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  1. Re:How hard is it? on Death to the Trapezoid... Next USB Connector Will Be Reversible · · Score: 1

    I guarantee you that Apple is working on a flat (reversible) replacement

    Here's the /. article from two years ago http://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/08/18/1736235/apple-patents-cutting-35mm-jack-in-half The link in the summary is broken.

  2. Re:I have to agree on Sex Offender Gets New Hearing After Hearing Officer Rants Against Arial Font · · Score: 3, Funny

    | | All [...] documents should be in a fixed-width font. Anything else is just crazy.
    |
    | Fixed that for you.

    FTFY

  3. There's a Max Headroom joke in here somewhere, but I'm still too creeped out to make it.

  4. Re:Complicated. on LinkedIn Agrees To Block Stalkers · · Score: 2

    What she wants them to do is stop having the alerts go through. IE - she doesn't seem to care that this guy can see her profile - she just doesn't want to know about it.

    From what you're saying, what she really needs is a filtering rule on her email. Much faster and cheaper to implement.

  5. Re:Interesting on Here Come the Chromebooks, As Google and Intel Cozy-Up On Haswell · · Score: 0

    there's essentially no risk of malware

    ...yet

  6. Re:Lack of upgrades? on Sprint May Have Unlimited Data Plans, But Not Unlimited Customers · · Score: 1
    Sprint: http://newsroom.sprint.com/presskits/sprint-network-vision-information-center.htm

    Virgin Mobile: http://newsroom.virginmobileusa.com/networkvision

    In a quick skim, I didn't see them say "LTE to almost every cell site" but only LTE nationwide. I hope someone can find a source for the former, because that would be good news indeed.

    I'm a VM customer for my phone & my teenager's. He's still grandfathered on the $25/mo plan - 300 minutes of talk (he averages 60), unlimited text & data.

  7. Re:Oh! "Borrowing" Some UI Stuff, Huh? on Zynga Puts Random Stranger In Customer Support Role · · Score: 1

    Given Zynga's ethics of code (or lack thereof)...

    ftfy

  8. Re:Shutting out competitor or buying up talent? on FTC Reviews Google's Purchase of Navigation App Waze · · Score: 1

    What alpha version of Waze have you been running for more than 1 1/2 years? Displaying a speed limit is one of the most-requested features for Waze, but it's not in there yet.

  9. Re:Die already! on Google Retiring Chrome Frame · · Score: 1

    To return to the car analogy, you may keep your 1960s car as antique or as a pleasure. But would you use it for your wage-paying, must get there, journey to work or to customers? Would you risk a crucial customer meeting because your beloved veteran decides not to start today?

    Can I switch from cars to planes? The B-52 Stratofortress was designed in the 1940s, and the last one was built in 1962. We still have 85 in service (thanks to the USAF tinkering with them), and they're still good for what they do. Sure, newer designs are better at some things, but don't completely dismiss "old" as "unusable."

    My work PC is still on XP & IE8 (internal apps). At least they let us use Firefox (Chrome was recently blocked for no apparent reason). We're moving to Win7 through attrition (hello, 2009).

  10. Re:5 years is a big deal if you're in your 20s on Ask Slashdot: What Will IT Departments Look Like In 5 Years? · · Score: 0

    This.

  11. Re:Contradiction on 5-Pound UAV Flies For 50 Minutes, Streams HD From Over 3 Miles · · Score: 1

    The pound is a unit of weight; weight varies based on gravity. The kilogram is a unit of mass.

    Your body mass is X kilograms. Your weight on earth, at position Y is Z pounds.

    Perhaps you meant the pound is a unit of force. "Weight" generally means the same thing, but not always.

    However I was talking about the unit of mass. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound_(mass)

    From the pix in TFA, I don't think the headline writer meant five of these https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound#People_with_the_surname

  12. Re:Contradiction on 5-Pound UAV Flies For 50 Minutes, Streams HD From Over 3 Miles · · Score: 1

    5 pounds is dirt cheap. Not even enough to buy a pint in central London.

    No, no, no. The pound is a unit of mass.

  13. Re:NASA, is that you? on $10M Tricorder X PRIZE Kicks off · · Score: 4, Informative
  14. It's online, patent it! on Hackers Buying IPv4 Blocks To Evade Detection · · Score: 2

    FTFA: "The bad guys can buy or rent these as well, getting inside known good IP blocks so that the reputation systems don't blacklist them as quickly." Criminals establish "safe houses" in nice neighborhoods. Film at eleven.

  15. Re:Oblig. XKCD on Amazon Disables 3G Web Browsing For New 3G Kindle Touch · · Score: 2

    Then visit http://m.xkcd.com/548/ and tap where it says (alt-text).

  16. Re:Sorry what time of day was that ?!? on NASA Warns of Magnetic Storm After Huge Solar Flare · · Score: 1

    You should both assume that times given are local for the source. This being NASA and all...

    Would that be Kennedy Space Center (ET), Johnson Space Center (CT), White Sands (MT), JPL (PT) or some other NASA office in another time zone?

  17. Re:It sounds great on Netflix Signs Exclusive Deal With Dreamworks · · Score: 1
    Lots of discussion has gone on while I've been working, but I'll respond to some key points from this and another comment. I think we may disagree less than some observers would have imagined.

    Why would you let them do that?

    As has been noted by others, kids are into repetition. I watched things like Star Wars, Clash of the Titans and Strange Brew ad nauseum. If they enjoy it and it's not offensive to me, they're welcome to watch it again.

    Letting your kid watch the same goddamn movie in a loop is about as stimulating as letting them stare at a wall.

    I agree. But watching the same movie once every Saturday becomes ad nauseum soon enough. And let's not forget that even if Dreamworks has given us some drivel, they also made Seabiscuit, a Best Picture nominee that my kids loved.

    No disrespect intended, but seriously... Want remarkable children? Learn to tell your kids no.

    None taken. As I said above, we mostly agree. Ask my kids if I know how to say no; these kids who also ask to watch Khan Academy and How It's Made, among other things.

  18. Re:It sounds great on Netflix Signs Exclusive Deal With Dreamworks · · Score: 4, Insightful

    But my kids will watch them over and over, ad nauseum.

  19. Re:The correct abbr. is WWII on How Volunteers Rebuilt WW2 Computers · · Score: 1

    I thought it was the Second Great War. Either way, amazing tech.

  20. xkcd has this covered on DOJ: We Can Force You To Decrypt That Laptop · · Score: 2

    http://xkcd.com/538/ Their mistake was waiting until it got to trial. Now this method is harder to use.

  21. Re:Social Product = $10million Funding on Andreesen Offers New Browser 'Rockmelt' · · Score: 1

    I'm going to create my new product - The "Social Toilet"

    Meh. It's been done. http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/4/23/

  22. Carhenge on All Your Stonehenge Photos Are Belong To England · · Score: 5, Funny

    Fine. I'll use pictures of Carhenge instead.

  23. Re:Multiple Inbox on GMail Introduces Priority Inbox · · Score: 1

    As of this moment, it's not. I even made some changes to my MI settings to test, and none show up.

  24. Re:Intriguing, but... on GMail Introduces Priority Inbox · · Score: 1

    I also use the "Multiple Inboxes" Labs add-on that gives me a second "inbox" that is defined to display only "starred" items

    That's exactly what I did. When I turned on Priority Inbox, it turned off the Multiple Inboxes, but now I have the equivalent of three inboxes -- Important & Unread, Starred, everything else. But the duplication is removed (previously, starred messages showed in both inboxes).

    All my rules still work. but if something is also caught by Priority flag, it goes to the top. If I read it and don't archive it, it moves to Starred or Everything Else based on whether my filters had starred it in the first place.

    Looks useful so far. We'll see. I may redo some of my star filters to flag for priority instead.

    I can also see this working as part of a GTD system -- it's sort of Action, Follow Up and everything else. But not quite. Still needs some tweaking for that to work right.

  25. Re:Pretension on ATM Hack Gives Cash On Demand · · Score: 2, Informative

    Submitter clearly has a case of RAS syndrome.