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  1. Re: I want a Nexus 3 on Leaked Manual Reveals Details On Google's Nexus 5 · · Score: 1

    Sounds like you're in the market for a Firefox phone.

  2. Re: Different Governments have Different Issues on Can There Be a Non-US Internet? · · Score: 1

    It's a convincing strategy for the plebs, much like "think about the children".

    But the problem with politics isn't the people but the politicians.

  3. Re:Another hypothesis on Using Laptop To Take Notes Lowers Grades · · Score: 1

    Evidence is better than anecdotes, so thanks for the input!

    Imagine typing a chapter of a book that someone dictates to you into the computer. If you've played Quake, your hands know the keyboard better than anything.You sort of daze off while typing the words you're dictated.

    Writing the same chapter by hand while someone is dictating is a different task altogether. And I'd bet you'd remember more of it.

  4. Re:Another hypothesis on Using Laptop To Take Notes Lowers Grades · · Score: 1

    Perhaps it is connected with specific hand-work from the days of making stone tools..

  5. Another hypothesis on Using Laptop To Take Notes Lowers Grades · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Another hypothesis, arguably more difficult to empirically explicate, would be that the brain treats the two tasks differently memory-wise.

    I prefer writing by hand. When the lecture is good, I do my best to get it verbatim. I find that an hour after the lecture has ended, I can cite the professor pretty accurate. However, when I write something on the computer my mind immediately blanks it out.

    Consequently, writing by hand is more efficient _in studying_ because my brain at least remembers some of it. I'd think people are different when it comes to this, but for me the difference is considerable.

  6. Re:In the real world... on How Gamers Could Save the (Real) World · · Score: 1

    You're absolutely right!

    Last week, I finally got off my arse and left Riverwood for good. And yesterday I was able to slay a dragon!

  7. Re: Copper? on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Future of Old Copper Pair Technology? · · Score: 1

    It's probably true, I would HOPE, about the regulation.
    But that doesn't always correspond to the reality people report to me. I refer them to the e-mail and phone # of the company's coverage director, which is available from the press pages anyway.

    My grandma also lives next to one of those "cabins", serving 7-10 people tops during winter :)

  8. Re: Copper? on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Future of Old Copper Pair Technology? · · Score: 1

    Yes, but it was bought up by a Swedish company and now goes under the name Ice.net, very much alive and kicking. See: http://www.ice.net/ or www.ice.no
    Would be interesting to know whether the number of users on 1G is actually increased since it was in use as a telecoms platform..

  9. Re: Yes. on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Future of Old Copper Pair Technology? · · Score: 1

    Well, there's an app for that now.

  10. Re: Copper? on Ask Slashdot: What Is the Future of Old Copper Pair Technology? · · Score: 1

    Norway is a terrible country for cell coverage. I still come across areas that isn't even 1G permeated where people live in clusters of five.

    Imagine having to drive 15 minutes before you can dial 911 (or 113).
    There was live copper in those places up until 1-2 years ago.

    (Temp job at Norwegian telco.)

  11. Re: Yes, let's bring that back on Vastly Improved Raspberry Pi Performance With Wayland · · Score: 1

    " I just smell the acrid stench of cynicism wafting from the general direction of the OP"

    Your insight goes beyond you; I often find myself being negative and cynical when I have a gassy tummy.

  12. Re:This is America. We compete. on Sorry, Larry Page: Tech-Industry Viciousness Is Here To Stay · · Score: 1

    You must have not read anything about evolution at all. Maybe you should try it.

    Social cooperation is > individual risk and gain. No human can survives if left alone after birth. I think you'll find that social cooperation is even more economic both in terms of efficiency as well as financially. Also, dogs don't eat dogs unless you introduce some extraordinary circumstances.

    But maybe you're just really sarcastic..?

  13. Re: Serious on Cylance Hacks Google Office Building Management System · · Score: 1

    IANAL, but I think that falls under manslaughter.

  14. Re: Are they safe? on New Flying Car Design Unveiled · · Score: 1

    You look for a country with oil and invade it.

  15. Re: Didn't Trillian do this? on The Balkanization of Chatting · · Score: 1

    The idea is great but Apple shouldn't have the key. Telcos have a delivery guarantee for SMS (not only that it gets there but that it gets there in time) while Apple doesn't.

    Disclaimer: work for a carrier that sells Apple phones, so I have the telco's perspective and the Apple customer support.

  16. Re:It's a Catholiban terrorist dictatorship on No Porn From Public WiFi Hotspots In the UK Proposed · · Score: 1

    Right now, who would want to eat pizza at your place?

  17. Re:My house, my rules on Israel Airport Security Allowed To Read Tourists' Email · · Score: 1

    Exactly.
    Their house, their rules, no guests.

  18. Re:language on Stop Standardizing HTML · · Score: 2

    Standards don't lead, development does. However, standards provide guides for how that development is carried through, resulting in greater adoption of them by new developers and a common goal among competing or conflicting interests.

    A dictionary is never at the forefront of development, but is it fair to say dictionaries are useless?

  19. Re:I could be wrong but.... on Utility Box Exposed As Spy Cabinet In the Netherlands · · Score: 1

    Jagland has stated that Nobel's will includes people who inspire the world, and at the time Obama certainly was perceived as something of a Martin Luther King peace officer..

    It was hot and trendy, especially in Europe.

  20. Re:Speak English, dickless. on Stolen Laptop Owner Outwits Mugger, Police, and the Media · · Score: 1

    Judging from the summary, the bank probably didn't understand what he was saying.
    " What do you mean, 'What to stolen card', sir?"

  21. Re:Thank you, Apple! on LLVM Clang Compiler Now C++11 Feature Complete · · Score: 1

    A witch!!?!

  22. Re:silkroad should pay on To Connect People Securely, Tor Project Seeks New Bridges · · Score: 1

    Mixing money into it is sure to invoke govt attention.

  23. Re:Short-sighted thinking on Stephen Hawking Warns Against Confining Ourselves To Earth · · Score: 1

    If we already have, and all our intersubjective empirical (yet virtual) evidence can't find any discrepancy, it doesn't matter. If everyone is in the Matrix, then for all the members of 'everyone' the Matrix is reality (in terms of identity). Anything extra-Matrix IS supernatural by definition.

    The brain in a vat hypothesis presupposes some mystical godlike status of truth that is not justifiable.

    You are not making sense, which means that you're either a troll or just ignorant of the contents of your owm proposition. In any case, think before you speak.

  24. Re:Again, a bad name. on KLyDE: Lightweight KDE Desktop In the Making · · Score: 0

    A desktop environment is not a product in the sense of packaged apples that needs branding to sell.

    A DE is the product or result of someone's work, yes, but it's not a product like above. You're never going to walk into a shop looking for a DE to purchase. Since it doesn't need branding it just needs a name. KDE, Xfce, LXDE aso aren't good brands bur they're good (often descriptive) names. KlyDE is just another one.

  25. Re:Le effect Streissand. on French Intelligence Agency Forces Removal of Wikipedia Entry · · Score: 1

    You are talking about counter intelligence.. but you don't look deep enough. This might be the work of the infamous counter counter intelligence.