately you chose to dwell on it, incorrectly it seems, and it lead to my great amusement.

    Don't be an elitist, or an idiot.

  19. 'MUH FREEDUMS

  20. What about this. on Congressman Introduces Bill To Ban Minting of Trillion-Dollar Coin · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You know that war you're fighting? The one with no point or purpose?
    Why don't you just stop?
    Like, just pack it up. Leave. Go home.

    Instead of cutting a bunch of little growths, why not just take out the tumour and save the effort? No one would blame you. No one would care. Oh sure we'll make fun of you for a bit, but it'll be forgotten, or rewritten. No one will really be that upset by it.

    Go on. We're here for you.

  21. Repost on Futuristic Highway Will Glow In the Dark For Icy Conditions · · Score: 1

    You're absolutely useless, aren't you Slashdot?
    http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/10/30/2055259/glow-in-the-dark-smart-highways-coming-to-the-netherlands-in-2013

    You even link to articles on the same site, just one is .com and the first is .co.uk. They were even published on the same day.
    That day being October 30th. Over 2 months ago. I think that would be considered "old" by any standard.

  22. Scam on Your iPhone Will Soon Detect Bad Breath · · Score: -1, Troll

    It's obviously a fake. All Apple fans are full of shit, so we can guess what their breath may smell like.

  23. Priviledges/Accounts on Ask Slashdot: Keeping Your Media Library Safe From Kids? · · Score: 1

    Make a user for yourself and one for your child. A folder specifically for kids movies. Your child's account is limited and cannot access your users movies.

    You can setup a macro to log out/switch user, and quickly log onto the kids account for movies. Keep password on your account.
    Simple enough?

  24. Re:Macphone pictures upside down on Early Apple Designs Revealed, Courtesy of Hartmut Esslinger · · Score: 1

    It's only the one and I imagine the phone wouldn't stand up the proper way round.

  25. Re:Profit on Empty Times Square Building Generates $23 Million a Year From Digital Ads · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Because presumably if the charity didn't pay electricity or anything, his profit would be slightly lower. We can't have that now, can we?