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  1. Re:Five year old news? on Fifth Anniversary of a Cosmic Onslaught · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oddly enough that explains all the dupes one sees on slashdot quite well. They are being uploaded from various star systems, and teh editors don't see the final page until after they have already clicked on submit.

  2. Re:javascript on How To Teach a 12-Year-Old To Program? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    while java script isn't a good place to start it is doing something they are interested in and that would be web pages.

    You start where you have an interest and move from there.

  3. Re:Headache? on Real-World Synthehol In Development · · Score: 1

    after a night of heavy drinking, a tall glass of dihydrogen monoxide, along with a bottle of gatorade. means I haven't had a hangover in years. That means I can drink a whole bottle of rum, and then shots of tequila, and wake up happier than most people.

  4. Re:Jobs is happy with it? on Jobs Finally "Happy" With Unannounced Apple Tablet · · Score: 4, Insightful

    making it look nice is 90% of the battle. most consumer devices are far from user friendly. you want to know why the iphone is a smashing success? it has an interface that is designed for the screen that it is displaying on. the ipod? the simple interface is very easy to use and learn.

    while other companies duplicate the hardware side, they always fail to design an interface that is simple to use. Or they resort to skinning an interface that isn't simple to use. (every version of win mobile) Palm pre, and chromeOS are both unique. Chrome more than likely won't have proper multi touch support even though it should be easy to install. Palm Pre is suffering the same fate the iphone did when it was first released. no native apps, all web apps.

  5. Re:Do you hear me now?? on Verizon Removes Search Choices For BlackBerrys · · Score: 1

    well I half agree with you. whenever my internet connection is acting up I use google's home-page to test how fast things are loading, and if I have a connection. (it either works or it doesn't) However the search bar in browsers work very well for me as it is an even faster version of google's homepage.

  6. Re:Her Constituent Status Is Only Part of It on Florida Congressman Wants Blogging Critic Fined, Jailed · · Score: 1

    Oh I know if we kept up to clinton's plan, even with the 2001 recession caused by the collapse of the twin towers, we would be close to paying off the national debt by now.

    but republicans love credit card debt

  7. Re:Down with Twitter on Networked Christmas Tree Controlled By Twitter · · Score: 1

    twitter has 140^68 possibilities. 140 characters to the power of every possible character on a keyboard. and just like twitter 99% of those possibilities make no sense to sane intelligent people.

  8. Re:Everything old is new again? on Next-Gen Glitter-Sized Photovoltaic Cells Unveiled · · Score: 1

    apparently you haven't seen twilight with glitter power vampires.

  9. Re:Say they do... on Google About Openness · · Score: 1

    Have you e er tried rouse wikipedias search ? I just use google and add wiki as asearch term. Not only is it faster but you can actually get usable results. It is a personal annyoance you try searching some random companies website to look up something only to use site:example.com in google and get results in the first try.

    Google is king as they have a decent service. If google would open source their search engine so that mediawiki could use it then that wouldbe good

  10. Re:TPMs and related tech on Intel Patches Flaws In Trusted Execution Tech · · Score: 1

    The tools change yes, but you will still have inputs and outputs. as long as you have those hacks are still possible. just a lot smaller.

  11. Re:Her Constituent Status Is Only Part of It on Florida Congressman Wants Blogging Critic Fined, Jailed · · Score: 1

    when it comes to politicians I keep democrats away from my daughter and republicans away from my wallet. I do find it easier to keep democrats away than republicans those.

    Just remember when republicans say they want less taxes and smaller government what they do is cut taxes and increase spending which leads to recessions. Democrats get us through the recessions but then don't put that money into paying off deficits instead increase spending even more. Oh and my statment is backed by fifty years of US politics, whenever there has been a major recession republicans where in charge for the last 4-8 years. The only exception that I know of so far is the dot-bomb. but by that point clinton was useless anyways.

    The big thing to remember is that no party will actually reduce spending, so that Taxes can actually be cut without deficits.

  12. Re:Do you hear me now?? on Verizon Removes Search Choices For BlackBerrys · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ah but they doubled their termination fee. now it is cheaper to get a divorce than to pay verizon to get out of the contract.

  13. Re:You-turn.. on AU Authority Moves To Censor Net Filtering Protest Site · · Score: 1

    No the US doesn't have censorship like that.. and it never will as free speech is a right not a connivence of the government. Remember in english common wealths you can only say things that let you say. Traditionally they are open about it but they don't have to be.

    What worse is that countries want the US to let go of the top level domain so they can do this sort of thing world wide,

  14. Re:Sailing the myriad seas? on Proposed NASA Mission Would Sail the Seas of Titan · · Score: 1

    um did you read the person i was responing too? who was saying that there would be no oxygen on titan so that you wouldn't have to worry about explosions. however in order to have rocket engines you need oxygen which is exactly what I was pointing out.

    So we are literally going to send oxygen to a place with none.

  15. Re:Sounds like cheap C-- drugs ! on The Environmental Impact of PHP Compared To C++ On Facebook · · Score: 3, Insightful

    while true it ignores things like your comparing a simple search box, with millions of users who post multi megabyte files to their personal space for everyone to see. try it some day save a facebook user's page locally and see just how much data is coming down that pipe, on top of the scripts that are running.

    Your comparing googles front door with facebooks entire company. Google probably has that many servers running web crawlers, and twice over again to store that massive database they use.

  16. Re:1996 called, on Where Are the Cheap Thin Clients? · · Score: 1

    then it was rolled out wrong. with the wrong network, wrong software choice, etc. as I have seen hundreds of thin clients connected for programmers, And not only was their no lag, but this was in 1996.

    Using windows as a thin client is like driving a Hum Vee to work in a downtown city building. Sure it works, but damn is it overkill.

  17. Re:I Just Did... on Making Sense of the Cellphone Landscape · · Score: 1

    I visit my sister three states over two-three times a year, and call her on a regular basis( a couple times a week). Nationwide phone calls while a bit of a stretch means it is cheaper to call from my cell phone than to call from any landline. besides that the best time for both of us to talk is during our commutes home. We get pleasant conversation to wind down the work day that isn't the people we see when we do get home.

    Nationwide wide coverage basically just kills all long distance charges for you. Even if your the one far away from home.

  18. Re:1996 called, on Where Are the Cheap Thin Clients? · · Score: 1

    Fine but why does the secretary, accounting, and the boss need full blown computers? When all they use is MS office, and a web browser?

  19. Re:Sailing the myriad seas? on Proposed NASA Mission Would Sail the Seas of Titan · · Score: 1

    And how do you propose the engines work? maybe they should carry their own oxygen with the vessel while it is in space?

    Unless of course they go for the bouncy ball approach vector.

  20. Re:Where is government now that we need them? on Verizon Defends Doubling of Early Termination Fee · · Score: 2

    well to start with we don't have just GSM networking. Verizon uses CDMA, and sprint uses a different type of CDMA. So gsm only work with AT&T and tmobile. So you can SIM swap however swapping to other carriers is useless as tmobile has shitty coverage in the USA.

    Good news as it stands now both Verizon and AT&T are going to support LTE for their 4G cell phone tech so in about 10 years sim swapping will be semi practical. sprint is going the wi-max route.

    Chargers are a different problem and your too stupid to notice. Chargers are laid out by the manufacture of which the majority sub contract out to china anyways. Sim swapping has nothing to do with charger plugs.

  21. Re:Monopoly or not. on Psystar Not Closing Up Shop · · Score: 1

    If you go to a gallery and buy ten prints but sell a 100 of them then yes you are committing crimes.

    Also and this is stressed, you don't buy software. Ever you get a license to use a copy of it. Even the GPL and BSD are licenses that allow you to use a copy. You never have really owned any of the software your using right now unless you coded it your self. The copyright is still with the owners.

    Some licenses are open with relaxed rules, others are closed down with lot's of rules.

    You know that windows OEM disc you got with your computer? well since you installed linux on the machine and never used windows do you think it is allowed for you to install that windows disc on another computer? It isn't. OEM disc are supposed to be for new installs, on one non transferable computer. if you buy OEM disc's and resell them as full windows retail MSFT comes after you.

  22. Re:Monopoly or not. on Psystar Not Closing Up Shop · · Score: 5, Informative

    Notice how apple is only going after pystar, not the homebrew hackintosh community.

    Apple doesn't give a shit if you install OSX on a Dell. Apple only cares if you install it on a hundred dells and sell them as "OS X" computers.

    notice the difference. if you want a hackintosh go ahead and do it. just don't do it for a profit.

  23. Re:Monopoly or not. on Psystar Not Closing Up Shop · · Score: 1

    Nokia is engaging in anti-competitive behavior for tying hardware and software.

    or when was the last time you were able to load an OS onto a cellphone?

    pull your head out of your ass and look around you. it is too dark for you to see anything where it is currently located.

  24. Re:Simpsons did it... on The Social Difficulty of Saving Earth From an Asteroid · · Score: 1

    While that might work, given how every government on this planet can' plan for more than 5 years out that seems unlikely. Given how most people can't plan more than five minuets out that seems unlikely. More than likely any plan would be thrown together in the last few months while we cursed that we didn't do anything sooner.

  25. Re:Good Riddance on UK Wants To Phase Out Checks By 2018 · · Score: 1

    What if the vendor doesn't want to pay the 3-5% fees that using credit and debit cards cost a company?