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  1. Re:what about hard copy games? on Judge Dismisses 'Other OS' Class-Action Suit Against Sony · · Score: 2

    actually, the PSN network is again one of the items that IS marketed with the device. Unlike xbox, PS3 allows free online play as a reason to pay sony for the hardware in the first place.

    Removing it after the fact (other than for breach of contract terms) should be considered bait and switch as well.

  2. Re:Depends how locked-down on Ask Slashdot: Ubuntu Lockdown Options? · · Score: 1

    Not sure about Ubuntu, but this is the way to do it in Debian : Disable gdm # update-rc.d -f gdm remove modify /etc/rc.local, add these lines just before "exit 0" ** rc.local - BEGIN su - username -c startx reboot ** rc.local - END add the file /home/username/.xsession ** .xsession - BEGIN #!/bin/sh /path/to/script/that/start/yourapp ** .xsession - END make the .xsession executable # chmod u+x /home/username/.xsession

    Along these lines, could you not simply have a "testing" user, and set their shell in /etc/passwd to be "/path/to/testing/app". so what if they change ttys, etc. if they dont have credentials to login to system (except as the kiosk/testing user), they wont be able to "launch browsers, change system settings, etc". at least thats how I used to handle it... (though that was console mode vs inside window manager).

  3. Re:Tried on Ask Slashdot: Best Tools To Aid When "On Call"? · · Score: 1

    bluetooth single ear headphone thingy. just lay on you side, then if you doze off, etc you can hear the phone ring but nobody else will. in theory.

    and if all else fails...e.g. headset falls off..., ducttape the headset to the side of your noggin!

  4. Re:Disk IO on FPS Benchmarks No More? New Methods Reveal Deeper GPU Issues · · Score: 1

    original user could check disk queue length, and then start running their apps. then when it starts chugging, go check the stats to see if there is a spike in disk io, or queue length.

  5. Re:Disk IO on FPS Benchmarks No More? New Methods Reveal Deeper GPU Issues · · Score: 1

    Most of the time when I notice any stuttering is also the same time my hard drive lights up

    As the drive(s) get busy, pending operations get queued up (disk queue depth) and as such, the machine starts "hanging" waiting for the IOs to finish.

    unless of course we're hanging because we're waiting on something to be paged so the app we're running appears frozen), and are expected too, for obvious reasons.

    It is obvious. The point here is that the paging operation of the machine makes the problem worse. Especially if you have slow disk(s), or the pagefile/swap space dynamically changes.

    primarily, linux does a much better job about not paging unless it starts running out of memory. whereas windows seems to start using it as soon as it boots.

  6. Re:Disk IO on FPS Benchmarks No More? New Methods Reveal Deeper GPU Issues · · Score: 1

    1) Pagefile/swapping. - the os thinks it is from the 90s and trying to do memory swapping (no matter how much ram you have).

    2) disk controller drivers run in kernel mode. any rise in disk queue length (pending requests) hangs the system. arggh.

  7. Re:Solution for the USPS financial crisis on TSA Groper Files Suit Against Blogger · · Score: 1

    LOL!!! ..."handling more packages..." -- nice!

  8. Re:600GB drives? on IBM Building 120PB Cluster Out of 200,000 Hard Disks · · Score: 1

    nice calculation. based on those numbers -- looks like they are ATA (SATA) disks. i am not aware if SAS drives have that density (off the top of my head).

  9. Re:Better things... on MABEL Robot Runs Like a Human · · Score: 1

    2. The bar is to keep the mammoth from tripping over on its non-existent face. watch the vid again, looks like it is about to trip over itself.

  10. Re:How about GPS tracking the judge? on NJ Judge Rules GPS Tracking of Spouse Legal · · Score: 1

    what if the bank has a financial interest in the car, and instead of the judge, it is you. is it ok for the bank to put a tracking device on your car until the loan is completely paid off? this is starting to get really grey area, and freaking me out about people putting tracking devices on our (the people) stuff without our knowledge, and without a warrant.

  11. What if you play it backwards? on Scientists Play World's Oldest Commercial Recording · · Score: 1, Funny

    is there hidden messages if you play it backwards?

  12. Re:Copyright law requires it on Defendant Says Righthaven Should Pay Legal Fees · · Score: 1

    so someone deemed to have started [frivolous] lawsuit, pays the court fees for the defendant. if you/company simply [loses], everything stays as normal. ex: if you are filing in east texas and lose because you dont have a leg to stand on, then you get slapped with the fees from the defendant.

  13. Netflix? on Devs Worried Microsoft Will Dump .NET · · Score: 1

    Doesnt netflix require silverlight? will microsoft be migrating this to something else, or include "microsoft silverlight runtime" for future windows os, but no new feature releases?

  14. Re:single keystroke that would take down an entire on VMware Causes Second Outage While Recovering From First · · Score: 1

    Press the *ANY* key to continue, or any other key to quit.

  15. Clearly not the same thing or copied on Apple Sues Samsung Over Galaxy Phones and Tablets · · Score: 0

    When you hold the galaxy in your hand with fingers touching the outside casing, the phone still gets signal.

    If anything apple should/could sue samsung, saying samsung created a version of the Apple iPhone that works like it should. with less of a learning curve since the icons apparently resemble the ones Apple is using.

    As long as samsung didnt use apple logos, they should *in a correct world* be fine... its not like they jailbroke a iPhone, and copied out the original icons to use in their competing device.

  16. Re:Negligent Suicide, Open And Shut on Driver Sued For Updating Facebook In Fatal Crash · · Score: 1

    Yet another death caused by fucking idiots who text while driving. Nuff said.

    Yet another death caused by fucking idiots who are standing in the middle of the road, and not following the law by moving their vehicles to a safe area, then blaming everyone else.

    Per: http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/ilcs4.asp?DocName=062500050HCh.+11+Art.+IV&ActID=1815&ChapterID=49&SeqStart=107600000&SeqEnd=109200000 (625 ILCS 5/11402) (from Ch. 95 1/2, par. 11402) Sec. 11402. Motor vehicle accident involving damage to vehicle.

    the old guy was supposed to move his car (and himself) off the road to safety and not be blocking the road. he is obviously standing in the road(on the edge is still on the road), otherwise, how did he get hit? what, are people driving on sidewalks in chicago now?

    This is just like I hear on the news all the time - truck driver (18 wheeler, etc) assumed at fault because his truck crashes into a car, and kills someone. -- story clarified later: person in car thinks the world owes them something, are changing lanes with no turn signals, weaving, and slams on the brakes to avoid the car 9000 feet in front of them that tapped their brakes...truck runs their car over because trucks that are loaded down weighing 80,000lbs dont like to stop on a dime... oh, lets sue the truck driver, get the aclu/naacp involved because the person in car was black, and truck driver was white, etc, blah blah. arrgh!

    How about some personal responsibility instead?

  17. Re:FWIW - Google's TOS are buried deeper than Bing on Microsoft Vehemently Denies Google's "Bing Sting" · · Score: 1

    Google = About + Terms of Service Bing = Legal Maybe Bing doesn't go two levels deep? :-)

    Bing = Privacy -> terms of use

    so to add to the complication of bing, which one contains the legalese we need to determine if you are allowed to be used as a mule?

  18. Re:Thumbs down on Slashdot Launches Re-Design · · Score: 1

    ...But make the fixed "taskbar" on top go away. Just let it scroll up with the rest of the page....

    Err, no. I think I may be the only one who likes the top navbar... It looks clean, and slim.
    Not sure if I like the left navbar yet, maybe a collapsible menu would be better, but dont really have a problem with it overall.

    Though, the whitespace, and black text on white hurts your eyes after only a few minutes of reading from the office... I am not even at home in a dark room yet. OUCH! and by whitespace, I dont mean on the sides... I mean horizontal spacing between subject of user comment and the users text, then more space at the bottom before the end of the comment box

    PS: Good work on the reply/preview function. hella fast. :-)

  19. Re:Death Knell? on NASA Seeks Ham Operators' Help To Test NanoSail-D · · Score: 1

    +1 for 2.4Ghz that everyone with a linksys home wireless thought were their exclusive frequencies.

  20. Re:Linked article title on Does A Company Deserve the Same Privacy Rights As You? · · Score: 1

    Cannot figure out how to edit my already submitted comment. doh.

    AT&T to pay $8.2 million in E-Rate settlement
    AT&T Technical Services engaged in non-competitive bidding practices, the Justice Department alleges
    http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/021709-att-e-rate.html

  21. Amazing how those guilty seem to want protection on Does A Company Deserve the Same Privacy Rights As You? · · Score: 1

    I know the article is supposed to about our rights being taken away while goverment hands out rights to corporations...sickening.

    Side note:
    AT&T, fraud?, doesnt want anyone to know about it? that couldnt possibly be happening. oh wait a moment, this has been going on for a while and AT&T has already basically admitted guilt?
    networkworld.com

    I am hoping the next news article about AT&T that comes out, is about executives going to jail and donating their golden parachutes to the schools... will that actually happen? 8ball says: My sources say no

  22. Re:favorite way on Compiz Project Releases C++ Based v0.9.0 · · Score: 1

    Also, it is IMPOSSIBLE for any operating system to be actively displaying how much CPU it is using while using 0% CPU. Answer: WINDOWS IS LYING TO YOU.

    Maybe not lying per-se, but not displaying to a drilled down accuracy either. 0% at idle, is showing that the system is using less than 1% usage at idle... windows doesnt show cpu usage percent in smaller than 1 increments.

    So to clarify, system using 0% *according to windows* could equate to approximately [0].16% cpu usage at idle. - Not exactly 0%, but for rounding purposes, alot closer to 0 than 1.

  23. Cue - Movie Scenes (Knowing) on NASA Warns of Potential "Huge Space Storm" In 2013 · · Score: 1

    hmm. if only there was a movie that would show us the effect so we could prepare:

    Solar Flare simulation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8SG59R65e8&feature=related

    Final scene: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQEh5_pSbd4

  24. Re:What are they going to do? on MA High School Forces All Students To Buy MacBooks · · Score: 1

    What are they going to do when high school students lose, destroy, and otherwise render unusable $900 equipment that they do not own?

    Probably turn on the pedo-spy-cam, and pretend they are using it for anti-theft laptop recovery.

    http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/02/18/1846222/PA-School-Spied-On-Students-Via-School-Issued-Laptop-Webcams

  25. Bigger? on Cloth Successfully Separates Oil From Gulf Water · · Score: 4, Interesting
    I wouldn't want to pour the entire gulf of mexico worth of water through that small glass jar. reminds me of those pur water filters, where you pour some water in, and have to wait for it to *seep* through the filter material before you can put more in.

    Maybe something more along the lines of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-W8_GpMz9nI