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  1. Just sue CBS on Ubuntu Touch Beats Firefox OS For 'Best of MWC' From CNET · · Score: 4, Funny

    If Canonical sues or gets sued by CBS, they'll just get disqualified.

  2. First Nobel auctioned? on For Sale: One Nobel Prize Medal (Slightly Used, By Francis Crick) · · Score: 2

    Did the submitter even read the article? It clearly said that Aage Bohr's medal was sold last year.

  3. Too many "friends"? on Facebook Announces Social Search Tools · · Score: 2

    If you've got to perform a search to know which of your friends live in San Francisco, they're not really your "friends".

  4. Re:Off Topic: Facebook?! Really?! on Google's Engineers Are Well Paid, Not Just Well Fed · · Score: 1

    It's actually a typo in the blurb. Facebook was in second place, not Microsoft.

  5. Re:Buy cheap Viagra? on The Oatmeal Begins a Fundraiser for a Nikola Tesla Museum · · Score: 1

    Google cache is seeing the same thing I'm seeing here.

  6. Buy cheap Viagra? on The Oatmeal Begins a Fundraiser for a Nikola Tesla Museum · · Score: 1

    Is it just me or is their about page infested with spam?

  7. Curbing Nationalism on In Vietnam: Being a Blogger Could Land You In Jail, Cost You Your Life · · Score: 1

    The Vietnamese government has a fine line to tread. Due to the current territorial disputes with China, there is a resurgence of Sinophobia among the populace in Vietnam. The Vietnamese government doesn't want to antagonize the Chinese government and jeopardize a huge trading relationship, but it also doesn't want to appear to be caving to the Chinese. It had shown remarkable restraints in allowing anti-China protests to proceed, but recently it had been curbing them because the protestors attention is now focussing on the government itself.

  8. Cheap cellular cost? on Do You Really Need a Smart Phone? · · Score: 1

    Where did you get such a cheap cellular plan? I hardly make any calls, but my bare-bones prepaid phone plan costs more than $4 a month. In the US, the cheapest I found is T-Mobile To Go, which charges about 10 cents a minute if you buy $100. Since the minutes last at most a year, the minimum you have to pay is about more than $8 a month.

  9. Rebuttal from Danny Sullivan on Senators Recommend FTC Perform Antitrust Investigation Of Google · · Score: 1

    Here's an informed opinion on the subject.

  10. Re:I would rather.... on Zynga To Employees: Surrender Pre-IPO Shares Or You're Fired · · Score: 1

    If you get fired, you get none of the unvested stocks, so it's a choice of all or nothing.

  11. Re:Hold up, wait a minute on Chrome Set To Take No. 2 Spot From Firefox · · Score: 1

    May eventually happen, but It's going to be a bit...

    Stats from from a real world web site over the last 30 days...

    MS Internet Explorer No 891,058 47.4 % Firefox No 317,909 16.9 % Safari No 264,506 14 % Google Chrome No 162,473 8.6 % Android browser (PDA/Phone browser) No 93,691 4.9 % Unknown ? 54,509 2.8 % IPhone (PDA/Phone browser) No 28,603 1.5 % Mozilla No 25,610 1.3 % Opera No 12,074 0.6 % BlackBerry (PDA/Phone browser) No 9,396 0.4 %

    Must be an Apple-oriented site. Where in the real world would Safari be ahead of Chrome?

  12. One word on Wealthy Americans Turning To Europe For Medical Treatment · · Score: 1
  13. This is old news on YouTube Disables Comments and User Uploads For Korean Users · · Score: 2

    This happened 2 years ago, and the Korean government already caputulated and gave YouTube an exemption.

  14. Won't run on older machines on Ubuntu Unity: The Great Divider · · Score: 1

    I "upgraded" my 5-year-old Dell laptop (one of the first that came pre-installed with Ubuntu) from 10.10 to 11.04 and had to switch to classic mode. The Unity interface seems to require too much resource and so it didn't load anything besides the desktop icons. I've had similar problems before with Compiz. Seems like with this release, the Ubuntu people dropped any pretense of catering to older systems and went full force with the eye candy. If I want a resource hog OS, I might as well go with Windows.

  15. How Brazil saved its currency from hyperinflation on Local Currencies To Replace Dollar For 5 Countries' Dealings · · Score: 1

    Listen to the Planet Money podcast on NPR for an interesting story about how Brazil invented a nonexistent currency about 2 decades ago to fix its hyperinflation problem.

  16. Re:Really Slashdot?!? Really? on Chinese Censors Crack Down on Time Travel · · Score: 4, Informative

    Actually, this is not just the article singling out time travel. According to The New York Times, the original government report does single out TV dramas that involve characters traveling back in time.

  17. Google's arsenal of programming language people on Java Creator James Gosling Hired At Google · · Score: 5, Informative

    James Gosling - Java Guido van Rossum - Python Ken Thompson - C, Go Joshua Bloch - Java

  18. Re:Who cares? on China Starts Censoring Phone Calls Mid Sentence · · Score: 1

    How do you expect to get an honest response from the Chinese when they're being constantly monitored by the government?

  19. NOT Google on Unwise — Search History of Murder Methods · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Given that Google was founded in 1998, the same year that Julie Jensen died, it's highly unlikely that Mark Jensen used Google to make these searches.

  20. Google will do what it did in Korea on YouTube Legally Considered a TV Station In Italy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    When South Korea passed a law that requires large websites with user-generated contents to collect user's personal information, Google simply disabled the uploading and commenting features in YouTube for Korean users and encouraged them to set their locale to some other country. This continued for a year, shining a spotlight on South Korea's stupid law until the government gave up and exempted YouTube from the law.

  21. Doraemon's hands on Robotic Hands Grip Without Fingers · · Score: 1

    This sounds like Doraemon's hands. Doraemon is a robotic cat from the future in a 1970s manga.

  22. Re:It works for Google on Google Instant Announced · · Score: 1

    No, that would be Google Scribe.

  23. Sokal affair on Stanford's Authoritative Alternative To Wikipedia · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Vetted by experts" in the social sciences means nothing. Anyone heard of the Sokal affair?

  24. Very useful on GMail Introduces Priority Inbox · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I've been using this for about 6 months and it's very useful. Mail from people I read and reply to more often usually percolate to the top. Sometimes unimportant mail are marked as "important" but I can downgrade them. Just keep an eye on the "Everything else" pile once in a while, sometimes important mail are mislabeled.

  25. Re:Why not just use Pinyin? on Wired Youths In China & Japan Forget Character Forms · · Score: 1

    Vietnamese dropped the clunky Chinese characters for a Latin-based writing system a hundred years ago and never looked back.