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  1. Spreadsheets destroy data on Why You Shouldn't Use Spreadsheets For Important Work · · Score: 1

    Spreadsheets tend to mess with strings that look somewhat like a date, it will automatically convert it to a date when it sees things like that. You need to be really careful about spreadsheets automatically reformatting your data, make sure you properly indicate whether a field is Text or not.

  2. Re:American? on American Judge Claims Jurisdiction Over Data Stored In Other Countries · · Score: 2
  3. Paging file? on Stung By File-Encrypting Malware, Researchers Fight Back · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Okay, stupid question time...
    If someone took a disk image during the time when the virus was in the process of encrypting files, would it be possible to find the key in the paging file?

  4. Final Hallway 13 on Final Fantasy XIV Failed Due To Overly Detailed Flowerpots · · Score: 1

    So how did this game compare with Final Hallway 13?

  5. ILSpy on Ask Slashdot: Reviewing 3rd Party Libraries? · · Score: 1

    This is not a security analyzer, but ILSpy is the .NET decompiler that I currently use. Red Gate .NET Reflector went commercial only, so this is what's left.

  6. Why does Wikimedia hate batteries? on FLOSS Codecs Emerge Victorious In Wikimedia Vote · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Mobile devices have efficient hardware support for codecs like H.264, and using something else takes a toll on battery life.

  7. Jumped the shark on Mozilla To Show Sponsored Links To First-Time Firefox Users · · Score: 1

    Firefox has jumped the shark.

  8. Re:Still using it on Eclipse Foundation Celebrates 10 Years · · Score: 1

    You must be exaggerating, since GW-BASIC required you to manually type in line numbers, just like on an Apple II. Eclipse may be bloated and sluggish, but at least you don't need to type in line numbers.

  9. Re:HOSTS file on Ask Slashdot: Are AdBlock's Days Numbered? · · Score: 1

    But in practice, they're not. Ads are distinguishable from the content, and that's why Adblock works.

  10. Re:Almost there.... on Eye Tracking Coming To Video Games · · Score: 1

    Sometimes, you need to look at one thing and type into another, and that would just get in the way.

  11. How about making the Canvas tag not suck on Asm.js Gets Faster · · Score: 1

    How about making the Canvas tag not suck?
    Seriously, you can give it the most simple test (draw an image every frame, or fill a rectangle), and it will run unacceptably slow. For comparison, a simple Win32 program that changes the background color of a maximized window once per frame has very low CPU usage, but a simple Javascript program that flashes a canvas red and blue every other frame uses 100% CPU usage if the canvas is 1024x768.
    Until the canvas isn't the bottleneck anymore, Javascript graphical programs will continue to suck, and no amount of ASMJS magic will help with that bottleneck.

  12. Happy with core 2 duo on IDC: PC Shipments Decline Worse Than Forecasted, No Recovery Expected · · Score: 1

    I'm still happy with my Core 2 duo machine, and don't have a dire need for anything newer.

  13. Re:Mozilla could at least adopt WebP.. on Mozilla's 2012 Annual Report: 90% of Revenue Came From Google · · Score: 1

    A member of the x264 team really doesn't like WebP because its quality isn't good enough.

  14. Re:Slashdot is dead. on Ars Checks Out CyanogenMod's New Installer · · Score: 2

    Has Netcraft confirmed it?

  15. Old version of PcHelpware on Ask Slashdot: Easy, Open Source Desktop-Sharing Software? · · Score: 1

    I use a custom build of the old version of PcHelpware, from the creators of UltraVnc. Not the new version, but the old version. The old version of PcHelpware lets me pick the port number, so I can get through restrictive firewalls that only allow well-known port numbers.

    However, it's still a bit buggy on Vista/Windows 7, specifically, it crashes whenever a UAC prompt appears. I made a workaround for this, I replaced the main EXE with a stub version that disables UAC when you run it, and reenables UAC after it exits. I also got rid of the Login and Password prompt, because it's completely nonsensical and worthless.

    When you want to support a PC, you just tell someone to download the EXE from your website, and run it. And guide them through the process of adding it to Norton's or Mcafee's exclusion list, reassuring Internet Explorer that it's okay to open EXE files, etc.

  16. Re:Will Google host their own banners? on Google Testing Banner Ads On Select Search Results · · Score: 1

    Element hiding helper for Adblock Plus helps against the first party ads, since it hides elements on the pages, making the ads never appear or load. Of course, it's much easier to use when the ads say .

  17. Non-centering joystick on Valve Shows How Steam Controller Works In Real Life · · Score: 1

    So for several of the games, the left trackpad seems to be equivalent to a non-centering joystick or Turbo Touch 360 (touch-sensitive gamepad for NES/Genesis, etc).
    The non-centering joystick of the Atari 5200 got really bad reviews, and the Turbo Touch 360 was rated the 9th worst video game controller of all time by IGN.

  18. My speed on 802.11ac 'Gigabit Wi-Fi' Starts To Show Potential, Limits · · Score: 1

    I'm getting 7-9 MB/sec with my 802.11ac adapter, whether on the 2.4GHz band or the 5GHz band. So at least the theoretical speed of wireless G is finally real.
    It is much faster than the 2.5MB/sec I was getting on the so-called "a/b/g/n" adapter.

    For comparison, on actual gigabit ethernet, I get about 88-100MB/sec.

  19. Use this as your site layout and I leave. on Come Try Out Slashdot's New Design (In Beta) · · Score: 1

    If you make this the preferred site layout, I'll simply leave Slashdot. You have competition now, don't fuck up.

  20. Re:quite a few browsers? on New Animated PNG Creation Tools Intend To Bring APNG Into Mainstream Use · · Score: 2, Informative

    Because PNG beats the pants off of GIF in terms of file size.

  21. So it's basically an inferior SWF on New Animated PNG Creation Tools Intend To Bring APNG Into Mainstream Use · · Score: 0

    SWF is a much better file format for animated raster images. You can define an image, put it on the stage multiple times, and move it around and apply affine transformations to it. You don't need to store tons of raw pixel data.
    It's also an inferior version of video, since if you're using an animated image to store short video clips, you don't get the benefit of motion compensation and strong compression.

  22. Re:Sucky thing about digital on Xerox Confirms To David Kriesel Number Mangling Occuring On Factory Settings · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The old analog process had nowhere to put the scanned image except onto another piece of paper. This is about scanning and performing bad lossy compression on the scanned documents badly, not copying. Copying is still high quality.

  23. Tomorrow Never Dies on GPS Spoofing With $3000 Worth of Equipment and a Laptop · · Score: 0

    Didn't this kind of thing happen in that James Bond film, Tomorrow Never Dies?

  24. The hashes are salted on Ubuntu Forum Security Breach · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The hashes are salted. Who cares about a breach with salted hashes?

  25. Re:Isn't there a "I swear it's all true" requireme on HBO Asks Google To Take Down "Infringing" VLC Media Player · · Score: 2

    The "I Swear It's All True" requirement is to say that you are authorized by the copyright holder to send out the notice, not that the item actually infringes.