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  1. Re:The TI Model on Microsoft's Hottest New Profit Center: Android · · Score: 1

    TI actually creates their stuff. They have engineers that design and build real things. Microsoft's patents are mostly from consuming other small companies. Worse, those companies are usually consumed after being pushed out of the market by Microsoft dirty tricks.

  2. tinySVG support preferred. on Pdf.js Reaches First Milestone · · Score: 1

    pdf is old vector graphics news. If they want to help a parky out they can get TinySVG support built in to Firefox so I can finish rebuilding all of my XUL UI's in SVG. ...that don't work now unless the user knows how to re-enable support then ends up getting owned instead of a warning like getting a self signed cert... Cough. Sorry. Oh while I'm dreaming, getURL, putURL, and parseXML functions so I don't have to "if typeof (parseXML=='undefined')" override them every time would be nice too :) Oh and those wondering about the relationship here, pdf to svg is easier to convert and display on the fly. Well. For me. So programmers can probably do it in their sleep. Oh. Oh. And a pony.

  3. oops on Why Are There So Few Honeycomb Apps? · · Score: 1

    note to self. self, don't work on web apps while moderating.

  4. Like I'd take that chance. on Electronic Skin Gives Robots a Sense of Touch · · Score: 2

    Nothing would be worse than a love bot that can say you make her skin crawl.

  5. Pie are square? on Happy Tau Day · · Score: 1

    Pie are round. Cake are square. Anyone edjumicated in Texas knows that. Long live the Tau!

  6. Good Opportunity on Google Launches Google+ Social Network · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Facebook has been making too many mistakes. This is the perfect opportunity to bring back wave in a context that fits. Like Facebook though, I don't think I'll participate. I've never understood the desire to make personal information about yourself public. I had a near miss with an employer that wanted everyone constantly available through skype, twitter, and facebook. If I wanted to share my personal life, phone conversations, and listen to someone's pointless babble I'd get back together with an old girlfriend.

  7. Re:GNU VoIP on Microsoft May Add Eavesdropping To Skype · · Score: 1

    Direct to user voice exists. Why would you use anything else? Well, I guess if your too lazy to download and install the application on your Linux/BSD box.

  8. pft kids these days. on Forty-Five Mile Wireless Tech For the Smart Grid · · Score: 1

    When I was growing up we would have just walked there. In the snow. Uphill. In both directions.

  9. Somebody is going to teach kids to thing? on Hackers To School Next Generation At DEFCON Kids · · Score: 1

    Oh the horror. The tb/reps will never let it happen.

  10. Re:Blaming environmentalists? on The Intentional Flooding of America's Heartland · · Score: 1

    Huh. What. I thought he for legalization. Oh man. Thats bogus.

  11. Outstanding! on Sony Develops Technology To Hack Your Hand · · Score: 1

    I wonder if it could teach the girls new tricks. :)

  12. Re:PCI compliant? on Citi Hackers Got Away With $2.7 Million · · Score: 1

    Ah the beauty of just providing the tools for the people doing the "tests". I feel for you. The part where a client gets pwnd and you were the one confirming their compliance rocks. I've had more than one call that start, "I'm the new guy" because of it. Anyway, money. Sure wish I was the guy with lots of it.

  13. I'm lost again. on Google and MIT Enable Task Transfer Among Devices · · Score: 1

    I read the article but it looks to me like they are just doing OCR on a URI to "capture" the link to an applet. It then wraps the link into an "icon". Am I wrong?

  14. Re:Good! on UK Sticks With Nuclear Power · · Score: 1

    There are plans to use solar panels on some new train project there too isn't there? I remember reading somewhere about it but forget the specifics. Anyway, good on the brits.

  15. distributors/broadcasters/publishers==same pile of on WIPO Talks May Portend Sweeping Broacast-Based Copyright · · Score: 1

    How did the stink get so powerful?

  16. Dont bother. on Ask Slashdot: CS Degree Without Gen-Ed Requirements? · · Score: 1

    You don't want to learn anything. You just want something to add to your resume. Focus on certifications. If your good enough to pass classes you can pass tests. Afterwards you will find out what everyone else does, including those that went to college. Bosses want workers that have something visible that can be used to keep wages down. IOW, your not going to get paid more.

  17. Add me to the "not a mobil energy solution" list on New Process Allows Fuel Cells To Run On Coal · · Score: 1

    This sounds like it has the potential to replace coal burning power plants that refuse to switch to another fuel. Outside of that, I don't see wider use of coal as a fuel as a good solution. Extracting it does more carbon harm than any other fuel source I can think of.

  18. Re:I don't care about their keys on BioWare's Neverwinter Nights Forum Server Hacked · · Score: 1

    I'll go contact a class-action lawsuit lawyer
    Keep us informed. You'll have no problem with that. The email addresses for everyone will be out shortly. Note: Mine is a spam bucket that I only check after I sign up for some site so don't send to it multiple times in one day.

  19. wxPython on Learning Programming In a Post-BASIC World · · Score: 1

    wxWidgets and Python are a good combination of easy to learn and visually satisfying results. The later being for positive reinforcement. Oh. And using it to write more practical programs in the future isn't hindered by a boat load of patents.

  20. About 5,250,000 results on Australia's 2 Largest ISP's Start Censorsing the Web · · Score: 2

    When you google "Australian Evangelical Churches". Maybe that is why they claim social media tools edged out pornography as the nations No.1 internet activity by 09. Or better yet, how they know.

    http://www.eyefortravel.com/news/online-travel/social-channels-top-porn-sites-australia

  21. Wow CopyWrong R US?!? on Why Johnny Can't Code and How That Can Change · · Score: 0

    AgentSheets with Ristretto® - Define agent behaviors with Visual AgenTalk® - Amazing new Conversational Programming technology (patent-pending)...

    It is amazing what government funding can do for the bottom line. I love this page Why Us It

    Free tools are not always free solutions
    Yes, there are free tools. But just how well do they really work and how sustainable are they? Do they include a curriculum that you can use? Can you really make sophisticated games with them? Can the tool be used for more than just games. For instance, can it be used to make powerful scientific simulations including visualizations? Do you want to be just a graduate research experiment? AgentSheets technology is studied and proven. It comes with a comprehensive curriculum that is ready to be put in place and will grow with your needs.

  22. Good luck with that on Vint Cerf Says Fix the Net With More Pipe · · Score: 1

    Instead you could download the hour's worth of video in 15 seconds and watch it at your leisure.

    That is the exact opposite of what money bag content owners want. They want page hits and ads constantly refreshing into eyeballs.

  23. Its not the icky? on Why Johnny Can't Code and How That Can Change · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I was certain it was sticky icky.

  24. Multiple peddle pushing allowed? on USB Foot Controls · · Score: 1

    Back in the day, I had thrustmaster peddles, joystick, and throttle. They were the last of their kind to be made, even by thrustmaster, that would recognize more than one button push at a time. I wonder if this suffers the one button at a time limit.

  25. Undid his just deserves. on Fired IT Worker Replaces CEO's Presentation With Porn · · Score: 5, Insightful

    When you walk away from a job there is nothing more satisfying than letting it fall to shit after you go. Doing something on the way out or after you leave just proves you didn't have any positive effect on the business.