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  1. Cheese on NASA Strikes Gold and Water On the Moon · · Score: 1

    Did they also find large amounts of calcium, fat, and vitamin D?

  2. Re:And if it's not resolved... on Canada Says Google Wi-Fi Sniffing Collected Personal Data · · Score: 1

    Canada is going to send the four requests again... in FRENCH!

  3. Re:Still Playing Catch-UIp on Google Rolls Out Chrome 7 · · Score: 1

    Duh, Mac OS 10.7. Heard that the software makes a shit ton of bugs in previous versions just so the developers have something to do. Problem is that we get stuck with the old versions.

  4. Re:Compression and quality aren't the real problem on Google Releases New Image Format Called WebP · · Score: 1

    I'm guessing that since it is the same algorithm used in WebM, wouldn't it have the same licensing (BSD) ?

  5. Just wondering. on Peer Review Highly Sensitive To Poor Refereeing · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is this study peer reviewed?

  6. Re:Oh no! No play-as-enemies? on GameStop Pulls Medal of Honor From Military Bases · · Score: 2, Funny

    So just change the Taliban to Nazis? Problem solved.
    Now how should they sell the game in Germany... Change them back to Taliban? Problem solved.
    But what about US bases in Germany... Change them into... lemmings? Now comes copyright infringement. The studio is doomed.

  7. Re:Location on UVB-76 Broadcasts New Voice Message · · Score: 1

    The Bing map is copied from the southeast (look at the black lake/spot/whatever). I'm guessing this is an ICBM site.

  8. Re:How this works on Windows DLL Vulnerability Exploit In the Wild · · Score: 1

    Isn't this what signing DLLs was supposed to protect against?

  9. Re:Ahead of its time? on 1979 Apple Graphics Tablet vs. the iPad · · Score: 1

    You must remember that before Jobs helped found Apple, he snuck out of his crib to invent touch interfaces (long before anyone else had a chance). I hear he even invented the transistor.

  10. Death Star Lasers on Lasers Approach Their Ultimate Intensity Limit · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't passing the limit be a great way of making them?

    What's scarier than physical matter moving at the speed of light? Isn't this a good thing if you were looking to create a Death Star?

  11. Re:Grandstanding on Connecticut AG To Grill Amazon, Apple Over E-Book Price Fixing · · Score: 1

    I believe Apple has retail stores located in Connecticut and I think Amazon might have some sort of presence (can't readily find anything but they could have distribution/data center there). Wouldn't the presence of these companies be enough for the AG to launch his own investigation?

    I'm not arguing your point about the grandstanding, I think you're right on target. Investigating two large companies is sure to get some media attention and some "Ooo look! He's doing his job!" from voters.

  12. Re: on Sony's Blue-Violet Laser the Future Blu-ray? · · Score: 1

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirates_(2005_film)

    Looks like both allowed this one...

  13. Re:Protocol overhead on Twitter Throttling Hits Third-Party Apps · · Score: 1

    http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot

    I use XML over HTTP all the time. How is it hilarious?

  14. Re:Because it's in the upper-left? on The 'Back' Button the Most Clicked Firefox Icon · · Score: 1

    I always have a link to the homepage at the top-left when I design the a site just because I like to click the site's logo to start over at the root. That's where I look first. The top-left corner of my screen has 80% of all clickable objects.

    That's where our eyes go. When you read a book, first word is top left of the page. It's be interesting to see stats for that broken down by country to see if right-left language users go to the top-right more than left-right. Who knows, maybe multilingual sites should align to the right or do a horizontal swap when the user changes to a right-left language (or do they already?). Could easily be done in CSS too.

  15. Re:Two types of users on The 'Back' Button the Most Clicked Firefox Icon · · Score: 1

    Good job slashdot, keep those javascript changes coming. I clicked the reply to on the above post, not this one. Time to noscript.

  16. Re:Two types of users on The 'Back' Button the Most Clicked Firefox Icon · · Score: 1

    I always have a link to the homepage at the top-left when I design the a site just because I like to click the site's logo to start over at the root. That's where I look first. The top-left corner of my screen has 80% of all clickable objects.

    That's where our eyes go. When you read a book, first word is top left of the page. It's be interesting to see stats for that broken down by country to see if right-left language users go to the top-right more than left-right. Who knows, maybe multilingual sites should align to the right or do a horizontal swap when the user changes to a right-left language (or do they already?). Could easily be done in CSS too.

  17. Re:Great, so now we need massive antena. on EU Plans To Make Apple, Adobe and Others Open Up · · Score: 1

    "Just don't take your mobile phone anywhere." -Steve Jobs, paraphrased

  18. Re:wow... on Facebook Usage Hits 16 Billion Minutes a Day · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I work in a computer lab on my university campus. I sit in the lab for 3-5 hours a few days a week. With this kind of time, I have noticed many people come in and read/post on facebook for at least an hour every day (I have seen people using facebook for my entire shifts).

    When I notice a line starting for computers, I go around and ask the people I noticed spending too much time on facebook to let those in line have a chance. I always do this politely but even though they have spent an hour or two on facebook, I am always met with a look of disgust. Some of those people have even started yelling at me and others I've had to call campus police to escort out. It really seems as if many people have a mental addiction to social networks like facebook. They fear that they will miss something important if they aren't watching the news feed 24/7.

    Those are the type of people that I see when I'm working the lab that lead me to believe these statistics just a bit. 16 billion seems too big but I can believe at least 3-5 billion minutes are spent on facebook a day just from the people I see in the labs.

    Now something I do agree with you with respect to the pictures viewed is that facebook may also be counting the time people are logged into the facebook chat or just have a facebook window open. I know I leave firefox open all the time with facebook somewhere in my assortment of tabs.

  19. Re:This will not end well on AU National Broadband Network Signs $11 Billion Deal With Telstra · · Score: 1

    For example, the Austrailian government and telcos.

  20. He was just waiting. on In Argentina, Law Against Plagiarism Plagiarized · · Score: 1

    He was just waiting for a [Citation Needed]. No harm.

  21. Re:Demographics on Drifting Satellite Could Knock Out Cable TV · · Score: 1

    Bringing it up to an average of 100.

  22. Re:Value for money vs FanboiGasms on AMD Undercuts Intel With Six-Core Phenom IIs · · Score: 1

    That sir, is the suggested retail. I just bought an i7-930 for $199 (Microcenter). Just shop around and there will always be a good deal better than MSRP. The DDR3 and motherboard were what really killed me. But in all, I got a new top of the line i7 system with 6Gb of RAM for ~$750. I built a Phenom II X2(4) 555BE with the same specs and it came out to be only $100 cheaper in the end.

  23. Cast away that which is useless. on Waledac Botnet Now Completely Offline, Experts Say · · Score: 1

    The spammers using this botnet most likely cut it off to work on enlarging another.

    Why waste time(read money) repairing something broken when the new, harder to kill version does the same thing in the same time-cost?

  24. No better way... on Department of Education Purchasing 27 Shotguns · · Score: 1

    to protect our children's education than a trusty old Remington.

  25. Re:All this cyberwar bullshit on There Is No Cyberwar · · Score: 1

    Doesn't really matter if it's China behind any of it to call it a cyber war.

    Reminds me of another war. Something about terror?

    Just because we don't fight a country doesn't mean we are not at war with another entity. Or even the war on terror was brought about on a country to justify Washington calling it a "war."