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  1. Traditionally, larger screens come with higher power requirements. What's the battery life going to be with this type of arrangement?

  2. Re:The reason we use exponents on World's Fastest Camera Shoots 10 Trillion Frames a Second (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    https://www.britannica.com/top... Yes, quite a useless explanation.

  3. Cyc by Douglas Lenat on The US Military Wants To Teach AI Some Basic Common Sense (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Douglas Lenat has been working on this common sense problem for years.

  4. And it seems like they're dumping everything into the cause now, just in the hopes of preventing an even bigger disaster.

  5. Check their actual status page on Cryptocurrency Exchange Kraken Suddenly Goes Dark For Two Days (sfchronicle.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Their status page (https://status.kraken.com/) claims that they're preparing to relaunch the site soon.

  6. Tried the built-in Screenshot function? on Slashdot Asks: Have You Switched To Firefox 57? · · Score: 1

    The one add-on that I use a lot that does not work with it is Capture & Print. I have a workaround, but this add-on did exactly what I wanted with no extra bells or whistles. I'm crossing my fingers that it will be updated as well.

    Have you tried the built-in Screenshot function? Click on the three-dots in the address bar, and select "Take Screenshot". It allows you to take a portion of a page or the whole thing. And it gives you the option to either save it locally, or upload it to share with others.

  7. Breach of contract, surely? on Microsoft Paid NFL $400 Million To Use Surface, But Announcers Call Them iPads · · Score: 1

    If they don't have some breach of contract or revenue clawback due to all this silliness, then Microsoft have only themselves to blame for the lack of positive marketing and publicity.

  8. Unlimited data = unlimited money?? on Comcast Tells Government That Its Data Caps Aren't Actually "Data Caps" · · Score: 1

    Right.. in their world, that's perfectly reasonable to call it an unlimited plan...

  9. Re:Mineral Cartels in China? on Where Next-Generation Rare Earth Metals May Come From · · Score: 1

    So, what if the compliance costs of maintaining supply to the country are considered "too high"?

    Or, perhaps the market isn't considered valuable enough and the supply will simply dry up anyway...

    Or the import costs will make it prohibitively expensive (despite the moral high-ground you're taking)..

    Or.... ad infinitum...

  10. Misreading headline... on Draft Alternative To SOPA Released · · Score: 1

    Is it just me, or did anyone else misread the headline as "_Daft_ Alternative To SOPA Released"?

  11. Hollywood celebrities and such forth... on Linux 3.0 Release Delayed · · Score: 2

    ... all moving to G+ and posting there instead will be the death of Facebook, but not a moment before

  12. Re:My version on Can Computers Be Used To Optimize the US Tax Code? · · Score: 1

    No, a flat tax is a regressive tax. Meaning it has a higher impost on the less-able to pay in society, because the "flat tax" is a higher proportion of their total income.

  13. No proper support for Nokia N85 mobile browser? on Slashdot Launches Re-Design · · Score: 1

    All of the always-on-top floating top and side bars almost completely block all the actual content. It's pretty much preventing me from doing anything useful on the trips to/from work each day. Now I actually notice how bad public transport really is...

  14. Telephone sanitizers better not lose their jobs... on Computer Glitch Leaves Some Australians Without Cash · · Score: 1

    Otherwise all of civilization will fall...

  15. Traffic report for Singapore end of May 2010? on Google Publishes Censorship Map · · Score: 1

    Looking at the 6 month traffic report for Singapore, what happened towards the end of May and onwards? There's a precipitous drop in traffic for the unencrypted Google Search traffic down to less than half the pre-June traffic levels.

  16. Re:Troll? on Facebook Adds Delete Account Option · · Score: 4, Funny

    Registered slashdot users also tend not to be complete morons

    Do you also have the "Apple" section blocked?

    There's an "Apple" section??? Never noticed...

  17. Re:But... on Microsoft Dynamics GP "Encrypted" Using Caesar Cipher · · Score: 1

    heh... that just never goes out of date.. thanks for that one, it was a blast from the past

  18. Hilarious! on Lightworks Video Editor To Go Open Source · · Score: 2, Informative

    If only I had mod points, you'd definitely get some

  19. Re:Apple is scared of write once run anywhere on How the iPad Is Already Reshaping the Internet (Sans Flash) · · Score: 1

    ... which don't currently have the wide platform base, nor a similar ease of development for games (Facebook or otherwise) and other such applications...

  20. Copyright...? on Microsoft Warns of Copycat Conficker Worm · · Score: 1

    Thank God there's no software copyright claims being made between these virus writers...

  21. How is that evil in the long run? on Bill Gates' Plan To Destroy Music, Note By Note · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If we get access to install any new operating system that we desire, and to use the PS3 for whatever reason we want, then how can that be bad?

    If Sony is circumventing the tariffs by being "forced" into making the PS3 more open (and I use that term guardedly), then we still benefit a LOT more than by owning an Xbox360.

  22. Re:The Money Quote on Generational Windows Multicore Performance Tests · · Score: 1

    And yet the average Joe won't know nor care if it has DRM built-in or not...

  23. They could make your idea real... for free on Google Wants You To Be Its Unpaid Muse · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Most people I know (myself included) have a lot of ideas, both good and bad, but have no idea or resources to make the idea into a marketable and/or profitable idea. The fact that your idea could be made real by anyone else and accessible worldwide is pretty much its own thing to brag about.

  24. Description from IBM on IBM Leapfrogs Intel With 22nm Chips · · Score: 5, Informative
  25. Avoid the blog, link directly to the source... on What To Do With All of My Gadget Chargers? · · Score: 1