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  1. Must be honest on The webOS Features Other OSes Should Steal · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I've used iOS for years, and have dabbled with Android. webOS beats them both hands down (for me!). iOS isn't so bad to run, but only if I want to run the way Apple decided was best, so it's a pain to get it the way *I* want it, in typical Linux user fashion. Android is just a confusing mess of non-intuitive menus and settings.

    webOS just _gets out of the way_! It's a doggone shame it doesn't seem to be going anywhere, because there's no way I'd trade my Touchpad for an iOS or Android tablet.

  2. Re:What world do you live in? on "Liberated" Tunisia Still Censoring Websites · · Score: 1

    Aww crap, not enough coffee when I posted.

    --- slashpost.1 2012-02-13 12:59:07.000000000 -0600
    +++ slashpost.2 2012-02-13 12:59:40.000000000 -0600
    @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
    -Why is the word liberated in quotes in the article title? Sure, Libya is free
    -from Ghaddafi (sp), but it still is and will remain a Muslim country, where
    +Why is the word liberated in quotes in the article title? Sure, Tunisia is free
    +from Ali (sp), but it still is and will remain a Muslim country, where
      such censorship would be normal.

      Only small children or political naivetes would be surprised at this.

  3. What world do you live in? on "Liberated" Tunisia Still Censoring Websites · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why is the word liberated in quotes in the article title? Sure, Libya is free from Ghaddafi (sp), but it still is and will remain a Muslim country, where such censorship would be normal.

    Only small children or political naivetes would be surprised at this.

  4. Re:$80,000 a month! on IRS Employee Stole Data To Forge $8M In Fraudulent Returns · · Score: 1

    Thomas Richardson was quoted as saying:

    "I must have put a decimal point in the wrong place or something. Shit. I always do that. I always mess up some mundane detail."

  5. Re:My guess on Eye of Tiger Composer Sues Gingrich To Stop Campaign From Using Song · · Score: 1

    Agreed. Without trying to be prejudicial, this comes across as a case of the artist trying to control how their work is interpreted by the observer (i.e. they don't want it associated with Gingrich). I think this type of mindset only serves to compromise the work.

    Funny you never hear about Democrats being asked by a musician to stop using their music.

  6. Re:Good. on Supreme Court Rules Warrants Needed for GPS Monitoring · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The U.S. is like the European Union. A single whole but composed of multiple sovereign governments that retain most of the power to themselves.

    Wrong. If you read the Constitution you will see that it is not a compact between "multiple sovereign governments", which would imply that there is some higher authority which resides in the States to create a constitution. Rather, it derives its genesis from "We the People" as a whole. You are likening the Constitution to a contract between individual parties (the States), when in fact the States comprising the Union were in fact never party to the "contract". Their job was to ratify the agreement of the citizens. There was a long discussion about this between 1860 and 1865.

  7. Re:Bias Crime on Police Investigate Offensive Wi-Fi Network Name · · Score: 1

    Don't forget its bastard child "hate crime". This is a good example of Richelieu's

    Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him.

    Except in this case all that's needed is an SSID.

  8. Re:The scary thing is on Apocalypse Tourism: Where To Celebrate Doomsday? · · Score: 3

    Useless fact: One of those Concerned Christians was the very first girl I kissed, way back in kindergarten, Anne Marie Biondo. I guess nobody expects their first crush to join a cult that tries to end the world...

  9. Re:Windows Phone 7 is a good solution on Are There Any Smartphones That Respect Privacy? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'd put it at a medium level of difficulty. I run a personal Exchange server and am able to share appointments and schedules with my wife and access my calendar from my tablet, phone and computer, all without having to rely on someone else or about my privacy. And once set up, it just runs.

    Note: I don't use it to send or receive external e-mail, I only use the calendaring service.

  10. Finally! on Kernel Bug Means Linux Power Usage Remains High · · Score: 3

    Seems like its been so long since relevant technical submissions were made to /. I remember being able to learn so many interesting OS tricks from poster's comments to articles and hearing about new software.

    Now it's mostly just crap about who pissed on who's patents...

  11. Re:Work done? on A Fifth of Telecommuters Work Less Than An Hour Per Day · · Score: 1

    I agree. I get paid to solve complex problems, not wear pants.

  12. Another example on The Syrian Government's Internet Strategy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Remember the disinformation campaign the Mukhabarat ran to make it seem that the innocent lesbian blogger they were persecuting was really just some American dude? Like we're fools or something!

    Free Gay Girl Now!!

  13. Re:meh on Anonymous Vows To Destroy Facebook · · Score: 3, Interesting

    And with this.... Anonymous jumps the shark.

  14. No surprise on Fighting Crime With Facebook · · Score: 1

    This is small town Texas. Everyone is in everyone else's business in these type of places. As a result, this technique probably doesn't scale well to larger locales.

  15. Re:Wow 20%? on The Internet's Age of Rage · · Score: 2

    These were American children. If the test had been in Japan the numbers would have been entirely different. IOW, this is most likely more a cultural failing than something having to do with being online.

  16. Jobs killer on IBM Watson To Replace Salespeople and Cold-Callers · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Mark my words, this will kill the economy, just like ATMs did.

  17. Re:Told You So on Military Drone Attacks Are Not 'Hostile' · · Score: 1

    I'd propose the opposite to be true. He knows he doesn't have the votes in this Congress to get authorization, so he plays 'Twister' with the law to avoid a showdown he'd lose. It's as simple as that.

    What's most odd is that at the start of the operation he most likely would have gotten the authorization.

  18. Re:Really? on Project Icarus: the Gas Mines of Uranus · · Score: 1

    Maybe we should speed up the timetable and finally change the name of that planet to Urectum and finally end these silly jokes.

  19. Re:Zombie outbreak would be a trainwreck in slomot on CDC Warns of Zombie Apocalypse · · Score: 1

    Agreed. If Zombism is only a disease, then zombies have rights. It only naturally follows that unless one is about to take a spoon to your brain it would be "murder" to kill one on sight, or possibly criminal to not offer help.

    For an interesting take on questions like this check out High School of the Dead.

  20. Re:Shit gets shittier on Another Windows 8 Pre-Beta Surfaces · · Score: 0

    ^^^^
    This. +1

  21. Re:Time to build big extension cords on Legacy From the 1800s Leaves Tokyo In the Dark · · Score: 0

    For real? How to get the steam above the waterline? You do realize this is high pressure steam (~1200 psi), and that traditional catapults use steam in the first place. Besides, steam rises!

    If the ship is anchored or in port there is no reason for the turbines to be engaged anyway. The only thing using the steam would be the on board generators and possibly evaporators.

  22. Not to worry on Ask Slashdot: Facebook Archiving? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If Facebook should go out of business, all of your photos and personal data will be sold to the highest bidder. I'm sure that ACME advertising would love to archive it for you.

    It's time for your daughter to realize that her (and our) personal information are what constitutes Facebook's most valuable assets.

  23. Re:Less upward mobility here than in France on Man Pays $200,000 To Save Fake Online Girlfriend · · Score: 1

    Just quoting this part as the rest was nonsense as well...

    African American children who are born in the bottom quartile are nearly twice as likely to remain there as adults than are white children whose parents had identical incomes, and are four times less likely to attain the top quartile.

    And yet here I am, the son of a janitor and cafeteria worker with no college degree making six figures. Why not drop your victim mentality?

  24. Re:RegEx? on Common Traits of the Veteran Unix Admin · · Score: 2

    Some people, when confronted with a Unix problem, think 'I know, I'll use sed'. Now they have two problems.

    From the Unix Hater's Handbook.

  25. Re:Where is the quick-link on JFK Library Launches Largest Presidential Online Archive · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I'd be more interested in documents regarding Kennedy's ineptitude regarding the Bay of Pigs, how he dragged us deeper into the Vietnam War, his complicity in the overthrow of Ngo Dinh Diem, and the personal monument the Russians built for him, the Berlin Wall. When it comes to Presidents being in over their heads, Kennedy made Bush and Obama look like true statesmen.