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  1. Hundreds? on Standard For Electric Car Charging Announced · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How can there be 100's of different plug varieties when there areonly 10's of different elctric cars yet. Also, how can plug-design speed up charge time 24 times?

  2. Re:all of a sudden... on Gas Prices Jump; California Hardest Hit · · Score: 1

    You mean plugin cars don't use energy?

  3. Volvo XC60 on MIT Creates Car Co-Pilot That Only Interferes If You're About To Crash · · Score: 1

    Don't all Volvo XC60's have this (as an option). Only difference is it wakes me up when it thinks I'm sleeping instead of it taking over 'until I wake up' LOL.

  4. Re:So Tabs will be the next hUge thing in educatio on Bill Gates Says Tablets Aren't Much Help In Education · · Score: 1

    No one will ever need more than 64KB of memory and the 'internet' is only for students.

  5. So Tabs will be the next hUge thing in education? on Bill Gates Says Tablets Aren't Much Help In Education · · Score: 1

    Looking at BG's trackrecord in predicting the future, education will be a huuge market for tabs pretty soon. He always was not just wrong, but completely opposite to actual trends. M$ would be twice as big if not for BG 'vision'.

  6. Re:Well, they couldn't prove... on EU Blocks France's Ban of Monsanto's GM Maize · · Score: 1

    They will have to. French take their food very seriously, as do the Italians eg. Combined with other reasons it would be enough to raise a massive anti-EU sentiment and have real consequences.

  7. Re:Solution: The Gimp on Adobe Introduces the Paid Security Fix · · Score: 1

    Right. Let us know when you tried it.

  8. Re:Dear Google on Google: IE Privacy Policy Is Impractical · · Score: 0

    +1

  9. Re:An outside law firm ? on Google In Battle With Its Own Lawyers · · Score: 5, Insightful

    More to the point, why would a lawfirm having a client with the stature and glamour like Google risk all by even negotiating with a conflicting cient.

  10. Re:I'm glad I support the Republicans on How the GOP (and the Tea Party) Helped Kill SOPA · · Score: 2

    Godwin's law doesn't 'forbid' anything. It's not a legal law, it's a law of nature, like Murphy's law.

  11. I think, just like the other MS, this company is doing everything it can to completely pwn the field in which they operate and use every means available. In Monsanto's case it is far more dangerous even, because the 'code' they are meddling with is not the OS software for 75% of desktops, but the very system of 100% of life on this planet. This is not just about freedom of information, but about life and evolution.

    A company like that should be scrutinized to the highest standards. Instead it is one of the dirtiest and most cynical companies in history. Their dossier reads like a bad villain movie, only worse.

  12. Bubble Collapse imminent? on Facebook Expected To Go Public Next Week · · Score: 2

    I have a bad feeling about this. This type of IPO hype strongly reminds me of the previous Web 1.0 collapse and the timing would be right for FB to maximize it's peak on the market.

  13. Re:Wouldn't be surprised on Samsung Reinvents Windows (Not the OS) With Touchscreen Display · · Score: 1

    If they put a (transparent) solar panel on the outside they could even get subsidized in many countries. I want a 3 x 4 one (meters).

  14. Re:iPad vs. all Android tablets on Why 2012 Will Be the Year of the Android Tablet · · Score: 1

    Apple == Intelligent Design
    Android == Evolution

  15. Re:Asimov naive? I don't think so. on Philosopher Patrick Lin On the Ethics of Military Robotics · · Score: 2

    I always assumed the suggestion that the laws were in place because Robotics would have been forbidden otherwise, and every unit had to have these laws burned in stone in it's BIOS, or it would be an illegal device.
    Since there hasn't been any mention of forbidding robots yet, I doubt the 3 laws system will ever exist. Part of the CIA's exercise here seems to be to prevent the ethical discussion from halting the development. On the one hand I think it is good to see an Agency start a 'preemptive' discussion about a sensitive issue, otoh it makes you wonder what they're up to.

  16. Re:Ok. analyze THIS. on How Tech Vendors Help Governments Spy On Their Citizens · · Score: 2, Insightful

    .. Ron Paul

  17. Re:That's not a bug, it's a feature on Study Hints That Wi-Fi Near Testes Could Decrease Male Fertility · · Score: 1

    "Most of them I see are raving frothing at the mouth android owners who cant afford iDevices."

    That's a good way to illustrate OP's point. FWIW, best sold Androids cost as much or more than an iPhone. I't not about the money.

  18. Re:Thanks for the reminder! on Next Apple iPhone To Have a 4 Inch Display? · · Score: 1

    For the record, tell that to the AC

    And there are more Linux's installed than Mac's ;-)

  19. Re:Thanks for the reminder! on Next Apple iPhone To Have a 4 Inch Display? · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but you all know what I mean. Since the AC said "Why the FUCK would anyone buy an android P.O.S. when the iPhone 5 is just around the corner?", thus comparing Android with iPhone, I stayed in the same line.

    Anyway, according to http://www.macrumors.com/2011/11/15/android-tops-50-share-of-smartphone-sales-but-apple-still-dominating-profits, your numbers are incorrect. "Popular' in my book means 'best sold', and every sold iOS there are 3 Androids, hence my example.

    So, to paraphrase the AC: Why the FUCK would anyone buy an iPhone P.O.S. when an Android is already better NOW than the next iPhone?

  20. Re:Misdirection on Next Apple iPhone To Have a 4 Inch Display? · · Score: 1

    So you say you were disappointed but that it wasn't Apple's fault. Wow, even the pope has less loyal followers.

  21. Blasphemy on Next Apple iPhone To Have a 4 Inch Display? · · Score: 1

    He's hardly dead and already they start meddling with the _absolute truths_ according to the Messiah.

  22. Re:Thanks for the reminder! on Next Apple iPhone To Have a 4 Inch Display? · · Score: 1

    Ask the guys left, right and in front of you. If you have an iPhone then statistically they will have an Android, based on salesfigures. iPhone is about 3 years delayed in features and not a real OS.

  23. Re:For the internet age? on Toy Story Meets Google Street View · · Score: 1

    Not for long anymore

  24. Re:Canon or Nikon on Ask Slashdot: Best Camera For Getting Into Photography? · · Score: 1

    bla to undo wrong mod, sorry

  25. Re:Conspiracy! on iTunes Flaw Allowed Spying On Dissidents · · Score: 1

    You probably mean a conspiracy THEORY?