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  1. Re:Upgrade your domain to Google Apps Business tod on What's the Best RSS Reader Not Named Google Reader? · · Score: 1

    For $5 a month you could rent a VPS and run Owncloud on it.

  2. Re:we've had american on Brewing Saké in Texas for Fun and Profit (Video) · · Score: 1

    I've always liked the stuff from http://sakeone.com/ which is made up in Oregon.

  3. Re:Black-and-white? on NASA Releases New Photos of Saturn's Rings and Clouds · · Score: 1

    Because ground cameras aren't designed to travel 1.2 billion km through space. But really I think it's more that the scientists are wanting to record science related data rather than human eye pleasing data and every gram of weight on the probe is precious. So they capture images that are "black and white" and instead use fancy combining techniques on the ground to create a few wowzer color images here and there to please the non-scientist public.

  4. Re:The law says... on Papa John's Sued For Unwanted Pizza-Related Texts · · Score: 1

    Sounds fair. I'm going to have 10,000 companies swing by your office today and try to sell you shit. You're free to tell each of them to not stop by every day and each of them will honor that request.

    Of course tomorrow I'll send over another 10k companies.

  5. Re:But that's not the real problem. on To Encourage Biking, Lose the Helmets · · Score: 1

    Same here. I was an 80's kid and biking was life. We not only biked but our lives revolved around bikes. Diamond back bikes, state of the art pedals, mag wheels, special handlebar joints, etc. Biking was how you got from point A to point B as a kid and it was common to roam everywhere.

    No helmets, cops left you alone and your parents never worried about you riding out 10 miles and back.

  6. Re:It's even worse on Booted From Airplane For Wearing Anti-TSA T-shirt · · Score: 2

    > There's a thing called a "business transaction". That pilot is obligated to honour it.

    Actually he isn't. The pilot of a plane(like the captain of a boat) has pretty much absolute authority of his craft. If he wants you thrown off for looking at him sideways, well, it sucks to be you.

  7. Re:Sci-fi vs Science on Earth's Corner of the Galaxy Just Got a Little Lonelier · · Score: 1

    The problem with FTL isn't just the moving through space it's that it also allows for time travel. For example if I can open a wormhole up and instantly travel from A to B, then there are ways to exploit that to travel through time.

    That opens up the ability to create paradoxes which is a huge mess.

  8. Re:Goals on GNOME Developers Lay Out Plans for GNOME OS · · Score: 1

    Even if they do take off, I already have a Linux tablet interface: Android.

    Which is specifically designed just for the tablet with apps designed for the tablet interface.

  9. Re:Cool on Ouya Teams Up With XBMC · · Score: 1

    I think the games could come for this unlike other consoles simply because it's an Android device. So any Android game dev could basically mod their game to work with a controller and release for this platform.

    And it goes the other way. Release for the console, mod the game to work without a console and you can release to the normal Android game store.

    But even so this will be a killer XMBC box. Just plug in a large USB drive and go to town. I wonder if we'll see SABnzbd ported to Android for this.

  10. Re:What has the Internet become? on Former Facebook Employee Questions the Social Media Life · · Score: 1

    She didn't get rich, she just cashed in enough to live off it for a couple years in some middle of nowhere town.

    It'd not hard to follow her example. I'm living on a sailboat right now and saving up so I can take off for a year or so. Anyone can do it.

  11. Re:Sounds like on Former Facebook Employee Questions the Social Media Life · · Score: 1

    If he's in the US(like me) you don't get paid anything for being on call. It's just expected of you and if you don't like it, quit.

    I've been slowly moving my way out of IT because of this.

  12. Re:Why even bother... on NASA's First New Spacesuit In 20 Years Is Its Own Airlock · · Score: 1

    Consider that any mission has a set amount of time it can function in. That time has a huge amount of cost associated with it. So if you can save 15 minutes of time for a person to don a spacesuit on a spaceflight you're likely saving a huge amount of money. The same if the suit's newer mobility allows for in space work to be done 10% faster.

  13. Re:*** Announcement project*** on Microsoft's Surface Caught Windows OEMs By Surprise · · Score: 2

    This is true and the wins can be big. Zune, yeah a flop. But who would've thought in the 90's that MS would come out with a console to rival Playstation?

  14. Re:was annoying on XBMC for me on XBMC Developers Criticize AMD's Linux Driver · · Score: 2

    I have the same exact setup, Debian as well. Works great.

  15. Re:Cannot Understand his Customers on Online Pharmacy Pioneer Arrested In Florida · · Score: 1

    > I cannot understand why anyone would see an add for drugs online and actually go ahead and purchase that online without doing to your doctor/pharmacist, talking to them about the drug and then getting it through official channels.

    Well, I think it's stupid for anyone to take any med without talking about it with their doctor. That said, meds in the US are marked up to an absurd level. It's often much cheaper to talk with your doctor, get a prescription, toss that in the waste basket and just order the med from India.

  16. Re:Nothing better to do on Online Pharmacy Pioneer Arrested In Florida · · Score: 1

    > Now you my be actually getting the real drug, or a forgery made from sugar, or worse, a copy from some of the active ingredients at different percentages, or different drugs all together.

    There's a lot of FUD in that statement. Pretty much everything in the US comes from foreign made suppliers, except for drugs, because apparently Taiwan can make state of the art hard drives but can't mix two chemicals together.

    There are plenty of reputable offshore drug suppliers and they're usually much much cheaper than US brands. I buy my Finastride from Cipla and pay about 1/8th the price for my meds.

  17. Re:This is the biggest challenge facing football on Growing Evidence of Football Causing Brain Damage · · Score: 1

    Helmet technology won't help with this I think. The brain can impact the skull due to violent motion.

    Personally maybe the US should get onto the soccer band wagon. Seems like that sport wouldn't suffer from this. And there's always basketball/baseball.

  18. Re:Why is this here? on In Nothing We Trust · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The biggest issue for me is that the format hasn't kept up with the change in times. The comments are fairly useless with the articles, basically whoever does the first post basically directs the conversation. Compare that to Reddit where typically the most relevant comments make their way to the top.

    Slashdot was great 10 years ago, but I get news faster, with more content, more focus(sub forums), and better comments on Reddit. The only down side is the extreme noise and heavy user bias of the site.

  19. Google EC2 on Google Close To Launching Cloud Storage 'Google Drive' · · Score: 1

    The bigger question is when will Google release their own version of Amazon's EC2.

  20. Really? on Man Claiming He Invented the Internet Sues · · Score: 5, Interesting

    It's come to this now? How bad does it have to get before the entire system is scrapped?

  21. Re:Study shows... on Study: Online Dating Makes People "Picky" and "Unrealistic" · · Score: 2

    Not really. Online dating means a few women that photograph well are bombarded by the vast majority of men.

  22. Re:So? on Pasadena Police Encrypt, Deny Access To Police Radio · · Score: 2

    > Why not present the radio traffic time lapsed on the web?

    Why not use the money you'd spend on something like that to hire another cop to patrol the streets instead?

  23. Re:Inside my HD there are two very important files on Defendant Ordered To Decrypt Laptop Claims She Had Forgotten Password · · Score: 1

    They do NOT have to "prove" anything. This is reality, not a TV show court room. In reality the justice system has nothing to do with justice. You can and will be held in contempt for not being able to provide a password to decrypt your honeypot.

    Use deniable encryption instead.

  24. Re:No on Tesla Motors Announces Prices For Their Upcoming Models · · Score: 1

    Energy companies don't have a choice in how their electricity is used.

    If quick charging becomes the norm(big if), it'll happen at dealerships first. And yeah, it'll be cheap because they want to sell the cars, not the juice.

    Other places will then pop up and likely focus on selling you other crap during your 10-15 min wait. Starbucks would be a natural client for this.

  25. Re:Well duh. on Superannuated Scientists Still Productive · · Score: 2

    Your comparison of computer languages to human languages isn't a very good one. Human languages tend to have simple rules and concepts, but large vocabularies to memorize. Computer languages have very small vocabularies, but deep rules and concepts.

    Those concepts are very portable from language to language. How a variable works, classes, pointers(or references), databases, networking, lists, switches, OO models, etc don't really change. C has pointers, Java has references. Java has hibernate and rails has active record.

    Take a good programmer with a long history of work and they can learn new languages pretty much on the fly. Though big shifts(switching to OO or designing things The Rails Way) can take a bit of learning.