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  1. Re:first useless reply! on Feature Phone Hack Can Block Calls, Texts On Some Networks · · Score: 1

    Wait, you pay to receive text messages where you live?

    WTF?

    Having said that, there's a few good IM apps for android that

  2. Re:Videos become illegal.. on Synchronized Virtual Reality Heartbeat Triggers Out-of-Body Experiences · · Score: 1

    They're working on tobacco, though you left sucrose off the list.

  3. Re:Wordcount in statusbar on Has the Apache Software Foundation Lost Its Way? · · Score: 1

    Perhaps not particularly helpful to you, but it works reliably for me.

    On my currently open document my status bar says:
    Words:324 Selected: 5

  4. Silverlight on Netflix Comes To Linux Web Browsers Via 'Pipelight' · · Score: 2

    On that note, has anyone else noticed Silverlight being pushed out to WSUS servers as another important Windows update? Three times?

    As in, when we choose "Do not install, and don't tell me again", it re-appears in the subsequent two update runs. This is the second time this has happened in as many years.

  5. Re:Gravity pulls toward the Earth on The Grasshopper Can Fly Sideways · · Score: 1

    This is also true. However orbit isn't necessarily always the goal. A rocket destined for Mars, for example, has no need to be in an Earth orbit.

  6. Re:Survey says... on Studying the Slow Decay of a Laptop Battery For an Entire Year · · Score: 1

    So... you're saying there's no way your mac could ever be run at full capacity without sourcing power from the battery (thus draining it), even when plugged into the mains?

    Do you actually own a laptop computer?

  7. No problem on EFF Slams Google Fiber For Banning Servers On Its Network · · Score: 1

    It's very simple. If you're offering an Internet connection and you don't allow servers, you don't get my business. No problem.

  8. Re:The best telescope on Amateur Astronomer Bruce Berger Talks About Telescopes, Part II (Video) · · Score: 1

    So what would you give to a kid?

  9. Re:I want one too on US, Germany To Enter No-Spying Agreement · · Score: 2

    It's kinda funny how literally shitting on each other is the German national pastime, and yet only the NSA knows who exactly is shitting on whom.

    I do not think that word means what you think it means.

  10. Re:Happy President on Obama's Privacy Reform Panel Will Report To ... the NSA · · Score: 1

    No. No, no and no.

    When asked to eat the aforementioned, you should do what everyone should have done - leave the shit to dry out on its own and take a bite from another sandwich altogether.

    It's only this rancid herd mentality that you demonstrated that maintains there are only two choices that keeps getting Kodos, I mean, the wrong lizard, I mean GOPs and Dems into power.

  11. Re:Happy President on Obama's Privacy Reform Panel Will Report To ... the NSA · · Score: 1

    and how would voting for the other asshole have been any better?

    You, sir, are a part of the problem.

  12. Re:Digital Movie Projection... and "Average People on Are We At the Limit of Screen Resolution Improvements? · · Score: 1

    No, the median is.

  13. No. on Should the Next 'Doctor Who' Be a Woman? · · Score: 0

    That is all.

  14. Re:Point is... on New Technique Creates 3D Images Through a Single Lens · · Score: 1

    A hologram is considered 3D, because it captures a continuous interference pattern representing any number of viewing angles on a 3D object. ... but not the back of it, so it's not "true" 3D either.

  15. Re:YouTube...? on Administration Seeks To Make Unauthorized Streaming A Felony · · Score: 1

    Good, good, you're starting to get it...

  16. Heh, I noticed this yesterday on YouTube Adds Play Icon To Page Titles To Show Which Tabs Are Making Noise · · Score: 1

    I noticed this yesterday when I restarted my browser and all several hundred tabs opened across five windows. A very welcome addition!

  17. Re:GET READY.... on Peter Capaldi Unveiled As the New Star of Doctor Who · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Personally, I was hoping for a female Doctor

    Please tell me you're joking.

  18. Re:TV on Android Tablet Gives Rare Glimpse At North Korean Tech · · Score: 1

    My el cheapo Android tablet from China has an inbuilt TV tuner, complete with a decent sized antenna. It's analogue TV only, so it's no good to me but interesting nonetheless.

  19. Re:huh? but this is working for at least 3 years n on Ask Slashdot: Hardware Accelerated Multi-Monitor Support In Linux? · · Score: 1

    Now all we need is support for hot-pluggable displays, like USB VGA cards that use the sisusbvga driver but the X server knows nothing about until it restarts.

  20. Re:Surprise on Camping Helps Set Circadian Clocks Straight · · Score: 1

    I'm writing this right now with Redshift running. If I click the little icon in the system tray my eyes feel physical pain as the screen becomes a barrage of blue, then when I click it again suddenly feel calmer as the deep orange sunset hue sets in.

    Video is automatically "beneath" the filter too, unless using xv which, for some reason appears "above" the filter (ie is not redshifted at all).

    The only problem is I have to remember to switch it off when colour-correcting photos :)

  21. What baloney on With Microsoft Office on Android, Has Linus Torvalds Won? · · Score: 1

    So this looks like Microsoft have released Android Office 365 viewer, so we can read documents on our Android devices. Just like the other zillion hillion office apps out there.

    Can people not grasp the notion that some of us might want to actually edit documents on our tablets? Sure, the tablet platform lends itself much better to consuming content than creating it, but there are many cases where the ability to edit, say, a spreadsheet in a mobile context would be very useful. Stocktakes and financial meetings immediately come to mind.

  22. Re:What the chirp is wrong with people? on Signs Point To XKCD's Time Ending · · Score: 1

    It reminds me of those people who make a point of ragging on Justin Bieber or the Twilight saga, as if they were capable of producing anything better.

    Apparently it's just fashionable to be a hater.

    Not that I am a fan of either, but they are by no means any worse than the majority of what comes out in their respective genres.

  23. Re:Still illegal under NZ Constitution on New Zealand Government About To Legalize Spying On NZ Citizens · · Score: 1

    The Treaty of Waitangi may become a constitutional document one day, if it is ever ratified. As it stands, it is an otherwise worthless historical document that is waved around by nefarious powers in order to create division.

  24. Re:If you need in vehicle infotainment... on The Rise of Linux In In-Vehicle Infotainment · · Score: 1

    How about 10 hours? I regularly do this trip with two smallish kids and there's no problems. We talk, often about things out the window, and yes occasionally listen to music.

    Why do we think we're doing kids a favour by stimulating their senses every waking moment?

  25. Re:In my opinion on Steve "CyanogenMod" Kondik Contemplates The Death of Root On Android · · Score: 1

    Also:

    Change the device ID string so I can install some badly-packaged apps from Google Play that don't know about my tablet.