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  1. Frothy hysteria is fun on Google Breaks ChromeCast's Ability To Play Local Content · · Score: 5, Informative

    but instead of the boringly predictable GOOGLE IS EVIL!!!!1eleventy karma-whoring[1], shall we examine why exactly this third-party program broke with the new update?

    Were they, perchance, using an undocumented API, or one that was known to be unstable?

    This seems to be the public API for Chromecast: https://developers.google.com/cast/devprev
    but I'm not enough of a programmer to tell if there's explicit support for the kind of thing AirCast does; however, get a load of this:

    Warning: The current Google Cast SDK is a preview SDK intended for development and testing purposes only, not for production apps. Google may change this SDK significantly prior to the official release of the Google Cast SDK. We strongly recommend that you do not publicly distribute any application using this preview SDK, as this preview SDK will no longer be supported after the official SDK is released (which will cause applications based only on the preview SDK to break).

    Applications using this preview SDK will work only on Chromecast receiver devices that are whitelisted for development. Google will provide whitelisting for Google Cast receivers for development and testing purposes until the final SDK is released. See Whitelisting your receiver.

    So it seems my guess was correct and you're all bellyaching about a program taking advantage of an unstable API, with a feature not guaranteed to be there, and when the documentation recommends not distributing production apps yet.

    In short, non-story click-whoring. I hope you're proud of yourselves.

    [1] I know I'll get modded down for this, but...

  2. Re:Premium not enough? on Workers at Chile's ALMA Telescope Strike Over Working Conditions · · Score: 1

    You're engaging in lazy thinking; to wit, false equivalence. If you think one side's as bad as the other you're not paying attention.

  3. Re:Premium not enough? on Workers at Chile's ALMA Telescope Strike Over Working Conditions · · Score: 1

    So many people don't read literature and wouldn't understand that I was channelling Mark Twain.

  4. Re:Nonsense on Workers at Chile's ALMA Telescope Strike Over Working Conditions · · Score: 1

    Care to explain to us how that's not false equivalence?

  5. Re:Premium not enough? on Workers at Chile's ALMA Telescope Strike Over Working Conditions · · Score: -1, Troll

    Or a Republican, but I repeat myself.

  6. Re:Self Consistency Canon on New, Canon-Faithful Star Trek Series Is In Pre-Production · · Score: 1

    I'm chuckling quietly because I do IT for our health center and you're right about who does the work.

  7. Re:Phew! on New System Propels Satellites Without Propellants · · Score: 1

    I don't think it was that, because pre-crisscross strut those tanks were oscillating almost from launch, it was just at altitude when they overstressed. Besides, I told Mechjeb to keep it to terminal velocity. :P

  8. Re:Phew! on New System Propels Satellites Without Propellants · · Score: 2

    You want the EAS-4 strut connector; use it to tie each stage's parts together and they're much less likely to collapse.

    I did up a mock-Saturn V and had to to a crisscross (top outer tanks to next-lower central tank) with struts on the second stage between the central stack and the top tanks on the four side stacks, because otherwise the four top-outer tanks tended to break off around 3-5km altitude, which completely broke the second stage.

  9. Re:TL;DR on Yahoo Deletes Journalist's Pre-Paid Legacy Site After Suicide · · Score: 1

    o.0 You aren't kidding. "The Noble Aryan Anus" was the first one to jump out at me.

    Crazy guy was crazy.

  10. THIS IS NOT GOOGLE DRIVE on Google To Encrypt Cloud Storage Data By Default · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is not Google Drive that's getting automatic encryption, it's their Cloud Storage, which is only available to developers.

  11. Re:one of my favorites on Amazon Selects Their Favorite Fake Customer Reviews · · Score: 2

    Yeah, he's been posting fake reviews on Amazon for a bit over a month now.

  12. Re:Hardly surprising.... on Using Laptop To Take Notes Lowers Grades · · Score: 1

    I had a statistics prof who did the pessimal thing and talked while he wrote out massive walls of equations, so one could either pay attention to what he was saying or copy down what he was writing, not easily both.

  13. Re:HP LJ4 family on Ask Slashdot: Printing Options For Low-Resource Environments? · · Score: 1

    LJ4 is going to need a lot of power to run the fuser; the same is going to be true of most any laser printer, but especially the old dinosaurs.

    I'll jump on the dot-matrix impact printer bandwagon, though. They're slow and loud, but durable and cheap.

  14. Re:Happy President on Obama's Privacy Reform Panel Will Report To ... the NSA · · Score: 1

    Unless you've dealt with Internet Libertarians[1] you wouldn't understand.

    [1] really, accusations of naivete, b&w thinking, and ignorance of reality apply to any ideologue but he had the whiff of that particular religion about him.

  15. Re:Happy President on Obama's Privacy Reform Panel Will Report To ... the NSA · · Score: 1

    "Yes" would have been sufficient.

  16. Re: Happy President on Obama's Privacy Reform Panel Will Report To ... the NSA · · Score: 1

    Contrariwise, I still hear people whining now and again about Carter and how our current problems are all his fault.

    You're going to be waiting a loooong time.

  17. Re:Happy President on Obama's Privacy Reform Panel Will Report To ... the NSA · · Score: 1, Insightful

    "There is never an excuse when you willingly vote for evil. Never,"

    Your politics are rather black-and-white and naive. Are you a libertarian?

  18. Re:From the ashes into the fire? on Acer Pulls Back From Windows To Focus On Android and Chromebook · · Score: 1

    Bring it on!

  19. Re:From the ashes into the fire? on Acer Pulls Back From Windows To Focus On Android and Chromebook · · Score: 1

    You can get an x86 Windows laptop for less than $200?

  20. Re:From the ashes into the fire? on Acer Pulls Back From Windows To Focus On Android and Chromebook · · Score: 1

    That's what the SSH extension is for, buddy. They can log into your Linux server (or a VM running on the server) when they're ready for that kind of thing.

  21. Re:This is also the case on Firefox on Chrome's Insane Password Security Strategy · · Score: 1

    There's no point in trying to argue with you, then.

  22. Re:This is also the case on Firefox on Chrome's Insane Password Security Strategy · · Score: 1

    They can't, fuckwit. They store an encrypted blob that's inaccessible without your password, which they never see.

  23. Re:Known Xerox Issue..... in documentation on Xerox Photocopiers Randomly Alter Numbers, Says German Researcher · · Score: 2

    So you're telling us this is a problem caused by a user not RTFMing and Slashdot sensationalized it?

    Surely you're joking. :P

  24. Re:Is it really food? on $375,000 Lab-Grown Beef Burger To Debut On Monday · · Score: 1

    Hellfire. I'd eat the thing as long as it's properly cooked.

  25. The Onion said it best on Qualcomm Says Eight-Core Processors Are Dumb · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Fuck everything, we're doing five blades.

    http://www.theonion.com/articles/fuck-everything-were-doing-five-blades,11056/ ...and then someone made one with five blades, and it's better enough that people will buy it.