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  1. You Still Need Thr ROM Manager on CyanogenMod Drops ROM Manager In Favor of OTA Updates · · Score: 1, Informative

    You'll still need the ROM Manager though, for when you need to put the stock ROM back on the phone for warranty work, or whatever other reason.

  2. Re:Sugar my butt ... on Sugar Batteries Could Store 20% More Energy Than Li-Ions · · Score: 1

    I'm not concerned with whether it's really sugar. I'm hoping it doesn't get sold to the oil industry for a billion dollars, and quietly disappear.

  3. Re:Bye Apple on Apple CEO Tim Cook Apologizes For Maps App, Recommends Alternatives · · Score: 1

    I personally think Apple should use OpenStreetMap. I don't think there's any licensing issue as long as the app links back to the site. And, assuming the main reason of developing their own navigation app is to free them from Google, it's not like OpenStreetMap is a competitor to them. They can probably still put ads in it without violating the license.

  4. Re:This. on Apple Reportedly Luring Ex-Google Mappers With Jobs · · Score: -1

    Apple bashing will continue to get +5 and any negative comment about Google will continue to get -1 as long as Google has control of Slashdot. This is going to happen over and over again to anybody who dare speaks against Google.

  5. Re:Ones that Never get Delivered on When Kickstarter Projects Go Missing · · Score: 1

    Business expenses get subtracted from revenue. If it takes $89,000 dollars to produce the $90,000 project, he may only have to pay taxes on $1,000. If it costs $91,000 to produce the $90,000 project, he might end up having to pay lower taxes than he would if the project didn't exist.

  6. Re:Browser Based OS on Mozilla OS Looking Grown Up On Its Own Developer Phone · · Score: 1

    No, that person is absolutely right. This will happen any time you say something Google doesn't like.

  7. Re:Three cheers for Mozilla on Mozilla OS Looking Grown Up On Its Own Developer Phone · · Score: 1

    Or a tax loophole.

  8. Re:OMFG on Apple iPad 2 As Fast As the Cray-2 Supercomputer · · Score: 0

    The Slashdot that I'm reading has somebody saying "Apple lovers must be stopped" "retarded articles" and "BS Apple stories" and doesn't get modded Flamebait. It gets a +5. My comment that Google is gaming this system gets modded Flamebait. I think it illustrates my point. And I think this allowing single companies to direct the moderation will be the death of Slashdot.

  9. Re:The missing feature on Amazon Kindle Fire HD 7 Rooted · · Score: 1

    If rooting means I could install or uninstall whatever apps I wanted, and set each permission individually, then I wouldn't really need to install an alternative version of Android on the tablet.

  10. Re:OMFG on Apple iPad 2 As Fast As the Cray-2 Supercomputer · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I'd rather read a pointless Apple story than a Google story in which any anti-Google comment gets modded away and any pro-Google comment gets modded up, regardless of merit. Pointless is better than malicious or deceptive.

  11. Re:Misleading headline on "Out of Africa" Theory Called Into Question By Originator · · Score: 0

    This has nothing to do with "creationists", and the story isn't for them. You just took the opportunity to bash a bunch of people who did nothing to you because that's what you guys do whenever you get the chance.

  12. Re:That this is patenteable AT ALL on Microsoft Patents Whacking Your Phone To Silence It · · Score: 1

    And how many people have "whacked" their clock radio to silence it? I've done the same thing with smoke alarms. Sometimes it even works. This actually has been implemented and done before.

  13. Re:Hm... on App Developer Says Stolen UDIDs Came From Them, Not FBI · · Score: 1

    I personally think "Anonymous" is an entity created by the FBI to make "hackers" look bad, and to justify such things as spending money on "cybersecurity" and taking away people's privacy and freedom on the Internet.

  14. Re:Gee, How Much Google Paid For This on Apache Patch To Override IE 10's Do Not Track Setting · · Score: 1

    And it's back to -1 because Google has enough resources to game Slashdot's moderation system.

  15. Re:One question on Bring On the Decentralized Social Networking · · Score: 1

    They shouldn't market it as the decentralized network. They should market it as the network with no advertisements, no changing your settings at any given moment, and without that stupid timeline Facebook added in it's panic over Twitter. If you take the time, you can come up with a long list of things people hate about Facebook that aren't really necessary for a social network to exist.

  16. Re:Good on Jimmy Wales Threatens To Obstruct UK Government Snooping · · Score: 2

    UK GOV: We can't read it so it must be pedophile terrorists trading MP3s.

    That kind of happened to me in high school. Not the pedophile terrorist part, but I was saving my school assignments in WordPerfect files that could not be opened without a password. School administrators considered me a "hacker" or something and routinely examined the files I had saved on the school network. They could not read my WordPerfect files but the words added to my spellchecker's dictionary were in plain text. And they deleted all of my school assignments on the grounds that there were dirty words in the spellchecker dictionary and therefore, there must have been dirty words in the files they couldn't read.

  17. One Piece At A Time on Ask Slashdot: How Do I De-Dupe a System With 4.2 Million Files? · · Score: 1

    I think you should only de-duplicate one type of file at a time. Maybe start with all png files. Then all mp3 files. Then all txt. Then all jpg. The problem will get smaller and smaller and you won't have to do the whole thing at one time, which results in nothing getting de-duplicated in the first place. And as the number of files gets smaller, eventually you will get to a point that you can de-duplicate the whole pile of remaining files at once. And it might not hurt to delete *.tmp or whatever your operating system's equivalent of "all temporary files" is, before you start de-duplicating. And if possible, it probably wouldn't hurt to delete all files that are zero bytes in size before starting de-duplication. If 4 million of your 4.2 million files all happen to be the same file type then never mind.

  18. Re:Streisand effect? on Side-Effect of the Apple v. Samsung Trial: Increased Sales for Samsung · · Score: 1

    My guy told me that. But I was under the impression this problem was fixed with "Ice Cream Sandwich:. The Tab received the ICS update but they didn't add USB support.

  19. Re:Streisand effect? on Side-Effect of the Apple v. Samsung Trial: Increased Sales for Samsung · · Score: 1

    That doesn't work with the Tabs though, at least in the United States. Here's what you get when you click on "More": Samsung Menu

  20. Re:4k Monitor on 4K UHDTV Hardware On Display in Berlin, And On Sale In Korea · · Score: 1

    How about a 4k or 8k 27" monitor? They can market it as a TV if they want too.

    That sounds like what they're actually doing. There's no tv broadcast available for these things. They're basically selling monitors advertised as televisions. It's a shame I won't be able to afford one for another 5 years after they become mainstream.

  21. Re:Streisand effect? on Side-Effect of the Apple v. Samsung Trial: Increased Sales for Samsung · · Score: 1

    For what it's worth, I am a random person on the internet and I'm pleased with the hardware side of my Galaxy Tab 10.1. The software disappointed me a bit. I like the Sense UI on my EVO 3D, and I can't believe the Samsung tablet has no way to mount it as a giant USB drive. But the hardware is fine.

  22. Re:it's an arms race on White House Finalizes 54.5 MPG Fuel Efficiency Standard · · Score: 1

    Although I think the big SUV guy is nuts, I'd like to note that he said Excursion, not Escape.

  23. Re:CAFE Kills on White House Finalizes 54.5 MPG Fuel Efficiency Standard · · Score: 1

    Exactly how is a woman an idiot because an accident happened after she passed out?

  24. Re:So which field of engineering on Bill "The Science Guy" Nye Says Creationism Is Not Appropriate For Children · · Score: 1

    I think the original poster got modded troll simply because he wasn't participating in this Christian-bashing session. And truly that is the only reason this article was posted. Regardless of whether or not Bill Nye is "awesome", or the validity of the statements, this article was only posted to rile people up and generate a bunch of hateful comments. And it was also the first thing I thought after reading the comments, that evolution has little to do with our manufacturing and engineering industries. It would be like a minister telling me I should have abandoned my computer science studies because it would hinder my faith in God. Regardless of whether you think Christian faith is pointless and wrong, by repeatedly feeding into this hatred of people who believe things you don't, you are feeding the ultimate troll, Slashdot itself.

  25. Re:They have finally run out of Unicorn blood on Lexmark To Exit Inkjet Printer Market · · Score: 1

    Maybe they can use quadrocorns...