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  1. Email support on VLC Acquiring Lots of New Features · · Score: 1

    Good candidate for Zawinski's law. This thing needs email support.

  2. Re:The thing that made the Sinclairs popular ... on Spectrum Vega: A Blast From the Past · · Score: 4, Informative

    Exactly. Ultimate have a long history of actively denying and taking down tape images and snapshots of their games. No Knigtlore, Underworld, Jetpac, Sabrewulf, Alien8 etc.

  3. Re: Keyboard on iOS 8 Review · · Score: 1

    Frustrating. I had to setup a friends iPad to connect to a network, couldn't easily tell if I was typing upper-case or lower-case for each character. Took a couple of attempts before realising that the keys don't change case on the screen keyboard.

  4. Re:Dial up can still access gmail on Ask Slashdot: Remote Support For Disconnected, Computer-Illiterate Relatives · · Score: 1

    This is a fair statement. Although I must chip in to state that the off-line gmail app for Chrome does a really nice job to cover that gap.

  5. Re:Off-site backups and Plex on Ask Slashdot: What To Do After Digitizing VHS Tapes? · · Score: 1

    This is a great solution. I'd have to add that Plex supports sync into whatever cloud system you have as well. You select which content you want duplicated and it takes care of the rest.

    I did the same as the original poster, converting lots of VHS and other dead media as best I could. Installing Sickbeard, NZBGet, Couch Potato, Headphones and a torrent server it's become quite a thing to behold. Using Plex with a couple of Chromecasts around the house really makes things easy. Chromecast and Plex get along with each other in a brilliant way. Best $35 ever spent. Even with the Netflix, HBO Go, iPlayer and a ton of other apps that just work.

  6. Apple KNOWS what its users want on Apple Outrages Users By Automatically Installing U2's Album On Their Devices · · Score: 3, Funny

    They know that ALL their users are U2 fans. Every. Single. One.

    And from this point on, if someone says they bought an iPhone you can say to their face that they are U2 fans, even if they deny it. Because Apple SAYS they are U2 fans, and to them that is the word of their god.

  7. Re:MAME on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Best Games To Have In Your Collection? · · Score: 1

    That's without the CHD's, add another 250+GB

  8. Re:Why are these numbers stored? on Credit Card Breach At P.F. Chang's · · Score: 1

    Exactly, there's no law to prohibit anyone from storing CC information, just a strong suggestion not to. Best practice preaches PCI/DSS compliance, but really it's the CC schemes that are broken. The schemes represent a compromise between convenience and 'security'. Here's an interesting Twitter stream: Need A Debit Card?, some even post photographs of both sides of the card and then wonder why their accounts are empty.

  9. Re:What is MPGe supposed to mean? on BMW Created the Most Efficient Electric Car In the US · · Score: 1

    Lightweights, I use FPHe: Furlongs per Hogshead equivalent...

  10. Re:So a fake pub with drinks and a place to sit on Fake Pub Studies Drinking Habits · · Score: 3, Funny

    Designing software on the back of a coaster is Science! More drinks!

  11. So a fake pub with drinks and a place to sit on Fake Pub Studies Drinking Habits · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Basically, a pub.

  12. Re:It'll be fun to watch. on OneDrive Is Microsoft's Rebranded Name For SkyDrive · · Score: 5, Funny

    InfiniteImprobabilityDrive, all you files become pictures of whales and petunias.

  13. Re:Use public DNS on How One Man Fought His ISP's Bad Behavior and Won · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Nope, even using Google's DNS won't save you: ISP's hijack DNS that aren't theirs

    For me I had to use DNSMASQ on my router and add: bogus-nxdomain=209.222.14.3 to stop Telstra from "helping" my DNS requests when using 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4...

  14. Makes we wonder about Japan and the nukes deployed on USAF Almost Nuked North Carolina In 1961 – Declassified Document · · Score: 1

    Maybe the two that the US dropped on Japan were the only two which detonated successfully? If generals are really that gung-ho about this stuff, then I don't call two bombs "Bombing the shit out of Japan"...

  15. Buy a wooden shack on Ask Slashdot: Starting From Scratch After a Burglary? · · Score: 1

    By a wooden shack in the forest, wear a hoodie, write cryptic letters to local, state and federal government, learn how to make pipe bombs and wait.

  16. Ant minions! on Ants Use Sound To Communicate · · Score: 1

    All I need is a comb.

    fetch me a beer from the fridge *strokes comb*

  17. How about a new kind of film on Valve and JJ Abrams Collaborating On Half-Life, Portal Movies · · Score: 2

    It'll be a tag-team effort, each cut frame directed by different directors in rotation:

    JJ Abrahms then Ewe Bol followed by Stephen Spielberg and then George Lucas. Over, and over again. It'll be like some kind of assisted suicide for theatre goers.

  18. Re:But why abrahms? on Valve and JJ Abrams Collaborating On Half-Life, Portal Movies · · Score: 1

    Why Abrahms? To stop Ewe Boll from making it.

  19. Re:Leave the units alone on USMA: Going the Extra Kilometer For Metrication · · Score: 1

    My pint it lead you insensitive clod!

  20. Re:"Valued"? on Steve Jobs' Yacht Impounded In Amsterdam · · Score: 1

    Plumb bows are terrible in rough weather, they tend to pull down into swell. The increased water line does improve speed though.

  21. Seriously? Mildura isn't exactly that remote. on Australian Police Warn That Apple Maps Could Get Someone Killed · · Score: 1

    I drive through there more than twice a year across the back of NSW up to the top of Queensland. Take the old Land Cruiser running LPG that way as there are gas stations along the A20 that have LPG at the pump. If I'm not driving that then I'd head up to Broken Hill then the drive through Bourke to Lightning Ridge. Be prepared, take an EPIRB, water, blankets, spare clothing and a spare battery + fuel. Great drive.

  22. Re: I can assure you... on Hello, I'm a Mac. And I'm a $248 Win8 PC. · · Score: 1

    The problem with this is the Unknown-Unknowns. You are currently protecting yourself against virus which attack through vectors you know about. The Known-Unknowns.

    There you go, applying a Donald Rumsfeldism to computer security on Slashdot. You are probably infected already, you just don't know it.

    Thank you, come again!

  23. Re:Is this a good design? on Steve Jobs' Yacht Revealed · · Score: 4, Informative

    I've built a few smaller boats with family, I have boat and ship builders and designers in my family and I can pretty much say they will complain about the shape of the bow for sure. A straight bow (or a plumb) is terrible for rough seas as it tends to pull down into oncoming waves. As for the flat chines, let's hope there's a decent stabiliser in the hull otherwise that's going to be one vomit inducing ride. As I can't see the total draft it doesn't show any tech below the water line. There maybe external stabilisers a couple of meters below the freeboard.

    I'm not a big fan of the high transom, I can understand the amount of stress that happens in that area, but from what I can tell, the structure shown seems to indicate a drawbridge extending out of the back so there must be a fair bit of reinforcement behind all that sheet metal to deal with the torque.

    To be honest, it looks more like a river cruiser than a blue water international cruiser. Maybe he intended it to drift around a local lake?

  24. Re:I assisted the AFP on one call on Regulators Smash Global Phone Tech Support Scam Operation · · Score: 1

    Yes. Wait, there's someone at the door...

  25. I assisted the AFP on one call on Regulators Smash Global Phone Tech Support Scam Operation · · Score: 5, Interesting

    They've rang us a number of times but the last time it came through with a caller ID, which was surprising. I've had a fair bit to do with VoIP here with Optus and I recognised that the number had a block ID which was reserved to Optus, so I used their block allocation lookup and found it allocated to a specific company with an ABN (Australian Business Number) and then rang my sales guy there to see what could be done to track them down. He was surprised and said he would pass it on to their internal scam monitoring department and within half and hour I received a call from them asking me about the call and asking if I would be prepared to talk to the Australian Federal Police, who then rang me 10 minutes after that and grilled me about the call too. Didn't hear anything more about it.