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  1. Privacy on Apple Sued Over iPhone Non-Replaceable Batteries · · Score: 1

    What's about privacy? I am sure Apple will look at the audio/video files stores on iPhone (since you can't swap the flash memory either) searching for illegal content. Are you saying it is ok since you don't have anything to hide? Wrong. Everyone should care about their privacy regardless of whether they have anything to hide.

  2. Quickly tag it on Houston, We Have a Drinking Problem · · Score: 1

    BlameRussia

  3. Re:Two words: on Bionic Hand Makes it to Market · · Score: 1

    Well, you can just use Vibrotactile belt to get north direction. Are bionic hand and vibrotactile belt for those who can not afford bionic women?
  4. Re:Really? on Mars Rovers Threatened By Dust Storms · · Score: 1

    our solution for keeping vital components at acceptable temperatures without any power.

    I heard decomposing bull... err... cow manure can keep you warm without much power.

  5. Re:Swarm Theory and Economics on Swarm Theory Makes National Geographic · · Score: 2, Informative

    My fascination is with how similar this is to the theory of free market economics.

    Or communism...

  6. Re:Global figures? on YouTube To Share Revenue With 20-year-old Filmmaker · · Score: 1

    USSA, is it United Soviet States of America or United Socialist States of America?

  7. Re:...and now we know... on Lake Disappears into Andes · · Score: 1

    Actually, it is totally connected to the event on the opposite side of Earth not so long ago.

  8. Re:Both right? on The Impossibility of Colonizing the Galaxy · · Score: 1

    all the magic from a pre-industrial revolution viewpoint.

    The keyword is revolution here. The current technology may be magic from a post-industrial depression viewpoint as well.

  9. Re:Easy to run broadband in dense populations on US Falls to 24th Place For Broadband Penetration · · Score: 1

    The Mongolia becomes number 1 with 0.1% broadband usage/0.001 person/km^2=100, and Kazakhstan is close second with 1%broadband/0.01 density.

  10. Re:I am torn on Evolution of the 'Captcha' · · Score: 2, Funny

    Check out Russian captcha.

  11. Re:Government-orchestrated and encouraged on The Real Impact of the Estonian Cyberattack · · Score: 1

    we liberated Estonia, not reconquered it

    As most wars show (Iraq is not an exception), winners "liberate" and losers "get occupied". For almost 50 years Estonia did not mind to side with winners. They have only recently realised they had been losers.

  12. How much? on New Zealand Rejects Office For Macs · · Score: 5, Interesting

    How much do they save, and is there a way to invest some of this money into further development of NeoOffice?

  13. Tron vs. Star Wars on Twenty Five Years of Tron · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I can't believe that /. forgot about Star Wars Anniversary

  14. Re:Macs for artists on Apple Sued Over 'Lacking' Macbook Display · · Score: 1

    Being color blind is a number of known disorders. I wonder if there are not-so-known much rarer disorders which allow people to distinguish more colors than a regular person. To me some objects could be just two different shades of green, but to some aborigen of some island in Pacific they could be two principally different colors, grellow and grownish.

  15. Re:Enough on New "Terminator" Trilogy Planned · · Score: 1

    Why noone noticed the obvious "Back to the Future" trilogy?

  16. Re:This is stupid on A New Wireless Power Transmission Sheet · · Score: 0

    Actually, the GP is right, it is stupid. You do not get rid of the power wires. The plastic sheet, which lays on on your table and induces electric current on everything around, is powered via a wire.

  17. Re:I had an interview with Google a few weeks ago on Want To Work At Google? · · Score: 1

    Doubling up is soooo binary. Try decimal elevator sort (TM).

  18. Re:"Fit Factor" on Want To Work At Google? · · Score: 1

    You are wrong, there is no you in team either!

  19. Re:FUD - UrbanLegend on Mercury Contamination Vs. Energy-Efficient Lightbulbs · · Score: 1

    you are in more danger of getting cut by the glass than you are of getting mercury poisoning

    The problem with mercury is that once it gets into an organism, it stays there, so it has significant long term effect even in small doses. So one won't die because of a broken lightbulb, but one may have serious health issues later, even more so if one is pregnant.

  20. Re:bullshit on Mercury Contamination Vs. Energy-Efficient Lightbulbs · · Score: 2, Funny

    So you are saying it is not safe to eat the CF bulbs?

  21. Re:Root certificate inclusion is expensive on Is It Time For an Open Source Certificate Authority? · · Score: 1

    I thought that FAQ was pronounced close to fuck, so it should be a FAQ, not anFAQ.

  22. Re:GOOD! on Women Are Fleeing IT Jobs · · Score: 1

    More jobs for me!!!

    How selfish. More jobs for all Slashdotters!

  23. Re:Does it specify petroleum? on X Prize For a 100-MPG Car · · Score: 1

    Can I use a gallon of uranium instead?

    Can I total the distance that each piece travels, or does it all have to be in the same direction?

    Can the direction be "up"?

    "Down" is much more fuel-efficient direction.
  24. Re:VW have beten them to it already on X Prize For a 100-MPG Car · · Score: 1

    Fuel consummation?

    I don't think I want to know what that means. I don't think it means that you don't know what you think it means.
  25. Re:Changing percpetion on X Prize For a 100-MPG Car · · Score: 1

    Simple answer: reactive armor.

    Your small, lightweight 100mpg car will have high explosive charges placed in its bumpers; when it crashes into something they detonate, negating the threat. This will (1) eliminate the need for expensive, heavy crash-proofing, and (2) cause the Hummmers to think twice before bumping into a Mini Cooper.

    For every armor, there is a weapon. In this case, it is enough to just equip Hammers with a machinegun, which can be used to activate the armor well in advance so that smashing a minicooper can become safe again.