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  1. Both subscribers? on Microsoft Says Goodbye To WebTV/MSN TV · · Score: 1

    was the service realy that ill used? Just two subscribers?

  2. Discovering your company has just partnered on Things That Scare the Bejeezus Out of Programmers · · Score: 1

    with Microsoft...

  3. Re:AppRadio on Why Automakers Should Stop the Infotainment Arms Race · · Score: 1

    and it has Haptic Feedback where the screen gives a vibration back to the finger to indicate selection of an option.

  4. Re:AppRadio on Why Automakers Should Stop the Infotainment Arms Race · · Score: 1

    As a counter argument perhaps you don't want a fighter pilot firing a missile without actually looking at the control to do so ;-)~ So touchscreens in cars are ok for the roof mounted missile launcher!

    actually they don't look at the controls, that's the entire point of HOTAS (Hands On Throttle And Stick), their muscle memory serves them to select things instinctively, and looking through the Head Up Display gives them confirmation of the selection and also allows them to slew the radar and/or missile head onto the target.

  5. Depends upon where you want the pollution on Electric Vehicles Might Not Benefit the Environment After All · · Score: 1
    Burning petrol (Gasoline for you Yanks) produces the polution in the urban streets and is hard to do exhaust scrubbing to reduce the CO2 etc. emissions, whereas burning coal or gas in the power stations keeps the pollution "centralised" where it is far easier to do large scale exhaust gas scrubbing to trap the CO2 from the exhaust. Well it would be if our politicians bit the bullet amd mandated it.

    What does depress me is that we still haven't gone far enough with designing cars etc. for recycling. It's very hard still to separate the various materials when scrapping cars and requires either a large amount of labour to dissassemble them or else using a very large shredder machine and putting the waste stream through an automated separating process.

    Electric cars complicate things with the nasty materials in the batteries.

  6. Re:So how do you know the binary matches the sourc on Richard Stallman Speaks About Back Doors After NSA Documents Leak · · Score: 1

    I'm afraid you've got it wrong. At least Australia can build from source. I doubt they got a special deal.

    Australia to see Windows source code

    The ability to build from source would seem to be a key aspect of verifying the code. I'm not sure why you think they wouldn't be able to do it. What they probably can't do is distribute the binaries for free - they still have to pay Microsoft for the distribution of software.

    do they have access to the source code for the entire toolchain?

  7. Be afraid, be very afraid. on Wall Street To Hold Quantum Dawn 2, Cyber-Attack Drill · · Score: 1, Troll

    Pull as much money out of your accounts into cash as you can right now, just keep enough in to cover direct debits/standing orders as they occur. These bastards are about to crash the entire system and leave everybody except those in the know without access to their money or the ability to use their cards at the checkouts.

  8. Slashdot effect :) on Adafruit's Smart Helmet Helps Navigate to NYC's Citi Bike Stations · · Score: 1

    Everything on the required list for the project is now "Out of Stock"!

  9. Re:You know on Kickass Torrents' KAT.ph Domain Seized By Philippine Authorities · · Score: 2
    already blocked in the UK

    Sorry, the web page you have requested is not available through Virgin Media.

    Virgin Media has received an order from the Courts requiring us to prevent access to this site in order to help protect against copyright infringement.

  10. Re:Possible Subtitles? on Arnold Schwarzenegger Will Be Back As the Terminator · · Score: 1

    Terminator 5: Incontinence Pads

  11. Some sense at last :) on UDOO Looks To Combine Best of Raspberry Pi, Arduino · · Score: 1

    they've had the good sense to bring almost all of the connections you need to make to the same side of the board instead of wherever they managed to get the tracks to run to that had a bit of spare space on the Raspberry Pi. I'm not knocking the Pi though, for the price it's amazing and I've got my hands on a 512 MB model B, but rather inconvenient with the connections coming out on all four edges.

  12. The Reason for all the Scaremongering? on 3D Printers For Peace Contest · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It's because the rich who own the means of production are absolutely terrified of teh disruptive power this tool gives the poor. They can see what's coming and they want it legislated such that the machines have to be registered because you know, people might print up a gun or knife... but they really want them tied up with loads of red tape to keep them out of the hands of the people.

  13. Re:Orbital pickup truck on Helium Depleted, Herschel Space Telescope Mission Ends · · Score: 3, Insightful

    or from NASA apologists trying to excuse the stagnation there since the ISS and STS ate up the budget for real exploration

    no it bloody didn't... what ate up the budget for anything is the monstrous amount being spent on fancy weapons and research into killing people more efficiently...

  14. Re:sometimes it takes a crisis on Spain's Extremadura Starts Move To GNU/Linux, Open Source · · Score: 1

    bit rich considering Microsoft's limitation of liability amounts to exactly $5.00 and you have to sue them in Washington State where they've got every law firm that is good on retainer so they can't take your case for you...

  15. Re:Japan on Japanese Police Urge ISPs To Block Tor · · Score: 1, Funny

    These people who were caught/shot were throwing yet more bombs at the authorities as they were being chased. They had a whole house full of them as well. Do you think they stock piled them just for fun?

    You honestly believe that crap put out by the authorities? they were patsies set up as the fall guys

  16. Re:Morons Don't Read Slashdot on One In Six Amazon S3 Storage Buckets Are Ripe For Data-Plundering · · Score: 1

    where's my mod points when I need them... MOD parent up

  17. Well, they'll never come back online now... on Political Pressure Pushes NASA Technical Reports Offline · · Score: 1

    As NASA will never be given the budget to perform the reviews.

  18. just post them back with no stamps on the package. on Don't Want a Phonebook? Give Up Your Privacy · · Score: 1

    make them pay extra to receive them...

  19. actually no... on Did Steve Jobs Pick the Wrong Tablet Size? · · Score: 1

    10 inches in A4 portrait format is fabulous for viewing music sheets in sheet or chord lay out... music sheets are the killer for tablets... iPad in portrait are the killer format... all those Android tablets in wide screen format are missing the entire reason for having a large screen..

  20. Re:Greedy Upper Management. on Large Corporations Displacing Aging IT Workers With H-1B Visa Workers · · Score: 4, Insightful

    get yourself into a field where they can't outsource or insource workers. One where you need high security clearance and have to be a national in order to do the work.

  21. Re:Mind boggling on AT&T: Don't Want a Data Plan for That Smartphone? Too Bad. · · Score: 1

    It's in the service agreement, I think... smartphone = required data plan.

    What fscking service agreement??? He didn't make one... they should not be able to do this to him... they can fsck off as far as I'm concerned... if they did this to me, I'd fscking dump that sim card as fast as I can... In the UK, we have decent pay as you go plans... and they can't change things on you either...

  22. Patents? Who will own them? on Nokia Receives $1.35B Grant To Develop Graphene Tech · · Score: 2

    It had better NOT be the beneficiaries of this largesse... the corporations can have licenses as a reward for doing the donkey work, but the patents should belong to the people whose money is being used...

  23. Re:Fundamentally... on The Biggest Financial Fraud of All Time · · Score: 1

    Central Banks make their targets public, are the sole source provider for their currency, sell the money at public auction and manage the currency for the public's interest.

    Oh come off it... you honestly believe that what central banks do is really in the public interest? They're private organisations and are a cancer on all of us...

  24. Re:well ... on 58,000 Security Camera Systems Critically Vulnerable To Attackers · · Score: 2

    This is why I have two routers... one is the cable company's router and I've set that to no remote admin, the other is hung off that router and is the real router for my network

  25. All about the merchandising... on J.J. Abrams To Direct Star Wars VII · · Score: 2

    and refreshing the "product" with new characters to make toys of..