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  1. Yay! on Matthew Garrett Makes Available Secure Bootloader For Linux Distros · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm really proud of him and I really hope that there is no ensuing lawsuit for violating some sort of propitiatory BS.

  2. Re:Huh? on Apple Stops Hiding Samsung Apology On Its UK Site · · Score: 1

    They also stopped redirecting from apple.com to apple.co.uk for UK IPs.

  3. Sample size? on Brain Scans Show the Impact of Neglect On a Child's Brain Size · · Score: 4, Insightful

    While I agree in theory with the findings in theory (though I haven't read TFA due to them putting two of the same obnoxious ad with sound on the same page so it plays with an echo) I think a sample size of two children is a bit small to declare any sort of scientific result.

  4. Re:"Commission"... right. on US Election's Only VP Debate Tonight: Weigh In With Your Reactions · · Score: 4, Informative

    I live in CA. It will go to Obama. I will once again vote for the leading 3rd party since that is the best way to make my vote count. Sadly, when people call me to ask me who I want to vote for, "neither" or any 3rd party answer is taken as "undecided".

  5. Re:There is not even a way to remove it! on Facebook Says Your Email Is @Facebook · · Score: 1

    I deleted it when they first gave it to me long ago. It was recently implemented again and set as the default. Now I can only hide it, not delete it (despite the box that pretends that it is an option).

  6. Re:Single device multiple carriers on Ask Slashdot: Who Has the Best 3G Coverage In California and Nevada? · · Score: 1

    Data caps depend on the carriers. AT&T/VZW have low caps. T-Mobile has 5GB then throttles. Sprint has no cap and roams to VZW for no charge.

  7. Re:Very Specific Question on Ask Slashdot: Who Has the Best 3G Coverage In California and Nevada? · · Score: 1

    With an android phone, you can cache several sections of map in advance and not have to worry about having cell service to get the maps for you. It is 100-150sq miles that you can cache if I recall properly.

  8. Re:Very Specific Question on Ask Slashdot: Who Has the Best 3G Coverage In California and Nevada? · · Score: 1

    Verizon does indeed have good coverage, but very restrictive data usage policies. For 3g (not 4g) I would suggest Sprint. Anyplace they have coverage (which is decent) you have unlimited data and no throttle. If you are in an area without Sprint coverage, you roam to Verizon, but there is an absurd amount of data roaming covered per month so you get the best of both services. If you go over the roaming data, they still won't charge you, just throttle and then stop roaming until the end of the month. I tried that with AT&T once and after 40 MB of allowable roaming data they threatened to cancel my service. Sprint gets a bad rap, but they were my first cell carrier, I have been on all four of the big ones in the US and am back on Sprint again.

  9. Re:Protection on AMD Breaks Overclocking Record With Bulldozer · · Score: 1

    If you start cold, the processor never gets hot enough. They don't let it heat up then start dumping it on.

  10. White and monochromatic? on BMW Working On Laser Headlamps · · Score: 2

    I'm just curious how they are making white lights? "...laser lighting is monochromatic, which means that the light waves all have the same length." followed by "...resulting light is very bright and white"

    The bigger news is that they've found a single wavelength of light that is white!

  11. Re:Something else /. won't bother with on Heise's 'Two Clicks For More Privacy' vs. Facebook · · Score: 2

    Actually, the disconnect plugin is there to specifically remove tracking from FB and other sites by default. you can enable it on specific sites if desired, but the default is block all their bs tracking. This blocks things that adblock does not (though adblock is a must either way)

  12. Re:News is spam (maybe) on New USB 3.0 Flash Drive Has 2 TB of Storage · · Score: 1

    SDHC cards are up to 32GB. Original ones were only up to 2GB (though some made it to 4 with a small tweak that rendered them useless in many readers). Now there are SDXC which are up to 2TB, but those are more just removing an artificial limitation in SDHC than they are an expansion of the technology that sd to SDHC was.

  13. Re:how to use best buy warranties on Do You Want Best Buy Opening Your New Laptop? · · Score: 1

    I had a similar experience with a car stereo at BB. I had purchased it open box so I decided to get the warranty. After a year or so it stopped playing discs at all so I took it in. A month later got it back still broken, a month later, the same. The third time it came back broken, I asked for them to replace it with a new "equivalent" model per the terms. Their manager told me that since I had gotten it open box, I would be allowed to choose another model in the $120 range as opposed to the ~$300 range that would be considered a similar product. Of course they only had an $80 stereo and a $150 stereo at that time so I was stuck with the crappiest stereo they carried. When I raised a stink about them refusing to at least refund/store credit the other $50 since I was already getting rather screwed by the deal, they had security kick me out.

    Have not, and will not ever give Best Buy another penny of my money.

    (On a previous trip, I was told that I could not write a check to pay for a camera. They could verify that there were funds in the account, but since they apparently don't consider a passport valid ID, they refused to accept it)

  14. Re:Oh dear... on Sony: Emotion-Reading Games Possible In Ten Years · · Score: 2

    They really just need to figure out drunk vs sober.

  15. Re:Russian Railroads vs. California on Russia Approves Siberia-Alaska Railway · · Score: 1

    I understand being from NYC and not knowing how to drive, but everyone drives everywhere in LA. NYC a 15 block walk is easy, in LA people drive after 2. Did you pick her up when she was still under 16?

  16. Re:They aren't just doing it with street view cars on Google Grabbed Locations of Phones, PCs · · Score: 1

    Actually, considering cable operators require the mac of the modem to provide service, and others can simply check via ARP if they don't have it on file, An ISP can pass out your external MAC with ease. Your internal less so, but that's not the issue here is it?

  17. Re:Every Time You Think Kinect Can't Get Lamer on Microsoft Launches Avatar Kinect · · Score: 0

    Why do they need bother with #3 if they're making a shitload of cash off of the Android manufactures?

  18. Re:Does it work? on Apple Wants To Block Some HTC Products From US Under Tariff Act of 1930 · · Score: 1

    They didn't challenge Microsoft...

  19. Re:When in doubt... on Microsoft Says Reinstall Overkill In Removing Rootkit · · Score: 0

    Indeed, *anything* Linux based is clearly utterly and completely immune to any virus. So why are some many Android phones getting infected these days?

    Oh right. The more users a platform has, the more people will write malware for that platform. No system is perfect and invulnerable. I have Windows, Apple and Linux boxes at home, none of them are perfect. If one were, I wouldn't have a use for the other two.

  20. Re:When in doubt... on Microsoft Says Reinstall Overkill In Removing Rootkit · · Score: 1

    Or run pagedefrag by sysinternals (now Microsoft). Free and if set to run with no delay at every XP boot adds a barely noticable delay.

  21. Re:Yes. on Afghans Build Open Source Internet From Trash · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If you were concerned about them getting slashdotted, why not provide a mirror link: http://fabfi.fablab.af.nyud.net/ instead of being the first person to post their actual page?

  22. Re:Wow on Using Crowdsourcing To Identify Vancouver Rioters · · Score: 1

    Having on several occasions seen Vancouver "imports" in LA for hockey games, I can easily say that the vast majority of Canucks fans that I have met have been entitled hoodlums. I have worn my Kings jersey at several games in Canada, and have never had any issues except with Canuck fans.

  23. Re:Data plan cost the same on Unlocked iPhones in US For $649 · · Score: 1

    Anytime they change it, you have 30 days to reject their changes and be let out without penalty.

  24. Re:Great for my mom on Mac OS X Lion Has a Browser-Only Mode · · Score: 1

    So get an Asus Transformer. Tablet with the option of being a full laptop, assloads of battery, and Flash.

  25. Re:How can you misunderstand this? on Thomas Drake Innocent of All Ten Original Charges · · Score: 1

    Sounds nice, but it still goes on your record.