I'd rather read a pointless Apple story than a Google story in which any anti-Google comment gets modded away and any pro-Google comment gets modded up, regardless of merit. Pointless is better than malicious or deceptive.

This has nothing to do with "creationists", and the story isn't for them. You just took the opportunity to bash a bunch of people who did nothing to you because that's what you guys do whenever you get the chance.

And how many people have "whacked" their clock radio to silence it? I've done the same thing with smoke alarms. Sometimes it even works. This actually has been implemented and done before.

I personally think "Anonymous" is an entity created by the FBI to make "hackers" look bad, and to justify such things as spending money on "cybersecurity" and taking away people's privacy and freedom on the Internet.

And it's back to -1 because Google has enough resources to game Slashdot's moderation system.

They shouldn't market it as the decentralized network. They should market it as the network with no advertisements, no changing your settings at any given moment, and without that stupid timeline Facebook added in it's panic over Twitter. If you take the time, you can come up with a long list of things people hate about Facebook that aren't really necessary for a social network to exist.

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.