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  1. All Your Switches and Routers Belong To Us on Apple Begins Storing Chinese User Data On Servers In China · · Score: 1

    China already builds spyworthy Cisco networking gear, why would they have to ask Apple for access?

  2. must be nice to have small classes on Is Remote Instruction the Future of College? · · Score: 1

    i had classes with 60-200 students at a name-brand private university. must be nice to have 9 participants with webcams aimed at their faces, so nobody can get away with reading the newspaper during class.

  3. Surface = Ballmer's legacy on Microsoft Surface Drowning? · · Score: 2

    Ballmer was a wizard at making money by cranking up licensing, and losing money on hardware (RROD anyone?)

  4. Re:As long as certain rules are kept on DARPA Wants To Kill the Password · · Score: 1

    well if you're looking for a biometric that stops working when you're dead, then a penis size based reader would be the perfect choice.

  5. of course they do on DARPA Wants To Kill the Password · · Score: 1

    If DARPA doesn't like passwords, they shouldn't use them. But that shouldn't have any bearing on us puny civilians.

  6. solution: floating roombas that circulate water on Man-Made "Dead Zone" In Gulf of Mexico the Size of Connecticut · · Score: 1

    Let's oxygenate the water by building floating roombas that circulate air into the water, like tiny fountains.

  7. Re:More towers is not easy on Verizon Throttles Data To "Provide Incentive To Limit Usage" · · Score: 1

    not me. put one on every block for all i care

  8. the incentive is to leave Verizon on Verizon Throttles Data To "Provide Incentive To Limit Usage" · · Score: 1

    because Verizon sucks. as does AT&T, Comcast, and all the big ISP/cellular carriers.

  9. Why do terrorists need a team? on 40% Of People On Terror Watch List Have No Terrorist Ties · · Score: 1

    A successful terrorist doesn't necessarily need to join a club. Look at the villains our vast comic-book history: they're almost all scarier when they act alone and not as part of some terror franchise.

  10. Re:Great Job So Far on Satya Nadella At Six Months: Grading Microsoft's New CEO · · Score: 2

    not with a native from India at the helm.

  11. No Hope on Satya Nadella At Six Months: Grading Microsoft's New CEO · · Score: 1

    Nadella is a puppet as long as Gates and Ballmer on on the board of directors. And I'm not sure Bill would have allowed a true renegade to take over the CEO position anyway.

  12. Re:An outrage! on The Problems With Drug Testing · · Score: 1

    Instead, I recommend that drugs be tested on Pharmaceutical company CEOs. I liked it so much, I bought the company. Or the farm.

  13. what about books on cd? how many songs per car? on Ford, GM Sued Over Vehicles' Ability To Rip CD Music To Hard Drive · · Score: 1

    authors of books on CD aren't being compensated in this frivolous lawsuit. plus they're assuming Ford and GM owners are guilty without showing any credible evidence that a single user is responsible for ripping content illegally. and how many songs fit on a hard drive? i bet dollars to donuts that most of the included hard disks are over 50% empty.

  14. why do they even care? on London Police Placing Anti-Piracy Warning Ads On Illegal Sites · · Score: 3, Insightful

    it's silly for the state to jump in and spend so much time, effort, and money on what is essentially a failure of business to demonstrate to people that their content is worth purchasing. free market rules, y'all

  15. Re:A 24 year old BLACK... on A 24-Year-Old Scammed Apple 42 Times In 16 Different States · · Score: 2

    pretty terrible comment there. but if he was African american, then that explains his name. there's a whole chapter on that in Freakonomics.

  16. Re:$7142.85 on A 24-Year-Old Scammed Apple 42 Times In 16 Different States · · Score: 1

    you can't buy custom-built machines as a walk-in customer; that's an order that's processed over the internet.

  17. Re:$7142.85 on A 24-Year-Old Scammed Apple 42 Times In 16 Different States · · Score: 1

    I've worked with Apple gear since 1984, and have worked for 3 Apple VARs. I've only seen 3 power supplies go bad in what, 25 years? Sounds like you need to run some kind of power conditioner / UPS to prevent the strain on your power supplies.

  18. Re:$7142.85 on A 24-Year-Old Scammed Apple 42 Times In 16 Different States · · Score: 1

    How do you NOT spend that much?

  19. Re:Bullshit.... on A Fictional Compression Metric Moves Into the Real World · · Score: 2

    That's kind of like the Microsoft Windows Experience Index that is provided by Windows Vista / Windows 7 which gives a score based on CPU, RAM, GPU, and hard disk speed. Not entirely useful but gives beta-level nerds something to talk about at the water cooler.
    http://windows.microsoft.com/e...

    At work my desktop computer is a Pentium E6300 with a 6.3 rating on the CPU and an overall 4.8 rating due to the crappy graphics chipset.
    At work my laptop computer is an i3-2010M with a 6.4 rating on the CPU and an overall 4.6 rating due to the crappy graphics chipset.

    A compression algorithm rated by speed and compression ability would have to weight the speed vs. the compression, right?

  20. Re:Where are the buggy whip dealers? on Lots Of People Really Want Slideout-Keyboard Phones: Where Are They? · · Score: 2

    Also, you asked 49 people? What a statistically insignificant number. Way below the margin of error. come back when you have a sample size of 10,000.

  21. Where are the buggy whip dealers? on Lots Of People Really Want Slideout-Keyboard Phones: Where Are They? · · Score: -1, Troll

    I thought sales would be huge because people like horses more than cars. Somebody please help!

  22. Re:We need mutant kangaroos and Lori Petty now! on Western US States Using Up Ground Water At an Alarming Rate · · Score: 1

    i'll settle for lori petty by her pretty self

  23. Apple has platform for content development on How One School District Handled Rolling Out 20,000 iPads · · Score: 1

    Didn't Apple create an app for schools / educators / kids that would allow them to create content for the iPad ON the iPad? Samsung and Amazon treat their devices as content consumption only, and that's a weakness of the Android platform.

  24. Re:Silly argument on US Senator Blasts Microsoft's H-1B Push As It Lays 18,000 Off Workers · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The only skill Microsoft is seeking is a low daily wage.

  25. where would i be without IBM? on Ask Slashdot: How Many Employees Does Microsoft Really Need? · · Score: 1

    does IBM have 400k employees? is the count ~300k for temp staff?