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  1. Re:Forget the Skype client.. on Microsoft Needs To Fix Skype (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Or messages will get queued instead of delivered.

    This happens when the contact is offline. Apparently, _sometimes_ Skype is true P2P and cannot send messages to offline contacts. Of course, the messages are queued _locally_ so if you are offline when the contact goes online, they won't get your message!

  2. Re:Submitter can't math on Pebble Lays Off 25% of Its Staff, Smartwatch Bubble Set To Burst? (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1

    I just asked my third grader how many people would be left if a 25% reduction of the workforce is 40 people. She estimates that it took her two to five minutes to tell me that 120 people would be left. Shes beaming right now laughing about the fine summary.

  3. They already know there is nothing on it but selfies but they want to get people used to the idea of 'Feds' extracting data from people's iPhones, or else just give would-be terr'ists the idea that their data is secure, when Apple has in fact implemented a backdoor years ago

    Over at the Security section of Stack Exchange, the idea of anything of value being on the device is almost taboo, and deemed a political issue, not a security issue:
    http://security.stackexchange....

  4. Re:Top 25 from my SSH honeypot-- on The Most Popular Bad Passwords of 2015 (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    If someone could explain "wubao" and "jiamima" I would greatly appreciate it!

    wubao: No Password

    jiamima: Password

  5. I had an Isis (International Secret Intelligence Service) T-shirt that I bought before Isis (Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) existed. There are photos of me in this T-shirt all over social media. My reputation can never be restored to its former state.

    Good thing that you didn't wear the Female Body Inspector T-shirt in those photos.

  6. Re:amazon on Ask Slashdot: Linux Friendly Video Streaming? · · Score: 1

    That's nonsense. It's just Flash. Linux has no more trouble with it than any other platform. That includes all of the usual complaints about performance and crashing.

    Nope, here is the service:
    http://www.amazon.com/Instant-Video/

    And here is the message I got when I tried to access it in the latest Chrome on Kubuntu:

    If you're using the Chrome browser with Linux, you must disable PPAPI to continue using Amazon Instant Video. You can also use a different Web browser, like Firefox. hundreds of other compatible devices.

  7. Re:Revoking Credentials is a Bitch on Japanese ATMs To Use Palm Readers In Place of Cash Cards · · Score: 1

    In the end, whether it's a new card or a new PIN, it's all just numbers you're changing around. The only difference is the number of numbers. So maybe if PINs were 16 digits long instead of 4...

    Then it is a password, not a PIN. PINs are not passwords, they are Personal Identification Numbers. One would think that they should then be unique, but of course at 9999 combinations (and personally set) they aren't.

    I am aware that in practice PINs are used as passwords, but they were not designed for that.

  8. Re:Hmm... on AOL Patent Deal Means Microsoft Now Holds Vestiges of Netscape · · Score: 2

    Does this mean that some hybrid of IE/Netscrape will be created? That could be either very interesting or very scary.

    Netscape 7 (or was it 8) could already use the Trident rendering engine on Windows, the same engine that powers Internet Explorer. It was a runtime user option, and could be switched on the fly.

  9. Re:As always, XKCD seems apropos on Linux 2.6.38 Released · · Score: 1

    It _is_ Linux's problem. It might not be Linux's fault, but it is Linux's problem.

  10. Re:Holy crap this is old. on AMD Undercuts Intel With Six-Core Phenom IIs · · Score: 1

    There is another good reason to buy AMD: competition. Just think of what would happen to the computer industry if hardware were dominated by a single vendor (much as software is today). If you think that Microsoft is Teh Evil with it's stranglehold on software, a stranglehold on hardware would be much worse.

    Always buy from the underdog.

  11. Re:Uh on Puzzle In xkcd Book Finally Cracked · · Score: 1

    These are comics with computer science / math / physics jokes..

    Furhtermore, and TFS should have stated this, there already was an XKCD incident when a latitude and longitude plus a date and time were posted in a comic. A party "spontaniously" broke out at that day and location, with Randall there. So, this is obviously an invitation to another party.

  12. Re:Dumb question time on Extreme Close-Up of Mars's Moon Phobos · · Score: 1

    It would be safe to assume that the moons help to stabilize Mars' rotation around it's own axis. Phobos has an associated tidal bulge on Mars itself, I don't know about Deimos. Without these moons, Mars' geographic pole axis would wander around the celestial sphere. That means that the geographic poles would be in the same place on Mars, but the "north star" would change every so often. Be aware that this happens on Earth, too, in a 24000 year cycle.

  13. Re:P3 Pride! on Today's Best CPUs Compared... To a Pentium 4 · · Score: 1

    ...but it sucks rocks trying to run OpenOffice.

    Try the Go-OO 3.2 builds. Go-oo is an improved OpenOffice.org, and 3.2 is about twice as fast as OOo 3.0 (5.2 seconds to startup, vs 11.3 for v3.0).

  14. Re:Toba volcano ? Nuclear winter ? on Humans Nearly Went Extinct 1.2M Years Ago · · Score: 1

    I put on my robe and wizard hat.

  15. Re:Let's just get this out of the way, shall we? on 400 Years Ago, Galileo Discovered Four Jovian Moons · · Score: 1

    Galileo!

    No, Phil Plait!
    The summary is a rip off of the Bad Astronomy blog: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2010/01/07/the-galilean-revolution-400-years-later/

  16. Re:example usa news report? on Thieves Clear Out NJ Apple Store In 31 Seconds · · Score: 1

    Seriously, the newscaster sounded like he was out of breath. Is that so that regular news sounds as exciting as sports? Every sentence had to have _emphasis_ on *everything*?

  17. Re:To whoever tagged story as uk on Irish Astronomers Investigate Sky Explosion · · Score: 1

    Learn geography. Ireland in not in the UK, Northern Ireland is, but the Republic of Ireland isn't.

    There is no political entity called the Republic of Ireland. The phrase "the Republic of Ireland" is the official description of the political entity called "Ireland" which makes up 80% of the island called "Ireland"

    http://dotancohen.com/eng/britain_england_united_kingdom.html

  18. Re:Sign me up... on Microsoft Attacks Linux With Retail-Training Talking Points · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Where did you get the Skype v4l script from? Please share!

    I have been fighting with Phillips, MSI, and Logitech webcams and can get none to work, even in the latest Kubuntu (9.04). And of course I have to explain to family members who want to see my daughters online that they still cannot, and when they ask why not I have to mumble some excuse so _Linux_ does not look bad.

    Webcams are interoperability devices and so long as they are not "supported" in Linux, other users will only ever hear the word "Linux" when we are telling them why something does not work.

  19. Re:Sign me up... on Microsoft Attacks Linux With Retail-Training Talking Points · · Score: 1

    So have you written to the hardware manufacturers and expressed interenst in Linux support? Something along the lines of "Does XYZ product work with my preffered OS? If not, which of your products do?". Write to one company a week (I do) and help let the hardware manufacturers know that there even exists a viable Linux market. Don't expect them to magically support a percieved tiny market. Help make that market to be percieved as worth sustaining a product for.

  20. Re:Sign me up... on Microsoft Attacks Linux With Retail-Training Talking Points · · Score: 1

    I'll take the damn course if it'll get me a $10 copy of Win 7.

    I should mention that there is a similar, much shorter yet less skewed, course that you could take to get Ubuntu for $0.

  21. Re:KDE4 on A Different Perspective On Snow Leopard's Exchange Support · · Score: 1

    Even though the History panel was removed from Konqueror in KDE 4.3? Seriously, how do these decisions get made?
    http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=193966#c1

    Even though Krunner turns UTF-8 into gibberish?
    https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=192166

    Shall I go on?

  22. Re:Microsoft just got 1-Uped on A Different Perspective On Snow Leopard's Exchange Support · · Score: 1

    It's been mentioned elsewhere (but not here as far as I can tell) that this development is particularly notable, given that Windows doesn't support Exchange out of the box. You need Office for that.

    Windows also cannot open Word, Excel, or Powerpoint files out of the box. You need Office for that. Ubuntu, on the other hand, opens them just fine (for certain values of fine mind you).

  23. Re:Man, did I miss the boat. on Celebrate Your Next Birthday At the Microsoft Store · · Score: 1

    Were you, by any chance, wearing your robes and wizard hats?

    Where do you think the "theme" part came from? Before, it was just "parks"!

  24. Re:Man, did I miss the boat. on Celebrate Your Next Birthday At the Microsoft Store · · Score: 1

    Spoiled brat. In my day, for birthdays we would find five friends, each of us would plant a flag, and call that a themepark! Where do you think your "six flags" came from? Trees?

    Rotten kids...

  25. Re:The Microsoft birthday song on Celebrate Your Next Birthday At the Microsoft Store · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Funny, how you clearly pointed out that, as nearly all of the time with such errors, it's a driver problem. And even more fitting, that it's one from ATi. Known for their notoriously bad drivers in all of the game development scene, including Carmack.

    Yet if someone says that Linux support suffers because of the hardware, he is apologetic. How fitfully ironic.