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  1. Re:Standard connectors? LOL you wish! on Reports Say Apple Is Shrinking Its Docking Connector With iPhone 5 · · Score: 0

    It is required. Guess who keeps shipping phones that don't support microUSB without including an adapter?

    Yup. Apple.

  2. Re:Standard connectors? LOL you wish! on Reports Say Apple Is Shrinking Its Docking Connector With iPhone 5 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Mouse? Not innovative, just applied to a home desktop.

    FireWire? Good for its niche, too expensive for mass adoption on the scale of USB.

    PowerPC? Sure, it's in the consoles, but it's not because it's good - it's cheap enough for them to get custom processors and actually own the design.

  3. Re:There is a perfectly logical explanation on The DARPA-Funded Power Strip That Will Hack Your Network · · Score: 1

    Paint it black and it looks like some low-end UPSes I've seen

  4. Re:There is a perfectly logical explanation on The DARPA-Funded Power Strip That Will Hack Your Network · · Score: 1

    I think we're there: http://www.monstercable.com/productdisplay.asp?pin=2353

    "Optically aligned"? Sounds almost as bad as their previous pitch of "Gold-plated optical cables".

  5. Re:There is a perfectly logical explanation on The DARPA-Funded Power Strip That Will Hack Your Network · · Score: 1

    Ethernet also passes as surge protection for telephone/network cables.

  6. OOP on Software Emulates Organism's Entire Lifespan · · Score: 0

    Is this some ploy by the united front of Object-Oriented Programmers to convince the world that multiple inheritance isn't as bad as everyone thinks it is? I'm sure the global union of Object-Oriented Programmers is already planning a seminar on how Interfaces are appropriate subsitutes for multiple inheritance.

  7. Re:VBA? on JavaScript For the Rest of Us · · Score: 2

    I haven't seen a Klingon manual for C++ yet

  8. Re:In case you're wondering on MIPS Technologies Porting Android 4.1 to MIPS Architecture · · Score: 1

    Why MIps? I prefer it because:

    Capital M for decimal Mega (as in million)
    The i is kinda indifferent, but since Mips is the rabbit in Super Mario 64, I prefer a capital I
    Lowercase p for "per"
    Lowercase s because SI units are lowercase unless they're named after a person.

  9. Re:8 is not vista on Windows 8 Release Date: October 26th · · Score: 3, Insightful

    True enough, but it doesn't matter if the computer is stable and functioning within normal parameters if you can't actually do anything useful. Of course, it's not *that* bad, but forcing metro on desktops and laptops is absurd.

  10. Re:In case you're wondering on MIPS Technologies Porting Android 4.1 to MIPS Architecture · · Score: 3, Informative

    They've been around for ages... Anyone who might need/want to know the architecture can easily differentiate MIPS from MIps, just ike everybody can distinguish ARM from arm.

  11. Re:"Completely Safe", my cute lily-white ass! on Full-Body Airport Scanners Downsizing For Doctors/Dentists · · Score: 1

    Of course it's harmful if you use 900W to scan someone.

  12. Re:"Completely Safe", my cute lily-white ass! on Full-Body Airport Scanners Downsizing For Doctors/Dentists · · Score: 1

    How powerful is your microwave? 900W? I'd say that's way too much power.
    Same thing as saying light is dangerous because very powerful lights can burn you.

  13. Re:"Completely Safe", my cute lily-white ass! on Full-Body Airport Scanners Downsizing For Doctors/Dentists · · Score: 1

    It's not ionizing, but it's energetic enough to break chemical bonds. Terahertz waves aren't.

  14. Re:Are we reading too much into this? on Nokia: Google's Nexus 7 Tablet Infringes Our Patents · · Score: 1

    Maybe it took them a while to realize it, maybe they've been insisting and wanted to escalate it, to pressure them...

  15. Re:"Completely Safe", my cute lily-white ass! on Full-Body Airport Scanners Downsizing For Doctors/Dentists · · Score: 2

    You're missing the really big difference: X-rays are ionizing, terahertz radiation is not. There's a very simple solution to that problem: don't use too much power. Anyone will feel major discomfort before any sort of damage happens.

  16. Re:Irony on The Leap Second Is Here! Are Your Systems Ready? · · Score: 2

    It was not the largest of timer overflows that killed them, but the tiniest leap second...

  17. Re:Floods on Tech Manufacturing Is a Disaster Waiting To Happen · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but it served as the excuse for the initial price hike.

  18. Re:MS on Microsoft Blocks FSF Donation Website As a 'Gambling Site' · · Score: 1

    Anyone is "too cheap" to hire people to do the work. You just write the bot and have a small team or two go over the reported false-positives and such

  19. Re:Eclipse on Ask Slashdot: No-Install Programming At Work? · · Score: 1

    Eclipse does need Java to run, though. That might complicate matters a bit.

  20. Re:Who cares? on Microsoft Phasing Out Office Starter Edition · · Score: 3, Informative

    Home and Student, with three licenses, is usually ~100€. Around 30€ per license is a very good deal for anyone who doesn't use it for "revenue-generating activities". If you need something beyond Word, Exce, Powerpoint and OneNote, you can buy the individual program (in practice, two licenses - one for a desktop and one for a laptop/tablet).

  21. Re:It'll work on Will Dolby's New Atmos 62.2 Format Redefine Surround Sound? · · Score: 1

    Even audiophiles laugh at that crap.

    I seriously wonder how many they actually produced. I guess when somebody buys one, they cut some regular Cat.5E, add the fancy stuff and sell it for 5.000 times the cost, if not more.

  22. Re:As a software company... on Will Microsoft Extend Surface Model And Manufacture Windows Phones? · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure Version 6 is "God, no! Help me, please! I don't deserve this kind of punishment!", judging by Windows ME, if you consider every iteration of 9x (except 98SE) to be a different OS

  23. Re:Yeah, so what? on National "Do Not Kill Registry" Launched In Response To Drone Kill List · · Score: 0

    Technically, you're at war with China

  24. Re:Games? on Why Intel Needs Smartphones More Than They Need Intel · · Score: 1

    Come to think of it, that's where we are now.

  25. Re:December 21, 2012 on New Signs Voyager Is Nearing Interstellar Space · · Score: 1

    Mass genocide over a traffic incident is way too harsh. They'll enslave us for 25 years to pay off the damage to their ship.