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  1. Can I interest you into a trade? on Is Facebook Becoming a Central Bank? · · Score: 1

    Can I trade my Bitcoins for Credits? I also have some vintage CueCat rewards points?

  2. The problems you speak of... on Apple Intends To 'Digitally Destroy' Textbook Publishing · · Score: 1

    B) An expert in the subject who is able to take their knowledge and lay it out in such a way that it is useful to the student and the professor.

    That doesn't seem to stop them.

  3. Don't we already have that? on Apple Intends To 'Digitally Destroy' Textbook Publishing · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Aren't most e-readers able to display PDF files? I am sure e-PUB has more features, but creating multi-page PDFs or converting docs using Calibre seems to work well.

    BTW, If we get rid of publishers, we lose the editor. Get ready for 1,000 page epics about cats.

  4. Re:exponential version growth on 5th Edition of Dungeons & Dragons Announced · · Score: 5, Funny

    Why is it reading your post, the voice I hear in my head is the comic book guy from the Simpsons. Just saying.

  5. Re:Yay! on Did Microsoft Make Google Pay Triple Rate To Mozilla? · · Score: 1

    As soon as I heard they made them raise the bidding to 300% I thought of this

  6. How dysfunctional on Ask Slashdot: Handing Over Personal Work Without Compensation? · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Wow, how dysfunctional.

    You have no interest in the success of your company and you would hold this project over their heads to get a short-term payoff.

    Sadly, if your employer was better to their employees, they might see the benefit it working as a team to make the company succeed.

    Seems to me that neither of you have each others interests at heart. A good place to work would be one where I am striving to help the company succeed and my company is sharing is that success. Sounds like you need a new job.

    BTW, you have added more work to your schedule fixing bugs and adding features to your "new system". Good luck with that!

  7. Obligatory on Experimenting With Robotic Movement · · Score: 0

    I for one welcome our new jump gliding robotic overlords.

  8. Re:nice hack on US Sentinel Drone Fooled Into Landing With GPS Spoofing · · Score: 1

    I am glad I was not the only one who thought the same thing. Hey, can we hire the person from Iran who came up with that one?

  9. Re:Psft....Oh yeah, look what I just bought on Original Star Wars Camera Sells For $625,000 · · Score: 1

    Fine... how about this link.

  10. Psft....Oh yeah, look what I just bought on Original Star Wars Camera Sells For $625,000 · · Score: 1

    My holiday shopping this year is complete! I have the ultra-rare Grunt FB-11426

  11. So long and thanks for all the fish on Voyager 1 Exits Our Solar System · · Score: 1

    Here's a nice picture

  12. Re:Slashdotted already?!? FTFY on New All-Sky Map Shows the Magnetic Fields of the Milky Way · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here is another site we can try to destroy with the power of the force.

    http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/mpa/institute/news_archives/news1112_fara/news1112_fara-en-print.html

  13. Re:That's great but.... on PlayBook Jailbreak Tool Released · · Score: 2
  14. That's great but.... on PlayBook Jailbreak Tool Released · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Hey, good job on the hack. But how many people own a PlayBook?

  15. Re:Horse and buggy companies didn't make it either on The Rise and Fall of Kodak · · Score: 4, Insightful

    more or less a lost cause now

    I would say less. If they were able to cut their expenses to the bone, then take on additional funding to create innovative imaging products, then they would have a shot. Their brand recognition is still worth a lot. There are a lot of people over 30 who will have some trust in new Kodak products.

    Unfortunately, they have tried to create products by copying the status quo. They should raid developers and designers from Apple and try a fresh start.

  16. Re:This just in! on Judge Orders Hundreds of Websites Delisted From Search Engines, Social Networks · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can see the headline now. Judge orders defendant to pay fine of one Internet.

  17. In addition, a total ban on search engine indexing was ordered, one which neither Bing nor Google appears to have complied with yet.

    Yeah, good luck with that one judge.

  18. Re:Seems to me this is the core of the whole on Does Telecommuting Make You Invisible? · · Score: 0

    Um... ok.

  19. This might actually make it on MIT Researchers Make Advance Toward Photonic Circuits · · Score: 5, Insightful
    From the article -

    The whole system could be made using standard microchip manufacturing machinery, Ross says. “It simplifies making an all-optical chip,” she says. The design of the circuit can be produced “just like an integrated-circuit person can design a whole microprocessor. Now, you can do an integrated optical circuit.” That could make it much easier to commercialize than a system based on different materials, Ross says. “A silicon platform is what you want to use,” she says, because “there’s a huge infrastructure for silicon processing. Everyone knows how to process silicon. That means they can set about developing the chip without having to worry about new fabrication techniques.”

    It is good to see someone is coming up with an innovation that can "actually" be introduced. Seems like I read about new innovations every day on slashdot that never get off the ground because completely new manufacturing processes need to be created. Hopefully this will actually make it because it requires fewer changes by manufacturers (which can be significant barriers to innovation).

  20. This is why I do not use Android on CarrierIQ Tries To Silence Security Researcher · · Score: 0, Troll

    Thank goodness I use an iPhone. Apple would never track me....urr...crap! Nevermind.

  21. Extremely useful summary on AMD Cancels 28nm APUs, Starts From Scratch At TSMC · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Moving 28nm APUs from GloFo to TSMC means scrapping the existing designs and laying out new parts using gate-last rather than gate-first manufacturing. AMD may try to mitigate the damage by doing a straightforward 28nm die shrink of existing Ontario/Zacate products, but that's unlikely to fend off increasing competition from Intel and ARM in the mobile space

    After reading the summary (a few times), I came to the conclusion that I know nothing about this topic. Thanks for the heads up so I that was not burdened with reading an article that only a select few might understand or care.

  22. Re:Can I do this? on Toyota To Let People Ride In Self-Driving Prius · · Score: 4, Funny

    5. Bring a date?

    LOL! good one!

  23. Was it GOD? on SCADA Hacker: Water District Used 3-Character Password · · Score: 1

    http://youtu.be/Xy0NU-rAlT8

    4:40

  24. Re:Stylus? on Ask Slashdot: What's a Good Tablet/App Combination For Note-Taking? · · Score: 1

    If you decided to go the keyboard route instead, I have been using BasKet notes. This works really well. Doesn't give you the excuse to buy the shiny new iPad, but for those running Linux on a desktop, it's a good solution.

  25. Re:Walled Garden on Google's iOS Gmail App Pulled · · Score: 1

    Nice troll. I see what you have done here.