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  1. Responsive Design Mode on All Web Developers Should Have Access to a Device Lab (Video) · · Score: 1

    Every modern desktop browser has a way to view responsive design easily so you don't need a wall full of screens of different sizes and orientations, all you really need is a few mobile devices running various OS versions and a PC full of VM's so that you can catch platform specific bugs.

  2. News Flash! on Researchers Develop New Way To Steal Passwords Using Google Glass · · Score: 1

    This just in, video cameras can record you entering passwords, more at 11.

  3. Re:Solar Freakin' Walls! on A Physicist Says He Can Tornado-Proof the Midwest With 1,000-Foot Walls · · Score: 2

    To play Pong of course.

  4. Re:iPhone announcement on Apple Announces New Programming Language Called Swift · · Score: 2

    Actually Cisco was actively using the brand at the time that Apple released their's and Cisco sued but settled out of court without releasing any of the details other than both companies would use the brand.

  5. Re:Obsolete Article on Quad Lasers Deliver Fast, Earth-Based Internet To the Moon · · Score: 1

    This article was submitted through the crashed LADEE so it took a while for it to align with Earth perfectly for us to finally receive it.

  6. Re:enforce existing laws? on Traffic Optimization: Cyclists Should Roll Past Stop Signs, Pause At Red Lights · · Score: 1

    Around here cyclists have a sense of entitlement. You can be sitting in your car, at a red light and watch cars and cyclists cross in front of you. When their light turns red and your light turns green, the cars will stop but the cyclists will keep crossing in spite of the red... So you and 100 other cars are sitting at a green light waiting for the stream of cyclists to stop... I've been at the front and started to creep through the green in hopes of signalling that maybe their turn is over... The result is a nice finger gesture...

    In California at least, entering the intersection without room to clear it is illegal. AFAIK it's a pretty universal law so although they likely violated the law, you probably did as well. By entering the intersection you are blocking traffic in another direction and compounding the problem.

  7. Re:Perfect for every kind of cunt on In SF: an App For Auctioning Off Your Public Parking Spot · · Score: 1

    As an LA resident, I can confirm that parking isn't any fucking easier here than in SFO. We might have wider streets, but everyone still insists on having a car. Seriously, people *move* just so they can have a better chance of parking. I live in K-Town, and it's all street parking in my neighborhood and on some nights, my gf has to park a quarter-mile/half-mile away, especially if a club is having an event.

    SFO is an airport not a city.

  8. QWERTY Keyboard on This 1981 BYTE Magazine Cover Explains Why We're So Bad At Tech Predictions · · Score: 2

    Anyone with half a brain could realize that watches would never have keyboards so tiny that the only button you could press using your fingers (more-so your nails) would be the space-bar. The rest of the image is plausible and not far removed from what we have now.

  9. Don't block it, QoS it. on Ask Slashdot: Managing Device-Upgrade Bandwidth Use? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    There's no reason to avoid using your bandwidth when you can use QoS to deprioritize it so that they can still update any time the bandwidth is available. Most any linux router can do this with tc and iptables, or sometimes with less configurability through their GUI's.

    At home you have control over the devices and can just disable them from automatically updating.

  10. Re:No PC yet on GTA V Makes $800 Million In 24 Hours · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You can have a refined, bug-free, well-performing PC release after the console versions are done, or you can have a crappy, poorly optimised version day-and-date with the console release, but you can't have both. Rockstar North favour the former.

    How do you explain GTA4? It was delayed a year and performed like shit on PC when it was released. GTA was originally a PC game and they have been treating PC as a second class citizen lately.

  11. No PC yet on GTA V Makes $800 Million In 24 Hours · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Those numbers would be even higher if they stopped shunning their roots by delaying PC releases and turning PC into a shitty port from consoles.

  12. You mean like this? on Ask Slashdot: Tags and Tagging, What Is the Best Way Forward? · · Score: 1

    http://slashdot.org/tag/gps

    Now if only timothy would train the other monkeys.

  13. Dupe on College Students Hijack $80 Million Yacht With GPS Signal Spoofing · · Score: 4, Informative
  14. Re:Is it true Apache webservers block DNT? on W3C Rejects Ad Industry's Do-Not-Track Proposal · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Apache ignores DNT from versions of IE that have it enabled by default because it's supposed to be something that the user specifically enables, not a blanket "hey ad industry, completely ignore this because it's always on" option.

  15. Re:So it listens all the time... on Moto X Demo Video Reveals Google's Android Superphone · · Score: 1

    More like "in the cloud LIKE GOOGLE." Google had voice search long before Apple ever did but Apple marketed it better and expanded it to do other things, Google Now expands the existing Android voice search to do other useful things like Siri does such as adding reminders/alarms. It is mostly cloud based voice recognition but you can use it to call people without a data connection though the local voice recognition is much worse and often wants to call the wrong person.

  16. Re:So it listens all the time... on Moto X Demo Video Reveals Google's Android Superphone · · Score: 1

    Apparently Google Now requires Android >=4.1 or iOS >=5.0

    http://www.google.com/landing/now/

  17. Re:So it listens all the time... on Moto X Demo Video Reveals Google's Android Superphone · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The video only shows it doing hands free voice search when you're already in Google Now which is already possible with any Android 4.2 rom (probably anything >4.0). The voice search only activates when you say the "google" keyword which she says "okay google now..."

    The specs look pretty lackluster so I'm confused why they are calling it a "superphone."

  18. SPDY on HTTP 2.0 Will Be a Binary Protocol · · Score: 1

    Isn't the HTTP 2.0 spec based on Google's SPDY protocol? It is basically just HTTP 1.1 but with header compression and the ability to either send or hint that extra files will be needed.

  19. Different code == invalid results on Modeling How Programmers Read Code · · Score: 5, Informative

    This article is complete garbage. They tested 2 people with different code that produces the same results and then make up a narrative of how novice and expert coders think in different ways. Use the same code to test a much larger pool of programers and then the results might actually be interesting.

  20. Re:wasteful on spectrum on 802.11ac: Better Coverage, But Won't Hit Advertised Speeds · · Score: 5, Informative

    5GHz doesn't penetrate well so you won't get much interference from neighbors except maybe in very small apartments, the real problem is other devices within your home that use 5GHz such as cordless phones.

  21. Leave it connected to a separate secure network. on Ask Slashdot: How Best To Disconnect Remote Network Access? · · Score: 1

    Either use managed switches to separate the LAN's and lock down the ports to only allow certain mac addresses on the PCS VLAN, or create another LAN with dumb switches. Add a VPN box that is connected to both networks, make it the only allowed method of connecting remotely to the PCS LAN, give the vendor a VPN account, and only enable the account temporarily when it has been approved.

  22. Kill the link on Mozilla Plans Major Design Overhaul With Firefox 25 Release In October · · Score: 5, Informative

    It is very irresponsible to link to a dev branch of firefox without even including instructions on how to set up a separate profile for it. There is a good chance that it will mangle your profile in ways that will be incompatible with the final release or the current release should you choose to go back.

  23. Re:Real world graphene? on Graphene-Based Image Sensor To Enhance Low-Light Photography · · Score: 1

    Can I buy it today? I don't think so.

  24. Real world graphene? on Graphene-Based Image Sensor To Enhance Low-Light Photography · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Is there any readily available consumer products, or even industrial products, that use graphene? If not then how long do we have to keep hearing about how great graphene is before we can actually use it?

  25. Slashdot - on A Tardis Art Piece at the Austin Mini Maker Faire (Video) · · Score: 1

    News that makes your ears bleed.