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  1. Re:Thought on Windows 8 and Screen Resolution: WXGA Still Most Popular · · Score: 2

    No, the clue was that they tried to do an inch based resolution (like everyone else) but were still using bitmaps, which looked wrong. If they had used SVGs maybe we could finally get people on business desktops to stop setting their LCDs to the wrong resolution.

  2. Re:Back in the old days... on Study: Online Dating Makes People "Picky" and "Unrealistic" · · Score: 2

    Have they changed it, or does anyone with an INTP personality type still get automatically rejected?

  3. Re:Difference between Android and Linux ?? on Details Emerge About Spark Linux-Based Tablet · · Score: 3, Informative

    Poor assumption. Do OSX applications work on BSD? No, the UI libraries are completely different. Same thing (only even deeper) comparing Android and Linux.

  4. Re:Not even close on Canada's Internet Among Best, Report Says · · Score: 1

    Weird thing is I encounter a lot of places in small town in BC where there is cable internet but no DSL, so customers of the eastern-canada phone company's network division have dialup, satellite (which goes down almost every time it rains*) or very expensive T1. The local small businesses just use cable (often small providers, fast & uncapped).

    *The west coast of Vancouver Island is called the rain forest for a reason.

  5. Re:It's not open source, but here it goes on Ask Slashdot: Best Open Source Answer to Dreamweaver? · · Score: 1

    I just read over your comment history because of the stalking accusation in the OpenStreetmap threads, and this suggestion does not jibe with your earlier comments regarding Chrome. You rail against one company's non-standard single-browser content plugins as breaking the web, then suggest using another company's. There is some hypocricy there.

  6. Re:Thinkpad T430 non-ultrabook (!) on Timothy Lord Checks Out Keyboards & Tech At CES · · Score: 2

    How many different sizes of screw does it use?

  7. Re:I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my Da on How Doctors Die · · Score: 1

    Actually, current theory is that one person doing chest compressions only is better than one person taking breaks from chest compressions to do rescue breathing and/or one person doing chest compressions and breathing wrong, so best to just teach chest compressions in basic first aid.

    Compressions and breathing are still better if done correctly by two or more trained para-medicals (meaning anyone with adequate training & experience... industrial first aid people, nurses, care attendants, paramedics, doctors, etc)

  8. Re:Sigh on Sorry, IT: These 5 Technologies Belong To Users · · Score: 1

    I don't work for that company... I work at a third party contractor doing hands-on-site stuff where their IT people can't get to economically. We have also had company employees (including a board member) bring their devices to us with the non-supported device setup manual. The manual basically says these are the policies, these are the settings, and if you need help take it to a computer tech at your own expense.

    In that company, most (probably all) of the work with confidential data is done on company controlled devices; it's very boring non-IT stuff, but it is heavily regulated. There is very little reason why someone would WANT customer data on their own device. The stuff that gets worked on on people's own devices tends to be sales or marketing material, which is confidential by internal policy but not government regulated.

  9. Re:Sigh on Sorry, IT: These 5 Technologies Belong To Users · · Score: 5, Interesting

    One company I've worked with does it this way:

    Want to use our device? Good, here it is all set up. You can use it to access internal resources.

    Want to use your own? the pptp server is blah, and the exchange server is blah. Have fun, remember to lock your device, and no, we won't tell you how to set it up. You can't get anything confidential unless it's emailed. Emailing anything confidential is grounds for disceplinary action. When you lose your device, call 1-800-xxx-xxxx ASAP.

  10. Better question... on Self-Contained PC Liquid Coolers Explored · · Score: 1

    When will we see PCs, refrigerators, sewers, and other waste heat sources combined with household hydronic heat transfer systems?

  11. Also, on Rethinking the Nature of Files · · Score: 1

    How is this any different from Files-11 (VMS native FS), NTFS, or HFS+?

    (re-posting my AC comment, logged in this time)

  12. Re:Another Linux Today link... on Oracle To Bring Dtrace To Linux · · Score: 1

    Come to slashdot for discussion, not scoops.

  13. Re:That's development release on The GIMP Now Has a Working Single-Window Mode · · Score: 3, Funny

    erm .. I mean 16 bit per channel.

  14. Re:That's development release on The GIMP Now Has a Working Single-Window Mode · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Still no 16 bit per pixel images (it can import them, but not work in 16 bit).

  15. Re:Ack! on Canada To Adopt On-Line Voting? · · Score: 2

    You have just almost described the Canadian system; except instead of letting in the public before voting, Elections Canada lets in candidates representatives, then the candidates representatives get to watch the count, and the tallying at the returning office.

  16. Re:Ack! on Canada To Adopt On-Line Voting? · · Score: 4, Informative

    I just wrote a long-ass comment explaining how the Canadian General Elections are monitored by candidates representatives, but the cert for yro.slashdot.org changed and I lost my work.

    No, a digital system does NOT have potential to be more secure than the current system for General Elections in Canada. There is no counting office. Ballots are counted on the spot.

  17. Re:would love to visit on The Computer Labs That Created the Digital World · · Score: 1

    I stayed in Cupertino last May; it was a weekend so nothing was open.

  18. Re:Quite sometime on Intel To Offer CPU Upgrades Via Software · · Score: 1

    Except with uControllers people specifically want the smaller package part because it's smaller. With the CPU they are just ripping you off, unless it's for thermal reasons.

  19. Re:Getting to be ho-hum.... on Power Companies Brace For Solar Storms · · Score: 1

    One of my compact fluorescents let the magic smoke out last night... That's something... Possibly not related.

  20. Re:Stupid on KDE Plans To Support Wayland In 2012 · · Score: 1

    because any old janky computer has enough power to run apps locally.

    Try a GIS program with a moderately large dataset (say the street, cadastral, and utilities maps for a city). Doesn't work useably fast on my Mac Mini (core2 duo, 2GB RAM, 500GB seagate momentus) but works like a charm remotely (X11 over Gigabit Ethernet) from my Phenom II x4 4GB RAM Linux box (using the same buildlevel of qGis on both machines).

    Just because YOU only use office-type or web-browsing apps doesn't mean everyone does.

  21. Re:Stupid on KDE Plans To Support Wayland In 2012 · · Score: 1

    In X it's impossible to reliably change screen resolution without affecting windows of other applications.

    In any raster display system it's impossible to reliably change screen resolution without affecting windows of other applications.

  22. Re:Fanless doesn't seem to be an accurate descript on The Fanless Spinning Heatsink · · Score: 1

    Also, a filter on the intake seems a simpler solution to fouling.

  23. Re:Security Concerns? on Ask Slashdot: An Open Handheld Terminal For Retail Stores? · · Score: 1

    As secure as any other TLS connection with pre-signed certificates from a known signing authority on both ends.

  24. Re:PCI on Ask Slashdot: An Open Handheld Terminal For Retail Stores? · · Score: 1

    In particular the vx810 Duet is a pin-pad that has it's own printer and ethernet (sadly not wireless), and can talk via an rs-232 in "semi-integrated" mode whereby only the transaction amounts and transaction numbers etc flow to the POS, everything secret (pin, debit card number, etc) is handled by the terminal.

  25. Re:Commercial databases on Facebook Trapped In MySQL a 'Fate Worse Than Death' · · Score: 1

    They're busy contributing significant enhancements to Linux Kernel block devices

    Oh, also, MySQL.