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  1. Re: Well, I _wanted_ to like her. on Jill Stein Pledges To Pardon Snowden and Appoint Him To Her Cabinet (zerohedge.com) · · Score: 0

    Yes, Gary Johnson of the libertarian party is a much more reasonable third party candidate who actually has a lot of governing experience and reasonable beliefs and policies. Jill Stein is a nut, and I'm not sure how anyone can take her seriously.

  2. Why... on Lenovo Still Shipping Laptops With Superfish · · Score: 1

    Are people still buying them at all? There are tons of companies that haven't broken your trust yet, but one of them! Stop buying Lenovo.

  3. What I did when I was in your boat... on Ask Slashdot: Affordable Large HD/UHD/4K "Stupid" Screens? · · Score: 1

    Was get a 70" smart TV, and not use any of the smart TV features. It seemed to work out alright.

  4. Re:Reasons why I don't like the Internet of Things on One In Five Developers Now Works On IoT Projects · · Score: 1

    That's the vast majority of people.

  5. Similar project for emulators on iOS on Internet Archive Launches Arcade of Classic Games In the Browser · · Score: 1

    I've been working on getting a bunch of emulators (NES, SNES, GB, GBA, Master System, and GameGear) online as well, and set up to use on iPhones on my own website: https://pocketga.me/ I'm also doing online per-account game storage and state saving (not for all systems right now) which makes it pretty convenient to play around with on the go reply

  6. Glass-pirated movies on MPAA Bans Google Glass In Theaters · · Score: 1

    Is there even a market for movies pirated using a Google glass? Seems like it would be one of the most shaky, poor quality videos in existence. I've seen some actual "cam" movies before and even those were very difficult to watch. I'm thinking the only loss in profits they're going to be seeing from Google glass users is that a lot of them will no longer come to see movies in theaters

  7. Not so much on Xiaomi's Next OS Looks Strikingly Similar To iOS · · Score: 3, Informative

    Here are some comparison screenshots between MIUI 5 and 6: http://www.gadgetsofworld.com/...

  8. Re:Don't buy cheap android on Why My LG Optimus Cellphone Is Worse Than It's Supposed To Be · · Score: 1

    No.

  9. Don't buy cheap android on Why My LG Optimus Cellphone Is Worse Than It's Supposed To Be · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's well known that cheap android phones have always been bad, and will always be bad. If you want a cheap, reliable phone, Nokia is more than willing to sell you one of its lower end Lumias. And if you want to have a contract, you can even get a high quality iPhone for "free". Why waste time with bottom of the barrel junk?

  10. Re:The real question. on WebKit Unifies JavaScript Compilation With LLVM Optimizer · · Score: 4, Informative

    I do. I work for a small company and we write all of our tablet apps in JavaScript and wrap them in Cordova. It lets us deploy on iOS, Android, and Windows all at once with minimal effort and cost, which is great for a small dev team. It even makes testing a breeze because I can write all of my functional tests in CasperJS and be reasonably sure that everything is working right prior to handing things off to the test team. Much easier than messing with some junk software like Appium and and writing tests for each mobile platform individually

  11. What's stopping Netflix on ISP Fights Causing Netflix Packet Drops · · Score: 1

    From doing some kind of opt-in peering arrangement, where movies were cached locally for a while after being watched on some devices with the storage capability to do so? While they're cached, they can help stream to peers on the same network along with Netflix's servers, in some type of arrangement similar to bittorrent. That way ISPs could degrade Netflix however they wanted but end user performance would still be acceptable in some cases.

  12. Only reason I ordered Wolfenstein on New DOOM Game Not Dead: Beta Comes With Wolfenstein Pre-Order · · Score: 1

    Was to get the new Doom beta. Been too long since iD came out with a Doom installment IMO

  13. BETA DOESN'T WORK RIGHT ON LYNX on Is Intel Selling Bay Trail Chips Below Cost? · · Score: 1

    I browse ./ on Lynx pretty often at work. Beta breaks the comment viewing functionality in Lynx. Don't serve beta to browsers that don't support JS!

  14. Re:if you know how a polygraph works... on Anti-Polygraph Instructor Who Was Targeted By Feds Goes Public · · Score: 1

    Obviously your lawyer would be present, however, to confirm otherwise.

  15. Keep in mind on EU Warns Nokia Not To Become a Patent Troll · · Score: 4, Informative

    In 2016, Nokia can re-enter the cell phone market under its own name. This may mean them going back into designing their own phones, or purchasing Jolla, the spin-off company run by former Nokia engineers. Jolla has already put a very nice looking low-end cell phone on the market, and I expect them to continue to build out their smart phone portfolio in the near future. I can definitely see them once again becoming a part of Nokia in 2016. I don't think Nokia would be content to remain a patent-only business. Also, keep in mind, they are retaining their very lucrative mapping business as well.

  16. Even the Android fanboys know on Android Master Key Vulnerability Checker Now Live · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That most phones that are "in the wild" will probably never receive this patch unless they are current flagship devices. That said, do not download things from untrusted sources! That goes for not only smart phones, but computers as well!

  17. Re:Security features on What Features Does iOS 7 Need? · · Score: 1

    mod parent up

  18. Re:themes. on What Features Does iOS 7 Need? · · Score: 2

    Keep in mind the Apple screens are smaller than all of the devices with supposed HD screens, and thus still have very competitive pixel densities. This is especially true when you look into the fact that pentile displays used on many devices do not accurately represent their supposed pixel densities with their RGBG subpixel scheme.

  19. Accuracy? on Intel's Linux OpenGL Driver Faster Than Apple's OS X Driver · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Okay, so now we know that the drivers themselves are faster at rendering OpenGL content, but are they accurate? I know that, in the past, both AMD and nVidia have resorted to not quite properly rendering things to get their cards to perform better in benchmarks, does anyone know if any of that is going on here?

  20. Okay, enough is enough on Drones: Coming Soon To the New Jersey Turnpike? · · Score: 2

    We are turning into a nanny state, and we need to put a stop to it. There are no reasonable arguments for spying on people with 30,000 drones.

    To combat such measures against American citizens, we need to start developing plans to take these things out of the sky. Perhaps we can do this by interfering with their radios, causing them to crash, shooting rockets at them, shooting at them with conventional firearms (while wearing a mask of course), or chasing them down with other drones and ramming into them. We need to be able to easily, cheaply, and effectively stop them. Of course, and I think it goes without saying, I'm NOT advocating that people actually do any of these things, but we still need to discover the best way to do it before it's too late.

  21. PayPal on PayPal Unveils New Android SDK, Available To US Developers May 15 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I hope this doesn't take off. I feel much better about letting companies like Google or Apple handle my money for transactions within apps, than horrible companies like PayPal. Here's a good resource for information about how PayPal treats its customers:

    paypalwarning.com

  22. Question on Genetically Modified Plants To Produce Natural Lighting · · Score: 1

    If one were to eat such a plant, would that person eventually begin glowing?

  23. Thanks Slashdot on A New Benefit For Logged-In Readers: Meet Slashdot's ROT13 Initiative · · Score: 1

    This made the website almost completely unusable in Lynx today. My employer thanks you.

  24. Re:Also talking on Real-Time Gmail Spying a 'Top Priority' For FBI This Year · · Score: 1

    I keep saying "hug box" because it sounds better. Who doesn't want a hug?

  25. Re:Car analogy on Apple's Lightning-to-HDMI Dongle Secretly Packed With ARM, Airplay · · Score: 3, Informative

    No, most motorsports do not use an automatic transmission. Many race cars do use newer automatically shifted manual transmissions such as: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual-clutch_transmission

    The only "motorsport" I can think of which favors automatic transmissions is drag racing, and those are specially built units. Slushboxes are no good for really any other type of racing.