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  1. Re:All are following Tesla. on Why Your New Car's Technology Is Four Years Old · · Score: 1

    In time they will also give birth to cute little ponies. It has not been announced, yet, but it is possible to do so.

  2. Re:Twenty years in prison seems excessive on "Terrorist" Lyrics Land High Schooler In Jail · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If every musician went and got counseling instead of turning their anger into music and lyrics, we'd all be listening to Justin Beiber. Think about that next time you suggest that someone with a perfectly harmless outlet for their anger "needs counseling" because some people find what they say disturbing.

  3. Re:Lyrics? on "Terrorist" Lyrics Land High Schooler In Jail · · Score: 1

    Umm, he wasn't arrested because of his lyrics, he was arrested because of a rant on Facebook. He seems to be trying to say that he's going to be famous because of his rapping and trying to act like a thug.

    Ever seen rap lyrics? The "rant on facebook" looks suspiciously like they could be his rap lyrics to me, especially since he's boasting about becoming famous and acting like a thug.

  4. Re:Puhleez on Pentagon Approval of iOS and Samsung KNOX Is Bad News for BlackBerry · · Score: 1

    But the CEO said that tablets will be gone in 5 years

    He was right. What you didn't realize was that he was only talking about his own company's products.

  5. Re:Imagine The Poor Guy Who Changed This on Google Formally Puts Palestine On Virtual Map · · Score: 1

    Even before the UN decision, Palestine had more international recognition from nation states than Taiwan.

  6. Re:Can you help score me some LSD? on Interview: Ask John McAfee What You Will · · Score: 1

    I think the OP meant "do a line", given the content of the post.

  7. Re:one more distraction while driving on Siri's Creator Challenges Texting-While-Driving Study · · Score: 1

    It sounds like you have a vested interest in the failure of this study. Is there something wrong with doing the study properly, rather than rigging it to reinforce your preconceived notions that phone + driving = bad, mmkay?

  8. Re:Make files and emacs on Ask Slashdot: Best OSS Embedded Development Platform · · Score: 1

    As others have posted, sdcc (based partly on gcc) has 8051 and Z80 covered. There are also other custom versions of gcc that provide support for microcontrollers outside of the main gcc tree.

  9. Re:Wow on Sophisticated Apache Backdoor In the Wild · · Score: 1

    Mine is checked daily by debsums, along with all other binaries.

  10. Re:decade's, eh? on How LinkedIn's Project Inversion Saved the Company · · Score: 1

    You are clearly wrong on both count's. It is plainly obvious that the apostrophe is there to indicate usage of the "singular plural" form.

  11. Re:Too many bad effects on The Text-Your-Parents-Your-Drug-Deal Experiment · · Score: 1

    But it can't be isolated.

    Indeed, I was thinking my first response to this would be: "Son are you crazy? Don't use your regular phone for this shit!"

  12. Re:All iPhone screenshots? on The Text-Your-Parents-Your-Drug-Deal Experiment · · Score: 1

    Until recently it was decidedly non-obvious on Android.

    Yeah, I remember trying to take a screenshot on cupcake right around the time that anything happening on Twitter made it news for nerds. No wait, even then it was a simple case of downloading an app from the Google Market and pressing a button.

  13. Re:OR on Aereo Ruling Could Impact Pandora · · Score: 1

    Performances in venues where you have to buy a ticket (or otherwise register) and pass through security are still public performances.

  14. Re:Playing back a recording on Aereo Ruling Could Impact Pandora · · Score: 1

    You left a few out, which could be relevant to the case at hand:

    I read aloud in front of a microphone connected to an FM transmitter, while hundreds of people listen to their radios tuned to the frequency my FM transmitter is broadcasting on.

    I read aloud in front of a microphone connected to a PC which is streaming the audio from that microphone over the internet, while hundreds of people in their respective private rooms around the world connect to that stream and listen in.

  15. Re:What Microsoft told them... on ZTE Joins Long List of Android Device-Makers Licensing Microsoft Patents · · Score: 1

    Which would be playing into Microsoft's hands. Making it seem impossible to use Linux in a commercial product is exactly the outcome that Microsoft is looking for.

  16. Re:I guess I'm not an expert then.... on Overconfidence: Why You Suck At Making Development Time Estimates · · Score: 1

    In my experience, any estimate that's longer than 1 day, and often even as little as half a day, generally should require breaking down, so that it is clear exactly what needs to be complete. You break the programming tasks down almost to an atomic level, so that every discrete function of the software is described, along with how long it will take to implement each one.

    If you aren't forced into giving an estimate verbally within 5 minutes of walking into your manager's office, then you must work at some alien company that most Slashdoters can only dream about.

  17. Re:Theresa May co-opted more like on Privacy Groups Attack UK ISPs 'Collusion' With Government Snooping · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This is not a new thing that has come in under Theresa May's watch. I remember a time around 2000 on dial-up, when an excessive lag caused me to look into where my internet traffic was being slowed down. A traceroute showed the connection going around in a circle amongst a dozen or so routers near Milton Keynes before heading back to a server hosted in the exact same exchange I was connected to.

  18. Re:charging smartphones by USB on USB SuperSpeed Power Spec To Leap From 10W To 100W · · Score: 1

    There are a number of USB hubs that pretend that they are apple/samsung compatible, promising 2.1 amps. But what they don't tell you is that you can't have 2.1 amps if the hub is connected to a computer. It will only act as a USB high current charger when it is incapable of making a serial connection. It's either a serial port or a high current charger but not both.

    That's part of the spec. The current limit is 900mA when a data connection is simultaneously present, and up to the rated limit of the cable and connectors when there is no data connection to interfere with.

  19. Re:Fraud on LinkedIn Invites Gone Wild: How To Keep Close With Exes and Strangers · · Score: 1

    I get a lot of email from LinkedIn, despite having never used their site. Most of the profiles are obvious sham accounts, created by some kind of bot which mines publicly available information on the internet.

    Are you sure they're really from LinkedIn? A lot of phishing emails use LinkedIn as a cover, which works really well, since LinkedIn itself is very spammy, though the genuine ones are either generally people you know, or if you're signed up a bunch of other useless spam which as of a few months ago started ignoring email preferences. I don't know if that was intentional, or if they've fixed it, but it was enough for me to say goodbye.

  20. Re:"endorse" is a different feature on LinkedIn Invites Gone Wild: How To Keep Close With Exes and Strangers · · Score: 1

    Endorse isn't a new feature, I endorsed one of my ex-colleagues who went freelancing years ago. What is new, is that it has become part of the general fake spaminess of LinkedIn that caused me to close my account a few months back.

  21. Re:iPad only on Ask Slashdot: What Magazines Do You Still Read? · · Score: 1

    This is how Wired was always meant to be, if you ask me.

    Wired was always meant to be how it was in 1993 - 1996 or so. Before every second page became an advertisement and the articles became superficial coverage of fashionable tech news for dotcom hipsters.

  22. Re:$51 is expensive? on Sony Launches Internet Service Offering Twice the Speed of Google Fiber · · Score: 1

    I don't see where that 400+ USD comes from, as the standard installation fee is listed as 32,340yen, which is currently discounted to 30,450yen with the first two months service free as an opening promotion. Even allowing for recent depreciation of the yen, given that they are translating the monthly fee of 4980yen to $51, it does not seem to add up. Minimum contract term would have to be more than the 30 months (or 29 months with current discount) that it takes to pay off the installation fee at 1050yen per month.

  23. Re:$51 is expensive? on Sony Launches Internet Service Offering Twice the Speed of Google Fiber · · Score: 1

    I'm also wondering when or why Sony got into the ISP business.

    1996.

  24. Re:Yeah yeah, so what? on Sony Launches Internet Service Offering Twice the Speed of Google Fiber · · Score: 1

    If you have shitty internet and your buddy in New York has shitty internet and some guy you never heard of in Tokyo has good internet, then it must be impossible to have good internet in the US. Gosh, I'm sure the telcos just try their very hardest, but it can't be done. I'm sure there's some huge difference between Tokyo and here that makes it impossible. Population density, let's say. Also, the air is probably different? I think Japanese bits are narrower.

    As well as metric bits being narrower and easier to shift than US bits, the radioactivity in Japan helps move the bits faster. You don't really want that do you?

  25. Re:Yeah yeah, so what? on Sony Launches Internet Service Offering Twice the Speed of Google Fiber · · Score: 1

    You didn't read his post. It's not about desolate wasteland or anything else. It's just that there are huge distances to be covered, which raises the costs of laying fiber everywhere.

    So don't lay it everywhere. Start in the East Coast cities where density is on a par with Tokyo. I seriously doubt a farmer in rural Shikoku can get 2Gbps fibre within the next ten years either, so stop acting like the US is somehow special.