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  1. Re:Anyone know... on iPad 2 Forces Samsung To Reevaluate Galaxy Tab · · Score: 2

    Actually Samsung is a horrible example. Samsung is the one of the companies selling components like flash chips, SoCs, and displays to tablet manufacturers like Apple. Since Samsung is one of the tablet makers than can source almost all their own parts in house, I don't see how the price of components is the reason they aren't winning in the tablet market.

  2. Re:Umm, what? on AT&T's City-By-City Plan To Up Wireless Coverage · · Score: 1

    Which is the best kind of correct ;) Don't feel bad; the alphabet soup of cellular air interfaces and protocols is very confusing.

  3. Re:Umm, what? on AT&T's City-By-City Plan To Up Wireless Coverage · · Score: 1

    Apple does make a WCDMA/GSM world phone. It's called the iPhone. Although WCDMA does have CDMA in the name, it is actually the 3G air interface used in GSM phones.

  4. Re:Nonsense on Linux Needs Critics · · Score: 1

    Is this a joke? Because many of the FOSS websites I have seen have exactly such a link.

  5. Re:The bubble is back! on Cuil Proves the Bubble Is Back · · Score: 1

    You know what I'm talkin' about!

  6. Re: I appreciated the ending to the story... on Batman Discussion · · Score: 1

    Assuming you meant Caine....

  7. Re:Women aren't good programmers on Do Women Write Better Code? · · Score: 1

    Shit, I'd freak out if I found a period in my code.

  8. Re:Herman Miller Aeron... on Best Chair For Desktop Coding? · · Score: 1

    Yes, but you can't compensate for your small penis with a chair.

  9. Re:Back To Reality on Woman Indicted In MySpace Suicide Case · · Score: 1

    She and her family didn't found out "Josh Evans" wasn't real until after the suicide. She took her own life after her fictitious boyfriend ended the "relationship" they were in.

  10. Re:Why I'm excited about Android on Verizon Joins Linux Mobile Foundation · · Score: 1

    The Android API is a Java API. If you're programming for a JVM, how much actual control of the hardware do you think you are going to get?

  11. Re:What's the lag? on Comparing 3G Networks · · Score: 1

    I typically experience pings of at least 200ms on both CDMA and GSM networks.

  12. Re:usefulnes of big disorder vs well-arranged libr on The Battle For Wikipedia's Soul · · Score: 1

    I'm a fan of Schopenhauer, but he is talking about paper libraries here. With a web-based medium, increasing the size of the library only makes it trivially more difficult (and possibly even less difficult) to access information because we have tools like hyperlinks and search engines that make getting at the topic in question very easy.

  13. Re:News for Nerds on Fidel Castro Resigns · · Score: 1

    People may go to other news sites, but Slashdot's user base is unique and its the discussion of issues like these that has me reading them. I mean, who reads the article anyway?

  14. Re:Black Hole on Laser Light Re-creates 'Black Holes' in the Lab · · Score: 2

    Chuck Noris was not produced, he has always been.

  15. Re:Finally! on Diebold Voter Fraud Rumors in New Hampshire Primaries · · Score: 1

    I've submitted one and only one story (Story from Wired about the new U.S. cross-country speed record) and it was posted 1-2 days afterward, despite my really crappy summary. Just my experience, apparently YMMV

  16. Re:Kids and computer on A Child's View of the OLPC · · Score: 1

    Is this for real? I don't know of many 2 year olds that can read and write, much less install a Linux Distro...

  17. Re:adaptation? on Humans Evolving 100 Times Faster Than Ever · · Score: 1

    Is that you Schopenhaur?

  18. Re:In a word... on DJB Releases All Source to Public Domain · · Score: 1

    but most people who've reused my stuff seem ethical enough to do so anyway.

    How can you know this? If you have released your project into the public domain, anyone could have used it anywhere.
  19. Re:Desktop Linux on Torvalds on Where Linux is Headed in 2008 · · Score: 1

    GNU/Linux is the kernel, everything else is just userland apps that run on top of the kernel.

    Linux is the kernel, GNU/Linux (according to Stallman...) is the userland apps that run on top of the kernel

  20. Re:Don't forget to test twinkies as well on Mythbusters to Test Cockroach Radiation Myth · · Score: 2, Informative

    He snorted his uncle, he didn't smoke him. Smoking his uncle would be way too fucked up, duh

  21. Re:Secure your email on Inside Comcast's Surveillance Policies · · Score: 1

    Yeah, if you don't have anything to hide, then why would you mind people snooping in your things. Your next post should include your entire medical history, credit card and bank statements with full account numbers, and your last seven tax returns.

    Alright, that's a big extreme, but according the the current U.S. constitution, we still have a right to privacy and protection from unwarranted searches. Just because I don't feel like airing my dirty laundry doesn't mean that I'm one of the terrorists. There are many legitimate reasons why someone would want to encrypt their e-mails, as some others have pointed out, that don't include anything like plotting terrorist attacks.

    If you want the government to track all your actions, then have a ball, but don't criticize us for doing anything that might happen to inhibit them by some small amount.

  22. Re:Practice on Best Way To Teach Oneself Math? · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't the points have to be non-colinear? I can't think of a way to solve the problem for all three points being on the same line

  23. Re:Go down the street to MIT on Harvard Offers Sneak Peek Into Their Network · · Score: 1

    Where you a gifted math genius disguised as a janitor?

  24. Better way to compare code on ESR to Shred SCO Claims? · · Score: 2, Informative

    Speaking of BSD, a better way of doing this comes from Berkley too. It's a program called Moss that is used by many universities to detect plagarism in CS classes. I know from firsthand experience that this is a very powerful program. Unlike the shredding technique, things like changing variable names won't affect the comparsion value Moss returns. It even does a pretty good job of noticing changes like replacing for loops with while loops.

    One disadvantage it does have though is that it won't work with the MD5 checksums, although I'm a bit skeptical of how well that would work anyway.

  25. XBox Live's Must-Have Game on Xbox Live Volume 2 Released · · Score: 1

    Just like the XBox console needed that must-have, XBox-only game (Halo), XBox Live needs one. I would guess that the two games that have the best chance of being that game are Halo 2 and Doom 3 (If MS gets the console-only rights). What does everyone else think?