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  1. Re:WiFi at home? on 'Wi-Fi Illness' Spreads To Ontario Public Schools · · Score: 1

    Exactly. I'm canadian and don't know anyone without wifi at home. This is dumb stuff to get votes, nothing more.

  2. Re:Databases. on How Do You Organize Your Experimental Data? · · Score: 1

    I was going to say the same thing. You can also check to see if there are any software in your domain that might help you insert it into a database. If not, you can keep the data as flat files but have records in the database and have the path to them in there. A little bit of programming but not much will get you a list of file path that you can then just us a bash script to retrieve.

  3. Re:It's not even limited to "troops" on Obama Wants Allies To Go After WikiLeaks · · Score: 1

    How do you know this hasn't been done and the US is just acting right now? We are all assuming this is the truth and only the truth, they could be gaming us all. Best cover is to act like it's all true. This was used during worldwar 2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Pujol

  4. Re:Android on iPhone vs. Android Battle Goes To Afghanistan · · Score: 1

    It's just a usb or iphone connector and a charged battery. No sound, smell or anything. They sell similar things for laptops (basically a pad with a battery in it). You plug it in and recharge basically. Not as convenient as just swapping batteries and closing the lid. You have to keep it connected until there enough power in the phone to work without it.

  5. Re:evidence? on The 'Net Generation' Isn't · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Exactly, we have a bias for our times. How many teen girls knew how to fix a TV in the 50s? But they all used it.

  6. Re:evidence? on The 'Net Generation' Isn't · · Score: 1

    Actually this is insightful, kids know facebook is not the internet. They also know that outside facebook all you have is nerds and pron.

  7. Re:Tech is still Tech, yucko! on The 'Net Generation' Isn't · · Score: 3, Funny

    Back in my day we had to put in the tapes for space wars and figure out how to assemble it on our pdp-1 and then if were lucky and some loser didn't decide to make a small addition to the code to break it, THEN we could start it up on the CRT tube and play with light guns. now get off my lawn.

  8. Re:Tech is still Tech, yucko! on The 'Net Generation' Isn't · · Score: 1

    I dont' agree with you, I've seen enough older tech guys who stopped at learning dir,cd and nothing else but claim to be cli users. I'm in my mid 20s and only have one person at work who can beat me at cli-ness, a 43 year old hacker who worked at Bell labs in the late 80s.

  9. Re:After almost 20 years on Android Outsells iPhone In Last 6 Months · · Score: 1

    Actually I think it's because it's cheaper. The Samsung/LG phones are cheap.

  10. Re:Already #1 in the US market on Android Outsells iPhone In Last 6 Months · · Score: 1

    Lack of PR. I mean, nobody knew wtf android was. Every time I go pay my wireless bill at the store ( they have a kiosk next to my office) I see people asking what android is and what the diff between it and the iPhone. Every time the vendor just recommends the iPhone. It's not which platform has better UI/Feature blah blah. It's just the fact that people have heard of the iPhone and have no clue what is android.

  11. Re:Already #1 in the US market on Android Outsells iPhone In Last 6 Months · · Score: 1

    There is only one Phone that supports iOS, there is no point in making a difference.

  12. Re:don't rejoice just yet on Obama Sets End of Iraq Combat For August 31st · · Score: 1

    But that's not how you beat the Zergs man. You need to expend at some point.

  13. Re:Really? on Pedestrian Follows Google Map, Gets Run Over, Sues · · Score: 0, Troll

    Well I can see a case against the car driver, since most rural highways don't restrict against pedestrian traffic on the side, and I can also see a case against the city or county since this road could be required to have a sidewalk (some laws I believe about sidewalk on road with a certain amount of traffic) but google in this case really can't be blamed because it's not like they force her to take that route, they suggested this route.

  14. Re:I care more about this than net neutrality on Congressmen Send Letters, Hope For Net Neutrality Fades · · Score: 1

    but votes talk louder. If they aren't reelected they can't keep doing bullshit. New bullshit is better than old bullshit, the smell is newer.

  15. Re:Laptop Useage in Class? on Sniffing the Wireless Traffic of MIT Students · · Score: 1

    That says a lot about the usefulness of lectures now days. I'm one of the worst offenders in class. But at least I'm coding something useful OR posting on slashdot ;p I know this will break most lecturers heart but most student don't understand much listening to lecture. It's usually a water hose of information that don't compare to good online notes. At least for the more visual students.

  16. Re:Laptop Useage in Class? on Sniffing the Wireless Traffic of MIT Students · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I had asteroid on my TI-83 ;p

  17. Re:Aww.. on Mobile 'Remote Wipe' Thwarts Secret Service · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Except the S.S. aren't the only one who could benefit from this information. I'm sorry for them but the reality is that the function is performing as advertised. The S.S. having a backdoor is just that much easier for crackers to get in your phone. Remote wipe is an important feature now that our phones hold much more info then they used to.

  18. Re:And one to go on Atlantis Blasts Off On Final Mission · · Score: 1

    Oh, my bad, I was under the impression that the delayed one was the last. But I'm still not able to go :(

  19. And one to go on Atlantis Blasts Off On Final Mission · · Score: 1

    Well that means only one liftoff left to go. Sad day.

  20. Re:Yea, except the BSD's. on Adobe Calls Out Apple With Ads In NY Times, WSJ · · Score: 1

    and friends? sorry but you're all alone ;p

  21. Re:Adobe 3 Apple.... NOT on Adobe Calls Out Apple With Ads In NY Times, WSJ · · Score: 1

    Well, they were in the process of creating a actionscript vm for firefox with the Mozilla foundation if I remember correctly.

  22. Re:They looove Apple... on Adobe Calls Out Apple With Ads In NY Times, WSJ · · Score: 2, Insightful

    This argument is stupid and probably comes from people who have never actually built a product the size of Adobe's products. You think they should just bow down and use whatever new flavor of APIs apple wants them too? Including sever costs to them in rewriting large portions of an application that heavily uses carbon considering it's mostly a visual app. Sorry but, at least Microsoft understands that backwards compatibility is a requirement for those corporations to be able to create those kinds of products. I'm a Linux user but I can admit that lack of stable APIs have affected the development of things like device drivers for Linux.

  23. Re:going the wrong way... again on Pressure Mounts On ICANN To Approve .xxx Domain · · Score: 1

    That is not such a bad idea, a porn site found on a .kids website could be prosecuted thus making it a safe playpen.

  24. Re:Who reads the manual? on The MPEG-LA's Lock On Culture · · Score: 1

    Interesting, I mean, it would make sense that only the original copy is liable for licensing, afterwards all copies made from the theora version would not use the mpeg-la's stuff anymore.

  25. Re:Who reads the manual? on The MPEG-LA's Lock On Culture · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I really wish I hat mod points for you. This is exactly the issue I think. Why should distributing a video be the same a implementing the MPEG-LA codecs and be bound by patents? In the end only codec writters should be liable. This is as if using a patented wheel on your car required a license. Damn, car analogies suck.