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  1. Re:Another Best Thing Every. Amazing. on Apple Wins Patent For Head-Mounted Display Tech · · Score: 1

    "It takes care of motion but so did Google Glasses and it was published publicly first, so that takes care of that about who did what first."
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ8pQVDyaLo

  2. Microsoft have an email service? on Gmail Takes Largest Webmail Service Crown · · Score: 1

    Gosh, next you'll be saying they have their own search engine, instead of just throwing a script kiddie wrapper around someone else's.

  3. Re:People must be blind.. on U.S. Judge Grants Apple Injunction Against Samsung Galaxy Tab · · Score: 2

    This Apple you speak of really hates copying. But I'm confused - is it the Beatles record label from the 60's, or the one which came later and innovated their name?

  4. Are they using IE ? on Microsoft Blocks FSF Donation Website As a 'Gambling Site' · · Score: 1

    All's fine until you try that. Like this guy, he can browse smoothly, usi .. see ... right pages using cleartype ...
    oh, wait... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1zxDa3t0fg

  5. It would need to pick up some cheap factories on Will Microsoft Extend Surface Model And Manufacture Windows Phones? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Say in a foreign country well-known for its mobile business which was teetering after having been dealt a big blow by the iPhone. It would need to somehow persuade them to ditch their current production runs and software stacks in favour of their own. It would have to install one of their own men at the top to oversee all this. Then it would have to ensure there is no chance of this business recovering by publicly announcing a new line of software which is totally incompatible with the line it promised to save them with, thus ensuring via the osborne effect none sell at all. Bankrupt, this mobile business could then be picked up for a song, and its patents would really come in handy too. The trouble is, everyone in the business would see this coming if they tried that. Wouldn't they?

  6. Re:Waste their time on Why 'Nigerian Scammers' Say They're From Nigeria · · Score: 5, Funny

    Microsoft did the research - if this is the answer they can solve it too. "Upgrade" their PC's to Windows 8 and watch them take 10 times longer trying to do the same thing under Metro.

  7. Microsoft do a phone? on Ask Slashdot: What's Your Beef With Windows Phone? · · Score: 2

    Gosh. Next you'll be saying they have their own search engine, and not merely throwing up some script kiddie wrapper around Googles.

  8. Re:Any bigger PR nightmare? on Raunchy Dance Routine a PR Nightmare For Microsoft · · Score: 4, Funny

    Quite - and Brits must never inform any Americans a colleague has just nipped out for a quick fag down the back alley, no matter how accurate and innocent it sounds to them.

  9. Re:Bing had that for years. on New Modeling Algorithms Bring More Detail to Google Earth's 3-D World · · Score: 0
  10. Thanks for the heads up, Apple on Samsung Sues Aussie Patent Office In Apple Suit, Apple Sues Back · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I was wondering how you thought your upcoming iPhone5 stacked up against the S3. It's too close to launch to change it now, so these desperate acts speak volumes.

  11. As long as none of them run Android on Oracle's Ellison Vows "Most Comprehensive Cloud On Earth" · · Score: 1

    Oracle lost, but they have not been forgiven or forgotten. Good luck picking them up as future customers with your me-too-but-costs-ten-times-as-much cloud offering. Oh, and there are quite a few of them already, with literally millions more every day.

  12. Woah! You can't have it both ways. on Technicolor Takes Aim At Apple, Samsung, Others for Patent Infringement · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Motorola (first mobile call 1973) are being sued by Microsoft (formed 1976) because, whilst clearly they are the newbies in this area, each and every time the obvious sequence of events is brought up out come the naysaysers whining about all Motorolas relevant patents having expired. So, these jerks with their '50s technology is somehow relevant, how?

  13. Another interpretation on Apple and Samsung Ordered Talks Fail - Trial Date Set · · Score: 0

    After all Apples famous "rounded corner" look and feel court actions against Samsung regarding smartphones, they suddenly have a change of heart and want to settle like grown ups. Just as they are about to launch a TV. Which will presumably be of the large, square, flat, black rectangular kind with a remote - in fact, having exactly the same look and feel as the ones Samsung and zillions of clones have been selling for 10+ years. Coincidence?

  14. But... on Sci-fi Writer Elizabeth Moon Believes Everyone Should Be Chipped · · Score: 1
  15. Re:Justice was fairly served on Microsoft Wins US Import Ban On Motorola's Android Devices · · Score: 1

    This cut 'n' paste astroturfer thinks everyone on Slashdot is as gullible as a WP7 user. And yes, I do mean all 3 of them. This post is his *first* one ever, and was made the instant the original story broke.

  16. I know a broken mobile company from Finland on The Dutch Repair Cafe Versus the Throwaway Society · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The Americans have had a go but just made things worse. Any chance some of this Dutch magic will help?

  17. But Apple are perfect, so of course... on Apple Security Blunder Exposes Lion Login Passwords In Clear Text · · Score: 2

    ...you're passwording it wrong.

  18. Re:The ole' Embrace and Extend on Nokia Faces Class-Action Suit Over Windows Phone Deal · · Score: 2

    That's about the best post I've ever seen on Slashdot. Sorry I can't mod up - others, please do the honours.

  19. Re:Windows Phone 7 on Wozniak Praises 'Beautiful' Windows Phone · · Score: 1

    Correct, and the best of them are reviewed here.

  20. You're driving it wrong. on Why Apple's Next Revolution Should Be In Your Car · · Score: 0

    No iPhone signal? You're holding it wrong.
    iPad overheating? You're placing it wrong.
    iCar playing up? You're ... well, you get the idea.

  21. Duckhouses, Moats and, err, Porn on British MPs Propose Censoring Internet By Default · · Score: 2

    Clearly these British MP's can all be trusted and have no ulterior motive for such censorship. Why, if they'd had their way, we'd never know about the great corruption exposure of the summer of 2009 where MP's from every party were variously fiddling their duck houses, moats and yes, even the noble Home Secretary was at it fiddling her (yes, her!) porn.

    That's the thing about censorship and control freakery. You have to trust the people doing it 100% or you are screwed.

  22. Look to the story of Northwich, UK on USGS Suggests Connection Between Seismic Activity and Fracking · · Score: 1

    http://www.timetravel-britain.com/articles/towns/northwich.shtml
    Salt mining caused houses to collapse sometimes 30 miles from the mines, and even then only after 10 years. It was unimaginably hard on the householders - not much welfare back in those days, and the mine owners similarly wanted proof before doing anything about it. The connection has been fully established now, but the horse bolted that entirely-man made disaster a long time ago.

  23. Re:Just keep him there.. on Should Snatching an iPhone Be a Felony? · · Score: 1

    Yes, its amazing how many Americans don't realise he scurried off over there to avoid the fallout from his disgusting obscene phone call "joke". The kind which, naturally, had a member of the public done exactly the same would have got them prosecuted.

  24. He's as funny as the obscene phone calls he made on Should Snatching an iPhone Be a Felony? · · Score: 0

    This guy is generally despised in the UK. In fact when he was caught making his obscene calls and the BBC was fined by Ofcom because of it he said "All I ever wanted to do was make people laugh".

    Well Russell, start when you're ready.

  25. Nah, they used their expenses calculation method on European Parliament Blocks Copyright Reform With 113% Voter Turnout · · Score: 0

    When taking other peoples money for themselves these people make Steve Jobs reality distortion field look like a model of clarity.