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  1. He learned to be a diplomat. on Google CEO Larry Page Talks Apple, Android, Google+ · · Score: 2

    Larry Page is never exact recently, he learned to keep his mouth shut, becasue his stock will drop, if he said something that is not good or something that let's people speculate about troubles.

    He prints his own money now. So he is basically set, if he just keeps his real thoughts to himself.

  2. Light wins over electricity. on IBM Creates Commercially Viable, Electronic-Photonic Integrated Chip · · Score: 1

    First there were horses, then steam, then gas, now electricity and soon light. It seems that all technology will be powered by electricity and eventually by light some day, becasue it is the fastest and cheapest to do. Look at the price of horses, gasoline, metal and copper for arguments.

  3. Re:Airship Ventures Out Of Business on Dirigible Airship Prototype Approaches Completion · · Score: 1
    Aeros Craft is nothing like the Airship Ventures. Their boss is a former Russian immigrant and an aviation geek, who came to US and realized his dream of building an Airship. They have been in business for a long time until they could build this big airship, which is delayed for a year already. Their website did not explain why the delay came, but I would guess that they needed more money and had trouble to sell their existing products in the time of the financial crisis.

    Aeros Craft is a serious company that has serious leaders and engineers. In comparison to that, Airship Ventures did not have the experience with issues and not enough design expertise.

    Imagine that you could board that airship in LA or so and sleep in it comfortably over night and be in Peru or Ecuador on the next day. This would be much more comfortable, becasue you would have the option to lie down in a ship like this.

  4. Re: Comercial too on Toward An FSF-Endorsable Embedded Processor · · Score: 1
    The future version will have:

    SATA-II, Gigabit Ethernet, HDMI 1.4, NAND Flash, DDR3 32-bit @ 1333mhz, USB-3, USB-OTG, I2S, I2C, RS232, SD/MMC, GPIO, PWMs and so on - all the things to be expected of a modern general-purpose mass-volume System-on-a-Chip.

    This is going to be one very popular chip for embedded devices !

  5. Re:Linus offers not to curse. Merry Xmas! on Linus Torvalds Delays Linux 3.7, Releases 3.7-rc8 Kernel Instead · · Score: 1

    Actually, he curses often and is probably overworked by now. I suppose that the Christmas madness is having an effect on him and that he did not buy the gifts yet.

  6. Re:Google should comply on Movie Studios Ask Google To Censor Links To Legal Copies of Their Own Films · · Score: 1

    The copyrighted evil defeating itself is the best news of the day.

  7. 2013 Too late ??? on Researchers Create New Cheap, Shatterproof, Plastic Light Bulbs · · Score: 1

    I would say that 2013 is dreamed too soon in this case. It is never too late to compete with LEDs, becasue they are overpriced at the moment. I bet that this guy is not going to sell his bulbs from 2013 on a massive scale, becasue he will need to sell his technology to many factories and then convince the vendors to stock up the bulbs. LEDs needed more than one year to do that and they were invented a while ago already.

  8. TU Dresden and their Informatics faculty on Multi-Server Microkernel OS Genode 12.11 Can Build Itself · · Score: 1

    I have spend numerous hours the Informatics faculty in Dresden. They are a true nerd institution. The blob statues are green and the PC labs have direct access to the super computer over the terminal. The supercomputer is hard to crash. I send it broken code and loops and eternal waste of cycles, but it still runs with 95% unused capacity.

  9. Re:This has been the plan all along. on The Promo Bay Blocked By UK ISPs · · Score: 1

    BT and Virgin Media are actually in a legal mess now. They can be forced to pay legal fines up to a billion, if they continue blocking competitors. You do not need a business model, if the competition is as stupid as Microsoft was in the 90's. EU governments are constantly looking for big companies to pay their wages. The European governments are in debt, so they find the most wealthy legal offenders and let them pay the fines. It is happening in Spain already. The Chinese mafia in there was kept loose until the Government decided to extract some money. Now the money is extracted and the top bosses are free again. You should have seen the pale faces on TV after they lost the hard washed monis.

  10. Re:I don't see the issue here on Julian Assange: "Online Totalitarianism Is Near, Entire Nations Are Intercepted" · · Score: 1

    He did not say anything particular, but for sure the chat and phone calls are all logged. It is actually very easy to log all of the send and upload requests to the servers that do not have HTTPS. So, ALL YOUR SLASHDOT COMMENTS are logged by the country that you are from.

  11. Re:The odd thing about the Skylon on British Skylon Engine Passes Its Tests · · Score: 1

    This new engine is actually cool for the British economy. Suddenly they have their own unique technology that Germany would be envy about. I am German and I am envy already.

  12. Re:oh great. and I have to support it all? on Windows Blue: Microsoft's Plan To Release a New Version of Windows Every Year · · Score: 1

    You are correct. The business planners are out of their mind at Microsoft. They should have started their own Linux distro a while ago and provide paid support to customers and hardware manufacturers, instead of building annual crap upon the world. Seriously, Microsoft has so many coders who would be much more happy, if they could create for Linux and leave out their dreams, instead of pleasing the management at the top. The same management that talks about synergy, collaboration, team spirit and power naps. What else is more synergistic than the Linux community, where even totally disconnected people are potentially working together on a code that might be cooked into one package by some third person one day. That is the synergy, that the management can only dream about, becasue it will not happen in a closed organization that tries to lock naturally immaterial code in one material building.

  13. Re:Worlds Collide on Why Facebook Is Stressing You Out · · Score: 1

    Good example. I think Facebook is only stressful, if you take it too seriously and too important. Just look at it as a form of new TV. People post some messages and pictures. You look at them once in awhile and post some too. How could this be stressful, if you take no major effort of any sort. I think facebook became too complicated for some, because they go around take 1000 pictures a day and want to upload all of them to the facebook servers. Then they have to write descriptions and only 10 or those pictures will actually end up with long term traffic. Seriously WOMEN, one pic a week is good enough to keep up a good profile.

  14. Better than gold standard on Large Hadron Collider May Have Produced New Matter · · Score: 1

    This new matter is actually better than gold as a standard for money exchange. Hell it is even better than bitcoin, since only the LHC can produce it.

  15. Re:Just a marketing scheme on 1976 Polaroids of an Apple-1 Resurface · · Score: 1

    Yes, the prices are also very modern, if you account for inflation. Apple almost kept the same price for their gear, but changed the details a bit. Where is the mac key on that mac 1 for example ???

  16. Re:A step back on Disney Research Robot Can Juggle, Play Catch · · Score: 1

    Yes, yes. Disney wants to reduce the cost of having real friends. They always wanted to keep kids indoors, so that they watch more of their content from the age of 0. In reality Disney is harming the children, who develop attention disorders from their colorful cartoons, if they are exposed to them before the age of 6 or so. And now they want to replace real human friends with robots too. Keep your kids away from TV and Disney robots, if you want less drama at home. That is what the good type of parenting magazines claim today.

  17. iPad is bad for school. on Ask Slashdot: Math and Science iOS Apps For Young Kids? · · Score: -1, Troll

    Paper and pencil for coloring numbers is good for the age of 3. Seriously you are a horrible parent, if you give her and iPad right away, becasue she will be forced to use the pen when she is in school. You have 3 years to help her to get used to the pen as much as possible. Her grades will be much better, if you do so.

  18. Re:Note to law enforcement on Police Raid Home of 9-Year-Old Pirate Bay User, Seize "Winnie the Pooh" Laptop · · Score: 1

    It is even more outraging, if you consider who paid the police and which side are they standing at. We must thank Hollywood for how they keep our European police as their pets and the Europeans pay the police wages, instead of the Hollywood paying to them directly. All is great for Hollywood. They were predicting oppressive dictatorships in their movies, becasue they wanted to start one in reality.

  19. HTTPS is Great on HTTP Strict Transport Security Becomes Internet Standard · · Score: 1

    HTTPS is great, if you can afford to pay the fees. I see tons of potential for redirect 301 to HTTPS, becasue it will screw the existing links on the Internet and the unaware businesses would love to pay for maintenance of their broken websites.

  20. Re:Libreoffice is the challenger on LiMux Project Has Saved Munich €10m So Far · · Score: 1

    More money for local coders is good in all possible ways. Imagine, if every city and every country would do the same. It would be great to be a Linux developer and it would be great for people too, because something tells me that Microsoft is not paying out as much money as developers could get, if they were long-term working for their local administration or businesses, who would buy Linux support and customization.

  21. Re:Ads are bad for your eHealth on Ad Blocking – a Coming Legal Battleground? · · Score: 1

    Real publishers are actually supporting ad blockers, becasue the people who have them installed are usually the people who never click on the ads at all. This means that only the potential customers click the ads and price for the ads keeps increasing becasue of this. Advertisers pay more for people who have a higher chance of actually buying the products. Adblock is very OK, as long as it stays in the niche for the savvy people who never buy products after clicking the ads.

  22. Re:I have one on High-Voltage Fences For Zapping Would-Be Copper Thieves · · Score: 1

    You should also warn cool people from the block that you have the damn electricity on the fence, otherwise kids will get hurt. Put some nice signs and teach kids that electricity can bite very hard. Robbers will probably have no time for reading signs.

  23. Cisco is growing on Cisco To Buy Meraki For $1.2 Billion · · Score: 1

    Cisco is know to buy companies that do things better than them. They have no R&D, but buy new technology instead. This was thought to me in university.

  24. Rent out tools on Ask Slashdot: How To Make a DVD-Rental Store More Relevant? · · Score: 1

    It would be great if you rent out tools and media equipment too. Just combine other products for renting out and diversify into other forms of rentals.

  25. Re:Hyperbole MONEY on Apple Patents Page Turn Animation · · Score: 1

    The real reason for the existence of patents is the money that people get for approving them and the money that people earn for selling them. There would be no patents, if the government and the bureaucratic system, would not earn from them. There are people who sit in an office and stamp papers or sign letters without reading them. The patent offices do not care, if the patent is real or logical, as long as you pay the fees. It is how government usually works. People get together and sit in a office for collecting fees. I live in Germany, the best German jobs are all in the governmental offices. You do nothing new for your entire life and get paid above average. They say that there is no corruption, but how about the fees that are only existing for the benefits of the people who work for the government. Patents are like Visas, you pay the fee and get a stamp, but no one really checks your identity as long as the boss is not in the room. Look at the best example for hierarchical societies. India is able to finance all of the embassies in the world by stamping the passports with Visas.