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  1. Re:Is it multi tasking if he's.... on Face-Mounted Nose Stylus Created For Phones · · Score: 1

    Maybe this guy is the new tubgirl.

  2. Re:Is it multi tasking if he's.... on Face-Mounted Nose Stylus Created For Phones · · Score: 1

    I was in the shower, multitasking and wasn't paying enough attention.

  3. Is it multi tasking if he's.... on Face-Mounted Nose Stylus Created For Phones · · Score: 2

    Simplifying his shower masturbation? Imagine the the horrible scene you couldn't un-see if you accidentally walked in on this "inventor" wearing this prosthetic nose and TCB (taking care of business)? the horror, the horror...

  4. Re:well, he might be right on MS Global Strategy Chief: Tablets Are a Fad · · Score: 1

    The one thing that tablet has for it that the netbooks didn't is the iProduct base

    Call it what you will, but considering the several generations old "get off my lawn" processor the Macbook Air has, it is in my estimation quite clearly a glorified netbook. Seriously outdated cpu 11 inch screen. Cheap pricet...Oh wait expensive price tag. Maybe it isn't a netbook after all. Yes it is thin and shiny and all good netbooks should have realized portable and thin are one and the same. Yet, I am calling BS on your mac never made an iProduct netbook.

  5. Re:Extremely limited choices on How the PC Is Making Consoles Look Out of Date · · Score: 1

    I would argue, that the FPS as a game style is best served up on a PC, or at least a computer with a mouse and keyboard. The control method of preference for most serious FPS players I have known is mouse+Keyboard. More accuracy, faster turning and response. Is there a well crafted shooter that allows for PC vs BOX or PS3 play? If so I would imagine it is deliberately handicapping the PC players to keep it competitive. Sports franchises are typically the shining gallery of Console gaming efficiency. I couldn't imagine Fight Night 4 on a PC working well.

  6. Re:Roll your own. on Book Review: Pro Drupal 7 Development, Third Edition · · Score: 1

    With Native C Apps!

  7. Re:Taxpayer money to build out Big Business Backbo on Obama's Goal: 98% of US Covered By 4G · · Score: 1

    I have no doubt that increased broadband would be a transformative technology (and a welcomed one). However, the crux of my brief observation was that I am not inclined to pay out of tax dollars to build up the infrastructure of a few private companies who will then resell it back to me at an uncompetitive price. The same companies who sue and shut down municipal projects to provide free wifi for the tax payers (I am looking at you Verizon). Now if this money was going to be used to ensure that these companies had a real need to compete in a market place or to restructure their current practices (I don't want a subsidized phone) i want the option of data only on a phone. txt messaging prices are disgusting.. etc. Then yes, I would personally help to make this proposal become action. I do not want to be forced to give my tax money to help a private company build out their infrastructure.

  8. Taxpayer money to build out Big Business Backbone on Obama's Goal: 98% of US Covered By 4G · · Score: 2

    Is anyone else angered at the prospect of using US taxpayer monies to build out a backbone to be given to, and then resold to us by the big carriers at rates that the rest of the world finds laughable? One day maybe you can post your discontent on your FaceBook phone at 4g speeds though.

  9. Interesting but the problem is the end user. on Researcher Releases Hardened OS "Qubes"; Xen Hits 4.0 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The real issue still resides. The end users (PEBKAC). Take my father for example. Sure you have a Qube for banking and Qube for work and a Qube for home use. Now the home use one where he does his "Magic" or whatever he does to infect/taint/destroy any PC I put in front of the man, gets entirely infected Spywared/Malwared/chuncked and muddled. So he can't get to his phishing emails about how to make millions in the internets and by getting the diamonds out of Namibia. He cant do that from the infected Qube. He'll then go up the chain to his private banking Qube to install his makingmillions.exe so it will work again. Long story short.... Some people cannot help themselves but by being victims. I'd give the man Linux but he always finds a reason it's keeping him from being successful... I know by keeping these Qubes sandboxed it will be harder for it to get the taint, but they will find a new way to find my father.

  10. Google is aware of this on Facebook Attracting More Visitors Than Google.com · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This is a vulnerability to them. They want to be YOUR portal to the rest of the internet. If they can make it easier for you to get to Facebook via Google they will. If they can pull you away from facebook into BUZZ or GoogleWave they will. The interesting bit comes around when you start getting an agreement with Facebook and Bing/Yahoo that tries to make this impossible for Google to achieve. The interwebs is a fickle hellcat, it moves at speeds of fast.

  11. It is obvious on Study Shows TV Makes Kids Fat, Computers Don't · · Score: 5, Funny

    All the free porn is on the internet, that is a calorie burn when done properly.

  12. Re:Rad! on FCC Backs Net Neutrality, Chairman's Full Speech Posted · · Score: 1

    It is hard to know where to begin, on this one. I had several sentences prepared to argue what I see as ignorance, but I can't waste words on you. You aren't worth it. The only credible piece of text you offered up is that people abuse regulations. Yes people abuse regulations, we learn that piece of Nickelodeon diplomacy in third grade. How exactly is your phone company\cellular network promoting development and ensuring technological innovation? Can i get a cellular data plan and use simply google voice or skype for my calls? The reason for this is it is against their interest. Why is SMS, charged the way it is when you aren't charged for sending an email? You can figure this out for yourself.

  13. Re:Peace on CentOS Project Administrator Goes AWOL · · Score: 1

    I understand having concern and respect for him if any of the possibilities that you mentioned are true. Personally, I hope he is living well, on vacation and nuzzling enormous breasts in Brazil while drinking mojitos. I must however ask this question: WHERE should someone speculate what happened to the main project administrator for CentOS if not on /.? Seriously, would the average soccer mom be able to go and speculate on such a query?

  14. Re:Welcome to Slashdot! on Thomas' Testimony and the RIAA's Near-Fatal Error · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Where we don't care about anything important like the global economic meltdown or Iran's fraudulent elections or militants in Pakistan or North Korea going insane.

    Nope, all we care about is being able to unabashedly steal music and then yell at the people selling it when they try to protect their interests.

    Way to rage against the machine, assholes! How about you try fighting for something truly meaningful instead?

    You may not be able to see how this affects your civil liberties, or your rights to fair use and the right to not be treated like a criminal, however some people may not be ignorant to such things and for this they do not deserve your simplistic nickelodeon subjugation. (pwndhippy). What are you doing to make certain that there are no tainted elections in Iran? What did you do when there were tainted elections in North America? You should be grateful that people are out there trying to safeguard the civil liberties which you are too ignorant to protect, and I suppose they should be thankful when they have you marching in the streets in IRAN holding hands with the people and counting out their ballots. If you are not able or willing to do this yourself then you are just another armchair general sending someone elses children off to align the world to your moral compass. In other words little man, talk is cheap. So either make the changes your bitching about here, or can the John Wayne act.

  15. My predictions for the future of linux! on What Will Linux Be Capable Of, 3 Years Down the Road? · · Score: 1

    I predict that there will be a blue leather coat. If it's raining and you put up the hood, music will play. If you press the cake button. hands and a round table will pop out with a napkin and some cake. Mmmmm...!

  16. Barracuda SPAM filter on Spam Filtering For Small/Medium Business? · · Score: 4, Informative

    I purchased a Barracuda for my organization of about 120 employees, and it has been fantastic. I fine tuned a few options on the config and it has blocked about 200,000 emails in the almost two months i have deployed it. There are very few false positives, and very few that get through its filters. I actually get calls of gratitude from the end users about how happy they were not receiving any more SPAM messages. The hardest part was informing them the user base on the difference between the mailing lists they were on and SPAM. Barracudas support has been good as well.

  17. Nokia n810 grandcentral and gizmo5 on Making Free Phone Calls With Google's GrandCentral · · Score: 1

    This is not entirely accurate. I have been doing this on my nokia n810 for some time. It has worked, and worked nicely and freely to boot. However a friend of mine using this set up was told he'd need to purchase minutes in that he was over using the free service. He went back to using vonage. I have used the two in tandem and not had any problems with it whatsoever or had a limitation on phone minutes.

  18. Vigilante Justice is illegal for a reason on Homemade Robot Patrols Atlanta Streets · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Who assigned this guy the rights to go squirting anyone with water or for that matter verbally harassing them. My gut instinct is that the guy who built this wishes he was policeman and doesn't have the proverbial sac to be one. If the streets where he lives are so rampant with criminal activity I would suggest he follows legal measures to do remedy the situation. "Vigilante Justice" is a matter of ethics, and I cannot say I accept this man as my voice. Is it legal to sue a robot for harassment, or the tool that's hiding behind the remote control? What is next? can i build an eye in the sky helicopter to follow and video tape people I do not like, and spray them with urine or feces when they behave in manners i do not approve of?

  19. Re:How long does the ink last before it fades? on New Inkjet Technology 5 To 10 Times Faster · · Score: 1

    This is a good argument for the use of Shutterfly and perhaps Snapfish. I have already invested in an Epson 2200 A friend has Epson 3800, and an Epson 9500 (which gives me free use of the two devices, excepting material costs). However they are slow, color matching even with careful profiling is difficult, and the archival qualities are exaggerated by the Wilhelm institute. Back to the printer in discussion, i wonder still about the qualities of the inks, and how long they last before fading in controlled lighting. Thanks for the information on the two photo print services. I will look into them and try a few prints. Almost all of my experience is on the digital end of photography, after having seen nightmarish mis development of film i decided i wanted to micromange as much as possible. Nikon d80 and d2x

  20. Re:How long does the ink last before it fades? on New Inkjet Technology 5 To 10 Times Faster · · Score: 1

    @Pyite: The paper doesn't fade, the inks\film fade the paper at worst yellows. As for Snapfish my concern was with the inks they use, not the impurities in the paper type. I am very well aware that the paper quality changes the lifespan of the image, however that was outside what the scope of what my concerns were with Snapfish. If what you are saying is accurate then, it is film level print quality. I have trouble believing this is the case due to the lack of details I have seen in things such as leaves, hair, and almost every Snapfish print I have seen. These are Nikon d2x and Nikon d80 images sent to print via Snapfish. Secondly how do you color match/Profile you colors and get them printed accurately? I can and do take prints off of gallery walls, and could give a damn what you think of my grammar.

  21. How long does the ink last before it fades? on New Inkjet Technology 5 To 10 Times Faster · · Score: 1

    I currently use anepson for photographic printing for one main reason: the archival nature of the ink set. If i am using a memjet as a photo printer (if you notice that is what they are printing photographs) then the most important question is how long until the photo fades. sure i can can print out a poster in a second or two, but if it fades in a year what good is the photograph? i highly doubt people are going to buy what seems presented as a photo printer to print out pamphlets, just as i'm not going to buy a color laser printer or the xerox phaser to print out photos. Snapfish is useful if you went on vacation and printed out all 300 photos to bore your friends. there is a lack of detail and once again as far as i know snapfish photos besides looking as poor as polaroid photos aren't archival either. So as exciting as it is that this company might make a printer, that is fast, has a decent print quality, and cheaper inks, if the inks fade in a year like most hp photoprinters canon etc, then its worthless for the most part, especially to any professional photographer. which is exactly why epson cornered that market, because the ultrachrome inkset last without fading for 75 plus years.

  22. ubuntu edgy eft has firefox 2.0 on Firefox 2 Downloads Top 2 million in 24 Hours · · Score: 1

    I installed edgy eft on several machines which includes firefox 2.0 in the distro. they should add the number of edgy eft users/downloads/installs to that number.

  23. Re:That's nothing.. on Novell to Launch Quick-Response Linux · · Score: 0, Troll

    this is cut n' paste from the BSDnexus forums, from about 15 months ago. i looked around for the industry watchdog mark baron and found nothing but this to reference him. i thought the myth of the smelly hippy coding in his mothers basement had been dispelled. although i bet richard m stallman does put out a mean odor.

  24. 500 OLPC's in all of Thailand? on $100 Laptop Takes Flight in Thailand · · Score: 0, Troll

    This is an absurdly low number of deployments. 500 children in all of thailand? Im wondering if the project is seriously missing the mark. For it to be even profitable it needs ot operate on a volume so significantly larger than this, i can only assume the response/need for these device was grossy overestimated.

  25. Re:Sorry . . .why? on Boxxet, a Tool for Automatic Webpage Generation · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Have you ever searched through google to find a website, for an answer to an obscure technical question, or for any search for that matter, only to come across a bogus hacked together site selling adspace along the margins. I have noticed this occurring with increasing regularity. what this achieves is automating that process so some human doesnt have to cob together an uttelry useless webasite to sell his adspace along themargins, now he can automate that process, and make more websites that will waqste your time, and probably make it more difficult to find a useful one. maybe im oversimplifying al this, but i don't see much else use for this application.