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  1. Re:I didn't know Acer still made computers on Acer: Microsoft Surface 'Negative For The Whole PC Industry' · · Score: 1

    We've been saying it since before BeOS.

  2. Re:Depends on Why... on Mac OS X Mountain Lion Gets Three Million Downloads In 4 Days · · Score: 1

    There are also more people alive in the world since XP.

    I hope Windows 8 isn't as bad as Vista was.

  3. Re:When Kevin Rose Wanted to Eat a Taco on Digg.com Sold To Betaworks For $500,000 · · Score: 1

    What are you talking about? He already sold out. It hasn't been Kevin Rose's baby since he sold it for the $45 milllion. He made out like a bandit.

  4. Re:Troubling signal, why? on Facebook Shares Retreat Below IPO Price · · Score: 4, Informative

    Facebook never deletes photos. Upload a photo, save the URL for the photo and delete the image. Go back months later and pull up the URL, the photo is still there.

  5. Re:A week? on Who's Pirating Game of Thrones, and Why? · · Score: 1

    Dude, you guys have Danger 5 and that isn't even available through approved channels in the states.

  6. Re:This is brilliant! on Facebook Announces App Center · · Score: 1

    It looks like the apps will be available for the mobile devices to which they currently are not.

  7. Re:Zip discs on 30 Blu-ray Discs In a 1.5TB MiniDisc-Like Cassette · · Score: 3, Informative

    Every business that needed to store anything over 5MB had a Zip drive. and that's every business I consulted for in the late 90s.

    So maybe not every desktop but every office or 1 out of 5 computers had them.

  8. Re:In case you're all clueless... on Former TSA Administrator Speaks · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The problem isn't Kip Hawley as much as it is Janet Napolitano. She is ineffective as as the head of the DHS. She is reactionary and not a visionary nor a leader. She was horrible as a governor, she is horrible as the head of the DHS. She needs to go somewhere and put her education to use instead of riding on the coattails of others who are also no good at their job.

  9. Re:Not Open Source, but at least it's free on Ask Slashdot: Open Source Tax Software? · · Score: 1

    That's what I attribute it to however, the ease of Tax Act obviously wasn't so easy for this analytical mind.

    I answered all the questions and had nothing left over and just ended up wasting 2 hours on it.

  10. Re:Not Open Source, but at least it's free on Ask Slashdot: Open Source Tax Software? · · Score: 1

    I tried Tax Act and they said I had to pay $200 to the Feds. Went to HR Block and I'm getting a $900 refund.

    How is that possible?

  11. Re:Good Riddance on Adobe Releases Last Linux Version of Flash Player · · Score: 3, Informative

    YouTube works without flash. That's one of the nice things about it. Forward compatibility.

  12. Re:Its how microsoft works on Can Microsoft Afford To Lose With Windows 8? · · Score: 1

    Win98SE was the best of the bunch. Hardly a pile of dung.

    2K was the best of the NT platform. XP did good at merging the two but was a steaming pile of dung.

    Win7 is pretty good.

  13. Re:Windows Mobile? on Microsoft To Shut Down App Store For Windows Mobile · · Score: 2

    I'm so glad I only buy things with the 'Plays For Sure' badge.

  14. Re:Welcome to our world on The Specter of Gasoline At $5 a Gallon · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Exactly. Those who say the US can use mass transit have never been here.

    San Francisco is not like Denton, is not like New York City, is not like Kansas City, is not like Conshohoken, is not like Phoenix, is not like Columbus, etc.....

    You also can't use mass transit in farming communities.

  15. Re:Perspective on The iPhone Is a Nightmare For Carriers · · Score: 1

    If you already have AT&T service, like Go-Phone, you can easily switch the cards out and have a pay as you go plan with the iPhone.

    I had full service with Cingular, AT&T bought them, Switched to a pay-as-you-go and ended up paying only $25 a quarter for about 3 years.

    Got a Motorola Karma for a year - just by switching out the card. Brother in law gave me his old iPhone and did the same.

    Ended up going on the road more so I paid into a service plan.

  16. Re:Find a Good Car Analogy on Ask Slashdot: How To Inform a Non-Techie About Proposed Copyright Laws · · Score: 2

    If one person speeds on your street, they take the street away.

  17. Re:Chrome and IE are the most secure browsers on Google-Funded Study Knocks Firefox Security · · Score: 1, Informative

    Don't care how secure IE is now, it renders differently between versions 7, 8, and 9 and is incredibly slow.

  18. Re:In other words, we should give up. on Ron Paul Suggests Axing 5 U.S. Federal Departments (and Budgets) · · Score: 1

    That's a straw man argument you're setting up there as you're probably not well informed on those departments and how efficient/inefficient they are.

    I can attest that the Dept of Education has done nothing but drag down our collective educational system as a country.
    Ever since it's inception and well into it's programs, there has been more money spent on underperforming schools and children than ever before.The return promised has never been fulfilled. We cured polio, smallpox, and sent men to the moon without the Department of Education. We haven't done anything but drop in the educational rankings worldwide.

    Talk to a teacher. See how their hands are tied due to regulation this and regulation that. Teachers that want to teach do not want the Department of Education. Teachers that have tenure and like a paycheck want it to stay.

    Getting rid of those departments doesn't mean the end of it. Get real and intelligent. They're not going to just wither up and go away. The onus shifts to those who have a dog in the fight.

  19. Re:Follow the data! on New NASA Data Casts Doubt On Global Warming Models · · Score: 1

    And the Ozone hole and El Nino

  20. Re:So goes a once-talented filmmaker on Lucas Loses Star Wars Stormtrooper Copyright Case · · Score: 1

    His team is responsible for the innovations in SFX, Dykstra, Muren, Johnston, Kuran, Tippett, Knoll.

  21. Re:So goes a once-talented filmmaker on Lucas Loses Star Wars Stormtrooper Copyright Case · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Not a failure in a business sense but a failure in a creative sense.

    He surrounds himself with 'yes' people. Once he lost Kurtz, he never had that struggle to give his creative properties that extra push that made them great.

    Even Phillip Kaufmann is credited with Indiana Jones.

    Rick Mcallum is a total YES man and could have saved Prequel Star Wars if he would have had balls.

  22. Re:Not exactly ADP on ADP Experiences Security Breach · · Score: 1

    It's a closed system so MSIE and Active X doesn't matter. The troubling part is the RSA tokens that were hacked.

    The client access is a 3 tier login.

  23. Re:Google Kids = Legal obligation/legal minefield on Why Doesn't 'Google Kids' Exist? · · Score: 1

    It's quite true. If you watch the YouTube videos of Lego Star Wars, you'll quickly see the SAW Lego Series being recommended with it which then gets you to the actual SAW movie clips.

  24. Re:Nice, however.. on The Next Phase of Intelligent TVs Will Observe You · · Score: 1

    The Television world is much bigger than the US market.

  25. Re:Macs will be a closed platform in the end on Apple To Distribute OS X Lion via the Mac App Store · · Score: 1

    Meaning that Windows has finally gotten better as an OS.

    Win7 has been the best so far.

    WinME and Vista are the bottom of the heap.