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  1. Re:Bad idea from the start on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Print From an Android Tablet? · · Score: 1
    That might be your experience, but ours is quite the opposite.

    For speed, elegance, portability and functionality, the tablet is streets ahead of the laptop.

    Travelled recently with a Galaxy Tab 10.1 - what a relief to have a device the weight of a paperback.

    The laptop is the defunct item here.

  2. Re:About Polaris on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Print From an Android Tablet? · · Score: 1

    Last month I did about 3 hours work on a Dropbox document using Polaris Office on my Galaxy Tab. Office, to my chagrin, couldn't open it - said it was corrupted. When I checked, this was a well-known issue. Pretty useless really and have not used it since, but it was nice to use on the tablet.

  3. Re:The Virtual Fence was always a dumb idea on US Scraps Virtual Fence Along Mexican Border · · Score: 1

    My suggestion: Make it a felony to not be able to present any and all legally bought guns within 24 hours of the police requesting it, or to not report a lost gun in a timely manner, or to file a false report. Get the fuckers who arm the drug lords.

    This is not a good idea.

    It would be a bureaucratic nightmare to administer.

    This is also having the ambulance at the bottom of the cliff.

    This http:www.nytimes.com/2011/01/16/us/16giffords.html?_r=1&hp/. is an article about a gun fair in Tuscon.

    This is the real problem - the easy availability of guns.

    In a modern society, guns are generally not needed.

  4. I went to read tf article... on Science and the Shortcomings of Statistics · · Score: 1

    ... and I noticed it is dated March 27. OK I guess it is when the magazine comes out but still it was a little ironic in this instance.

  5. Crazy claim... on Iris Recognition To Take Off · · Score: 1

    From TFA "... the iris-recognition market is projected to skyrocket. It's set to rise from $81 million last year to $518 million by 2009, Chopra estimates." An intersting item, but the claim above rather weakens the whole article. I guess he could have said $518.437 million.

  6. Re:Any VoIP users? on VoIP Price War Declared · · Score: 2, Informative

    Why pay those monthly fees at all when http://skype.com/ lets you

    (1)talk to other skype users for free.

    (2)ring any other telephone (including cell phones) in the world for 1 euro per hour (about $0.02 per minute)

    It works surprisingly well on a dial-up connection, small (8 MB), and clean with no spyware or other junk.