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  1. Re:Don't care on Digg.com Sold To Betaworks For $500,000 · · Score: 1

    How is that being proactive about where I am getting my news? I am just selecting different keywords or whatever in the same service! Plus it takes me about as much effort to memorize a keyword as to memorize an URL (which can also be bookmarked).

  2. Re:Forget Digg... on Digg.com Sold To Betaworks For $500,000 · · Score: 1

    Google already has Google Code but it wouldn't be the first time they bought some other company that does the same service.

  3. Re:Forget Digg... on Digg.com Sold To Betaworks For $500,000 · · Score: 1

    Sounds bonkers but I have no idea how much cash they get from paid hosting of projects. It could actually be profitable.

  4. Re:Don't care on Digg.com Sold To Betaworks For $500,000 · · Score: 1

    Selecting news sources? That is way too much work. I hate Twatter. But yeah the Economist and the Onion are good sites. The Onion is prophetic even (the Gillette parody being one case that comes to mind).

  5. Re:Don't care on Digg.com Sold To Betaworks For $500,000 · · Score: 1

    I remember when Digg was supposed to be the hip new thing and /. was for dinosaurs. Then I went to Digg to see what the fuss was about and found it to be full of Lolcats. I actually tried submitting a couple of stories of actual events to check what happened and found them to be buried in seconds while the Lolcats kept being on the front pages. So I stopped using the site. I hardly find it surprising it eventually failed.

  6. So... on Bye ACTA, Hello CETA · · Score: 5, Funny

    Can we blame Canada now?

  7. Re:Ah don't worry...ALL! on Nobel Laureate Wiped From Pakistan's Textbooks As Heretic · · Score: 1

    Remember that next time you eat your soybean sprouts. If you can't tell a cow apart from a human you are an idiot.

  8. Re:... but lightning is also religious! on Nobel Laureate Wiped From Pakistan's Textbooks As Heretic · · Score: 2

    That would be Zeus (Greek) or Jupiter (Roman). Zeus is a Greek God while Mercury is a Roman God.

    Only three days remain until Thor's day or Jeudi (Jupiter's day) like the French call it.

  9. Re:C Programming Language on Objective-C Overtakes C++, But C Is Number One · · Score: 1

    Actually a compiler is just a tool that translates something written in a certain computer language to another computer language. GCL compiles Common Lisp to C. There used to be C++ compilers (e.g. Cfront) which compiled C++ to C. It does not need to compile to machine code. GCC compiles code to GAS (GNU Assembler) format then runs the 'gas' assembler to generate machine code.

  10. Re:We're gonna lose a lot. on Preparing For Life After the PC · · Score: 1

    At least in Android I have a file manager when in iOS I didn't. Only way to get even a command line working on iOS is to jailbreak your device. I wouldn't be surprised to see a complete development toolchain for Android running on an Android device eventually.

  11. Re:We're gonna lose a lot. on Preparing For Life After the PC · · Score: 1

    I guess we will start to rename personal computers to workstations and continue using them as usual...

  12. Re:No Surprise There on Apple Exits "Green Hardware" Certification Program · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If the pieces are glued in a way they can't be easily separated you need to trash everything that is glued because of one malfunctioning piece. "Repairs" may end up trashing a large chunk of the appliance.

  13. Re:No, it isn't misleading on Nexus Q Stretches "Made in USA" Label · · Score: 1

    We couldn't sustain current world population using the old production methods and more land would be used for farming in order to sustain the same level of population. This means wooded areas would have to recede. Is that what you want? Even before the Green Revolution people were using Chile saltpeter to fertilize their fields and if they couldn't afford it they used dung which is much worse as it helps propagate diseases such as parasites into the fields. If you do not use pesticides you have more chance of failed crops. I have watched both kinds of doing agriculture and I have little doubts regarding which I prefer. If you could sustain large populations solely by breeding livestock humans would never have gone from being nomads (like the Mongol hordes) to agrarian societies based around grain harvesting. Industrial ammonia production uses nitrogen extracted from the air and hydrogen as feedstocks. The hydrogen currently usually comes from natural gas as that is the cheapest way to produce hydrogen currently but it could come from damn near everything including electrolysis of water. These luddite arguments are just idiocy sprouted by modern day Pol Pots.

  14. There are more open sourced games which are less well known like Seven Kingdoms, Buzz Aldrin's Race into Space.

  15. Re:Probably on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Implications of Finding the Higgs Boson? · · Score: 1

    Uh if we are talking about projectile weapons I suppose we could have working railguns or coilguns by then.

  16. Re:And that is what is required on Nexus Q Stretches "Made in USA" Label · · Score: 1

    ASML manufactures machine tools not actual electronic produce. Most electronics used in cell phones are manufactured in South Korea or Taiwan with some components coming from Japan, China or elsewhere.

  17. Re:No, it isn't misleading on Nexus Q Stretches "Made in USA" Label · · Score: 1

    The grains are much cheaper to produce. That is why the food pyramid ended up looking like that. It isn't cost effective (yet) to have everyone eating only meat and anything but meat. I would also take care with any sort of non-omnivorous diet be it vegetarian or carnivorous. Eating only meat and nothing but meat causes all sorts of issues on the long term like kidney failure or arthritis, just like vegans easily get rickets or anemia. We are omnivorous simple as that.

  18. Re:No, it isn't misleading on Nexus Q Stretches "Made in USA" Label · · Score: 1

    Bonding and packaging is.

  19. Re:No, it isn't misleading on Nexus Q Stretches "Made in USA" Label · · Score: 1

    The question is are those manufacturers actually manufacturing anything or relabeling it?

  20. Re:"Blatantly vague"? on Nexus Q Stretches "Made in USA" Label · · Score: 1

    It's still considered to be manufactured in the US just like iPhones are manufactured in China by Foxconn despite most of the components coming from Taiwan and South Korea.

  21. Re:American Scientists Regrets Politics on Texas Scientists Regret Loss of Higgs Boson Quest · · Score: 1

    The Senate Launch System has unfortunately a quite bipartisan (yuck) appeal. Bill Nelson isn't a R but is one of the major pushers of the project.

  22. Re:Act of war.... on ACTA Rejected By European Parliament · · Score: 1
    US still thinks war will help their economy? All the manufacturing is in china now, what will they manufacture to help economy - lawsuits?

    Why, by demolishing underused houses and building new ones of course!

  23. Re:Why is this man allowed to keep so much money? on Bill Gates: the Traditional PC Is Changing · · Score: 1

    Or you could do just like the Swedish owner of IKEA. You create a non-profit corporation in the Netherlands and funnel all the profits of your Swedish enterprises towards it.

  24. Re:You have to admit Samsung is pretty ridiculous on Samsung Appeals Apple's Injunction Against Galaxy Nexus · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't be surprised if IBM had a similar patent which is already expired. They have been doing speech recognition for yonks. Before Apple was even founded.

  25. Re:You have to admit Samsung is pretty ridiculous on Samsung Appeals Apple's Injunction Against Galaxy Nexus · · Score: 1

    The iPhone is a lookalike of the LG Prada. The iPad is the same thing with a larger screen. Whoppeedo.