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  1. Re:aplle is the shit on The Real Reason Apple Is Suing Samsung · · Score: 1

    People do own Nexus devices (I have a Nexus One). They are easy to modify, and it isn't really anyone's fault but their own if they decide to buy one of the models that isn't (which is fine, because like the person you are being a dolt towards, some people have no interest in modifying them).

  2. Re:Oh, haha. on Amazon Denies Skynet's Involvement In AWS Outage · · Score: 1

    Exactly right, the only way to manage it for sure, is when it sits in your data closet. With a service, as long as they stay within the pre-set parameters (whatever uptime they stated when you bought in), you can't really complain.

  3. Re:Oh, haha. on Amazon Denies Skynet's Involvement In AWS Outage · · Score: 1

    Yes. It may change priority, but not speed. You can only do something so fast, if it is all you are working on already, yelling and complaining isn't going to make a bit of difference.

  4. Re:Skynet or GLaDOS? on Skynet Becomes Aware, Launches Nuclear Attack · · Score: 1

    Hopefully a hybrid, afterall the pneumatic diversity vent has a system that ensures objects are "identified, but never judged". We're saved!

  5. Re:Why roll-up? on Cylindrical Rolltop Laptops · · Score: 2

    Exactly! Packs are all made to store many layers of flat material, a cylinder would actually waste space. I just don't get it.

  6. Re:"but my personal view" on The Quake Through Eyes of Slashdot Japan · · Score: 1

    Several of those posts specificed that they spoke for their area only. You're only offended because you want to be.

  7. Re:In other news... on Apple Moves To Stop Kids Racking Up iTunes Bills · · Score: 1

    Apple is now working on a way to impede the consumtion of cookies for all parties involved, in hopes that a few of the people who were unaware they were being eaten will be greatful for the change.

  8. Re:Easily CSI on Ask Slashdot: Worst Computer Scene In TV or Movies? · · Score: 1

    Oh boy, good of you to correct all the people that already posted youtube cuts of that exact line from CSI.

  9. Re:All of them. on Ask Slashdot: Worst Computer Scene In TV or Movies? · · Score: 1

    I wish I could agree, but I actually see people talking to their computer all the time. Much like the people that tell you their "computer is sick" (assuming you are an IT person, you probably hear it a lot).

  10. Re:You'll miss them in a disaster on King Wants To Sell Out Ham Radio · · Score: 2

    You lose a lot of frustrated hams - so not only do you effectively lose the other ham bands, you lose a bunch of trained radio operators with emergency experience (or at least emergency training)

    I believe HAM operators pay for licenses as well, so they lose that source of income as well.

  11. Re:Simple on Safari/MacBook First To Fall At Pwn2Own 2011 · · Score: 1

    There are supposedly more Windows admins out there, but as it turns out, virtually all of them are incompetent dimwits who can barely find the power button.

    Truer words were never spoken! I work with pretty good people at my current job, but where I used to work, the only "solution" you ever heard for Windows or Mac was "Well, we can re-install it".

  12. Re:The nomination of Wikileaks on WikiLeaks, Internet Nominees For Nobel Peace Prize · · Score: 1

    Yes, but with more media coverage. Other than being on the news, it is pretty much the same.

  13. Re:I'd love to meet this Internet guy on WikiLeaks, Internet Nominees For Nobel Peace Prize · · Score: 1

    ...it's the whole of Egypt in what has amounted to a bloodless coup...

    Less bloody than some perhaps, but I would hardly call it bloodless.

  14. Re:I have a better idea on Should Dolphins Be Treated As Non-Human Persons? · · Score: 2

    Otherwise, we'll have community organizers signing up dolphins to vote in elections and lobbying for tax dollars to fund flipper-accessible housing.

    It's depressing how accurate this is.

  15. Re:Peter Parker? on Sciencey Heroes For Young Children? · · Score: 1

    I second this motion, though it doesn't meet the age criteria. Convince him to overlook that.

  16. Re:Tea? on 'Smart' Vending Machines Triple Sales · · Score: 1

    If it doesn't, it should certainly be modified to.

  17. Re:OK, I'll bite. on 1928 Time Traveler Caught On Film? · · Score: 1

    Why are so many people suggesting that a sat phone is possible? Much like the lack of cell towers, there weren't satellites for that in that time period either.

  18. Re:They've already busted that twice now on President Obama To Appear On Mythbusters · · Score: 1

    Agreed. I think the more proper statement is that "tabloids" are useless crap. "Nuts and Volts", "Circuit Cellar", "Linux Journal", "Make", "2600", they all contain useful information.

  19. Re:Cool on Genetically Engineered Silkworms Spin Spider Silk · · Score: 1

    It works by causing the force to be spread over a wider area. The material just has to be tough enough to not let the bullet punch through, but deform the surface instead. You still take the force of the bullet, but since the force is spread out, it doesn't have enough energy in a small enough space to make a hole through you (I am told it still hurts a heck of a lot though).

  20. Re:FTFS on Apple vs. Google TVs · · Score: 1

    I have one of the Sony Network BD players as well. They are great little devices. As far as the LoveFilm thing, it sounds a lot like NetFlix here, which the player I have can use (one of the big reasons I bought it).

  21. Re:tivo premier blows them both away on Apple vs. Google TVs · · Score: 1

    World doesn't revolve around you chap. Tivo is now a subscription service.

  22. Re:Why not run Boxee on the old Apple TV? on Apple vs. Google TVs · · Score: 1

    No, it is still a problem with your expectations. If it wasn't advertised with other capabilities, you shouldn't expect them. At the very least, people can't complain if it was fairly common knowledge that there are restrictions (and it is), and they just didn't look into it before hand.

  23. Re:Really? on Laptop Heat May Cause 'Toasted Skin Syndrome' · · Score: 1

    I have a Dell branded space heater as well (A Vostro 3700). Cooling pads are available all over the place. Not only do they solve this issue, but they'll keep your laptop better protected from heat as well.

  24. Re:Now that's just stupid. on UK Teen Banned From US Over Obscene Obama Email · · Score: 1

    You've gone too far, expect a plane ticket to England in the mail. Along with a terse letter asking you not to return.

  25. Re:"Automatic" doesn't mean what you think it mean on Drunken Employee Shoots Server · · Score: 1

    My dad has an old Walther PPK/S, and I think it may not. That could be a problem with the gun though. I have never shot any other PPK/S to know.