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  1. Re:Weapons Development on Libyan Rebels Weaponize Power Wheels Toys · · Score: 1

    I've often wondered since then how much more effective that process would have been if it had been possible to attach a team of computer scientists and structural engineers to an Army unit.

    And threaten long-standing defense contractors and researchers? Keep dreaming.

  2. Re:Context: Android on Cyanogenmod Puts Users in Control of Permissions · · Score: 1

    Yes, but there was no icon to indicate that this was a "story." Without the tags, most users would probably have been cast adrift.

  3. I've never used Skype in this way before, but I've heard in the past 24 house that users who use Skype as part of a SIP system have already gotten an email stating that support will soon be ending. Can't remember exactly the details to it, though -- anyone have any more info?

  4. Re:"Rant" by Chuck Palahniuk on Neuromancer Movie Deal Moving Forward · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and the lead character travels through time to rape his mother when she's 13. I'll pass.

  5. Re:And what about evercookie? on Chrome, IE To Allow Users To Delete Flash Cookies · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure that's not the case anymore about Flash LSO's and Incognito mode. (Could just be the custom version of Chromium called SRWare Iron I'm using, though.)

  6. Re:There's a key difference here. on Google Sued For Tracking Users' Locations · · Score: 2

    And again, this is not the fault of Google. Sue the cell phone store.

  7. Yeah, I mean... on Google Sued For Tracking Users' Locations · · Score: 4, Informative

    ...doesn't it tell you upon first startup of _every_ Android phone that Google is going to be tracking your location ("sending anonymous location statistics"), and that you can turn it off if you want, but you won't be able to use apps and features that require it? It's not buried somewhere in the TOS -- it's an entire screen that you have to go through upon setting up an Android phone.

  8. Re:LIve Sports on Ask Slashdot: Are You Streaming-Only For Home Entertainment? · · Score: 1

    You know, I wonder, just philosophically, if the lack of available live sports in the post-cable era will lead to far less fans of sports in total.

    Disclaimer: I have nothing against sports, and love watching basketball, for instance.

  9. Re:Speed vs Bandwidth on Virgin Media Demos World's Fastest Internet Service In the UK · · Score: 1

    Wait -- how many lanes does this road have?

  10. Re:Amazon isn't supplying the books on Amazon To Let Libraries Lend Kindle Books · · Score: 1

    Oops -- I mean OverDrive. I always type Overture instead, for some reason.

  11. Re:what books? fake god 'math science religion' ag on Amazon To Let Libraries Lend Kindle Books · · Score: 0

    Begone, useless Russian AI-bot! Back to Moscow with you until you reach actual sentience!

  12. What I wonder... on Amazon To Let Libraries Lend Kindle Books · · Score: 2

    ...is will Amazon allow other devices to check out these books as well? That's one good thing about the existing EPUB/Overture system -- it doesn't restrict to what device you can download your books to.

  13. Re:Nook Color vs. Kindle on Amazon To Let Libraries Lend Kindle Books · · Score: 1

    Unless the Kindle starts supporting EPUB, which I guarantee will happen in the next year or three. But, I'm like you, went ahead and bought a Nook for this very reason.

  14. Re:This is how we do it.. Shredder! on The 'Three Ton' Hard Drive Destroyer · · Score: 1

    Set the drive to all 0's and give it to a company and see if they can recover it. There is not 1 company out there, not even the NSA that can recover that.

    You keep on believing that, sport.

  15. I guess... on Quad-Core Mobile Chips Wasted On Mobiles? · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...anything more than 512KB of RAM is wasted on smartphones, too?

  16. Re:Could have been great... on The New Commodore 64 · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a tablet computer with some sort of IDE built-in? Would that be the modern analogue?

  17. And NYT's readership goes up... on New York Times Paywall Goes Live, Loopholes Abound · · Score: 2

    ...and they actually gain money from ad revenue, thanks to all the extra hubbub about their paywall. People ask themselves, "just what is so good about this news that people are willing to do anything to read it? Maybe I should check it out."

  18. Re:All this effort, just to avoid the real problem on US Contemplating 'Vehicle Miles Traveled' Tax · · Score: 1

    TOTAL SAVINGS: $2.5 Trillion over Ten Years

    And you still haven't even come near to balancing the budget, have you?

  19. Re:Only Seems Fair on Motorola May Ditch Android, Revive ARM Partnership · · Score: 2

    No problem at all -- most of my information I get from XDA forums (kinda the Mecca for all hacking and cracking mobile phones): http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=996616 Now, I'm am in now way an expert in this stuff, but from what I can gather, you're apparently able to bypass the checks for signed kernels -- I don't think the signing itself is "cracked." "Encrypted bootloaders" work completely differently and on a much lower level -- there's apparently no way to bypass it.

  20. Re:Only Seems Fair on Motorola May Ditch Android, Revive ARM Partnership · · Score: 1

    Well, the signed stuff that the other guys are doing isn't nearly as bad -- it takes work, but it can be cracked. The Thunderbolt, for instance, was fully cracked after only a few days. Motorola's phones, however, can never be cracked, unless they release the encryption keys, or some poor employee steals them and releases them (which doesn't look very probable).

  21. Only Seems Fair on Motorola May Ditch Android, Revive ARM Partnership · · Score: 1

    The Android enthusiast community has largely ditched Motorola because of their decision to use encrypted bootloaders -- makes sense that they'd return the favor, I guess.

  22. Re:ExtJS 4 Preview is already out on Book Review: Learning ExtJS 3.2 · · Score: 1

    If you know ExtJS, you'll know that the API has remained pretty stable and constant since 2.0. (I've been able to port my code from 2.2 to 3 with almost no changes, for instance.) Not to mention that when web applications are developed with a specific version of framework like ExtJS in mind, they tend to stay frozen to that particular version (if it ain't broke, don't fix it, etc.). I can definitely see how this particular book could still be useful years from now.

  23. Re:I keep wondering what keeps Grooveshark going. on Last.FM To Require Subscription For Mobiles and Home Devices · · Score: 1

    Don't know if it will -- they actually made a deal with EMI a while back: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/10/emi-drops-suit-against-grooveshark-music-service-licenses-it-instead/ Somehow, it's staying around.

  24. Re:The bigger security issue on Security Warning Over Web-Based Android Market · · Score: 1

    WHOOSH

  25. Re:I agree on Microsoft Vehemently Denies Google's "Bing Sting" · · Score: 3, Funny

    Their technology is so advanced, how to we know they weren't linking "delhipublicschool40 chdjob" to Credit Union websites _before_ Google was? Maybe the Goog stole it from _them_.