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  1. Re:Partially Blocked View on The Laws of Physics Trump Traffic Laws · · Score: 1

    That is how I drive my bike (when weather conditions allow it). At the normal speed limit in the city (13.8 m/s) considering that at the 1997 legal minimal break deceleration of 5.2 m/s (pre antilock breaking) and higher acceleration from 13.8 to and 0 back to 13.8 m/s is easy doable in 3s. A Toyota Yaris with a much higher deceleration but lower acceleration might still make it.

  2. Re:Baloney on Magical Thinking Is Good For You · · Score: 1

    My native language is one that assigns gender to objects. I have to use these ridicoulous assignments every day but I don't believe in magic nor actually assign the specified gender to an object, it is just a figure of speech (even the english language has this kind of thinking, are ships and countries really female?)

  3. Re:Fix bugs first on Skyrim Is Getting Kinect Support, Dragon Shouts Included · · Score: 2

    I'm more concerned about being stuck with stuff I can't drop (at last there was a bugfix to make these weigh 0), stuff that doesn't trigger the necessary quest triggers to continue, unobtainable trophies due to missing triggers. But as you can read I didn't buy the blessed version of the game.

    -Arena, didn't enjoy it, wasn't into the genre back then.
    -Daggerfall was even more buggy than Skyrim, lost interest.
    -Morrowind (xbox) was playable. Only troubles I experience were near Vicec and during flied.
    -Oblivion (ps3), can't remember problems, not special in anyway.
    -Fallout 3 (ps3) was enjoyable, minor bugs but only because I waited till the end of the release cycle (buying the game of the year edition).
    -Fallout N.V. (ps3) lots of fun, waited 1 year after release before buying but still some reproducable bugs in main quest lines (reset/reload and pray the quest will not crash next time).
    -Skyrim (ps3), couldn't resist buying it a couple of weeks after release, less buggy then I feared. Looks incredible and overal gameplay is great. It's frustrating having to resort to wikis like http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/ to circumvent bugs.

  4. Fix bugs first on Skyrim Is Getting Kinect Support, Dragon Shouts Included · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Instead of adding new stuff, please fix the bugs first.

  5. Re:Inbreeding... Just say no. on UK Bill Again Demands Web Pornography Ban · · Score: 4, Funny

    Dude, it isn't about stopping porn on the internet, it is all about thinking of the children.

  6. Re:75 MHz 286 on GNU/Linux Running On An 8-Bit Processor · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What 286 ran at 75Mhz? Only 486 cpus ran at those speeds. And AFAIK Debian never had a kernel for non 386 80x86 CPUs.

  7. Re:Next question: on Why Are Fantasy World Accents British? · · Score: 1

    When I was working at the local multinational doing some re-researching into wolfram filaments the library and archives was full with German language publishings (1895-1920). The physics library at the local technical university has tons of books in German aged pre 1950. Only the more modern subjects (like computer simulations) were in English.

  8. Re:Next question: on Why Are Fantasy World Accents British? · · Score: 1

    German scientists working for the US, wouldn't that make them the good guys...

  9. Re:Age on Why Are Fantasy World Accents British? · · Score: 1

    What about old Ben Kenobi?

  10. Re:Age on Why Are Fantasy World Accents British? · · Score: 1

    "Star Wars/Galactica/others are in the future (or at least a galaxy far, far away) - American."

    Did Lucas replace the English voices with American in the latest rerelease? I could only find a smal trailer:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWh46ClD5Pk

  11. Next question: on Why Are Fantasy World Accents British? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why are is the evil scientists always speaking with a German accent?

  12. Re:Hopefully? on Getting the Most Out of SSH · · Score: 4, Informative

    smtps was deprecated years ago (not that I agree). You should use:
    openssl s_client -starttls smtp -connect host:(25|587)
    Something socat doesn't appear to support (that's a first).

  13. Re: 8 and 4 on You're Driving All Wrong, Says NHTSA · · Score: 1

    And we all have seen what happens when the airbags of racing cars deploys!

  14. Re:FTFY on Free Apps Eat Your Smartphone Battery · · Score: 1

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17431109
    "Due to restrictions built into Apple's mobile operating system, the team was unable to run tests on the iPhone."

  15. Re:Yes, it's an esoteric Android issue. on NTT DoCoMo Asks Google To Limit Android Data Use · · Score: 1

    My guess is that the control traffic related to voip might be SIP over UDP. That kind of traffic is soley controlled by the application and the server, if the client is NAT-ed an abundance of SIP control packets might be necessary for keeping the portmapping alive. But these persons who though that a control protocol should be done over UDP, should be the first againt the wall in my book.

  16. Re:zt71 problems (and good stuff) on New Spark Tablet To Come Loaded With KDE's Active Plasma Interface · · Score: 1

    What is the display like? I tried an Advent Vega type tablet and its display was a POS. Youtube videos seem to indicate this one has a better display (larger viewing angle). Care to share any thoughts about the screen? Viewing angles in landscape and portrait? Contrast? Black level?

  17. Re:No risk for me on Android Malware May Have Infected 5 Million Users · · Score: 2

    There are apps (that if you trust them) for root users (e.g. LBE Privacy Guard) or custom roms (e.g. CM7) that enable the user to "veto" certain permissions.

  18. Re:Not at all. I've had a house built. on Code Cleanup Culls LibreOffice Cruft · · Score: 1

    Excavating, as in a archeaological.

  19. Re:We've seen this before.... on Samsung Could Soon Start To Twist Google's Arm · · Score: 1

    Lets see, my preference for POTS/BRI/PRI to PSTN or legacy PBX are connected with external SIP adapter (Vegastream, Patton SmartNodes, Xorcom). But PCI cards like Sangoma or any CAPI or mISDN work (I gave up on CAPI/mISDN because they lack decent echocancellers and support isn't getting any better with time), but internal cards lack a certain flexibility, though they are a lot cheaper. You can run an Asterisk platform without any Digium hardware and that is the way I prefer it.

  20. Re:Yah on Microsoft Scraps 'Where's My Phone Update?' Site · · Score: 1

    "It's like saying that Android and webOS are the same because they both run on Linux. It's true in some sense, but largely irrelevant."

    They might not be the same, but they are related. Just like WM and WP are related by kernel lineage.

  21. Re:Weird money on SOPA Makes Strange Bedfellows · · Score: 1

    Get over it, all politicians get bought eventually. It doesn't matter what side/party they are on.

  22. Re:Weird money on SOPA Makes Strange Bedfellows · · Score: 0

    "Thank you for clearly identifying your ideological slant."

    Maybe the GP is just pointing out that republicans are easier to buy?

  23. Re:Yah on Microsoft Scraps 'Where's My Phone Update?' Site · · Score: 1

    So article:
    http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/04/windows-phone-7-based-on-a-hybrid-windows-ce-6-compact-7-kerne/
    is wrong?

    Windows Mobile 6.5 seems to be Windows CE 5, and Windows Phone appears to be Windows CE 6.

  24. Re:Easily explainable: Nokia on Speculating On What a Microsoft Superphone Might Mean · · Score: 2

    Outlook! That is the absolute worst MUA ever. It's defaults and broken replies have ruined email forever resulting in everybody using TOFU messages to make any discussion/question for more than just 1 point per email impossible.

  25. Why Android? on Ask Slashdot: Best Android Tablet For Travel? · · Score: 1

    While I love my android telephone, I just don't get the pad hype. If you want to actually do something, bring a decent small laptop or netbook and an extra battery. Those should last more than 10 hours.