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  1. Re:Security 101 on Multiple Vulnerabilities Exposed In Pocket · · Score: 1

    what's really baffling is why a read it later (offline) service is a web service in the first place.

    mozilla should have gone with just something that just saves them locally.. sync them with some web service after that if you want.

  2. Re:Yeah, right. on Hackers Publish Cheating Site's Stolen Data · · Score: 1

    they were supposed to _not_ store them.

    if you work in the biz you should know that bunch of companies still do store them if they happen to see them. it's bad practice/against the PCI but they still do it. usually it just costs them a bit more money to do it so that their servers send the stuff over from their UI(in which case they can store it because they see it) instead of using an iframe from you or similar.

    for a company this size it doesn't really matter to them to put down the 20-50k whatever

  3. Re:SoftRAM *shudders* on Windows Memory Manager To Introduce Compression · · Score: 1

    if you actually worked there, how come you don't know that 3rd parties decompiled it to see that the released binary did jack shit nothing of the sort? it just made the swap bigger, something that could be done without it.

    I mean, the program was supposed to compress ram but nobody could prove that it did that, but could prove that it did nothing of the sort.

    it's possible that you were witnessing different software than what they actually shipped. but it might be that the actual software they shipped was faster anyways.

    it could have been a scam that you just weren't in, why do yo think they demonstrated it for you..

  4. Re:For the love of... on Microsoft Patches Remote Code Execution Hole for Internet Explorer · · Score: 1

    funny thing is that malware never seems to have any trouble elevating the rights without asking the user, while for legitimate software the user gets bombarded with prompts.

    it's useless.

    just like on osx as well the separation is useless. malware finds a way around.

  5. Re:Why do this? on Sprint Drops Two-Year Contracts · · Score: 2

    two reasons, to compete and to not get forced to do it.

    the government is under constant pressure to put pressure on the american operators to stop ripping people off and make them see what they're paying for.

    why? so you could get out of the stone age of mobiles.. calling 2gbyte limit unlimited and paying 40 bucks for it and all that kind of stupid shit.

  6. Re:Yeah, right. on Hackers Publish Cheating Site's Stolen Data · · Score: 1

    you would only need the credit card details to remove the account.

    now, who the fuck in their right mind would get on a site like that anyways? the site was probably just full of fake women anyways and fat men, if their business was to blackmail money from people to delete the account.

  7. Re: ... using the name and e-mail address of other on Hackers Publish Cheating Site's Stolen Data · · Score: 5, Funny

    well the second part of the prank was obviously to hack and publish the user database.

    a pretty elaborate prank I must say, I salute!

  8. Re:Soldered-in RAM on Windows Memory Manager To Introduce Compression · · Score: 1

    haha that's funny.

    windows 10 for arm-mobile is not windows 10 for x86 desktop.

    they're just branding it. they're trying the same trick they tried with windows 8 and windows phone 8: lying by the boatloads. fact: wp8 browser is not the same as win8 browser despite them hyping it up. the kernel is different: windows ce derivative.

    and you know how you can run WINDOWS TEN!!!!! on raspberry pi2? yeah, for varying definitions of windows 10.. windows 10 for IoT isn't exactly the windows 10 ms is spamming me to install on my desktop.

    in other words, ms marketing is just as full of shit as last year.

  9. Re:AMD shoul just release the COMPLETE code alread on AMD Still Struggling With Linux Gaming · · Score: 1

    because there isn't a full specification to work to. did you even read what you were replying to? they don't release _enough_ information to make a decent open source driver and their closed source driver sucks ass. maybe they don't even know themselves and their drivers are a mishmash of code from subcons. maybe that's why they were trying to do mantle.

  10. Re:Still need RAM on Intel Promises 'Optane' SSDs Based On Technology Faster Than Flash In 2016 · · Score: 1

    in the scenario this would just drop in as a replacement for RAM.

    a (desktop)computer isn't going to run without RAM. how that ram is made up may change, of course.

    however, mentioning memresistors in the same sentence implies that we will not have this in 2017 or even 2027........

  11. Re:I wonder how they're jamming? on FCC Fines Smart City $750K For Blocking Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    well, they could have.
    but it wouldn't have been wifi then.

    but why should they, when interfering with other networks is illegal.

    mind you, had this been some 18 year old kid doing that deauthing, then he would be in prison for hacking now. so the world isn't fair.

  12. Re:Positronic technology? on IBM 'TrueNorth' Neuro-Synaptic Chip Promises Huge Changes -- Eventually · · Score: 1

    it's already connected some of these together.

    but the network can't train itself. kinda strange anyways. for a neural net that can't train itself it looks kinda big. how much can they do with a single true north chip?

  13. Re:Great, too bad most won't have access for a whi on Android M's Official Name Is Marshmallow · · Score: 1

    kitkat was supposed to be designed so that the pieces could be updated like pieces of a kitkat and that there wouldn't be immediate need for another full on version... like, that the os could be updated mostly without having to update evvveerything.

    and then they released lollipop and m straight after.

  14. Re:Anyone can be a rock star? on How 'Rock Star' Became a Business Buzzword · · Score: 1

    every actor in a porn flick is "starring".

    because there are so few actors in it, get it? if the name is on front of the box then you're a star.

  15. Re:Unacceptable on SteamOS Has Dropped Support For Suspend · · Score: 1

    pwm doesn't need more than two wires.

    you only need the third wire if you want to know how fast the fan is turning, which is not necessary for pwm control.

  16. Re:How to make a $50 phone on The Realities of a $50 Smartphone · · Score: 1

    the article is pretty funny when there's already phones going there.

    nokia x was selling for about 70 bucks give or take, 1.4 years ago. I bet they could have pushed it to fifty.

    and I don't know where you learnt about mobile phone business but 100 dollar phones don't have fifty bucks of profit - there's just too much competition to rake in that kind of money, unless you're an american mobile phone operator and find some very stupid people to sign up to plans where they pay you 100% profit on a phone they think they're getting for free.

  17. Re: He's got company on Donald Trump Thinks Going To Mars Would Be "Wonderful" But There Is a Catch · · Score: 1

    I guess his point was that he doesn't pay his debts.

    so that's probably his grand plan to deal with china, just declare all chinese debt as null - or print so much more money and give it to americans that the value of the debt they hold goes to zero.

    he thinks that he is smart like that and that it is "legal" and being "honest" has no place in business so why the fuck not...

  18. Re: What problem? on Ask Slashdot: How To "Prove" a Work Is Public Domain? · · Score: 1

    sure you can, *if it's really in the public domain.*.

    you're probably thinking about some fair use or whatever, which would apply if it was under copyright, but since it's not they don't come into play.

    you can charge 12321423 dollars for it if you want and find someone stupid enough to buy a copy at that price.

    but you'll have to do a shoddy work of the copying process, miss a couple of minutes or insert some story explaining text into the middle if you want to make a version that you have copyright to...

  19. Re:Flying Car on The Promise of 5G · · Score: 1

    well.. 5g "will happen" and it will be faster than stuff before.

    but really whe the fuck do you need to make an article about it that doesn't talk anything about the technologies trying to be that technology?

    well, it's techcruncchchhchhchch. never ever open a link to there, it will just make you more stupid. and you know what, I bet 10 000 cto's are mailing this to their ceo's in an effort to seem like they're on top of things.. that's what wankcrucnhhch is for - another thing it's for is to inject a news story about your startup so you can put a link on your startups home page, because all the other hip startups do the same.

  20. Re:dat amount of BS on F-35 Might Be Outperformed By Fourth-Generation Fighters · · Score: 1

    I don't see how the cost issue is BS since the initial unit cost is higher as well for buying nations, higher than buying f18's or f16's or whatever were back in the day.

    and you've already spent more than on other projects, despite it not being in service yet and supposedly it receiving a new engine sometime in the future maybe.

    also the projected usage costs are higher than for those previous gen fighters.

    basically the unit cost is higher, the research cost has been way higher - and the projected maintenance costs(with which they're trying to get them sold, mind you) are higher.

    everything is higher while the peddler of the weapon is a government that obviously can't be trusted to sell non-infected software.

  21. Re:Article is completely meaningless on The Promise of 5G · · Score: 1

    2.5g is fast enough for real time traffic updates..

    what you need is less shitty data plans from your provider.. oh finland finland home of the 10 bucks/month / 100 gb+ connections.

  22. Re:Doesn't surprise me on SteamOS Has Dropped Support For Suspend · · Score: 1

    it's not crashing..

    usual problems: sound not working after hibernate, some usb devices not working after hibernate.. some usb ports not working after hibernate.

    yeah, pretty much of all of the problems are usb related.

  23. ever had a casio user have explain you that they have just ordered a new casio?

    of course not. pebble users mention it all the fucking time that they have a pebble.

    you're doing it right now, while sort of playing it down you're also mentioning how people tell you how cool you are for having one, so there.

  24. Re: Thanks anonymous reader! on How to Quash Firefox's Silent Requests · · Score: 0

    it makes it seem like the browser is faster.

    I wonder how many websites it breaks though.

    Imagine a 'subscribe' link or unsubscribe or hovering over 'delete customer info' link.

    it's a fucking stupid feature.

  25. Re:People have to be careful on Can Cuba Skip Cell Phone Connectivity? · · Score: 1

    you think the 5g will be free?

    I don't understand though why the OP seems to think that 5g cellphones wouldn't be cellphones or 5g cells wouldn't be cells, or why 3g phones aren't phones or some shit like that.

    they might skip GSM but uh gsm is 20 years old technlogy. that's like asking in 2005 if some countries will skip straight from not having nmt to having gsm+3g base stations.

    will they skip cellphones to cellphones? sure..