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  1. Give me a small keyboard! on Can Crowdfunding Bring Back The Netbook? (salon.com) · · Score: 1

    We don't need no netbook. We need small - the size of a smartphone - wired (no bluetooth bullshit) keyboard. Then you hook it to your smartphone and have all the benefits w/o any drawbacks. For bonus points, I'd take a very small usb-hub and add a mouse.

  2. I can tolerate them taking away the jack if they add two or three extra usb ports. You can't charge the device with a keyboard plugged in, ridiculous! Now they want me to be unable to listen to music while charging.

  3. Re:It's about time on Larry Wall Unveils Perl 6.0.0 · · Score: 1

    No, not yet. Half Life 3 is yet to come.

  4. Re:too hard or too cheap? on Russia's Plan To Crack Tor Crumbles · · Score: 2

    Pretty please don't base your posts on BBC broadcasts, I nearly split my sides reading your bullshit.

  5. Re:Broke the law of bribery on Google Found Guilty of "Abusing Dominant Market Position" In Russia · · Score: 1

    Google preloads their devices with some apps, no big deal.
    But they also prohibit preloading of competing apps, which is worse. That's what they've been accused of.

  6. Hobby vs Professional on The French Scrabble Champ Does Not Speak French · · Score: 1

    This is a good case in hobby sports vs professional sports.
    As a hobby, playing games helps you to have fun and improve yourself.
    As a profession, it just loads you with useless things. Like those french words the champ is unable to use.

  7. The real problem on The Economic Consequences of Self-Driving Trucks · · Score: 0

    The real problem is not that driverless trucks will destroy jobs. It's capitalistic system where man has to get a job to get money. We now have robots everywhere. In factories, in home and on the road. Is it paradise, where man at last doesn't have to work? No, it's a hell where man can't get a job. What nonsense.

  8. how about dictionary first? on Google Aims To Be Your Universal Translator · · Score: 1

    It can't become a translator any time soon. It's not even an adequate dictionary yet.

  9. Re:Oh good on Miss a Payment? Your Car Stops Running · · Score: 1

    Yeah, because everyone who starves should buy a car. If you're so poor ride a bus.

  10. Will not happen on Dick Cheney Had Implanted Defibrillator Altered To Prevent Terrorist Attack · · Score: 2

    Killing a politician with subtle electronic sabotage is not appealing to terrorists. It is not dramatic. It is quiet. Terrorists would rather blow a city block with TNT to kill a politician. Killing somebody using defibrillator suits spies or other government agents.

  11. Re:grammar-school physics on Cell Phone Powered By Urine · · Score: 1

    The real problem is that reports is misguiding. What really is used in those batteries are the metal electrodes. The electrolite isn't used up (except for eveporation) and can be anything. The "urine power" is just cheap marketing trick.

  12. Virtualization on Ask Slashdot: Protecting Home Computers From Guests? · · Score: 1

    Install some virtualization software e.g. VirtualBox and install whatever OS your guests like. Then clone the image for each guest to use, and delete it after that.

  13. Re:Good news everyone! on Developer Drops Game Price To $0 Citing Android Piracy · · Score: 1

    Doesn't always work, some apps show default or cached ads.

  14. Nano-tubes on Return of the Vacuum Tube · · Score: 1

    So the word "nanotubes" now has new meaning.

  15. Free speech limits on Facebook 'Likes' Aren't Protected Speech · · Score: 2

    I think that free speech protection must have some limits. I don't think that my employee that openly supports my opponent will work well for me. And I think that an employee should have some basic loyalty to his employer. Critique is ok, but openly stating support for a competitor is not. And after all that employee wasn't "terminated" in Terminator sense.

  16. Huge problem on Instant Messaging With Neutrinos · · Score: 1

    For starters, photons may be of different wavelengths. What about neutrinos? As far as I know, they are all identical like electrons or protons. If this technology is widely adopted how is the recipient going to distinguish between different transmitters?

  17. Re:The horror! on Hacked Emails Reveal Russian Astroturfing Program · · Score: 1

    It is a good thing, really. Russian government shifts from killing, imprisoning and torturing its opponents to just dirty internet posts. There is a progress here.

  18. Re:Gender issues? on Tackling Open Source's Gender Issues · · Score: 1

    Since 1998 I worked in at least six companies, one of them state owned and one foreign (American) and none employed women as software developers. They were not very large though, nothing like Microsoft. And your experience in fact just reinforces my point: there is no discrimination of women, if they want they do work as your experience proves and if they don't want they don't work as my experience shows. There is no need for any organization to further promote women to sw developers. What we see is just another bunch of professional revolutionaries looking for more evil to fight.

  19. Gender issues? on Tackling Open Source's Gender Issues · · Score: 1

    Oh please. On a mailing list, or forum, or website no one knows you're a dog... er, a woman. I mean, if women wanted they would participate, there is NO problem for them. Create an account and submit yor code, period. Because of non-profit nature of many open source project and hence lack of government intervention the percentage of women is perfectly natural contrary to proprietary software firms which are subject to stupid feminist laws and quotas. I'm Russian and during my whole carrier I met ZERO female developers (there were testers and managers, though) and not because of some discrimintation but because of lack of applicants. Yes, I never saw a woman rejected because none applied. So there is just NO gender problem. On the other hand forcing businessmen to hire some underrepresented "minority", be it blacks, disabled people, or women just fills the enterprize with freeloaders who just suck your money and whom you can't get rid of.

  20. Re:Unusual turn of phrase on Comet Hale-Bopp 'Frozen To Death' · · Score: 1

    Yellow science journalism.

  21. Too much smartphones, no PDAs anymore on Why Dumbphones Still Dominate, For Now · · Score: 1

    Actually, I find it kinda sad that PDAs disappear. I like to keep my gadgets separate. It's more convenient for me. I have a phone (not completely dumb, but not very smart too), an old HP PDA and separate MP3 player. I tried to listen music on my phone. Clumsy. I tried to use my PDA for talking on the phone (it can disguise as a hands-free bluetooth set) - clumsy too. The best for me is to have three separate gadgets. But alas, recently I decided to upgrade my PDA and what do I see? That no one makes and sells them now. There are only smartphones. So no PDA for me, I guess.

  22. Re:not protects on HDCP Master Key Is Legitimate; Blu-ray Is Cracked · · Score: 1

    Seems fair. Any DRM is fine with me until the cops are involved.

  23. Obligatory on Air Force Uses Falcons To Protect Falcons · · Score: 1

    Yo dawg we herd u like falcons...

  24. Re:Minigames on How Game Gimmicks Break Immersion · · Score: 1

    shit hard

    Yeah. My computer then was kinda slow so game was like in slow motion. However, the timer ticked with normal speed, so you had to finish the game faster. After I'd got a better computer the game looked ridiculously easy.

  25. Fine print on Fine Print Says Game Store Owns Your Soul · · Score: 2, Insightful

    But seriously, I don't know why having "fine print" in contracts is even legal. For any "reasonable person" it's obvious that having fine print is an attempt of one party to have the other not to read the print, which is a fraud at best. Seriously, what a honest person would need a fine print for? Conservation of paper?