Comment Grooveshark! (Score 1) 102
Thats what I jailbreak for! Really nor amazon, nor google could come close to Grooveshark!
Comment But FIRST (Score 1) 211
BallmerGATE! Show Ballmer the gate.
Comment SO wait.. (Score 1) 53
Is Anonymous trying to support the Wiki-leaks movement but explicitly not sayin it?
Comment uh oh (Score 1) 72
and all this while I didn't realize that my plans and contemplations were hidden from by brain.
Comment Re:https:// (Score 1) 99
So was how some folks at my workplace were able to access Facebook before it was known to the IT dept.
Comment Re:AZ isn't anti-immigrant (Score 1) 835
"You mean like when he gets pulled over and the police man asks for his driver's license?"
And also being asked for immigration documents and passport. Does that also happen to white people?
Comment Where are the deltas? (Score 1) 1
Or the following ones? A nearly 500meg update to enable support for an upgrade (other than a few fixes)? Why not just let us download Lion directly?
Comment A greater concern is (Score 0) 99
segregating the data plan from tethering plan... Please, this needs a bill more than anything!
Comment Offtopic (Score 1) 3
Its high time Slashdot should drop Bill Gates pic for MS activity and put up Steve Ballmer's since the former no longer has any role on such decisions.
As far as dropping Silverlight support, I saw it coming sooner or later from a company with such a track record on many of their products including hardware. Microsoft's stability is highly unstable.
I don't wanna be predicting this but I'm afraid WP7 would be the next victim. And such could be the case with the HTML5 based apps on windows 8.
Comment Re:And They'll Encourage Tethering (Score 1) 302
Fear not 'cause in the USA, if you ain't competent enough for the competition, you buy the competition.
Comment I Personally buy from BestBuy when (Score 1) 317
the Amazon price >= BestBuy. Oh yeah there is definitely the CA tax factor, but in some cases its well worth when I get to use the product almost instantly (vs Amazon 2-day prime)...
Submission + - Indian Village Renamed Snapdeal.com (techcrunch.com)
ideaz writes: A village in India has decided to rename itself and henceforth be known as Snapdeal.com Nagar (which means town). Snapdeal.com being an online couponing company that recently raised $12 million and has the lead over Groupon in India in the local ecommerce space. Snapdeal has adopted a remote village in India and enabled clean drinking water facilities for its people by installing manual pumps. To show their gratitude, the village’s residents have decided to rename their village to Snapdeal.com Nagar, actually taking the company by surprise.
Submission + - Using crowdsourcing to identify Vancouver rioters (globaltvbc.com)
Fudge Factor 3000 writes: The Canucks' loss of the final game of the Stanley Cup resulted in complete mayhem in downtown Vancouver. Everything from upturned cars set alight to looting was common place. Unfortunately most of the perpetrators were able to maintain their anonymity by disappearing into the crowds. Fortunately, due to the digital age bystanders took several pictures and videos of the carnage. Now websites (in both Facebook and have been set up to use crowdsourcing to identify the hooligans.
Comment Re:And in other news (Score 1) 404
Book reviews are better. I can simply ignore them without worrying the news content I'm missing on.
Comment And in other news (Score 1) 404
the LulzSec manages to get its daily scoop of attention on SlashDot.
I wonder if we could have a new section on the left for them now.
