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  1. Re:Doomed competition on Google Nexus 7 Parts Cost $18 More Than Kindle Fire · · Score: 1

    Assuming I'm on a deserted isle and assuming I get to pick my fellow castaways, I'd be too busy fucking to worry about SD cards.

  2. Re:Dead project mining. on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Track Bugs For Personal Software Projects? · · Score: 5, Funny

    sourceforge *is* a dead project.

  3. If you upgraded to a new Mac for Lion then your hardware is good enough for Mountain Lion.

  4. Re:cool story bro on Steve Ballmer: We Won't Be Out-Innovated By Apple Anymore · · Score: 0

    Apple sells 4-5 million macs per quarter. 75% of them are macbooks. Non-mac PC sales are 80-90 million per quarter. Lots of laptops have an apple logo on them (they're probably the largest laptop manufacturer) and they have an oversized presence at coffee houses and cafes, but there's a lot more to the world than hipster douchebags and basement dwellers.

  5. Apple v Motorola Mobility? on Microsoft Buys Multi-Touch Pioneer Perceptive Pixel · · Score: 1

    No more relevant than my patent on peanut butter and jelly bagels. Microsoft v Motorola Mobility, though, that could be something.

  6. Re:Odd reasoning on Supreme Court: Affordable Care Act Is Constitutional · · Score: 1

    State governments have broad police powers that the federal government does not. It's apples and oranges for Massachusettes to require health insurance vs the federal government to require health insurance. Doubly so if your example is car insurance, since it's only needed when driving on public roads.

  7. Re:So from here on out ... on Supreme Court: Affordable Care Act Is Constitutional · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is about taxes. "General welfare" or "regulation of interstate commerce" (which was rejected) don't apply. If congress wants to tax people who don't enter into a business agreement with a third party, they can (and, did).

  8. Re:Odd reasoning on Supreme Court: Affordable Care Act Is Constitutional · · Score: 2

    Congress and Obama denied it was a tax at the time of passage but the first day of the supreme court arguments was whether it was a tax or not (and if you look back at the coverage, the unanimous opinion was: not a tax).

  9. not only that on On Orbitz, Mac Users Offered Pricier Hotels First · · Score: 0

    I used the same computer, cleared cookies, and reset the user agent. As a Mac user, they recommended hotels in the meatpacking district, if you know what I mean. As a linux user, they recommended a homeless shelter.

  10. Re:Rear facing camera please! on Google's Own Nexus Tablet Leaks Into the Wild · · Score: 2

    The front-facing cameria is good for dick pics and crotch shots, so you have instant feedback and can get the most impressive angle. Not to mention facetime/video calls.

  11. Re:Maybe on U.S. Gas Prices Continue To Fall · · Score: 1

    Prices dropped after Lehman brothers went bankrupt and were no longer manipulating prices. Coincidence? Conspiracy?

  12. Hmmm on 2 New Social Networks With Very Different Political Twists · · Score: 5, Funny

    Will Ecuador accept Julian Assange's friend request?

  13. this shit? on Missing Matter, Parallel Universes? · · Score: 0

    If the facts don't line up with your theory, a normal person would say the facts are wrong or the theory is wrong (measurements and models, in this case). But cosmologists just invent outlandish theories and particles that can't be proven or disproven.

    It's not all bad -- incorrect measurements of Neptune's mass lead to the discovery of Pluto searching for the nonexistent Planet X. I think I'll go with the incorrect measurements, again.

  14. History repeats itself? on SourceForge Allura Submitted To the Apache Software Foundation Incubator · · Score: 5, Informative

    A long time ago, the sourceforge source code was open source. Then s/VA Linux/SourceForge/ and they closed up the source code. GNU forked it (savannah) while SourceForge Inc. went through any outside code contributions, requiring a copyright assignment or deleting it.

  15. Re:So Sad on RIM Manufacturing Partner Pulls the Plug On BlackBerry Phones · · Score: 2

    I've been checking Y combinator's hacker news (which has more of an emphasis on dumb startup companies) and reddit programming lately.

  16. Re:"Medical experiments" on China Completes Its First Manned Space Docking · · Score: 1

    Not sure where you're getting your information from. A coworker's husband was on the ISS for a while. I see him at parties and happy hour, where the booze and talk flow freely. According to him, the zero gravity gave him morning wood all the time and he had to whack off every couple of days just to help hom focus.

  17. Re:could be interesting... on OpenBSD Fork Bitrig Announced · · Score: 3, Informative

    Take a look at DragonFly BSD -- it exists, Matt Dillon has a track record, and it's doing cool stuff (like HAMMER fs).

  18. Re:HTC vs Apple on The "Defensive Patent License" an Open Defensive Patent Pool · · Score: 1
    Apples and Oranges -- having a license to use a patent vs owning a patent and asserting the rights to it. (Something HTC and Right Haven discovered in an inconvenient manner).

    This patent pool only helps if both the pool and the patent troll have patents covering the same idea -- if you license the pool's patent, maybe you'll be protected from the patent troll.

  19. Re:Cool tech, but on LG Aims To Beat Apple's Retina Display · · Score: 1
    Also, Apple controls the hardware, software, and UI guidelines. They double the ppi, update the OS to use double-sized image, tell people to do so, and they do.

    If the software doesn't take advantage of the extra pixels, it's like buying a sports car with a lawn mower engine.

  20. Re:OH my... on Ask Slashdot: Find a Job In China For Non-native Speaker? · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    A REAL man will wonder if he can stick his dick in it.

  21. Re:Bad news... on "Open Source Bach" Project Completed; Score and Recording Now Online · · Score: 1

    nah... Glenn Gould's versions are often the first that people hear. Afterwards, everyone else plays it "wrong". (I happen to dislike some of his work for the same reason). People don't buy gold-coated power cords so they can listen to free music.

  22. Re:free != easy on "Open Source Bach" Project Completed; Score and Recording Now Online · · Score: 1

    It's open source. Create the lilypond files yourself.

  23. meh on Microsoft Wrongly Gives Britain the Day Off · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "potentially"? How about you find some git that skipped work because of it.

  24. Re:Wrong priorities! on US CIO/CTO: Idea of Hiring COBOL Coders Laughable · · Score: 1
    When I was working for the man, there was no profit motive for me, either. Sure, managers had their targets and I, in theory, might receive a bonus. However, the bonus was so small and tied to things beyond my control that it might as well not have existed.

    I guess most of the federal agencies I've dealt with weren't well-functioning (or have a differing opinion on what the "right thing" is).

  25. Re:Wait, what now? on Free Desktop Software Development Dead In Windows 8 · · Score: 3

    You know that among modern OSes, Windows is unusual in that it doesn't come with a compiler as a standard feature.

    The 4 most popular operating systems are: Windows, OS X, Android, and iOS. None of them come with a compiler as a standard feature.