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  1. Re:You actually need to dial 116 on Some OnePlus 5s Are Reportedly Rebooting After Dialing 911 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    1990 called and they want their witty replies back.

  2. No thanks on Seagate Ships First 8 Terabyte Hard Drive · · Score: 2

    I wouldn't trust a Seagate drive with 100 MB of data, let alone 8 TB.

  3. Re:Microsoft doesn't get it on First Looks At Windows 8.1, Complete With 'Start' Button · · Score: 1
  4. From the Archives on Tesla Motors Repays $465M Government Loan 9 Years Early · · Score: 5, Interesting

    In case anyone wants to read some of those "insightful comments" from 2010: http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/06/24/1947208/Tesla-Nabs-465M-Government-Loan-To-Build-Model-S

  5. Re:Ads on YouTube To Offer Subscription Service This Week · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yeah, exactly. He wants to pay for a service. LOL! What an idiot. AMIRITE?

  6. Re:Inadvertently... on GIMP Core Mostly Ported to GEGL · · Score: 1

    Just so they can keep marketing their own image manipulation software: Microsoft Paint

  7. Thanks Gaming Industry! on EA Defends Itself Against Thousands of Anti-Gay Letters · · Score: 1

    It's not enough that you turn our children into terrorists. Now you make them *GAY* terrorists? Jeeze.

  8. Re:Didn't Android *always* have Chrome? on Google Releases Chrome For Android Beta · · Score: 1

    Compile WebKit and V8 and find out for yourself :)

  9. Coded UI Tests on Ask Slashdot: Moving From *nix To Windows Automation? · · Score: 1
  10. Re:google instant vs duckduckgo on Bing Is Cheating, Copying Google Search Results · · Score: 1

    You know you can disable Google Instant, right?

  11. Re:Abode Is The Weakest Link on Adobe Warns of Critical Flash Bug, Already Being Exploited · · Score: 1

    The moment it has a "Save" feature it can alter things on your machine. In addition to that, it might be the code executed through the exploit that is doing the alteration.
    That said, I'm sure Reader has several features one could do without ;)

  12. Re:Not sure I get the reasoning here on Is StarCraft II Killing Graphics Cards? · · Score: 1

    I guess it's a matter of preference if you're fine with constant tearing or a 30fps framerate. I just doubt that rendering uncapped is "common practice".
    But I find it quite misleading to talk about framerate capping. As a simple cap wouldn't guarantee that you present your frames in sync with your screen. So you might get 60fps but still with tearing.
    And in a scenario as you describe it, I guess the smartest move would be to lower any graphics setting only slightly and then run on full fps in sync. But I guess that's what the people who suffer from the overheating issue should have done in the first place.
    Btw, your render times are off by a factor of 10.

  13. Re:Not sure I get the reasoning here on Is StarCraft II Killing Graphics Cards? · · Score: 1

    Well, the game SHOULD render at the same framerate as your monitor. Often called VSync. Because rendering more frames that your screen can display doesn't really help that much. Also not synching to your screen will cause tearing.

    However, VSync is disabled by default in SC2. And this might cause the issue.

  14. Re:100 TB for $1,000,000? No way! on Data Storage Capacity Mostly Wasted In Data Center · · Score: 1

    You forgot to pay the executive.

  15. Re:My wife likes her HTC Magic on Android Users Aren't As Disloyal As Reported · · Score: 1

    I actually like the idea. Maybe we should call all cellphones iPhone.

    A: "What iPhone do you have?"
    B: "Oh, I have the Apple one."

  16. Re:Free as in beer; comes with required crapware on Valve Releases Updated Alien Swarm For Free With Code Base · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Even though I agree with you on the most parts, I think it's worth noting that it is extremely difficult to return items on Steam (if at all possible). Also, keep in mind the price differences Valve places upon customers. A game can cost $35 in the US and costs 35EUR in the EU. I have also personally purchased a game online which required activation on Steam. When trying that, Steam told me I was not allowed to own/use that game where I live and that I should return it. Steam in general refuses to sell me any games that aren't watered down to the lowest "violence" levels. Even though I can buy the original versions right at the store.

    Also, "high speed" is kind of a debatable term in this context. I guess 2MB/s is a high speed (I hardly ever get beyond that). But downloading a game from my library still takes longer than installing it from a disc. And the connection issues are even worse for the dedicated servers I run. Installing/updating server installations have always suffered from low speeds for me. This can be very frustrating at times.

    I still agree that Steam is most likely the best platform of it's kind around and I appreciate a lot of the benefits compared to retail games. Yet the above mentioned experiences leave at least a bitter aftertaste.

  17. Re:Related news on Germany Takes Legal Steps Against Facebook · · Score: 1

    Google translation works just fine here. Must be your mood swings interfering with it :)

  18. Related news on Germany Takes Legal Steps Against Facebook · · Score: 5, Informative

    What I find the most fascinating about this, is that Facebook read the address book out of people's iPhone to find new friends for them online. And the collected data is permanently stored. German article: http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/0,1518,697733,00.html I don't know if this is the issue described in TFA as the site seems slashdotted.

  19. Re:Or... on The 'Back' Button the Most Clicked Firefox Icon · · Score: 2, Informative

    With Mouse Gestures Redox you just have to hold the right mouse button and click the left one.

  20. Re:Unarmed civilians? on Pentagon Seeking Out Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange · · Score: 1

    Have you even seen the video? Cause you sure sound like you didn't. I guess I could believe that they mistook a guys camera for an RPG. And I guess I understand that you have to kill such a threat. What I don't get is why they killed the people who came to help the wounded. And why they shot a car with children inside. And I have only seen this stuff on a video with suboptimal resolution. Those guys were right there and surely had the ability to analyze the scene better than me. So, don't give me that "war is war" bullshit. And comparing this war with WW2 is almost an insult.

  21. the size of three football fields on Can World's Largest Laser Zap Earth's Energy Woes? · · Score: 2, Funny

    These people with their science talk...

  22. Child-Safety Button on UK Gov't Wants Facebook To Feature Child Safety Button · · Score: 2, Insightful

    There already is such a button on every computer. It's more widely known as the power button.

  23. Re:And the Last Domino falls... on Valve Confirms Mac Versions of Steam, Valve Games · · Score: 1

    Well, the listing included and screens and peripherals. So I thought I'd set the limit a bit higher ;)

  24. Re:And the Last Domino falls... on Valve Confirms Mac Versions of Steam, Valve Games · · Score: 1

    If you spend $5000 on a gaming rig, you're an enthusiast. If you spend ~$16.500, you're out of your mind.

  25. Re:Woohoo! on Valve Confirms Mac Versions of Steam, Valve Games · · Score: 1

    It's not like you NEED a powerful graphics card (or so I would assume). I guess there is a reason the quality sliders go down to "Low" and 800x600 is in the resolution list.