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  1. Re:Jesus H. Christ Luvs Microsoft on Google Blocks YouTube App On Windows Phone (Again) · · Score: 1

    Exactly. They will have to play Google's game, not the other way around, whatever the hell they are fishing for.

    Ironic, given in the late 1980s, Apple kneeled to Microsoft, granting them windows licenses (small w) because they wanted Word to continue on Macs. Word was the best wysiwyg on Mac, over MacWrite, for years while it was a clumsy also-ran on DOS before Windows existed.

  2. Cut out the middle man on "451" Error Will Tell Users When Governments Are Blocking Websites · · Score: 1

    I prefer this page instead:


    This page was ordered censored by people in your government. We were silenced under threat of jail.

    Here are the names and phone numbers of the politicians in your country that mandated it, and the dates they are up for re-election.

  3. Re:NYT not hacked. on Washington Post Hacked, a Day After New York Times · · Score: 2

    They must have updated it because there's nothing really bad at that link. They even mention an update.

  4. Why... on Content Most Foul: the British Library's Nanny Filter Blocks 'Hamlet' · · Score: 5, Funny

    > "Library staff initially didn't seem too interested in fixing the problem, but in the end they adjusted the filters."

    Nooooooooooo! They were trying to get kids thinking it was forbidden to them.

  5. Re:Navajo Nation on Datacenter Gives Internet To 70 Percent of Navajo Nation · · Score: 1

    Would they be able to let businesses like factories open there with reduced cost burdens (taxes, costly regulations) and turn themselves into a South Korea instead of a North Korea? Or do state and federal laws get in the way? Or do their councils act more like Detroit's, more concerned with their fiefdoms and kickbacks, driving people out?

    That it's about resources instead of government has been disproven time and time again.

  6. Re:NYT not hacked. on Washington Post Hacked, a Day After New York Times · · Score: 1

    Ahhhh, PEBCMSATVM issue.

    Problem Exists Between Control Monitor Station And Twinkie Vending Machine, got it.

  7. Pennywise pound foolish concerns on Brazil Sues Samsung Over Worker Conditions · · Score: 1

    The corrupt nature of a 3rd world's government, being kickback-oriented, has grotesquely harmed a lot more workers. Save your outrage for where it belongs instead of following in lockstep with some western politicians memeview of what should concern you.

    Hint: The reason Brazil, with the population and resources of the US, isn't wealthy with everybody with a two car garage and much longer lifespans isn't because of western companies invading with factories -- it's because they don't.

    Clogging them with factories as described wold cause wealth and longevity to skyrocket. You are tackling a tiny issue while General Zod flies around breaking 3 necks a second.

  8. Please on New Tool To Measure Consciousness · · Score: 1

    > "The metric relies on the idea that consciousness involves widespread communication between different areas of the brain"

    Dumb. Consciousness evolved in much simpler animals (which to be sure have most specialized areas) but massive brain is not required. Look for just another specialized nerve mode.

    Also just one lobe is enough. Therefore communication between two lobes is unneeded.

    Their idea seems more of leftover emergent behavior, of the woo woo type. Loss of consciousness happens without oxygen very rapidly; but nerves in general don't stop working that quickly. Therefore look to high energy processes of the kind that cease without oxygen in 10s or less.

  9. Take a break on Ask Slashdot: Printing Options For Low-Resource Environments? · · Score: 1

    One way to save on printed paper is to get rid of all paragraph breaks.

    Wait, I see they know that one already.

  10. Re:So Much for Democracy on Egyptian Security Forces Storm Pro-Morsi Camps Leaving Nearly 100 Dead · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That's easy to say in a country where the most recently elected leader won't be in power indefinitely.

    Democracy is a subset of freedom, not the other way around. Democracy has shown many times to collapse into dictatorship, especially with new ones.

    Democracy is the tool free people use. Democracy does not create, and sure as hell is not synonymous with, freedom.

  11. De on Ask Slashdot: Is There a Good Device Holster? · · Score: 1

    I'd go with a cool, black leather satchel, just big enough for it, with handle and shoulder strap.

    Women don't use black leather purses.

  12. Re:No algorithm should mean no patent on Bill Gates Seeking Patent To Make Shakespeare Less Boring · · Score: 1

    I suppose hat's the only hope for a general-purpose robot, that bars and motors hooked together under computer control is long since past patent. Yet it is the AI software that probably is the most deserving of patent of any human invention since, ever. Even flight, fire, agriculture, or wheel, as far as desireability and impact onife is concerned.

    Yet it's just an unpatentable "algorithm".

  13. Re:Headline on Bill Gates Seeking Patent To Make Shakespeare Less Boring · · Score: 1

    This is what bothers me -- the patent lists "algorithms" and "heuristics", those magical things.

    Except the software **is** the dancing bear of invention here, not the goddamn cell phone camera with wireless connection.

    They might as well replace "heuristic" with "human sits there and quickly assembles a scene."

    And when someone invents a much better algorithm, are they screwed?

  14. Re:How does this help anyone? on Class-action Suit Filed Against Microsoft Over Surface Write Off · · Score: 1

    I'm talkin' 'bout ballmer deep
    I'm talkin' 'bout Ballmer deep
    I'm talkin' 'bout Ballmer deep in loss...

  15. Re:Onward to ruining other stuff on Easily-Captured Asteroids Identified · · Score: 2

    We aren't ruining the planet. By all measurements of health, wealth, and longevity, we are doing better than ever before.

    The counter-intuitive reality is that, in an economically free society, people will solve problems faster than they become serious. This theory has successfully made predictions over 10 year periods over and over again.

    The days of politics as memes figting in your brain should be over.

    So yes, death to the false meme that we are ruining the planet, as vector to massive government control of the economy, with attendant slowing of it.

  16. Re:Actual reporters on Russia Today: Vladimir Putin's Weapon In 'The War of Images' · · Score: 1

    > Russia Today has an edge simply because it has a big reporting staff

    Easy to do when you're spending someone else's money, money taken under threat of jail.

    As for the rest, in the US you are seeing checks and balances come into play, especially one of the major ones, outrage of voters over a straying government.

    This is not the case in Russia becaise the opposition has been silenced in one way or another.

    Quite frankly, I'd be way more scared of the New York Times having Putin's power than Fox News. Capitalism, with its rough edges, at least keeps technological progress moving forward apace. The left implicitely assumes its massive ability to generate wealth, wealth it can harness.

  17. Re:I skim RT daily on Russia Today: Vladimir Putin's Weapon In 'The War of Images' · · Score: 1

    What about the graphics?

    "To spice up the news, directors sometimes use Hollywood-like special effects, such as a computer-animated tank that looks like it is rolling over the newscaster's feet or Israeli fighter jets that fly a virtual loop through the studio before dropping their bombs over a map of Syria."

    All done by Putin's new SFX company Industrial Fraud and Propaganda.

  18. Re:So? on Russia Today: Vladimir Putin's Weapon In 'The War of Images' · · Score: 1

    No. In fact, in the US, no matter how much a challenger raises, the incumbant just got done helping spend over $16,000,000,000,000 .00 over the previous 4 years.

  19. Re:Neurologists Shine Light On Near-Death Experien on Neurologists Shine Light On Near-Death Experiences · · Score: 5, Funny

    > ...of rats

    No, no! They were speaking euphamistically. They were testing on politicians.

  20. Re:Democracy has failed on Obama's Privacy Reform Panel Will Report To ... the NSA · · Score: 1

    > Campaign finance reform would go along way to changing the system

    I assume you're being sarcastic, which is the only possible rational interpretation of this post. Bravo +1 Funny

  21. Rightey-O on Hacking Lightbulbs To Cause a Sustained Blackout · · Score: 2

    I guess I should maybe rethink my purchase of my Philips Wireless Beltbuckle.

  22. Re:This is what we want on IAB Urges People To Stop "Mozilla From Hijacking the Internet" · · Score: 1

    If enough people block ad servers they'll just reroute serving through the web site itself. Enjoy your solution while you can.

  23. Too cute for my own good on IAB Urges People To Stop "Mozilla From Hijacking the Internet" · · Score: 1

    Yeah! I, for one, like going to a site I've never been to and being served women's clothing ads because one time a year ago I clicked on an ideeli ad because it had a cute supermodel.

  24. Anyhoo on Losing the War Data For Iraq and Afghanistan · · Score: 1

    > cervesaebraciator writes
    > cervesaebraciator

    That is all.

  25. Re: Android on New Attack Uses Attackers' Own Ad Network To Deliver Android Malware · · Score: 2

    Popularity maps to number of attackers in an exponential curve.

    Obscurity =/= hardening against hacking, and one does not properly derive confidence for the security of one's system when it is attacked at 1/1000th another system's attack load.