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  1. When I visited some family in Michigan we drove to Port Huron to have dinner at the Thomas Edison Inn. There was a gas station near by that was $4.10 a gallon which was about 30 to 40 cents higher than what I was seeing in the Detroit suburbs at the time. The locals seemed to be passing it up but the pumps had several people with Ontario plates filling up and also loading gas cans in their trunks. The opportunity that the station owner was capitalizing on was that this was the first gas station that you saw when you came off the Blue Water Bridge from Point Edward, Ontario.

  2. Raspberry Pi + Screen on Creating the World's Cheapest Tablet · · Score: 1

    So when is someone going to make a tablet kit for a Raspberry Pi and also make a Meego and Android distribution for it? That's what I'd like.

  3. Re:Why are they testing on HIV positive people? on HIV Vaccine Approval For Human Trials · · Score: 1

    Plus (I would assume) if you're worried you're going to kill someone, might as well start on someone who's already got a death sentence.

  4. Re:Why are they testing on HIV positive people? on HIV Vaccine Approval For Human Trials · · Score: 1

    Well in regards to the universal flu vaccine it teaches the body how to recognize common internal parts of the virus. Because it is a retro virus it keeps changing its external coat but at the core it is pretty much the same. Now the body can also recognize the core of the virus. Sort of like a locksmith teaching someone how to pick a lock.

  5. Re:Google versus Apple on Google Working On Siri Competitor Majel · · Score: 1

    My vote would make it more like some of the computers on Lexx. Every once in a while your phone would say things like "Stonent, that's a very delicious looking battery there, can I eat it?" Or like 790, the love-slave robot.

  6. Just ask Watson on Google Working On Siri Competitor Majel · · Score: 1

    Maybe Google could just buy a Watson cluster and route all the questions to it. But let me get this straight, we'll be getting Star Trek technology in our phones (at least on Verizon) containing names licensed from the Star Wars creator?

  7. It has been said before here on Slashdot on Does Telecommuting Make You Invisible? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If you can telecommute to work, so can someone else in another country who will do your job for cheaper.

  8. Re:While we're speculating on Next Apple iPhone To Have a 4 Inch Display? · · Score: 1

    Well Samsung just came out with the Galaxy player which are 4 and 5 inch Galaxy S(esq) devices meant to compete with the iPod touch. I say "esq" because they it seems as they don't have Super AMOLED screens.

  9. Re:IGZO doesn't sound very impressive to me on Next Apple iPhone To Have a 4 Inch Display? · · Score: 1

    Notice they don't say if it has OLED picture quality. It could very well be a very poor quality screen.

  10. Here's what I'm looking for on Ask Slashdot: Tablet With Root Access By Default? · · Score: 4, Funny

    "I am looking for people who know how to use google out of the box. I know, I could get one of the usual suspects and post my question on slashdot, but I don't want to waste my time in the process and end up voiding my status as being too important to look it up myself. Basically, I like to tell people I'm a power user but really I'm not. Any good suggestions, or should I ask Siri?"

  11. Re:Windows Phone 7 is a good solution on Are There Any Smartphones That Respect Privacy? · · Score: 1

    Who said that anyone was required to sync their data with google? I don't sync my contacts with gmail, I do it with exchange. You can activate the phone without turning on synching with gmail. You still need a gmail account to access the market but unless they are reading your phone contacts without your permissionI don't think you have too much to worry about. Or if you really want you can install a third party market or side-load apps and change your gmail password and there will be no way for the phone to phone home so to speak.

  12. Re:This may help..... on Ask Slashdot: Building an Assistive Reading Device? · · Score: 1

    I knew someone who had Advanced Macular Degeneration and she had a device that was like what you said. It was a camera mounted facing down towards the table and it had a sliding platform where you could sit a book or paper on and slide around to read. This one interfaced with the computer monitor and she could split-screen the computer and the camera so she could easily work with printed documentation and office productivity apps.

  13. Re:Wow, I would not have believed this a decade ag on Windows Phone Unlock Tool Goes Official · · Score: 1

    Unforunately not all android devices have the checkbox. The HTC Aria on AT&T was one of them as well as some of the low-end motorola devices.

  14. Re:The legal system at it's finest. on No Charges For Child-Whipping Judge Caught On YouTube · · Score: 0

    When his daughter didn't want to try to get a real job he took away her Mercedes and then this video comes up on the internet.... Coincidence? I think not.

  15. Re:Health issues on The White House Responds To We the People Petition · · Score: 1

    Breathing in smoke is bad mmkay?

  16. Re:OWS on Steve Jobs' Missing License Plate · · Score: 1

    Rumor has it, he once made an apple employee eat his own excriment after commenting once "That Android guy is kinda cute". (Ok I made that up, but it made me laugh)

  17. I stand behind my previous statement on HP Rethinking Wisdom of Spinning Off PC Division · · Score: 1

    In the previous HP article

    Is it just me or does HP look like a fish laying on the dirt, flailing around gulping for non-existant water?

  18. Android? on Google Starts to Detail Dart · · Score: 1

    I wonder if they are trying to position this in any way to distance themselves from Java and provide a new interface for Android apps?

  19. Con? on Spock Gives Up the Con · · Score: 1

    Connnnnnnnnn!

  20. Re:Not really cracking the passwords. on Aussie Researcher Cracks OS X Lion Passwords · · Score: 1

    If you have access to the shadow file on most Unix systems you can just delete the hashes to blank out the password. I've used that to gain access to old Sun boxes that I picked up at swap meets that still had an OS installed on them. Just boot up in Single mode (boot -s) or boot from OS install media and access the shadow file that way.

  21. A fish out of water on HP Begins Laying Off WebOS Developers, Potentially Firing CEO · · Score: 1

    Is it just me or does HP look like a fish laying on the dirt, flailing around gulping for non-existant water?

  22. Re:Ryan is ignorant of economic history on White House Proposes "Wealthy Tax" · · Score: 1

    Well, remember Bush Sr. scaled down the military significantly after the end of the cold war, and that created a great surplus in money which Clinton used to balance the deficit.

  23. And the loser is. Tom's Hardware on The Latest Web Browser Grand Prix · · Score: 1

    Notice in the benchmarks the absurdly long load times for Tom's Hardware compared to other sites (however not much different from Huff-Po) There's so many ads and crap coming from 3rd party servers that depending on which ad you get, it can severly impact the load time.

  24. Re:I Want on Verizon iPhone Rumored For Early Next Year · · Score: 1

    How about a MetroPCS iPhone? Metro already can "metroflash" most Verizon (including droids) to run on their 50$ unlimited everything plan.

  25. Re:Mod parent up on Dell Selling Faulty PCs · · Score: 1

    It wasn't just 270's and 280's. I've seen at least 3 GX620's with bad caps and one 745 with bad caps. Ah the tickets "User calling in with amber power light. No POST"