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  1. Re:Re-furbs on 25,000-Drive Study Gives Insight On How Long Hard Drives Actually Last · · Score: 1

    How do you know which ones failed due to wear and tear? Does it say in the item summary somewhere?

  2. Re:Pay Later: $199 down + $15/month on T-Mobile Ends Contracts and Subsidies · · Score: 1

    The $25/month wasn't a limited time promotion, it used be the standard price for their low-minute plan. However, you're correct that they've raised it to $35/month and their handsets are not portable.

  3. Re:Great system for parents on Chromebook Takes Top Place In Laptop Sales On Amazon · · Score: 1

    would much prefer a modifyer key

    Couldn't agree more. Turning Caps Lock into Ctrl is one of the best things you can do for yourself.

    This page has a long list of how to do that for most environments:
    http://emacswiki.org/emacs/MovingTheCtrlKey

    Note that for Windows, it's probably easiest to use SharpKeys, which that page doesn't mention.
    http://www.randyrants.com/sharpkeys/

  4. Re:Targeted customers on Chromebook Takes Top Place In Laptop Sales On Amazon · · Score: 1

    Because it was consistently done, it's not a typo either.

    Another simple explanation: the poster doesn't know kroner is spelled.

  5. Re:Wake me up when we support multiple video cards on New KScreen Supplies Some Magic For Multi-Monitor Linux Set-Ups · · Score: 2

    I haven't used it myself, but maybe this does what you want?

    http://xpra.org/

    Or is this the same as the XRDP situation? Although, I don't really understand what you mean by "simply move it to another server" in the Windows context.

    Can you really start an executable on one machine and move the running executable to another machine? Your comment further up merely says:

    Which one of those lets me start an application on one machine and then continue using it on another machine like Windows has been able to do for well over a decade?

    To me, this sounds like RDP: connect from a client machine, start an application on the server, disconnect, reconnect later from another client to continue using the application. The application itself is still running on the same server machine.

  6. Re:Nothing new here.. on Nokia Engineer Shows How To Pirate Windows 8 Metro Apps, Bypass In-app Purchases · · Score: 1

    Did you even read your parent post? He specifically says his cheating was done to make the games more fun.

    Sometimes people play games for the winning, sometimes they play them for the playing.

  7. Re:Masking tape on Will Microsoft Dis-Kinect Freeloading TV Viewers? · · Score: 1

    Not too hard.

    Cut a slit in the photo over each eye and slide some paper of the right color down over the eyes and back up. The paper color probably doesn't need to match very well, either.

  8. Re:Plugins? on Firefox 16 Released: More HTML5 Support · · Score: 1

    What version are you on?

    When I go to my add-ons page, every single plugin has at least two buttons beside it: Disable, Remove.

  9. Re:Restore Google Reader! on Online Loneliness At Google+ · · Score: 1

    You can also press ? (question mark) to get a help window that will tell you all of the keyboard shortcuts.

  10. Re:And none with a decent interface. on Chromium-Based Spinoffs Worth Trying · · Score: 1

    Add in a little Hide Caption Titlebar Plus:

    https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/13505/

    and you can get rid of that pesky titlebar, too. Perfect browser UI. I use vimperator rather than Pentadactyl, but not having all that wasted chrome is a dream.

  11. Re:Debian (mostly) not affected on Exploits Emerge For Linux Privilege Escalation Flaw · · Score: 1

    I've been looking around but haven't found any information on when the fix might migrate into Testing. Any idea?

  12. Re:Really? on Smartphones: the New Home of Crapware · · Score: 1

    For your example, have you looked at Our Groceries? My wife and I both use it on Android, but their website says it's available for iPhone, too. It's server-backed, so lists are synced across phones. Obviously I can't say for sure, but I imagine it would work between iOS and Android.
    http://www.ourgroceries.com/download

  13. Re:Can't beat unison on DIY Dropbox Alternatives · · Score: 1

    Just wonder if you've looked at rdiff-backup or rsnapshot and what the advantages/disadvantages might be versus StoreBackup, in your opinion. I'm in the research phase of setting up a home backup solution and had all but decided on one of those, but hadn't come across StoreBackup until seeing your comment.

  14. Re:Google+? on Linux Kernel 3.0 Released · · Score: 1
    If you've got an Android phone, you can do the following:
    1. Install the Android Debug Bridge on your computer. http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/adb.html
    2. Turn on USB debugging on your phone, and connect it to your computer.
    3. Install Tetherbot http://graha.ms/androidproxy/ on your phone, and start the Socks Proxy Server.
    4. Setup ADB to open a port on your computer that forwards to the port on your phone where the proxy server is listening: "adb forward tcp:5555 tcp:1080"
    5. Set your browser to use localhost:5555 as a proxy server.

    Now all your web browsing goes through your phone. If you run Firefox, you can get FoxyProxy to set up URL-based rules for which addresses go through your phone-proxy and which go through your regular company network connection. And no mayo gets on your phone.

  15. Re:What the....? on Ask Slashdot: Web Site Editing Software For the Long Haul? · · Score: 1

    It isn't sarcasm. It's a typo that happens to spell another word, so the little squiggly red lines don't appear to let people know they made a misspelling. Also, hardly anyone here bothers to proof-read their posts, as is clear from the common requests for an "edit" button.

    So, it's basically down to laziness.

  16. Re:Eh? on The Abdication of the HTML Standard · · Score: 1

    Years ago when I used Opera, it had this ability, which it called Linked Tabs. Looks like they've changed the name.

    Right-click a tab and choose "Create Follower Tab". Links you click in the current tab are opened in the follower tab. Back then it also worked for form button submissions, so it probably still does.

  17. Re:There is still man-in-the-middle attack on GoogleSharing, Now With No Trust Required · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Here's the quick rundown:

    You contact Google's server through the proxy, and the server sends you Google's public key. This key isn't secret, so it doesn't matter if the proxy gets it, too.

    Now you use their public key to encrypt a message telling them the symmetric encryption key you want to use for the rest of the communication. Only Google can decrypt that message, so only you and Google will know the key to use to decrypt the rest of your communications.

    A man in the middle attack is only possible if GoogleSharing can either break or guess Google's private key, or the symmetric key you agreed to use after the handshake. Both are very hard to do. So don't worry about it.

  18. Re:Funny on Blizzard vs. Glider Battle Resumes Next Week · · Score: 1

    And they do have good case against MDY. Glider work in very much the same way as some more sofisticated viruses

    That's not really an argument against Glider. A lot of software works the same way, including anti-virus software and Blizzard's own Warden software. Should we make those illegal?

  19. Re:I RTFA on Researchers Beam 230Mb/sec Wireless Internet WIth LEDs · · Score: 1

    One problem with x-rays and gamma radiation:

    X-rays are a form of ionizing radiation, and exposure to them can be a health hazard.

    Because they are a form of ionizing radiation, gamma rays can cause serious damage when absorbed by living tissue and, are therefore a health hazard.

  20. Re:Sad news on Obama Choosing NOT To Go To the Moon · · Score: 1

    I think both are/would be a wasteful boondoggle. Feel better?

  21. Re:Simple solution on Graphic Novelist Calls For Better Game Violence · · Score: 1
  22. Re:What's the Problem on Getting Through the FOSS License Minefield · · Score: 1

    Also, none of this conjecture really makes sense in light of the conclusion of the article, which seems to be "use the MIT license", which is offers no defense even to linking.

    Sure, it does. One subtle point of the article is that the GPL is a confusing license that doesn't provide the protections people think it does, because it's "not viral enough." If that is case, why bother with it? Use a license that's simple and works the way people think it does. He even recommends the Sleepcat license for those wanting strong copyleft, because it is much simpler than the GPL.

    Note: Just restating the article, not necessarily my own opinion.

  23. Re:OpenOffice legendary? on Best Free Open Source Software For Windows · · Score: 1

    I tried to convince my wife to write her master's thesis using LateX, but she decided that spending a couple weeks learning something new wasn't worth it. She was very sorry at the end of the process when she spent over a month doing nothing but fighting Word's formatting glitches that show up in huge documents.

    I didn't press harder in the beginning because I don't have LateX experience either, so I didn't feel confident that I'd be able to find satisfactory answers to questions she might have. Honestly, it seems pretty overwhelming getting started.

    Does anyone have a low-learning-curve, take-your-time method for learning LateX?

  24. Re:Guilty conscience? on Bugatti's Latest Veyron, Most Ridiculous Car on the Planet? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, it's great to harp on the rich because their lives are so much easier. I guess you don't realize how much they actually do pay in taxes. Here's a page near the top of the Google results for "united states percentage of taxes paid relative to income".
    http://www.allegromedia.com/sugi/taxes/

    That page is 9 years old but it's pretty illuminating. In particular, the introduction points out these three facts:
    * The top 1% of taxpayers pay 29% of all taxes.
    * The top 5% of taxpayers pay 50% of all taxes.
    * The bottom 50% of taxpayers pay nothing or almost nothing.

    The intro then goes on to say that tax breaks are often put in a negative light because they'll benefit the rich the most. And why would that be? Because the rich are paying almost all of the taxes.

  25. Re:As usual with new Firefox releases... on Firefox 3.5 Reviewed; Draws Praise For HTML5, Speed · · Score: 1

    Basically, you add the feed address to your reader. Most websites have them now, especially webcomics and blogs. Your reader periodically checks the feed and looks for updates.

    So now the reader handles all of the update checking, and you just read the updates as they come in. All in one place, organized however you like.