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  1. Uhm... what's the reward? on Startup Wants To Peek Through Your Home's Wired Cameras · · Score: 1

    Google, Bing (from Microsoft), and others track your search requests but also provide free access to their search results when you ask for them.
    GMail (from Google). Live Mail (from Microsoft) and others may scan your e-mail, but they also block spam and give you a functional e-mail account.

    GotoCamera is not from a rich company and only seems interested in selling your data to marketers. Could they at least offer some sort of "We'll call 911 for you..." or other feature that would at least be a benefit to the consumer. Just noticing the brands in my kitchen and filling the living room TV with ads from their competitors just doesn't work. Why do we need to connect our cameras to him in the first place?

  2. Everybody wants to rule the Internet on Eric Schmidt: UN Treaty a 'Disaster' For the Internet · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The fact is, We the People of the United States of America were first to fund DNS that makes the Internet what it is today. Sorry UN, you can't take it over without paying off some of the national debt your members hold.

  3. What Google doesn't like, it replaces... on Google Offers $1 Million For Chrome Exploits · · Score: 4, Insightful

    GOOG is pretty smart when it comes to these things. If there's a solution out there that has a problem with it's TOS, it simply rewrites the TOS to their liking and launch a competitor. This is Pwn2Own's loss and Google's gain. Bug finders now still get paid. but those who don't reveal everything Google wants do not.

  4. MOD STORY DOWN.... on Stem Cells That May Make Eggs Found In Women · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is Slashdot... do we care about the inner workings of a woman's body?

  5. Re:Why not both? on Is It Time For NoSQL 2.0? · · Score: 2

    So that's good at finding the record if you already know the key, but there's no help in finding a record if you don't know the key, or getting a count of records with the same attribute attached... SQL for the win.

  6. Re:Why not both? on Is It Time For NoSQL 2.0? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Can somebody explain how this NoSQL stuff works? It's a database without SQL, so what replaces it? Is this just the difference between BASIC and C being expanded.

  7. Re:Get a project manager. on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deal With Priorities Inflation In IT Projects? · · Score: 2

    Yeah, there's some bad math going on here somewhere. He either has enough requests to justify more resources at least until the backlog is cleared, or he's got users who are sending in too many requests and some should be denied.

  8. Don't let users score their own tasks on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Deal With Priorities Inflation In IT Projects? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Every user wants their project first and everybody else to wait. You can't let users declare their own priority unless there's a strictly followed grading system or rubric based on the priorities of the business. (Ex. Customer facing systems are more important than internal ones.) If you've got 5x of the "high" priority tasks either you;re making too many mistakes or priority inflation needs to be addressed with the users.

  9. Obilg Bill Gates (if he ever said it) reference on Tetris In 140 Bytes · · Score: -1, Redundant

    640 K should be enough for anybody....

  10. Recapping recent stories on Booktype: An Open Source, Cross-Platform Approach To E-Book Publishing · · Score: 0

    P2P solution for money... not going very well as a Bitcoin exchange shuts down.
    Piracy of eBooks? Still out there but publishers keep shutting those sites down... no need for SOPA, DMCA is still working as intended.
    So, let's mix P2P with e-books... could you keep a NASA-like clock at headquarters so we can see your shutdown coming?

  11. 20% Drop... where's CNBC's coverage? on Major Bitcoin Exchange Ceases Operation · · Score: 0

    If Bitcoins were a national currency its population would be protesting... a 20% overnight drop would be business news if this currency had enough people caring it existed. These money-like substances always seem to fail resulting in no payout to those holding the bag. Nothing left to see here, move along.

  12. And who's gonna pay for this... on Sony Outlets Control Electricity Through Authentication · · Score: 1

    This doesn't use typical connectors so this means a house has to be upgraded and so are all the devices. May work great in new developments but trying to push this into a current house will fail.

  13. Re:Get it right the first time on Xbox 360 Game Patching Costs $40,000 · · Score: 1, Insightful

    On a PC users expect there to be updates that fix things, many XBox units never see the Internet at all.

  14. Double Fine? on Xbox 360 Game Patching Costs $40,000 · · Score: 1

    Does this guy pay all his parking tickets twice?

  15. Get it right the first time on Xbox 360 Game Patching Costs $40,000 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Patches are not cheap to deploy, you've got to bother your customers and pay for bandwidth. It makes a whole lot more sense to put the effort into getting the right code onto the disc before it ships.

  16. Recipe on Why the Number of O's In LOL Matter On YouTube · · Score: 1

    Take the comedy up for votes focus of FunnyOrDie, mix in the everybody voting on everything of Digg and use the expanding O's in Google and the result is???

  17. Re:Excuse me... not a programmer's fault. on Programming Error Doomed Russian Mars Probe · · Score: 1

    The software crashed because there was no working processor left... can't fallover when the backup is the same chip with the same problem.

  18. Excuse me... not a programmer's fault. on Programming Error Doomed Russian Mars Probe · · Score: 5, Insightful

    We've got a contradictory summary here. Chip failure isn't a programming fault, it's a hardware problem. Stop confusing hardware and software you insensitive clod.

  19. Wrong Way... Do Not Enter on Job Seeking Hacker Gets 30 Months In Prison · · Score: 1

    This guy got it all wrong. There is no such thing as capture the flag hacks leading to jobs. Who gave him the idea that this would work out in his favor? Tech smarts was there, but no sign of the minimal business smarts it takes to hold a job was there.

  20. We need an amendment.... on Slovenian Ambassador Regrets Signing ACTA Agreement · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Can't get SOPA/PIPA passed? Just get a diplomat from the USA to sign ACTA and all you need is a 2/3 majority in the Senate with no need for the House or President to sign off. Still a tall burden but there's much fewer Senators you need to purchase versus half the House.

  21. Re:Pay attention to the professor? on Estonian Tech University Bans Notebooks and Smartphones · · Score: 1

    Some professors in 1999-2002 handed out their presentation on paper in the "Notes" view on PowerPoint. No need to copy what was seen, just copy what was said that was noteworthy.

  22. Pay attention to the professor? on Estonian Tech University Bans Notebooks and Smartphones · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Doesn't seem that out of line and there's many US schools with the same rule... they don't ban computers everywhere, but when you're in the classroom the only computer should be used by to the professor,

  23. No need for new laws on Pirate Apple TV Operation Nabbed In Australia · · Score: 2, Informative

    It seems like the content industry has solved it... no need for SOPA/PIPA to be passed, just pay lawyers to sue and tell police to find pirates and the problem is solved.

  24. Re:Just play ball with Hollywood and it's fine. on EFF Seeking Information of Legal Users of Megaupload · · Score: 1

    That's the one think about SOPA/PIPA that was worth keeping. Make a mess of copyright law and we'll down your domain or server... if your domain seller or provider fails we'll down your entire TLD.

  25. Re:I'm confused... on EFF Seeking Information of Legal Users of Megaupload · · Score: 1

    Did it ever work?