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  1. Re:Windows 8 on Windows 8 Will Run On All Current PC Hardware · · Score: 5, Funny

    I just upgraded from Window XP to WIndows 7 now you want to tell me you're planning windows 8 already with in the year? It's not like windows seven is another vista, it's a solid OS and is remarkably stable, why do I want Windows 8?

    What you've never heard of the every other windows curse? It''s like the star trek movie curse

    Win 2k was great
    Win Me Sucked balls
    Win Xp was pretty good
    Win Vista was smoking crack
    Win 7 is usable

    you might as well not even bother checking out 8

  2. Re:Misleading summary ... on Apollo 11 Flag Swatch Goes Unsold At L.A. Auction · · Score: 1

    The summary conveniently fails to mention that it comes with an autograph of the first man to set foot on the moon, one of the men who actually raised the flag on the moon. The autograph is on a photo of the flag raising so the flag scrap seems to be something to enhance the signature.

    so.... for 100K you don't just get some fabric, you also get some ink on a piece of paper?

  3. Re:Growing up on Why People Who Make Things Should Learn Chinese · · Score: 1

    My dad owned the same electric can opener my whole life, which is to say it over 30 years old. My dad owned the same clothes dryer my whole life, which is to say it over 30 years old.

    I cant find an electric can opener that lasts 6 months.

    Therefore I say: The Chinese need to learn to make things.

    America, Fuck yea.

    I don't think you get it... When you make a product that lasts, you destroy all future sales.

  4. Re:Microsoft Research on Microsoft Wants $15 Per Android Smartphone · · Score: 1

    Here's hoping you're not actually serious about that ..

    Maybe not abolished, but limited...

    My personally belief is we would be better off if the original term of copyrights and patents were returned to their 14 year limit they were set at in 1790. Keep all the other goodness, But if someone can write one book and live of the proceeds for the rest of their life I don't see how it can continue contributing to the arts more then being in the public domain. they should be required to add something useful every decade or so.

  5. Re:This Is a Non-Story: Chinese Firewall Easily Be on Chinese Censorship Gets Blasted By NTD TV · · Score: 1

    The whole discussion of a Chinese Firewall is purely academic. It takes only about $2/month to go around it.

    The average income in China is about $5 a day. They aren't worried about foreigners getting on the unfiltered web.

  6. ESA? on ESA Opens To Open Source Code Development · · Score: 0

    Wow, Who would of thought the Entertainment Software Association Would support open source?

  7. Boot Disc on Rootkit Infection Requires Windows Reinstall · · Score: 1

    um.... Why not just use a boot disc to clear the MBR/infected files?

  8. Re:Cue the Inevitable threads... on Eight Major 3G & 4G Networks Tested Nationwide · · Score: 1

    We will now proceed to the obligatory 579 posts as follows - "This is bunk. In [Insert City], [carrier A] sucks donkey balls. [Carrier B] is much better!" "Are you joking? [Carrier B] STINKS here in [City C]. I love [Carrier A]! " "I wish I could just buy a phone that makes calls!" ...followed by anecdotes about cell coverage, speed and pricing in Korea.

    Pffft.... Clearly you've never used [Carrier F], Otherwise you wouldn't be complaining about [Carrier A] and [Carrier B]

  9. Re:Excellent timing on Is Google Playing Fair With Groupon, et al? · · Score: 1

    and honestly I dont see the appeal, its clunky IMO

    Android integration

  10. Re:Interesting on Google and MIT Enable Task Transfer Among Devices · · Score: 1

    I didn't RTFA, But I transfer apps from my PC to my Smartphone all the time. It's called VNC!

  11. Re:here's the scale on Power Grid Change May Disrupt Clocks · · Score: 1

    Yes I do. All clocks in my house tend to lose or gain a few minutes over 2-3 weeks.

    Funny, all my clocks seem to auto-update themselves from some signal in the ether

  12. Re:here's the scale on Power Grid Change May Disrupt Clocks · · Score: 3, Insightful

    3 seconds a day. But twice a year people manually change the time due to summer time.

    Wait... You check the accuracy of the minutes when daylight savings comes rather then just hitting the +1 hour button?

  13. Fucking Capitalism on AP Investigation Concludes US Nuke Regulators Weakening Safety Rules · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Profits > Safety
    Safety > Freedom
    Ergo...
    Profits > Freedom

    Clearly this is what the founders intended

  14. Re:Explaining Unconsciousness? on New Imaging Technique Helps Explain Unconsciousness · · Score: 1

    I'd love to see brain scans of someone on LSD

  15. Larrabee on AMD Fusion System Architecture Detailed · · Score: 1

    Believe it or not, Making a chip the size of a football field isn't really the best idea.

  16. Re:NoScript? on Shuttleworth: Chrome Nearly Replaced FF In Ubuntu · · Score: 2

    Meh.... Cry me a river....

    Chrome is good enough for checking the Mail/News/Comics, But you should use 2 browsers anyway. One where you want to be tracked, and one where you don't. I don't expect Chrome to work with Tor, but sometimes I need to be able to have one big account so i can be tied in to automatically download the app i clicked on to my phone. And I'm sure as hell not going to use IE.

  17. Dreamweaver on Ask Slashdot: Web Site Editing Software For the Long Haul? · · Score: 2

    Isn't Dreamweaver still around? I seem to remember it doing a pretty good job coloring my code. Plus the instant preview was kinda nice.

  18. Re:Can't they tie them down? on Studying the Impact of Lost Shipping Containers · · Score: 1

    Just to think out loud, How would a signal transmit from 1000M below sea floor? I am guessing that it could transmit while it's still floating but afterwards as it's sinking, would it still work?

    Easy just use a detachable SOFAR tethered buoy. Once the device sinks(pressure detector?) it releases the buoy that is designed in two parts, one part floats to the surface to get a GPS fix, the middle part stays in the sound channel. A better question is how you expect to keep your container at the bottom of the Marianas dry, and better yet how to recover it. Chasing floating containers might be worth it, But after they've been sunk, I don't think finding them would be the expensive part.

  19. Re:Sigh on White House To Announce IT-Powered Smart Grid · · Score: 1

    ts a wise man who offers a solution.

    C2H5OH in H2O is the solution.

    What was the problem again?

    Hea don't leave out the H6C12O6 and CH3CH2CH2COOCH2CH3

  20. Re:When will it be used for its real purpose... on Chinese Tianhe-1A Supercomputer Starts Churning Out the Science · · Score: 1

    you mean it is not for mining bitcoins?

    Nah If they were going to mine bitcoins they would gone with ATI.

  21. 6th amendment on Federal Courts To Begin First Digital Video Pilot · · Score: 1

    "In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial..."

    In my mind this should of happened years ago. If they have instant replay in football why can't I have the same ability to challenge the transcript in a court room? I'm not saying this data needs to be live streamed over the internet, But I think it needs to be available to the public in some means.

  22. Common Number on Ask Slashdot: What To Do With Other People's Email? · · Score: 1
    How is this any different then getting a "wrong number" phone call. ?

    Is JSmith@gmail.com really that different then 867-5309?

  23. Wow? on Ask Slashdot: Best Adventure Game To Start With? · · Score: 1

    Ignoring Cost, World of warcraft is worth consideration. It's pretty much a cartoon masquerading as a Adventure game, And from a newbie prospective it's pretty vast.

  24. Re:first on Anonymous Steals 10,000 Iranian Government Emails · · Score: 5, Funny

    10,000 emails? What is that after you filter out the spam, like 50?

  25. Re:Funny on Lack of Technology Puts Star Wars Series On Hold · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Actually, SGU at $2.5mil was cheap. Maybe not as cheap as SyFy wanted it to be, but it's cheaper than the average US show, which costs $3mil per episode these days. And that's the average price. Some network shows go up to $4 mil per episode. Cable shows are usually cheaper. "Mad Men" costs $2.5mil per episode too btw (started at $2.3mil in 2008 according to NYTimes).

    Maybe that's why they couldn't afford anyone who could act.