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  1. Re:Trolls on B&N Sought DoJ Inquiry Over Microsoft Patents · · Score: 1

    Right now Microsoft is making more money on andriod from secert NDA patent deals with HTC, Samsung, etc than all of windiws mobile.

    That is a fact. Why dont you learn some more on just what those secert patents are? Oh wait they are secret patents you cant now what it is your paying for ever.

  2. Re:Why are these parts even coming from China? on US Military Trying To Weed Out Counterfeit Parts · · Score: 1

    except when you need to shift building formats you need a completely new FAB.

    Going from 45nm to 33nm requires an entire new building, new custom equipment, etc. you can't reuse much in electronic FAB's. therefore your building only does you good if you don't want to ever build anything else.

  3. Re:Combo on New, More Autonomous Asimo Robot Unveiled By Honda · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I would rather see Asimo and alpha dog walking into a highly dangerous area and doing the work that man needs to do but really can't safely.

  4. Re:Amazon Appstore is an APK on B&N Releases Nook Tablet To Rival Amazon Fire · · Score: 1

    The nook color mounts as a usb drive. And content can be added by just copying files over. However you can purchade directly from barnes and noble.com and have it downloaded automatically as well.

    It also has a microsd slot allowing you acess content from that as well. My only complaints are the stock browser and email clients suck.

  5. Re:High school doesn't prepare you for college on Why Do So Many College Science Majors Drop Out? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Exactly my high school didlittle to prepare me for actuallysurviving college. In high school I could sleep through most classes and get A and B on everything but handwriting.

    We need to separate out students and challenge them all. Different people learn in different ways. Our system only teaches in one way

  6. Re:Criminals were captured on Did Feds' Use of Fake Cell Tower Constitute a Search? · · Score: 1

    If you automatically knew who was innocent and guilty to be punished then you are in either a totalitarian or religious authoritarian system.

    True anarchy has no justice or revenge of any kind, because revenge is predictable, and anarchy isn't supposed to be predictable.

  7. Re:Reminds me of the old Russian bonds on SCO Zombie Creaks Into Motion Again · · Score: 2

    But at least in Soviet Russia, Bond James Bond redeem *you*.

  8. Re:Why the fuck are the e-books so expensive? on B&N Nook Tablet vs. Amazon Kindle Fire · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The same reason why music companies wanted $2 a single song download.

    They don't want digital disbrution cutting into their existing models so they are pricing them out of the park.

    unfortunately there is no apple for ebooks who will stand up and say this is the price suck it up.

    Also the difference between a ebook and real book is the printing, binding, and distbution costs. Since every ebook still needs to be typesetted for the given format. (pdf, epub, etc)

  9. Re:Hubble Space Telescope on Hubble Directly Images Disc Around a Black Hole · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I would say the mars rovers were a better bang for the buck, but hubble is a close second even with all the retrofits.

    I still find it a shame that the last shuttle mission wasn't a trip to the hubble to bring it home. just like the shuttle were designed to do.

  10. Re:Bonus time. on AMD To Lay Off 10% of Global Workforce · · Score: 3, Interesting

    never said it wasn't. managers and especially good mangers are tough to find.

    however no one is worth 1,000 times the janitor. without whom the place literally turns to shit. No one is worth 800 times the salesmen who actual drive the profits. or the workers without whom your orders don't actually get filled.

    For this Circuit city is my favorite punching bag. They fired all their top salesmen, to save money hired new people, paid out bonuses at like 75% of the money they saved by firing people to the board, and a little over a year later declared bankruptcy.

    All so a manager can get a bonus.

    that is the skill set your defending.

  11. Re:Bonus time. on AMD To Lay Off 10% of Global Workforce · · Score: 4, Interesting

    No it doesn't make sense.

    I am going to fire a bunch of people to save x millions of dollars over the next 3-5 years but right now I am going to pay out x millions (yea it is often a similar number) right now to give a bonus to a multi millionaire who doesn't need it.

    The worst part is that next year they pay the bonus out again, and again all while the company loses money.

    Instead of firing people to pay out bonuses. why not do something simple like cut upper management salary by 50%, and automatically save 3 or 5x right away. But you almost never here about a CEO or board, or congress who is willing to put the company(or country) before their own salary.

  12. Re:the way to go on Tough Tests Flunk Good Programming Job Candidates · · Score: 2

    they wouldn't call it a resource if it wasn't intended to be strip mined

  13. Re:This is what happens... on Apple Threatens Bistro Over "AppleADay" Name · · Score: 1

    the problem is a lawyers hands is the least dangerous part of their body.

    cutting out their tongue is a much better solution.

  14. Re:That's a good tradeoff on How X-Ray Scanners Became Mandatory In US Airports · · Score: 3, Informative

    X-rays arent good for you but mostly is the weak shieleding and poor maintience that is the long term problem. Those 100 people will be the security guards standing by the machines for 40 hours a week for 5 years.

    Every 5 minutes or so they are getting a full xray dose.

  15. Re:Not your Will on Ask Slashdot: How To Securely Share Passwords? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Will are only public after you are dead.

    You missed the point that if you die your accounts are frozen as part of your estate. Joint accounts however remain un changed.

    No one is to touch your ebay account even with auctions pending until after the will has been read. That is part of estate law.

  16. Re:Dont worry about it on Ask Slashdot: How To Securely Share Passwords? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It is easy store a copy of passwords on an ecrypted drive. In your will leave the password . It can't be touched until you die. Update the password with the will. Nothing can legally be touched with your accounts until your estate has been settled. So with the will is perfect.

  17. Re:Q3 is meaningless when comparing to Apple on HTC Becomes Highest Shipping Smartphone Vendor In the US · · Score: 1

    not only that but apple had opening week sales of 4 million units for the 4s.

    6.4 million is a drop in the bucket when apple is doing that every month.

    Of course Apple has an easier time with only 2-3 models to support it is easier to keep on top of.

    HTC and Samsung have hundreds of models that get some updates but not others, etc.

  18. Re:Cornholio on Military Labs Develop Caffeinated Jerky and "Zapplesauce" · · Score: 2

    the MRE's of today aren't the same ones they made in 1996.

    In fact there have been quite a few major differences. anyone who's last MRE was pre 2001 really shouldn't talk about it until they have tried the ones made since.

    That said, they are still going to sit like a lump of coal in your stomach.

  19. Re:Graphene == dead end :-( on Another Step Towards Graphene Semiconductors · · Score: 1

    That because they are missing the final step of massively heating and compressing the graphene to create diamond circuits . After that we will have crystal computers and the future will be now.

  20. Re:For their next performance on Ohio Emergency Responders Stage Mock Zombie Invasion · · Score: 1

    except for multi state disasters(states don't talk to each other) and the simply fact that most states don't have the money for it and are gutting police and firemen budgets almost as badly as teachers right now to make ends meet.

  21. Re:Overengineering on Is That an Android On Your Wrist? · · Score: 1

    bad analogy. especially with all in one displays more popular than ever.

    I do agree, however it is because I only wear a watch while racing, and the moment I don't need it on my wrist it comes off.

    I just need to find a good digital fob watch or use my phone

  22. Re:Maintenance? on The Real Job Threat · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not quite. Everything will still need raw resources. That will limit supplies, thusa need for money to determine who gets what.

  23. Re:Wow... on Earth Officially Home To 7 Billion Humans · · Score: 1

    um prenatal screening and abortions.

    It is a really sick practice, but Chinese society places more emphasis on males, with one child per family they get pregnant, check the sex, and abort if it is female unless they want a girl.

    The government is trying to stop it,but they aren't very successful.

  24. Re:Wow... on Earth Officially Home To 7 Billion Humans · · Score: 1

    you forgot the 1 child per family china, and the majority of those families are having males. More Males mean less kids.

    In 40-50 years china's population will start to contract massively.

    compare with the Western world which is having less kids later in their lives. means that the separation between generations is increasing.

  25. Re:A bit short sighted on Canadian Company Plans Solar-Powered Heavier-Than-Air Airships · · Score: 1

    don't need thick just dense. just line the helium tank with a lead or gold foil.