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  1. stoned on the phone on Saudi Justice: 10 Years and 2,000 Lashes For Internet Video of Naked Dancing · · Score: 1

    But how do you report to your husband (if you're allowed to leave the house at all) without a cell?

  2. Not only between genders in Appalacia, between relatives too.

  3. It could have been a lot worse on Saudi Justice: 10 Years and 2,000 Lashes For Internet Video of Naked Dancing · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It could have been a woman with her face uncovered. Or a woman, period, driving the car naked. The sentence would be death by stoning and/or beheading.

  4. can you hear me now? on In Room With No Cell Service, Verizon Works On Future of Mobile · · Score: 2, Funny

    I said... can you hear me now?

  5. the oracle at... on South African Education Department Bans Free and Open Source Software · · Score: 1

    I know nothing of this Delphi doodad, however if you're not teaching Java you're not in the present reality. The country is already behind, this doesn't help any.

  6. they CAN share but WILL they? on Auto Makers To Standardize On Open Source · · Score: 2

    See, when it comes to cars, anything new and exciting is a selling point for the new models. So while the makers of these IVI products could share updates, the car manufactures are going to be advertising the latest version or spiffy new features incorporated only in this new model, and try hard to keep other makers' models from having that upgrade.

  7. And this is what you get when you on NC School District Recalls Its Amplify Tablets After 10% Break In Under a Month · · Score: 4, Insightful

    go with the lowest bidder. If you're going to make notebooks for school, make them so they can withstand those things found in schools -- students.

  8. if this scanner is like their best-known product on Massive New CT Scanner Assesses Car Crash Data · · Score: 3, Funny

    Someone needs to develop a LAME version of the CT scanner to avoid licensing charges.

  9. Ken Jennings beat Watson on Could IBM's Watson Put Google In Jeopardy? · · Score: 1

    in a fateful Jeopardy! match, so it's a Mormon you need to worry about usurping Google.

  10. if you've only got a highly buggy prototype on The Story of the Original iPhone's Development · · Score: 1, Interesting

    ...perhaps you shouldn't be demoing it to the public yet.

  11. tumbleweeds blow by on Facebook Building a Company Town · · Score: 1

    When Facebooktown became Hooverville?

  12. seeing the future verses the writing on the wall on Adobe Hacked: Almost 3 Million Accounts Compromised · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Buying a piece of software from a vendor: Adobe doesn't have your details.
    Paying on a monthly basis to a software company: Adobe has your details.

    Your point about the inability to see the future is intact. However, it doesn't discount being able to predict the potential future based on math and science.

  13. PAYG on Adobe Hacked: Almost 3 Million Accounts Compromised · · Score: 1

    Was wondering how long it would be until this choice to rent, not sell, software would bite them in their big red A.

  14. Seconded on Adobe Hacked: Almost 3 Million Accounts Compromised · · Score: 2, Funny

    This makes me happy to have p1r4t3d versions of CS5 and CS6.
    Adobe doesn't know my details and neither do the hackers, easy peasie lemon squeezie.

  15. because the company's LAWYERS had provided it on Apple and Nokia Outraged That Samsung Lawyers Leaked Patent License Terms · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Not Samsung. The legal firm, the only ones privvy to the terms. Samsung itself only received the information, and stupidly let on knowing the information, but ultimately it's the legal firm that screwed up. Not Samsung.

  16. Re:Alarmist Horseshit on Tesla Model S Catches Fire: Is This Tesla's 'Toyota' Moment? · · Score: 1

    If the theory was linear, there'd be no auto stock market at all, would there?

  17. No omlette here on Tesla Model S Catches Fire: Is This Tesla's 'Toyota' Moment? · · Score: 1

    I don't recall Lee Iacocca or Henry Ford ever taking the blame for a traffic accident a flaw in the car wasn't responsible for.

  18. The hazards of driving in Kent on Tesla Model S Catches Fire: Is This Tesla's 'Toyota' Moment? · · Score: 1

    Not only is there a lot of rain, it's Kent. Coulda been Bellevue, where people in Bentleys would drive by snickering.

  19. Old magazines are Awesome on Finding a Tech Museum For Your Beloved Retired Computer(s) · · Score: 1

    I don't know if the Goodwill or any of its customers were happy when I donated 3 boxes of inCider and 2600 magazines, but my wife was. :)

  20. Mod UP on Researchers Show How Easy It Is To Manipulate Online Opinions · · Score: 2

    Scroll up to: http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=4292745&cid=45020765

  21. My mother should know on Team of Dentists Create "The Six-Second Toothbrush" · · Score: 2

    Getting ME to brush my teeth for even six seconds as a kid was an amazing feat.

  22. Slashdot members knows this on Researchers Show How Easy It Is To Manipulate Online Opinions · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Because it's easier to see a +2 comment go to +5 due to people seeing the comment than a 0 comment from an anonymous coward get any altitude at all.

  23. everything in/is moderation on Do Comments On Web Pages Ruin Science? · · Score: 1

    Moderation is what makes any comments section of a post work. Otherwise you have chaos. Not censorship, but putting useful stuff to the fore and useless stuff to the rear. Kinda like here, where +3 and higher comments get seen and the trollbait/average stuff gets passed.

    As for whether commentary does anything for science... 99% of the time, no. But there is that 1% of the time where someone says something you might not have thought of. Scientists collaborate and discuss things between themselves to further their work, right? Who says someone in the public doesn't have the spark of some idea that will help once in a blue moon?

  24. Or so they WANT you to believe. on NSA Abandoned Project To Track Cell Phone Locations · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I don't know any different, but someone's bound to express doubt that the program went nowhere.

  25. that's how I roll on California Outlaws 'Revenge Porn' · · Score: 1

    Thing being: people wanna see her boobs, people don't wanna see my skinny johnson.
    As a result, her pictures get circulated and mine get deleted. WORKS FOR ME!