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  1. Re:Buggy whips and horses required design too... on What Air Conditioning Can Teach Us About Innovation and Laziness (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    and people who live there know how to drive in it.

    Let's not get carried away... My observation has been that most people who live here have to learn every year, based on the way they drive when the snow first starts. Same goes for all forms of precipitation.

  2. Re: I'd consider paying for Microsoft Linux. on Windows Phone Free-Fall May Force Microsoft To Push Harder On Windows 10 (pcworld.com) · · Score: 1

    PowerShell Remoting was made available in PowerShell 2.0 back in 2009. This allows you to execute local PS cmdlets against remote systems, or to launch an interactive shell via Enter-PSSession. PowerShell is now the foundation of all new local and remote administration tools available for Windows.

  3. Where was I? on 30 Years Since The Challenger Disaster: Where Were You? (space.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I was probably pooping myself at home. I was only seven months old.

  4. Re:Price for Windows 10? on Microsoft Releases Windows 10 Preview For Phones · · Score: 1

    Assuming you are referring to the desktop OS, Windows 10 will be offered for free as an upgrade to Windows 7 through 8.1 for the first year after release. Windows 10 for phones will be free as well.

  5. Re:As a Windows Phone user on Microsoft Releases Windows 10 Preview For Phones · · Score: 5, Informative
    They didn't make the choice to exclude anybody, there is a technical limitation. The reason this first release is only compatible with those six devices is because they are the only six on the market with system partitions large enough to handle the in-place upgrade process. The higher-end devices have less free space on the system partition. They have a solution for this problem, but it is not ready for deployment yet.

    Some context on why we chose these and not higher end phones like the 930/Icon or 1520: We have a feature that will be coming soon called “partition stitching” which will allow us to adjust the OS partition dynamically to create room for the install process to be able to update the OS in-place. Until this comes in, we needed devices which were configured by mobile operators with sufficiently sized OS partitions to allow the in-place upgrade, and many of the bigger phones have very tight OS partitions. Note that this doesn’t mean that Windows 10 will take more disk space than Windows Phone 8.1, it’s just a function of the upgrade process at this point. Once the partition stitching feature is completed, many more devices will be supported.

    Source: http://blogs.windows.com/blogg...

  6. Re:User-controlled updates? on Google Throws Microsoft Under Bus, Then Won't Patch Android Flaw · · Score: 2

    Windows Phone allows user-controlled updates. *ducks the multitude of flying Android handsets*

  7. Re:Unified Kernel on Microsoft Killing Off Windows Phone Brand Name In Favor of Just Windows · · Score: 1

    Not quite. It was renamed Windows Embedded Compact after CE 5.0. Versions 6, 7, and 2013 are still supported products; the latter until 2023. Windows Embedded Automotive is also based off of Embedded Compact.

  8. Re:The Phage on Newly Discovered Virus Widespread in Human Gut · · Score: 2

    Well played, sir. Never any mod points when you need them...

  9. IIS on Heartbleed OpenSSL Vulnerability: A Technical Remediation · · Score: 1

    Perhaps today is a good day to run IIS!

  10. Misleading headline? on Navy Creates Fuel From Seawater · · Score: 1

    While the verbiage is not inaccurate, the headline insinuates (and is reflected by the comments) that the seawater is consumed by this process. I'll admit that IANAC, but from what I read (yeah, I know...) the first step in this process only extracts CO2 from the seawater. The byproducts of that step are acidified seawater, hydrogen gas, sodium hydroxide, and carbon dioxide. Putting the CO2 aside, the rest of it can be recombined into seawater at it's original pH. Maybe I overlooked something?

  11. Oh goody on Tiny Motors Controlled Inside Human Cells · · Score: 1

    Now we just need equally diminutive compute resources to attach to them and some self-replicating abilities, then we can start our own Collective.

  12. Re:I can think of a few rea$on$ on Time Warner Cable: No Consumer Demand For Gigabit Internet · · Score: 1

    that's because it's waaaaaaaay overpriced.

    Exactly. I upgraded from 20x2 to 30x5 for a reasonable amount of money, ~$10 more per month. The upgrade from 30x5 to 50x5 was completely unacceptable, somewhere around $40+ more per month. I think I'll stick with 30x5, thank you very much.

  13. You aren't alone on What To Do When an Advised BIOS Upgrade Is Bad? · · Score: 1

    I went through this back when I was in high school. Compaq insisted that a BIOS update for my laptop would resolve an issue I was having with the PCMCIA slot under Windows 2000. The BIOS update bricked the motherboard, and the BIOS recovery procedures did not work. They then washed their hands of the problem because the laptop was out of warranty. To say that I was livid would be a gross understatement...at sixteen years old I didn't have the means to run out and buy a replacement. Laptops still cost $1200 at a minimum back then, and even ebaying an old used laptop would have cost $700+. I considered taking the issue to local media so that I could get some sort of response from Compaq, but ultimately decided it wasn't worth the effort (plus, you know, I was sixteen, so I figured I wasn't going to be taken seriously).

  14. Re:What is it about? on US Patent Office Invalidates Apple's "Rubber Banding" Patent · · Score: 1

    When you scroll past the end of the content in an app, it keeps scrolling until you pick up your finger. The content then visually bounces back to it's original constraints.

  15. Re:Translation on Parent Questions Mandatory High School Chemistry · · Score: 1

    they can't adjust, they can't get out of their box, they have little empathy or respect for people outside their domain

    I have those same tendencies, but I don't blame my local public high school for it. Lots of people are just assholes. It doesn't have to be specific to their educational background or chosen career field.

  16. Re:More Patents on Using Non-Newtonian Fluids To Fill Potholes · · Score: 1

    Potholes are an unavoidable fact of life on asphalt roads that exist in climates that experience Winter. Not a single asphalt road in my city has survived it's first Winter/Spring after being repaved during my lifetime. Some of our highways are completely concrete, and they usually look great for several years with only some minor maintenance needed. The constant freeze/thaw cycles and snow plow blades just aren't friendly to road surfaces.

  17. Re:Companies are obsessed with VPNs on Ask Slashdot: Recommendations For Linux Telecommuting Tools? · · Score: 1

    Some of us are subject to regulatory compliance and/or PCI-DSS. Accessing anything on my internal network from outside without two-factor authentication that is logged is a sure way to fail many kinds of external audits.

    Requiring the use of a VPN defines the single point of entry into your network. That's one point to monitor, secure, and administrate; not one for every server you want access to over the public Internet.

  18. Re:The Usual Suspects on Ask Slashdot: Recommendations For Linux Telecommuting Tools? · · Score: 1

    If you're trying to remote into a company LAN or VNC things then your main block is company IT policy rather than Linux capabilities

    Your main block for remote access to a company's internal network is more likely to be the vendor's operating system support, not company IT policy. The two VPNs I manage both support Windows, Macs, and Linux with (mostly) the same code. Unfortuantely that means it's Java based, and it has been very problematic because of that. On people's personal Linux installs, a combination of not following instructions and the version of Java they're running virtually guarantees that it won't work for them the first few times, if ever. In the case of Apple, every time they touch something in Safari or Java it screws up the applet in some way, requiring a reinstall of the program or waiting on a client patch for the VPN. The Windows version certainly isn't perfect either, but the issues there are known and easily fixable.