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Comment Re:Good Grief... Not again... (Score 1) 71

by simoncpu was here on Monday December 19, 2011 @06:45AM (#38422664) Attached to: In Australia, Even Private Facebook Photos Are Public

There is a "do not tag" option in Facebook. I use it to keep my friends from tagging me in my drunk pics.

Comment Re:Open Source (Almost) Everything (Score 1) 325

by simoncpu was here on Monday December 12, 2011 @12:45AM (#38340258) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Open Vs. Closed-Source For a Start-Up

I'm not sure if this is on-topic or not, but this one of the reasons why the BSD license is better than the GPL. It allows you to open source everything except the code with the business value. The GPL forces you to open source everything.

Comment Similar story in our pharmacies (Score 1) 129

by simoncpu was here on Sunday December 11, 2011 @12:01AM (#38332212) Attached to: Aerospace Corp Pays $2.5m To Settle Rogue Software Dev Case

There is a trend in some of our local (PH) pharmacies, where they would pay a licensed pharmacist to show his license to authorities. Then, they would hire unlicensed sales ladies in lieu of a pharmacist. The pharmacist gets paid without working, and the pharmacy would end up with less costs. Win-win.

Comment wuzzy line (Score 1) 200

by simoncpu was here on Friday December 09, 2011 @11:39AM (#38315038) Attached to: Rats Feel Each Other's Pain

"There isn't a sharp line dividing humans from the rest of the animal kingdom -- it's a very wuzzy line -- and it's getting wuzzy-er all the time" -Jane Goodall

Comment Re:ooh pick me pick me (Score 1) 126

by simoncpu was here on Thursday November 24, 2011 @02:59PM (#38160080) Attached to: Electronic Contact Lens Displays Pixels On the Eye

I know your joking, but the technologies required to implement this already exist.

Comment My next startup idea (Score 3, Funny) 220

by simoncpu was here on Wednesday November 16, 2011 @06:46AM (#38071740) Attached to: MIT Creates Chip to Model Synapses

1. Build a farm of brain chips
2. Expose the brain chips via an API
3. Build a cloud service for brain chips
4. Market as Brain Power on Demand(tm)!
5. ???
6. Profit!!

Comment Re:You still need iPhone 4S (Score 1) 403

by simoncpu was here on Tuesday November 15, 2011 @02:13AM (#38056478) Attached to: Siri Protocol Cracked

Genuine question: are the root certificates for each phone unique?

Comment Re:iPhones win by default (Score 2) 125

by simoncpu was here on Monday November 14, 2011 @02:47AM (#38045856) Attached to: Army Plots Its Smartphone Strategy

iPhone - designed by Apple in California

Yes, but it's made in China...

Comment It is time (Score 1) 488

by simoncpu was here on Saturday November 05, 2011 @02:50AM (#37955946) Attached to: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Won't Fit On a CD

It is time to finally move away from Ubuntu. Thank you, Canonical, for all the fish.

Comment Re:vim gripe (Score 1) 271

by simoncpu was here on Thursday November 03, 2011 @03:53AM (#37931308) Attached to: Vim Turns 20

I had the same problem as jasnw. Thanks for the tip!

Comment Re:So...what's the answer? (Score 1) 252

by simoncpu was here on Thursday October 27, 2011 @03:12AM (#37852920) Attached to: DNA May Carry a Memory of Your Living Conditions From Childhood

Making the poor a bit poorer is the an easy way to get rich, but it's not the best way, nor is it the only way. Just look at America, the land of Capitalism. It's so funny that Americans are currently protesting why they are so poor, because when you look at facts, it is very clear that they are rich:

In 2005, the typical household defined as poor by the government had a car and air conditioning. For entertainment, the household had two color televisions, cable or satellite TV, a DVD player, and a VCR. If there were children, especially boys, in the home, the family had a game system, such as an Xbox or a PlayStation*

* http://explore.data.gov/Energy-and-Utilities/Residential-Energy-Consumption-Survey-RECS-Files-A/eypy-jxs2

Comment Re:So...what's the answer? (Score 1) 252

by simoncpu was here on Wednesday October 26, 2011 @03:32AM (#37841516) Attached to: DNA May Carry a Memory of Your Living Conditions From Childhood

Dear Anonymous Coward,

You have just made a case for Capitalism. In an ideal Capitalist society, the rich will get richer, but the poor will get richer as well. Since "richness" is relative, rich people would no longer be filthy rich.

Comment Missing Option (Score 1) 515

by simoncpu was here on Tuesday October 18, 2011 @06:18AM (#37748048) Attached to: Are You Prepared For the Zombie Apocalypse?

I want to eat CowboyMeal.

Comment Re:Just zero it (Score 1) 1016

by simoncpu was here on Friday September 30, 2011 @03:13AM (#37563976) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Destroy Hard Drives?

Physical destruction is really the only way to be sure.

Not really, unless you nuke it from orbit.

Comment Re:misleading demo (Score 1) 141

by simoncpu was here on Friday September 23, 2011 @02:01PM (#37494266) Attached to: Brain Imaging Reveals the Movies In Our Mind

1. Index the world's videos and images.
2. Index the world's fMRI patterns. <-- missing step for Google
3. Reconstruct any movie and image from our minds.
4. ???
5. Profit!!!

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