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  1. Opinions regarding freedom of Android on Ask Richard Stallman Anything · · Score: 2

    What's your opinion regarding the level of freedom provided by various Android devices? In particular, Google's Nexus line, CyanogenMod, and other devices that have been rooted and/or unlocked to varying degrees.

  2. Re:Organism on Fetuses Caught Yawning In 4D · · Score: 1

    Just like Microsoft won the operating systems war. Read the dissenting opinions in Roe vs. Wade if you believe that battle can never go the other way.

  3. Re:$85000 camera? on Camera Technique Captures New View of Space & Time · · Score: 1

    With a cheap video camera, he could make videos with the space and time axes swapped.

  4. The prosthetic beak has been removed. on Injured Bald Eagle Gets New 3-D Printed Beak · · Score: 2, Informative

    FTFA:
    "Beauty continues to thrive under our care without her upper beak. The new growth pushed out the hardware which anchored the prosthetic beak."

  5. Re:waiting for details on Did Google Knowingly Violate Java Patents? · · Score: 0

    where was the "florian mueller contributed to the article" and it's completely unreliable warning?

    It was right above the article summary:

    from the pay-no-attention-to-the-man-behind-the-curtain dept.

  6. Can be done in software on most laptops on Sonar Keyboard Logs You Out To Protect Your Data · · Score: 0

    A research group at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University did this a while ago using the built-in speakers and microphone on most laptops.

  7. An open system with critical mass on Why the Arduino Won and Why It's Here To Stay · · Score: 0

    When an open system reaches critical mass, it's here to stay. Proprietary systems can hold a monopoly for a while, but not forever, because there's always an incentive to jump ship when the opportunity arises.

  8. Re:This isn't news on Four Outrages Techies Need To Know About the State of the Union · · Score: 0

    Slashdot's "News for Nerds" slogan seems to have disappeared with the new look.

  9. Re:Random? on The Binary Code In Canada's Gov-Gen Coat of Arms · · Score: 1

    I have a better guess... The slash is actually a key to indicate that the image is sheared. If you unshear it, you get the letter S: his wife's initial.

  10. www.fossfactory.org on Getting an Independent Project Started? · · Score: 1

    I created FOSS Factory for exactly this reason. Everyone has a project in them. In fact, most people I know have enough projects in them that they'll never find the time to work on all of them.

    FOSS Factory is a place where you can post your ideas, and if people like them, they can come and make them happen. The approach is collaborative in all aspects of production, including design, funding, management and development.

  11. Re:Spidermonkey on Helix Code Launched, Gnome Packages Available · · Score: 1

    All I know is that Spidermonkey Island is the name of a floating Island in the original tales of Dr. Doolittle.

  12. What is Right and Wrong? on Dying Babies and The Myth of American Freedom · · Score: 1
    When it comes to abortion, euthanasia and other life issues we need to answer this question --
    What entitles a person to human rights?

    There are a few conceivable answers. Most people would agree that it can't be the law since we know that slavery is wrong even when it's legal. We need the law to protect our human rights, not to define them.

    We should never decide that another person is not entitled to his/her human rights. Science is quite aware of exactly when human life begins. As soon as we introduce exceptions and qualifications into the definition of "personhood", we step onto a slippery slope which endangers all of us. This is what the holocaust was all about.

    Legalizing euthanasia or abortion even in special circumstances undermines the equality that we have been fighting so hard for.