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  1. I *might* have one. I'll have to look to see if I still have it or if I recycled it last purge.

  2. I was enjoying the web being quiet... on Google Now Automatically Converts Flash Ads To HTML5 · · Score: 1

    Dammit. As a flash refusenick for years I've gotten used to the quietness of the modern flash-free web. Now I have to investigate ad-block technology again.

  3. Re:related: DD-WRT on WRT54G Successor Falls Flat On Promises · · Score: 1

    That's DD-WRT. OpenWRT is a fork (I forget which came first).

    Different projects.

  4. Re:Not malicious but not honest? on Heartbleed Coder: Bug In OpenSSL Was an Honest Mistake · · Score: 1

    Yeah, Ted Unangst (OpenBSD) looked into it.

    http://www.tedunangst.com/flak...

    Basically: someone took advantage of the OpenSSL Malloc allowing use-after-free. What is this, SimCity for Windows?

  5. Re:Exercise in Futility on Ask Slashdot: Best Free and Open Source Apps For Android? · · Score: 2

    And actually, F-Droid *works* for that scenario. You can run your own repo, so you can back up your .APKs to that.

  6. F-Droid is pretty much all you need, too. on Ask Slashdot: Best Free and Open Source Apps For Android? · · Score: 1

    All the other comments really just sort of become unnecessary when you consider the capability of F-Droid.

    You can run your own repos with it, it's not just a gateway to the website.

  7. Not quite on Ask Slashdot: Best Free and Open Source Apps For Android? · · Score: 1

    It's not an "appstore" unless by "store" you mean "repository" instead of "shop" - F-Droid is more accurately a repository client, that ships with the F-Droid FLOSS Repository pre-configured.

    You can run your OWN repository; some people use this to back up purchased .APKs, as F-Droid supports versioning.

  8. Re:videogames are like #3 or lower on that list on School Shooting Prompts Legislation To Study Violent Video Games · · Score: 1

    The media never gets it right. The only rifle that uses a "clip" is the M1 Garand. Count the times people say "clip". The AR-15 isn't an assault rifle, it's semi-auto.

  9. Re:Walled gardening with impunity on Lenovo UEFI Bug Only Likes Windows and RHEL · · Score: 1

    Sony attempted to do this with their Playstation 2 (and the Playstation 3) in order to work around taxes, not because they actually wanted it general purpose.

  10. MD - voted early on Friday on U.S. Election Day In Progress: What's Been Your Experience? · · Score: 1

    Short line, less than 15 minutes and only one dude holding a sign outside my polling place. Voted around 20:00, I guess.

    Was able to laugh and happily ignore the last 5 days of attack ads, mailings, people begging on social media to vote one way or the other...it was nice. Very nice. I'd do it again.

  11. Um, why use WAV? on RockBox + Refurbished MP3 Players = Crowdsourced Audio Capture · · Score: 1

    Wavpack (.wv) is fully supported on the Fuze (with Rockbox obviously), I figure I would also be useful on the Clip. It's a royalty-free lossless compression format, and beats the shit out of .WAV

  12. What a broad brush. on David Lowery On the Ethics of Music Piracy · · Score: 1

    The moron posts one form 990 and suddenly the entire Free Culture movement is corporate funded? What a moron.

  13. I know the waste of money. on Humble Indie Bundle V Released · · Score: 1

    Things that worked for me, on either Ubuntu 10.10 or Debian 6.0.5. I have an R300 card, and use the free drivers.

    Worked: World of Goo, Lugaru HD, Aquaria (both builds), Osmos (music stutters), Revenge of the Titans, Cortex Command, Frozen Synapse, VVVVVV, Steel Storm, Dungeons of Dredmor (after much patching!), Gish (both builds), Penumbra: Overture, Machinarium (wrapped Flash), SpaceChem (.NET), Trauma (wrapped Flash), Hammerfight (really shitty with a trackball; had to use bluetooth mouse), Night Sky, And Yet It Moves, Frozen Synapse, Defcon, Jamestown, Voxatron, Atom Zombie Smasher (.NET), Binding of Isaac (wrapped Flash), Blocks That Matter, Chocolate Castle, Zen Puzzle Gardens, Jasper's Journeys.

    Didn't work well: Braid, Darwinia, Crayon Physics Deluxe (bad fonts on Ubuntu, didn't try Debian)

    Never tried: Uplink, Multiwinia

    Never could run: Samorost 2, Trine, Shadowgrounds, Shadowgrounds Survivor, Jack Claw, Crayon Physics Deluxe, Cogs, CaveStory+, Shank, Super Meat Boy (buggy as sin)

    I guess I got my money's worth?

  14. Cross platform via flash on Humble Indie Bundle V Released · · Score: 1

    And Samarost & Machinarium were wrapped flash. I have never actually played Samarost.

  15. No Linux support on Humble Indie Bundle V Released · · Score: 1

    None of those bundles even care about Linux support.

    HIB at least does, even if sometimes it's WINE bottles or Adobe AIR. (And they are getting a considerable amount of flak for that too, because that shit is not acceptable.)

  16. Strawman on Cops Can Crack an iPhone In Under Two Minutes · · Score: 1

    You can call 911 without entering your pattern/passcode on Android.

  17. Even closer on Chief Replicant Dev On Building a Truly Free Android · · Score: 3, Informative

    Replicant starts where CyanogenMod left off. It ships with most of the CM tweaks, and then adds in things like F-Droid, which is an Android Free Software repository client.

  18. Make the right one on White House Refuses To Comment On Petition To Investigate Chris Dodd · · Score: 1

    I suggest starting the "right" one then. You push it to slashdot & reddit, that might be enough to get the ball rolling.

  19. Seriously, Flash? On Slashdot? on Pixel Qi Screens are for Laptops and Tablets, Not Just OLPC (Video) · · Score: 1

    Is there any way we can get this video in a non-proprietary format? Uploading it to YouTube would be sufficient.

  20. Moot to the topic at hand on OS X Notifier App Growl Goes Closed Source · · Score: 1

    Growl isn't GPL-licensed.

  21. Amazing on Illegal To Take a Photo In a Shopping Center? · · Score: 1

    Only the Dutch would come up with the idea of using this force for good. :)

  22. Is WinAVR really required? on An $80 Open Source Chemical Analyzer · · Score: 1

    Any Free Software that can compile the device firmware?

  23. When you find out, let me know. on Oracle's Java Policies Are Destroying the Community · · Score: 1

    When you find out, let me know too. I think we're riding the same ship.

  24. Where you'd expect - on Adobe Released 64-bit Flash For Linux · · Score: 1

    Next to the PPC64 ones.

  25. Re:Verizon: No Unlocked Phones on our network on HTC To Unlock Smartphones' Bootloader · · Score: 2

    They backpedalled on that pretty quickly: https://twitter.com/#!/VZWSupport/status/74160501885644800