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  1. Re:Not going to happen on Emma Watson Leaked Photo Threat Was a Plot To Attack 4chan · · Score: 1

    Further, if one manages to shut down 4chan, it'll actually spawn 5chan, 6chan, 7chan....etc.

  2. Re:Not just iPhone on Users Report Warping of Apple's iPhone 6 Plus · · Score: 1

    I'd have to think the design of the rounded edge vs iPhone 4/5 squared edge contributes to this weakness as well.

  3. Re:Third option on Users Report Warping of Apple's iPhone 6 Plus · · Score: 1

    Maybe they'll provide a free 'reinforcement' case? Like the antenna-gate bumper?

  4. Obama says.. on Obama Presses China On Global Warming · · Score: 1

    "... China, stop manufacturing cheap shits that we want to buy. Our citizens have great appetite for buying local for 2-10x the cost."

  5. Why? on Ask Slashdot: Finding a Job After Completing Computer Science Ph.D? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm just curious on your initial motivation for a PhD? Maybe research/academic is an option?

  6. FB/Twitter users are not customers... on When Customer Dissatisfaction Is a Tech Business Model · · Score: 2

    ...they are the product. Need more repeating?

  7. This is how capitalism is suppose to work. on Tech Looks To Obama To Save Them From 'Just Sort of OK' US Workers · · Score: 1

    Would you buy a product in US while you get exactly the same product for half price from China? I am not advocating one way or the other but this is how the system is suppose to operate. Or I go one step further, this is all based on people's fundamental drive for greed (or you call it productivity?) - don't blame the "system".

  8. So what's the next step here... on Xiaomi's Next OS Looks Strikingly Similar To iOS · · Score: 1

    ...allow protection to UI design? Put legislation around it, negotiate them into free trades agreement and try to enforce them?

  9. Re:performance never measured in MHz on Can Our Computers Continue To Get Smaller and More Powerful? · · Score: 1

    PC definitely was as parent said. I recall those desktop with a 'turbo' button where u press will double the speed (show in 7-segment LED) from 16 to 32MHz....

  10. Diversity @ Victoria Secret on Apple's Diversity Numbers: 70% Male, 55% White · · Score: 1

    What's their number?

  11. That's super dumb... on Apple's Diversity Numbers: 70% Male, 55% White · · Score: 1

    If they add up the females and non-whites then it'll be more than 125%.

  12. Re:Vaccine is coming on US Army To Transport American Ebola Victim To Atlanta Hospital From Liberia · · Score: 1

    I am not an expert but, trials expected to begin in humans soon - sounds like it just started phase 2 approval. Typically that implies many years away from general use still..... Phase 1 == safety; Phase 2 == efficacy in small group; Phase 3 == efficacy with statistical significance. And typically phase 3 takes most time and resources. If this is the first time on human, it implies just starting phase 2.

  13. Greenland is more of a problem - isolated and no people!

  14. Re:Surface: the only Hope on With the Surface Pro, Microsoft Is Trying To Recreate the PC Market · · Score: 1

    Maybe not the users, but ask the 'corporate' or the 'CIO' level see what they think of Android, iOS and Windows.

  15. Re:The historical cycle on Melbourne Uber Drivers Slapped With $1700 Fines; Service Shuts Down · · Score: 1

    Right on the money. +++++

  16. "figure out what it wants to be when it grows up"? on Yahoo To Produce Sci-Fi Streaming Sitcom · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's 45 years of age with teenage kids giving him trouble, bad spousal relationship, mid-life crisis...etc.

  17. Re:New? on New Shape Born From Rubber Bands · · Score: 1

    Well you should have published a paper about it :)

  18. Re:Apple is on very shakey ground on iPad Fever Is Officially Cooling · · Score: 1

    Plenty of non-Apple users still hold the believe that Apple's success (up to now) is because they spend on marketing.

  19. Re:One simple reason for this on iPad Fever Is Officially Cooling · · Score: 1

    Hmm... my take is, app doesn't progressively become worse but there are just more and more. Similar ideas are implemented over and over (instead of when iPad/iPhone was just out) - nothing is really "cool" any more because of that (more same old). I'd argue the "good" app are as useful as before (how can a pdf mobile reader be less useful today than before?) - but the novelty is no longer there not because of app, the novelty of the tablet+app uniqueness are well exploited (touch-base, mobile, internet connected, GPS..etc.). There won't be a whole lot of "cool app" until there are more novel hardware integrated into a tablet platform.

  20. Re:Well... on iPad Fever Is Officially Cooling · · Score: 1

    We have the original iPad @ home and it's still alright.

  21. Re:Survivor: Wheel Well on Experts Say Hitching a Ride In an Airliner's Wheel Well Is Not a Good Idea · · Score: 1

    Watching consecutive episodes of somebody unconscious in a dark, tight place :)

  22. Re:And how about the CRA? on RCMP Arrest Canadian Teen For Heartbleed Exploit · · Score: 1

    FYI I also recall CRA claims other than those SIN, the system was not breached before.

  23. Re:Good. on RCMP Arrest Canadian Teen For Heartbleed Exploit · · Score: 1

    I think the arrest is warranted. However, WTF is wrong with CRA people, seriously. Shut the damn thing down as soon as they find out it is vulnerable.

  24. What's next? on Kids Can Swipe a Screen But Can't Use LEGOs · · Score: 1

    We had TV, PC, gaming console and now tablet.... what next?

  25. Re:Wat? on How Does Heartbleed Alter the 'Open Source Is Safer' Discussion? · · Score: 1

    I don't know but it's plausible. Randomly sending stuff seeing it misbehave is kind of ad-hoc, but one can possibly target the code change at each release then there's no need to read millions lines of code.