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  1. Spellcheck alternative - Google it on Robot Dogs Evolve Their Own Language · · Score: 1

    putting pigion into Google results in Google asking "Did you mean: pigeon", the correct spelling.

  2. The firms that were hiring and now are not... on Is Microprocessor/Controller Design Dead? · · Score: 1

    perhaps? But then, that would be just too obvious...

  3. And you expect to find the answer here? on Is Microprocessor/Controller Design Dead? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You work for a Canadian post-secondary institute and it is very puzzling and you turn to Slashdot? God help our post-secondary institutes.

  4. Re:So what? on Library Chief Criticized for Requiring Subpoena · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Last I checked, the little girl wasn't asking to see the library patron records, nor should she have the right to. What rights of the little girl are being violated by requiring that the police have a warrant?

  5. Re:"Important events" on Gaze Detector Lets You Hear With Your Eyes · · Score: 1

    In that case, I'll wait for the "In Soviet Russia" version to come out.

  6. Completely out of hand on Data Theft and Corporate Irresponsibility? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There is a growing and growing group of things that seem completely out of hand once it happens to you. I'm not sure who "we" are, but we need to get together either as a nation or a planet or just some concerned human beings and take a serious look at where we are and where we want to go from here.

  7. Re:Pretty Cool... on Police Launch Drones Over LA · · Score: 1, Funny

    Hmm... Now what would be really cool would be if they had some sort of computer network to coordinate these devices... maybe some sort of SkyNet...

  8. Re:Good on Microsoft Loses Appeal in Guatemalan Patent Claim · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Except there's no link to the actual patent in this or the previous story.

  9. Re:Relevancy on The Un-Google - The Search Competition · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You should be able to hit a button that says such and such a site is relevant for the given search, rerank all other sites accordingly. Sites for musical horns aren't going to highly crosslink with sites using horn to mean "a high pommel of a Western saddle (usually metal covered with leather)". It's also annoying that there isn't a way to sort by pages with major recent content changes.

  10. Pride on Microsoft Confirms Excel Zero-Day Attack · · Score: 1

    It would be embarrassing for Microsoft to come to terms with the fact that they are, in fact able to purchase these exploits when their own people in possession of the source code and staring at it day in and day out cannot find them.

  11. Re:Just social structure on GNOME Reaches Out to Women · · Score: 1

    Why "just social structure" of course!

  12. Re:Spinoff companies on Amazon Asks Congress to Curb Patent Abusers · · Score: 2, Insightful

    That combined with a "If you license to one, you have to license to everybody" law, might be a good thing.

  13. Stop me, before I patent again... on Amazon Asks Congress to Curb Patent Abusers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Perhaps what Amazon is really saying is that if companies weren't allowed to take out stupid patents, it wouldn't have to take out stupid patents to defend itself.

  14. Just social structure on GNOME Reaches Out to Women · · Score: 1

    Funny, I would find anyone not saying "it's just social structure" in disciplines that are skewed towards women rather odd.

  15. Re:What kind of projects? on GNOME Reaches Out to Women · · Score: 1

    Desire to do something does not have a direct correlation with skillfulness at it, especially if those skills can be applied equally well or better to other endeavors.

  16. So wrong it isn't even right? on A Database for the Office? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It seems like the work flow (what's the right term here) is out of whack there. Database projects that "lose interest before they become complex or important enough to warrant the IT department getting involved"? It reminds me of the commercial where they discover they don't have any computer problems so they can refocus on the real purpose of the company.

  17. Bankruptcy on How to Protect Yourself with Startups? · · Score: 1

    But the whole point of filing for bankruptcy is the inability to cover all debts. Bankruptcy is a replacement for Debtor's prison.

  18. Wasn't always? on Dragon's Lair Remastered in HD · · Score: 1

    Try 'never'.

  19. Hate those games... on Dragon's Lair Remastered in HD · · Score: 1

    Worst controls ever. Can't even tell if they are working.

  20. Re:PP2P2P2PP2P on RIAA Claims P2P Has Been Contained · · Score: 1

    Um, the people with the rights to the anime music aren't the ones doing the suing.

  21. Re:The irony is on Hawking Says Humans Must Go Into Space · · Score: 3, Informative

    I think that may be his wife:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Hawking#Illnes s
    He and his nurse, Elaine Mason, were married in 1995.

    They seriously need to work on the section headings though... Much of his personal life is filed under Illness.

  22. Re:Will PS3's Blu-ray Even Work Though? on Sony Pushes Back Release For Blu-Ray Players · · Score: 1
    The only other possible answer to this is that someone wants to pretend to have a full "life". They want to degrade and downtrod someone else to make themselves feel better about their lack of "interesting" things to do in life.
    The number of female dating profiles with "tired of mind games" leads some support to that theory, though it's not entirely clear what they mean by that and may in fact be the ultimate mind game.
  23. Re:Why punish legit users? on Microsoft Misrepresenting WGA's Functionality? · · Score: 1

    And besides... It's not like Microsoft can't just have arbitrary code run by making it part of any update you get from them...

  24. Re:Better... on Microsoft Misrepresenting WGA's Functionality? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I wish people would quit acting as if anything was unqualifiably better. Life consists of trade-offs but to hear some people talk, life would just be a bowl of cherries if one were to just do this or that... Sheesh... Yes, Linux is better in some ways, but there's that trade-off thing at work there.

  25. Re:Coming features? on Upstart Bloggers at Microsoft Moving On · · Score: 1

    New network and audio stacks.