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  1. Re:Silk Browser on Amazon Kindle Fire Surfaces · · Score: 1

    Yeah, that's pretty amazing stuff! How come no one else is impressed with this? How well does it perform? Is it all it's cut out to be? Could this change the mobile web browsing game as we know it?

  2. Re:Maybe AMD should get off their butts on AMD Rejects SYSmark Benchmark · · Score: 1

    Did you notice that this compiler is linux only?

    The reason why Intel compiled programs are so prevalent is because of Windows.

  3. Re:Not the school's place to provide those things on School Super Asks Governor To Make His School District a Prison · · Score: 1

    What a narrow argument. Let's see how it looks reversed.

    Do you know what prisons are for? They're for punishment. If criminals don't have a roof over their head, they shouldn't have gotten convicted. If they don't get three meals, they shouldn't have gone to prison. If they don't have access to a fitness center, they should've hired better lawyers. Want to earn a degree? Stay out of prison! Books and computers? Should've thought of that before landing themselves in trouble.

    Besides, public schools were never intended to educate.

  4. Re:Educational standards on Could You Pass Harvard's Entrance Exam From 1869? · · Score: 1

    The smartest person of that era would look like a total idiot today just trying to get by with what we take for granted -- driving a car, using a cell phone, browsing the internet, etc.

    Yes, but I'm sure it wouldn't take them long to learn...

  5. Re:big loss on Texas Bill Outlaws Discrimination Against Creationists In Academia · · Score: 1

    Remember Turing's Halting problem? Given a description of a program, figure out if it finishes or it runs forever? You can't provide a general solution, but you can provide a specific one.

    Creationism is a falsifiable theory - it just takes a really long time.

    One day, either we'll all be dead, or Jesus will return.

  6. The equation itself? on 17-Year-Old Wins Intel's $100K Science Prize · · Score: 1

    Where is the actual equation itself? I'd like to see the problems these kids are solving..

  7. Re:Does anyone make a reliable drive now? on 3TB Hard Drives Square Off Against Everything Else · · Score: 1

    I have a pair of the 1tb spinpoint f3 samsungs, they've worked reliably and beautifully for me for the past several months now. they're relatively cheap, not too loud or hot, and they're fast.

  8. Re:Beyond my tech skills... on Ask Slashdot: Could We Reconnect Eastern Libya? · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes, please. Someone set up an effort, and a site, and some transparency/accountability, and let's do it!

  9. Re:Ban guns on Congresswoman and Staff Gunned Down · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And the United States, according to the beliefs of a large part of its constituents, is in the middle of its very own.

  10. Re:Females?! on All-Analog DIY Segway Project · · Score: 1

    At least one of those was a man.

    And the project an excuse to impress women with their apparent skill in awkwardly balancing, slowly scooting, and... badly jousting.

  11. Basis in reality? on People With University Degree Fear Death Less · · Score: 1

    How much of the fear of death measured in this study has a basis in reality?

    What I mean is, if someone has reason to fear death (because of circumstance, or illness, etc.) then they probably have bigger things to worry about than getting college degrees?

  12. Too good to be true. on Stuxnet Was Designed To Subtly Interfere With Uranium Enrichment · · Score: 4, Funny

    Can't wait for the movie adaptation. I heard they got a book in the works too???

  13. Gold for salt. on China To Build Its Own Large Jetliner · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I remember learning in school that West Africans would trade gold for salt, pound for pound, with people from Northern Africa and abroad because they didn't know how to make their own salt and they needed it to survive. It always made me wonder why they didn't just pay gold, even if it was an incredible amount, for the knowledge to secure their own salt. Producing salt wasn't all that difficult, if I remember correctly, the salt traders would just evaporate seawater in little holes in the ground and scrap up the leftovers.

  14. Tin foil hat time. on NSA Says Its Secure Dev Methods Are Publicly Known · · Score: 1

    And thats exactly what they want you to think...

  15. Re:And... on Man Loses Millions In Bizarre Virus-Protection Scam · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I believe we shouldn't punish a person for being born poor. No one has a choice about who their parents would be.

    But by that same token we shouldn't punish someone for being born rich either.

  16. Re:I live in Seattle. on Income Tax Quashed, Ballmer To Cash In Billions · · Score: 1

    This would only work if everyone all started out with the same amount of cash, like in the board game Monopoly.

    But we all know how that game ends...

  17. documentary on Real-Time Holograms Beam Closer To Reality · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure if these two forms of holograph are related, but I watched an interesting documentary about holographs recently.

    Doctor Laser: Inside the Wondrous Lab of One of the World's Last Holographers.

    Learn some neat facts about this lost/dying art.

  18. Re:More players = More money on Are Games Getting Easier? · · Score: 1

    Reminds me of the 80/20 rule. Perhaps game developers realized that the returns on improving single player would account for less sales than just dropping it and marketing multiplayer.

  19. apples and oranges on The Case For Apple Buying Facebook · · Score: 1

    You can't really compare the two.

    As indicated by the images themselves, one was based on an estimate of the size of membership, and the other based on an estimate of the volume of daily social activity.

  20. Re:Probably not on Squeezing More Bandwidth Out of Fiber · · Score: 1

    If we get gig to the house, I mean truly have that kind of bandwidth available, I don't think we'll see a need for much more for a long, long time.

    Once speeds like these become available, once the opportunity arises and the market grows, we will find applications for it. Trust, we always do.

  21. Re:Yeah. Or just legalize marijuana. on Tech CEOs Tell US Gov't How To Cut Deficit By $1 Trillion · · Score: 1

    It just may happen... in california. Prop 19!

  22. Re:The known problem wth asymmetrical DSL on Bittorrent To Replace Standard Downloads? · · Score: 1

    He is talking about Blizzard's use of BT in downloading games and updates. They don't give you the option to throttle upload speed. All you can do is either upload as fast as it can and cripple your download or disable the BT option and download directly from Blizzard's servers.

  23. Re:Get Hell off the Planet!!! on Armed Man Takes Hostages At Discovery Channel HQ · · Score: 1

    He reminds me of the TimeCube guy, except that he was willing to hurt others and die in order to get his message out there.

  24. Re:begs the question on Making Ubuntu Look Like Windows 7 · · Score: 1

    This angers me to no end.

    Doesn't seem so appropriate for the reincarnated Gandhi...

  25. Re:Rape? In Sweden? on Julian Assange Faces Rape Investigation In Sweden — Updated · · Score: 1

    Born again penguin? Surely you've heard of the Doctrine of Original Sin?

    Anyone is capable of any evil act.