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  1. Cancel Christmas on Microsoft Won't Bring Back the Start Menu Until 2015 · · Score: 1

    HP and Dell announce revised Q4 revenue projections.

  2. Re:Presumably this is relative to porn abstainers on Study Finds Porn Exposure Associated With Smaller Brain Region · · Score: 1

    The Amish have got it going on. Don't mistake their dislike of technology for a neglect of their humanity.

  3. Re:Presumably this is relative to porn abstainers on Study Finds Porn Exposure Associated With Smaller Brain Region · · Score: 1

    So you are a 36 year old virgin with limited outside contact and you think you should be included in their samples. Tell me: how would they have found you to get your valuable input on this issue?

  4. Re: people ruin everything on The Sudden Policy Change In Truecrypt Explained · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The former CEO of USWest was sent to prison based on secret NSA data that could not be independently confirmed - or even discussed. That this happened shortly after he refused to cooperate with illegal NSA data collection is completely coincidental.

  5. Re:HP Is Being Cheap on HP (Re-)Announces a 14" Android Laptop · · Score: 1

    You can already buy an HP laptop with Windows at this price from Walmart.

  6. Presumably this is relative to porn abstainers on Study Finds Porn Exposure Associated With Smaller Brain Region · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Where did they find them?

  7. Re:But... but... on SpaceX Shows Off 7-Man Dragon V2 Capsule · · Score: 1

    Although this is nodded flamebait, there is a certain amount of truth to it.

  8. Re:What else is needed on SpaceX Shows Off 7-Man Dragon V2 Capsule · · Score: 1

    Obviously that process has been under way for over a year. I would be surprised if they didn't launch it with crash test dummies and also real cargo sometime this summer. Going to ISS and back to rocket landing.

  9. Re:we need to help ISP competition to return on Comcast CEO Brian Roberts Opens Mouth, Inserts Foot · · Score: 1

    It takes a company the size of Google. Smaller companies the incumbents will pull out all the stops - door to door canvassers, wall to wall TV and radio ads, billboards, sports sponsorships and whatnot. The goal being to tie down so much of the population that the startup can't get traction and folds. That is how they got their monopolies in the first place. They can milk their other markets for the cost. As soon as the challenger is dead they can buy the assets for pennies on the dollar and go back to raping the local area to pay for the assimilation of another.

  10. Re:Backbone.... on Comcast CEO Brian Roberts Opens Mouth, Inserts Foot · · Score: 1

    TWC, AT&T and Comcast are all so bad that Google doesn't seem to mind running their fiber network right alongside their 'natural monopoly' and busting their exclusives with better service at lower rates. Maybe they are on to something.

  11. Re: Stupid govt on Oregon vs. Oracle: the Battle of Blame Heats Up · · Score: 1

    Figuring out who is the wizard to build and buy your infrastructure or acquiring the best working deal from the vendor is the same skillset. They can either do both or neither.

  12. Re:Another Goverment Run on Oregon vs. Oracle: the Battle of Blame Heats Up · · Score: 1

    Even at the highest levels Oregon's government is remarkably innocent of current technology, process management, best practices, effective purchase evaluations and so on. They seem to be organizationally well insulated against an injection of good sense as well. It is a wonder every IT story from there doesn't have this ending.

  13. Re:Huawei is a Big NO in USA on Huawei Successfully Tests New 802.11ax WiFi Standard At 10.53Gbps · · Score: 1

    They can license the radio modulation technologies to others for implementation.

  14. Re:Now the real question is on Huawei Successfully Tests New 802.11ax WiFi Standard At 10.53Gbps · · Score: 1

    Google is working on 10Gbps fiber to the home, with a 3 year timeline. When asked why they should do such a crazy thing the project manager replied: "We can, so why not?"

  15. Re:I'll name some names on Microsoft Announces Windows 8.1 With Bing To Sell Cheaper Devices · · Score: 1

    iTunes doesn't work perfectly on OS-X.

  16. Re:Google Play Store no longer requires Gmail on HP Delivers a Big-Name, 7-inch Android Tablet For $100: Comes With Compromises · · Score: 1

    If you are buying Android 2.x devices today you are confused. And yes, I know you can still buy them on Amazon and eBay.

  17. Re:From the UK Readers on Is Bamboo the Next Carbon Fibre? · · Score: 1

    If you would like to submit a few articles, Timothy wouldn't have to be working overtime filling up Slashdot.

  18. Makes a nice Chromecast remote on HP Delivers a Big-Name, 7-inch Android Tablet For $100: Comes With Compromises · · Score: 1

    Sure, this is not going to replace anybody's iPad. That is not the point.

  19. Re:Android Tablets and Privacy on HP Delivers a Big-Name, 7-inch Android Tablet For $100: Comes With Compromises · · Score: 2

    You don't need a gmail account to use an Android tablet. They work fine without it. Of course if you want Google Play, Gmail or other Google services then you would need an account.

  20. Re:No bluetooth? on HP Delivers a Big-Name, 7-inch Android Tablet For $100: Comes With Compromises · · Score: 1

    Bluetooth headset and keyboard here too.

  21. Re:Bad Journalism on Quad Lasers Deliver Fast, Earth-Based Internet To the Moon · · Score: 1

    Just needs a good CDN.

  22. Re:Time for a new name? on TechCrunch and Others On the Microsoft Surface Pro 3 · · Score: 1

    The discussion around the other two had raving fans as well. But the sales were not good.

  23. Re:Unity3D on Ask Slashdot: Tech Customers Forced Into Supporting Each Other? · · Score: 2

    See? This is stellar community support. Complain about support for the product on a random website, get a response from a developer in 30 minutes.

  24. Re:So.... on Microsoft Announces Windows 8.1 With Bing To Sell Cheaper Devices · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Or install Linux, now without the Microsoft tax.

  25. Re:"Symbolset thinks an MSFT product isn't very go on With the Surface Pro, Microsoft Is Trying To Recreate the PC Market · · Score: 0

    It's Windows tablet. I don't have to be Nostradamus to see how that is going to go.