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  1. Why the obsession with thinness? on Samsung Ups Ante In Smartphone Size Wars: 6.3 Inches · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't care how thin it is, I want a bigger battery.

  2. Re:Can Apple Actually Stage a Comeback? on Ask Slashdot: Can Yahoo Actually Stage a Comeback? · · Score: 1

    Errrmmm ... Geocities? OK, I doubt it too.

  3. Re:Can Apple Actually Stage a Comeback? on Ask Slashdot: Can Yahoo Actually Stage a Comeback? · · Score: 2

    Like Android? Or Where 2 (became Google Maps)? Or Writely (became Google Docs, became Google Apps). There are plenty of failures, but there are successes too.

  4. Re:I already on Foursquare Will Display Users' Full Names By Default · · Score: 1

    Just change your "full name". There is no requirement that it's your real name (unlike FB, Google, etc).

  5. Re:now no one else can on British Prime Minister To Announce Porn Blocking Plans · · Score: 2

    Well, it's not mine, 'cos I'm British, but my understanding is that that's about right. The constitution was followed pretty swiftly by the bill of rights, which was some number of amendments. The first amendment is the one about freedom of speech. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution Whereas we Brits never even bothered to write down our constitution, and we don't have freedom of speech.

  6. Re:now no one else can on British Prime Minister To Announce Porn Blocking Plans · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is the UK we're talking about, there's no constitutional amendment that says you can't repress political speech and people can be sent to prison for what they write on twitter: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-17515992

  7. Re:I would rather.... on Zynga To Employees: Surrender Pre-IPO Shares Or You're Fired · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I believe they don't vest if they're fired. So your choice as offered is (a) be fired and lose your stocks, or (b) lose your stocks.

  8. They might understand on Ask Slashdot: Does Being 'Loyal' Pay As a Developer? · · Score: 1

    Twice I've had job offers which were clearly better than my current job. I wanted to remain on good terms, so I explained the situation. Both times they didn't counter, they knew it was a better job, and they understood why it would be foolish not to take it.

  9. SAS and SPSS on Ask Slashdot: Successful Software From Academia? · · Score: 1

    SPSS grew out of Stanford University in the 1960s, bought by IBM for $1.2 billion in 2009. SAS, which grew out of NC State, is the world's largest privately held software company.

  10. Re:Really bad idea. on Roundabout Revolution Sweeping US · · Score: 1

    Works with my aluminium framed bike, but I can imagine it wouldn't work everyone, depending on positioning, sensitivity, etc. Also makes you look a little silly.

  11. Re:Really bad idea. on Roundabout Revolution Sweeping US · · Score: 3, Funny

    Jump off your bike, lie it down on the ground over the sensor. Usually does the trick.

  12. Re:Cool, energy arbitrage on Using Flywheels to Meet Peak Power Grid Demands · · Score: 1

    I did that trip too, about 25 years ago. Trawfynydd was still running then. (You're not from the Potteries, are you?)

  13. Re:GugaGaga on Amazon Gags On Gaga · · Score: 1

    Indeed, and if you bought a CD recently, you get a dollar off the download, so I got the download, and 20GB of storage for a year, for nothing. Order #: D01-7112762-2631304 Subtotal of items: $0.99 Discounts/Promotions: - $0.99 ------ Total before tax: $0.00 Tax Collected: $0.00 ------ Total for this Order: $0.00

  14. They didn't steal anything. on $1.2 Million Worth of MS Points Taken After Hackers Figure Out Code Algorithm · · Score: 2

    It's not like MS ran out of codes.

  15. Re:Interesting concept on Map Based Passwords · · Score: 1

    I've got one - it's every time you turn it on. And if it loses power it shuts down (unless you tell it to continue on battery). We made the location our kids' school, except now we've moved (and they've moved school) so that's going to be a pain. Luckily, I'm not the type to forget a PIN.

  16. Re:Interesting concept on Map Based Passwords · · Score: 1

    But they can't find your house in the GPS, because they don't know the PIN, so they can't get in to see what's inthe GPS. (Although they might know where you live because they found your car there.)

  17. Re:Already here on ATMs That Dispense Gold Bars Coming To America · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Will you need my PIN number? Or my personal PIN number?

  18. Re:5 page paper? on Facebook Post Juror Gets Fined, Removed, Assigned Homework · · Score: 4, Informative
  19. Re:Of course it's easy on Gaming Foursquare With 9 Lines of Perl · · Score: 1

    The bit where you enter their password might make it a little bit tricky.

  20. Re:Donchya' know on Bill Gates Doesn't Work At Microsoft Anymore · · Score: 1

    You need a shitload of luck too, of course ...

  21. Re:The disabled argument is pure bunk . on App Store Developer Speaks Out On Game Piracy · · Score: 1

    Just out of interest, did you have to practice to be able to listen at that speed? I couldn't make out a single word. I can see that that would be a useful skill - I just wonder if I'd ever be able to develop it.

  22. Re:Wait, really? on US Life Expectancy May Have Peaked · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Negative sir. That's the honest truth. If I walked into the hospital tomorrow with no money, and a life ending ailment. I'd live out the rest of my life to the fullest, but I can accept death. I don't know why you can't accept that life ends... sometimes premature.

    If you were drowning in a lake, and there were people standing by the lake who were capable of pulling you out and saving you, and those people just stood there - would you then accept death?
    I suspect you'd spend your last few minutes being extremely pissed off and wondering why the hell they weren't throwing you a rope.
    They weren't throwing you a rope because it was too much hassle, or too expensive.

  23. Re:August on Navigating a Geek Marriage? · · Score: 1

    She admitted it, and apologised, and we then proceeded to fix the situation.

    Should have made her do the work and you should have told her how to do it, instead of willingly participating in fixing her fuck-up. She'll think twice about being irrational next time :D

    You're not married are you? She won't think twice at all, and will be just as irrational next time. And you won't mind, 'cos she's your wife and you love her.

  24. Re:1984 on Student Suing Amazon For Book Deletions · · Score: 1

    They're not mutually exclusive categories. Dickens was pop fiction when it came out, but now it's classic (and still pretty popular).

  25. Re:Who did? on "Anonymous" Hacks Palin's Private Email · · Score: 1

    Will you be saying fuck you to every person on here who says anything bad about the RIAA/MPAA?