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  1. I work for a prominent IoT company and I agree with this. Additional in-house security via ZWave, etc, is good. Having every damn thing you own directly accessible from the internet is just plain stupid. M.

  2. What are you taking about? Middle Click still pastes. That's an X Server thing. It's got nothing at all to do with your WM/DE. I'm up to Plasma 5.9.something. Still middle-click-pasting. I have no idea if Wayland does that though. M.

  3. Re:Will Microsoft call on Burson-Marsteller to fix on Windows 8 Even Less Popular Than Vista · · Score: 1

    steam for games

    Steam for Linux Beta Now Available to All

    Open Office as a good-enough-replacement for MS office

    OpenOffice is as good as dead. Use LibreOffice

    it will need lightroom 4 working

    I can't commetn here, but outlook not so good


    M.

  4. Re:Microsoft Succeeded on Microsoft 'Trustworthy Computing' Turns 10 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Since this is Slashdot, I expect the above well-written post to be marked flamebait within 10 minutes, because it dared to speak well of Microsoft.

    I wonder if it's David Sell that typed that...


    M.

  5. Re:16GB RAM and GCC optimization on Android ICS Will Require 16GB RAM To Compile · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    Oh dear God, another ignorant Gentoo ricer.

    I've been using Gentoo for about 10 years now. You really need to learn before opening your mouth. Please refer to Gentoo's GCC Optimization Guide. Especially pay VERY close attention to two very important parts:

    1:

    "In 3.x, -O3 has been shown to lead to marginally faster execution times over -O2, but this is no longer the case with gcc 4.x. Compiling all your packages with -O3 will result in larger binaries that require more memory, and will significantly increase the odds of compilation failure or unexpected program behavior (including errors). The downsides outweigh the benefits; remember the principle of diminishing returns. Using -O3 is not recommended for gcc 4.x."

    (emphasis Gentoo's, not mine)

    2:

    "Some users boast about even better performance obtained by using -O4, -O9, and so on, but the reality is that -O levels higher than 3 have no effect. The compiler may accept CFLAGS like -O4, but it actually doesn't do anything with them. It only performs the optimizations for -O3, nothing more.

    Need more proof? Examine the gcc source code:

    Code Listing 3.1: -O source code

    if (optimize >= 3)
    {
    flag_inline_functions = 1;
    flag_unswitch_loops = 1;
    flag_gcse_after_reload = 1;
    /* Allow even more virtual operators. */
    set_param_value ("max-aliased-vops", 1000);
    set_param_value ("avg-aliased-vops", 3);
    }

    As you can see, any value higher than 3 is treated as just -O3."

    Read this stuff. It actually is kinda important...

    /me rolls his eyes.


    M.

  6. Re:Inaudible to people, perhaps.. on Sound-Based System Promises Chipless Phone Payment · · Score: 1

    Heh. No it's not. "Um, excuse me, get that microphone out of my face."

    OH!

    So they have little gnomes inside the quarterback's helmets so their voice can be picked up calling plays ON THE FIELD to be broadcast on TV? Cool. I gotta order me a couple microphone holding mini-gnomes. Maybe I could finally find out the things my wife tells her mom...


    M.

  7. Re:I've been waiting for these on OCZ Couples SSD, Mechanical Storage On a PCIe Card · · Score: 1

    I just built a new machine, did a clean install of Windows 7 64-bit

    That's you're problem right there. M.

  8. Re:I'm afraid to look on KDE Software Compilation 4.6.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but that kills all the other plasma functions on the desktop.

    How so / what do you mean?

    I have CWP (Customizable Weather Plasmoid) and a picture frame sitting on my Folder View enabled Desktop. I have for most of KDE4.*, actually.

    M.

  9. Re:I'm afraid to look on KDE Software Compilation 4.6.0 Released · · Score: 3, Informative

    Do we get desktop icons yet?

    • 1) Right-click Desktop --> Folder View Settings
    • 2) Activity (on the left)
    • 3) (on the right) Type: Folder View
    • 4) OK

    Been there a couple years now. M.

  10. Re:GNOME becomes more and more irrelevant. on KDE Software Compilation 4.6.0 Released · · Score: 1

    I can crash kwin at will sometimes.

    Then file a bug report! http://bugs.kde.org. If you have a repeatable set of actions that can make KWin crash "on command", then TELL THEM and they'll fix it.

    M.

  11. Re:Data plan limits are a scam on Does Windows Phone 7 Have a Data Transmission Bug? · · Score: 1

    Unless you leave the country, international roaming sucks big time.

    Oh, *that* kind of roaming... Yea, I'd have to sell a several pints of blood and my first born to pay that bill...


    M.

  12. Re:Data plan limits are a scam on Does Windows Phone 7 Have a Data Transmission Bug? · · Score: 1

    Unless you're with Sprint. Here's my plan:

    Plan Includes:

    * Everything Data Share Plan
    * Line 1: $129.99 Minimum Monthly Charge
    * Line 2:$0 Monthly Charge
    * Lines 3-5: $19.99 Monthly Charge
    * 1500 Shared Anytime Minutes
    * Unlimited Any Mobile, Anytime
    * Total Equipment Protection
    * Unl Data/Msg/Amer Roam/Sprint Nav
    * Nationwide Long Distance Included
    * Unlimited Night & Weekend Mins. Included
    * Nights: M-Th 7pm-7am Wknd: F 7pm-M 7am
    * Caller ID
    * Call Waiting
    * Three-Way Calling
    * Voicemail


    $155.80 a month for three phones with full unlimited everything, early evening start, unlimited mobile to mobile (*ANY* carrier), unlimited data - and that also includes roaming. Hard to beat!


    M.

  13. Re:GNOME keeps falling further and further behind. on KDE 4.6 Beta 1 – a First Look · · Score: 1

    Or distros should stop trying to include everything that came out last week, and do what Slackware does

    Agreed. I hear some guy named "Mosfet" is writing some cool new look 'n' feel stuff that should make it into the next Slack release of KDE. It'll be cool like Cheetah or Puma!


    M.

  14. Re:GNOME keeps falling further and further behind. on KDE 4.6 Beta 1 – a First Look · · Score: 1

    something will need to be done against those ugly, overloaded, panels. From where one needs to drop sub-panels with sub-menus, because the total, primary, real estate is just the screen width.

    Wow.

    Ummm... you are aware that the panels can be marked to auto-hide so they don't take up your real estate and you don't even have to see them then, right?


    M.

  15. Re:The short answer? Money. on Zeus Botnet Dealt a Blow As ISPs Troyak, Group 3 Knocked Out · · Score: 1

    AH! I saw what you did there.

  16. Re:Love the space program on NASA Satellite Looks For Response From Dead Mars Craft · · Score: 1

    I guess you'd expect people to use a PC from 20 years ago for modern times too.

    Yea, that'd be crazy. That would never happen.

  17. Re:Yes. on Does Santa Hate Linux? · · Score: 1
    This is true. It's just the English one that's b0rked. However, if you choose a different language, let it refresh, then go back to English it works fine.

    Crap, I gotta get to bed. Santa's in Newark, NJ. Hmmm... better close the damper this year, don't want that Jersey stink in the house. I'll think up something to tell the kids....

  18. Re:The E-series has been craptastic all along on Dell Defect Turning 2.2GHz CPU Into 100MHz CPU? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The E6500 I had prior to about 4 months ago was a good machine (for the most part - I still agree with the "Designed from the Outside In" comment, though). This 6400 that I have now is JUNK. The E4300s I'm getting in are even worse than that.

    SLOW!

  19. BOFH on Cosmic Ray Intensity Reaches Highest Levels In 50 years · · Score: 4, Funny
    BOFH Excuse #98734

    "It's Cosmic Rays mutating the electrons."

  20. Re:Joomla is so simplistic on Joomla! 1.5: A User's Guide, 2nd Edition · · Score: 1

    I agree that Jommla! has a bit of a learning curve, but the best place to start (I found) is:

    </BLOCKQUOTE>

    It should all be smooth sailing from there.

  21. Re:Ohh noes.... on Attacks Against Unpatched Microsoft Bug Multiply · · Score: 1

    anyone worth their weight as an admin wouldn't install Office Web components on anything.

    Unless the PHBs think that it's Super Cool to embed Excel Sheets and .PPTs in SharePoint's webpages...

  22. Re:93/100... on Firefox 3.5 Hits Release Candidate Milestone · · Score: 1

    What about buttering my bread?

    Yes! It will! You have to supply the butter, though. (Unless you're running body-levels/cholesterol >=200.0, then you'll need to downgrade to margarine, which will satisfy the =body-sense/taste-5.0" to prevent your flavor from being upgraded in the future).

    Just sayin'...

  23. Re:Insightful analysis... four years late. on Gartner Tells Businesses to Forget About Vista · · Score: 1

    [...]the big question is how many feet they have. If the answer is "two", then windows 7 is their last bullet.

    You seem to be forgetting about ME...

  24. Re:Three little words on DOJ Nixes Lax Policy, Hardens Antitrust Enforcement · · Score: 1
    I don't get it either, but:

    Honestly, I would not doubt these guys invent something, let alone if they do come up with anything based on current trends will Obama go on TV and vilify people who working legally?

    1. Be honest.
    2. Someone is supposed to invent something that is based on current trends.
    3. ???
    4. Profit!!!
  25. Re:Programming on 3,800 Vulnerabilities Detected In FAA's Web Apps · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Who builds the FAA web apps?

    The lowest bidder, of course!