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  1. Re:Does not amount to anything on $200 Intel Android Laptops Are Coming · · Score: 1

    Most Android applications are written in Java, and compiled to be run on the Dalvik VM for which there are implementations for both ARM and Intel CPUs.
    Now, many Android applications use the NDK that compiles to native code, but the NDK itself gives you the choice of compiling for ARMv5, ARMv7, x86 and MIPS targets, so providing support for x86 is as simple as adding a line into Application.mk

  2. Re:NDK on Ouya Performance Not Particularly Exciting · · Score: 2

    You can even do the event handling without touching Java:

    http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/NativeActivity.html

  3. Yes... on QuakeFinder: Is It Possible To Reliably Predict Earthquakes? · · Score: 1

    It's possible. That's why six scientists were jailed for manslaughter after failing to predict an earthquake.
    http://edition.cnn.com/2012/10/23/world/europe/italy-quake-scientists-guilty

  4. Airport termina design on Researcher Evan Booth: How To Weaponize Tax-Free Airport Goods · · Score: 1

    I'm most familiar with Singapore Changi Airport, and security checks are done just before the gates. Whatever you bought at the duty free areas will end up being checked when brought through to the gates.

    It seems like the most logical way to do it I'm surprised most other airports don't do the same. It is definitely more expensive though, requiring a lot more X-ray machines, personnel and terminal space.

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

    Too bad there hasn't been a new Droid phone for a while, and it's worse for us Milestone lovers outside of the US.
    I've been waiting for a new Milestone to replace my Milestone 2, but gave up and bought an LG Optimus G instead, and found that I can survive without a qwerty keyboard.

  6. Re:Alleged attempts to enter the bunker by force. on Largest DDoS In History Reaches 300 Billion Bits Per Second · · Score: 1

    No government really cares about spam enough to send in a SWAT team.

    Cyberbunker also hosts The Pirate Bay. That should have been enough for any government to send in nukes...

  7. @LinuxGamers on The End Is Nigh For the Linux Game Tome · · Score: 1

    https://twitter.com/LinuxGamers

    That's who I follow to keep up to date on which projects on Kickstarter (et al) plan to support Linux

  8. Re:No backups?! on Too Perfect a Mirror · · Score: 0

    A git repository itself acts as a rotational backup...
    The article itself suggests ZFS snapshots of the git repository, which works just as well.

  9. Kronom KD-2 on Samsung Also Making a Smartwatch · · Score: 1

    Let's see if anyone knows what this Kronom KD-2 is...

  10. Internet Census 2012 Botnet now confirms... on Botnet Uses Default Passwords To Conduct "Internet Census 2012" · · Score: 0

    ...BSD is dying

  11. Re:What a farce on US To Deploy Ballistic Missile Interceptors In Response To North Korean Threats · · Score: 1

    Too bad censoring the media isn't a solution the average slashdotter will put up with....

  12. Re:Not yet on The Pirate Bay Claims It Is Now Hosting From North Korea · · Score: 3, Funny

    I tend to call it "Democratic" "People's" "Republic" of Korea

  13. Site has not been shutdown yet... on Islamist Hackers Shut Down Egyptology Research Journal · · Score: 1

    They were in negotiations with the hackers, and the negotiations have stalled, so the hackers have told them they intended to attack the site again.

    By posting about it on Slashdot.

  14. I'm writing this slashdot comment... on Learn Basic Programming So You Aren't At the Mercy of Programmers · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...because if I don't, I'm always going to be at the mercy of some a****** slashdot comment writer.

  15. Re:Nice friends on Facebook Lands Drunk Driving Teen In Jail · · Score: 1
  16. Re:But Android is open on The Android SDK Is No Longer Free Software · · Score: 4, Informative

    Android is still open.
    The Android SDK has never been open.

    Or did you not know the difference between an OS and an SDK?

  17. Re:Ubuntu Mobile ... on The Android SDK Is No Longer Free Software · · Score: 1

    Android itself is still open source.
    You will still be able to "mkdir android ; cd android ; repo init -u git://android.git.kernel.org/platform/manifest.git ; repo sync ; make"
    It is the Android SDK that will no longer be open sourced.
    Big difference.

  18. It's been a few years since this was on QDB... on Security Firm Predicts "Murder By Internet-Connected Devices" · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...but it looks like [SA]HatfulOfHollow has finally completed his killer device.... http://www.bash.org/?4281

  19. Re:U.S Military mostly metric on USMA: Going the Extra Kilometer For Metrication · · Score: 1

    It's definitely easier when you can think of 1 mil = 1 meter at a distance of 1 km

  20. Re:The Word Processor Is Dead on Google Docs Vs. Microsoft Word: an Even Matchup? · · Score: 1

    You can do all that with Google Docs, either with Google Apps Script or Google Documents API.

  21. So... on Large Hadron Collider May Have Produced New Matter · · Score: 1

    A large hardon collider created "glue plasma" matter that is soup/liquid-like collection of particles?
    I think I've seen that porn before

  22. Re:Good Riddance ... on Windows Chief Steven Sinofsky Leaves Microsoft · · Score: 2

    Stephen Elop.

  23. Seriously... on JPL Employee's Firing Wasn't Due To Intelligent Design Advocacy, Says Judge · · Score: 1

    Why the fuck is this case still in court and not already dismissed?

  24. Social Networking Crowdsourcing on Intelligence Agencies Turn To Crowdsourcing · · Score: 1
  25. Re:retroactive setup on Innocence of Muslims Filmmaker Arrested, Jailed · · Score: 1

    Parole is a privilege, not a right. If your privileges are removed from you, you are not being violated.