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  1. Are people still buying blackberries on RIM Helps Indian Authorities Access BlackBerry Messages · · Score: 1

    http://www.informationweek.com/news/mobility/business/231300237

    xnews.com/scitech/2011/10/27/class-action-suit-filed-against-rim-after-blackberry-outage/ http://www.itworld.com/mobile-wireless/216895/more-bad-news-rim-playbook-os-update-delayed-4-months-or-maybe-forever

    My google search: "RIM News", not "RIM Bad News", http://www.google.com/search?q=RIM+news

    Google & MS would just laugh at the silly indians and their depreciation of individual privacy.

  2. Re:Doesn't matter on Microsoft Tried To Buy Netscape: Suppose They Had? · · Score: 1

    1. Chrome trend is at a whooping 20% http://thenextweb.com/google/2011/07/01/google-chrome-has-20-market-share-firefox-in-its-sights/
    2. I have yet to see safari on a tablet, name one that ain't an ipad
    3. Nobody uses the Android browser LOL, firefox or [there's one more good one somewhere] are the popular choices.

    If MS bought Netscape, I think this might have gone different... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft

  3. Re:Last year's news on Massively Parallel Computer Built From Single Layer of Molecules · · Score: 0

    It's justified this is news for nerds, if you don't know of noscript I'm just going to petition that we don't want any of you here.

  4. Re:Interoperability on Skype Goes After Reverse-Engineering · · Score: 1

    Can't the same argument be used to ignore the takedown notices or invalidate them? "If I don't live in Estonia, I don't have to play by the laws since you don't either" , pretty sure there is no extradition since this would be a civil suite. Seems to work as TPB is still going strong.

  5. Re:I'm not on Ask Slashdot: How Are You Haunting Your House This Hallowe'en? · · Score: 1

    I heard this sometime ago probably on here, is dressing like a cop going to be illegal? what a bout a judge? What about the president?

    So if the president wears a black tux, heads are going to roll?

    Your link's logo should be the official TSA logo, long live the fucks at 4chan who are against the TSA and label it for what it really is, a pedophiles dream job.

  6. Re:I'm not on Ask Slashdot: How Are You Haunting Your House This Hallowe'en? · · Score: 1

    gives me an idea to dress as a TSA inspector... oh wait I'd get beaten to death walking around on Halloween in uniform.

  7. Re:what's the obsession with the latest version on Android Orphans: a Sad History of Platform Abandonment · · Score: 1

    Marked flamebait but prove me wrong troll mod?

  8. Re:Oh hell, intentional ... UStrategy on In Bolivia, a Supervolcano Is Rising · · Score: 1

    I'm too lazy, but pretty sure this HAS HAPPENED in the past, maybe not to a drug cartel lord but to other anti-US figures.

  9. Re:Noose on Ask Slashdot: How Are You Haunting Your House This Hallowe'en? · · Score: 1

    Or he's trying to add to the spookiness.. slashdot is the last place for a for real suicide contemplation lol.

  10. Re:Oh hell, intentional ... UStrategy on In Bolivia, a Supervolcano Is Rising · · Score: 1

    They want to control the drug trade not stop it, US special forces heading in to rescue Bolivian drug cartel lords at eruption.

  11. Re:what's the obsession with the latest version on Android Orphans: a Sad History of Platform Abandonment · · Score: 1

    Really? They released gingerblur for my atrix via sideloading loan before gingerbread came to the artix. Obviously my boot loader was locked too. It's unlocked now and I'm waiting for cyanogen on my phone like some of my colleagues have :) (I think it's still in beta with some bugs that prevent me from wanting to go to it)

    Start here
    http://www.xda-developers.com/tag/motorola-milestone/

    Looks like you have to do something similar.

    In the end I unhacked my phone and upgraded to gingerbread when Motorola made it available. Works great.

    Lesson to be learned from all this: if you want to hack your phone under no circumstance... buy Motorola.

  12. Re:And now after the press release. on Boeing 787 Dreamliner Makes First Passenger Flight · · Score: 1

    Easy enough to do, there's a model to all this you know... you get what you pay for. Those seats and lights were probably the 1ST CLASS DEPARTMENT, and as you move towards the back you experience the features you describe.

  13. Re:what's the obsession with the latest version on Android Orphans: a Sad History of Platform Abandonment · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Rofl go install another OS on your iphone cause I sure can... IOS doesn't even bench in comparison to cyanogen.

  14. Re:not happy to ditch for windows 7 on 10 Years of Windows XP · · Score: 1

    Yep, volume licensing is what I'm referring to, in terms of doing all the work... sys prep ftw.

  15. Re:not happy to ditch for windows 7 on 10 Years of Windows XP · · Score: 2

    Yep, saves $$$$$ on licensing too, the machine license is included with the machine so on like a 5 year cycle, everybody would run windows 7 in 5 years, but we've had to make exceptions to that and use open license to upgrade some. Expensive, but compared to the bs that was going on back in the day, this is just fine.

  16. Re:not happy to ditch for windows 7 on 10 Years of Windows XP · · Score: 1

    Perhaps they are going in a different direction away from file managers so that mainstream users can use the file system but what do i know *shrug* there's plenty of free alternatives out there. Treesize or something is a good one.

  17. Re:Toasting another TEN! on 10 Years of Windows XP · · Score: 2

    Or much of anything?

  18. Re:Perpetual motion!!!11one1! on Robot Walks Like a Human, Requires No Power · · Score: 1

    The X factor there is the initial weight of the human leg, to generate the force the person would have to do more than rock their body, they would still have to lift and move their legs... unless it was battery powered. What they're probably doing is using top heavy sway to cause the legs to move with very little force applied from the outside system, of course the heavier the mechanical legs, the heavier the top sway bar needs to be. It might be possible with exact proportions geared specifically for that person... but the cost of that would keep it in the theory world of theories.

    There is a point to this project though after pondering it a bit, they are replicating Biped motion with limited force, so it IS LIKE A SLINKY, except it's human legs. The application of this might just be robotic where it's a lot easier to calculate the sway to motion ratio in mass production. Then, who wants a robot that walks downhill? Might be a few applications, none that I can think of.

  19. Re:May be an advantage, not a burden? on DNA May Carry a Memory of Your Living Conditions From Childhood · · Score: 2

    What they're more focusing on is that even if conditions in life later improve, they are still saying your at risk for the same diseases. I think...

    Otherwise... no shit malnutrition is harmful? They're saying even when your all nice and rich in your plush down bed, your still in trouble cause you grew up poor. I don't think any of the diseases mentioned are triggerable without external factors present at the TIME of the disease, so this would be a challenge to that train of thought, ex. you get a heart attack from stress not because you were stressed as a child but because your job is killing you. As the scope of this article defines what DNA actually is, I'm going to say meh and discard it. It's not technical enough to warrant a theoretical discussion :)

  20. Re:Methylation on DNA May Carry a Memory of Your Living Conditions From Childhood · · Score: 2

    Right different living conditions trigger different expressions of the genes. If a chromosome switched on somebody early in life... oh boy lol. Not quite x-men grade there.

  21. Re:If you have nothing to hide on Mastercard, Visa To Help Target Ads · · Score: 1

    Took years for Amazon to figure out how to do that ;)

  22. Re:If you have nothing to hide on Mastercard, Visa To Help Target Ads · · Score: 1

    In the not so distant future...

    I can see MC and Visa getting sued for targeting somebody with a sex shop ad on a PG13 website in front of their family.

  23. Re:Google wave? on Google Buzz Buzzing Away · · Score: 1

    did anybody actually use the BUZZ API and why?

    I just can't see a reason anybody would interface with it... it's like twitter mixed with facebook mixed with email, except each one does it's job much better individually.

  24. Re:Oops on US's Most Powerful Nuclear Bomb Being Dismantled · · Score: 1

    I'm going to make the argument that anybody with a top secret security clearance working in an underground bunker on an atomic bomb is going to accidentally set off the bomb, I doubt u just hit a nuke with a hammer and it goes off. Have more faith in the government, if they were going to set it off unjustifiably, it would not be in a bunked shelter :)

  25. Re:Perpetual motion!!!11one1! on Robot Walks Like a Human, Requires No Power · · Score: 0

    Article title seems to be referencing

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_motion

    Unfortunately, it's more like 13393037's slinky. I thought they replicated human movement back when they came up with motion capture? I just don't see where this fits into anything lol, besides being geared for a treadmill... I don't know anybody that would be overjoyed to get a pair of these to ONLY walk downhill, the future looks something more like these WITH a battery pack from all the electricity we harnessed back in the day to power them. Now how advanced can the battery pack be is the real question ;)