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  1. Re:Without Mobile Firefox it's dead in the water. on OpenPhoenux Neo900 Bills Itself As Successor To Nokia's N900 · · Score: 1

    Which goes part of the way, but it still doesn't have a resistive touch screen and stylus.

  2. Re:Finally! on OpenPhoenux Neo900 Bills Itself As Successor To Nokia's N900 · · Score: 1

    I already put in €150
    I can't wait!

  3. Re:The keyboard is fine! However, the screen... on OpenPhoenux Neo900 Bills Itself As Successor To Nokia's N900 · · Score: 1

    No, the resistive screen is one of the best parts. I hate iphone/android capacitive screens!

    They might end up using a new battery, and the SoC at least should be more power efficient. Anyway, the n900 battery life is more a function of software than hardware.

  4. Re:3 line keyboard noooooo on OpenPhoenux Neo900 Bills Itself As Successor To Nokia's N900 · · Score: 1

    Agreed!

  5. Re:Why? on Ask Slashdot: Best/Newest Hardware Without "Trusted Computing"? · · Score: 1

    The NSA could just get Intel and AMD to include backdoors in their chips/chipsets, if you want to go down that route.

  6. Re:What? on Ask Slashdot: Best/Newest Hardware Without "Trusted Computing"? · · Score: 1

    They still have BIOS. If you turn off UEFI, you use the BIOS.

  7. Re:We are living in interesting times on Half of Tor Sites Compromised, Including TORMail · · Score: 0

    Only a moron would believe that.

  8. Re:The perfect is the enemy of the good. on Why PBS Won't Do Android · · Score: 1

    Yes, yes I read that. Don't make mobile web *apps*, make mobile web *sites*. Performance for mobile web sites is, or can be, fine.

  9. Re:The perfect is the enemy of the good. on Why PBS Won't Do Android · · Score: 2

    Of course they should not have an app. Use the goddamned web site! That is what we invented the web for! And we fought long and hard for web standards, so it works on any platform! But everyone wants to throw that away and have native apps for *every* *single* *site*, just so we can have more animations or whatever.

  10. Re:Reality is not FUD on Why PBS Won't Do Android · · Score: 1

    Exactly!

  11. Re:The perfect is the enemy of the good. on Why PBS Won't Do Android · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Personally, I wish all mobile apps for websites would die horribly. Mobile web works, and works pretty much everywhere.

  12. Re:By Thor's Hammer! on New Shrew Has Spine of Steel · · Score: 1

    How about Grignr?

  13. Re:Banning loose change? on Florida Law May Accidentally Ban Computers and Smartphones · · Score: 1

    I had no idea any major locations were still doing analog cable. Seattle and Corvallis, OR are all digital for years now. I figured if Corvallis was, most places were.

  14. Re:Banning loose change? on Florida Law May Accidentally Ban Computers and Smartphones · · Score: 1

    You have to pay the cable/satellite bill if you want to keep them...

  15. Re: florida's governor is a criminal on Florida Law May Accidentally Ban Computers and Smartphones · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This sounds like the story in, where was it, Ohio? Where "Internet Cafe" was basically slang/cover for "illegal casino".

  16. Re:Wealth economy on America's Second-largest Employer Is a Temp Agency · · Score: 1

    Good post, too bad I have no mod points right now

  17. Re:Not geek news... on Boeing 777 Crashes At San Francisco Airport · · Score: 1

    I think there are more suitable sources than Wired or Discovery News. Geek.com, Gizmag and Techcrunch I don't have enough info.

  18. Re:So guy or girl dosent matter? on Neuroscientist: First-Ever Human Head Transplant Is Now Possible · · Score: 1

    >And he was one racist mofo

    Uh, evidence? Aside from "The Sixth Column", he was paid to rework Cambell's story on that one. He tried to reduce the racism, but it is pretty integral to the story... He never agreed to another contract like that.

  19. Re:Wait, what? on Can Ride-Sharing Startup Lyft Survive the SoCal Heat? · · Score: 1

    And they have a stupid gimmick and really annoying ads all over FB (at least if you are in Seattle)

  20. Re:So guy or girl dosent matter? on Neuroscientist: First-Ever Human Head Transplant Is Now Possible · · Score: 1

    Heh, Heinlein was interested in a lot of things. Have you read his late stuff? (Time Enough for Love, To Sail Beyond the Sunset, etc...)

  21. Re:Reading skills on The Father of Civilization: Profile of Sid Meier · · Score: 1

    For 100+ year old stuff, I would say it is a lot less than 10%. 10% may have been good at the time, but some % fails to age well.

    And yes, I like Twain and Doc Smith's writing.

  22. Re:Meh.... on The Father of Civilization: Profile of Sid Meier · · Score: 1

    I am far from a teenager (31), but while I agree most modern bestsellers are junk, I certainly can't say I appreciate most of the "classics" over 100 years old. There are exceptions sure, like say Don Quixote (the first sally, especially). Genre fiction, and usually not from the (general) bestseller list, is usually the best place to go if you want something good to read.

    I like music a number of decades old (as well as bit of new stuff), but
    >Same thing if you think classical music is boring.

    Really? No. Classical music is pretty much the definition of boring. Sure it can sound nice, and it can be good for going to sleep, or for background music at a fancy restaurant or something. But it is definitely boring.

  23. Re:Meh.... on The Father of Civilization: Profile of Sid Meier · · Score: 1

    Not really a grunge person, but Nirvana was pretty good. Plenty of good rap out there too... Mostly the early stuff, and the underground stuff. 90s and 00s mainstream rap is mostly not so good. It just doesn't catch me like classic rock, but it is still good.

  24. Re:Meh.... on The Father of Civilization: Profile of Sid Meier · · Score: 2

    I *like* "Never Gonna Give You Up". Good song.

  25. Re:Meh.... on The Father of Civilization: Profile of Sid Meier · · Score: 1

    >Music from 2 decades ago is mostly stuff that nobody listens anymore (Yes, i know there are exceptions

    Damn right there are exceptions. Sure, I listen to some underground hip hop, and I listen to Deadmau5 and Booka Shade and so forth. Last night I went to a Barenaked Ladies concert. But mostly I listen to music from 60s and 70s, with some 80s and a bit of 50s thrown in. I was born in 1982.