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  1. Re:I'll believe it when I see it on Apple Intends To 'Digitally Destroy' Textbook Publishing · · Score: 1

    Apple forced ebook prices higher for the consumer.

    Dance around with words all you like.

    Apple made it so that prices of ebooks were higher for the consumer.

  2. Re:$.99 Textbooks? Doubtful but... on Apple Intends To 'Digitally Destroy' Textbook Publishing · · Score: 2

    The stylus for the iP*d devices is like a big fat crayon. A real stylus comes to a sharp point and can point at one single pixel on the screen.

    The Apple products are end-user consumer devices. They have almost no utility for content creation.

  3. Re:$.99 Textbooks? Doubtful but... on Apple Intends To 'Digitally Destroy' Textbook Publishing · · Score: 1

    These days, an 'Automated Scanner' is also known as a common office copying machine. Many places have copiers these days that are internet connected and that can be programmed to scan a stack of paper, single or double sided, to a PDF and email it.

  4. Re:Corporatism aka right wing politics on House Kills SOPA · · Score: 1

    Actually, if you're talking about European countries that have left-wing politics, they've been sent to bed without any supper. And there won't be any money to buy breakfast, either.

    I am constantly amused by the superior attitude copped by the bankrupt serfs in the EU.

  5. Re:Did this guy miss WWII? on The New Transparency of War and Lethality of Hatred · · Score: 1

    The Japanese did biological warfare experiments on many POWs and civillians, including American POWs. But after the war, the CIA wanted the head scientist badly enough that they didn't pursue it openly.

  6. Re:I'll wait until something actually happens on Samsung Could Soon Start To Twist Google's Arm · · Score: 1

    Good old Gassy. He's quite the fellow to talk about something that *might* happen.

    Where's all his old stuff at these days, btw?

  7. Re:Growing Pains on Samsung Could Soon Start To Twist Google's Arm · · Score: 2

    Android is not a 'highly specialized distro of linux.'

    Linux is a kernel. Android uses the Linux kernel as it's starting point. What is built on top of that kernel is not a 'distro.'

  8. Re:Manan Kakkar could be less of an idiot on Leaked Memo Says Apple Provides Backdoor To Governments · · Score: 1

    Jobs studied under a guru for a long, long time.

  9. Re:Take what action? on Another Stab At Sorting Hybrid Hype From Reality · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Crowd into sardine can high density housing alongside a rapid transit corridor, of course, like the overlord city planners intend. If you want to see a tree go to a fucking park on your day off and look at one. Above all, remember this: Obey!

  10. Re:Instead of x-ray machines and dosimeters on TSA Interested In Purchasing Dosimeters · · Score: 1

    This is for protecting the TSA workers, not for scanning transit passengers.

    I would strongly urge they use special bubulous rectal dosimeters. Then, every passenger can thank them, shake their hand, and commend them on the sacrifice they make to keep travel in America safe.

  11. Re:Kinda... but not really on Facebook a Factor in a Third of UK Divorces · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Even in many countries today a man caught being unfaithful is punished with a fine while a woman being unfaithful is punished with death. This isn't mysogynistic, this is reality.

    That's a really, really disturbing thing to read from someone 'civilized' enough to sit and a keyboard and type.

    Can't it be reality AND mysogynistic? Must you be 'culturally sensitive' to the people stoning the woman to death? Really?

  12. Re:Double do it on Ask Slashdot: Re-Entering the Job Market As a Software Engineer? · · Score: 2

    You can, but only if you can't get the cover on the box crusher closed.

  13. Re:The actual damages... on Actual Damages For 1 Download = Cost of a 1 License · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The members of the Boston Tea Party didn't reimburse the owners of the tea.

    Actually, a delegation of Americans did try to pay for the tea destroyed. They were protesting the tax on the tea, not the tea itself. Their interest was not in damaging the tea merchant.

  14. Re:Occupy Wall Street protesters are creating thei on Occupy Protesters Are Building a Facebook for the 99% · · Score: 1

    We can probably agree that GWB wasn't a member of the Progressive Labour Party. He didn't get the rubberstamp endorsement from any of the people currently championing the 'Progressive' brand.

    But if you study the classical meaning of the term 'Progressive' back in the early 20th Century, dubya fits in to a degree.

    But I agree, in the modern meaning of 'Progressive' which is anybody who would eagerly perform cunnilinguis on Nancy Pelosi*, GWB is not a 'progressive'.

    (*while she spit on him and her husband kicked him in the balls and the pair continued to rake in profits from their Crony Capitalist business practices)

  15. Re:Occupy Wall Street protesters are creating thei on Occupy Protesters Are Building a Facebook for the 99% · · Score: 1

    If it's a 'smart' issue then it doesn't need to be made mandatory through legislation.

    Or aren't you smart enough to have noticed that is the issue, not the existence in the marketplace of choices?

    Liberals don't think the public is 'smart' enough to make the choice to switch. So they force the switch with legislation.

    Fuck that.

  16. Re:please on Before the iPhone, Apple's Stunning Phone From 1983 · · Score: 1

    This site has a lot of IT types who view and comment.

    IT types are the modern equivalent of file clerks. Office equipment is their forte.

    Why there aren't more fights on this site over red staplers is unclear.

  17. It looks fragile, like it would last a few months on Before the iPhone, Apple's Stunning Phone From 1983 · · Score: 1

    My preferred phone is the Western Electric 2500 set, which was the norm back in that era for home and business use.

    In the early to mid 1980s that size of an LCD display was fragile and very sensitive to the temperature of the room it was in. The prototype is obviously a 'concept' device. Anybody who has dealt with vintage Apple gear from that time knows that it would have to be conserved in a museum, i.e. the Stanford location where the only remaining example of this phone is kept.

  18. Re:My sure fire technique on Ask Slashdot: Changing Passwords For the New Year? · · Score: 2

    Why under the keyboard? If someone breaks into my house, the last thing I will worry about is them stealing my passwords. Really, complex password schemes for trivial website and blog registrations is just an exercise in vanity. Guess what? Nobody cares!

  19. Re:Analog on Customers Gleefully Mock Best Buy's $1,095.99 HDMI · · Score: 1

    The OEM bundled cables need to be high quality because the vendors don't want an incidental accessory to cause a customer service call or return. And said OEMs have sharp purchasing people involved in selecting the bundled accessories. Whereas, the retail outlets selling accessories only need to ''stand behind" the cable itself, and a 'return' for them is an opportunity to get you into the store again to buy more 'stuff.'

  20. Re:Good artists copy, Great artists steal. on i-Device Manufacturing Unprofitable To China · · Score: 1

    The only kind of artist Mr. Jobs was is a con artist. Neither good or bad. He learned his con from the pros: the charlatan gurus in India.

  21. ASR-33's and a CRT terminal on Ask Slashdot: Ideal High School Computer Lab? · · Score: 1

    We had two ASR-33 Teletypes and a CRT dumb terminal.

    Everybody vied to get on the CRT terminal because it displayed upper case and was 300 baud. The teletypes were 110 baud.

    It was good enough for us. 640K? You're kidding, right?

  22. Re:First post from firefox on Chrome 15 Overtakes IE 8 For Top Browser Spot · · Score: 5, Interesting

    So you have the source code for Chrome and have built it from source?

    You have any of the really important Google software, i.e. the backend source code?

  23. Re:Nobody does that because everyone does that on Nokia Exec: Young People Fed Up With iPhone and Android · · Score: 1

    Not with your mom, anyway.

  24. Isn't 'Retina' an Apple Trademark? on Retina Implant Company Seeks FDA Trial Approval · · Score: 1

    When do the attorneys arrive?

  25. Re:Augmentation on Retina Implant Company Seeks FDA Trial Approval · · Score: 1

    And they can! Linux runs fine on them. We don't have a framebuffer yet, so you just plug your terminal into this little connector we've attached along one edge.