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  1. Re:How stupid, and useless on Google Bars Site That Converts YouTube Songs Into MP3s · · Score: 1

    and what about the children... ohhh think of the children.

  2. Re:WTF? on Odd Laptop-Tablet Hybrids Show PC Makers' Panic · · Score: 1

    I'm no apple fanboy, in fact I detest their close door policy bad enough not to own a single apple device. However, giving credit where its due, apple wasn't the first to any of those things. Apple nonetheless was the first to do it right. I used smartphone pre iPhone, Nokia's were great and WM5 touch interface was a joke. Apple did it right with their gestures and multitouch capacitive screens. Same with iPad, I played with tablets, but the tablet UI's "also a touch interface" mentality meant they were a joke.
      In terms of laptops, I don't like Apple ones at all, I don't see any innovation there except to make them pretty, I have seen feather light carbon fiber laptops equipped with top notch hardware at better prices than pretty little things from Apple.

  3. Algorithm is very simple on Online Social Networks Can Be Tipped By Less Than 1% of Their Population · · Score: 5, Funny

    I looked at it, and it looks like this

    public static boolean willTip(User user) {
      if(user.sex == SexType.FEMALE && user.hotness>(Long.MAX_VALUE-100)) {
          return true
      }
      return false;
    }

  4. RIM is working on MDM on RIM May Need To Write Off $1 Billion In Inventory · · Score: 1

    From all the rumors floating around and recent news that RIM hired Apple iOS developers, it seems RIM is building a BYOD mdm solution. From what I understand they are looking to partition the devices, BB, iOS and Android. The secure enterprise partition can be managed by RIM's BES or whatever they call it. Not sure how they will achieve this, sandboxing secure partition or what, but it sounds good on paper.

  5. 6000 HD movies on 60TB Disk Drives Could Be a Reality In 2016 · · Score: 1

    For the HD crowd
    h.264 1080p video at 9kbps+1500kbps DTS channel is like 13634.8168 hours of video.

    For the pirate people, thats like 6000 movies or so.

    Sweet, at 3TB Raid at home, I'm already struggling to store videos from my HD cam. Fortunately I bought the MiniDV type so I always have tape backups.

  6. Wrong Science on Human Water Use Accounts For 42% of Recent Sea Level Rise · · Score: 0

    To be honest, its science like this that does harm to global climate change initiatives.

    I can't see humans drinking and then pissing changes ocean levels. Yah, I am exaggerating, but that is what we are saying. The same water that had got there anyway got routed and used, how does that explain sea level rise!

  7. Re:Gamma Rays on Japanese Researchers Transmit 3Gbps Using Terahertz Frequencies · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    They do, around Fukushima

  8. Re:Works for me on The Pirate Bay Suffering Global Outage From Massive DDoS Attack · · Score: 2

    Works for me sitting in toronto, so unlikely a canada thing.

  9. Re:Resolution on Dell Designing Developer Oriented Laptop · · Score: 1

    I would like to see a xeon based laptop to be honest. and give me cores, there is no such thing as too many cores when compiling code. i would love to cut my build time from 20 min to 2 min if possible.

  10. Worst Places on How the Syrian Games Industry Crumbled Under Sanctions and Violence · · Score: 2

    Basher has 55% popularity in Syria, his oppression of the other 45% is definitely wrong, however there are places like Bahrain where the rulers have only 30% support, they are killing doctors who happen to help peaceful protesters shot by shotguns at point blank range by the local enforcement. The difference is that Assad is supported by Iran and Bahrain is a western ally.

    What bull shit, the mighty west comes screaming foul when one of those pissed and frustrated by their policies does something stupid.

  11. Re:Can't feed nor provide clean water for populati on India Test Fires Long-Range, Nuke-Capable Missile · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I have read this bullshit before. India had a GDP of 1.73 trillion dollars last year, of this it spend 36 billion on R&D including this one. So you are saying its wrong to spend less than 2 cents of every dollar you make on protecting yourself. Not only that, this tech also is related to satellite launch market, which is quite lucrative. India also launches and makes money on that.

    So don't buy your LED TV, smartphone, Laptop until you pay off your mortgage, that is wrong priorities by your logic. Furthermore, dare you get a gun or a security system in your house until your mortgage and debt are paid off.

    What rubbish!

  12. Posion the water or posion the sociery... on Anti-Education Attack Poisons 150 Afghan Schoolgirls · · Score: 0

    Ignorance is not really bliss...

    Interestingly you are just as ignorant about Islam and Education as those adding poison to the schools water. Only difference is your ignorance is poisoning the society.

    And how is he on the mark!

    This is what Muhammed (pbuh) said about acquiring knowledge:

    "To acquire knowledge is binding upon all Muslims, whether male or female. The ink of the scholar is more holy than the blood of the martyr."

  13. Lego Mindstorm on Ask Slashdot: Best Book For 11-Year-Old Who Wants To Teach Himself To Program? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If he is 11, get him lego mindstorm. Out of the box it comes with a UI that lets you do logic and control your lego creations. Once he gets the concepts of loops and ifs, wipe the firmware with community Java firmware (lejos) where he can write Java code to control his mindstorm bots.

    By this time he would have bootstraped himself into programming and internet would be enough.

  14. Re:Apple fragmenting the market on Apple Offers Nano-SIM Design Royalty-Free · · Score: 0

    Well makes sense, Apple is a late player, they have virtually no patents on traditional cellular functionality,like a SIM.

    They are just in it for themselves.... again!

  15. Re:Anecdotal on Do Women Make Better Bosses? · · Score: 1

    Funny, I have done my best work over women

  16. Re:Attacking the soul of France... on French President Proposes Jail For Terrorist Website Visitors · · Score: 2

    Care to explain how its ridiculous.

    It may be an accepted norm for your society, but its not ridiculous.

    If you say we also force men to show their hanging dicks and women to expose their breasts, then there is at least some totality to your argument, however segregating a group on hiding face vs hiding breasts shows why these laws are infringement to a groups religious freedoms. I see no harm come of a group deciding to hide their face as most hide their breasts and genitalia.

    If you do have a reasonable explanation why forcing women to show their breast is wrong while forcing them to show their face is right, please do let me know as I have failed to come up with any reasonable logic.

  17. Re:Good news everyone! on Killing Cancer With Engineered Viruses · · Score: 1

    What would be neat is if the virus mutates and becomes infectious like flu, one day we wake up and cancer is gone.

    Though drug companies will make every effort so this is not the case. In fact, if during their research a scientist comes and says we cured cancer with this virus, but its also infectious and has no other side effects, his research will more than likely shut down.

  18. Re:The people will be the ones who suffer on Iran Deleted From the World's Banking Computers · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This picture called, it says it disagrees with you

    http://www.conspiracyuk.co.uk/iran-who-is-threatening-who/

  19. Who is threatning who? on Iran Deleted From the World's Banking Computers · · Score: 2, Informative

    Came across this the other day....

    I would want Nukes if I saw this.

    http://www.conspiracyuk.co.uk/iran-who-is-threatening-who/

  20. Re:Kaleidescape is... on Ruling Prohibits Kaleidescape From Selling, Supporting Movie Servers · · Score: 2

    More and more I read about MAFIAA, it really seems that they believe to have a successful business case for selling same movie to the same customer more than once. Once for your iPad, once for your iPhone, once for your TV1 and again for TV2, if they can get away with it. It seems they think it is logical that the user pays for right to view on every screen he owns.

    IMO, its doomed to fail.

  21. Twisted people on slashdot today.... fools! on Cell Phone Jamming Devices Enjoy an Increase In Popularity · · Score: 2

    Most of these jammers can easily interfere 40 ft or more. There are cars around, they could be trying to call 911.

    Police cars use cellular data connection all the time.

    I use my phone GPS which is using a data connection too. I would break a guys head myself if he jams my cell phone while i am trying to navigate.

    Where I live, one suburbs even has buses equipped with GPS enabled cellular data devices and you can track a bus while waiting on a bus stop.

    I don't like people using cell phone either, but using a jammer is just as or more selfish than the person talking on the phone.

    At the end of the day, get a car and pay for it if cell phones are annoying enough. Stay at home, don't go screwing around and justifying it.

  22. I never text or operate my phone while driving on Smartphones More Dangerous Than Alcohol, When Driving · · Score: 1

    In fact I make sure the movie starts playing before I put the car in drive.

  23. 35 cents a gallon on The Specter of Gasoline At $5 a Gallon · · Score: 1

    That is what folks are paying in Saudi Arabia, by the decree of the king of coarse.

    Just complaining....

  24. Not for taking 38 Megapixel - for 5 megapixel on Nokia Puts 41MPixel Camera In a (Symbian) Phone · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The point is not to take 38 megapixel images. I don't know why everyone is focusing on the megapixel, that is not the story here.

    The story here is the approach they take, 41 megapixel oversampled images processed algorithmically to produce superior 5 mega pixel images. The story may even be Symbian, definitely not the 41 mega pixel sensor.

  25. Re:1920x1200 laptop! on Asus PadFone Combines Smartphone, Tablet, Keyboard · · Score: 1

    you would really like the samsung galaxy III supporting full 1080p on a 4.8" screen

    http://www.bgr.com/2012/02/27/samsung-galaxy-s-iii-full-specs-1-5ghz-quad-core-1080p-display-ceramic-case/