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  1. Re:No Graffiti, no deal on Palm Devices Are Coming In 2018 Without WebOS, Says Report (slashgear.com) · · Score: 1
  2. Re:Yawn on PlayStation 4 Update 5.0 Officially Revealed (gamespot.com) · · Score: 1

    PSN is an online business. and we all know the three step to running an online business
    1: Do something useful
    2: ???
    3: Profit.
    Where "???" is "Screw over users"

    Sony is on step 2. It has no reason to be useful anymore and with an extra 35 million Dollars it on it's way to profit.

  3. "to verify that you are an adult." on PlayStation 4 Update 5.0 Officially Revealed (gamespot.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How exactly is that suppose to work? are kids not allowed to have money in Sony Land? In the US kids can have credit cards and debts. My 11 year old niece has a debt card

  4. The important question on SGI Desktop Clone Gets A New Version On Fedora (maxxinteractive.com) · · Score: 1

    Does it have the red mouse pointers?

  5. Thunderf00t does the math on this on New Solar-Powered Device Can Pull Water Straight From the Desert Air (sciencemag.org) · · Score: 3, Informative
  6. Re:or Driverless racing on Self-Driving Car Speed Race Ends With A Crash (electrek.co) · · Score: 1

    I for one watch for the car wrecks not the people wracks.

  7. Their job is to make money not to be fair on Ask Slashdot: Should Commercial Software Prices Be Pegged To a Country's GDP? · · Score: 2

    It's more profitable to charge a few people a large amount instead of charging a few more people a smaller amount.
    If they cut the price to one tenth the price then they have to sell ten times as much just to break even.

  8. Robot Fighting on Avatar-Style Manned Robot Takes First Steps In South Korea (valuewalk.com) · · Score: 2

    Who would win three way fight be between MegaBots Inc's Mk. III, Suidobashi Heavy Industry's KURATAS and this.

  9. Generative Adversarial Networks on Apple Publishes Its First AI Research Paper (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    so Generative Adversarial Networks but with an Apple logo pasted on. -> News!

  10. Herculaneum Papyri on MIT Invented A Camera That Can Read Closed Books (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Could this technique be used to read the Herculaneum Papyri?

  11. Dark Matter on New Research Reveals Hundreds of Undiscovered Black Holes (phys.org) · · Score: 0

    So the matter that only interacts with other stuff though it's gravity(dark matter), is things that only interact with things though their gravity wells(Black holes). Who would have thought that.

  12. So this is basically like GreenArrays only less powerful CPU's, is clocked, and is unavailable for purchase.
    http://www.greenarraychips.com...

  13. Targetlites, Alex. on ISS Astronauts Fire-Up Awesome 'Cubesat Cannon' · · Score: 0

    - Targetlites?

    Yes. You might want to squeeze off
    a few rounds while you have a chance
    Just work the bugs out of the system.
    After all, it is her maiden voyage.

  14. you said FINE art students didn't you? on Teaching Game Development To Fine Arts Students? · · Score: 0

    It's fine arts. require them to submit a sample portfolio of games they have already made. like every other fine arts program does.

  15. severe government restrictions and censorship? on Fidel Castro, Internet News Junkie · · Score: 0

    > In addition Cuban law bans using the Internet to
    > spread information that is against what the
    > government considers to be the social interest,

    You mean "public health"?

    > norms of good behavior,

    You mean "public morals"?

    > the integrity of the people

    You mean "public order" (ordre public)?

    > or national security."

    WTF "National security"?

    Wait I think I heard that befor...

    International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
    PART III Article 12 Paragraph 3.
    The above-mentioned rights shall not be subject to any restrictions except those which are provided by law, are necessary to protect national security, public order (ordre public), public health or morals or the rights and freedoms of others, and are consistent with the other rights recognized in the present Covenant.

  16. Non-digital suggestions? on Preserving Memories of a Loved One? · · Score: 0

    "In this digital age what other avenues are there for preserving memories? Non-digital suggestions would be welcome, too" Make a transpart tube display case/ cryogenic storage vessal for her body and put her on display in your living room. I'm sure your kids won't forget her I promise. Ok seriusely you need to make her a regular part of their lives, othering wise your just makeing a scrapebook that will sit in the attic gathering dust.. arrange your "Mom memorys" into 30-60 secont commercals and have your MediaCenter insert them into the programs they are watching.

  17. Business opportunity on Best Solutions For Massive Home Hard Drive Storage? · · Score: 0

    I download a lot porn, and I also record a lot of masturbating videos.

    Upload you masturbation vids to get free porn!

    It would be like the old MP3 trading FTP sites. then site operater puts sells the vids on a amatur pornsite. Where's my Business Method Patent?

  18. "The Algorithm" is old news is old news. on Looking Back From the 1980s At Computers In Education · · Score: 0

    Ask.com did a big ad campaign about it back in 2007. http://web.archive.org/web/20070601190145/http://www.thealgorithm.com/

  19. Re:You grasped at the soap bar of censorship, UK on Wikileaks and Iceland MPs Propose Journalism Haven · · Score: 0

    (I have no idea where I was going with this.)

    I thought It was going to be some zork spoof.....
    >

  20. Re:uhhhhh....... on XCore's EduBook, a Netbook That Runs on AA Batteries · · Score: 0

    Well, Since NImH AAA batteries run at the same output as Alkaline AAA batteries

    NImH batteries are 1.2 volts alkaline are 1.5. 12 - 9.6 = an extra 2.4 volts it wasn;t designed for.

  21. Re:demo please? on A Practical LCD Writing Tablet · · Score: 0

    Ask and you shall receive. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8O80QNv64Bc

  22. E-Magic Slate? on A Practical LCD Writing Tablet · · Score: 0

    12 for 29cents that don't need a battery or $30 for this thing that does.... Doesn't seem pratical to me.

  23. Do Want! on PhotoSketch Image Manipulation Tool Taking the World by Storm · · Score: 0

    I think that's the only approprate response here.

  24. Re:No. on Cats "Exploit" Humans By Purring · · Score: 1

    in soviet russia you own the cat.

  25. Video leaked on Youtube on Microsoft Debuts Full-Body Controller-less Gaming At E3 · · Score: 1

    Check out this cool video of it in action.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFAdmWwg374