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  1. So it's some sort of flashlight app, is it?

  2. Re:Why not decentralized? on Twitter Ignites Censorship Debate After Removal Of Parody Putin Account (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1

    Gnu Social, Diaspora?

  3. Re:Kickstarter "Investing" on Oculus No Longer Lets Customers Move Purchased Software To Non-Oculus Hardware (boingboing.net) · · Score: 2

    At least the backers who paid for the development headsets are getting a free consumer version.

  4. I switched to fx about a year ago after some reading about suspicious behavior in ES. At the time, it was just surreptitiously reporting usage or some other analytics to servers, but it was enough to make me wary.

  5. "But every night all the men would come around and lay their money down"

  6. Re:What they mean is.. on Gas Delivery Startups Want to Fill Up Your Car Anywhere, But It Might Not Be Legal (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    You were never a teen-aged boy, were you?
    Cigarettes make absolutely lousy ignition sources.

    Well you clearly never watch any action movies, do you?

  7. Re:Iain M Banks on Online Voters Name British Vessel 'Boaty McBoatface' (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    This will cheeryou up if you didn't know it already
    http://www.space.com/28445-spa...

  8. Refund policy? on Experts Crack Petya Ransomware, Enable Hard Drive Decryption For Free · · Score: 5, Funny

    I hope that they'll offer at least a partial refund to anyone who's paid in the last 30 days.

  9. Re: conceptual patent on Samsung Receives Patent For Smart Contact Lenses (softpedia.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm wondering what sort of display could produce a focused image. You can't just put OLEDs or whatever right against the lens and be able to see them clearly. You'd have to collimate it somehow.

  10. Re:I am fed up with these icons and UI changes on Gmail's Mic Drop April Fool Backfires Horribly Costing People Their Jobs (telegraph.co.uk) · · Score: 5, Funny

    "You banged your head on EVERY brick eight times on this tunnel?", He goes, "nah, I banged some 30 or 40 times, this brick needs only 8 hits".

    I never before appreciated just how well video games could prepare you for life in general.

  11. I think that I get emails about it from Canadian pharmacies.

  12. If you don't let your kindle update before the deadline, the help page says that you'll have to download an update to install from a PC. Leaving it charging overnight with wireless on is probably an easier option.

  13. Re:It is code; the clue is in the name. on Drag-and-Drop "CS" Tutorials: the Emperor's New Code? · · Score: 1

    And these Scratch-like languages aren't too different from visual scripting systems used in game engines such as Unreal.

    https://www.google.com/search?...

  14. Re:Is this really new? on Let Your Pupils Do the Typing · · Score: 1

    > when you covertly (from the corner of your eye; without moving your eyes or body) attend to bright or dark objects.

    If this is accurate, you don't have to look at the letter. It sounds like, as the summary says, you're literally just thinking about a letter in your peripheral vision without looking directly at it and your pupil responds to its brightness.

    Which, even if unreliable, is an interesting discovery.

  15. Just follow these simple instructions on Windows 10 Now a 'Recommended Update' For Windows 7 and 8.1 Users (betanews.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    "How to manage Windows 10 notification and upgrade options:" https://support.microsoft.com/...

  16. Can we have on Slashdot and SourceForge Sold, Now Under New Management (bizx.info) · · Score: 1

    Emojis along with Like/Love/Sad/Angry/Happy/Wow moderation?

  17. Re:What age group is facebook aimed at now? on Facebook Introduces Emojis, Live Video (thestack.com) · · Score: 2

    The only time the Like button seems inappropriate is when someone has bad news. That's not the time I want to respond with a cartoon scowly face.

    Adding plain text buttons such as "Agree" or "Support" along with "Like" would appeal to the more mature crowd.

    As long as we don't also get a "Pray".

  18. Re:Didn't it sort of get bogged down? on The BBC Announces Robot Wars' Return To TV (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I used to watch Robot Wars and the recent Battle Bots revival was a good show to watch with my son.

    I was expecting more technological improvements after such a large gap of time, but it was mostly flippers, spinning disks, pincers. There was even Warhead, from the old UK shows.

  19. Unprepared on "Credible" Bomb Threat Closes, Evacuates All Los Angeles Public Schools · · Score: 1

    LAUSD used to be much better prepared for attacks http://www.latimes.com/local/l...

  20. Wait, are chats not logged? Maybe it depends on each game, but I wouldn't have any expectation of encryption in games, let alone OTR-style end-to-end encryption with secure key exchange and forwards secrecy.

    Or is this about some native PS4 messaging service?

    I'd expect chat logs to be kept, if only to follow up on reports of phishing, abuse, etc.

  21. One possible limitation on Eric Schmidt Proposes 'Hate Spell-Checker' For Radical and Terrorist Content (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Will all extremists will be required to have a Google+ account?

  22. Re:Not just surplus on The Death of Electronic Surplus (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    "Youtube"? Is that a supplier of custom-made thermionic valves, maybe?

  23. Phones used to use 2.5mm for wired headsets, but that made them incompatible with standard headphones/earphones which was inconvenient when listening to music became more of a thing.

  24. Re:Is this some luddite anti-tech site? on Dubai Buys Commercial Jetpacks For Firefighters (martinjetpack.com) · · Score: 1

    I take the word "jetpack" to be derived from "backpack", implying something that you wear, not something that you walk up to and strap yourself to.

    (Anyway, slashdot is all about being negative, unless the story relates to Elon Musk.)

  25. Yorkshireman here on How Apple Is Preventing the Apple TV From Becoming a Console Rival (redbull.com) · · Score: 2, Funny

    200Mb? Luxury. When I wer a lad, we ad to fit games in 6k

    Thu wuh no disk drives, we ad to fit hole thing onna tape.

    And thi dint av teams in them days, you ad to program by thi sen.