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  1. Re:Tell that to the Arabs and Muslims. on US Bishop Charged For Not Reporting Priest's Child Porn To Police · · Score: 1

    Your last sentence makes great sense.

  2. Why is it the only religion that does not allow on US Bishop Charged For Not Reporting Priest's Child Porn To Police · · Score: 1

    Priests must be married to be healthy. No religion should allow single priests to remain unmarried for more than 2-3 years, except where age (60+) is a factor (example, a priest lost his wife)

  3. Re:Can that tag ... 180 degrees wrong on Linux Kernel Developer Declares VirtualBox Driver "Crap" · · Score: 1

    Gee, 180 degrees in front of students means the prof. Actually, the more complex a software, the more likely bugs due to side effects caused by features crops up.
    And since when does memory leak problem disappear with poor programming practices.

  4. Welcome to the police state on California Governor Vetoes Ban On Warrantless Phone Searches · · Score: 1

    Subject line says it all. Can the population reciprocate and have the police seize the governers cellphone.

  5. Re:The 1% are insulated on Ask Slashdot: How Do You View the Wall Street Protests? · · Score: 1

    So is it time to change countries. You are in effect saying you live in a dictatorship. If 1% control everything, and you add to it, Patriot act and HomeLand Security, CIA, FBI, military, police, and whatever else, ask if you are in the land of the free.

    And what are your political choices. A) Republican (for the 1%) B) Democrats (for the non-republicans C) Dont vote. From outside looking in, I would vote Democrat.

     

  6. Re:Perhaps to one's surprise? on iPhone 4S Pre-Orders Sell Out · · Score: 1

    I just feel that we are driven by hype. The 46 inch TV is not good enough, have to get the 56 inch one. The cell phone is not good enough, it has to have music and games, and downloadable apps. And common, guy, my friend John has one, and I want one too. Each of my older grandkids have their IPODs, and guess what, after 2 weeks, they lie in drawers. While they were exploring their use, homework suffered.
    So, if the Smart Phone has too many smarts, could we say that priority is given to it, instead of family or job, or homework?

    Two ipods collecting dust in my daughter home. But my daughter and her husband are happy with the $20/mo cellphone service, as am I.

      I guess people have obsessive compulsive desires.

  7. Re:Perhaps to one's surprise? on iPhone 4S Pre-Orders Sell Out · · Score: 1

    No, It is more than that, It is a balance of functionality versus lifestyle . Do your kids each need one too?

    What happen is the "Got to have one because the Jones have one" syndrome.

    I like a smart fone with calculator, message, and some agenda alam capability. But then it also became the home entertainment system. And is it worth the price. Costs of toys separates the men from the boys,

  8. When e-book readers become common place on B&N Yanks DC Titles After Exclusive Amazon Deal · · Score: 1

    I forecast that eventually, libraries will have a supply of e-book readers, already loaded with an e-book. Whereas before you signed out a book, now you will sign-out the e-book. There will be e-book clubs where users will swap pre-loaded e-books.

    Publishers want to put a count and date code on e-books so that the book expires after a certain date or following a certain number of uses.

    Sigh, what happened to the good old days.

  9. Re:Perhaps to one's surprise? on iPhone 4S Pre-Orders Sell Out · · Score: 1

    Dont you think you are going to overpay for your toy? I use a cell phone and a netbook. My cell phone stays at my desk during the day, and in my pocket when I travel. No cell phone use in the washroom.

    And my google or yahoo apps work just fine for me. I spent $40. for the cellphone. I receive and send calls. Isn't it what it is supposed to do? Do I need a live agenda, a game boy and realtime web and email? So with all this functionality when in the day do you read a book, or talk to your wife and kids. I guess it is not during the day.

  10. Wowe on UN Bigwig: The Web Should Have Been Patented and Licensed · · Score: 1

    What is left of humanity, when everything that is of use to humanity should be monotized. Pretty soon they will ask us to pay to walk into an air-conditioned store, because the AC chills the air and gives us a benefit. We must pay. It reminds me of a bobby dillan song.
    If you are not busy being born, you are busy dieing. If you are not busy being born, you are busy paying.
     

  11. Re:Wow Look at what blister packaging does on Oil May Be Finite, But U.S. Production Is Ramping Up · · Score: 1

    When I was growing up, I could go into the hardware store and pickup a small basket to hold purchases, and load needed items that I needed into it. When it came to screws and bolts, I could take a 1 pound paper bag, put the screws into it, with the quantity, and mark the price per dozen. I could even write the bar code information.

    Today everything is blister packaged and to make matters worse, we are financing the big behemoth stores and their waste of blister packaging.
    Instead of screws being twenty cents a dozen, you are asked to pay $4.00 for 6 screws inside a blister package.

    Profit to the store is 50%. Worse, the packaging costs more than the screws. Why do we need to overpay for blister packaging and a waste of oil derivatives? There is something really really wrong.

    In my view, when the big box store opens, it has a lot of square feet to have variety, and as soon as competition is killed, the prices of items triple or as I see it, increase by factors of up to 10. Six "two cent items" in blister packages should not cost $4.00. Visit your local hardware store and prove me wrong. We abuse the customers, we finance the next big box store due to overpricing items, and we wonder why we can't make ends meet.

    Now they are putting 6 tomatoes into blister packages. Another waste of oil as the tomatoes have to be blister packaged and to cost double the price. Blister packaging is the bane of consumers.

    Fortunately we can still buy eggs by the flats (2.5 doz) per flat, or eggs in cardboard containers. I believe that blister packaging of semi-perishable food does not improve hygene, but does add significantly to costs.

    Is this related to blister packaging? I am opposed to wasting oil reserves. If we get 1-2% bank interest, corporate gross profits should not be more than 5 times that amount. or 5-10%

         

  12. bye bye teamviewer and logmein on Extension To Chrome Brings Remote Desktop Abilities · · Score: 1

    With this google app, why pay for support when you may get it for free. My only concern is to question what it is that they capture between the two partners in a controlled session

  13. Re:Open up the books on FCC Wants To Shift Phone Subsidy Funds To Broadband · · Score: 1

    Great to know we think alike. We in Canada have fewer loopholes, but unfortunately in some industries, some higher corporate rates.

  14. Three questions to be answered on HP To Introduce Flash Memory Replacement In 2013 · · Score: 1

    1. Are they faster than existing flash memory?
    2. Do they consume less power to make it advantageous.
    3 Are they going to be less expensive?

  15. Movie Industry solution will never appear. on Movie Industry: Loss of Control Worse Than Piracy · · Score: 1

    Movie Mogals don't read slashdot, and therefore don't know what irks their potential clients. I read books, and have no patience for the new released movies.

    My idea of new release is synchronized to three years old stuff, which for me is new. And I make my own popcorn at home.

    We almost no longer have any remaining video stores in the 10 mile radius from my home.

    Leslie

  16. DHS completed it's job and now looking to survive on DHS Goes Ahead With 'Pre-Crime' Detection Project · · Score: 1

    DHS did it's job, and now is way too large in number of employees, so there is a make work project to help insure that in 20 years from now, that these surplus employees could retire with a reasonable pension.

  17. Ask to a given shares or partnership on Ask Slashdot: Does Being 'Loyal' Pay As a Developer? · · Score: 1

    Small startups need to share with their devoted employees. If they do not, the two juniors will replace you and you will be redundant.

    Now is the time to analyse their intentions. Do so by asking. Diplomatically them what you have.

  18. Re:bye bye fedora on Fedora 16, OpenSuse 12.1 Betas With Gnome 3.2 · · Score: 1

    At 11pm, due to my blurry eyes and sleepiness I did not write with good grammar. What I meant to say was, I work on data and use the data to start applications. I do not use functions such as a compiler to search for the data. Much of what I do is command line oriented. Other is GUI (QT, GTK,) etc and workbench related.

    I think Linux needs a fork of Gnome 2.x

  19. bye bye fedora on Fedora 16, OpenSuse 12.1 Betas With Gnome 3.2 · · Score: 1

    I started with fedora 4, and with fedora 15 I switched to scientific linux.
    The Gnome interface tries to emulate a tablet display. This is ok for home users, but for developers what work with data driven data, as opposed to function driven interface, Gnome 3.x is a big big big turnoff.

    I also like compiz for the wobbly windows, but not for anything eles.

  20. Start menu or search menu on Microsoft Killed the Start Menu Because No One Uses It · · Score: 1

    Once a long time ago I installed a program and some data into some folders. I used the start menu to list the contents of program files, and from that browsing, I found the program I needed. (I was misspelling it on the command line)

    For data, the search button is needed. The previous doorway was the start menu. What will be the new doorway?

  21. Re:Isn't it great that Flash is dead now? on Battle For Open Standards In Dutch Public Education · · Score: 1

    Who underwrote the development?

  22. Stupidity at it's greatest public demonstration. on Florida Reduces Penalties For 'Sexting' Teens · · Score: 1

    As a teenager, most boys have already experienced wet dreams, left hand exercises and know the old diddie below

    In days of old when men were bold\
    and safes were not invented.
    They shoved some socks
    around their ======== guess the word (It begins with a c and ends with an s )
    and babies were prevented.

    That diddie means that the girls were into it too.
    So, is nudity porn, or is it the stuff shown on cable tv after 11pm many nights.

    I am also of the opinion that nudity stops rapes, but true acts generate risks.

  23. Global Warming is Natural on Canadian Ice Shelves Halve In Six Years · · Score: 1

    The catalyst to it happening is Man and all the oil companies and other similar energy companies who pay politicians and news media to say it is not happening.

  24. Re:Native Apps? on How Adobe Flash Lost Its Way · · Score: 1

    I thought that Nokia QT was to tike everything together. I can write once and cross compile for Windows, Mac, Linux, and various cellphones Os's (Android, plus plus+)

  25. There is a simple way around this on Man-In-the-Middle Remote Attack On Diebold Voting Machines · · Score: 1

    There are paper labels that act as physical seals. The labels are pasted across the panels used to access the electronics. In addition, there would be a panel access detection fuseable signal.
    Verify the machine is clean, paste the seal across the potential opening, and voila. Also, if the cover is opened, a fuseable link can be made to blow on the next application of power.

    The only thing the video points out is the need for some extra protection to avoid penetration into the electronics of the machine. This could also be done with special cover fasteners, and more.