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  1. It is a tiny update with new certificates. Why are they requiring WiFi for third generation Kindles? Why could not they just push it over the air?

    Third generation Kindles require B or G WiFi and just do not work on new WiFi networks with legacy (less secure) modes off.

    Ridiculous.

  2. Old and busted on An Idea For Software's Industrial Revolution · · Score: 1

    All this been done before. Take Borland of 15 years ago or so, for example.

    * Database: Program against SQL Links and plug any one from a number of popular database engines.
    * User interface: VCL library for Windows and drop-in replacement CLX for Linux.
    * Components: instead of making your own, purchase pre-made components from a catalog, and combine them in your RAD application.

    Oh yes, RAD, Rapid Application Development, remember that?

    Told you---old and busted

  3. Re:Virtualization requires memory on Revisiting How Much RAM Is Enough Today For Desktop Computing · · Score: 1

    So, how would that physically work: you need two graphics controllers, one to see the Hypervisor interface, and the second one for the PCI pass-through to guests; and then a switch for to flip between the two adapters?
    Or do you run the Hypervisor headless, and control it from another device via network, or COM port?
    Or do you mean just the GPU compute part is passed through to the guests, with no way for them to use GPU for rendering?

  4. Re:As much as possible on Revisiting How Much RAM Is Enough Today For Desktop Computing · · Score: 1

    > Replace these with just one straight "var" variable and let the runtime increase the size of the variable if the number would overflow.

    This would break so much stuff:

      * Various bit masks, like IP address subnet mask;
      * All the code that shifts bits to the left, and just assumes that the ones that overflow simply disappear;
      * Various “-1” hacks;
      * Systems that encode negative numbers by setting the most significant bit to one;
      * If you try to invert all the bits in a number, you get what, infinity?
      * I think you get the idea...

    Not necessarily a bad suggestion, but it would create an entirely different system of computing.

  5. We Have Seen It Before on Google Is Restructuring Under a New Company Called Alphabet · · Score: 0

    Standard scheme: Google will be devalued by milking it dry, and then dumped to a private equity firm. Just like Borland, for example.

  6. Almost Made It on Israeli Security Company Builds "Unhackable" Version of Windows · · Score: 2

    Everything was going very well, until Shlomo installed Flash player.

  7. Re:"sources," eh? "US officials" you say? on NBC Report: Russian Hackers Behind Attack On Pentagon Mail System · · Score: 1

    Actually, that was an “overload” button, not a “reset” button.

  8. Re:apache foundation? on LibreOffice 5.0 Released · · Score: 1

    A lot of corporations have a no-GPL-in-the-door policy. Yeah I know, but still a fact.

    they confiscate your android phone at the door?

    Those with Android phones have to climb in through the window. LOL

  9. Re:2 thumbs up on The Factory of the World - Documentary On Manufacturing In Shenzhen · · Score: 1

    Ok, thank you. But the next video you shoot, please consider at least muting the hum while the people are talking.
    Thanks again.

  10. No more on-demand delivery? on EBay Is Shutting Down Its On-Demand Delivery Service · · Score: 1

    Never heard of eBay Now until today. Having hard time imagining on-demand delivery vs. what... by subscription delivery?

    Long time user, and eBay shareholder here; I guess I should have paid more attention to annual reports.

  11. Re: The Factory of the World - Documentary On Manu on The Factory of the World - Documentary On Manufacturing In Shenzhen · · Score: 1

    What was that annoying hum on the background? No really, what was it?

  12. Re:Not me, not in California on The Vicious Circle That Is Sending Rents Spiraling Higher · · Score: 1

    Here is what you need to do: before you boy goes to college, sell your houses and convert your wealth into untraceable assets (such as cash in a safe-deposit box). If you have a high paying full-time job, switch to something that places you into the appropriate to the family size money bracket.

    Then your child will go to college free as low-income student (he will even get some grant money, plus disadvantaged student help through the curriculum process [free tutoring, etc.]), and you will qualify for affordable housing. In addition to that, you will get free health insurance, and some government cards that you can use for shopping for food in supermarkets.

    Quit being a middle-class sucker everybody else is munching off of.

  13. Rocket Fuel! on Ask Slashdot: Your Most Unusual Hardware Hack? · · Score: 1

    Ammonia based fertilizer makes nice rocket fuel, if you dissolve fertilizer in water, soak cut sheets newspapers in the solution, and then dry the sheets with a regular clothes iron.

  14. Bird Education Appliance on Ask Slashdot: Your Most Unusual Hardware Hack? · · Score: 1

    To teach a parakeet talking, I modified a standard audio-cassette, by opening it up and splicing the tape together to form closed-loop.

  15. Repurposed a time-relay on Ask Slashdot: Your Most Unusual Hardware Hack? · · Score: 1

    I had an F250 Super Duty with suspension leveling air-bags. So that the air-bag pump would not come on at odd hours in the middle of the night, I hooked it up to a time relay to energize the pump a minute-and-a-half after the ignition key is turned. Hooking the pump up to the ignition on without time delay would not be good enough, as the truck had a diesel engine that needed not power robbed from the glow-plug on ignition. Worked like a charm!

  16. Re:Not Open on MenuetOS, an Operating System Written Entirely In Assembly, Hits 1.0 · · Score: 1

    Well if the entire OS is written in honest assembly (not some kind of macro-assembler), then the OS is the code, just run it through a disassembler. LOL

  17. Re:If it ain't broke... on VirtualBox Development At a Standstill · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, this is true. Those on Windows hosts are stuck with last known good version 4.3.12. Oracle already said that they will not be going back.

  18. Re:Does It Matter? on VirtualBox Development At a Standstill · · Score: 1

    2k12 is 2120 not 2012

  19. Re:Doesnt matter on Smartphone App To Be Used As Hotel Room Keys · · Score: 1

    A tooth fell out from the guy's mouth and fell on dad. Too young to have rheumatoid arthritis. Too skinny to be diabetic. Thus – meth addict. LOL

  20. Combine the Phone and Card Technologies on Smartphone App To Be Used As Hotel Room Keys · · Score: 1

    What we need is an independent programmable NFC circuitry on the phone, which could run of off the electricity induced by radio-waves in the reader (door lock). This way the NFC still works even when the phone’s battery is dead.

  21. Re:Not new on Mozilla Teases First Browser Dedicated To Devs · · Score: 1

    So, it is going to be a Visual Studio plugin, then? LOL

  22. Very sad... on "Car Talk" Co-Host Tom Magliozzi Dies At Age 77 · · Score: 1

    RIP

  23. Not new on Mozilla Teases First Browser Dedicated To Devs · · Score: 1

    This is hardly a new idea. Dreamweaver has had the ‘web browser for developers’ functionality via Live Code, Live View, and Inspect, for years.

  24. Re:Mod parent up. on Password Security: Why the Horse Battery Staple Is Not Correct · · Score: 1

    Is not there a mobile version of KeePass that you can synchronize across various passwords? But the thing that gets me is some websites that require you to type the password, and disable paste into the password control. What good does that do?