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  1. Re:Nope on Ask Slashdot: Are Post-Install Windows Slowdowns Inevitable? · · Score: 3, Informative

    wat?
    Many many applications write to HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software. Those actually go to C:\documents and settings\username\NTUSER.DAT.

  2. Re:WTF, Slashdot? on E3 2015: A Lot of Nostalgia For Old Games · · Score: 1

    Slashdot is dying, if they make it any worse, I'm leaving.

  3. Re:Verbatim vs. Reading Level on Ask Slashdot: Are There Any Search Engines Left That Don't Try To Think For Me? · · Score: 4, Informative

    Or just add "Google Verbatim" to your search engine list:
    http://mycroftproject.com/sear...

  4. Re:The five bullet points on Reasons To Use Mono For Linux Development · · Score: 2

    Fortunately, VB.NET can be decompiled as C# code.

  5. Visual C++ 6.0 on Ask Slashdot: A Development Environment Still Usable In 25 Years Time? · · Score: 1

    Well, here's a development environment that is still quite usable after 17 years. I'm talking about Visual C++ 6.0. If it still works 8 years later, than I guess it fits the criteria.

  6. Re:Why are "feature phones" still a thing? on Microsoft Hasn't Given Up On the Non-Smart Phones It Inherited From Nokia · · Score: 1

    Because carriers are assholes and charge you more for using a smartphone on their network than using a feature phone.

  7. "Up To" on Hackers Can Track Subway Riders' Movements By Smartphone Accelerometer · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Because 0% accuracy is also "Up To 92%" accuracy.

  8. 32MB on Google Developing 'Brillo' OS For Internet of Things · · Score: 1

    32MB is not "extremely limited hardware". I've programmed on devices with 32KB of RAM before.

  9. Big Rigs on Self-Driving Big Rigs Become a Reality · · Score: 1

    But can these self-driving Big Rigs pass through solid matter, travel at unlimited speeds while moving backwards, and climb steep hills as if they're nothing?

  10. There is App Ops, built into the OS in a hidden menu, but that has one of the worst user interfaces I've ever seen. It's pretty much unusable.

  11. Root phone, install hosts file, problem solved. Well, solved if you can root.

  12. Re:The SystemD marketing rolls on... on Ubuntu 15.04 Received Well By Linux Community · · Score: 2

    SystemD seems to be really nice, when I tested out Debian Jessie, it booted so much faster than what was there before. These kind of things leave a good first impression.

  13. Self-signed on Mozilla Begins To Move Towards HTTPS-Only Web · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Okay, but if you're going to do that, you might want to throw out all the incredibly dire warnings about self-signed certificates. Nobody should be forced to pay a cartel for SSL certificates.

    Instead, throw out the dire warnings when the self-signed certificates aren't correct, such as when it changes.

  14. Re:Fark isn't relevant on Interviews: Ask Fark Founder Drew Curtis a Question · · Score: 1

    Slashdot isn't relevant either, it's just some tech rag owned by Dice anyway.

  15. Re:Btrfs? on Debian 8 Jessie Released · · Score: 1

    Tried FreeBSD + ZFS in an emulator, one poweroff later, it won't boot anymore.

  16. Taste on Pepsi To Stop Using Aspartame · · Score: 1

    I find that drinks sweetened with Sucralose just taste better than drinks sweetened with Aspartame, so I think this is a good move.

  17. Invite Only on Google Insiders Talk About Why Google+ Failed · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It failed because anyone interested in joining couldn't join because it was Invite Only, then they stopped caring.

  18. Btrfs? on Debian 8 Jessie Released · · Score: 2

    Will Btrfs work well on this version? It says that the kernel is 3.16.7, and the newest kernel is 4 versions ahead, and the Btrfs wiki claims that it's best to use the newest kernel possible.

  19. Time Machine on Drought and Desertification: How Robots Might Help · · Score: 1

    Getting robots to help with desertification is a lot easier if you have a flying time machine, and can go to the future to get said robot, then send the robot back 400 years ago to replant all the trees.

  20. Re:Replace English with English! on Ask Slashdot: What Would a Constructed Language Have To Be To Replace English? · · Score: 2

    Sounds doubleplusgood to me.

  21. Re:Mono practically useless on Mono 4 Released, First Version To Adopt Microsoft Code · · Score: 1

    I've never seen WPF used before. Forms are used much more than WPF.

  22. Sysinternals on Microsoft Engineer: Open Source Windows Is 'Definitely Possible' · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Mark Russinovich is the guy who made the Sysinternals suite of programs, which are highly valuable utilities for your system. I've gotten great use out of Filemon and Procmon so many times.

  23. mcedit on GNU Nano Gets New Stable Release · · Score: 1

    I still use Midnight Comannder's editor (mcedit) whenever I need to edit text in a Linux terminal. I find it a lot more user-friendly than any other terminal-mode text editor.

    Vi is downright arcane. You need to hit i before you can type, and you need to hit Escape :wq to save and quit. Fortunately, it's not as bad as classic vi, where arrow keys don't exist, and you need to use ESC then hjkl, and backspace keys don't exist either, and you need to use ESC x.
    Meanwhile, in mcedit land, you just hit F9, which is clearly labelled as "pull down", and menus appear. You can see what your options are, and carry out commands. This is why GUIs are awesome, it shows you the possibilities.

  24. Re:This is a bug not a feature on New Crop of LED Filament Bulbs Look Almost Exactly Like Incandescents · · Score: 1

    For the TVs that interpolate frames to make up new intermediate frames, the motion is fake. It's content that didn't exist before, and is being generated by the TV.

  25. Re:Write-only code. on Was Linus Torvalds Right About C++ Being So Wrong? · · Score: 2

    Sounds like that goes back to the "lack of standard ABI" problem. C lets you specify exactly what you want explicitly, but C++ has no consistent ABI, you get different results depending on which compiler you use.