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  1. Re:Debunking the debunker on Debunking the Batteriser's Claims · · Score: 2

    And yet any rechargeable battery puts out 1.2V (the average voltage of a 1.5V alkaline under load) and most devices allow rechargeables to be used.

  2. Re:as a batteriser engineer, let me debunk a bit on Debunking the Batteriser's Claims · · Score: 1

    That's the problem you found with this?

  3. Re:NiCd on Debunking the Batteriser's Claims · · Score: 1

    And NiMH as well. That's because the average voltage of a 1.5V alkaline under load is only around 1.2V.

  4. Re:Yahoo TV is a steaming pile anyway. on Yahoo Killing Maps, Pipes & More · · Score: 1

    I used it on Roku and it's worse. It starts playing a random channel immediately on opening the app. You can press up or down, but that changes "channels" which is really the start of a static stream of an episode of something. You have to intuit that you press "Go Back" to get to the list of shows. As you said, no history of what you've viewed. Luckily they only have Community and the episodes are unique enough that the synopsis will tell you. But you have to exit as soon as the episode ends.

  5. Re:Stopped using Yahoo when Gmail became relevant on Yahoo Killing Maps, Pipes & More · · Score: 1

    They brought back IMAP for mobile support...a long time ago.

  6. Re:Pipes was actually useful on Yahoo Killing Maps, Pipes & More · · Score: 1

    That and podcasts.

  7. Re:they ought to kill mail too on Yahoo Killing Maps, Pipes & More · · Score: 1

    You have IMAP access and can use a tool like offlineIMAP to dump the mail to a maildir. Or just use a mail client for that. And with a mail client, it's relatively trivial to then drag those messages into another IMAP account.

  8. Re:Google maps - report a problem on Yahoo Killing Maps, Pipes & More · · Score: 1

    I've reported a large handful of mapping errors in my neighborhood and for every single one, I've gotten a response months later telling me I was right and that it was fixed. Might be a sort of large backlog, but it was handled.

  9. Re:It's going to be painful... on Yahoo Killing Maps, Pipes & More · · Score: 1

    It's a social network in the sense that it served as the equivalent of your "profile" page on Facebook now. That's really the only common thread I can find, but it is probably the 90's equivalent at least for that small (mostly non-social) part.

  10. Re:It's going to be painful... on Yahoo Killing Maps, Pipes & More · · Score: 1

    It was very "set it and forget it" and didn't require authentication to keep using RSS feeds created with it. I have no idea if I'm using it every day or not. I know that I had been at one time.

  11. Re:Is this ... on Typing 'http://:' Into a Skype Message Trashes the Installation Beyond Repair · · Score: 1

    It could be that it's being interpreted as a null domain with an alphanumeric port number (if it's some really bad regex of some sort). But I'm sure it has something to do with the process of displaying a URL as a clickable link.

  12. Re:Speaking of Skype being crap... on Typing 'http://:' Into a Skype Message Trashes the Installation Beyond Repair · · Score: 1

    They went to HD voice. I don't know if that accounts for all of it, because even HD voice is way below what you'd use for streaming spotify or similar.

  13. Re:Sports needs to be in it's own HBO like package on Cable Companies Hate Cord-Cutting, but It's Not Going Away (Video) · · Score: 1

    The weird thing about that is that Disney would need to be in your Sports package. As will your local ABC affiliate. Disney is evil and they require ESPN and Disney channel just to air the local ABC affiliate.

  14. AT Power Supply on a DVD Player on Ask Slashdot: Your Most Unusual Hardware Hack? · · Score: 1

    Back when DVD players first dropped below $100, they were still using standard IDE DVD-ROM drives inside with molex power connectors. When my parents' DVD player quit because of an underpowered power supply, I connected an AT Power Supply to the drive that they could switch on with the DVD player. Worked for years like this.

  15. Re:A Fan of Security on Ask Slashdot: Your Most Unusual Hardware Hack? · · Score: 1
  16. Re:too many to list on Ask Slashdot: Your Most Unusual Hardware Hack? · · Score: 2

    Would have been terrible if a telemarketer ever got that number.

  17. This whole study is just a promotion for Jurassic World.

  18. Re:Crookes? on Fuel Free Spacecrafts Using Graphene · · Score: 1

    I thought the same thing. Maybe it's not the low mass that matters, but the high surface area that's enabling it to trap a lot of air inside.

  19. Re:Crooke's Radiometer on Fuel Free Spacecrafts Using Graphene · · Score: 1

    That was my first thought as well, but this works in a vacuum. But with the surface area of graphene, maybe it's trapping enough air to still make it do the same thing...for a while.

  20. Re:Lol on A Text Message Can Crash An iPhone and Force It To Reboot · · Score: 3, Informative

    Just because it's unlikely with a real text string doesn't mean that any of the text is invalid for a message. The text string should still not need to be changed. The bug only affects notifications, and it's clear that the text can be displayed just fine in conversation view.

    This is almost certainly due to splitting multibyte characters on sub-character boundaries. That's a design problem, not a sanitizing problem.

  21. Re:Lol on A Text Message Can Crash An iPhone and Force It To Reboot · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sanitize a language people use for actual communication? The text shouldn't have to change. This is a case of bad coding and nothing more.

  22. Re:Navigation package still required on Hyundai Now Offers an Android Car, Even For Current Owners · · Score: 2

    And do you think a cheap little GPS receiver and software add that $1000? Most of that price goes to the touch screen and SoC. Really, most of that price goes to the fact that they are the only ones who can give it to you as a factory fit feature. So it's mostly extortion and not paying for any one piece of it.

  23. Re:Early adopters beware on Hyundai Now Offers an Android Car, Even For Current Owners · · Score: 1

    Likely that it's running the Google Now launcher. Since that seems to be a big part of the interface.

  24. Re:Navigation package still required on Hyundai Now Offers an Android Car, Even For Current Owners · · Score: 1

    Well, yes. That means that the required screen and hardware are there. Kind of makes sense.

  25. Re:Unless it was part of a contract..... on Student Photographer Threatened With Suspension For Sports Photos · · Score: 1

    He's a celebrity. They have lost some of their rights to publicity due to that status. That doesn't apply to individual high school students - especially if they were the only one in the photo.