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  1. Re:Breakdown? on Microsoft Has 1 Million Servers. So What? · · Score: 1

    And at any one time, as many of 50 of the servers are up.

  2. Re:We are running out of helium on Auto Makers Announce Electric Car Charging Standard · · Score: 1

    And the only thing you care about is electric car charging stations?

    Did anyone not read that in a high-pitched voice?

  3. Just what we need! on Auto Makers Announce Electric Car Charging Standard · · Score: 1

    Finally, a way to charge our laptops in a minute!
    We just have to wait for the battery packs and chargers that will appear in a year.

  4. Re:NYT Bias on Last Bastion For Climate Dissenters Crumbling · · Score: 3, Informative

    Do remember the NYT is a very left-wing paper and that climate change supporters are majority left-wing. Bias is everywhere.

    Yes, but if you read the article you find that much of the Slashdot story was created by the /. submitter. A correction should be made to identify just what the NYT said.

  5. Multiple audio director? on Ask Slashdot: Overhauling an Amusement Park's Multi-Zone Audio Player? · · Score: 1

    I'd like to be able to direct multiple audio streams to several devices. Such technology might be useful to the original poster as well.

    Is there a way to have a half-dozen audio output devices (USB audio devices can be cheap) and configure to which output device the sound from various applications should go? I've only seen interfaces for configuring where to direct all sound from a computer. Background music could go to one device, TV audio to the TV which is displaying the TV stream, system alerts to another speaker. The original poster would need to be able to direct the output from several media player instances to corresponding audio devices.

  6. Re:"What were you thinking?" on University of Florida Eliminates Computer Science Department · · Score: 1

    Then get some decent staff and raise the prices if necessary....

    How much have the school's prices been raised in the past? How many unnecessary expenses have been allowed to waste school money? How much of the money problem is due to what the teachers and administration have been doing?

  7. Re:Public Domain on Ask Slashdot: How To Share a SharePoint Site? · · Score: 3, Informative

    You remember most of it. It depends upon applicable law. Federal law is almost as you describe -- for works created while the employee is working (not "while employed", as that could cover off-duty activities). States and local laws differ.

  8. Re:Why can't anyone make a buck? on Ask Slashdot: How To Share a SharePoint Site? · · Score: 1

    I'm sure that the county also has barricades and checkpoints to keep the evil commercial trucks off the county roads.

  9. Re:Circular reasoning? on Egg-laying, Not Environment, May Explain the Size and Downfall of Dinosaurs · · Score: 1

    In the case of homo sapiens, the species seems to already have a gene that makes it want to gang up and kill any member who looks different so such a mutation would hardly be viable.

    They're quite viable. We put them on sports teams and give them an increased chance to succeed.

  10. Re:Not a free-for-all on Wikimedia Treats Their Operations Like Their Projects · · Score: 1

    They've crowdsourced their typing and script writing.

  11. Re:policies on Wikimedia Treats Their Operations Like Their Projects · · Score: 1

    I don't get why the various European languages are so attached to the extra, silent letters they threw in arbitrarily.

    Hey! I pronounce all my letters!

  12. Re:why the time limit? on ICANN's Brand-Named Internet Suffix Application Deadline Looms · · Score: 2

    if the tld's are to be sold only to entities holding global, dilution protected(nobody can use them, even for unrelated products, for example can't sell pepsi socks..) why is there a deadline on it? because they wanted to hurry up the registrations?

    Because everything that can be invented has already been invented. No need to allow later registrants.

    More seriously: They probably expect the first rush to contain conflicting applications, so it is best to deal with those in a single batch.

  13. Re:Depends on pay on Data Center Staff Will Sleep Among the Racks For London Olympics · · Score: 1

    True that. In the US, you are expected to sleep under your desk. Non of this 'pod' nonsense.

    You call your desk what you want, I'll call my task and entertainment center what I want.

  14. Re:Be afraid, I am an employer on Company Designs "Big Brother Chip" · · Score: 1

    and I really want one of these to mount to a name tag....

    and I am not the only one with these desires.

    Starfleet badge.

  15. Re:Sounds like the movie minority report on Company Designs "Big Brother Chip" · · Score: 1

    Yeah, there's no way this can be used for ill.

    Congratulations, you have been walking the required daily distance in the hospital. You'll get extra Jell-O with supper tonight.

  16. Re:Potato, potato on Company Designs "Big Brother Chip" · · Score: 1

    You oto do it, just to be on the safe side.

  17. Re:A Few Notes on Your Suggestion on Domestic Drilling Doesn't Decrease Gasoline Prices · · Score: 0

    The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is only 36 days of oil. How quickly do you think we can drill thousands of wells and extend a pipeline to ANWR?

  18. Re:Let's start with TekGoblin on Google Is Planning To Penalize Overly Optimized Sites · · Score: 1

    Seriously, why not link the source instead of some spammy blog?

    Because if we don't link to the spammy blog, the spammy blog doesn't get a boost in search engine rankings.

  19. Re:Stop trying to tell us what you think we want on Google Is Planning To Penalize Overly Optimized Sites · · Score: 2

    About two months ago I was searching for something, and I remember being annoyed enough with the results that google was posting to go try searching on Bing *shudder*

    The problem was, despite using quotes, google was not searching the exact term I had entered. It was two months ago so I don't remember the exact term, but the problem was of the nature where it was modifying the end of the word. In that case it was making a significant enough change that I wasn't remotely finding what I wanted, despite the quotes.

    ...

    A few months ago, Google decided to ignore quotation marks. Ick. The tool you want is Verbatim Search, but to reach it you have to do a search, click on "More search tools", then click on "Verbatim".

  20. Re:Good on Google Is Planning To Penalize Overly Optimized Sites · · Score: 1

    SEO is the business of circumventing the proper weighting of search results by "dodgy techniques", it always has been, and always will be.

    Nope. SEO also includes designing a site so search engines can find the content (ie, don't hide it in Flash slideshow images), finding what people are searching for, and guiding the creation of content which is relevant to customers and search engines. The owner of the web site might not know that people are searching for "widgets that don't break", and adding a phrase to the description about the strength of the widget can give useful information to both the customer and the search engines.

    There is good SEO, and there is evil SEO. Don't do evil SEO.

  21. Re:Good on Google Is Planning To Penalize Overly Optimized Sites · · Score: 1

    No problem. Flubber is very popular.

  22. Value of contents? on Should Snatching an iPhone Be a Felony? · · Score: 1

    The value of the contents could exceed the value of the device. If the only copy of a year's work is in there, it is worth a lot. If an encrypted copy of a database is in there, preventive measures can also be expensive.

  23. Re:Avoid Ghetto App on Using Apps To 'Soft Control' People's Movements · · Score: 3, Funny

    Who are these people? They must be hackers, they keep offering to sell me cracks.

  24. Re:Sounds funky but on X Server Now Available For Android · · Score: 1

    It's an X server, not a webserver. What it does is allow apps designed for X to run on your phone. It doesn't even need to touch the network.

    X Windows consider the screen to be what is being "served", so an X server is on the device with the screen. It allows X apps to be run on local or remote machines. If someone has compiled an X app to run inside an Android phone, then you might be able to access it now.

  25. Re:Sounds funky but on X Server Now Available For Android · · Score: 1

    I don't get it. You mean that sprint doesn't have data caps. But it does! There are dta caps on all US companies now.

    I'd better take a closer look at my Sprint bill, then. Having trouble finding that.