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  1. Re:All Phones Ship Unlocked on Verizon-Branded iPhone 5 Ships Unlocked, Works With Other Networks · · Score: 1

    You're question didn't make any sense at all. It obviously supports both, and verizion has sold phones for both GSM and CDMA for a long time now. So It wasn't clear what on earth you were confused or excited about.

  2. Re:Hyperbole on Iran Set To Block Access To Google · · Score: 0

    I don't think everyone who hates has the same kind of hate. I'd argue that Michael savage's hate is closer to the nazi hate, but that kind is probably in the minority of those that do hate. I think.

  3. Re:All Phones Ship Unlocked on Verizon-Branded iPhone 5 Ships Unlocked, Works With Other Networks · · Score: 1

    So these are verision phones that are able to connect to any GSM network. So through the magic of logic, they are able to connect over verison's cdma and any GSM network. Doesn't that answer your question if they are dual network? Or was there a hidden question invisble to human eyes?

  4. Re:is it a mutation? on 180k-Year-Old Mutation Allowed Humans To Become Vegetarians, Move Out of Africa · · Score: 2

    This one story about one mutation may be right or wrong. but in general thats how mutations spread across populations. If you don't want to believe in evolution because it contradicts your faith or something thats fine, but don't waste our time trying to tell us we're doing science wrong.

  5. Re:reading comprehension? on Your Moral Compass Is Reversible · · Score: 1

    Exactly what I came here to post. Nicely done. I've used this throughout my life to infuriate siblings and co-workers alike. The really interesting part is how long it takes them to figure out what happened in the argument. The more emotional you can get them the longer it will take.

  6. Re:Doesn't surprise me. on 6 Million Virgin Mobile Users Vulnerable To Brute-Force Attacks · · Score: 1

    Why do you have a password with your grocery store? For coupon offers? Online shopping? newsletters?

  7. Happy 15th Aniversery! on Raspberry Pi For the Rest of Us · · Score: 4, Funny

    Slashdot: news for non-nerds that don't want to have to deal with linux.

  8. Re:Altruism... on Ask Slashdot: Where Should a Geek's Charitable Donations Go? · · Score: 1

    I don't think its as useful as it could be. There are other charities that simply give money to other charities. The charities that raise the money are the ones that take the hit on the administrative costs, where as the recipient gets all of the reporting benefit. Its kind of odd explaining why your charity's administrative costs are higher with a donor at one of these fund-raisers that actually end up giving the money to one with a higher rate due to this phenomenon.

    Depending on your theory of giving, it might seem to be a better idea to just give the money without the fund-raising activity and the money it costs to put it on. Some of them are very educational as well, and that educational role about the charity's work, its importance and the donor's role in it ( volunteers are awesome because they don't add to that administrative overhead ) is pretty valuable as well. The right kind of a charity will improve the lives of the donors as well as the recipients.

  9. Re:I heard about this teacher... on Ask Slashdot: Where Should a Geek's Charitable Donations Go? · · Score: 1

    There is a twinge of classisim, not racism in the grandparents statement. (There is often a double standard that people set up to protect themselves from actually doing anything to help people by insisting that they live up to a higher standard than what they themselves would meet.)

    However, what do you mean by typing? Can you really call it typing if they can't read what they just wrote? Or are you just talking about a kind whaling away on a keyboard?

  10. Re:Altruism... on Ask Slashdot: Where Should a Geek's Charitable Donations Go? · · Score: 1, Interesting

    That's a good start. However, as some one who has worked at a charitable non-for-profit, those percentages can get messy. If you spend $100,00 on a fund rasing event like charity ball that generates a total of $400,000 ( for a net gain to the charity of $300,000), You have to report that $100,000 that was spent on putting the event together as a non charitable expense. Even if the $300,000 goes directly to building a school in Africa, it looks like you as a charity only spend %75 of all funds on your charitable cause.

  11. Re:Capacity? on Leak Hints Windows 8 Tablets May Be Dearer Than Makes Sense · · Score: 1

    That's pretty much what I'm saying, I'd guestimate a full 2/3's of the ipad's target audience will not even consider *this* tablet at *this* price point. Asus just missed the largest target audience by including 16 gb more flash. Great jorb!

  12. Re:That's simple... on Why Aircraft Carriers Still Rule the Oceans · · Score: 2

    I think what he means is that we haven't had many naval battles involving ship to ship combat in a while. If I remeber my history correctly, we did use battleships in korea, vietnam, and even the first Iraq war, but only to lob shells onto land based targets.

  13. Re:Capacity? on Leak Hints Windows 8 Tablets May Be Dearer Than Makes Sense · · Score: 1

    Well, here's the thing: Nobody I know buys anything but the cheapest iPad. So for the majority of those customers would compare any tablet against that price and fearure set.

  14. Re:The real downside. on One Company's Week-Long Interview Process · · Score: 1

    I can't agree with that without knowing about the particulars of the apps and how they were written, Php's problem is not with single box scalability, it really does well with that. It does suck for any kind of shared something clustering more complicated than just throwing a san or load balancer in the equation.

  15. Re:Seriously? on CERN's Higgs Boson Discovery Passes Peer Review Publication Hurdle · · Score: 1

    Its like a bullet point, but has less letters.

  16. Re:The real downside. on One Company's Week-Long Interview Process · · Score: 2

    PHP is ugly like the brittish imperial system of measurement. It works and I'm used to it, but I know enought to know how much better it could be.

  17. Re:Seriously? on CERN's Higgs Boson Discovery Passes Peer Review Publication Hurdle · · Score: 1

    Good point, but it would still merit a built point in the story about searching for the higgs.

  18. Re:Seriously? on CERN's Higgs Boson Discovery Passes Peer Review Publication Hurdle · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No, it is news in the same way that the January innageration of the winner of the US Presidential election will be news ( the winner having been announced in november). It won't be a suprise to anyone or really change anyone's life, but it will be a historical milestone that happens.

  19. Re:THAT'S NOT THE POINT!!!!!! on Scientists Say Organic Food May Not Be Healthier For You · · Score: 1

    I have heard them say that they have more vitamins, but these are the same kind of people that worship the sun, practice astrology and think that vaccines cause autism. Its not all organic enthusiasts that are crazy, but there is a non-zero population of crazy ones. I understand the anti pesticide, environmental arguments for organics that many of them make and will buy organic if its not terribly more expensive.

  20. Re:I eat organic food to avoid chemicals... on Scientists Say Organic Food May Not Be Healthier For You · · Score: 1

    Can you find a study or article online that deals with the toxicity of copper salts like copper sulfate? I've only found ones saying its non-toxic to humans.

  21. Re:Add Support for Visual Studio on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Fix the Linux Desktop? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    You have left the land of sense make. You are too emotionally committed to what you beleive to be true to pay attention large pieces of evidence that contradict your beliefs.

    How many windows users are protesting Windows 8's interface and clamouring for the more traditional desktop? Does that mean that the windows community prefers good enough over anything thats trying to move forward?

    How many Mac users complain about the Ios-ification of OSX? Does that mean that the Mac community prefers good enough oer anything thats trying to move forward?

      There is a large amount of innovation and experimentation all across the linux desktop landscape. That is not a real problem. The real problem is much, much, much more boring: a lack of committed qa and testing to perfect and refine that wildness. RHEL desktop works great and provides a stable platform for application developers, its just years behind the upstream desktop projects as it takes them that long to refine the associated technologies.

  22. Re:It's not broken. on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Fix the Linux Desktop? · · Score: 1

    There is a difference between software being "broken" and being perfect. No software every written is perfect. Just because he doesn't think its broken, doesn't necessary mean he thinks it can't be improved.

  23. Re:Add Support for Visual Studio on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Fix the Linux Desktop? · · Score: 2

    Really? What late 90's desktop looked like unity, gnome3 or kde4.x?

  24. Re:Putting words in Apples mouth on Apple Says "No" To Releasing New Dock Connector Specs · · Score: 1

    It is common for companies to work with other companies on third party accessories for unreleased, unannounced projects. Non apple companies do know about the connector because apple is not a manufacturer, but a designer. Perhaps the same manufacturer that is making the Apple branded accessories wants to make its own third party ones as well, or possibly contacted its other clients to give them a heads up.

    The complaints aren't that Apple hasn't publicly published specs, but that they won't provide them under any agreement to any other company.

  25. Re:Criminal Investigation on Should We Print Guns? Cody R. Wilson Says "Yes" (Video) · · Score: 1

    You think they'd be okay with private citizens owning nuclear weapons?