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  1. Re:Fair for the goose... on Microsoft Says Google Trying To Undermine Windows Phone · · Score: -1

    Yes, they *should*... but regarding this specific instance/thing... why should MS have to change 10s/100s of things not related to Google to use one of Google's things. A thing that is really easy for Google to do, and will make them profit?

    Apple is a darling little angel right? Of course it deserves access to the API, because they don't restrict anything, at all, ever.

    I highly doubt Google is sitting there all "Muahaha, no API for you, that'll show you to change your ways!"

    WebDAV, difficult, but not impossible?
    Bing Search... so?... don't get me wrong, I love options... but, that's why I wouldn't get a WinPhone.
    Access... aww, I hope you didn't short your phone out from crying.,, there's options.
    Bootloader... again... aww... it's a stupid thing to do on their part, but...ok... options.

    Maybe get an Android phone next time?

  2. Re:They are assholes on Newspaper That Published Gun-Owners List Hires Armed Guards · · Score: 1

    It's both a shame, and yet appropriate that you posted anonymously.

    No mod points, +1, almost perfect.

  3. Re:Plex will do exactly what you need on Ask Slashdot: Easiest Way To Consolidate Household Media? · · Score: 1

    Very large library of...? It's good at videos, as long as you don't dump/add a bunch all at once and expect to have everything functioning within a coffee break. DLNA, or direct connections without all the tagging/info/images/etc might work quicker... can't say I've tested that.

    I tried adding about 16,000+ MP3's... after an hour and a half, I gave up, killed the app, proceeded to uninstall and remove the zillions of left-over XML files (side note: do not suggest installing on an SSD unless your ok burning them out), and then re-installed... tried the same with I'm not sure, about 8,000 or so images... not happening... remove, clean, re-install... (ok I'm a bit OCD there, but even with a couple hundred videos, there's thousands and thousands of XML files generated... that shit annoys me)

    3570K OC to 4.2... 8GB DDR3 @ 1800 CL8... SATA3 SSD...roughly 500/500M/s for installation drive, SATA3 1TB 64MB 7200 mechanical for the data being accessed.

    If yours is working well for you, great... but I wouldn't consider it a primary choice, I'm forced to use it for my (LG) TV... otherwise I wouldn't even touch it ever again.

  4. Re:Plex will do exactly what you need on Ask Slashdot: Easiest Way To Consolidate Household Media? · · Score: 2

    +1 for *NOT* using Plex.

    It's a horrible piece of "software"... easy? yes... fine for a couple hundred videos, absolutely... start getting into MP3's or images of any substantial number... >1000 you're going to be in progress pain.

    Also, it doesn't do back-ups... so the "dumping" part is still open for debate... and since there are apps that do both, alternatives highly suggested... but I have no suggestion.

  5. Re:Donate what you can. I give 20 bucks, maybe 40. on Strong Foundations: FreeBSD, Wikimedia Raise Buckets of Development Money · · Score: 1

    may I see your RAW thistle cheese?

  6. Re:Thats no way to be a good citizen on Woz Applying For Australian Citizenship Because of the NBN · · Score: 1

    Who knows?...

    I'll claim a surplus of ignorance about many specifics, but wouldn't:
    1. An X/s optical connection be more consistent regarding speed?
    2. Downloading a DVD in 7 minutes isn't really necessary... but it's nice.
    3. If everyone/majority has Jigabytes of speed... how would that change the internet, what would become possible/everyday because of it?
    4. Wouldn't it be... at least slightly... less prone to acts of God and his daggers of electrical wrath, waves of mutilation, pee... and such?

    Probably less to do with "I need pr0n right MEOW!!!" and more about the fact it exists, so... why not?... and if everyone can have it, cool, lets do some shit.

  7. Re:Some conflicts with this story on Canada Post Files Copyright Lawsuit Over Crowd-sourced Postal Code Database · · Score: 1

    something like this works though:
    http://geocoder.ca/?sued=1_does_not_sue_us

  8. Re:Vermont. on Lack of Vaccination Sends Babies In Oregon To the Hospital · · Score: 1

    Anyone immunocompromised should be in a separate ward/building from admittance/general diagnosis areas.

    What about people that haven't even had a chance to be vaccinated yet, should they be thrown out too simply because they are sick? Anyone sick, shouldn't be allowed to go to the hospital because they might make sick people sick?

    Like I said, I'm not against vaccinations, only forced vaccinations... I'm not against dentists, or hair dressers either... force me to go to one, I will be though.

  9. Re:Vermont. on Lack of Vaccination Sends Babies In Oregon To the Hospital · · Score: 0

    Good for you, wasn't planning on ever living in Vermont anyways.

    I'm not really "anti-vax", but I'm sure as hell not pro-forced vaccinations, especially one size fits all type ones.

  10. Re:A better name on Canadian Mint To Create Digital Currency · · Score: 1

    I would have gone the other way... L + 8 = T... L - 8 = D... digital currency, Doonie...

  11. Re:Old news? on Science Reveals Why Airplane Food Tastes So Bad · · Score: 1
  12. Re:I knew this would happen - and more worse to co on Brazilian Schoolchildren Tagged By Computer Chips · · Score: 2

    I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard to find someone to double up on uniforms... or you know, find the chip, take it out, stick it in some else's pocket, which is what I would have done in school.

    But now I'd probably just start collecting uniforms and microwaving them in the cafeteria... "I paid for the uniform, the uniform is fine, too bad about your chip"

  13. Re:via Facebook only? on Congress Wants Your TSA Stories · · Score: 5, Informative

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  14. Re:Be thankful... on New Samsung TV Watches You Watching It · · Score: 2

    I think it would be preferable if they were competing with NSA/CIA/DHS/etc... at least then whatever methods they (Samsung, et al) used to spy on you wouldn't be as useful to the former groups.

    Given most "Smart" TV's have WiFi and/or Bluetooth, it's like Google LivingRoomView, BedroomView, ShitterView... just drive around with the right transceivers, SWAT will probably have access too.

  15. Re:Recursion on Linux 3.3 Released · · Score: 1

    3.3 all the way down

  16. Re:Are Americans really this lazy? on Reinventing the Clapper With a Knock-Based Home Automation Controller · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's not necessarily, or only about laziness, but aesthetics too. Also handy if you have a room with 3 entrances, but only one has a light switch, etc.

  17. I don't really know how right you might be, but I greatly enjoyed the aggression you put into it.

  18. Re:You can have my PC on 'Of Course We Are In a Post-PC World,' Says Ray Ozzie · · Score: 1

    Cool School... now create something on your phone/tablet that can't be done on a Fisher-Price Learning Computer for Toddlers.

    1. Beat match a few songs, mix them with a few beats of your own...
    2. Crop out 1:33.17 to 5:47.61 from a video, and then overlay some 3D CGI animation on it...
    3. Design a poster for a local fair of 50 companies/organizations/businesses using their logos...
    4. ...output???
    5. Profit!

    Most of that stuff prior to desktop computers, was done in a room or two full of tables and numerous hand tools... we have quad-core "superphones" now with decent enough GPUs to make it possible... but even if the iOWinDroidTabliPhone had applications to do it, it would still take far too long to do it compared to a desktop or laptop with your two or three fingered input and 20 pixel precision... always sacrificing either input, or output.

    Even if you mix in voice commands, iris tracking, and a pen... it's a clusterfuck of imprecise input, unless you want everything to end up like this:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suprematist_Composition

    Not saying they don't have their creative uses, really really wish they could do everything, or I could even foresee them doing so... but, I don't see it happening unless "everything is a remix" you have your standard 1000 shapes, sounds, clips, lengths, resolutions, etc... like Lego, maybe even Technic Lego...but... so limited.

  19. Re:Use this in war. on The Vortex Gun Coming Soon To a Protest Near You · · Score: 1

    everything else aside... if you're creating a toroidal vortex that can travel 150± you're likely going to hear it before it gets there, you'll probably still hit your target, but anyone more than like 10 feet from the target will be like "oh, they're right there just 150 feet away" - boom dead... as apposed to grenade launchers which can be upwards of 1500 meters away. (MK19, MK47, etc).

    There also isn't too much chance of rapid fire since the vortexes will disturb the previously calm air, making them dissipate closer and closer to the cannon itself, or causing them to go off target from pressure differences, and turbulence.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDx-mQqzYNw

  20. Re:"Starting with the Nazi military during WWII" on The Vortex Gun Coming Soon To a Protest Near You · · Score: 2

    Our Nazi scheme cost us just a small fraction of what we had been spending on defense in a single year. The deciding factor was when we learned that your country was working along similar lines, and we were afraid of a Nazi gap.

  21. Re:Opera is going the wrong way on Opera Founder Jon S. von Tetzchner Resigns · · Score: 1

    lol, that is to say fixing those things... although yes, they do incorporate their own bugs too.

  22. Re:Opera is going the wrong way on Opera Founder Jon S. von Tetzchner Resigns · · Score: 1

    For the most part, if not entirely, the only thing that is incorporated are codes/methods/etc that can crash/freeze the browser, which is entirely expected.

    The website fixing parts are done by BrowserJS (currently a 106KB JS file) which can be disabled.

  23. Re:Loosely organized? on Public Face of Anonymous Leaves Group · · Score: 0

    Wait... so it's Apple's fault?... Anonymous split into Mac Vs. PC?... gotcha.

  24. Re:So it came from an Anonymous Cloud? on Amazon Servers Used In Sony Playstation Hack · · Score: 1

    An anonymou is the singular of anonymii. "that anonymou really stands out from the rest of the anonymii", and anonymous is a pejorative, like emos. "being unidentifiable is a characteristic of anonymous's"

    now you know.

  25. Re:Hahaha have some crow on Comcast Helps Fix Pirate Bay Connection Problems · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Or... they could have been "helping" in the hopes of gaining some sort of information they weren't aware of, making their blocking/limiting/crapiness that much more effective.