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  1. Nixie Watch on Disappointed Woz Sells His "Worthless" Galaxy Gear Watch · · Score: 1

    I guess he went back to his Nixie Tube Watch.

  2. Re: Video editing... on A Flood of Fawning Reviews For Apple's Latest · · Score: 1

    Price out buying a computer from dell, and then adding a commodity video card (remember only Apple stops you from doing this).

    Have you priced out an equivalent commodity video card? It isn't the $200 video card from Best Buy.

  3. Re:Arduino on Ask Slashdot: How To Begin Simple Robotics As a Hobby? · · Score: 1

    You use the Motor Shield.

  4. Re:Something is wrong on Bill Gates Regains the Position of World's Richest Person · · Score: 1

    If it was as easy as you make it sound, the Forbes 400 would be full of the 5th and 6th generations of 19th century industrialists.

    There are 0 Carnegies, 0 Crockers, 0 Flaglers, 0 Morgans, 0 Stanfords, and 0 Vanderbilts. There is 1 Rockefeller.

    There are a few 1st generations of mid 20th century industrialists, like Waltons, but history shows they won't be on the list in 100 years.

  5. Re:Three Strikes Laws on In Mississippi: 15-Year Jail Sentence For Selling Pirated Movies and Music · · Score: 1

    Shoplifting a loaf of bread is a misdemeanor which California's 3 strikes doesn't cover. Prop 36 only covered non-violent felonies.

  6. Re:Three Strikes Laws on In Mississippi: 15-Year Jail Sentence For Selling Pirated Movies and Music · · Score: 1

    Prop 36 didn't change the penalty for a two strike offender that shoplifted a loaf of bread.

  7. Re:Math on All of Nate Silver's State-Level Polling Predictions Proved True · · Score: 1

    While the electoral college margin seems large, It's still smaller then normal. Since Alaska and Hawaii became states, this is the 6th closest, and two that were closer had electoral votes split 3 ways. The closer ones were both of Bush Jrs, Carter, Nixon, and Kennedy.

    Since 1960, the mean electoral votes for the victor is 382 and the median is 367

  8. Re:Math on All of Nate Silver's State-Level Polling Predictions Proved True · · Score: 1

    If the swing states were fair coins (50/20)

    If I had a 50/20 fair coin, I could make a lot of money.

  9. Re:Find someone to help on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Best Way To Become a Rural ISP? · · Score: 1

    Ray Kroc sold restaurant equipment, which made him enough money that he could pay 2.7 million to buy McDonalds.

    Walmart was Sam Walton's 3rd store brand. The first he was a franchisee, and was so successful that his license wasn't renewed. He then bought a store, and was very successful. Walmart was founded after that.

  10. Iowa Electronic Markets on Nate Silver's Numbers Indicate Probable Obama Win, World Agrees · · Score: 1

    The Iowa Electronic Markets put Obama at a 74.9% chance. These are the people who put money with their predictions. http://iemweb.biz.uiowa.edu/graphs/graph_Pres12_WTA.cfm

  11. Re:It should've had a parade on Endeavour Arrives At California Science Center · · Score: 1

    The two largest parades in the country, the Rose Parade and the Macy's parade both take place on streets that are 60 feet wide, which isn't nearly wide enough for the shuttle. The only route that would have been wide enough for both the shuttle and a lot of spectators would have been a freeway, which would have incurred significant risk getting the shuttle onto the freeway.

    Even without the ticker tape treatment, a million people still viewed it along the route.

  12. Re:The core problem with Facebook... on How Facebook Can Out Your Most Personal Secrets · · Score: 1

    You should have a public figure (eg) fan account.

  13. Re:who cares? on Ubuntu NVIDIA Graphics Driver: Windows Competitive, But Only With KDE · · Score: 1

    Unity is unusably slow on my netbook. Gnome 3 is fine.

  14. Re:Some less obvious things on Star Trek Tech That Exists Today · · Score: 1

    Turn by turn navigation. (New to the iPhone!)

    The computer does give turn by turn navigation on the ship

  15. WinRAR evaluation period on Firefox 15 Released: Silent Updates, Compressed Textures, Add-on Memory Leak Fix · · Score: 1

    There's a really simple way to stop the WinRAR evaluation period notice.

  16. Re:Even better on Curiosity Rover Fires First Laser Beam At Martian Rock · · Score: 1

    When curiosity starts driving, it will leave JPL written in morse code in the sand. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Curiosity_wheel_pattern_morse_code.png

  17. Opinion on NY Times: 'FBI Foils Its Own Terrorist Plots' · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This is an opinion piece in the New York Times. The views are those of David K. Shipler and not the New York Times. The NYT often runs opinion pieces that their editors do not personally agree with.

  18. Re:GLONASS on Secret UK Network Hunts GPS Jammers · · Score: 1

    The new GLONASS signal is CDMA, so FDMA will slowly be phased out.

  19. Re:Wow on Linux 3.2 Has Been Released · · Score: 1

    That's only 3 months ago in firefox time.

  20. Re:HP isn't exiting WebOS on HP Reviving the $99 Touch Pad On December 11th · · Score: 2

    All 7 inch tablets, which are significantly cheaper then a 10 inch tablet like the touchpad.

  21. Re:No. on Email Offline At the Home of Sendmail · · Score: 1

    The accounts you describe aren't freebies as described by GP. The domain costs money. Assuming your business has more then 10 users, you pay google also.

  22. Re:Nice start on A Drone Helicopter That Can Land On a Moving Truck · · Score: 1

    Fire Scout has been landing on carriers for 5 years. http://www.cotsjournalonline.com/articles/view/100497

  23. Re:Hardware Failure Mitigates OS Stability on In Favor of FreeBSD On the Desktop · · Score: 1

    3 year uptime on a Windows server means your server is 0wned.

  24. Re:Best feature on Ubuntu 11.10 ('Oneiric Ocelot') Released · · Score: 2

    Ubuntu 11.10: GCC 4.6.1
    Ubuntu 11.04: GCC 4.5.2
    Ubuntu 10.10: GCC 4.4.4
    Ubuntu 10.04: GCC 4.4.3
    Ubuntu 9.10: GCC 4.4.1
    Ubuntu 9.04: GCC 4.3.3
    Ubuntu 8.10: GCC 4.3.1
    Ubuntu 8.04: GCC 4.2.3
    Ubuntu 7.10: GCC 4.1.2
    Ubuntu 7.04: GCC4.1.2
    Ubuntu 6.10: GCC 4.1.1
    Ubuntu 6.06: GCC 4.0.3
    Ubuntu 5.10: GCC 4.0.1
    Ubuntu 5.04: GCC 3.3.5
    Ubuntu 4.10: GCC 3.3.4

    http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=ubuntu

  25. Re:fake it on NATO Exercise Banned From Jamming GPS · · Score: 2

    You're describing the way the system should act, ignoring the way it does act. In 2007, a Navy jamming exercise that jammed GPS disrupted cell phone service (and several other services) in San Diego. http://www.gpsworld.com/defense/gps-insights-april-2007-8428