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  1. About fucking time on Huawei Is Building A Successor To The Google Nexus 7, Says Report (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    My original Nexus7 is getting rather long in the tooth, and hasn't been updated since 5.1

    I've been waiting for a new, decent spec, sensibly priced, back-pocket-sized tablet for ages, so hopefully this will be it.

  2. To be fair... on Top Gear Host Chris Evans Steps Down After Poor Ratings (theverge.com) · · Score: 1, Troll

    the last couple of shows have had to contend with being aired against Euro2016 football matches, and he was trying to fill some of the biggest boots in broadcasting. On the other hand, he is a charmless, loud-mouthed ginger twat, and I'm glad that he's gone. Now, if only we can get Matt Le Blanc to quit as well...

  3. Twonky on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Preferred Music Streaming Service? · · Score: 1

    A huge stash of FLACs & MP3s and Twonky works well at home. Add in a VPN when I'm out and have WiFi, and a 32GB microSD card when there's no WiFi. Renting music and paying by the MB for cellular data to hear it is for the deluded and credulous.

  4. Re:No User Serviceable Parts inside on Big Tech Squashes New York's 'Right To Repair' Bill (huffingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    "No User Servicable Parts" does not mean "No User Replacable Parts". True, you can't "service" a L-Ion battery, an ARM CPU or an LCD screen, but you can replace a battery/motherboard/display.

  5. London doesn't have "sidewalks" on Self-Driving Delivery Robots To Hit Sidewalks of London In 2016 (thestack.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    London has pavements.

  6. "So who is looking out for the United States?" on US Tech Giants Increasingly Partner With Military-Connected Chinese Companies · · Score: 1

    That would be the NSA...

  7. Nonsense on Open Compute Project Comes Under Fire · · Score: 2

    For *some* datacentre tasks you can use cheap, commodity hardware. For others, you need expensive, certified, bullet-proof hardware.

  8. On Error on Ask Slashdot: What's the Harm In a Default Setting For Div By Zero? · · Score: 1

    Resume Next

    What could possibly go wrong?

  9. Re:How many times? on Restaurateur Loses Copyright Suit To BMI · · Score: 1

    It would be like paying for the meal- then paying a fee for having the meal on a plate- then paying a fee for having the meal on a table- and then paying an extra fee if the meal is eaten with wine instead of a soda.

    Clearly, you have never flown on a budget airline.

  10. Re:Against Stupidity, the Gods Themselves... on You'll Totally Believe Why These Startups Failed · · Score: 2

    We were running out of money. (Why? Dunno, I was just coding my ass off.)

    You answered that question yourself:

    We had grown from 5 guys in a old Victorian house on a side street, to a company with two offices and over 70 employees.

  11. Re:intuitively I would think steam would be better on Watch the US Navy Test Its Electromagnetic Jet Fighter Catapult · · Score: 2

    Aren't they going to have to generate steam at some point to make power with their nuclear reactors?

    Only if they actually have nuclear reactors. For example, the new generation of UK carriers are not nuclear...

  12. Probably not L1 on Disney Making Laid-Off US Tech Workers Train Foreign H1-B Replacements · · Score: 1

    In this case, it's unlikely to be the L1 visa. Back when I had one, the L1 was sub-titled as the "executive transfer visa".

    It could only be used to transfer an existing corporate-officer-grade employee of the company/wholly-owned-subsiduary, and was subject to a "skills not available locally" declaration and a twelve-page document extolling my own virtues.

    I wish I'd kept a copy of that now...

  13. Terminology on Wind Turbines With No Blades · · Score: 1

    The correct technical term for a joint in this shape is "Camberwell Carrot".

  14. Outside auditors? on Anonabox Recalls Hundreds of Insecure 'Privacy' Routers · · Score: 1

    National Security Auditing, perhaps?

  15. The underlying problem is... on Research Finds Shoddy Security On Connected Home Gateways · · Score: 1

    Simplicity.
    Interoperability.
    Security.

    Pick two.

    Companies want to turn a profit - security makes things complicated for typical end users, which translates into profit-sapping support calls and product returns.

    Why does anyone find this attitude surprising?

  16. Well, that's game over for LG. on LG Accidentally Leaks Apple iMac 8K Is Coming Later This Year · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Apple have a history of shutting out suppliers who have loose lips.

    Maybe they'll start buying their panels from Samsung...

  17. Cue... on USPTO Demands EFF Censor Its Comments On Patentable Subject Matter · · Score: 3, Informative
  18. Re:Oh this is easy .... on Ask Slashdot: Living Without Social Media In 2015? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Missed 3 by twenty minutes... bloody meetings.

    Oh, and fuck FaceBook.

  19. Really? on Jeremy Clarkson Dismissed From Top Gear · · Score: 1

    Consider the source:

    A UK tabloid (which is in direct competition with a tabloid that Clarkson writes for) is quoting one of its ex-editors (who was involved in stock market pump/dump shenanigans and phone hacking) who has an on-going feud with Clarkson (over invasion-of-privacy by Morgan's tabloid, at his direct orders) which resulted in Clarkson punching him (to general applause).

    Morgan, having been sacked from his gigs in the UK, moved to the USA and been sacked there, is now trying to rehabilitate himself back in the UK by sitting in for a breakfast TV host next month.

    I wouldn't trust this man to tell me the time...

  20. Re: what will be more interesting on Jeremy Clarkson Dismissed From Top Gear · · Score: 1

    Not hidden at all.

    BBC Worldwide is the *commercial* arm of the BBC, responsible for the marketing and merchandising of BBC assets globally. Profits from this company are then fed back to the non-profit BBC.

    Nothing hidden, no lies, no mystery. Nothing to see here...

  21. Fuck "announced"... on Google Announces Android 5.1 · · Score: 0

    I'll maybe care when it's actually "released".

    TFA says "Today we are rolling out..." and "...available on...Nexus 6 and Nexus 9", while https://developers.google.com/... has 5.1 for neither...

  22. Re:Aluminum FTW! on GSM/GPS Tracking Device Found On Activist's Car At Circumvention Tech Festival · · Score: 1

    This might be true in America, but many European production vehicles make extensive use of aluminium in their construction - check out the latest Land Rover and Range Rover models, likewise BMW and Mercedes...

  23. ...how about glass fibre (TVR, some older Lotus), carbon fibre (McLaren, Pagani, some Ferrari and Porsche, etc) or timber (Morgan)...

  24. Stingray on GSM/GPS Tracking Device Found On Activist's Car At Circumvention Tech Festival · · Score: 3, Informative

    Not the submarine, but the cell-tower spoofer.

    This would be ideal to find out who it's calling, and changing what it's sending...

  25. Re:Wrong on VLC Gets First Major Cross-Platform Release · · Score: 2

    Call me old-fashioned, but I'd expect the creator of the software to be able to update their website to reflect a new version before, or at the same time as, pushing out a press-release... not after.

    Oh, and the Play store says it's not even supported on my Nexus 7 running 5.02, so I've now lost any confidence I had in them.