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  1. Re:Uh, debate is where? on Old Man Murray Wikipedia Controversy Continues · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I don't think a deletion nomination would get very far now anyway. The butthurt resulting from the original deletion actually spurred people to make it a well sourced article. The original article just looked like a vanity page.

  2. User revolt on Should Wikipedia Just Accept Ads Already? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Wikipedia would have to pay a lot of people to edit it because a huge number of their volunteers would probably revolt and quit working on the site if there were ads on it.

  3. Simple answer on Does Net Neutrality Violate the Fifth Amendment? · · Score: 4, Informative

    No.

  4. Availability on Microsoft Unveils Street Slide Map UI · · Score: 1

    I'm sure this will work great in the 5 or so places where Bing's StreetSide is actually available.

  5. WTF? on Apple Offers Free Cases To Solve iPhone 4 Antenna Problems · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Did Slashdot really just post some news within an hour of it actually happening? I think I may have clicked the wrong bookmark.

  6. Re:The question you know we all want to know... on Dragon Age 2 Announced · · Score: 1

    Juhani in the first KOTOR was a female only romance.

  7. Re:Wait! -- What's that? on Google Considers China's "Web Mapping License" · · Score: 1

    I have a feeling that if Chinese could vote they would vote for the CCP by a landslide.

  8. Re: New Xbox 360 S Uses Less Power on New Xbox 360 S Uses Less Power, Makes Less Noise · · Score: 1

    Not exactly, there are a lot of ways a device could consume less electricity yet produce more heat. It might waste less energy as sound yet waste more as heat.

  9. Re:And the other half of the story... on UK Video Game Tax Relief Cancelled · · Score: 1

    Increasing taxes and cutting spending is the exact opposite of what you want to do if you want the economy to grow.

  10. Re:to ensure there's no competitive advantage... on US Patent Office Teams With Google On Database · · Score: 1

    Google is hosting all the raw data and metadata for public consumption. Google already has a frontend for patents, if Bing or Yahoo wanted to build their own patent search all they would have to do is go to Google's website and download the raw data. You can download the data yourself if you really want to (it would have been nice if the article included a link).

    http://www.google.com/googlebooks/uspto.html

  11. Re:I must be the only one on Google Introduces, Then Scraps, Bing-Style Background Images · · Score: 1

    There is no "safe search" by default for the regular text search results.

  12. I must be the only one on Google Introduces, Then Scraps, Bing-Style Background Images · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I must be the only person on the whole internet who didn't really care about this. Why bother visiting the Google homepage anyway? I just search from Firefox's search box.

  13. Re:Google is hypocritical on Google Slams Apple Over iPhone Ad Ban · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Talk about the a false equivalency. Google owns their web site and search results. Apple doesn't own the mobile apps in the app store, at least until they change the developer agreement to say they do. A real equivalent would be if Google said that anyone who wanted to show up in their search results had to use AdSense or they were banned from the index. People would be outraged, and rightly so. The FTC/DOJ would come down them very hard if they ever tried anything like that.

  14. Re:Next up on Thumbprints Used To Check Books Out of School Library · · Score: 1

    Mythbusters also managed to completely fool all the fingerprint scanners they tested. They managed to beat one of them with a simple printed copy of a fingerprint. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAfAVGES-Yc

  15. Re:Other way on Cutting Through the 4G Hype · · Score: 1

    Maybe I'm just not popular enough, but usually I've looked up all the information I need before I call somebody. Hanging up and then calling someone back isn't exactly the most onerous thing in the world either. I have an iPhone and I think the only time I've used that ability is a few times when I was on hold and not near my desktop/laptop (which doesn't happen that often).

  16. Re:Actually one other large difference - data + vo on Cutting Through the 4G Hype · · Score: 1

    Not with Verizon's 3G you can't. Apple even made an ad that took a swipe at Verizon for not being able to do data and voice, personally I've never been on a call and thought "You know what I wish I could browse the Internet right now".

  17. Re:Video is a new use for broadband on Cutting Through the 4G Hype · · Score: 1

    Video still works over dial-up. It just works very slowly.

  18. I must have missed it. on Google WebM Calls "Open Source" Into Question · · Score: 1

    I must have been sleeping when the OSI became the sole and deciding arbiter of what was and wasn't open source. Also, most of Google's issues with OSI seem to be that it isn't open enough.

  19. C Development Still Has a Ways To Go on HTML Web App Development Still Has a Ways To Go · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It is an ever-growing jumble of different libraries, standards and tools.

  20. Here you go on Consumer Webcams With High-Quality Sensors? · · Score: 2, Funny
  21. Re:Counting people? Round up! on At Issue In a Massachusetts Town, the Value of Two-Thirds · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I think somebody needs to teach them that .66 != 2/3

  22. Re:Categories on Larry Sanger Tells FBI Wikipedia Distributes "Child Pornography" · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If the category hadn't been "pedophilia" would you still have assumed it was child pornography? The girl appears to me to be at least a teenager, but beyond that she could be 14 or 20 (or younger or older). Is it child pornography if the artist conceived of her as 13 or if I did? At what point does child pornography become a thought crime?

  23. Categories on Larry Sanger Tells FBI Wikipedia Distributes "Child Pornography" · · Score: 5, Informative

    Good thing the links are redacted! Its not like anyone with a brain could go to http://commons.wikimedia.org/ and search for "pedophilia" or "lolicon" and find exactly what he was talking about. Nothing in those categories looks like child porn to me, I'm not afraid to post the links. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Pedophilia http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Lolicon

  24. Re:WTF? on Foursquare Turns Down $100M · · Score: 1

    Obviously you don't read Techcrunch. Arrington has been relentlessly promoting Foursquare, I wonder if he has stock in them or something.

  25. Slashdot! on Office Guardian Angel Worse Than Clippy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Slashdot: The only place where 4 year old patents are news!