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  1. Facebook instead ??? on Websites That Don't Need to Be Made Anymore · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So there is no need to make signup because Facebook connect can do it.
    No need for a another status update side because Facebook can do it.
    No need for a "next facebook" because Facebook can do it.
    Wrong!

    Facebook is far from perfect. We should totally work on replacements.

  2. Re:So... on Australia Air Travelers' Laptops To Be Searched For Porn · · Score: 4, Funny

    This post shows good understanding of Linux/Unix symlinks but not of slashes vs. backslashes. Weird.

  3. Re:For a Whole Fifteen Minutes on Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange Has Passport Confiscated · · Score: 1

    I wonder if he damaged it on purpose so it would not work in the readers. Just enough wear and tear... nothing obvious. I have been tempted to do that.

  4. Google takes over the internet on Google To Answer Your Questions Directly · · Score: 1

    I don't like it. It will kill some small sites.
    And then what's next? Google everything...yuck.

  5. Re:Social networks on Creating a Better Facebook · · Score: 1

    Whats a Google, Yahoo, Bing?
    Actually, if I understand it right Diaspora is the engine and people can make websites (called whatever they want) that use it.

  6. Real API on Scroogle Has Been Blocked · · Score: 1

    Doesn't Google have a real search API they can use?
    Rather than using a kludge like google.com/ie (yuck)

  7. No fun for doctors on Bio-Detector Scans For 3,000 Viruses and Bacteria · · Score: 3, Interesting

    In the olden days (now) a doctor would examine at you and see what virus you probably had then order tests. But tomorrow if they can just scan for everything there's no need for doctors. :(

  8. Us nerds have to lead on A Call For an Open, Distributed Alternative To Facebook · · Score: 1

    We need to make somethings for the regular users to use. I like the idea of all content encrypted and give friends half your key. Of course, it'll need some pretty UI. A standard like that would mean it would mean the publisher and subscriber could be on different websites without any problem. Anybody could implement/host a site like that and get ad revenue.

  9. Social Graph has the info on Facebook's "Evil Interfaces" · · Score: 1

    Quite possibly the most important info on Facebook is your friends. You can have an empty profile you still have all your friend connections. And if you have 10 friends who said in their profiles that they all went to the same school. You probably did too.

  10. Re:Translation on Russian Hacker Selling 1.5M Facebook Accounts · · Score: 1

    Slightly easier:

    echo ABCDEFslashdot | sha1sum

  11. Re:The donor? on The World's First Full Face Transplant · · Score: 1

    Gimme back my face.

  12. Re:I don't get it on Software SSD Cache Implementation For Linux? · · Score: 1

    On top of that you need:
    - Your brain's long term memory
    - Your brain's short term memory

  13. Re:Great. on Facebook and the "Social Graph" · · Score: 1

    Use on browser for Facebook (eg Chrome) and another for the rest of the web (eg Firefox).
    Actually that would be a nice browser feature ("Keep site logins separate").

  14. Car LAN on The iPad As In-Car Entertainment System Killer · · Score: 1

    Better put a file server in your trunk (loaded with DVD images) that the kids can access from their iPads with Wifi.

  15. Re:Any second now. on Google Enumerates Government Requests · · Score: 1

    The pretty map would be better replaced by PDFs of the actual gov't requests.

  16. How does virtualization help on Anatomy of Linux Kernel Shared Memory · · Score: 1

    If you are running 10 processes on 10 servers on one physical machine... isn't easier and more efficient to run 100 processes on one instance of Linux?

  17. actually, on Web Coupons Tell Stores More Than You Realize · · Score: 0

    that's telling the store less than I expected.

  18. doesn't apply to computer on Research Suggests Brain Has a 2-Task Limit for Multitasking · · Score: 1

    Maybe 2 tasks in the foreground but its useful to have your computer checking mail, RSS feeds, defragging, etc in the background.

  19. Re:Obvious who did it on Apache Foundation Attacked, Passwords Stolen · · Score: 1

    That kinda makes sense. But it would make more sense to seek a trojan into a closed source enduser product. Its downloaded more and by less sophisticated users.

  20. Re:Obvious who did it on Apache Foundation Attacked, Passwords Stolen · · Score: 1

    Well, its possible. With lots of indirection via Russia probably. Who has the most to gain? There is no need to steal Apache's code since its already available.

  21. Re:One of Many on "Father of Java" Resigns From Sun/Oracle · · Score: 1

    This seems more likely. You don't quit Oracle to join Microsoft (as others have suggested).

  22. Re:They did it for the money. on How Did Wikileaks Do It? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes, password guessing is typically way faster than brute force.

  23. CD-ROM 2.0 on iPad Launches, FCC Teardown Leaked · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I agree with Cory. It reminds me of CD-ROMs also.
    That nifty Elements App (from Wolfram) is exactly like that. It just seems weird not to be able to hyperlink to content outside the CD-ROM -er- I mean iPad App. (Of course, you can launch a browser, but but App would do that because its job to to get you to view the content you just bought.)

    The UI of CD-ROM (and maybe iPad Apps) was terrible also. Everyone CD-ROM title decided they needed a different GUI. Getting he back/next buttons, address bar in the browser was a such a big step forward.

  24. Re:The Benefits of Moving Backward on Gnome 2.30 Released · · Score: 1

    This page says GNOME 2.6.0 started spatial but now we have GNOME 2.3. Going backwards with the version numbers
    http://www.bytebot.net/geekdocs/spatial-nautilus.html

    Also on wiki
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Gnome-2.6-en.png

  25. child learn with rules on MIT Finds 'Grand Unified Theory of AI' · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I have a child. When I watch her learn its totally rules based. Also, very importantly when she is told that her existing rules don't quite describe reality she is quick to make a new exception (rule). Since she's young her mind is flexible and she doesn't get angry when its necessary to make an exception. The new rule stands until a new exception comes up.

    eg in english she wrote "there toy" since she wasn't familiar with the other there's. She was corrected to "their toy". But of course, there is still "they're".