Apple bashing will continue to get +5 and any negative comment about Google will continue to get -1 as long as Google has control of Slashdot. This is going to happen over and over again to anybody who dare speaks against Google.

Business expenses get subtracted from revenue. If it takes $89,000 dollars to produce the $90,000 project, he may only have to pay taxes on $1,000. If it costs $91,000 to produce the $90,000 project, he might end up having to pay lower taxes than he would if the project didn't exist.

No, that person is absolutely right. This will happen any time you say something Google doesn't like.

Or a tax loophole.

The Slashdot that I'm reading has somebody saying "Apple lovers must be stopped" "retarded articles" and "BS Apple stories" and doesn't get modded Flamebait. It gets a +5. My comment that Google is gaming this system gets modded Flamebait. I think it illustrates my point. And I think this allowing single companies to direct the moderation will be the death of Slashdot.

If rooting means I could install or uninstall whatever apps I wanted, and set each permission individually, then I wouldn't really need to install an alternative version of Android on the tablet.

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.