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  1. LG G3 on Ask Slashdot: What Hardware Is In Your Primary Computer? · · Score: 1

    CPU 2.5 GHz quad-core Krait 400
    3 GB RAM
    32 GB SD

    I have gentoo prefix installed, which lets me install gentoo software under the stock Android distribution. I also haave XServer XSDL, an Android app that is an X Server, but I haven't used this very much so far.

    I use it for web browsing, watching videos and development of Android and Free Pascal software. I have a Bluetooth keyboard to help with that.

    I also have a MiniMac connected to the big screen TV at home that is my web server and hosts MythTV. It's also used for web browsing and flash games, mostly by my daughter.

  2. Re:so... on Mozilla Responds To Firefox User Backlash Over Pocket Integration · · Score: 2

    I believe they removed the Ad Block app because it removed ad from other apps.

    Including ad block in Firefox would only effect Firefox, so it would probably be okay.

  3. Re:Democracy on The Solution To Argentina's Banking Problems Is To Go Cashless · · Score: 0

    Run for office yourself.

  4. Millions of dollars on Harry Shearer Walks Away From "The Simpsons," and $14 Million · · Score: 1

    If he already have tens of millions of dollar for his past work, it's a lot easier to turn down $14 million.

  5. Real world example on Apple Watch Hack Adds a Browser For Your Wrist · · Score: 1

    I use the browser on my Android Wear watch regularly to show transit arrival predictions from my website, TransSee. I added a setting to push the header information to be bottom to get it to be easier to read.

  6. Failed CEO on Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina Announces Bid For White House · · Score: 2

    It's remarkable that she is just any random failed CEO, like George W Bush was, but she is the most notorious was well know failed CEO in the entire IT industry.

  7. Re:Waitasecondhere... on Tattoos Found To Interfere With Apple Watch Sensors · · Score: 1

    So the watch won't work on carbon based life-forms either...?

  8. Re:Kill the entire H1B program on Disney Replaces Longtime IT Staff With H-1B Workers · · Score: 1

    Obama is really only moderately progressive.

    If there had been a Republican president it would have been 100-110% of a smaller recovery.

  9. Re:Google Streams on Google Insiders Talk About Why Google+ Failed · · Score: 1

    When the iPhone first came out it didn't have apps. People where expected to use the browser for 3rd party apps.

  10. Re:I can summarize article on Reason: How To Break the Internet (in a Bad Way) · · Score: 1

    May any reasonable measure the most prosperous countries are the Scandinavian ones and they are also the most socialist countries (The so-call Communists countries where basically the opposite of socialist).

    Who knows how much better an even more socialist country would be.

  11. Re:I can summarize article on Reason: How To Break the Internet (in a Bad Way) · · Score: 1

    Their philosophy is logical and should work in theory, which makes it appealing.

    Unfortunately it isn't supported by evidence.

    It's like the Luminiferous aether theory.

  12. Re:...and if someone robs me of my phone... on Android's Smart Lock Won't Ask You For a Password Until You Set Your Phone Down · · Score: 1

    They'll have to enter current the code to disable to feature or change the passcode, just like you do now.

  13. Sequester them on Some Biodegradable Plastics Don't Live Up To Their Claims · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Why would we want our oil produces biodegrading into carbon dioxide when they can be easily sequestered in the ground?

    They are spending a great deal of money trying to sequester the carbon dioxide from our other oil produces in the ground.

  14. Re:Unicomp Keyboard on Ask Slashdot: Good Keyboard? · · Score: 1

    I am using a Maxi-Switch XT style keyboard (with F1 to F10 on the left side) which has a dip switch to turn on AT mode. My current computer has a PC keyboard plug so I just have one converter to switch it from a large circular connector to a small AT circular connector.

    In the past I also had an AT to USB convert on it too.

    It's would be about 20 years old new. Only in the last week I notice that in the morning the space bar isn't always getting picked up.

  15. Re:so lets have a breakdown on Apple's "Spring Forward" Event Debuts Apple Watch and More · · Score: 2

    I'm sure Apple is paying HBO generously to take the bullet.

  16. Re:so lets have a breakdown on Apple's "Spring Forward" Event Debuts Apple Watch and More · · Score: 1

    Our phones do all of this, are in ubiquitous use, wont stop working if we carelessly wash our hands, and havent cost this much for nearly a decade. And the real kick in the ass is that apple will immediately slash prices 80% once an android competitor comes out and hangs around in this artificial market long enough until people realize singing talking wrist watches are about as practical as google glass.

    The Android competitors have been out for 8 months. Interestingly, Android Wear watches generally don't have speakers.

  17. Re:This should be upmodded on ISIS Threatens Life of Twitter Founder After Thousands of Account Suspensions · · Score: 1

    It often ends badly when we don't get involved, too. The difference is it doesn't get nearly as much news coverage.

    Revolutions have been ending badly since the French Revolution.

  18. Confirmation bias on Stephen Hawking: Biggest Human Failing Is Aggression · · Score: 1

    My pick for biggest human failing would be confirmation bias or rejecting evidence not consistent with one's preexisting beliefs. It is one of the biggest impairments to rational decision making and one of the most difficult to overcome.

    People trying to using aggression to impose their beliefs may be the ultimate expression of confirmation bias.

  19. Re:trademarked sounds on Fake Engine Noise Is the Auto Industry's Dirty Little Secret · · Score: 2

    Now that the sound of the engine is essentially a creative work, it become copyrightable.

  20. Re:I think only price on What Will Google Glass 2.0 Need To Actually Succeed? · · Score: 1

    Some early Samsung Gear watches had cameras, but they seem to have fallen out of favour. Maybe the same thing will happen with Google Glass.

  21. Re:instant disqualification on Justified: Visual Basic Over Python For an Intro To Programming · · Score: 1

    begin
          I have an irrational aversion to curly braces, so I prefer Delphi.
    end;

  22. Re:What do you *do* with that energy? on The Search For Starivores, Intelligent Life That Could Eat the Sun · · Score: 1

    To power the computers that run the virtual reality world that everyone lives, reproduces and never dies in.

  23. Re:The reason we search for C life is simple on Super-Sensitive Motion Sensor Could Be Used To Hunt For Extraterrestrial Life · · Score: 1

    Can the problem with bonds being too weak or strong be overcome by living at a different temperature?

  24. Re:Sad... on First Star War Episode 7 Trailer Released · · Score: 2

    The have shown TIE fighters in the atmosphere on Star Wars: Rebels, which is canon.

  25. Re:I agree, except: on First Star War Episode 7 Trailer Released · · Score: 2

    Light saber technology is not the best example, since that is a Jedi weapon and the Jedi are all but extinct during this period.

    The Death Star is an impressive example of technology that did not exist in the first episodes.