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  1. State Level on Critics To FTC: Why Do You Hate In-App Purchasing Freedom? · · Score: 1

    I suspect states will have to form their own regulations because the federal government is fucked up by infighting and extremists.

    Some may feel letting states deal with it is a good thing, but it would also mean that app makers have to consider the rules of many different states.

  2. Tell me more, tell me more on Ask Slashdot: IT Personnel As Ostriches? · · Score: 1

    So tell us, what's it like working there at the NSA?

  3. Re:Repeat after me... on Programming Languages You'll Need Next Year (and Beyond) · · Score: 1

    Where's the rule that says a language has to be Turing Complete to be a "programming" language?

  4. Re:Will it let me swap bodies with Miranda Kerr? on Student Uses Oculus Rift and Kinect To Create Body Swap Illusion · · Score: 1

    and has been for millions of years: a swift kick to the [bleep]

  5. Re:Proof? on More Quantum Strangeness: Particles Separated From Their Properties · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a bug in the Matrix to me. It will probably be fixed in the next release.

    No, the Matrix learned from Microsoft: you don't have to fix anything if you have no competition.

  6. Re:Poor pluto on Opportunity Rover Sets Off-World Driving Record · · Score: 2

    They probably used "heavenly body" at first, but editors realized that would generate too many tasteless jokes, and changed it to "planet".

  7. Tag, you're it! on Hackers Plundered Israeli Defense Firms That Built 'Iron Dome' Missile Defense · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Does that mean Hamas will start rocketing China also?

  8. Palindrome on A 24-Year-Old Scammed Apple 42 Times In 16 Different States · · Score: 1

    At 42 he'll only do it 24 times. Slowin' down.

  9. The point as I see it is the distinction between version 4 and 5. The poster suggests that they want "the latest" rather than 4, which they CAN find docs for. They are both obsolete, dead even, such that focusing on "the latest" strikes me as odd. Perhaps I came off too sarcastic, but the "logic" is bugging me.

  10. Now, I realize Palm OS 4 software can be run on Palm OS 5, but I'm looking to use some of the 'newer' APIs.

    Come on, if they do the job, who cares. It's like wanting Mozart over Bach because Mozart is "newer". They are both dead worm food. (Please, no music "decomposing" jokes.)

  11. Re: Useless Internet on Off the Florida Coast, Astronauts Train For Asteroid Mission · · Score: 1

    Just like the NSA here.

  12. Re:Where are the buggy whip dealers? on Lots Of People Really Want Slideout-Keyboard Phones: Where Are They? · · Score: 0

    There probably was still a decent market for horses as cars started to become the norm. There will be people who don't like change, or are allergic to oil or what-not.

    In the longer term it's probably a bad bet as a company, but if you can make a profit from a physical keyboard market that may last 5 or 10 years, it may be worth a product line.

  13. issues in six oral questions...

    I kept reading that wrong for some reason.

  14. Problem is so bad that even duct tape can't fix it.

  15. Re:One of many... on The Truth About Solar Storms · · Score: 1

    I imagine many of these people would end up dead without electricity

    What, are they androids or something? You talk about boredom; is that what allegedly kills them?

  16. Re:So does this mean I shouldn't visit Japan? on One Trillion Bq Released By Nuclear Debris Removal At Fukushima So Far · · Score: 3, Funny

    Relax, I see nothing but glowing reviews.

  17. Unit-of-measure: ZPH on One Trillion Bq Released By Nuclear Debris Removal At Fukushima So Far · · Score: 1

    Zombies produced per hour

  18. Stuck Focus = Forced Choice on Laser Eye Surgery, Revisited 10 Years Later · · Score: 2

    As you get older, the focus range of your eyes decreases such that they more or less become "stuck" at a certain focal length from your face. Laser surgery will generally make the "stuck" range or point be further out, which could harm reading even if it improves distance vision.

    The ideal "stuck" point probably depends on what you do the most. If you are at a computer screen often, then about 14 to 24 inches seems like it would be the ideal, although you couldn't see small things up close well.

    My eyesight's focus is settling to around 10 inches away, which is shy of the ideal monitor range. Is surgery worth that extra 8 inches?

    The bottom line is that age is a bitch and laser surgery forces you to make tradeoffs as old eyes will only have one ideal focus with or without. Choose the red distance or the blue distance, but not both.

  19. Re:Best Wishes ! on Microsoft's CEO Says He Wants to Unify Windows · · Score: 1

    Stop ruining my jokes with facts and details, sheeeesh. You'd think this place is full of geeks or something.

  20. Re:Papers on Chromebooks Are Outselling iPads In Schools · · Score: 1

    What are you gonna use for typing papers?

    Simple: Google "essays on the Truman administration"

  21. Re:What do I think? on Chromebooks Are Outselling iPads In Schools · · Score: 1

    Fuck the old way. I remember one of my type-written papers had so much white-out that I bumped into somebody and slipped 2 grades on it because half the white-out cracked off. I begged my Dad to let me use the KayPro next time.

  22. Re:Best Wishes ! on Microsoft's CEO Says He Wants to Unify Windows · · Score: 1

    When Unix was united it was called Multics (back in the mid 60's). Now that it's split into multiple branches, it's called "Unix". Logic!

  23. Re:This is just a repeat on No RIF'd Employees Need Apply For Microsoft External Staff Jobs For 6 Months · · Score: 1

    If MS Office died today, people would be switching to Google Docs on droves. And Android is the New Windows.

  24. Re:Boy, do I hear you! on 'Just Let Me Code!' · · Score: 1

    I hear Somalia is hiring your kind of doctors. (Libertarians should like the place: low tax, small gov't, few regulations, and lots of guns.)

  25. Re:Documentation on 'Just Let Me Code!' · · Score: 3, Funny

    You don't gettit. See, if they documented node.js well, it would no longer have "nerd cred"; it would become Yet Another Boring Framework/Tool with 20 titles out like Learn Node.Js in 7 Days Unleashed Bible Face-First into the Deep End Without Water instead of an elite tool for elite nerds who can master the arcane and obtuse to write the distributed 3D TwitterFace.com and Fix ObamaCare.org in 3 days.