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by Aliotroph (#40125873) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How To Shop For a Laptop?

No. At leat not in the version of Boot Camp I'm running. The trackpad configuration options are limited. You can disable the tap and you can independently disable two-finger tap.

Looking closely at that configuration screen gives me the impression it was written in a hurry. The checkbox to disable two-finger tapping says "secondary tap." There's no other description and no indication if that affects the two-finger scrolling behaviour.

The older we get, the less we know (cosmologically)->

Submitted by dsinc
dsinc writes "The universe is a marvelously complex place, filled with galaxies and larger-scale structures that have evolved over its 13.7-billion-year history. Those began as small perturbations of matter that grew over time, like ripples in a pond, as the universe expanded. By observing the large-scale cosmic wrinkles now, we can learn about the initial conditions of the universe. But is now really the best time to look, or would we get better information billions of years into the future — or the past? New calculations by Harvard theorist Avi Loeb show that the ideal time to study the cosmos was more than 13 billion years ago, just about 500 million years after the Big Bang. The farther into the future you go from that time, the more information you lose about the early universe."
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Truly Alternative Science Careers->

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes "Slashdot has picked up previous "Experimental Error" columns, but this one might be the funniest yet. Can't find work in this bad economy, in your chosen scientific field? What is to be done? How 'bout trying a career in Lysenkoism, diluvial geology, or political science?"
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Piracy

Rackspace: SOPA 'Is a Deeply Flawed Piece of Legis->

Submitted by hypnosec
hypnosec writes "Cloud based hosting service provider Rackspace has joined the ever expanding list of companies that are opposed to the US Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). In a blog post, Rackspace CEO Lanham Napier, said that the controversial bill, which will get its final vote before the House Judiciary Committee, will do more harm than good, punishing innocent users in the process. "The SOPA bill, as it stands, is a deeply flawed piece of legislation. It is bad for anyone who uses the Internet, including Rackspace, the more than 160,000 business customers that we serve, and the tens of millions of retail customers that they serve. It is bad for job creation and innovation," Napier wrote."
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Technology

Why Zoe Zuul can't get work

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LastDawnOfMan
LastDawnOfMan writes "I just woke up from a dream where my wife wanted to apply for work at a company she found, and it was the typical "We only accept online applications" scenario. She asks me how that works and I reply "You fill out the application on a web page, just like you would fill one out on paper, and the first qualified person whose last name starts with 'A' gets the job." The idea startled me enough to wake me up and have me pondering whether it was true. In this age of commodified employees and 500+ applicants for jobs, does Andy Aardeman have a big advantage over Zoe Zuul? Should we be changing our last names to start with "A" like businesses do for yellow pages listings, which is why there are a zillion businesses called "AAA"-something? Does anyone out there know enough about HR processes to know if this would help a person get hired more easily?"
Android

What Forbes Blogger Todd Hixon Doesn't Know About ->

Submitted by sfcrazy
sfcrazy writes "I was not surprise when I saw a Forbes headline "Android: The Consequence Of Open" because Forbes is a known anti-Linux outfit. They were the ones who gave Microsoft the platform to spread the FUD that Linux infringes upon their patents which was blown away in a long article. I was not surprised when I found that Forbes story was based on a TechCrunch story written by an Apple fanboy called MG Seigler who writes made up anti-Android blogs when there is nothing good to write about Apple."
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You will be traveling and coming into a fortune.