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  1. Re:Been doing this for 10 years with my Mac+iPhone on Android Messages Will Now Let You Send Texts From Your Computer (www.blog.google) · · Score: 3, Informative

    And anyone else who has an iPhone.

    What would be nice though is if I could send SMS msgs from my Mac to my children's Android phones.

    Sending and receiving SMS messages from the Mac to Android phones works. You need to have your phone number associated with your iMessage/iCloud/Apple ID/whatever. Setup seems kind of non-intuitive, but once it works, you have a log of all your SMS/MMS conversations on the computer.

  2. My iphone uses an actual alphanumerical password. Apple requires a minimum of 6 digits, but doesn't restrict to that.

  3. Re:Months-old baseball on There Will Be 22 Million Cord Cutters By 2018, Says Report (dslreports.com) · · Score: 1

    So when you want to sit in a recliner, unwind from a day's work, and catch up on current events, what do you do instead of watching TV news?

    I'm thinking "Read Slashdot".

  4. Re:Facebook is for old people on Facebook Copied Snapchat a Fourth Time, and Now All Its Apps Look the Same (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Huh. The people I know use Obsidian Portal for RPG coordination. http://www.obsidianportal.com/

  5. "far less"? All the diesels seen on the road today still (even after the low-sulfur directive) still stink to high heaven. Particulates are still visible, even if we ignore the Rolling Coal asswipes.

  6. Re:1st! on Stagefright 2.0 Vulnerabilities Affect 1 Billion Android Devices · · Score: 1

    Much like Android's patching system, you are way too late.

  7. Re:Slashdot sinking to new lows on Nokia Design Guru Urges Apple To End Cable Chaos · · Score: 1

    Dude has not gotten a Dell.

  8. Re:That's... on Drone Made of Lego Takes Flight · · Score: 1

    It wasn't a comment on what he does with his grandkids. That's great and all that.

    It was a comment on this being newsworthy, when the application of Lego was quite underwhelming.

  9. That's... on Drone Made of Lego Takes Flight · · Score: 0

    Actually pretty lame.

    I mean, not only did he use a CAD program for a box with 4 arms, it doesn't even look "cool"... No lego fins, etc. Not even a minifig in a cockpit. It looks like every other quad-copter.

  10. I, for one, on Google Testing Completely Revamped Look · · Score: 1

    am shifting my interweb searching to search engines that don't productize me.

  11. Re:Happy Friday from the Golden Girls! on Computing Pioneers Share Their First Tech Memories · · Score: 1

    Gah. This may have been a threadjack, but I just spent 15 minutes reading wikipedia Golden Girls-related articles. (3 of the four are dead now)

    *shakes fist*

  12. Re:People stopped using Telnet? on Hackers Bringing Telnet Back · · Score: 1

    bbs.iscabbs.com

  13. Chicago is new. on A Klingon Christmas Carol · · Score: 1

    I saw this last week... In Saint Paul, MN. Where it started running 5 years ago. (Chicago is a recent expansion.)

    Good show. I suggest going to see it next year.

  14. Obviously... on Giant Impact Crater Found In Australia · · Score: 2

    This must be where The Lost City of Pnakotus was located!

  15. Re:Bad /. no biscuit on Slashdot Discussions Now Include Roulette Video Chat · · Score: 1

    At least the plugin is sandboxed under Safari. Seeing as I'm not the only one, I'm sure Apple is gonna love all those crash reports about Flash today. ...how is Flash not being on the iPad a negative, again?

  16. Bad /. no biscuit on Slashdot Discussions Now Include Roulette Video Chat · · Score: 1

    Nice how this crashes the Flash plugin under OSX/Safari.

    WTF?

  17. Re:Just "waves?" Motorized cam; music choice on Atlas V's Sonic Boom Made Visible By Sundog · · Score: 1

    No way to edit it, so I'll just say I was right.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSZB0NjRqzc

  18. Re:Just "waves?" Motorized cam; music choice on Atlas V's Sonic Boom Made Visible By Sundog · · Score: 2, Informative

    That sounded like the music from the awards ceremony at the end, I thought.

  19. Re:Actually, the Mandelbrot set is already 4D on "Mandelbulb," a 3D Mandlebrot Construct, Discovered · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This.

    You can find a picture of a "4-D" Mandlebrot set in a mid/late 80's issue of Scientific American.
    I was generating pictures of this on a 286 pc. (with EGA graphics) 15 years ago, and the pictures
    in TFA of z^2 look *nothing* like that did.

  20. Re:We still have IE6 at work on Internet Explorer 6 Will Not Die · · Score: 1

    Must be nice. Whatever they did a couple of weeks back turned the front page into a mess with white article headlines on a white background.

  21. Re:The A-12 is better known as the SR-71 on Project OXCART Declassified From Area 51 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The book "Skunk Works" by Ben Rich discussed a lot of this.
    Basically, they hired AF pilots (on loan or retired). This stuff was all very top-secret and the CIA didn't want it to be widespread knowledge in the Air Force.

    They did this for the U-2 program too, which was a CIA initiated aircraft.

  22. Re:The A-12 is better known as the SR-71 on Project OXCART Declassified From Area 51 · · Score: 2, Informative

    I refer you to:
            http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SR-71#Specifications_.28SR-71A.29
    Where it says:
            Crew:2

    (not going to bother to look up the primary sources)

  23. Re:The A-12 is better known as the SR-71 on Project OXCART Declassified From Area 51 · · Score: 5, Informative

    A-12: CIA-flown single-seater
    SR-71: Air Force-flown two-seater

  24. Re:CC's are american ... on Bickering Blocks US Mobile Phone Payments · · Score: 1

    but I haven't ever used it by just waving it. Paywave If you thought RFID was scary...

  25. Re:Neat, it is very much like... on Prism Glass Windows Making a Comeback · · Score: 1

    Two decade ago. I saw this on the Discovery Channel, circa 1988. Beyond 2000 (formerly Towards 2000) was a fun show to watch.

    The roof collectors looked like giant flowers.