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  1. Sure no subscription model on In Windows 10, Ad-Free Solitaire Will Cost You $10 -- Every Year · · Score: 1

    oh I can hear the fanbois yelling again no rent it's totally free.
    MU-HU-HA-HA-HA

  2. Re:This tells you everything... on The Weird History of the Microsoft Windows Start Button · · Score: 2

    It's a simple, intuitive interface element that everyone who uses a PC can easily figure out how to use. Yeah, terrible tragedy, that. It's so old and crusty now, right?

    I remember it felt amazingly intuitive (coupled with taskbar) coming from HP-UX/SGI/win3 with their big panels, opaque minimized icons, win9 had even status on some background apps.
    Very nice, even today.

  3. Re:Start to stop on Super NES on The Weird History of the Microsoft Windows Start Button · · Score: 1

    On the Nintendo Entertainment System, players pressed the controller's Start button to pause (that is, stop) the game. By the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, many games were adding a quit option to the pause menu, so Start to stop was becoming believable.

    The button is like toggling on/off or braking, same system is found on cassette decks/cd players with play/pause.
    Very simple and intuitive.

  4. LED/CFL and DC on Sharp Announces Sales of DC Powered Air Conditioner, Other Products To Follow · · Score: 1

    So, can anyone explain how this is going to affect LED lightning etc.?
    I remember reading something about the changing load on AC due to the adoption of LED/CFL instead of bulbs (spike usage).
    Will a central DC unit in my house run LED/CFL more efficiently?

  5. At 60Hz? Single phase obviously.

    aerosun-panel-powered generator?

  6. Re:Familiar Character on Microsoft Edge On Windows 10: the Browser That Will Finally Kill IE · · Score: 1

    when i grow up there will be a day
    when everybody has to do what i say
    when i grow up there will be a day
    when everybody has to do it ... my way
    my way
    my way
    my way

  7. Re:Incandescant lights? on Scientists Identify Possible New Substance With Highest Melting Point · · Score: 1

    thanks, very interesting, led me to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

  8. Re:My $.02 on DHI Group Inc. Announces Plans to Sell Slashdot Media · · Score: 1

    I would love to see Slashdot purchased by an open-source-minded non-profit. That's the core audience, why not let the lunatics run the asylum?

    Start a crowdfund and make people subscribe with a yearly fee.
    Even lunatics need to be housed and fed to prevent them from escaping.

  9. Impossible! on Smartphone Apps Fraudulently Collecting Revenue From Invisible Ads · · Score: 1

    You cannot find over 5,000 apps displaying unseen ads!

  10. Re:3D is for cows. on Open-Source Mesa 3D Library/Drivers Now Support OpenGL 4 · · Score: 0

    Yes Super Hamster,

    I'm suuurre yours fitted without problem.

    Cheers,
    Your optometrist.

  11. Re:Interesting; likely more limited than advertise on Pocket SCiO Spectrometer Sends Chemical Composition of Anything To Smartphones · · Score: 1

    Perhaps you'd like to share or recommend a list how to identify different materials without advanced machinery? like http://www.instructables.com/i...

  12. Re:OS X on Experiment: Installing Windows 10 On a 7-Year-Old Acer Aspire One · · Score: 1

    He is talking about a 2011 macbook pro

  13. obviously, with mindblowing results

  14. easy on Which Movies Get Artificial Intelligence Right? · · Score: 1

    knightrider, you didn't think DUI was allowed back then, did you?

  15. Re:Which can be used to X. on Bomb Squad Searches House Over Teenager's Chemistry Experiments · · Score: 1

    I'm waiting for SWAT to raid the elderly, you know, with amalgam still in their mouths...

  16. Re:Different languages on WebAssembly and the Future of JavaScript · · Score: 1

    Provide a technical argument

    object notation, lambda, c syntax.
    Read JavaScript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford.
    Actually pretty impressive for javascript to become leading web scripting language.

  17. Re:They are trying to get off... on The Mob's IT Department · · Score: 1

    You've never imagined having a gun to your kids' head, have you? life > illegality

    No, seen other people's kids addicted to drugs down the drain.
    Also, I'm pretty sure the criminals have been robbed from their twinkies long ago, as if I care.

  18. Re:more important question... on The Mob's IT Department · · Score: 1

    If you give them the benefit of the doubt the best you can say about them is they were naive.

    Considering their type of work, daily routine and former employers (banks) it's really hard to imagine they did not know there's a thin line.
    Any shady company is on the wrong side by default.

  19. AI for the masses on NVIDIA Hopes To Sell More Chips By Bringing AI Programming To the Masses · · Score: 1

    .. anyone like to share a simple out-of-the-box neural network trainer/demonstrator to play around with neural nets on a novice-to-intermediate level?

  20. Re:Paperclip saves fairground ride. on Ask Slashdot: What Is Your Most Unusual Hardware Hack? · · Score: 1

    That's nothing. Back in the 8080s some mates in the Ukrain had issues with moving rods into a basin.
    Used WD40 to clear the stuck valve and fixed those rods in position with some ducktape.
    Never heard anything again
    (ungrateful bastards)

  21. Re:What was the goal ? on Kaspersky Lab Reveals Cyberattack On Its Corporate Network · · Score: 1

    Why did the attacker sacrificed such a nice tool ? And to obtain what kind of information ?

    Well duh. Free licenses to extend the trial version of course.

  22. Re:Ow. Was not aware... on A Technical Look Inside TempleOS · · Score: 1

    Very impressive, writing large amounts of structured code considering the gibberish in the comments.
    How is this possible?

  23. Re:Interesting person on A Technical Look Inside TempleOS · · Score: 1

    What's your position on lesbian cake?

  24. How much ... on Interviews: Ask Kim Dotcom a Question · · Score: 1, Insightful

    ... did you pay for the Modern Warfare 3 ranking?
    (once a cheater, always a cheater)

    go ahead, mod me down wannabe gangsta hackers

  25. Re:Kudos To The Winner on 2014 Underhanded C Contest Winners Announced · · Score: 1

    So kudos to the winner. And on behalf of the rest of humanity, please never end up in a situation where you get to use your evil skills in the real world!

    Generally speaking the top of these contests are works of art.
    I don't doubt however this kind of ingenuity is or will be used in the real world.