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  1. Re:Lets use the Myan Calendar on The Math of Leap Days · · Score: 1

    Why not? They dont know when jesus was born so they took the winter soltise and said this is when we celebrate.

  2. um I hate to tell you this but stars don't twinkle in space. That is atmospheric distortions from looking through hundreds of miles of nitrogen and oxygen, and various particulate matter moving around.

    Stars as sen from a space ship don't blink unless they are going boom. er BIG Boom.

  3. Re:AT&T Investigated on AT&T Should Be Investigated For 'Fraudulent' Data Policies, Says PK · · Score: 1

    why AT&T provide more or less equally bad service at equally bad pricing, with coverage that is basically the same(shitty).

    you go with a service that provides the best overall quality for the area you are in and know that another area it will be the opposite unless it is rural then they both suck.

  4. Re:I still don't get it on US Prosecutors Have a Sealed Indictment On Assange, Say Leaked Files · · Score: 1

    And if he is extradited to Sweden from the UK. He has to go back to the UK, before he goes to any other country.

    America CAN NOT take him from Sweden. Period. Get some facts as Assange wont give you the whole truth just his edited versions. See the so cal murder video of soldiers as an example. He only releases stuff that put his name in aHeadline.

  5. Re:Is this Apple or MS? on Apple Threatens To Pull Siri Clone From App Store · · Score: 0

    as an apple user,

    Apple is now more Microsoft than Microsoft tried to be.

    I refuse to use things that tie me directly to their control. same with google or microsoft. however the simple fact the iOS has had less viruses, less trojans than android by a factor of 1000 means that they are doing something right.

  6. Re:The industry disappeared on Reasons Behind the Demise of Kodak · · Score: 2

    The thing is Kodak sold off the non film production and R&d. Those companies are still profitable.

    Kodak literally made one product and when the market for that product dried up so did Kodak. It all falls down to diversification. Kodak wasn't and so died.

    Do we prop up car companies when someone invents the teleporter?

    Microsoft will probably suffer the same fate. It has two products windows and office. Without those Microsoft wouldn't be profitable and would soon be in bankruptcy themselves

  7. Re:Bad summary: the airline, not the government on Damaged US Passport Chip Strands Travelers · · Score: 1, Insightful

    So what? If the church is so against contraceptives then it's employees won't need it anyway as they will follow the the church. Unless of course the church knows about nuns getting it on and just chooses to remain ignorant of humans as they did with pedophile priests.

    remember the "Church" is never wrong, god told them that. Of course "God" has told that to every denomination of every religion which means that God is either schizo or really enjoys irony based humor

  8. Re:Enough Problems Already... on Russian Scientists Revive Plant From 30,000-Year-Old Seeds · · Score: 1

    The plans contain the cure for cancer or maybe HIV or maybe the common cold? Don't dismIss it until after it Is studied

  9. Re:How else they gonna do it? on Nuclear Truckers Haul Warheads Across US · · Score: 1

    Damn straight it is one city i wouldn't mind seeing rubbed off the map.

  10. Re:Nostalgia ... on Tetris In 140 Bytes · · Score: 5, Funny

    However the code itself is 140 bytes, the number of libraries required to operate it is at 10 gigabytes.

  11. Re:They got it wrong on Is the Government Scaring Web Businesses Out of the US? · · Score: 1

    It keeps being said because it is the exact opposite of what is happening.

    It also doesn't make sense to those who don't want it to be true(the companies themselves). Most people also don't understand the simple abstraction too much of any one thing is just as bad as not having it at all.

  12. Re:Foxconn and Apple on Fair Labor Association Finds Foxconn Factory "First Class," Says Labor Watchdog · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    That is called capitalism. workers are just a resource to be abused like any other. Why do you think it is called Human Resources?

    Really in a country where the average person doesn't have health care at all(USA) do you think worker exploitation in a foreign nation is really that shocking? 1 in 6 Americans don't have any insurance. another 2/6 have health insurance coverage so useless it is only good for emergency room visits.

  13. Re:They got it wrong on Is the Government Scaring Web Businesses Out of the US? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    and they are going to lose.

    The thing is in order to expand and grow you need new ideas. tougher IP laws actually restrict new ideas and slow down development. That is why China and India have or ignore IP laws. It is why after WWII the USA ignored IP laws for 30 plus years.

    however when you get complacent you make tougher IP laws, which prevents someone else from taking a good idea and moving it in another direction. Think of the number of Patents in a cell phone or even worse a smart phone and realize that those patents are from the 1990's.

    The tighter you grip on imaginary property the less you are likely to dream up something new.

  14. Re:Foxconn and Apple on Fair Labor Association Finds Foxconn Factory "First Class," Says Labor Watchdog · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Just remember Nokia, motorola, HTC also build their phones in China, but they don't even get apples minimal level of raising the workers up.

    There are ZERO phones out there made without sweatshops like this.

    Apple gets singled out because they are large, but smaller shops are the ones who treat them the worst.

  15. Re:Sounds legit on SSD Latency, Error Rates May Spell Bleak Future · · Score: 4, Insightful

    what about the last 3-4 years worth of discoveries, of phase change, memresistors, etc. Many of which get more efficient the smaller you go.

    So NAND Flash has a lifespan. big deal, So did magnetic core drives, Hard drives are still going strong but are reaching the top ends for themselves too.

  16. Re:as well they on Doctors "Fire" Vaccine Refusers · · Score: 1

    different drugs affect different people in different ways. If your spouse was having a bad side effect, then you look for another drug that doesn't hurt you .

    however trying to get the dosage, drugs combination just right takes time, and for the patient to keep the doctor in the loop.

  17. Re:Data wants to be free on Unauthorized iOS Apps Leak Private Data Less Than Approved Ones · · Score: 1

    targeted ads yea right.

    according to google I live in eastern europe. I live in teh USA.

    If they can't even get my IP right for location then what the fuck are they targeting.

     

  18. Re:Why? on Xbox 360 Game Patching Costs $40,000 · · Score: 1

    no it is more like Microsoft treating the Xbox like IBM does with Mainframes. Or sun used to do with Sparcs.

    For every step you have 12 managers who need to sign off of it.

    Or you can do it like apple, or google and just let it go through. If it breaks it is the developers fault.

  19. Re:Did AdBlock kill the free internet? on Will "Do Not Track" Kill the Free Internet? · · Score: 2

    Just remember 95% of all advertising is designed to fail. Advertising has a lower success rate than weathermen(people)

    a 5% return for advertising is considered a major success. The reason? because it is most likely 5% that wouldn't have come to you before.

    Scammers and advertisers both operate on the principal for out of every million people you are bound to find 1,000 suckers to give you their money.

  20. Re:Okay. on Twitter Gets Satellite Access · · Score: 1

    only because it is an IM service that is actually fully cross platform and quick to use.

  21. Re:Outsource it. on Ask Slashdot: How To Go Paperless At Home? · · Score: 2

    Why scan them all? I bet you only need about a 10% of them actually scanned the rest you simply have to store in case they might be needed.

    So start out doing everything digital for this year, and only scan in items that actually apply to this years records.

    In 10 years you will have a fraction of the paper stored, and full archives.

  22. Re:You don't have to BUY a machine on Ask Slashdot: How To Go Paperless At Home? · · Score: 2

    Or simply make it a new resolution, and know that you have to keep the paper version for five years and ignore the past.

    seriously I have been mostly paper free for 5 years now. I have hard copies of stuff that I need to, but if your just storing it, two digital copies stored in different locations works much better, I have 13 years of electronically filed PDF tax returns.

    Paper work has little meaning if you don't want it too.

  23. Re:Hrmm.. on US Air Force Buys iPads To Replace Flight Bags · · Score: 1

    if you lost power like that? you have lost control of 90%of the plane anyways, and your going to be landing really quickly. whether you want to or not.

    besides the ipad has a battery. If it is plugged in when the power goes out you still have 8 hours to land which is probably 2 times longer than the pilots are capable of handling one of those cargo planes for manually.

    think about it.

  24. Re:So, kind of overclocking on DARPA Investing In Electric Brain Stimulation To Train Snipers Quickly · · Score: 1

    actually hidden secret take a 100w bulb and run it at 75 watts of light output and presto a bulb that lats 10,000 or so hours.

    cutting voltage greatly increases projected life.

    The trick is they are trying to massively reduce electricity usage so they don't have to approve of more power plants.

  25. Re:if you were stuck in Iran.. on Sanctions Or Not, Iranian Competition Yields Successful UAVs · · Score: 0

    because iran was being a dick and still held how many of our people hostage? a couple of hundred?

    Personally I say let Iran have a nuclear weapon. they are stupid enough to use it, and stupid enough to realize that it doesn't make any difference in how you attack people as you can't actually use it without killing off your own people too.

    Take a target like Tel aviv. YEA we nuked those jews. but where does the fall out go? Aman, Jordon.

    you can't use Nukes any where in the middle east with out massive collateral damage. yet Iran is too stupid to understand that.