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  1. Re:HP Hurricane? on HP's Slate To Be Replaced By WebOS Tablet? · · Score: 1

    It's also funny how the iPaq and iPad names are similar... simply do a vertical flip on the last letter.

  2. Say what? on Man Runs Into Burning Building To Save Cake · · Score: 2, Insightful

    He loves his child so much that he will risk the possibility of his child not having a father for the rest of his life to save a birthday cake the kid won't even remember eating in a few weeks.

    Wait, what?

  3. Re:Does this work on Slashdot? on Twitter Bug Lets Users Force Others To Follow Them · · Score: 2, Funny

    Damn, I went back to Tristram for nothing.

  4. Re:Does this work on Slashdot? on Twitter Bug Lets Users Force Others To Follow Them · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Looks like it works, but let's try it with something else just to be sure.

    accept +5 MooCow

  5. Re:Probably not a bug on Twitter Bug Lets Users Force Others To Follow Them · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So what should you do? Stop using Twitter?

    Yes.

  6. Re:HP Hurricane? on HP's Slate To Be Replaced By WebOS Tablet? · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe they plan on getting the Knight Sabers to sing a theme song for their product.

  7. Re:First of all.... on Mpeg 7 To Include Per-Frame Content Identification · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think you meant Hawaii MPEG 5.0

  8. Re:Re-encoding? on Mpeg 7 To Include Per-Frame Content Identification · · Score: 1

    There are other standards...

    And they have a plan.

  9. Re:The cycle is complete on A Call For an Open, Distributed Alternative To Facebook · · Score: 3, Funny

    Shit, I just realized we're about to enter a new era of Geocities 2.0

  10. Re:Facebook? Friends & family? on A Call For an Open, Distributed Alternative To Facebook · · Score: 1

    I don't know what you mean by "random text towards the end of this post is necessary for slashdot's edit window to work in Safari", I don't have to do anything special to post with Safari here. Are you on Windows or Mac OS X? Which version of Safari? Did you install anything for Safari or is it a plain install? Are Java and plug-ins disabled?

  11. Re:Ruining the purpose of reading? ABSOLUTELY! on Do Children's E-Books Ruin Reading? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yah, just like computers have been ruining writing these past couple of decades.

    Tell me about it. Some people don't even know what paragraphs are anymore.

  12. If you want an easy example on Apple's Haves and Have Nots, Around the World · · Score: 1

    If we're talking about media, let's take the Fox Network as an example. Because of licensing, Fox doesn't have any rights to The Simpsons once you go north of the border. Once you do, The Simpsons belongs to Global TV.

    Licensing the main reason why the available medias in each and every iTunes Store around the world is different. Too bad for the media companies, however, because sometimes the individual markets of each country is too small to even bother, but all added up could mean from 5 to 50% more sales. All they had to do was to keep their licenses to themselves so they would be able to sell their content on all the iTunes Stores around the world.

    Most media companies are stuck with contracts, however, so they can't do that just yet.

  13. The cycle is complete on A Call For an Open, Distributed Alternative To Facebook · · Score: 5, Funny

    Personal websites are dead, long live Geocities!
    ...

    Geocities is dead, long live MySpace!
    ...

    MySpace is dead, long live Facebook!
    ...

    Facebook is dead, long live personal websites!

  14. Back to basics on A Call For an Open, Distributed Alternative To Facebook · · Score: 1

    Think of being able to buy your own domain name and use simple software such as Posterous to build a profile page in the style of your liking.

    You mean like a personal website? And forget the Posterous.

  15. Liquid Blade? on Liquid Blade Brings Immersion Cooling To Blade Servers · · Score: 1

    Is that similar to a Light Saber?

  16. End of the world on iPad Isn't "Killing" Netbook Sales, According To Paul Thurrott · · Score: 1

    Paul Thurrott knows the world ends in 2012. He only quoted netbook sales for 2011 and 2013.

  17. Re:Human retinas on Is the 4th Yellow Pixel of Sharp Quattron Hype? · · Score: 1

    So what you're saying is that the Visitors took over Sharp?

  18. Re:No. on Is the 4th Yellow Pixel of Sharp Quattron Hype? · · Score: 1

    In other news, Axe Body Spray doesn't really make girls want to have sex with you.

    Well, maybe not human females, but... to be sure, I'd stay away from the zoo after using it.

  19. Re:Apple, Apple, Apple .... on iPad Isn't "Killing" Netbook Sales, According To Paul Thurrott · · Score: 1

    Don't worry, summer is coming so we'll have iPhone news soon enough! /duck

  20. Re:Though the Times They May Look Grim ... on The Desktop Security Battle May Be Lost · · Score: 1

    Unless x = Nintendo.

  21. Re:Canadian prices on iPad UK Pricing Confirmed; Apple UK Tax Applied · · Score: 1

    Knowing our telecom companies, I expect to be shocked (in the "OMG what's wrong with these companies" sense).

  22. Re:Canadian prices on iPad UK Pricing Confirmed; Apple UK Tax Applied · · Score: 1

    Do your local Future Shop stores have iPods? Macs? If they do then I don't see why they wouldn't also have the iPad. Even if they only have iPods, I would bet they will also have the iPad.

  23. Re:like Zuckerman, I dotn beleive in privacy anymo on Lower Merion School's Report Says IT Dept. Did It, But Didn't Inhale · · Score: 1

    This is just a preview of the future.

    We were told there would be jetpacks! Where's my jetpack, damnit!

  24. 28 days later? on iPad Is Destroying Netbook Sales · · Score: 1

    Shouldn't the title be "iPad turning Netbooks into zombies"?

  25. Re:Sheer Madness on iPad Is Destroying Netbook Sales · · Score: 1

    So where's the camera and the GPS? Maybe we'll get that with the next update... it sucks that the iPod touch is a second-class, iPhone.