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  1. Re:Abstract on Ouya Game Console Retail Launch Delayed Until June 25 · · Score: 1

    Yes it does. There's videos of this exact thing all over the youtubes.

  2. Re:Durrr Ouya on Ouya Game Console Retail Launch Delayed Until June 25 · · Score: 1

    Not quite...the CPU is soldered to the main board; you'd have to replace the whole board. you'd basically be buying an ouya sans-case, which would cost almost as much as a new ouya.

  3. Re:Remember the old adage on One Bitcoin By the Numbers: Is There Still Profit To Be Made? · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's called a Ponzai scheme.

    Which is sort of like a Ponzi scheme, but groomed very carefully over many years to be much smaller.

  4. Re:Nice Phone on HTC Does What Google Wouldn't: Sell an LTE Phone That Sidesteps AT&T · · Score: 2

    I have owned 6 cell phones (most of them not "Smart") and all of them have had removeable batteries.

    I've never actually *removed* the battery from any single one.

    Anecdote.

  5. Re:News at elleven on HTC Does What Google Wouldn't: Sell an LTE Phone That Sidesteps AT&T · · Score: 1

    Correct me if i'm wrong, but isn't verizon non-GSM, and therefore there's no sim card to lock?

  6. Re:didn't read the article on Margaret Thatcher Dies At 87 · · Score: 1

    Because history is never unkind to republicans? or do the Bushes not count?

  7. Re:Sad news on Margaret Thatcher Dies At 87 · · Score: 1

    Would they still be as successful as they are if they were still socialized? Who knows!

  8. Re:Translation ... on Massive Data Leak Reveals How the Ultra Rich Hide Their Wealth · · Score: 1

    Two things...

    1) Rich people buy things. Speedboats, houses, helicopters. All of which are taxed.

    2) When Rockerfeller (proxy super-rich guy name) invests his money in, say, Apple stock, that money doesn't just sit there. It gets spent by Apple on components (incurring import tarriffs) and employees(who pay income tax). then people buy iphones (sales tax), which makes gains for Rockerfeller (capital gains tax), which he then uses to buy a new tesla roadster (more sales tax), and invest in Google (The cycle continues).

    So if you look at the big picture here, you want to encourage Rockerfeller to invest his money; this sort of thing keeps our economy going and actually causes a lot of taxes to be paid! if Rockerfeller kept his money in a matress, there would be dire economic consequences.

  9. Re:Translation ... on Massive Data Leak Reveals How the Ultra Rich Hide Their Wealth · · Score: 1

    How exactly are the rich immune from sales taxes? They still pay them on anything they purchase, no? If you ask me (nobody has), Sales taxes are the most 'fair', because it's a lot easier to hide money you're making then money you're spending.

  10. Re:35 Days to write an OS on Rare Docs Show How Apple Created Apple II DOS · · Score: 1

    Given a small featureset and relatively simple hardware, 35 days sounds about right for something like Apple II DOS. No multitasking, a simple command language, limited hardware to support.... It was cutting edge then, but it's a student project now.

  11. Re:Collateralized vs Non-Collateralized Loans on Let Them Eat Teslas · · Score: 1

    It's not free. The student doesn't necessesarily pay for it, but someone does.

  12. Re:Why on How To Communicate Faster-Than-Light · · Score: 1

    No. You can't.

    Think about it this way; If you are blinking a flashlight, you could consider that beam a message that is traveling at the speed of light. At the speed of light, delta t is 0. That light-beam does not age.

    Can you send a message and recieve it in the same instant? NO. because from where you are sitting the light still travels away and back again.

    FTL travel dictates that the traveler ages backward; it's the perception of time that changes, nothing else. the rest of the universe continues on it's merry way.

  13. Re:i don't get it. on How To Communicate Faster-Than-Light · · Score: 1

    This is slashdot...we don't know any young women.

  14. Re:Why on How To Communicate Faster-Than-Light · · Score: 1

    and you? did you read the comment?
    for above sound speed, you are correct, but for above light speed (if possible), the package would time travel and so arrive in the past, before the sending

    ...from it's own frame of reference. From the point of view of the sender (or the reciever) it would still arrive after it was sent. It would just be younger when it arrived then when it was sent.

  15. Re:How to take a short position in Bitcoin? on Bitcoin Currency Surpasses 20 National Currencies In Total Value · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Borrow some bitcoin, sell it now, wait for the inevitable, buy it back when the bubble pops, return to owner.

  16. Re:You can replace my X on GTK+ 3.8 Released With Support For Wayland · · Score: 1

    And what stops you from writing a wayland renderer for X? Wine runs GDI programs under X, why not have some Wayland API shim that does the same thing?

  17. Re:Replace X? on GTK+ 3.8 Released With Support For Wayland · · Score: 1

    GNOME 3 does some things different then gnome 2. It's also clean and usable. I don't understand the public distaste for it...works for me! I'm sure there are others.

  18. Re:Replace X? on GTK+ 3.8 Released With Support For Wayland · · Score: 2

    Android is Linux without X...

    And with a *completely* different userspace, and some scheduling patches (last i looked...have those been merged? will they be?)

  19. Re:Forced convergence is all the rage. on We Didn't Need Google's Schmidt To Tell Us Android and Chrome Wouldn't Merge · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'll have what he's having.

  20. Re:hah! on Ask Slashdot: Should We Have the Option of Treating Google Like a Utility? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Facebook does give you the option to enter your sex, and the sex of people who interest you so.....there you go.

  21. Re:Slow news day? on A Few Improvements for Firefox's Android UI · · Score: 1

    As in, the the server has no idea what the data is that its storing. The server just facilitates key generation...

    Wait...that can't be right...if the server is generating (and therefore has) the keys, then it can decrypt the stream, no?

  22. Re:Kindle HD on HP Back In Tablet Game With Android-Based 'Slate7' · · Score: 1

    I dunno...It has similar price and specs to a lot of super poorly-made chinese tablets. Those are tempting, an HP badge makes them moreso...

  23. Re:First purchase on Ask Slashdot: Starting From Scratch After a Burglary? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You're never going to talk a hardened criminal or a desperate junkie out of hurting you to get whatever they want. At some point, it's you or them.

    Civilized people must be prepared to abandon their civility when the time comes.

  24. Re:First purchase on Ask Slashdot: Starting From Scratch After a Burglary? · · Score: 2

    It helps if the barking dog is >80 lbs. A lapdog doesn't count.

  25. Re:Mitnick is a script kiddie on Kevin Mitnick Helping Secure Presidential Elections In Ecuador · · Score: 1

    I don't disagree with Mitnick's redemption...i disagree with us still paying attention. His only noteriety is based entirely on the crime that he committed.

    I really wish him the best; i'm just tired of reading about him.

    OffTopic: "Mitnick's Redemption" sounds like a Ludlum novel...