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  1. They wont really do it on Facebook Shareholders Force A Vote On Ousting Mark Zuckerberg (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 2

    This is just some kind of grandstanding. Even if Zuckerburg didn't have the controlling shares to stop this I think other key share holders would stop him from being ousted. Despite all the main stream media hate I think Zuckerburg has handled the "scandals" pretty well and most shareholders know this.

  2. Half the solution on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Says Labor Shouldn't Have To Fear Automation (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Ok we get it. She thinks tax/redistribution is the answer. That just feels like half the solution. The other half is what will the people DO with their UBI or similar style income?

    Oh and of course taxing the robots will slow down the inovation which seems to contradict her first point about welcoming the automation.

  3. What if you are forgetful? on Highest Court In Indiana Set To Decide If You Can Be Forced To Unlock Your Phone (eff.org) · · Score: 1

    Ok your honor the pass code is 1234. Or maybe 4321? No wait its 1111! Sorry you had my phone away from me for too long and I usually type it using muscle memory and its gone now. Lets just reset it back to factory settings and I can set up a new code for you ;-)

  4. Re: Former ISP Employee on Net Neutrality Gives 'Free' Internet To Netflix and Google, ISP Claims (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    This is the real reason Net neutrality is a big deal in the USA. It doesnâ(TM)t concern us in the rest of the world.

    You need to focus on breaking those monopolies. NN discussion and laws are just a distraction

  5. NEW OVERLORDS on Slashdot and SourceForge Sold, Now Under New Management (bizx.info) · · Score: 4, Funny

    I for one welcome our new BIZX overlords... oh man I feel so lame ;-p

  6. Re:Fujitsu COBOL on COBOL Comes To Visual Studio 2015 · · Score: 1

    Yes Fujitsu Cobol.NET is a real product that has existed for many years and is used by many large companies:

    http://www.fujitsu.com/global/...

  7. Re:As a customer, fuck 3d robotics. on Inside Chris Anderson's Open-Source Drone Factory · · Score: 1

    Your post is oddly not very specific while sounding specific. What did you actually order and how long did it take to arrive?

  8. Re: And thus it begins on MasterCard and Visa Start Banning VPN Providers · · Score: 1

    This has nothing to do with the NSA. This is all about the so called content owners protecting copyright. And with this they are starting to win!

  9. Gets more babes on Ask Slashdot: Developer Or Software Engineer? Can It Influence Your Work? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Easy.... Use software engineer. It sounds richer so gets more babes ;)

  10. Why does he fear Sweden will send him to US? on Julian Assange To Be Extradited To Sweden · · Score: 2

    "Assange fears that an extradition to Sweden would make it easier for Washington to extradite him to the US on possible charges relating to the release by WikiLeaks of leaked US embassy cables."

    I never got that. He's in England and he's from Australia. Surely these are the 2 biggest allies of the US.

  11. Is that all? on Hawking Picks Physics Over God For Big Bang · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Professor Hawking,

    Is this all?

    Is that all the best of the best in physics has to argue about? Gravity vs god? Thats like arguing over air vs oxygen.

    Can you get back to the energy problem please? Neither god nor gravity will save us from that.

    Thanks

    Duncan

  12. Re:Build-in function library on Go, Google's New Open Source Programming Language · · Score: 1

    It seems to have a number of packages already including a image package and http package? (http://golang.org/pkg/)

    Im sure it wouldnt be to hard to write a package that wraps sqllite or something for DB access.

    My question is, given that its so close to C what does it give me the C doesn't?

  13. Re:Justice... on Supreme Court Declines Case Over Techs' Right To Search Your PC · · Score: 2, Funny

    Here's the keys to my house. Please clean my rug. If you find my porn/drugs/kidnapped child then it will be unusable in court.

  14. Re:People just don't understand Linux on Linux On Netbooks — a Complicated Story · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What the hell has photoshop got to do with Windows vs linux on netbooks?

    I dont want to run photoshop on my netbook regardless if the OS is Windows or Linux. I want email, a web browser, a simple photo tool and an office suite.

  15. Re:Quiet room on How the City Hurts Your Brain · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I didnt tick Anonymous?????

  16. Re:Supreme Commander AIs on Square Enix Announces Supreme Commander 2 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Not to blow my own trumpet, but I also did a fairly successful AI patch for SC.

    Get it here:
    http://forums.gaspowered.com/viewtopic.php?t=23929

    The AI script was all in lua so it proved quite easy to mod.

  17. Re:I for one... welcome our new Itunes overloads on Mozilla Unveils Aurora Concept Browser · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    So people are modding me off topic...

    Let me me pick this from the article:
    "The author searches through sports, entertainment ..."

    Sounds like iTunes to me?

    iTunes on windows is probably just as disruptive as firefox on windows... why? Because it offers something MS doesnt?

    And that fact that apple pushed Safari along with itunes.. Steve J can see the connection. You still want to mod me off topic?

  18. Re:I for one... welcome our new Itunes overloads on Mozilla Unveils Aurora Concept Browser · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Yes but its not automatic.

    You dont come to your computer and have the podcast already downloaded because of FF.

    And these days a podcast maybe a TV show.

  19. Re:I for one... welcome our new Itunes overloads on Mozilla Unveils Aurora Concept Browser · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Okay.. Im replying up top, but this is such a random article I feel a random comment is in order...

    This just goes to show that the bringer of the last revolution (FF over IE) has no real idea who its over thrower will be.

    Personally I would like to see FF add some kind of podcast support (call it netcast if you like) plus better media download library management. Then FF could be a browser, news paper, radio station and TV station all in one.

    Itunes is the real competition to Firefox and the browser market in general.

  20. Re:Feed 'em to the PIGS! on Facebook Sues German Company, Claims Ripoff · · Score: 1

    Okay, Im a vegetarian.. and your post still made me spit soy milk on my keyboard ;-)

  21. Re:Neutrons anyone? on Successful Cold Fusion Experiment? · · Score: 1

    This is why I love slashdot over the other so called tech news sites...

    First a poster asks a very specific question about the process and then some provides the (very precise) answer.

    Digg just dont have it ;-)

  22. Re:Quick summary: on Apple to Rule the Digital Home by 2013? · · Score: 1

    Hmmmm I agree that many people only have a small radio and cheap TV and a phone of some kind, but what if you replaced the small radio and phone with iphone connected to a cheap TV.

    All content (tv episodes, movies rentals, music of course) would be purchased from the iphone and played on the TV.

  23. Re:Do not do this on Let Older Add-Ons Work With Firefox 3.0 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Yes IEtab and stumble are compatible NOW, but werent for several days...

    If you know what you are doing then disable the compat check for a couple of days...

    And yes I know you can edit the extensions directly, but either they are going to get upgraded (like stumble) or they arnt (like Better Gmail2).

  24. Re:Do not do this on Let Older Add-Ons Work With Firefox 3.0 · · Score: 4, Informative

    While it may cause breakage its a great way for users of the beta and RC version of Firefox 3 to get some fairly major extensions work.

    I need IEtab to get certain work pages to work and I really love stumbleupon... So when Firefox 3 upgraded automatically to RC1 and these broke it was quite annoying so i disabled the check.

    An example of an extension this wont fix is Google Browser Sync. You will need to disable this in Firefox 3 otherwise you WILL see some major breakage if you disable the check.

  25. Mods on Unreal Creator Proclaims PCs are Not For Gaming · · Score: 1

    Oh I forgot something I love about PC games... mods.

    Oblivion is cool on the xbox, but the wealth of mods take it to a new level on the PC.

    Oh and yes I agree that fps only works on PC. Thats why I spent countless hours (days, months) playing Goldeneye on the N64....