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  1. Re:Rootless? on Remote Desktop Backend Merged into Wayland · · Score: 1

    For one, they do smart bitmap-caching. VNC is screen-shots only (using some sensing of what has changed on the screen to send the diffs)

    So what's smart bitmap-caching then, if not (as I'm only naively guessing based on the name) "using some sensing of what has changed on the screen to send the diffs"?

  2. Re:Collateralized vs Non-Collateralized Loans on Let Them Eat Teslas · · Score: 3, Funny

    Quite frankly, if he wasn't dead, I'd have him expelled.

  3. Re:Police, Fire Brigade, Truncheon, Axe... on Cyber Criminals Tying Up Emergency Phone Lines Through TDoS Attacks, DHS Warns · · Score: 2

    No, it's clearly more like holding the owner responsible if someone steals the car and crashes it into another vehicle, isn't it?

  4. Re:For the non Blackberry owners, BBM means: on BlackBerry 10 Can BBM Anything You're Watching, Even Porn · · Score: 1

    RTFA is easier

    Rim Tony's Fruity Artechoke?

  5. Re:For the non Blackberry owners, BBM means: on BlackBerry 10 Can BBM Anything You're Watching, Even Porn · · Score: 1

    rim employment or jobs

    There's a conjunction that could use some clarifying punctuation.

  6. Re:DownThemAll on Firefox 20 Arrives With Per-Window Private Browsing, New Download Manager · · Score: 3, Funny

    They should put an email client in there too! That'd be sweet!

  7. Re:Damn, I missed it on Magician & Investigator James Randi Talks Directly to You (Video) · · Score: 3, Informative

    I have the "ability" to affect *some* street lights. It's always the same ones *but* it doesn't always work.

    *facepalm* Otherwise known as dodgy street lights which would be going on and off even if you weren't around, only then you're not around to see it.

  8. Re:I would buy a Steam Box if... on Valve Starts Publishing Packages For Its Own Linux Distribution · · Score: 1

    I'm sure Steam

    Valve. I meant Valve!

  9. Re:I would buy a Steam Box if... on Valve Starts Publishing Packages For Its Own Linux Distribution · · Score: 1

    2) If the Steam Box software works on any distribution you so install.

    I'm sure Steam will relish the job of maintaining their software on, and providing support to the users of, every distribution. Lucky there's not many of them, then!

  10. Re:This is Infrastructure stuff, folks on IEEE Launches 400G Ethernet Standards Process · · Score: 1

    Usage per device has gone up quite a bit, which has an impact.
    The increase in the number of connected devices has had an impact.
    Add the two together....

    Multiply, actually.

  11. Re:XL T-shirt on Apple Loses the iPad Mini Trademark · · Score: 1

    It's only like that if that same someone already had a trademark on "LargeT-shirt" and are suddenly being challenged because they put the word "Extra" in front of it, which seems ridiculous to me.

  12. Re:scientific literacy along with general educatio on Does Scientific Literacy Make People More Ethical? · · Score: 1

    That's only your opinion, and there is no evidence to back it up.

  13. Re:Nature? on New Camera Sensor Filter Allows Twice As Much Light · · Score: 1

    That sort of is what they do. In a normal CCD there are two green pixels for every red or blue. Green is the frequency we're most sensitive to, so is (fairly close to) a "brightness" measurement. This new sensor has come a little closer since they have white+ pixels (twice as many as the other colour pixels) as well.

  14. Re:Well, in my line of work on Does Scientific Literacy Make People More Ethical? · · Score: 1

    Thank you, I'm here all week. Whether you like it or not.

  15. Re:Well, in my line of work on Does Scientific Literacy Make People More Ethical? · · Score: 1

    Wrong question. "Where can I get fuck magnets???" is the correct one. I'm assuming you wanna get laid like the rest of us?

    Not if I'm a long-standing fuck magnet connoisseur striking up conversation with another. I'm more than happy with my Penetron 3000, but I know those in the industry prefer the Klunge-O-Matic.

  16. Re:scientific literacy along with general educatio on Does Scientific Literacy Make People More Ethical? · · Score: 2

    practically everyone

    That is not, by any means, a measure of objective truth.

    What makes those who would disagree about torture for fun objectively wrong?

  17. Re:Well, in my line of work on Does Scientific Literacy Make People More Ethical? · · Score: 2

    And I'm still trying to figure out how the fuck magnets work!

    Where did you get your fuck magnets from? I had no idea it was so high-tech!

  18. Re:Not going to work any time soon. on Iranian Lab's Quadcopters To Rescue Swimmers · · Score: 2

    Just some facts.

    Care to post your qualifications first?

    The range of these battery powered drones with pay-load(1.5kg) would be around 8 minutes, regardless of battery size.

    Where'd you get those numbers from?

    Bigger battery = heavier = more power needed to move around and stay airborne

    Bigger battery also = more power available, so...

    4 minutes out @ 20mph (unlikely in real world conditions) is 1.3 miles or 2.1 km.

    Who says these things only go at 20mph? And how is (as you appear to be implying) 2.1 km not far enough?! These things could easily save lives within a few hundred metres of shore or an off-shore installation like an oil rig. Oh, also, because I did some reading, I found out that they're designed to soft splash into water when they run out of juice to be recovered later, so you can double whatever number you've invented.

    30 minutes to recharge (assuming the wireless charging works at top speed)

    And also assuming a) that the charging is wireless and also b) that it does actually take 30 minutes to recharge. And this is hardly a problem at all unless people start drowning more than once every 30 minutes. And there's always the battery swap option.

    And they will not work when winds are over 20 mph.

    Who says?

    Why must someone always dump on every prototype? Does it make them feel smart?

  19. Orly? on Why Your Next Phone Will Include Biometric Security · · Score: 1

    it is an almost certainty that within the next few years, three biometric options will become standard features in every new phone

    Yeah? Who says?

  20. Re:The worst thing on New Facebook-Branded Android Coming? · · Score: 1

    I think GP means a physical keyboard. I've seen them called "qwerty keyboards" all over the place, which is of course silly.

  21. Re:So, on New Facebook-Branded Android Coming? · · Score: 1

    One of the best selling phones in my country before the iPhone came out actually had a Facebook button, yes a whole button dedicated to it.

    Because people wanted it, or because Facebook paid to have it put there?

  22. Re:So, on New Facebook-Branded Android Coming? · · Score: 2

    I was a resource hogging, battery sucking piece of crap with a lousy interface.

    But you got better?

  23. Whut? on How Could Swarms of Robots Help Humanity? · · Score: 1

    They believe that this could provide opportunities for us mere humans to harness such power to do all sorts of things like safety

    En anglais, s'il vous plait.

    what like catching falling workers perhaps?

    Oy vey.

  24. Re:You're not kidding on Bitcoin Currency Surpasses 20 National Currencies In Total Value · · Score: 1

    If you wouldn't have invested 90 cent on bitcoin and it's now $100 a coin, you're a complete idiot.

    Only if you own a time machine.

  25. Re:Slashdot abuse alert... apk on Laser Fusion's Brightest Hope · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Who's the more moronic? The original moron, or the one who replies to him knowing full well his comment will certainly be ignored, if not entirely unread, thus bringing the insane troll post to the attention of those who would otherwise not have seen it at all (seeing as it started at 0 and would have rapidly been modded down to -1) and whose post (and, somewhat ironically I grant you, this one as well) now requires 3 more mod points to be spent to hide it?