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  1. Re:TPM is the worst on Lenovo UEFI Bug Only Likes Windows and RHEL · · Score: -1

    ... whatever reason, Lenovo/HP doesn't want you to use a storebought card.

    Warranty and support. There isn't any real mystery there..unless you are a dimwit. Are you a dimwit?

  2. Re:are you serious? on Lenovo UEFI Bug Only Likes Windows and RHEL · · Score: 1

    If it got through testing by accident, then it's a type of bug.

  3. Re:contraction ratio? on Artificial Muscles Pack a Mean Punch · · Score: 1

    ". The muscle does no good if it can only contract 1% of it's length...
    Sure it does, a lot of use. Just not replacement for your arms.

  4. Re:Scientists in a lab...great... on Artificial Muscles Pack a Mean Punch · · Score: 1

    "Or make..."
    Why not "and make..."?

    Anyways, if you don't like hearing about the cutting edge development, why do you read article about that topic?
    Just read a Wal-mart ad, that way you only hear about things that ahve been developed.

  5. Soon on Artificial Muscles Pack a Mean Punch · · Score: 1

    I canget rid of these flash limbs and get 'bionic' arms, and legs.

  6. Re:This is wrong. on Papa John's Sued For Unwanted Pizza-Related Texts · · Score: 1

    Please don't quote the horrible, horrible show.
    It insults intelligent people and praises stupid people, and the writers seem to have no idea about what nerds are like.

  7. Re:This is wrong. on Papa John's Sued For Unwanted Pizza-Related Texts · · Score: 1

    You're an idiot.

    And yeah, saying hateful thing sis going to rile up some citizens. So what?
    Boy Scouts enjoy government entitlements, as such they shouldn't be allowed to discriminate.
    Chick fil a said something I don't agree with, so I wont go there. SO what?

    Don't confuse the market with 'being attacked'.

    Of course how all of a sudden liberal meant "People being treated equally" I'll never know.

    oh wait, yes I do. The religious right infected the republican party. Now everything they don't agree with is an attack.
    And you have been spoon fed and turned into a non thinking bitch.

  8. Re:The law says... on Papa John's Sued For Unwanted Pizza-Related Texts · · Score: 1

    Nope. I have the right to express myself; just like you have the right not to read my text.

    Of course one should never be charged in any way for receiving texts, and you should be free to block texts however you want.
    Then the problem fixes itself.

  9. Re:Who doesn't want Pizza? on Papa John's Sued For Unwanted Pizza-Related Texts · · Score: 1

    I like how you say 12 minutes, the ignoring the other hour it takes to get everything and make it.

    and frozen pizza shells? please. when I make pizza, I MAKE the fucking pizza, eh?

    We are capable of doing stuff. NEWSFLASH not everyone is capable of doing the same stuff.

  10. Re:Who doesn't want Pizza? on Papa John's Sued For Unwanted Pizza-Related Texts · · Score: 1

    No.
    It's made from Water Buffalo, not Buffalo. And traditional even that was only in part of Italy.
    I'm not sure how you can call one 'proper' when they came about pretty much at the same time.

    Now, water buffalo Mozzarella is part of the weird EU protect country items thing for Italy.

  11. Re:Who doesn't want Pizza? on Papa John's Sued For Unwanted Pizza-Related Texts · · Score: 2

    "ver notice how the better pizza places have a pizza oven or wood or coal oven?"
    nope. They taste like smoke, or they have corn meal on then to take away the texture. Most of the time they crust isn't cook evenly, they take forever to cook. IT's just emotional attachment to a perceived 'good old days' fallacy

    Conveyor belt oven is the best way to get pure pizza flavor, even cooking, and consistent pizza.

    I have had all kind of pizza cook many different ways. My father ran a pizza place, I have worked in Pizza places, I have judged pizza.
    I love pizza. I have literally been know to eat nothing but pizza for months. I understand baking and cooking.

    So yes, I do know what I am talking about.

    Sadly, I have reduce my pizza intake substantially in order to get to a healthy weight.

    It should be noted there is a difference between good / Bad and Like / don't like.

    People can like poorly prepared food, people may not like well prepared food. So you like oven cooked pizza? fine, enjoy. It isn't the best way to cook a pizza.

    oh. Nothing is magic.A pizza with bad dough, bad topping and/or bad sauce will be a bad pizza, I don't care if you cook it with lasers.

    I used to work in a Pizza place(about 3 decades ago) that had a conveyor. I invited my pizza snob friend from a mom and pop pizzeria over to cook one of their pizza in the over after hours.

    Heh, shut them up quick. After considering it they decided not to get a convey. They where concerned about their image.

  12. Simple on Ask Slashdot: High-Tech Ways To Manage a Home Library? · · Score: 5, Funny

    Marry a librarian, and just leave your books around. A system will develop.

  13. Re:Sneaky ads... on Google Develops Context-Aware Voice Search For TV · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I like how on Slashdot, the 'evil' thing to do is using info to show you ads that might actual be relevant.

  14. Re:Off-topic on Google Targets Android Fragmentation With Updated Terms For SDK · · Score: 2

    That will show em, AC.

  15. Re:This is even worse than a walled garden on Google Targets Android Fragmentation With Updated Terms For SDK · · Score: 1

    I think they are trying to be sure that phones with a specific OS version have all the expected feature from the SDK. So a manufacturer doesn't block a feature, thus making certain apps not work

  16. Re:fragmentation not due to developers on Google Targets Android Fragmentation With Updated Terms For SDK · · Score: 1

    fragmentation is due to developers. A lot of the developers don't know how to handle different devices. It's not really that hard, but you know how Noobs are.

    Fragmentation is an issue in two forms. OS version, and Cell phone fragmentation.

    OS version is pretty easy. Just list min requirements and detect if the device meets them when your app starts.

    Phone fragmentation is harder, in that 2 phones could be running 4.1 but one manufacture may have shut down a particular feature. Essentially creating a fork with the same version. Easy to detect that a phone doesn't have na expected feature...but a lot of dev. dont actually check. I"m looking at you Pop Cap games.

  17. Re:but its Java? on Google Targets Android Fragmentation With Updated Terms For SDK · · Score: 1

    Apps can be written to do that, but mist app writers don't really know what they are doing.

  18. Re:Why on Google Targets Android Fragmentation With Updated Terms For SDK · · Score: 1

    And you handle it like Windows applications do:
    Min requirement
    OS 4.0.4

    Yeah, a game developed for phones released today don't work on something that's 2 years old. shocking.

  19. I like Android..but on Google Targets Android Fragmentation With Updated Terms For SDK · · Score: 1

    I like android devices. I like to be able to just drag any music or file over from any computer.
    I like that it gets a lot of tech before the iPhone
    I like that I can switch to a different manufacture and have it largely be the same. Some manufactures may radically change it, but that's rare.
    Clearly, not an Android haters.
    However there is a problem.
    I got the Nexus S at best buy. And I got the replacement warranty.
    After a year I dropped my phone and broke it. My fault.
    So I take it to best buy for a replacement, and get a new Nexus S.

    The problem was, it had 2.3 on it.
    So, how do I get it updated?
    Tmobile wouldn't update it, Google won't update it, Best Buy won't update it. It's stupid. While I am comfortable manually doing it, not a lot of consumers are.
    I have to find the right version for my deice, and manually updated it to 4.0.4

    Of course, now I need to manually update it to 4.1.2 This update risks bricking the phone and I have to violate my warranty to do it.

    So Google, Fix this problem. It should detect it's out of data, up autoupdate when I boot it up fore the first time.

    I have put off buying a tablet becasue of this, and I am seriously considering getting an iPad even though it has fewer features.

  20. Re:should be CFA not TSA on House Subcommittee Holds Hearing On TSA's "Scanner Shuffle" · · Score: 2

    Too reasons:
    1) They are a new agency that was thrown together overnight, the TSA will be fine.
    2) They are under Homeland security. A group that can't run jack shit properly. Everything under them falls a part, and they don't improve or learn.

    Make TSA there one Bureaus, get rid of Homeland security, move the money into CIA and FBI.
    Maintain the agency separation policy.

  21. Re:BS, BS, BS... on Invisibility Tech Demo Tomorrow In NYC · · Score: 1

    of course we will, don't be stupid.

    I mean you are being mind numbingly short sighted and stupid. IQ 70 Stupid.
    What good is such a device if you don't tell people you have it?
    Seriously, the 'We might have a warship off you coast..and maybe we don't.
    maybe there is a platoon of soldiers walking up to your base of operations right now, or..maybe not.

  22. Re:Revoke somebody's science writing license on Invisibility Tech Demo Tomorrow In NYC · · Score: 2

    Perfect is correct.
    It perfectly invisible to that frequency and that position. Previously it wasn't perfectly invisible under the parameters.

    You need to understand science and accurate speech before trying to pull peoples science cards.

  23. Re:Pegasus on Invisibility Tech Demo Tomorrow In NYC · · Score: 1

    Nope, we will be able to actually fire weapon while clocked.

  24. Re:A what? on Ask Slashdot: High-Tech Ways To Manage a Home Library? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Catalog all your books? nope.
    Buy a book on the fly from almost anywhere? nope.
    Easily share a book and automatically get it back? nope
    Easily look up a new word? nope
    Fact check from anywhere? nope.
    Check a book out for the library without going to the library? nope.
    All the books weight the same? nope.
    Immediately share a clever passage or turn of phrase? nope
    Adjust the font size? nope

    Book get smudge marks. No only do they get smudge marks, they are difficult to impossible to remove.

    Yeah, boo hoo if you don't take precautions you might drop it into the bath tub. Or you could put it in plastic, or into a case, or, you know, stop reading while soaking in your own filth and take a shower. Then sit by the fire with all your books and pick and choose.

    Oh, I drop my Kindle into the tub. Damn that was stupid of me. I guess I;ll just have to read from my computer, or phone until I get 79 dollars.

    Once you drop you paperback into the water, you'r done reading.

    I get it. I thought the same thing, then I get my wife a kindle. Cause there are a shit ton of free romances.
    The I used it and , man unless it's a nice hard cover or signed, I don't even want a hard print book.

    "And I dunno... there's just something relaxing about just handling a nice paperback novel."
    Yes, it's you emotional attachment to the idea of how someone should read a book.
    There are people who enjoy reading, and there are people who read to own books.

  25. Re:book covers and bar codes on Ask Slashdot: High-Tech Ways To Manage a Home Library? · · Score: 1

    Hey now. I once wrote a 1200 line c program just to display "hello, worlf!"

    yes, "worlf".

    If someone could look at that code and figure out what it does in 5 minutes, I would consider them a guru.