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  1. Re:If it works, great on US Military Deploys Personal Gunshot Detectors · · Score: 2

    If this saves any lives, then I'm all for it.

    It's certain this won't save the lives of any Afghans or Iraqis, whether the bullets are coming from a helicopter a mile away or a soldier that just kicked in his front door.

  2. Re:A GPU by any other name would render as slowly on Graphics-Enabled CPUs To Take Off In 2011 · · Score: 1

    Apparently you have not used any recent integrated GPU's from AMD. My integrated Radeon 4250 can play Left4Dead 2 at a fine framerate with the settings adjusted appropriately. Accelerated desktops are light duty work. I don't think it'll do OpenCL right now, but AMD is serious about making their integrated graphics better than the barely usable stuff they've been pushing out before; I'm sure future iterations will do all of these things even better than current ones do.

  3. Re:A more reliable source perhaps? on 17-Year-Old Wins Intel's $100K Science Prize · · Score: 0, Troll

    Perhaps he could have a rewarding career in engineering, advancing the future by inventing new ways to kill third worlders

  4. Re:Tweet widget on Twitter Joins the HTTPS By Default Party · · Score: 1

    Well, I had to support IE8 with an SSL iframe because the client wanted some obscure payment processor that wouldn't break the continuity of the site's branding the way PayPal would.

    So, if you have an iframe in SSL then you've got to jump through several hoops including adding something to mod_header and removing every single non-SSL element from the page. If you don't, then cookies get broken. Without cookies, I couldn't use the session variables that made everything work in the good browsers.

    It's not a huge deal when I put it that way, but I had to do a lot of research on an otherwise finished project to make it work on one particularly bad, unpopular browser.

  5. Tweet widget on Twitter Joins the HTTPS By Default Party · · Score: 1

    When will the "tweet this" button for websites be able to use SSL? Having this button in the footer of a site I worked on recently made it a bit of a hassle to create a page that's completely SSL.

  6. Re:Drop the GNU. on GNU Free Call Announced, SIP-based VoIP · · Score: 2

    It'll probably be a command line tool or library that nobody will use in its pure form; instead, they'll use a GUI frontend with a completely different name. I expect it'll eventually be built into Pidgin and other chat programs.

    Of course, I didn't read the article so it's all a mystery! I love surprises.

  7. Re:IE9 good, but still a lot of room to improve. on IE9 Released, Media Has Opinions · · Score: 1

    It works just fine for the web browser and terminal emulator. What else could they possibly be running :-)

  8. Re:IE9 good, but still a lot of room to improve. on IE9 Released, Media Has Opinions · · Score: 1

    Nah, they could change their DPI setting to get bigger text without having a tiny resolution.

  9. Re:And... on Anonymous Leaks Internal Bank of America Emails · · Score: 1

    Don't just blame the west; Deng Xiaoping created the conditions for a similar "business culture" to emerge in China. Neoliberalism will create new marketplaces until it eviscerates itself.

  10. Re:Because with current tech its laughable on Why Do Videogames Struggle With Sex? · · Score: 1

    The point of sex in thoughtful media is to advance a story and show the feelings of the characters. Certainly excellent books including sexuality exist that do not include pictures!

    Grow up.

  11. Re:Speed on AMD Provides Fusion Support For Coreboot · · Score: 1

    That's impressive for sure! But what about hitting the magic button on the keyboard to tell the BIOS that you want to change some settings? That doesn't leave much time at all.

  12. Re:"Dumbing Up" on Reminiscing Old School Linux · · Score: 1

    My personal philosophy is that the instant you hear the term "dumbing down" you can ignore the speaker. They don't have any valid points to make.

    There is some validity to this, but applying it to things like reading the newspaper is very dangerous. It's important to keep a critical eye on the things that matter.

  13. Re:Linuxconf on Reminiscing Old School Linux · · Score: 1

    It's the user, not the interface, who makes the mistakes.

    Clearly you have never used Webmin!

  14. Re:But.. But... on High-Bandwidth Users Are Just Early Adopters · · Score: 1

    The fact that this is a white paper

    What the hell are "white papers" anyway?

    It seems they are merely brochures with the distinction of being way too long.

  15. Re:Elementary my dear Watson on SSDs Cause Crisis For Digital Forensics · · Score: 2

    Destroying evidence is a crime in the US, too.

  16. Re:Not a problem in my marriage on Facebook Linked To One In Five Divorces In US · · Score: 1

    It's not so much Slashdot itself; more like people who describe themselves as "nerd" not only have bad personalities, but a loathing of women.

  17. Re:The nomination of Wikileaks on WikiLeaks, Internet Nominees For Nobel Peace Prize · · Score: 1

    Just for payback... I mean, symmetry... China should publicly back Wikileaks' bid.

    Perhaps you mean harmony ;-)

  18. Re:That's OK. on Arkansas Earthquakes Could Be Man-Made · · Score: 1

    We must be careful that, in attempting to break our dependence on kleptocratic energy-despotic hellholes, we do not allow ourselves to become one...

    Think that over: it was the United States and her European tagalongs who created and supported many of those oil despots to begin with.

    It's unreasonable to expect the current government to do anything very different than what it has been doing for decades.

  19. Re:Bullshit statement (do they think we're stupid? on Employer Facebook Password Requests Suspended · · Score: 5, Insightful

    do they think we're stupid?

    They don't think you are stupid. They think the people they're hiring are stupid and have a passion for yielding/wielding command as part of a hierarchy with no regard to the consequences of their actions.

    Considering they're hiring prison guards, that's a fair assumption.

  20. Re:Both on Would the Developing World Use E-Readers More Than Laptops? · · Score: 1

    *donates $50 to video game hacker*
    *has the mind of a child and a body like a bean bag chair*

  21. Ridiculous idea on A Car You Can Drive With Your Thoughts · · Score: 1, Insightful

    People would be better served by a properly designed and well funded public transit system.
    How would someone who is so profoundly handicapped that he cannot move a steering wheel be able to get himself in and out of the car anyway?

  22. Re:FYI - Pilots don't use "over." on Two-way Radio Breakthrough To Double Wi-Fi Speeds · · Score: 0

    Pilots end a transmission with their tail number.

    Oh yes, I think I saw something about this on craigslist personals...

  23. Re:blocking facts and research on Glen Beck Warns Viewers Not To Use Google · · Score: 1

    7. There are groups of people in the world that actually do hate the U.S.A. and will stop at nothing to kill everyone in it, along with Israel.

    this is me i am a member of this group

  24. Re:The best thing I saw... on IT Turf Wars: the Most Common Feuds In Tech · · Score: 1

    So when I quit my job over this kind of blatant lying, I was blacklisted by the former employer.

    Your former employer was Joe McCarthy??
    But seriously, could you clarify? I don't quite understand.

  25. Re:Not the first time this has happened on Sandia Helps Secure Kazakh Nuclear Material · · Score: 1

    The most reliable assumption for this stuff is security or construction contractors.