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  1. Re:Amazing how a couple of days can change things. on Google To Acquire Motorola Mobility For $12.5 Bill · · Score: 1

    Why? The OS if free. Opening up the phones will only sell more hardware... something a hardware company should be doing.

  2. Re:Motorola Android devices on Google To Acquire Motorola Mobility For $12.5 Bill · · Score: 1

    One can only hope!

  3. Re:Arbitrary on Bing More Effective Than Google? · · Score: 1

    What better way is there to serve the audience than to study the audience?

  4. Re:In my experience it depends on what you want on Bing More Effective Than Google? · · Score: 1

    It works in Chromium.

  5. Re:Bing vs. Google on Bing More Effective Than Google? · · Score: 2

    You'll notice the posts are always within a minute of story post, they are usually lengthy, and they seem to be very anti-Google, pro-Microsoft. It's either someone paid, or someone with time on their hands. If they weren't getting paid, I'd feel bad for the person.

  6. Re:Whatever... on FTC Probes Android and Google Search · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Unless of course your company locks down any one specific thing (from what I can tell) you cannot change your default search provider. I've tried and I keep getting a little alert box that says the default cannot be changed. I had to go into the registry to set it to Google, and that wasn't necessarily a fun task (had to get UUID for Google search, remove Bing one, etc.)

  7. Re:Where was FCC when Bing did? on FTC Probes Android and Google Search · · Score: 1

    Just like Microsoft Windows pretty much is? How did that anti-trust case turn out?

  8. Re:Slashdot = buggy as hell! on Google's 'ID Validation' Is a Joke, But Not Funny · · Score: 1

    That's not just Ubuntu... I haven't had moderation detail for over a week (maybe two?) and they still haven't fixed the event bubbling issue on comment expansion. This happens in any OS I've used.

  9. Re:Supply and demand on Researchers Make Graphene From Girl Scout Cookies · · Score: 2

    I'll have to cut back on my cookie consumption...

  10. Re:Time for workers revolution on US Energy Panel Cautiously Endorses Fracking · · Score: 1

    Not to mention China's little environmental issues.

  11. Re:Google+ on Google Adds Games To Google+ · · Score: 2

    Yes Mom, I blocked you because you kept spamming me with Farmville crap so I didn't get your post that Grandma died.

  12. Re:The slide of Slashdot contribution continues... on Human Brain Is Sensitive To Light In Ears · · Score: 1

    Yeah, my first thought was not light, but the heat of the light being beamed into your ear. I know you can feel temperature in your ear. (try dumping some nice room temperature peroxide in there... it's cold!)

  13. Re:Modified, Harmless HIV Used on Cancer Cured By HIV · · Score: 1

    We prefer cars (or car like things) here. They took a backhoe which will do terrible damage to your yard, removed all the parts that do that damage and installed a mower deck to handle your rabbit/groundhog problem.

  14. Re:It seems good on Reaction To Diablo 3's Always-Online Requirement · · Score: 1

    So, why do I have to suffer so your game can be cheat free?

    What if I don't ever connect to anyone but my friends? I can reasonably assume my friends have not cheated so I don't need Blizzard guaranteeing that. All this is doing is adding a level of complexity that isn't needed.

    Also, talk about a one sided article.

  15. Re:It seems good on Reaction To Diablo 3's Always-Online Requirement · · Score: 2

    Duh, obviously anyone that is not constantly connected to the Internet is a dirty pirate and deserves to have their house raided at 3am by SWAT for stealing bits.

  16. Re:CUDA support? on CERN To Tap Unused Desktop Power To Help Find Higgs Boson · · Score: 1

    Well... you could convert the image. It's ugly, but:
    http://dossy.org/2008/05/migrating-from-virtualbox-to-vmware/

    You could also just wait till someone else does it... because they probably will.

  17. Re:Save the Planet! on CERN To Tap Unused Desktop Power To Help Find Higgs Boson · · Score: 1

    I'm a bit ignorant when it comes to the claims about the Higgs Boson. How would finding it make my life better? Would it's existence help us generate cheap and plentiful energy?

  18. Re:Politics on IBM Plays SimCity With Portland, Oregon · · Score: 1

    Scientist: If we replace roads with walking areas and light rail, we can reduce pollution in the city by 80%, make travel more efficient, and have 30% more green space.

    You'll also scare out a good part of your businesses because people that don't live in your city will just drive past to another city.

  19. Re:Bogus on IBM Plays SimCity With Portland, Oregon · · Score: 1

    My biggest problem with apartment living was dealing with my upstairs neighbor's daughter jumping all around or listening to the next door neighbor yelling at something or their tiny dogs yelping at 6am. I'm in a single family home now and it's nice and quiet with the unusual Friday night party on the deck a few houses down.

  20. Re:Roadless on IBM Plays SimCity With Portland, Oregon · · Score: 1

    How does one pull over for emergency vehicles if you are on a track?

  21. Re:Roadless on IBM Plays SimCity With Portland, Oregon · · Score: 1

    I remember watching a show quite a while back about suburban living centers. They tried setting up housing and shops within walking distance. They setup the community to be self sustaining but people felt more imprisoned, like they were being segregated. I want to say it was Harlem, but I can't a related article or story.

  22. Re:Roadless on IBM Plays SimCity With Portland, Oregon · · Score: 4, Funny

    But...forklifts run on batteries powered by magic.

  23. Re:Relation between MITM and rootkit on 4G and CDMA Reportedly Hacked At DEFCON · · Score: 1

    Or just a simple button on the screen that get's pushed by a pocket dialer.

    I've accidentally put my phone in my pocket only to pull it out later and I was one click away from sending my friend a text full of gibberish.

  24. Re:wasn't there some article recently here on New USB Specification Promises 100W of Power · · Score: 1

    about using the heat form the pc to heat rooms?

    when can i replace the sump pump...

    Does your "sump pump" boil the water till it evaporates? Mine just pumps the water to the weeping tile outside.

  25. Re:PoE replacement on New USB Specification Promises 100W of Power · · Score: 1

    The place I work bought PoE "injectors." They are rack mounted equipment that just feeds power to the device. No new switch needed. Just run the Ethernet patch out of the switch, into the PoE device then from there to the patch panel.

    It looked something like this:
    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833996101

    But it wasn't "smart" so I can't imagine they paid anywhere near that price.