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  1. Re:Let's not celebrate on the graves of too many on Mathematicians Aim To Take Publishers Out of Publishing · · Score: 0

    I'm sure the mathematicians will soon get tired of producing their own journals. It's the same as lot's of other things, sure you could do it yourself for less, but can you be arsed?

  2. Re:Not impressive on Open Source Gaming Handheld Project Wants Your Money · · Score: 1

    ...and it's already in your pocket and most likely more powerful than the specs above. Who wants to carry another device around with them all the time?

  3. Readers (or lack of) to blame on Nintendo Power's Final Cover · · Score: 1

    You can't complain that something is disappearing if you don't buy it anymore. That's the problem nobody else is either.

  4. So far on In UK, Twitter, Facebook Rants Land Some In Jail · · Score: 1

    Most if not all were being deliberately obnoxious rather than just voicing a genuine opinion.

  5. Re:Kevin Bacon on Google Patents Guilt-By-Association · · Score: 5, Funny

    If Kevin Bacon does anything dodgy, we're all fucked

  6. Lets hope the police take no notice of this bull on Google Patents Guilt-By-Association · · Score: 1

    What an absolute load of shite. Just because you are 'friends' with someone online does not mean you do exactly the same things. How many people have people on their Facebook friends list who they haven't actually seen for years? (fucking lots I'm guessing)

  7. You have to take risks on The Island of Lost Apple Products · · Score: 4, Insightful

    if you want to come up with game changing designs/products.

    Apple have always been good at seeing how the market is moving and many times coming out with a product before the technology is good enough or the public were ready for it.

    Jobs was also prepared to take the kind of risks most big companies aren't.

  8. Re:This is actually cool... on Kim Dotcom's Next Venture: Free Broadband To New Zealand · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...and is unanimously hated around the world. Such a shame :o

  9. Re:This is actually cool... on Kim Dotcom's Next Venture: Free Broadband To New Zealand · · Score: 1

    I get the impression that may be the reason behind the broadband thing. If he brings free broadband to NZ he is going to gain a lot of public and political support there which will be beneficial to him when the big media companies come after him again.

  10. Re:Fear... on Valve: Linux Better Than Windows 8 for Gaming · · Score: 5, Interesting

    SteamOS... the next logical step.

  11. Re:Net energy? on Scientists Turn Air Into Petrol · · Score: 5, Insightful

    does that really matter if they are going to power it using renewable energy?

  12. Re:Free software vs. proprietary? on Hackers' 'Zero-Day' Exploits Stay Secret For Ten Months On Average · · Score: 0

    Yeah, because only programmers use free software right?

  13. Sounds an extremely dull existence on A Day in Your Life, Fifteen Years From Now · · Score: 2

    With all that 'advancement' in technology I would hope that we wouldn't all be relying on a card that could be lost or stolen.

    What about voice pattern analysis or retinal scans?

  14. Re:Consequences to your own actions on UK Man Arrested For Offensive Joke Posted On Facebook · · Score: 1

    Well done, you just invoked Godwin's law in one step.

  15. Consequences to your own actions on UK Man Arrested For Offensive Joke Posted On Facebook · · Score: 0

    When will people learn there are consequences to their actions.

    He posted something highly offensive on the Facebook page dedicated to finding the little girl.

    There was a strong possibility members of her family would see it and that it would upset them even more than they already are.

    If nothing else comes of it than everyone learning what a complete twat he is then the police action is fine by me.

    Oh, and good luck keeping/getting a job now.

    Karma's a bitch ain't it?

  16. Quick someone... on Apple Acknowledges iPhone 5 Camera Flaw · · Score: 1

    I see an opening in the market for replacement back covers with a properly functioning lens cover !

  17. I can only assume on The Text Message Typo That Landed a Man In Jail · · Score: 4, Funny

    that it must have been a jury made up of 12 Daily Mail readers.

  18. Re:Kill XP? on Maybe With Help From Google and Adobe, Microsoft Can Kill Windows XP · · Score: 5, Informative

    The main ones I have found which only work with early versions are embedded web apps in things like telephone systems. We had a Mitel 3300 which just would not work with anything later than IE6. The developers in their wisdom wrote some browser detection into the pages that if you weren't using IE6 told you it needed IE6 or later then refused to display anything else.

  19. Re:FFS on 19 Million Americans Cannot Get Broadband Access · · Score: 2

    While people are "happy" to pay high prices for capped and low speed / unreliable services there is no incentive for the internet providers to spend vast amounts upgrading the infrastructure.

    You either need a government backed incentive to roll out high speed internet country wide (meaning to everyone not just people in cities) or you need some foreign companies to start moving into the US market to introduce some competition that will force the existing companies to become more competitive in the price and quality of what they offer.

  20. So you better.. on Researchers Find 'Mind-Control' Gaming Headsets Can Leak Users' Secrets · · Score: 2

    take off the headset before going to the ATM :)

  21. Re:Unfortunately, UK has become Uncle Sam's lapdog on UK Authorities Threaten To Storm Ecuadorian Embassy To Arrest Julian Assange · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The British government are not the country, I doubt there are many people in the UK who would support this action and even fewer who are happy with the way the government sucks up to the US.

  22. Re:NAS Box on Ask Slashdot: Simple Way To Backup 24TB of Data Onto USB HDDs ? · · Score: 1

    I use a DS1511+ at work with 5 x 3TB in RAID5 setup and I love it. It's rock solid, good performance and reasonably cheap to setup. I have all my Centos servers rsync to it everynight.

  23. NAS Box on Ask Slashdot: Simple Way To Backup 24TB of Data Onto USB HDDs ? · · Score: 1

    http://www.synology.com/products/product.php?product_name=DS2411%2B&lang=uk Still portable enough to do your backup then take offsite.

  24. Re:I would guess.. on Indian Government Mulls Giving Away Mobile Phones To the Poor · · Score: 1

    Now if they have their heads screwed on they will use this as an opportunity to be able to contact the poorest parts of the community when the next natural disaster happens and hopefully save some lives.

  25. Harry Harrison on Ask Slashdot: Most Underappreciated Sci-Fi Writer? · · Score: 1

    The Stainless Steel Rat series are by far my favourite sci-fi books. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat

    Slippery Jim DiGriz is a top notch character, how these books have managed not to be turned into a film/tv series is beyond me.