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  1. Re:Call me old fashioned on Dropbox Pursues Business Accounts, But Falls Short On Privacy Laws · · Score: 2

    Don't ask slashdot, ask the shareholders.

  2. Re:If... on Verizon Announces Pay-Per-Use 'Turbo Boost' For Smartphones · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Sounds more like yet another way to sell the same bandwidth to me.

  3. Re:All I can say is on Spanish Firm Wins Tablet Case Against Apple · · Score: 5, Insightful

    And all I can add is:

    • there should be stiff penalties for frivolous lawsuits and
    • here's one more piece of solid proof that "IP" is mostly used to stiffle competition and innovation, not to promote it.
  4. Re:in other news, on Belgium To Give Up Nuclear Power · · Score: 2

    just guarantee the loans and it should happen

    Yep, and just don't forget to add the cost for one of them having a rare accident. In Japan, Fukushima is estimated to have added 5 (the local nuclear lobby) to 48 (independent Japanese university researchers of nuclear power) yen to every nuclear-power generated kilowatt, which allegedly used to cost 5 yen before the accident.

  5. Re:I'm here on Open Hardware Journal · · Score: 2

    Congratulations first. This looks like a piece of really good really nerdy news. As for input and questions, maybe you should wait a day or two until we've read the first issue and let it sink for meaningful comments and do a separate Ask Slashdot thing?

  6. Re:So it turns out.... on The Weight of an e-Book · · Score: 1

    True dat. But then, since she lets you use it, you're still not technically stealing.

  7. Re:So it turns out.... on The Weight of an e-Book · · Score: 2

    Not if you pay for the electricity that is used for all these writes onto the media.

  8. Re:Aim for the laser on FAA Goes To the Web To Fight Laser-Pointing · · Score: 1

    I doubt they can be put on the windshields without significantly degrading visibility and I suspect that will kind of defeat the point of having them. The best way is probably to put some kind of automated laser-detection system at the airport (and on the plane) and report the bastards to the local law enforcement, who should proceed to find them and confiscate their house and valuables to pay for the extra equipment. Once the news spreads, the casual violators will probably disappear pretty fast.

  9. Re:1% on When Having the US Debt Paid Off Was a Problem · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This resulted in putting men on the moon and spurred the computer age and caused 20 years of growth.

    Give credit where it is due, and don't forget the spoils of war -- the German rocket technology and science, which propelled the US space science into the late 70s. The rest of the world was paying their war time debts up until the 80s.

  10. Re:Aim for the laser on FAA Goes To the Web To Fight Laser-Pointing · · Score: 1

    I am not suggesting putting a mirror on the plane, I'm suggesting that whoever shines lasers on planes can put a mirror in their neighbors' yard. Permission to shoot isn't going to solve the problem, but multiply it.

  11. Re:Wicked Lasers on FAA Goes To the Web To Fight Laser-Pointing · · Score: 1

    Well, the lasers I've bought there did work, but that wasn't the point, the point was that there is a vast supply of cheap and powerful IR, green and blue lasers for any idiot to abuse.

  12. Re:Aim for the laser on FAA Goes To the Web To Fight Laser-Pointing · · Score: 1

    Surplusshed sells very cheap, very good mirrors.

  13. Re:Wicked Lasers on FAA Goes To the Web To Fight Laser-Pointing · · Score: 1

    Dealextreme sells them for a quarter of the price.

  14. Re:Of course... on Man Has Nokia Phone Embedded In False Limb · · Score: 1

    Lame, but soooo cool. I think you will be much happier if you trade your weird sex preferences for the privilege to pay for some of that magic.

  15. Re:Of course... on Man Has Nokia Phone Embedded In False Limb · · Score: 1

    100% FUD. Similar items from the Apple store will install without trouble and at a reasonable cost. They will also check marital status and guide the penis to the proper orifices, so that no amoral activities and alimony liabilities occur.

  16. Re:IT is more than coders... on Your Tech Skills Have a Two Year Half-Life · · Score: 1

    Actually, being able to solder and desolder has been a dead skill for many years now. These days people just buy a new board and throw away the old.

  17. Re:How about the sliding gesture to wipe my ass? on Apple Granted Patent For Slide To Unlock · · Score: 1

    He just proceeded to wipe his ass, then submitted the toilet paper, and unsurprisingly, a very broad patent was granted to him on the spot.

  18. Re:Lucid Dreaming on Manufacturing Dreams · · Score: 1

    Time to power up my Arduino REM detector, I guess.

  19. Re:This therapy can pay for itself . . . on Manufacturing Dreams · · Score: 1

    Product placements? Meh. How about an adventurous incognito trip to Mars?

  20. Re:Lucid Dreaming on Manufacturing Dreams · · Score: 1

    Lucid dreaming is vastly overrated. Lewd dreaming, on the other hand ...

  21. Re:wonder how long on Meet Siri's Little Brother, Trapit · · Score: 1

    You have nothing to worry until your research turns into a product that makes money for someone else than Apple. Then Jobs' ghost will stalk you every night until you stop stealing from him, or fall dead.

  22. Re:You think the housing collapse was bad on US Student Loans Exceed $1 Trillion · · Score: 1

    I think right now you have the rare chance to join a strike or other anti-government protest instead.

  23. Re:You think the housing collapse was bad on US Student Loans Exceed $1 Trillion · · Score: 1

    We were discussing people with "DIY" degrees, not recent graduates.

  24. Re:Popularity on Ubuntu Turns 7 · · Score: 3, Funny

    considering Windows 7 got there in just two years and XP was a hugely popular OS

    Excellent trolling, I salute you.

  25. Re:You think the housing collapse was bad on US Student Loans Exceed $1 Trillion · · Score: 1

    Actually, I see a lot of "XXX degree or equivalent experience" in job descriptions. But then, I rarely look at American jobs these days.