Hey Panopticlick says my browser is unique among the 4 million plus tested. So there you have it. I am unique, just like everyone else.

I certainly agree with this sentiment. Guy wants software to use, not to create it himself. Advice like this is why people don't listen to you.

And first comment maybe.

Oh I hate how the local news and some entertainment newsy shows have become. I have timed a few and they literally on one or two stories spend more time telling you about the story coming up than they do the story itself. As in, "Bruce Springsteen talks to us about his latest tour, and you will be surprised what he says." They do this 15 second spot 6 times and then the actual footage only takes about 80 seconds. Facepalm time for me. The medical breakthroughs like the subject of this slashdot thread are pretty bad. They if not talk it up an equal amount of time come very close. Seems much simpler to just do the darned story using twice the time being perhaps more than twice as informative without the repetitive preamble. But of course the object is keeping everyone interested in 5 different stories waiting on the one they care about. Not being informative.

I think you are right. Psychology learning investigations even with toddlers found in a natural environment (non-classroom) people learn by watching or interacting with those just very slightly more advanced than them. People who know just a little something they don't. This is actually obvious. Two people like that can communicate very easily as they are at a similar point of learning. The person knowing the extra thing or two learned it recently. Making it easy to help someone else replicate the aha! experience with new concepts.

Well sort of. If you restrict yourself to Google's Play store for software the rate was .1%. The rest, almost all of it in this case, came from other stores for Android software. Mostly Saudi Arabia and India. So it would be nice if Android were more interested in security, but on the other hand it isn't the huge dramatic result that would warrant the headline. Stay with Google Play and things are pretty safe.

Well, I think people are looking at 50 miles both ways or 25 one way. Lots of places you couldn't charge during the day. And yes, in the USA, that is maybe not an average commute, but not at all uncommon either. Plus if you have a 40 mile commute with 50 mile real world range that is cutting things pretty close. When an oops I need to go somewhere else is hours of charging away from being possible. Another way I have put it to people. Imagine driving a car with a 1.5 gallon gas tank. That is about what these smaller EV's are more or less like. Most people wouldn't like that all that much even though you could refill your 1.5 gallon tank in two minutes each day. In the case of the EV that tank takes hours to fill.

http://news.slashdot.org/story... A rare instance of getting it right. This very prediction was predicted before the riots happened. Predicted when, and wasn't too terribly far off I suppose. Of course slashdot having no memory didn't even realize it was already covered.

And you can all thank me for sending my feedback in as this appeared shortly thereafter. And I am kidding of course, just a coincidence. Hopefully this isn't just lip service as so often the case in these situations. Sorry for the skepticism. But this is a good response finally by the people behind the current slashdot.

Hate to see a fellow slashdotter suffer less enjoyment than he wishes. So, no your 5th post won't be the last. And I in a generous mood leave it for another to get the lucky 7th post. The book actually sounds of some interest to me. But once I unearthed the price in my digging, I will have to pass for now at least. Merry Christmas to all.

Hey, they are like our precious welfare moms. Well sure, it would ethical to pay things back. But what value is ethics? I mean really. Why should they pay back money that kept them from going like.....all bankrupt and stuff? Who would value that? Don't be ridiculous. So what does that leave us? Ethically no one with half a brain would buy from them. Which means they fail, go bankrupt and cease to exist. At great loss in jobs and capital. Or we buy from them, enrich those assholes who don't deserve it, and keep lots of people employed. And those execs who have like all the wrong ideas, that get reinforced, .....hey it is the cost of doing business and being a free market economy. What's not to love? A jewish banker would surely be most comfortable with this as would any bought and paid for politician. Hey we all got our own little problems to solve. Why not? Yeah well F12k you!!!!!!!!!!

Think more AR15 delivered as parts and then assembled by the customer. Drones could handle that easy.

Yeah, realized this problem a few months back. I and a friend while on the phone typed absolutely identical search terms in. We got entirely different results. Often even highly different numbers of results. Like I returned 81,000 search results once and he got over a 400,000 for the same term. What we also found was if we kept typing in the same search terms somewhere around a dozen or more times we then started getting the same results. Sort of odd behavior. I thought. This using google of course. Since then I keep a couple other search engines handy that are anonymous, one basically does a google search for you, but without your history attached. And sometimes when unable to find what I wish, this alternate search engines can be more relevant in what I get back on searches.

Where are mod points when I need them. emag and LongearedBat should get a few.

Wish I had mod points to give. Good advice. I do find various linux distros work with various machines I have. Ubuntu, Mint, and PC Linux OS are probably the best at usually working. But even those sometimes run into some issue with wireless or touch pads or something with some machines. None of which is hard to get working to an intermediate level linux user. Though it will drive a newbie nuts in short order. Unetbootin, available on Windows and Linux, lets you put any CD or DVD .iso file for live linux distros onto a memory stick and boot off it. This way you get to try out the stuff and make sure it likes all your hardware. Plus you get to run it a bit getting a taste of it. Nothing on your machine is altered and you pull the stick and boot right back into what you were doing. I used different live distro's this way for a few weeks when I started with linux. Time well spent.