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  1. Re:Offline maps are great when travelling on Nokia Releasing Maps for Competing Devices · · Score: 1

    It's been there for a long time (more than 1 year?). The just made it more prominent in the latest releases.

  2. Re:similar to Sweden, where all banking is electro on New Credit Card Includes Display and Keypad · · Score: 1

    It's a shame the Swedish government mandated that all retailers that accept payments must have a 'black box' that tracks payments for the government. I develop software for (among others) the Swedish market. In Soviet Sweden my life is a pain in the arse!

  3. Re:Huh on WW2 Carrier Pigeon and Undecoded Message Found In Chimney · · Score: 1

    I seem to recall that all British bombers carried a couple of pigeons. Usefull if you crash!

  4. Re:Android for the first $1250 on The Struggles of Getting Into the App Store · · Score: 1

    Chances are (being a programmer and all) you already own a computer capable of running Eclipse so the $500 is not needed.

  5. Re:Manufacturer's Android on Samsung Smartphones Vulnerable To Remote Wipe Hack · · Score: 2

    I use PPP you insensitive clod!

  6. Re:Why ever use Bitcoin in the first place? on BitFloor Joins List of Compromised BitCoin Exchanges · · Score: 2, Informative

    Buying drugs & stolen goods over the internet. Donating to Wikileaks. That's about it really..

  7. Re:x264 on Rootbeer GPU Compiler Lets Almost Any Java Code Run On the GPU · · Score: 1

    It's easy to port C to Java (but not the other way).

  8. I think it's supposed to read 'Lunch'.

  9. Re:Very little, frankly. on Ask Slashdot: How Many of You Actually Use Math? · · Score: 2

    Nobody divides by 1024!

  10. Re:Inaccuracies & another Concorde on Flight 4590 Didn't Kill the Concorde; Costs Did · · Score: 1

    I went on that Concorde at Duxford when I was in the cub scouts, about 30 years ago!

  11. Re:Oh Boeing... on Flight 4590 Didn't Kill the Concorde; Costs Did · · Score: 4, Informative

    A Concorde going overhead at around 1000 feet and normal cruising speed is no more noisy than a normal jet. It's the afterburners that are loud (REALLY VERY LOUD) and those are only used at take-off.

    I'm sorry but that's wrong. I live in London and you *knew* when Concorde was flying over. But it was damn cool!

  12. Re:Q: Why are we still on x86 and 64bit and not 12 on World's Most Powerful x86 Supercomputer Boots Up in Germany · · Score: 1

    Not always true. The 68000 has 8 x 32bit address and 8 x 32bit data registers, with a 24bit address bus. Nearly all operations can be performed as 32bit. Yet it's reguarded as a 16bit cpu.

  13. XKCD on What's Next For Superhero Movies? · · Score: 3, Funny

    XKCD the movie. You know you want it.

  14. Re:Better yet on Startup Turns Fixing Your Grandma's PC Into a Game · · Score: 5, Interesting

    c:\> findstr /?
    Searches for strings in files.

    FINDSTR [/B] [/E] [/L] [/R] [/S] [/I] [/X] [/V] [/N] [/M] [/O] [/P] [/F:file]
    [/C:string] [/G:file] [/D:dir list] [/A:color attributes] [/OFF[LINE]]
    strings [[drive:][path]filename[ ...]]

    /B Matches pattern if at the beginning of a line.
    /E Matches pattern if at the end of a line.
    /L Uses search strings literally.
    /R Uses search strings as regular expressions.

  15. Re:Babecafe on Microsoft Apologizes For Inserting Naughty Phrase Into Linux Kernel · · Score: 2

    It's Microsoft, so don't forget C0DEDBAD!!

  16. Re:What if your name doesn't come up? on British Airways Plans To Google Passengers · · Score: 1

    Google me and you get pictures of a guy in an orange shirt. It seems I'm a murderer who was executed in the USA.

  17. Re:frosty on Atari Turns 40 Today · · Score: 1

    The Amiga used a similar technique, except the Copper (graphics co-processor of sorts) handled the 'wait for line 120 and change the sprite registers' bit, leaving the CPU free. Sprites on the Amiga sucked though, as they were only 16 pixels wide (AGA used in the A1200+ improved this).

  18. Re:Exactly on Bill Gates Says Tablets Aren't Much Help In Education · · Score: 1

    IMHO schools have a duty to prepare students for the work environment. They should be teaching mainstream technology as used in industry. In my experience close to zero companies are actually _using_ iPads except perhaps in a few niche markets. Lets not forget the fact that for the price of an iPad you can buy a decent 64bit Celeron Laptop (hell, you can probably buy 2!).

  19. Re:Problem and fix on Faulty Patch Freezes Millions of UK Bank Accounts · · Score: 1

    Guy on the radio just said his house purchase didn't go through because NatWest failed to release the funds. That's got to suck.

  20. Re:I hope they can do better on drivers on PowerVR To Make Mobile Graphics, GPU Compute a Three-Way Race Again · · Score: 2

    But it kicked ass on the Dreamcast back in 1999!

  21. Re:Can we short them yet? on Startup Applies For 307 GTLDs · · Score: 1

    The best site for Googling is Google.com. Duh!

  22. Re:Bullshit on Soda Ban May Hit the Big Apple · · Score: 1

    The funny thing is that cigarette packaging in the UK (and many other European countries I believe) have pictures of tumors on the front. I'm not sure it works, but maybe soda should have pictures of fatties?

  23. Iris scanning is NOT used to police immigration on A Wrinkle For Biometric Systems: Irises Change Over Time · · Score: 3, Informative

    Iris scanning is NOT used to police immigration in the UK. It was a failed experiment and people are no longer able to register their eyes. Any idiot passing through immigration at Heathrow or Gatwick could see it was taking the biometric people longer, even though there was no queue.

  24. Re:WELL AT LEAST IT'S NOT FUCKING GERMANY !! on Jaguar and Land Rover Angle For Production In China · · Score: 1
  25. Re:Do you want a leader who lies? on Leave Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson Alone! · · Score: 1

    Same here. Most don't even check my references either.