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  1. Re:not sure on Windows 8: More EULA, Fewer Rights. · · Score: 1

    I think you'd have to prepare those operating systems for regular people first. But Windows 8 might actually do the job for you anyway. Not so much because of the EULA, but because of how different and limited it will seem compared to previous Windows versions.

  2. Re:Why would it need studies? on TomTom Flames OpenStreetMap · · Score: 1

    Yeah, we really really really need a new moderator option, -1 marketdrone

    The problem is the market drones would use it to mod down anybody else, the way all anti-Google comments are attacked now.

  3. Re:Another cool yahoo project on Yahoo Kills Flipboard Competitor Six Months After Debut · · Score: 2

    I hope nobody tells the CEO that Yahoo Groups is still functioning.

  4. Re:terrible article on 350-Year-Old Newton's Puzzle Solved By 16-Year-Old · · Score: 1

    Perhaps Google should index the three sources every news site gets its articles from, and filter out all of the copies on sites who buy their articles.

  5. So... on Pollution From Asia Affects US Climate · · Score: 1
    Interesting how they pay attention to pollution they can't control but ignore pollution they can control

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  6. Re:Fine, I'll bite on Ask Slashdot: Why Not Linux For Security? · · Score: 1

    No but Chuck Norris is one of the people involved. I mean they're basically saying you should go with Chuck Norris because only one person is attacking him at a time, instead of going with Bruce Lee because five people are attacking him at a time. I would say in either case you're likely to be okay. So if you just happen to be more comfortable with Bruce Lee then it's pointless to switch.

  7. Re:Nice one on Is Facebook Going To Buy Opera? · · Score: 1

    Only if you turn on Turbo mode. It's off by default.

    So it would only be a problem if Facebook were the type to change your privacy settings against your will without telling you???

  8. Re:Fine, I'll bite on Ask Slashdot: Why Not Linux For Security? · · Score: 1

    So if five people try to beat you up and only one person tries to beat me up, that means you're weaker than me?

  9. Re:What else is there to say? on Supreme Court Orders Do-Over On Key Software Patents · · Score: 1

    I personally think the only reason they're considering getting rid of this patent is, it could hold back corporations from shoving advertisements down your throat, which is something they really want to do. If the only people interested in this were millions of hardworking American citizens, nothing would be done about it.

  10. Re:No wonder Chrome is gaining users on Google Chrome Becomes World's No. 1 Browser · · Score: 1

    You don't suck until you start cutting deals to have your product be the default included with everything, so they never find out something better is out there.

  11. Sensationalism on Pakistan Blocks Twitter Over 'Blasphemous' Images · · Score: 1

    Just for the record, Slashdot mods people to -1, effectively "blocking" them, for posting pictures of "goatse". The United States not only blocks but arrests people for naked pictures of children. Do you think any of that makes headlines in Pakistan? People, who have the ability, are going to block things they find offensive. And pointing out that they are blocking something you don't find offensive doesn't make you better than them.

  12. Re:Simple math, silly! on ARM, Intel Battle Heats Up · · Score: 1

    I guess if you consider Arm's "market share" to be tablets and Intel's "market share" to be Windows and OSX computers then the article summary might make more sense.

  13. I'm not saying this is a good policy, but doesn't the United States government reserve the right to decline any lawsuit filed against it in the United States?

  14. Re:Lawsuits for everyone. on Facebook Privacy Suit Seeks $15 Billion · · Score: 1

    Doesn't Google do the same thing on any website with an embedded YouTube video or AdSense advertisement?

  15. Re:It's stupid to compare to Facebook's profit on Facebook IPO Stumbles Out of the Gate · · Score: 1

    On Facebook, people actually specify what they're interested in though. Even so much as to say they "Like" Oreo cookies, Dr. Pepper, Vampire Diaries, Exercise, and whatever else. That might be more specific than assuming somebody likes Oreo cookies because they searched for Oreo. They might be searching because they have no idea what it is, or wonder why somebody would call a person that. Also, Google apparently places AdSense advertisements on webpages where people aren't necessarily looking for the product in the advertisement.

  16. Re:Or just use Ice cream sandwhich on UK Police Roll Out On-the-Spot Mobile Data Extraction System · · Score: 1

    FDE is Full Disc Encryption.

  17. Re:Facebook = on Facebook Is Killing Text Messaging · · Score: 1

    I use Facebook more than text messaging, but for only one reason. You can have conversations with more than one person at a time. If text messaging had group conversations, I'd probably never use Facebook for personal communication.

  18. Re:"Old people icons" on Icons That Don't Make Sense Anymore · · Score: 1

    I guess only old people use iPods and Android phones then.

  19. Re:Drop the confusing pictures on Icons That Don't Make Sense Anymore · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure I've seen Windows running on a smaller screen than that. Because I have friends who go cheap and don't know anything about computers. It was the late 90's and this guy had a small [I guess you could call it a] laptop with a black & white screen half the size of a regular screen. As if the bottom half was cut off. And it was running Windows. It didn't look to me like it had unusually shaped pixels. It looked like a 640x240 screen. I don't know what verson of Windows it was. But I don't think it was Windows CE. This was an actual laptop-sized device with disc drives. And I am never going to spell disc with a K so to the guy who actually corrected me on that, just pick and choose your battles.

  20. Re:Technology on Icons That Don't Make Sense Anymore · · Score: 1

    I am jussssst old enough to remember my cousin and I sitting in frustration as we watched the little red "power on" light on her NES flash repeatedly. We'd see Super Mario and Duck Hunt on the screen for about half a second before the light would go off, the game would reset, and it would start over. Had the NES come along later, it would have been called the Red Light of Death. And we would have been called female gamers and it would have been a status symbol. Anyway, the only way for non-soldering children to get this fixed was to send the unit to Nintendo headquarters and wait for it to come back fixed. So maybe it's not more reliable than current consoles. But at least they actually would fix it and send it back. I personally think my Atari 2600 and TurboGrafx16 were the most solid/reliable consoles I ever had.

  21. Re:New options? on Microsoft Redesigns chkdsk For Windows 8, Improves NTFS Health Model · · Score: 2

    RAM is cheap. Why not use it?

    That kind of thinking is why whenever you buy a computer or even an Android phone, you have a ton of things loaded in memory at startup that you don't even like, let alone actually use. It's also why Pac-Man on an iPod is a 50-megabyte app when the game used to fit in like 3k of ram.

  22. Re:So sad on Privacy Advocates Protest FBI Warning of 'Going Dark' In Online Era · · Score: 2

    It happens to me too. And they like to wait until the thread is old before they make it go below zero. I just wonder if they're paying Slashdot or using their own bots. Or if Google just has that many fanatics on Slashdot. But they won't be able to keep people from noticing.

  23. Re:There's no starship with just an ion drive on Engineer Thinks We Could Build a Real Starship Enterprise In 20 Years · · Score: 1

    They could market it as a military ship. Then the government will have no problem paying Lockheed Martin a trillion tax dollars to build it, even if it never flies.

  24. Re:You fail at logic on Judge Who Ordered Pirate Bay Censorship Found To Be Corrupt · · Score: 4, Funny

    Also by that logic, internet providers who offer "unlimited bandwidth" would best serve their interests by never... actually ... delivering... oh.

  25. Re:Mobile Data cant exceed capacity on American Cellular Companies Clamor For Fresh Spectrum · · Score: 1

    That doesn't have anything to do with what "realityimpaired" was talking about, but that's okay.