That kind of happened to me in high school. Not the pedophile terrorist part, but I was saving my school assignments in WordPerfect files that could not be opened without a password. School administrators considered me a "hacker" or something and routinely examined the files I had saved on the school network. They could not read my WordPerfect files but the words added to my spellchecker's dictionary were in plain text. And they deleted all of my school assignments on the grounds that there were dirty words in the spellchecker dictionary and therefore, there must have been dirty words in the files they couldn't read.

I think you should only de-duplicate one type of file at a time. Maybe start with all png files. Then all mp3 files. Then all txt. Then all jpg. The problem will get smaller and smaller and you won't have to do the whole thing at one time, which results in nothing getting de-duplicated in the first place. And as the number of files gets smaller, eventually you will get to a point that you can de-duplicate the whole pile of remaining files at once. And it might not hurt to delete *.tmp or whatever your operating system's equivalent of "all temporary files" is, before you start de-duplicating. And if possible, it probably wouldn't hurt to delete all files that are zero bytes in size before starting de-duplication. If 4 million of your 4.2 million files all happen to be the same file type then never mind.

My guy told me that. But I was under the impression this problem was fixed with "Ice Cream Sandwich:. The Tab received the ICS update but they didn't add USB support.

That doesn't work with the Tabs though, at least in the United States. Here's what you get when you click on "More": Samsung Menu

That sounds like what they're actually doing. There's no tv broadcast available for these things. They're basically selling monitors advertised as televisions. It's a shame I won't be able to afford one for another 5 years after they become mainstream.

For what it's worth, I am a random person on the internet and I'm pleased with the hardware side of my Galaxy Tab 10.1. The software disappointed me a bit. I like the Sense UI on my EVO 3D, and I can't believe the Samsung tablet has no way to mount it as a giant USB drive. But the hardware is fine.

Although I think the big SUV guy is nuts, I'd like to note that he said Excursion, not Escape.

Exactly how is a woman an idiot because an accident happened after she passed out?

I think the original poster got modded troll simply because he wasn't participating in this Christian-bashing session. And truly that is the only reason this article was posted. Regardless of whether or not Bill Nye is "awesome", or the validity of the statements, this article was only posted to rile people up and generate a bunch of hateful comments. And it was also the first thing I thought after reading the comments, that evolution has little to do with our manufacturing and engineering industries. It would be like a minister telling me I should have abandoned my computer science studies because it would hinder my faith in God. Regardless of whether you think Christian faith is pointless and wrong, by repeatedly feeding into this hatred of people who believe things you don't, you are feeding the ultimate troll, Slashdot itself.

Maybe they can use quadrocorns...

They've started already. And what did they mod it? "Overrated". In other words, "we just don't want anybody to think about what you're saying". Slashdot really would have a better site if they could work on those censorship issues.

I suspect more than half of the world doesn't have those things anyway. Maybe losing oil would be an equalizer.

Are you sure your comment isn't just a "God Bless America" comment meant to blindly rant against another country because it's getting more and more difficult to say the USA is the greatest nation in the world?

The problem is Google has already indexed most of them without asking. Therefore, Google has the advantage of having content from various news sites already in place, and the un-indexed sites are at a disadvantage because there are other indexed sites. The option to be excluded from the index would only have worked had Google never orignially indexed any news site without explicit permission. I realize the purpose of a search engine is to index sites and direct people toward those sites. However, Google seems to have reached a point at which it has become a content provider, displaying content from these sites and never actually directing people toward those sites.

To some extent, they seem to be doing the same thing Gracenote did, indexing content from many sources and ultimately profiting from that content with little to return to those contributors.

Try not to miss the point, that Google seems to have gone from a search engine to a site that actually scours the internet for content for itself, rather than directing people to the sites the content came from. I am not saying no site ever gets additional views because of a link from Google. And note that every anti-Google comment gets modded away, regardless of the validity of the comment. You may or may not agree with the validity of the comments in this post. But every anti-Google comment gets modded away, not just this one.

We're not guaranteed to freeze or starve without oil.