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  1. Re:Not just Apple on Apple Tells Siri To Stop Recommending Nokia · · Score: 1

    It's pretty simple: blind people have no use for a touchscreen phone. You would need a special purpose device.

  2. Re:Not just Apple on Apple Tells Siri To Stop Recommending Nokia · · Score: 2

    Long press on the windows button is the same as a long press on the headset. It's not like you're on the other side of the house with your bluetooth headset, unless you have some trippy powered antenna sticking out of your brain

  3. Re:Not just Apple on Apple Tells Siri To Stop Recommending Nokia · · Score: 1

    Just an FYI, Tellme is just as good as Siri

  4. Re:It's not working! on General Motors: "Facebook Ads Aren't Worth It" · · Score: 1

    How can one know an anonymous coward?

  5. Re:If they spent it on engineering ... on General Motors: "Facebook Ads Aren't Worth It" · · Score: 0

    European cars largely use the same platforms. The only reason they're more "efficient" is because they have poorer air quality and safety standards in many European countries than they do in the US.

  6. Re:$30 million dollars?!?!? on General Motors: "Facebook Ads Aren't Worth It" · · Score: 1, Insightful

    What do you expect from Government Motors?

  7. Re:It's not working! on General Motors: "Facebook Ads Aren't Worth It" · · Score: 1

    I know of no young adults that don't want cars. They're just too poor to verbalize their desire.

  8. Re:Surprising... on Kodak Basement Lab Housed Small Nuclear Reactor · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm not so surprised that some rather alarmingly powerful beam sources would be operated quietly by people with atypical sensor needs. I am a bit surprised that 3.5 lbs of highly enriched Uranium would be available to serve as a beam source.

    I'm sure that in 1985 enriched uranium is available in every corner drugstore, but in 1955 it's a little hard to come by.

  9. Re:Where's the one on Apple? on Windows RT Browser Restrictions Draw Antitrust Attention · · Score: 2

    Then you don't need any of those things because no one makes plugins for Opera

  10. Myth? on Mini Mammoth Once Roamed Crete · · Score: 1

    So, perhaps this is some sort of basis for the minotaur myth? Sure, it's not a bull, but a baby hairy elephant with tusks isn't that far off. Slap on a few thousand years of the game of telephone and you have the minotaur

  11. Re:Yes, this does appear to be a federal court on NY Judge Rules IP Addresses Insufficient To Identify Pirates · · Score: 1

    That would be more or less correct. Non-binding caselaw everywhere but there.

  12. Iceman? on Oldest Intact Red Blood Cells Found on Iceman · · Score: 3, Funny

    Iceman isn't dead. Goose is.

  13. Re:42U - Go Big or Go Home on Ask Slashdot: Building A Server Rack Into a New Home? · · Score: 1

    I'm going to go out on a limb and say you don't have cats, or at least cats with hair.

  14. Re:To be fair on How Apple Sidesteps Billions In Global Taxes · · Score: 2

    Yes, and since everyone is bitching about paying taxes here, there are plenty of people that have a problem with executives tax dodging because they have $1 salaries but multimilliondollar stock compensation packages. These are the same people that do the same thing with corporate earnings to drive their stock value higher.

  15. Re:To be fair on How Apple Sidesteps Billions In Global Taxes · · Score: 0

    How many shares did Jobs sit on until he died and never paid taxes on(and probably still won't, since they're probably in a trust anyways)? Yea, it's a dumb and trolly question, but who cares? It's true

  16. Re:Ouch on Microsoft Patches Major Hotmail 0-day Flaw After Widespread Exploitation · · Score: 4, Funny

    I use Windows Live mail, so I'm completely safe.

  17. Re:Extend the lifespan of B-52 beyond 2040? on Sixty Years On, B-52s Are Still Going Strong · · Score: 1

    Which, ultimately, says that the problem isn't the sliderule, doesn't it.

  18. Re:Extend the lifespan of B-52 beyond 2040? on Sixty Years On, B-52s Are Still Going Strong · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sliderule got us to the moon while "more powerful computational devices" turned Mars landers into Mars impactors.

  19. Re:I was going to try something similar... on The Laws of Physics Trump Traffic Laws · · Score: 5, Funny

    I successfully tried something similar(explaining my way out of a ticket, not math). Cop pulled me over for a busted taillight, then cited me for driving without a seatbelt because I had undone my seatbelt to get my wallet prior to the officer arriving at my window. Thing is, my car(72 Chevelle) had the most annoying seatbelt warning buzzer in the world and it does not go off automatically after a short duration(like modern cars). I explained what I did to the officer, who didn't believe me, so I asked the officer to put the car in gear and tell me if they can drive with the buzzer from hell buzzing at them in its constant high-pitched whine. Cop relented, gave me my fixit ticket, and let me on my way.

  20. Re:Mac's don't get malware on Apple Snubs Security Firm That Spotted Mac Botnet · · Score: 1

    Except the GP was arguing semantics, which renders your point moot, since Macs are personal computers.

  21. Re:Mac's don't get malware on Apple Snubs Security Firm That Spotted Mac Botnet · · Score: 4, Informative

    Macs are PCs. Don't tell me they're mainframes.

  22. 1) acquire a Gibson
    2) change username/password of superuser account from 'god'
    3) profit, since Gibsons easily survive ddos attacks/flooding as evidenced by the documentary released over a decade ago detailing attempts to hack a Gibson

  23. Re:Not suprised on Cops Can Crack an iPhone In Under Two Minutes · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I don't have my battery(except poor iPhone users can't even attempt to pull that off). Also, I don't have the key to undo my hoodpins so you can't see if I removed my smog equipment.

  24. Re:The Most Secure Mobile OS on Ask Slashdot: Most Secure Mobile OS? · · Score: 1

    You're ignoring what I'm getting at. The data that would be worth money/time/effort is still behind a load of security via proxies, reverse proxies, firewalls, ISA servers, etc. Yes, these servers have web access, but they're not direct, unlike personal computers and many corporate workstation environments

  25. Re:The Most Secure Mobile OS on Ask Slashdot: Most Secure Mobile OS? · · Score: 1

    And which do you protect better from outside the server itself? I don't see too many supercomputers with direct access to the public web. Servers are always behind the strictest of network security rules, with front end proxies optimally being the only communication between the real server and the outside network. On the other hand, desktops have considerably less security from an infrastructure perspective on average.