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  1. Re:Another Gap Filled. on Microsoft Closes Gap Between Windows 10 and Xbox One With "Crossplay" Plans · · Score: 1

    If it's Crossplay, then there is no gap.

  2. Didn't it say "3G *AND* LTE"? LTE usually refers to 4G.

  3. Re:The XP Killer? on Microsoft Fixes Critical Remotely Exploitable Windows Root-Level Design Bug · · Score: 4, Funny

    Everyone runs Admin on XP anyway, so privilege escalation is less of a problem than it could be.

  4. Re:Hum.... on Microsoft Reveals Windows 10 Will Be a Free Upgrade · · Score: 1

    Everyone who talks about ME and XP and the Even/Odd rule seems to forget the elephant in the room: Windows 2000. Really great operating system.

  5. Firefox jumped the shark on Firefox 35 Arrives With MP4 Playback On Mac, Android Download Manager Support · · Score: 1

    Firefox jumped the shark when they finally did away with a functional search bar. Now it's all about the forks, like Palemoon.

  6. Re:Older on Is Kitkat Killing Lollipop Uptake? · · Score: 1

    You got the version vulnerable to towelroot? If so, root that thing. If not, too bad...

  7. Kitkat itself was awful on Is Kitkat Killing Lollipop Uptake? · · Score: 1

    Kitkat itself was pretty bad. Kitkat was the first Android release that crippled your phone with the inability to use your SD card in apps, no matter what your phone maker intended. In order to make KitKat usable, you had to root it. No more phone updates for me, period.

  8. Re:No Fox News channel? on Dish Introduces $20-a-Month Streaming-TV Service · · Score: 2

    They were going to offer the history channel, got the package bundle all ready to go and everything, except ALIENS.

  9. Re:There is something to be said for E2E encryptio on Lizard Squad Targets Tor · · Score: 1

    You know the senders and receivers. That's what Tor tries to stop.

  10. Ah Tucows... on A Domain Registrar Is Starting a Fiber ISP To Compete With Comcast · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Ah...Tucows...
    Download anything from them and it will be loaded with extra adware with a very tricky sequence of clicks to not install any of it. Yes, this even means not agreeing what looks like a license agreement, but is actually an offer to install crap.

    I'd probably take even Comcast over them.

  11. Re:Nerd Point of Contention on Dad Makes His Kid Play Through All Video Game History In Chronological Order · · Score: 1

    There's nothing 3D about the 32x at all. It just provided a faster processor and frame buffer.

  12. Aspect ratio on The Case For Flipping Your Monitor From Landscape to Portrait · · Score: 1

    Portrait displays were great when monitors were still 4:3 aspect ratio rather than 16:9. You could get a desktop width of 1024, and be just like a standard monitor, except much taller. You can even see entire pages in your word processor. But if you rotate a 16:9 monitor, it just looks absurdly tall and hard to deal with.

  13. Update to IOS 7 on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Make a High-Spec PC Waterproof? · · Score: 1

    The answer of course is to update to IOS 7.

  14. ring king on Google Search Finally Adds Information About Video Games · · Score: 1

    Searched for the NES game "Ring King", examined the star ratings, but they were Rom sites and X-rated Newgrounds parodies instead of actual review sites.

  15. Good. on Systemd Adding Its Own Console To Linux Systems · · Score: 0

    Good. When you have some hairy kernel module that hasn't been touched in a long time, and has security holes because nobody's willing to change it, sometimes you just need something better.

  16. Standard remote access on Ask Slashdot: Remote Support For Disconnected, Computer-Illiterate Relatives · · Score: 2

    Use a SSH or VNC server, and also use a dynamic DNS client so you have a hostname instead of some random IP address, Then you can control the machine directly when it's online. VNC might be really slow over dialup though, you'd need to use Tight encoding with JPEG quality cranked all the way down to make it usable at all.

    I usually end up tunneling VNC over SSH, and the VNC server only allows connections through the tunnel.

  17. Needs a tiny joypad on Ask Slashdot: What Smartwatch Apps Could You See Yourself Using? · · Score: 1

    I think smartwatches need a tiny joypad that can be clicked in as an extra button, kind of like old cell phones had. This would greatly expand the potential for video games, since you can't do much on a tiny touchscreen.

  18. Windows 8 on Linus Torvalds: 'I Still Want the Desktop' · · Score: 1

    Windows 8 basically handed Linux an opportunity on a silver platter. Now they just need to make the desktop significantly better than what Microsoft is currently offering.

  19. Re:Always lock your phone! on $125,000 Settlement Given To Man Arrested for Photographing NYPD · · Score: 1

    Probably the $5 wrench solution to unlock the phone.

  20. Documentation can be opportunity for code review on Ask Slashdot: Should You Invest In Documentation, Or UX? · · Score: 1

    If nothing else, making documentation ensures that you get to check that your features are sane and make sense. Nothing like documenting something then realizing how stupidly it was written, then you can fix it so the documentation can be simpler.

  21. Charge + Ethernet on Reversible Type-C USB Connector Ready For Production · · Score: 1

    If I can power my laptop and get a network connection (powerline ethernet) over the same cable, that would be really sweet.

  22. Re:Hm on Nasty Business: How To Drain Competitors' Google AdWords Budgets · · Score: 1

    Adblock has element hiding, so if the web designer makes a or something, that's really easy to override the CSS on to make it invisible.

  23. And then when we elect that politician... on Steve Wozniak Endorses Lessig's Mayday Super PAC · · Score: 1

    "Cast it into the fire! Destroy it!"
    "No."
    And he kept the corrupt political system of big money. It should have ended that day, but evil was allowed to endure. There's no strength left in the world of Men. They're scattered, divided, leaderless.

  24. If you can't have space, you can have international ping times. Generate keys, deploy one in one place, one in the other, and keep bouncing messages off of each other.

  25. Why Non-commercial? on OpenPandora Design Files Released · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why not release it allowing commercial use, and let anyone manufacture it? Availability problems have always been a huge problem for the OpenPandora team.