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  1. Good Model on Pay Less If You're a Nice Person: Valve's Freemium Model For DOTA 2 · · Score: 1

    Basically, Valve is going to tell a paying customer that he is a jerk (indirectly by offering him a higher price than others). Great business model.

    Next release, they can tell a paying customer if he is a moron or not - i.e. if a customer paid for a valve game even after being indirectly being told by Valve that he is a jerk, that means he is a moron.

  2. iGPU on Macbook Owner With Defective GPU Beats Apple In Court · · Score: 1

    It's an iGPU - not just a regular GPU. It's welded to a lot of other things. All of those things have to be replaced.

  3. Nope on Anti-Education Attack Poisons 150 Afghan Schoolgirls · · Score: 1

    Nope. Bad guys win only when you stop going to the malls and stop spending money.

  4. To be banned in 2020 on $60 Light Bulb Debuts On Earth Day · · Score: 5, Funny

    No point in buying a bulb which lasts 20 years. By 2020, there would be more efficient bulbs and this would be banned. And by 2020, both Google and Facebook would have capability to report to the Govt what bulb you turn on, the ban will also work on products which have already been purchased before the ban.

  5. Better than bribery on Canadian Media Companies Target CBC's Free Music Site · · Score: 1

    Actually Lobbying is better than bribery. When lists like "World's most corrupt countries" and Corruption Index List are created, it makes sure countries which have legalized Lobbying will appear much lower in the list than 3rd world countries who still call it bribery.

  6. Fix Available on New Targeted Mac OS X Trojan Requires No User Interaction · · Score: 5, Funny

    Fix available here.

  7. Re:Blashphemy??? on Indian Man Charged With Blasphemy For Exposing "Miracle" · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you RTFA, you will know that it happened in a Christian church in Mumbai.

  8. Re:New LG ALLY from ebay + Page plus Celluar on Smartphones Invade the Prepaid Market · · Score: 1

    Page Plus Celluar will activate the phone with any of their plans

    Why not go GSM - then no one has to 'activate' your phone.

  9. Human Rights on Chinese Internet Firms Punished For Permitting Spread Of Political Rumors · · Score: 2

    The top 10 countries with the best HR records are

    Norway
    San Marino
    Canada
    Belgium
    Luxembourg
    Sweden
    Finland
    Denmark
    Iceland
    New Zealand
    Slovenia

    I doubt that even all 10 of them put together export as much as China. I think we just would have to stop buying at all.

  10. Re:It's not "Pay" refunds... on Apple May Need To Rethink 4G Claims (and Pay Refunds) In More Countries · · Score: 2

    Agreed, no need to tell customers that it's pre-owned.

    Surely, you mean "pre-worshipped".

  11. GNU Emacs on Munich Has Saved €4M So Far After Switch To Linux · · Score: 1

    That's GNU Emacs, please.

  12. Copyright on Supreme Court Throws Out Human Gene Patents · · Score: 1

    Like most slashdotters you are getting confused between patents and copyrights. Levi copyrighted it.

  13. Re:Useful for analysis and brainstorming sessions on The Lytro Camera: Impressive Technology and Some Big Drawbacks · · Score: 1

    Imagine being able to have a 3D image of the model that you want to analyse...Being able to focus on different sections, zoom in, discuss, zoom out and refocus on another section of the model

    Can't you already do this with traffic cameras. Atleast that's what they show in the movies & TV serials.

  14. Thought Crime in the USA on Journalist Arrested For Tweet Deported to Saudi Arabia · · Score: 1

    Someone in jail for making threats.

  15. Re:Have you ever tried to switch from GoDaddy?? on Wikipedia Hasn't Forgiven GoDaddy · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm sure they're just having difficultly figuring out HOW to unregister from GoDaddy.

    Isn't there a Wikipedia article on how to unregister from GoDaddy?

  16. Re:As a KDP Select Author... on History Repeats Itself: KDP Select Is Amazon.com's 'Payback For Playback' · · Score: 1

    KDP Select is awesome and the exclusivity of it doesn't matter to me since Amazon is the 300kg gorilla in the eBook market.

    The right expression is 800 lb gorilla or 362.87 kg gorilla.

  17. Engineers? on Indian Engineers Modify Kinect To Help the Blind Walk With Confidence · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why is this post about engineers, when they are just people?

  18. Boeing and China on India Turns Down American Fighter Jets, Buys From France · · Score: 1

    http://economyincrisis.org/content/boeing-technology-transfer-warning-us-companies

    Boeing has already done enough technology transfer to China for China to be able to build their own 737

  19. Dilbert on Ask Slashdot: Are Daily Stand-Up Meetings More Productive? · · Score: 4, Funny
  20. Actual 2 photos on Non-Copied Photo Is Ruled Copyright Infringement · · Score: 4, Informative

    Link here

  21. May be they want the Google UMG Deal on Facebook, Google Argue Against Web Censorship In India · · Score: 1

    India doesn't seem to understand that what they're asking to do isn't technologically feasible. It would require a gigantic staff of people round-the-clock, judging each and every post and video before they're allowed to be seen by the general public.

    The Indian Govt may have heard about the Google UMG & they are ready to employ their own staff to do the wiping.

  22. Re:Looks like SOPA passed in India! on India OKs Censoring Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Only difference is that the Indians aren't clever enough to create terms like SOPA/PIPA such that the common public is blissfully unaware of what's happening.

  23. Re:Time for tactical action? on Lawmakers Intent On Approving SOPA, PIPA · · Score: 1

    Why don't you do it?

  24. Re:Huh? on Apple Patents Power Adapter That Recovers Lost Passwords · · Score: 1

    In what universe is an iPhone a "long-battery-life" device?

    It is a long battery-life device - as long as you are holding it correctly.

  25. Re:Subjective on IE6 Almost Dead In the US · · Score: 1

    The day to pop the Dom Perignon is when you can set a policy of only supporting recent versions of any browser.

    And update the firefox versions on that policy every week.