Comment Not a Democracy (Score 4, Interesting) 80
Never, ever mistake a company collecting feedback from its users for a democracy. Facebook's users aren't even its paying customers.
Comment Re:Government Computer Skillz (Score 1) 454
They can jail you indefinitely?
Yes. Works in the States, too.
Comment Re:Hmmm.... (Score 3, Interesting) 241
Indeed.
Comment Re:Hmmm.... (Score 5, Funny) 241
the US secrete service
Yes, those secretions are to be avoided at all costs.
Comment Cave Johnson here... (Score 4, Funny) 107
Fact: The key to any successful cooperative test is trust, and as our data clearly shows, humans cannot be trusted. The solution: robots! Then, fire the guys who made those robots, and build better robots. Then, run those robots through a regimen of trust exercises, creating a foundation of mutual respect, reinforced by the simulated bonds of artificial friendship. Inspiring stuff. And finally, we put that trust to the test. Bam! Robots gave us six extra seconds of cooperation. Good job, robots. Cave Johnson. We're done here.
Submission + - Why Tech Vendors Fund Patent 'Trolls' (computerworld.com)
Lucas123 writes: Major tech vendors are funding patent trolls, companies that derive the bulk of their income, if not all of it, from licensing huge libraries of patents they hold as well as by suing companies that use their patents without permission, according to an investigation by Computerworld. Tech companies — including Apple and Micron — have railed against patent 'nuisance' lawsuits, only to fund or otherwise support some of the patent trolls. Because of patent trolls, more politely called mass patent aggregators, patent litigation has in part increased by more than 230% over the past 20 years. 'Most of the major tech companies are backing a troll in some way, probably financially,' says Thomas Ewing, an attorney who has authored reports on what he calls 'patent privateering'.
Submission + - Online Services: The Internet Before The Internet (itworld.com)
jfruh writes: "The Slashdot readership is probably split pretty evenly into two groups. There are those for whom full-on Internet access has been available for their entire computer-using lives, and then there are those who wanted to use the Net from home before 1991, and who therefore had to use a BBS or an online service. Steven J. Vaughn-Nichols (yes, this guy) takes you on a tour of some of these services, including Prodigy, Compuserve, and of course AOL. This should be a nostalgic trip for the oldsters among us, and a history lesson for Gen Y readers."
Submission + - Scientists Solving the Mystery of Human Consciousness
An anonymous reader writes: Awakening from anesthesia is often associated with an initial phase of delirious struggle before the full restoration of awareness and orientation to one's surroundings. Scientists now know why this may occur: primitive consciousness emerges first. Using brain imaging techniques in healthy volunteers, a team of scientists led by Adjunct Professor Harry Scheinin, M.D. from the University of Turku, Turku, Finland in collaboration with investigators from the University of California, Irvine, USA, have now imaged the process of returning consciousness after general anesthesia.
Comment Gruman again?! (Score 2) 366
How is it that this asshat's "stories" continue to reach the front page?
Comment Unpredictability in Complex Systems (Score 2) 195
There's, uh, another example. See, here I am now, by myself, uh, talking to myself. That's... that's Chaos Theory.
Comment Re:Might as well go all the way (Score 1) 398
You've used my own joke against me, you SOB!
Submission + - Apple replacing iWork.com with iCloud (extremetech.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Apple’s first experiment in the cloud will shut down in July, the company announced Friday. Users of the company’s iWork.com document sharing service are receiving e-mails alerting them that Apple plans to shut down the service on July 31. After that date, users will no longer be able to access or share documents through the service. But will anyone miss it? Probably not.
Comment Re:California (Score 1) 398
When you're already suffering from dangerously-high blood pressure as a result of years of Coca-Cola consumption, it won't help you.
Comment Understood (Score 2) 78
He has my condolences.
Comment Re:California (Score 1) 398
+1 Informative
