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  1. Professionals? on MediaFire CEO: We Don't Depend On Piracy · · Score: 1

    A legitimate business targeting professionals.

    Targeting them with animated GIF ads and "YOU HAVE WON AN IPHONE 4" popups?

    Likely story, there.

  2. Re:Correction for the title. on Filesonic Removes Ability To Share Files · · Score: 0

    The discussion was about sending files to a recipient which were too large to attach to email.

    And do you honestly think that anyone in here was paying for that, rather than for downloading pirated material?

    Honestly, now.

  3. Re:Correction for the title. on Filesonic Removes Ability To Share Files · · Score: -1, Troll

    So you'd support the service that lets you easily pirate material, but not the artists who created that material.

  4. Re:Correction for the title. on Filesonic Removes Ability To Share Files · · Score: 0, Troll

    Pretty sure you could do that without an account. So what were you doing with one?

  5. Re:Duplicate story from 6 months ago on Mozilla Offers Alternative To OpenID · · Score: 1

    natively supported WebM browser share exceeds natively supported H.264 share

    Which matters not one bit, as long as Flash exists and supports H.264.

  6. Re:why phase out DVI? on VGA and DVI Ports To Be Phased Out Over Next 5 Years · · Score: 1

    It is pretty useless for pirates if new content is not actually being published for it.

  7. Re:this, and then that other thing... on OpenStreetMap Reports Data Vandalism From Google-Owned IPs · · Score: 1

    As opposed to doing the same as they do for all the identical incidents that do not involve Google, which I assume is "nothing at all beyond repairing any damage".

  8. Re:A bit of perspective on Radioactive Concrete From Fukushima Found In New Construction · · Score: 1

    Internal exposure is far more serious specifically for alpha emitters, and slightly more serious for beta emitters.

    Generally, the radiation sources you would encounter under these circumstances are not alpha emitters, so it doesn't really matter.

  9. Re:A bit of perspective on Radioactive Concrete From Fukushima Found In New Construction · · Score: 1

    Plenty of people live in areas with natural background levels that high. There's no indication that it causes them any harm.

  10. Re:MS Taking Aggressive Steps Against MALWARE On A on Microsoft Taking Aggressive Steps Against Linux On ARM · · Score: 1

    It's so cute when people still think Slashdot is relevant enough that anyone would pay people to post here.

  11. Re:Objective C on 2011's Fastest Growing Language: Objective-C · · Score: 4, Informative

    Even GNUstep considers Apple's implementation the official one, and they try to follow it as closely as they can.

    When you run into problems porting, it is because GNUstep is lagging behind.

  12. Re:Eric Schmidt, master of non-answers on Eric Schmidt Doesn't Think Android Is Fragmented · · Score: 2

    You can make quite a bit of money from an underserved market even if it is small.

    But if the effort is too big, or you have to limit yourself to a subset of an already tiny market, your profit is going to evaporate pretty quickly.

  13. Re:Meego wasn't ready either on Tizen Source Code Released · · Score: 1

    This sure seems like a much better development plan than ever actually finishing anything.

  14. Re:Tolkien's prose on JRR Tolkien Denied Nobel Due To Low Quality Prose · · Score: 1

    I think I found them easier to read when I was younger. Maybe I was more easily entertained then.

  15. Re:Manan Kakkar could be less of an idiot on Leaked Memo Says Apple Provides Backdoor To Governments · · Score: 1

    Murder is also usually due to "lack of ethics".

    Thus we can see that Microsoft is guilty of murder. I suspect they kill up to five or six prostitutes per day!

  16. Re:Manan Kakkar could be less of an idiot on Leaked Memo Says Apple Provides Backdoor To Governments · · Score: 2

    Please, you are on Slashdot, we don't need facts when accusing Microsoft of evil!

  17. Re:Good for them on OLPC XO-3 To Debut At CES, Starting Under $100 (But Not For You) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Funny you should say that. Because you know who started selling the same thing as them at a higher price?

    Everyone except Apple.

    It's called a "netbook". Fear of low-cost competition from the OLPC project is what pretty much caused the creation of the netbook.

  18. Re:DSLR on Ask Slashdot: Mirrorless, Interchangeable Lens Camera Advice? · · Score: 1

    The only thing out of that that actually affects the visual result is the sensor size. And the sensor size of a mirrorless camera is mostly the same as that on a DSLR. This is not about compacts or phones, this is about mirrorless cameras.

  19. Re:not at the rate they're going. on Ask Slashdot: Mirrorless, Interchangeable Lens Camera Advice? · · Score: 1

    Four Thirds and Micro Four Thirds are fundamentally different. It's not an upgrade for upgrade's sake, they could simply not build the kind of cameras they build now if they kept using Four Thirds.

  20. Re:I got my beta invite yesterday on Microsoft To Offer Flight For Free This Spring · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You'll have to excuse him. Some people still think Slashdot is relevant, and that anybody would actually bother paying to promote stuff here.

    He's just not that bright, see.

  21. Re:Why did they think this would work? on Nokia: the Sun Can't Charge Your Phone · · Score: 1

    Time is still a problem.

  22. Re:Why did they think this would work? on Nokia: the Sun Can't Charge Your Phone · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You're thinking of this as "walking up 14 flights of stairs" but that is entirely misleading.

    Since you said "small hand crank", what you should imagine is this: Tie a rope to a person, then use a small hand crank to winch them up to the 14th floor of a building.

    It probably doesn't sound as good any more.

  23. Re:Antivirus as a sign of failure on Fake Antivirus Scams Spread To Android · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Which does absolutely nothing when computers on average have one user.

  24. Re:Oops, forgot the C compiler part. on Vision and Sound From the Ideally Bare Numeric Impression giZmo · · Score: 1

    Well, the older versions are available for download somewhere, just hard to find.

  25. Re:Oops, forgot the C compiler part. on Vision and Sound From the Ideally Bare Numeric Impression giZmo · · Score: 1