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  1. No previous art on Amazon Patents the Milkman · · Score: 1

    You can't call art milk delivery, after all

  2. Re:Where's the accountability? on Fox News: US Solar Energy Investment Less Than Germany Because US Has Less Sun · · Score: 1

    Or the causes are bigger than just Fox. Politicians need voters, dumb ones makes things easier.

  3. Re:Colbert's Law Of Physics on Fox News: US Solar Energy Investment Less Than Germany Because US Has Less Sun · · Score: 1

    US should declare war with the Sun! They have a very oppresive govern... gravityment, or something like that, that should be taken out, surely with ties with Al-Qaeda. They are people that must be fri^Heed there! I suggest that the campaing starts at night, to not be detected by enemy forces until is too late.

    I wonder if this will be picked by Fox verbatim, they are very convincing telling the US people what the government should do.

  4. Re:Where's the accountability? on Fox News: US Solar Energy Investment Less Than Germany Because US Has Less Sun · · Score: 4, Insightful

    if a large part of the US takes seriously than a country of a size of Germany, in the latitude of Germany, gets more sun than US, then the problem is bigger than Fox News.

  5. Re:Oh give them a break on Fox News: US Solar Energy Investment Less Than Germany Because US Has Less Sun · · Score: 1

    So if Fox is never correct, then is just a retarded clock? Ok, maybe not a clock.

  6. Not surprised... now on No Transmitting Aliens Detected In Kepler SETI Search · · Score: 1

    Not english speaker so was unsure if the headline was about "No transmiting aliens" found or No "transmitting aliens" found. If was the 1st alternative then was wondering how they found them if they didnt transmit anything, maybe a Ringworld, a Klemperer rosette or another non natural formation was detected.

    Maybe should be considered how much power is needed to transmit something to a particular point of the sky, strong enough to hit the entire habitable zone of a solar system with enough power to be detected for whoever is there, if there is something there hearing at the time it reaches.

    Maybe there are out there civilizations so advanced that manage to do that, that went for thousands or millons of years trying to hit us in particular with a strong enough message, so if/when we decide to hear what is coming from there should finally hear them. But the odds of that seem to be pretty low.

  7. Existing phones on Ubuntu Smartphone Shipping In October · · Score: 1

    And when will be installable versions of Ubuntu Mobile for existing phones, and for which ones, besides Galaxy Nexus?

    I don't think it will be available for the N9, at least, not very soon (nokia drivers) but for (other) popular Android phones it could be released before october.

  8. Re:Obsolete on Ubuntu Smartphone Shipping In October · · Score: 1

    My PC hadn't Ubuntu preinstalled when i bought it. October could be the date of the firsts phones that have Ubuntu bundled get released, but probably you will be able to install it in some existing phones this month (i.e. in google nexus).

  9. Re:I'm sorry, but on Ubuntu Smartphone Shipping In October · · Score: 2

    As long as it is compiled for the processor the phone runs (i.e. ARM processor) any linux program should run. If is not in QML probably won't be as integrated with the "desktop" as programs meant for it, but should run. Maybe more interesting, you have QT/QML in your desktop, so programs for the Ubuntu Mobile will run in your desktop, and same for other programs meant for QT/QML (i.e. BB10 programs if recompiled in Linux, or sailfish, or kde plasma active), and if that pair of libraries are available for Android or even for iOS, could run on those platforms too.

  10. Re: Well, maybe the Indian site will end up on /b/ on Site Copies Content and Uses the DMCA to Take Down the Original Articles · · Score: 1

    Foreing sites and contents are being taken down by DMCA complaints, after all. Maybe this kind of exploit is pretty common, but as being done in the opposite direction noone in US complained.

  11. Don't get it on Microsoft Surface Pro Reviews Arrive · · Score: 1

    My 2009 N900 had more disk space and (replaceable) battery life. How is this the pinnacle of the computing evolution? Could you use it today as main computer with 23-89gb of usable disk space? Did we hit Moore's law limit and bounced back?

  12. Re:MariaDB on MySQL 5.6 Reaches General Availability · · Score: 1

    You have problem with the person or with the platform? No matter if Monty left MySQL AB or will abandon MariaDB in a future, both codes are GPL and you or someone else could fork or maintain it. In fact what MariaDB is doing with MySql is a good example of what can be done if Oracle becomes too greedy.

  13. How many people will fade into obscurity before it happens? What you would do if get 30 years of prison for files you didn't download?

  14. Re:So, do something on Software That Flagged HBO.com For Piracy Will Power U.S. 'Six Strikes' System · · Score: 1

    Getting answers from overseas, maybe. At least for a while seem to be the best course of action, at least until troops go there to "free" the people of that country.

  15. Optional on Designing a Practical UI For a Gesture-Based Interface · · Score: 1

    As extra, optional, and not intrusive input device could be good, games are a good example, information consuming activities could be other. But for most content creation (music, and paint excluded) probably would be bad.

  16. Re:Asimov was here on Researchers Mine Old News To Predict Future Events · · Score: 3, Interesting

    More important than the mythical Mule (unless telepathy really exists and to that extent), the important message in Asimov's Psychohistory is that predicted people shouldnt be aware of the predictions on them, and that includes the government. Is a good way to invalidate predictions, acting with the knowledge of the prediction instead of acting "naturally", whatever be it.

  17. They want to fix it? on Ask Slashdot: How Long Do We Give an Online Service To Fix Issues? · · Score: 1

    See facebook, that had for years privacy issues, and instead of fixing them they kept getting worse. Now, ask the people that is still there your question.

  18. Its a trap! on Four At Once: Volcano Quartet Erupts On Kamchatka · · Score: 1

    How close are them from the ones that started some trouble like 250M years ago?

  19. Minefield on Are There Any Real Inventors Left? · · Score: 2

    Unless you are an anonymous employee on a fixed salary of a big corporation that takes the merit and profit for your inventions (where don't worth it), is just too risky to even try.

  20. Incoming ecosystem on Can Any Smartphone Platform Overcome the Android/iOS Duopoly? · · Score: 1

    Symbian used to be THE ecosystem in mobile phones, and look where is at now. iOS and then Android hit big, both with their own ecosystems, and have most of the market by now, but it could change. Windows Phone want to be the next one, but i think it won't have good chances, not sure how much compatibility will be between desktop and mobile programs, and the clean cut they did with "old" win 7.x phones and apps is not a good signal).

    But could be an incoming new ecosystem. Blackberry 10, Sailfish, Ubuntu Mobile and others are getting QT/QML as main api, apps could be ported between all of them. A lot will be linux based, so apps, even desktop ones, compiled for ARM could run (and ubuntu will have a big app base if is just for that). And some of them will be able (not sure how well, but able at least) to run android apps, so "legacy" apps wll be available. And they could have another way to get an userbase, not only with manufacturers including them, but being able to install those OS on Android phones (like i.e. will be possible to install Ubuntu Mobile in Nexus phones, or Sailfish on the N9), very much like is be possible to install CyanogenMod.

  21. Re:Hmm... on 150 Copyright Notices For Mega · · Score: 1

    The argument with pi is not about taking isolated digits of it joined in the movie order. Maybe from the digit 348e^140 to 1gb after you get the bytes of a digital movie. The movie would be stored there, if i tell you the position and the length (not very different from telling you the decryption key of a file) you can get it, in fact, check pifs.

    The copyright notices for Mega does basically this. For Mega is like, ok, I have pi, not the position/lenght, for me is just a lot of bytes, and i sue you because some person in the world have that position and lenght for a copyrighted work. Doesn't change the problem for this people that the movie was stored there since the creation of the universe, they just want money.

  22. KISS on Ask Slashdot: Name Conflicts In Automatically Generated Email Addresses? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If usernames won't give conflicts, then use them. And for the people that wants fancier emails, you can put aliases as firstname.lastname while there are no duplicates

  23. Re:Hmm... on 150 Copyright Notices For Mega · · Score: 2

    Ok, lets infringe a bit of copyrights from around the world... think in the number pi. There, you have it, inside it probably are encrypted all the past, present and future movies, books, songs, images, genes, or whatever could be ever copyrighted in the most stupid copyright system of the history. Also you have the text of all national security documents, the passwords of all the servers and personal computers of the world, all the pins from all credit cards and detailed instructions on how to build any weapon, to name just a few things.

    So, as you have all that information (no matter if you can actually access to it or not), you get sued.

  24. Re:D Stover is not convincing on Will Renewable Energy Ever Meet All Our Energy Needs? · · Score: 1

    The article said 2 things: population grow =2.2% (by 2011 is at 1.1% according to Wikipedia), and based the dismissal of renewable energies because, in some centuries, won't be enough (what deceptive as nothing will be enough, renewable or not, with current grow rate by then)

  25. Re:I don't get it. on What You Can Do About the Phone Unlocking Fiasco · · Score: 1

    If you pay the ETF or your contract ends, the carrier is forced to unlock your phone, at no charge, no fuss, and taking for it very short time? You have no more contract, but you still can't unlock it yourself.