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  1. Re:Physical keyboard? on Halliburton To Dump Blackberry For iOS · · Score: 2

    Yes. And there are many where I work that are happy with it.

  2. We are the Borg on Outgoing CRTC Head Says Technology Is Eroding Canadian Culture · · Score: 1

    A cheeseburger in every mouth and Netflix on every TV worldwide.....you will be assimilated. Resistance is futile.

  3. What relevant laws are being broken? on FTC Expands Its Google Antitrust Investigations · · Score: 3, Insightful

    As I understand anti-trust laws, It can't just be because somebody happens to be dominant and they leverage that in another product. There has to be something where the consumer is practically speaking unable to choose because of said dominance.

  4. Charles Bronson in DeathWish! on Fujitsu To Develop Vigilante Computer Virus For Japan · · Score: 1

    Depends on if you liked that movie and what the character did. Or..if you like the "Jack Bauer" consequentialism approach to justice. You know...."Chaotic Good" in D&D parlance where the ends justifies the means.

    Except when the ends don't end up the way you wanted it to go after exercising your idea of what the "means" should be....

  5. Re:well on Do Slashdotters Encrypt Their Email? · · Score: 1

    I wonder....if you went up to say 15 how would it fare with hackers trying to get your password? Would any cracking/brute force (or even human guessing) even TRY 123456789101112131415

    ?

  6. Funding if they find it? on LHC Homes In On Possible Higgs Boson Around 126GeV · · Score: 1

    Finding the particle would definitely affect funding. After they find it what will they proclaim the LHC is needed for? Sure, there are things a SCIENTIST can say it's needed for, but the "bling" public reasons goo POOF.

    Good luck asking for big money for particle accelerators once the Higgs-Boson is found.

    Senator - "Why again should we fund this? I thought you solved your...whatever...grand theory or something by finding that little particle or something?"

    Physicist- "This is just the beginning...we have SO much more to learn understanding the nature of quantum...."

    Senator - "Thank you Dr. we'll take up you request under advisement"

       

  7. Hostile takover on German Court Issues Injunction Against iPhone & iPad · · Score: 0

    Apple could buy Motorola with ease.

  8. Science requires comparisons on Is the Earth Special? · · Score: 1

    Since we don't have DETAILED information even about solar systems outside of ours that have been discovered, making a claim that Earth is unique is merely a theory. Theories are fine. Show me the data to back it up.

  9. Re:Cisco 2950T-48 Switches on Inside the World's Largest LAN Party · · Score: 2

    You are right about that. The power requirements when you get to those scales end up being in many cases more difficult than the networking portion.

    Cooling is another story...I'd imagine at that latitude it's pretty cold outside. Pretty easy to fan in super cold air from the outside. Or maybe they did not need to? The computers provided heat for the building and excess was just faned out instead of in.

  10. Re:Oh my! All those sweaty geeks in one place. on Inside the World's Largest LAN Party · · Score: 1

    You mean that haze floating over the crowd in the photo?

  11. Re:I wonder what this says about on DARPA Seeks Input On Securing Networks Against Attackers · · Score: 1

    Nothing since SELinux is not about securing networks.

  12. obligatory small print on White House Responds to ET/UFO Petitions · · Score: 1

    "And if there were any credible information that beings of extraterrestrial origin, such information would be classified as secret"

    The wrong question was asked. The right question to ask the White House is what the procedure and government position concerning how evidence of extraterrestrial visitation would be handled. You ask if the government would consider such information too dangerous to release.

  13. Siri predictions on Siri Gives Apple Two Year Advantage Over Android · · Score: 1

    Given how accurate the Android community has been at predicting Apple's downfall because "the iphone and it's software sucks" one has to take any response that includes how "Apple is grasping for straws" and "Nobody uses Siri" as somewhat dubious claims.

  14. Re:Siri is 'the next big thing'? on Siri Gives Apple Two Year Advantage Over Android · · Score: 1

    They don't need to "grasp for straws". Last time I checked iphones were selling quite well compared to Androids.

  15. Terrorist using Bees? on Why So Many Crashes of Bee-Carrying Trucks? · · Score: 1

    What a nightmare....a bunch of Terrorists hijack 4 or 5 mega trucks full of bees into Times square and then crash the trucks into the median releasing them. Now THAT would be horrific.

  16. Re:Corporations alone can't hurt or control you on The 147 Corporations Controlling Most of the Global Economy · · Score: 1

    The jack boot of large corporations usually is paid for by government politicians.

    Why people think that giving government more power is the answer is beyond me. If you want to keep big business from controlling government you need to take away the incentive to do so....and distribute power as widely as possible so that it's not in big business interest to go rent seeking.

  17. Irrelevant on Ron Paul Suggests Axing 5 U.S. Federal Departments (and Budgets) · · Score: 1

    People are bitching and moaning. Paul is not going to get elected and the government is not going to cut anything of real consequence. The out of kilter financial system will bring things back into equilibrium when the debt and deficit becomes so large (we may already be past the point of no return) that the U.S. has to default on all or part of it's debt.

    Does anybody REALLY think we are going to pay back 15 trillion dollars with increases at over a trillion dollars a year with no end it sight? It's not going to happen, the bond holders either don't realize this yet or think somebody else will get screwed.

    We will all get screwed once the dollar collapses. At this rate it will not be long.

  18. Re:Etrian Odyssey on First Person Dungeon Crawlers Making a Return · · Score: 1

    It's not a Western RPG. I can't relate my younger year memories of eye of the beholder with a game that looks like it was drawn by people who love Robotech and Sailor Moon.

  19. Re:And the price...? on Netflix Kills Qwikster · · Score: 1

    Did you LIKE the content prior to the price increase? Which was mediocre and shrinking (starz leaving). Which would you rather have? No neflix or a netflix at the current prices?

  20. Re:Sounds fair. on Richard Stallman's Dissenting View of Steve Jobs · · Score: 1

    Don't you know Zen? Control is an illusion. There are no restrictions in using Apple products, only the restrictions you create in your MIND :)

  21. Re:Start your party and let democracy decide on Should Science Be King In Politics? · · Score: 1

    YES. Democracy does NOT scale. Democracy works best when the concentration of power is from the bottom up, with certain mega powers for protecting individual rights residing at the top of the structure. That was what was planned in the U.S. we are definitely not there now.

  22. Re:Start your party and let democracy decide on Should Science Be King In Politics? · · Score: 1

    Democracy also has nothing to do with getting the smartest or the most able person into the voted political postion, but rather is only about who can convince voters to give them the job. Democracy is not the answer to having competent, honest people in political office. If it were we'd have a LOT less rent seeking, crony capitalism and mercantilism.

  23. Re:Good for them on China Launches Space Station Laboratory Module · · Score: 1

    No. The U.S. Federal Government had the money too, not the "States". There is a difference.

  24. Re:What other products on Healthcare Law Appealed To Supreme Court · · Score: 1

    States...STates....STATES!

    These are not Federal requirements. They are STATE requirements which is the WHOLE point of being contested.

  25. Feds and office 365 and "the Cloud" on Google Drops Cloud Lawsuit Against US Government · · Score: 1

    Most U.S. government agencies are as head over heals into vertically integrating microsoft solutions as could possibly imagine. Problem is that Microsoft and their zombie government followers (not all are followers but most in IP are) sell office 365 to management as a "cloud" solution when it's obvious that it's just managed exchange with a lightweight web version.

    True cloud versions exist ENTIRELY within the browser without binary executables you have to install.