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  1. Illegal... on Ask Slashdot: How To Get Open Source Projects To Take Our Money? · · Score: 1

    i am pretty sure billing for stuff you dont do is illegal and we currently have some pretty high-profile cases going on in this regard in my country at the moment (payments in the order of millions for "adviser activities" which never happened and so on) ... the thing gets esp. juicy if you involve not-for-profit organisations and political parties (or companies with close ties to them).

    Also what's wrong with donating? At least in my country you can even get your tax reduced for stuff like that.

  2. successful startups or solid code on Silicon Valley's Loony Cheerleading Culture Is Out of Control · · Score: 1

    ... tell me exactly how these two are in any way related? getting a successful startup seems mostly to be about getting the hype right ;)

  3. Re:who is this idiot??? on The Greatest Keyboard Shortcut Ever · · Score: 1

    safari ... I lol'd ;)

  4. that system does not make sense... on 100% Failure Rate On University of Liberia's Admission Exam · · Score: 1

    ... because you generally want a fixed number of students. So rate each student (preferably with a test so hard no one can reach 100%) and skim off the top x percent that you want.

  5. Re:Opera user snikers, best short cut claim on The Greatest Keyboard Shortcut Ever · · Score: 1

    not to forget, you have contextual undo, ctrl-z for restoring tabs forever!!!

  6. Re:who is this idiot??? on The Greatest Keyboard Shortcut Ever · · Score: 1

    that only works in opera last time i checked (one of the gazillion of awesome features)

  7. Or you have a decent browser ... on The Greatest Keyboard Shortcut Ever · · Score: 1

    which has contextual ctrl-z, so it either undos what you type in a text area or brings back up the last closed tab (and has a convenient trashcan easily accessible for people who prefer to use the mouse) ... for those not getting it, I am talking about Opera pre 15.

  8. Waste combustion not yet invented in US on US States Banned From Exporting Trash To China Are Drowning In Plastic · · Score: 1

    ... at least that what the story sounds like.

  9. I dont see how that would be good... on GM Rice Passes Unexpected Benefits To Weeds · · Score: 1

    No text

  10. You meant to say ... on Researchers Release Tool That Can Scan the Entire Internet In Under an Hour · · Score: 1

    a) ... it can do a port-scan, not a content-scan
    b) ... in IPv4 space
    c) ... when supplied with unspecified bandwidth

  11. Re:Drive-In? on The Death of the American Drive-in · · Score: 1

    jeah, had the same wtf-y moment ... america is strange.

  12. If you don't die, you are cancer on Aging Is a Disease; Treat It Like One · · Score: 1

    and earth should treat you as such.

  13. Get one custom-made! on Ask Slashdot: Is There a Good Device Holster? · · Score: 1

    Ok, this may sound very hipster, but I know a bag-maker/leatherworker and got myself a custom-made bag for my macbook air which cost me not even a hundred bucks (and no, I am not a mac lover, at the time there was just no other decent ultrabook). So if you know people like that help out their business and get something unique!

  14. Welcome to 2010! on Illuminating Window-Less Houses With a Plastic Bottle · · Score: 1

    I remember seeing a ted-talk or something like that about this exact topic around that time.

  15. Why would Linus (as opposed to Linux) have won? on With Microsoft Office on Android, Has Linus Torvalds Won? · · Score: 1

    I mean, was he in some sort of cage-fight with Ballmer all this time or something?

  16. If the article doesnt look like a math thesis ... on Ask Slashdot: Should More Math and Equations Be Used In the Popular Press? · · Score: 1

    its fine (eg. provide equations outside the main text in a separate background/proof box), generally a little more facts and less blabla would be very healthy to many articles (esp. in philosophy). At least I personally always aim for most clarity in fewest words (as fewer words reduce the possibility of making mistakes or the appearance of making mistakes because of bad and ambiguous phrasing eg. in two different parts of the text).

  17. Re:undo ... on 3D Printing In Gel Enables Freeform Design and an Undo Function · · Score: 1

    "Ah, I see you've played Knifey-Spoony before!"

  18. undo ... on 3D Printing In Gel Enables Freeform Design and an Undo Function · · Score: 1

    also known in the normal world as "knife"

  19. Easy ... on What's Stopping Us From Eating Insects? · · Score: 2

    for the same reason I dont eat eg. small birds or mice, because I prefer not eating intestines (except liver)

  20. Re:Cory Doctorow's Little Brother on Ask Slashdot: High-School Suitable Books On How Computers Affect Society? · · Score: 1

    huge +1 for this, I am currently reading it and it is fucking awesome (though he has to work on word repetition sometimes ;))
    Not to forget, if the students like it there is "Homeland" as a sequel, though I didn't read that one yet.

  21. Re:Damn you people on Same Programs + Different Computers = Different Weather Forecasts · · Score: 2, Informative

    actually, that would be really good because you have a fixed spacing of values throughout the whole range which is a very important property in simulations (at least as far as I learned in numerical mathematics).

  22. Internet? on Google Now Serves 25% of North American Internet Traffic · · Score: 1

    I think you mean WWW ...

  23. Does the rest of the world have to get this? on Texas School District Drops Embattled RFID Student IDs; Opts For Cameras · · Score: 1

    I mean, seriously, what do I need either RFIDs or cameras at school? I personally can imagine two uses: checking everyone is here (at least for rfid) and checking none extra is here. Teacher rooms should be secured in a more secure way anyhow (and I don't think schools like that have special facilities that only certain parts of the students can access).

    Checking if everyone is here ... are the teachers seriously that overburdened by checking attendance?
    Checking for other people ... if you are really that concerned, hire a gatekeeper, for the cost of the surveilance system you can probably pay him for ten years straight and that above usual gatekeeper salary, and you hired someone who probably formerly had no job. Heck, you could probably hire _two_ people! _And_ you have the advantage of the people nnot getting onto the premises before you spot them with your puny cameras! Not that anyone in any other country has really issues with people running amock in schools ... and we still have a lower rate, maybe it's like an extra incentive, idk what goes on in people's heads ... but that's off-topic anyhow ...

  24. Sci-Fi told ya so! on Rise of the Warrior Cop: How America's Police Forces Became Militarized · · Score: 1

    Eg. read "Little Brother".

  25. So, they "discovered" desalination? on Swedish Machine Turns Sweat Into Drinking Water · · Score: 1

    what a feat ... not