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  1. Re:the Edsels keep on coming on Google Glass Is Dead, Long Live Google Glass · · Score: 1
    Anybody can purchase Glass right now, there is no applying to buy anymore.

    It says that it's in Beta, but isn't google notorious for just leaving things in beta? Wasn't GMail in beta for like, a decade or so?

  2. I'm color blind. I could make a patch cord, it would probably work, but don't expect it to have the right color patterns...

  3. Wait, how is this possible? on Apple Awarded Gesture-Control Patent · · Score: 1

    Are they patenting a specific sensor apparatus here, or is it just raising your hand? I could understand if it's a specific type of sensor, but patenting something like raising your hand is ridiculous. Especially when we had non tactile motion controls on mainstream things like the PS2 as far back as 2003. If this is just a gesture, how in the hell does that warrant a patent?

  4. Re:General direction vs. specific direction on Apple Awarded Gesture-Control Patent · · Score: 5, Funny

    They say 8 inches, but they probably only mean 5 and a half...

  5. I would rather have on Lawrence Krauss On Scientists As Celebrities: Good For Science? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Scientists become celebrities than celebrities becoming scientists (Jenny McCarthy for one)...

  6. Re:Download from the source on How To Hijack Your Own Windows System With Bundled Downloads · · Score: 1
    They just do a Google search, and click the first result (usually an ad that's practically guaranteed to be something bad.)

    And the search is performed by searching for google.com in the search bar on their home page, (even if some form of google is their home page) putting the actual URL into the search field on google...http://tech.slashdot.org/story/15/01/13/1513247/how-to-hijack-your-own-windows-system-with-bundled-downloads#

  7. Re:Application installers suck. on How To Hijack Your Own Windows System With Bundled Downloads · · Score: 1

    Ninite.com

  8. Re:Great! on Do We Need Regular IT Security Fire Drills? · · Score: 2
    You need the "fire drill" plan created and typed out, then scheduled? Sure I'll put on my Fire Marshal hat and get to work on that...

    Oh, what's that, you say that I'm also the new graphic designer, and I have deadlines for that stuff? OK, I'll get to that first...

    You say that they can't print in Accounting either? And someone is having issues with their mouse, but you aren't sure who it was or what the problem was, but it needs fixed right now, and all the guys we hired three months ago had their passwords expire and they need them reset right now so they can log in and work?

    I'll get right on it I guess...

  9. Re: Yet another Google fan boy on Google Throws Microsoft Under Bus, Then Won't Patch Android Flaw · · Score: 1

    You're right, they did. I don't know if it includes older devices and such though.

  10. Re:Makes sense. on Google Throws Microsoft Under Bus, Then Won't Patch Android Flaw · · Score: 1
    So, Google should update the older software, and then the users phones still wouldn't get patched because it actually has to be done by the manufacturers, and then approved by the service provider, neither of which want you to still be using your old phone.

    As to Apple, well, they just make sure that all your devices have the newest version of iOS, which will always run like crap on the older phones, driving those upgrades to the new phones that come out a month after the upgrade...

    Want your older version of iOS patched? Well all you have to do is upgrade to the latest version and kill your phone's performance. Don't want to do that, then Apple will gladly tell you that they don't support the older software anymore.

  11. Re:Makes sense. on Google Throws Microsoft Under Bus, Then Won't Patch Android Flaw · · Score: 1
    I'm not running the carrier's OS, so I generally do have the latest patches and stuff.

    There's some pretty awesome stuff that happens out there away from the manufacturers...

  12. Re:Yet another Google fan boy on Google Throws Microsoft Under Bus, Then Won't Patch Android Flaw · · Score: 1

    Actually, this time it's the evil Veri$on and AT$T and $amsung and LG($) and Moto$ola and any other company that you can force a dollar sign into. Those are the companies that are preventing your phone from updating to a newer android version, not Google.

  13. Re:Why? on How Civilizations Can Spread Across a Galaxy · · Score: 1
    Yeah, caught that right after I posted it. I meant "resources" not just fuel. You'll need five times the medicine. Five times the food. Five times the raw materials. You'll have to replace all the things that wear out that aren't easily recyclable. How many jump suits will people need for the journey? Even things like screw drivers will need to be replaced. You can 3D print stuff, but you'll need a lot more of the material for the 16ly trip.

    It's nice to say that we'll have the technology to magic all that stuff up on the ship, but if we're going to play that game, then why not just use our Infinite Improbability Drive to just get to the destination instantly?

  14. Re: Why? on How Civilizations Can Spread Across a Galaxy · · Score: 2

    Sorry? Replace fuel with resources. There will still be items that cannot be recycled, possibly including food.

  15. Re: Fear solves nothing on New Canadian Copyright Laws Require ISPs To Retain, Share Illegal Download Info · · Score: 2

    It's like people don't understand that just because they don't log that stuff on their home network, that it doesn't mean other people aren't logging it on theirs.

  16. Re:Why? on How Civilizations Can Spread Across a Galaxy · · Score: 1

    Well, the 16LY journey would take over 5 times the fuel and time. Just because you can make one journey, it doesn't mean you can always make the longer one.

  17. Re:"Take your time for a thoughtful response" on How Civilizations Can Spread Across a Galaxy · · Score: 1

    THat's the idea. We colonize Mars. The second star comes in and it's gravitation effects either fling mars out into he galaxy, or you luck out and they start orbiting the new star. Either way, people are now colonizing the rest of the galaxy (at least after the ones in scenario 1 find a new star and thaw out...).

  18. Re:MicroSD card? on Apple Faces Class Action Lawsuit For Shrinking Storage Space In iOS 8 · · Score: 1
    Some apps are hard coded for different places that they save pictures. That's based on the developer. While I much prefer being able to tell it where exactly I want my pictures, most of them save everything in roughly the same place (DCIM or Pictures) so it's never that much of an issue.

    As to the rest of your problems, never had to use a command line to connect my phone (outside of when I initially rooted it). If you want my suggestion, grab something like BitTorrent Sync. Set it up, and it will sync your pictures to your computer. If you want to, you can even write a script to move them to a different directory after they have synced over.

    You can also set the app to only sync over wifi and only when charging, so it doesn't use up your carrier data or drain the battery. It's a great app.

  19. Re:MicroSD card? on Apple Faces Class Action Lawsuit For Shrinking Storage Space In iOS 8 · · Score: 1
    I really find it no more difficult than having two hard drives in my computer.

    Only it's even easier because the media scanner will actually pick up all picture, music, and videos that you save anywhere and put them into their respective galleries. I've also never had an issue saving a picture to any storage location.

  20. Re:MicroSD card? on Apple Faces Class Action Lawsuit For Shrinking Storage Space In iOS 8 · · Score: 1

    I have absolutely no issues saving things on my Note II. I'm not sure when the last time you used Android was, but it's been fairly easy for some time. Likewise, saving apps to the memory card can be done too, but I believe it tends to be locked out by manufacturers. I haven't had that issue in a while since I've got custom ROM's running on them (CLEANROM is amazing http://www.scottsroms.com/down... )

  21. Re:Well that sucks on 65% of Cancers Caused by Bad Luck, Not Genetics or Environment · · Score: 1
    You're in luck, because I have this cancer preventing rabbits foot. I've also got a cancer preventing four leaf clover if you've got REALLY bad luck.

    Buy now before the FDA and Big Pharma catch on!!!

  22. Re:i heard that Sony hack was insiders on US Slaps Sanctions On North Korea After Sony Cyberattack · · Score: 2

    What I read stated that they would have had to have inside help, not that it was entirely an inside job.

  23. Re:Tablet? on Is the Tablet Market In Outright Collapse? Data Suggests Yes · · Score: 1

    I like my Note II. Also, is screen size measured like it is for TV's where you measure the entire thing, including the outside bezel? That's probably where the last .05 inches is

  24. Re:Distributed DNS on The Open Bay Helps Launch 372 'Copies' of the Pirate Bay In a Week · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I wouldn't mind having a million of them available, but they would need to be able to download or distribute each others databases.

    It doesn't matter many there are if each of them only has one episode of the show that I want to watch. I don't believe that they are going to be updating the datase that they provide, so my new TPB won't have anything that was uploaded to your new TPB, which also doesn't have anything that was uploaded to Bob's TPB...

  25. SOmething I've always wondered on Crowds (and Pirates) Flock To 'The Interview' · · Score: 1
    Why are movies only considered a success if they make back their budget on the opening weekend?

    What about bluray, digital (and rental), streaming, and licensing for TV and such?