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  1. Re:Similar functionality to what? on Short Notice: LogMeIn To Discontinue Free Access · · Score: 1

    Ask your ISP how that IPv6 roll out is coming along.

    The answer, when it comes to most IPs, is "badly."

    It means you have a firewall, but you don't know how to use it and some random software can magically bypass it.

    It can "magically bypass it" because it makes an outgoing connection to a central server. People, in general, allowing themselves outgoing connections, and connections made on their behalf by software they install. That doesn't mean they don't know how to use their firewalls.

  2. Re:Good on Short Notice: LogMeIn To Discontinue Free Access · · Score: 1

    Not a bad start, but it's hardly going to be the "it just works" of Teamviewer or LogMeIn.

    Some combination of UPnP and DDNS is all you need.

    In a situation where HFS will "just work," so would a standalone VNC server, wouldn't it?

  3. Re:eh? on Rosetta Probe Awakens, Prepares To Chase Comet · · Score: 2

    Landing on a high-speed small comet versus a giant planet, seems more difficult to me.

    Both targets will be/were travelling at close to relatively zero at landing time.

    The lack of gravity and atmosphere might make the comet easier.

  4. Re:Good on Short Notice: LogMeIn To Discontinue Free Access · · Score: 1

    there are some very simple ways to make this work for non-technical people.

    Such as?

  5. Re:create a secure computer on Sniffing and Decoding NRF24L01+ and Bluetooth LE Packets For Under $30 · · Score: 2

    Someone digs in from miles away, steals the computer - you forgot to pour any concrete in before the computer, and even if you did they could take their time cutting through it - and you're completely oblivious to the crime. I'd put it in a glass box at the top of a greasy pole in the middle of the gun-toters.

  6. Re:Not the first time by a long shot on Ball Lightning Caught On Video and Spectrograph · · Score: 1

    ...all of which would have padded the summary out to a decent length and been highly informative!

  7. Re:Use opens source on Short Notice: LogMeIn To Discontinue Free Access · · Score: 1

    Easy

    That's entirely subjective, and you're not logmein's target audience. Where's the open source solution that's so simple that your hunt-and-peck-typing grandad can use?

  8. Re:Good on Short Notice: LogMeIn To Discontinue Free Access · · Score: 1

    we can and should develop our own VPN solutions...

    This isn't a VPN solution.

    ...free of corporate constraints.

    Apart from, y'know, the necessity of the central server which is what makes it work so simply and easily for non-technical users.

  9. Re:Similar functionality to what? on Short Notice: LogMeIn To Discontinue Free Access · · Score: 2

    No pissing around with NAT and firewalls, for a start.

  10. Re:alternatives on Short Notice: LogMeIn To Discontinue Free Access · · Score: 1

    a special service that allows you to upload a file on the appropriate creator online and get the program version already compiled.

    Well that sounds like a terrible idea - submitting your username/password - even encryption keys (optional) - to a third party so you can get your one-click executable?

    At the end ricompattiamo all in a file NomeDiNostroGradimento.zip, carichiamolo online and wait a few seconds.

    The rest of the documentation is about as comprehensible as this snippet.

  11. Re:This makes no sense ... on Candy Crush Maker King.com Has Trademarked 'Candy' For Games · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    How can you copyright the word 'Candy' for trademark?

    Microsoft can only trademark "Windows" in their specific context

    Is "computer games" more specific than "operating systems"?

  12. Re:New MS business plan on HP Brings Back Windows 7 'By Popular Demand' As Buyers Shun Windows 8 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Windows NT - doesn't fit the pattern so people ignore it
    Windows 2000 - doesn't fit the pattern so people ignore it

  13. Why is it so surprising? Also, $1 million? on Short Notice: LogMeIn To Discontinue Free Access · · Score: 5, Insightful

    made all the more surprising by the fact that 'consensus revenue estimates for LogMeIn in 2014 are $190.3 million,' suggesting that their system of providing both free and paid accounts for what is ultimately a straightforward service that could be duplicated for well under $1 million was already doing quite well.

    Why is it surprising that a company might want to do better than "quite well" when it sees the opportunity?

    Also:

    what is ultimately a straightforward service that could be duplicated for well under $1 million

    Go on then. Or was that number just pulled out of someone's behind?

  14. For what, exactly?

  15. Re:For. Fuck's. Sake. on Ball Lightning Caught On Video and Spectrograph · · Score: 1

    Well, whoops :*

  16. For. Fuck's. Sake. on Ball Lightning Caught On Video and Spectrograph · · Score: 1

    Ball lightning caught on video

    Wow! I sure would like to see that. Luckily this is the internet, where the magic of hypertext means information can be linked to quickly and easily.

    Hmm? There's no link to the video in the summary, you say? Well that's not very good.

    Hmm? There's not even a link to the video in the article? Slashtwats.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

  17. Re:Not the first time by a long shot on Ball Lightning Caught On Video and Spectrograph · · Score: 2

    and [...] spectrograph

    It's just another poorly worded summary.

  18. Re:Spell it out the first time on Linus Torvalds: Any CLA Is Fundamentally Broken · · Score: 1

    Because samzenpus doesn't read what he's given.

  19. Ask Slashdot: how do you convince an ISP to bury cable in your neighborhood?

    Is that a euphemism for something...?

    At least it wasn't "backyard."

  20. Which Korea? on Robot Tourism Coming Soon To Korea: Robot Land Project Breaks Ground · · Score: 1

    Granted, it's fairly easy to guess (though you never know what Krazy Kim's planning), but there are two of them. The one this story is talking about is called South Korea. That's its name. It's not called "Korea."

    Just trying to instil a sense of professional journalism here...

  21. Re:Is this a cuteness thing? on 200 Dolphins Await Slaughter In Japan's Taiji Cove · · Score: 1

    Yes. I will admit, I enjoying hunting.

    That wasn't the question...

    I would not kill a creature I did not intend to eat though, unless it was to serve a purpose, such as killing a coyote.

    But you answered it anyway, in that you don't take pleasure from the isolated act of ending an animal's life, which could possibly be inferred from your original post.

    Snakes serve no purpose

    Baby snakes would disagree!

    owning a snake is puerile.

    Why? People keep fish.

  22. Yet another ambiguous headline on US Geneticist Discusses North Korea Trip With Dennis Rodman · · Score: 1

    US Geneticist Discusses North Korea Trip With Dennis Rodman

    I expect they probably did have a chat about it at some point, yeah.

    Honestly, I thought that J. Random Geneticist had scooped an interview.

  23. On the fly? on New Object Recognition Algorithm Learns On the Fly · · Score: 1

    New object recognition algorithm learns on the fly

    I know wearable computing is the next big thing but putting one there - especially if it has a camera attached - is going to look a little bit... weird.

  24. Re:Is this a cuteness thing? on 200 Dolphins Await Slaughter In Japan's Taiji Cove · · Score: 1

    I like killing and eating geese and pheasants

    You like killing and eating them, or you like eating them and are at ease with the necessity of killing them first to enable the eating?

  25. FreeBSD... on FreeBSD 10.0 Released · · Score: 2

    ...that's the one that's a bit like Linnux but not quite, right?