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  1. Adobe DNG on Choosing Better-Quality JPEG Images With Software? · · Score: 1

    How to save digital photos is a serious concern. JPEG sucks, it is not even an option. Any 24 bit option is doable. Here's the rub Adobe needs to get more open source, we can help them and they can help us.

  2. Tamiflu Rumsfeld on Fake Tamiflu "Out-Spams Viagra On Web" · · Score: 1

    What's the connection? Rumsfeld Gilead Roche. Our government buys tamiflu up for the armed forces.... Connect the dots. Another Republican gold mine. Can anyone say healthcare reform?

  3. Never clicked on a Google Ad on Amazon Wants Patent For Inserting Ads Into Books · · Score: 1

    U click on google ads, hello data mining, this in accordance with prophecy.

  4. Answer: Public Transportation on GPS-Based System For Driving Tax Being Field Tested · · Score: 1

    The government already subsidizes most forms of public transportation if more people would use it... But it also has to be more available and more easily accessible as it is in Europe.

  5. Re:OT: Text encoding w/ copy & paste on Apple's Obsession With Secrecy Grows Stronger · · Score: 1

    Ah,
      MS-Word that explains everything.

  6. Canon CHDK awesome on GPL Firmware For Canon 5D Mk II Adds Features For Filmmakers · · Score: 1

    Not only does Canon let the consumer play around with the firmware they encourage it, as far as CHDK goes there are tons of parameters if its not working the way you want it to its your fault. I have taken shots of lightning where the motion detection script responds in 110ms. To take advantage of RAW (CRW file format) you have to be a borderline pro photographer and know how to convert them to DNG, preserving the 10 bit color, and then I use RawTherapee and possibly GIMP.

  7. Re:Afro-American Racism Against Whites and Asians on How the Obama Copyright Policies Might Unfold · · Score: 1

    This about says it all in response to this persons rant.

    "Lies, damned lies, and statistics" is part of a phrase attributed to Benjamin Disraeli and popularised in the United States by Mark Twain: "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." The statement refers to the persuasive power of numbers, the use of statistics to bolster weak arguments, and the tendency of people to disparage statistics that do not support their positions.

  8. No Debate on Should Wikipedians Edit Stories For Pay? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Anytime someone is paid for something there is a slanted "opinion". Pay me enough I'll tell you anything you want to hear, I'll slam any person, or business if the price is right. This is entirely contradictory to the spirit of a wiki.

  9. Professor's Double Jeopardy on California To Move To Online Textbooks · · Score: 1

    A professor at a college will write a book then require his and future classes he/she teaches to purchase the book. There is something fundamentally wrong with this.
    If I write a book, require my students to buy and read it then "teach" from it, isn't this restricting free thinking?
    Furthermore a professor gets a base pay and also publishing rights and a paid for audience.

  10. "Tear down this wall" on Work Resumes On Virtual Fence With Mexico · · Score: 1

    First uttered by Reagan. One of many hypocritical manifestos of the American government.

  11. Miraculous Communism on "Miraculous" Stem Cell Progress Reported In China · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Miraculous and China in the same sentence. Until their results are duplicated I would regard this announcement with great skepticism.

  12. Re:Censorship on Google To Remove "Inappropriate" Books From Digital Library · · Score: 1

    Censoring books goes against all aspects of a free nation. If you don't like it don't read or look at it, but don't tell me what I can't read or look at. It's just an inalienable right of all free people. If you don't like it move to China etc.

  13. Vague goals on Categorizing Puzzles In Adventure Games · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Many games don't have a clearly enough defined goal.

  14. Apple missed the boat on Touchscreen Netbooks To Shine At CES 2009 · · Score: 0

    I can't believe Apple didn't see this coming or did they? If only wireless internet access would have been around back in the time of the Newton.

  15. Re:Why does /. always side with the crook? on Blood From Mosquito Traps Car Thief · · Score: 0

    "Innocent until proven guilty means HE DID NOT DO IT."

      What world do YOU live in?

  16. Re:Slashdotted? on US Government Responds Harshly To ICANN gTLD Plans · · Score: 0

    You're right it's all about fucking money again. I don't know when businesses (non-profit, right!)will finally get it, what does it take another serious global economic crisis to teach idiots the end result of greed? Wait, its okay for me to be greedy but not anyone else.
    I'm part of the Baby Boomer generation and all, but our mantra thru the 60's of denouncing huge corporations is not representative of our actions today. It's fucking sickening.

  17. Cloud seeding ocean going ships on Scientist Patents New Method To Fight Global Warming · · Score: 0

    Sounds mysteriously like a proposal by someone else see here:
    http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/35693

  18. Re:"Torture." Right. on Musicians Protest Use Of Songs By US Jailers · · Score: 0

    There is a Judge in Colorado (forget which county) that sentences people guilty of disturbing the peace, primarily kids with to loud music in cars or otherwise, to listen to two hours of the Barney song and Barry Manilow and caps it off with public service.

  19. Re:History of Apple from TFA QWZX on The Beginnings of Apple Computer · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I think they flame these homosexual themes because they are either homophobic or in denial about their own sexual identity.

  20. Re:opera on Too Good To Ignore — 6 Alternative Browsers · · Score: 0, Troll

    I am guessing here but I would say you may be one of few people who navigate a web site from the keyboard, I personally know of no one else that does. Anyone else know of someone that navigates solely by keyboard?

  21. Method on McDonalds Files To Patent Making a Sandwich · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Other than mentioning a tool there is no tangible apparatus here. What they describe is just a way of doing something, providing a flowchart doesn't make it more impressive. Looks to me like a joke.

  22. Re:Why do "net neutrality" advocates on Net Neutrality Vets Join Obama FCC Transition Team · · Score: 0

    Why do "net neutrality" advocates ridicule politicians for comparing the Internet to a "series of tubes," and then trust them to regulate it?

    That is exactly the point. We don't trust senators like Stevens who make stupid comparisons and show entire lack of knowledge about any technological issues to make decisions regarding usage of the internet. Why would you trust somebody that has their house essentially rebuilt, doesn't know how it happened or who did it or how it was paid for?

  23. Re:Do Macs automatically setup a 6over4 Tunnel? on US Has More IPv6 Eyeballs Than Asia, Because of Apple · · Score: 0

    If you read TFA "It turns out that no less than 52 percent of all IPv6 users have a Mac and use 6to4. Apparently, those users have an Airport Extreme Wi-Fi base station / home router, which has the 6to4 tunneling mechanism enabled. (6to4 creates IPv6 addresses from an IPv4 address and "tunnels" IPv6 packets in IPv4 packets.)"
    This answers the question about 6to4.

  24. Re:Said one banker to another... on Woman Admits Sending $400K To Nigerian Scammer · · Score: 0

    It's pure greed and wanting to live beyond your means, that is what got us in this whole economic mess.

  25. Imagine the possibilities on Packs of Robots Will Hunt Down Uncooperative Humans · · Score: 0

    This could be loads of fun. Break some superfluous law to engage them, run them through an electromagnetic field, go in and out of a store that has scanners... I could spend a whole day playing with them and drive their "keepers" nuts.