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  1. Re:Mikko on Hacking the D-Link DPH-128MS VOIP Phone · · Score: 1

    Like, maybe Linus Torvalds, born December 28, 1969 in Helsinki, Finland? ;)

    So he changed his name to mikko just to make this phone. That's one dedicated Finn.

  2. People are dumb or are they?? on Survey Reveals a Majority Believe "the Cloud" Is Affected by Weather · · Score: 1

    If there is an outage it would. So they are kind of right, but mostly its just people being stupid. I bet there are other topics where if you surveyed /. 51% or more would answer in the same kind of way these people did.

  3. A Different VM on Polish Researcher: Oracle Knew For Months About Java Zero-Day · · Score: 1

    But Oracles VM is OpenJDK right? Why not just fork it and mantain an updated patched version?

  4. Re:Window 8 game plan - tablets first? on CowboyNeal Weighs In On the Windows 8 "Metro" GUI · · Score: 2

    I have no way of knowing, but I would guess Microsoft expects Windows 8 to be adopted by Surface/tablet users first. Windows 7 will be the enterprise desktop of choice for some time. If things go according to Microsoft's plan, a few years from now users will be comfortable with the UI formerly known as Metro. Then the enterprise will migrate to Windows 9+ with whatever refinements it has. Whether this works or not, we shall see.

    That makes logical sense except for the fact that after windows 8 ships you won't be able to get a regular desktop with 7 in the normal routes. They positioned it wrong for that.

  5. Re:I'm wondering about the other side on Wikipedia Edits Forecast Romney's Vice Presidential Pick · · Score: 1

    I'm wondering who Obama's running mate will be.

    If you go by the fact that at the convention the vp speaks before and inttroduces the president then we will see good old saxaphone playing Bill Clinton as Obamas VP. Sounds like fun.

  6. Re:So if programming now is a REAL sport . . . on The World's Greatest Competitive Programmer · · Score: 1

    . . . which drugs are we supposed to take, to improve our performance? Will they institute doping controls?

    All REAL sports have drugs. If your sport does not involve drug enhanced performance, it isn't a REAL sport.

    As you should all know it's alcohol .

  7. Re:Triple? and also - selection bias on Vietnamese Bank Issues Fingerprint-Enabled Debit Cards · · Score: 1

    That is exactly what the point of the statement was. Banks want to have people with large accounts, implementing the print scanners on the cards increased the number of large accounts they have, therefore increasing the bank's profitability. It's probably taken directly out of a press release full of self-praise for what a great decision it was, which explains why the intent of the statement got so muddled.

    Exactly the point was to say that the decision was good for the bank. I've used fingerprint scanners in the past, and I have to wonder if the higher balances are from people not being able to take their money out versus actually having wealthier customers given how finkiky these scanners can be.

  8. Re:Shills aren't new on The Underground Economy of Social Networks · · Score: 2

    Bulk shills are. Welcome to the future, where the difference between a valid viewpoint and an astroturfed attempt to hornswaggle you out of your own money and political power has shrunk to the imperceptible.

    That's why Mitt has to use them. Not very many of the people who *actually* agree with him are competent enough to use the "new fangled internets" and yet her feels he must seem as if they are.

  9. Re:Riding off into the sunset on How Haiku Is Building a Better BeOS · · Score: 1

    I agree completly. The point is that they are doing it and that is cool. Will have to try it one day.

  10. Re:Finally! on AT&T Killing Its 2G Network By 2017 · · Score: 1

    I no longer have to worry about my crappy call-dropping 2G coverage since it has since been replaced by my crappy call-dropping 3G coverage which is now being replaced by my crappy call-dropping 4G coverage.

    Not only that but with a larger phone and less battery life. Progress is awesome.

  11. Re:Why not? on US Missile Defense Staff Told To Stop Watching Porn · · Score: 2

    Not that this is really news worthy but who cares if they are watching porn? This is a legitimate job that has to be staffed 24/7 and probably requires about 20min worth of total combined labor in a typical year. Being the military that is increased to maybe a few days labor worth of redundant checklists over the course of the year.

    Having done jobs where your sole purpose most of the time is just to be there waiting I understand the lack of things to do. Still Gotta love the fact that beyond the normal workplace squimishness their main concern was viruses and malware, which porn sites have actually gotten a lot better about policing these days.

  12. Re:Microsoft marketing on Microsoft Drops 'Metro' Name For Windows 8 UI · · Score: 1

    "Windows 8 Style UI" doesn't quite have the catchiness that Metro and Cocoa do, not to mention how old applications using this will sound in Windows 9...

    Yes But then what will exist to remind people that they are running legacy apps. XP Mode, Classic Desktop?

  13. Re:Hopefully Samsung's gig is up on Apple Asks Court To Sanction Samsung; Samsung Fires Back; More iPhone Prototypes · · Score: 3, Interesting

    As far as phones and tablets go the technology changed. Apple just wasn't going to do anything until It could make it the way it wanted to. Samsung was already making phones and tablets with the technology that was available at the time. It didn't allow for the designs that apple wanted hence they waited. Samsung did not copy they were infact just changing their designs to utilize the best materials and desgn that new research, parts etc, made possible. As they are showing they were already headed that way long before the iphone.

  14. Re:Bite my shiny metal ass! on Voting System Test Hack Elects Futurama's Bender To School Board · · Score: 1

    I hope not. Then people might learn he can't run being a Mexican citizen.

  15. Re:I'm Scruffy, the janitor on Voting System Test Hack Elects Futurama's Bender To School Board · · Score: 1

    Go scruffy. Scruffy Believes in this school board.

  16. Re:Good Idea on Microsoft 'Ribbonizes' Windows 8 File Manager · · Score: 1

    Doesn't that go with everything? As soon you get used to it, then you will work faster. Ribbons aren't a solution. As it was before ribbons, I was already doing quite fine. Ribbons have not done my work any faster and I doubt it ever will to most users.

    Not really. Getting used to it is the portion that will always be slower because you don't know where buttons are. As for me I tend to use the same tab a lot especially in word. The current tab stays up which allows faster access to the functions versus a menu which will close each time you click on an action thus making you open it again. Hence why it's slower before you get used to it.

  17. Good Idea on Microsoft 'Ribbonizes' Windows 8 File Manager · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I know a lot of people hate it, I did the first time I used it, but I now think the ribbon is actually a better interface. Once you know where things are it does make you work faster. Especially when you are using items that are in the same tab of the ribbon, or same menu of the old style. While there may not be as many benefits to the ribbon in explorer as there were in Office, I'm all for them putting it everywhere they can.

  18. Re:Taco leaves and the place goes to Hell. on Do You Want Best Buy Opening Your New Laptop? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Taco leaves and the place goes to Hell.

    Couldn't have said it better myself.

  19. Thanks on Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot · · Score: 0

    Thanks and good luck. It was time well wasted. Pants or no.

  20. Re:Reality check on UK Police Arrest 12 Over Facebook Use Inciting Riots · · Score: 0

    They shot and killed an innocent man. They caused the riots, not the people complaining about it. This asshole needs to be beaten with a clue-stick.

    No there were regular protests then other people decided to come in and use it as an excuse to loot. Thus inciting.

  21. Re:Take a good look... on UK To Shut Down Social Networks? · · Score: 1

    Obviously the fires from the riots are the signal fires.

  22. Re:Take a good look... on UK To Shut Down Social Networks? · · Score: 1

    It's gonna be happening here, too. We'd better start coming up with alternative ways to communicate, ..

    I suggest cup and string, signal flags, signal fires, and messenger pigeons.

  23. Re:My Mailbox at Home is Full on Court Rules Sending Too Many Emails Is "Hacking" · · Score: 1

    My physical mailbox at home is kind of small and when I go on vacation it can get full to the point of no longer being able to put more mail in. Do I get to go after Capital One or any/all of the other habitual mail spammers now? If not, why? Because this Act only covers electrons flowing through wires and not physical items physically limiting my mailbox?

    Its called a vacation hold at the post office or having a neighbor bring in your mail. Though that brings up the issue of direct mail and junk mail which is a whole other can of *very* smelly worms.

  24. Re:Any new information is good... on Dashboard Avatar To Replace Car Owner's Manuals · · Score: 1

    ... but, please, for the love of Elbereth, don't make it cute and avatar-y.

    I don't need cute, especially when my car is broken. I want to know what the fuck is wrong.

    Exactly but that still doesn't mean I can fix it. That's what my girlfriend's brother is for.

  25. Re:Overcomplicate much? on Dashboard Avatar To Replace Car Owner's Manuals · · Score: 1

    Or in other words “our cars require maintenance and/or break down so frequently that we have spent a nautical ass-tonne of money developing a automotive equivalent of clippy for you!”?

    Exactly and since its German it will also yell at you if you miss a routine servicing.