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  1. Re:Pre-Order... :( on Tiny $45 Cubic Mini-PC Supports Android and Linux · · Score: 2

    You can get any one of dozens of quad core ARM tablet PCs in 7" with 10-point capacitive touch that run Ubuntu or Android for under $100 delivered. SDHC and HDMI out at 1080p for the second screen, usb if you must have wired network, keyboard and mouse or whatever. For $200 you can get 10". Admit it: your complaint has an unstated "with Windows". That, you can't have.

  2. Re:How much RAM? on Tiny $45 Cubic Mini-PC Supports Android and Linux · · Score: 1

    You aren't looking for a rugged unit. You are looking for a mentalist.

  3. Re:Hmm... on Official: Microsoft To Acquire Nokia Devices and Services Business · · Score: 2

    The problem is... Elop doesn't have anyone to sell Microsoft to...

    Attachmate is where old software goes to die.

  4. Re:A sad day on Official: Microsoft To Acquire Nokia Devices and Services Business · · Score: 1

    You can watch the Nokia press conference here in two hours from right now.

  5. Re:Suddenly, the money is in hardware. on Official: Microsoft To Acquire Nokia Devices and Services Business · · Score: 2

    Nokia has been losing billions on Windows phones. Never made a dime of profit on that, even after their "platform support payments".

  6. Re:Beware of Microsofties bearing gifts on Official: Microsoft To Acquire Nokia Devices and Services Business · · Score: 5, Insightful
  7. Times of India has the MS Email on Official: Microsoft To Acquire Nokia Devices and Services Business · · Score: 5, Informative
  8. Re:My give-a-darn meter is reading negative GADs on Patent Suit Leads To 500,000 Annoyed Software Users · · Score: 1

    It isn't the general public that is getting hosed here. It is people who fund one of the planet's worst abusers of patents. Not being cared about in this matter is therefore part of the Apple Experience they signed up for.

  9. My give-a-darn meter is reading negative GADs on Patent Suit Leads To 500,000 Annoyed Software Users · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I am not going to cry for Apple over software patents. Software patents are a crime against humanity but they are in that fight using them to commit their own atrocities. There is nobody to root for in this fight. A pox on both their houses. Nice /. banner ad though.

  10. Re:Instafail on Microsoft Seeks Patent On 'Quieting Mobile Devices' · · Score: 3, Funny

    No doubt, knowing Microsoft, it will be the kids locking their parents out, not the other way 'round.

  11. Re:Still want it? on Global Warming Spreading Pests Far and Wide According To Study · · Score: 1

    What if the predators for pests moved at the same rate as the pests. If the entire ecosystem were so much more intelligent than humans that it just automatically and naturally moves to where the food is. Like it did the last eight times this happened. Wouldn't that be just amazing?

  12. Re:Why not, if other things can flourish also? on Global Warming Spreading Pests Far and Wide According To Study · · Score: 1

    Never the mod points when I need them.

  13. Re:Wrong issue on More Bad News From Fukushima · · Score: 1

    A desire to prevent panic. We are not done with the alarming pronouncements.

  14. A decent judge on Feds Seek Prison For Man Who Taught How To Beat a Polygraph · · Score: 1

    Would find the defendant not guilty (despite the guilty plea), and jail the prosecutor for contempt.

  15. Re:Software Quality On The Decline on Devs Flay Microsoft For Withholding Windows 8.1 RTM · · Score: 1

    I would love to see the moderation count on this comment, and the IP address log. It has been to +5 and -2 several times.

  16. Re:Is are on Ohio State Introduces Massive Open Online Calculus · · Score: -1

    Wasn't Ohio the state that legislated the value of pi to equal 3 as part of education reform?

  17. O Hai. Has this been posted? on Ask Slashdot: Speeding Up Personal Anti-Spam Filters? · · Score: 1

    The canonical spam solution checklist.

    I'm going with Specificaly, your plan fails to account for: (x) Users of email will not put up with it.

  18. Re:slow news day on We All May Have a Little Martian In Us · · Score: 2

    Life provably occured on Earth so soon after it was physically possible that it makes either the claim of unlikely abiogenesis or denial of panspermia implausible. It is an either/or but not and thing. Because of the time scales, biological processes and physics involved, either possible answer leads to panspermia. If Abiogenesis is this easy it must have occured and spread in the Milky Way so much in the 8 billion years before the sun was born that the whole place is thoroughly contaminated with life. If it is so hard, then this nearby more hospitable planet is more likely the source. For myself I prefer the former answer. Regardless of the answer Earth's life has had plenty of time to contaminate the entire galaxy, and perhaps nearby galaxies as well. Our ancestors have already been to the stars.

  19. Re:slow news day on We All May Have a Little Martian In Us · · Score: 1

    Waterbears. That wasn't even hard.

  20. Re:slow news day on We All May Have a Little Martian In Us · · Score: 3, Informative

    Waterbears can be dehydrated, frozen to only a few degrees Kelvin, and in that dehydrated frozen state withstand 100 g acceleration, hard vacuum and radiation without ill effect, on contact with liquid water reanimating. They can do so for at least a decade and thousands of years is not beyond reason. And that is not RNA, nor a bacterium. It is a complex animal. There are life forms that actually prefer extreme environments like this.

  21. Re:Dubious Evidence on We All May Have a Little Martian In Us · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This is a good story. Sharpen it by learning more about the primordial atmosphere composition, because you have that part exactly backward. Still, nicely done.

  22. Re:Software Quality On The Decline on Devs Flay Microsoft For Withholding Windows 8.1 RTM · · Score: 2

    Long ago with Linux customers fixed their own utiliy issues. Today they build on the shoulders of giants as God and the Founders intended..

  23. Re:Touble trouble trouble on Devs Flay Microsoft For Withholding Windows 8.1 RTM · · Score: 0

    You lost me on the last four words. That is a flat lie.

  24. Consider yourself lucky on Devs Flay Microsoft For Withholding Windows 8.1 RTM · · Score: 1

    Is it your OS? No. It is Microsoft's OS. They have never offered a fair field for ISVs. Be glad they still let their users run your app at all.

  25. Re:Lead, don't follow. on Microsoft Needs a Catch-Up Artist · · Score: 1

    That's what Bing is about. It's not working out.