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  1. Re:"Java 7: What's In It For Developers" on Java 7: What's In It For Developers · · Score: 1

    Can we get it reviewed by someone who isn't a fanboi and butt licker?

  2. Re:2 Words on Smartphones: the New Home of Crapware · · Score: 1

    So far I've found three items missing from the 'instructions' when doing cyanogen manually. It seems to be a blind spot the pundits have. Even when it's uspposed to 'just work' the ROM Manager will brick the phone in two different ways and I paid for it. It will brick the phone with cyanogen and it will brick the phone with if you repartition.
    The one click lag fix that is installed with bionix without permission will lock the phone up running the processor to overheat then reboot. The phone will get a tad warm.

    No, they're not ready to play with IOS, they ain't even ready to be let out of the basement.

  3. Re:2 Words on Smartphones: the New Home of Crapware · · Score: 1

    It bricks the phone and I've paid for ROM manager. Hell Rom manager will brick the phone if you use the repartition tool.

  4. Re:2 Words on Smartphones: the New Home of Crapware · · Score: 1

    If the devs cannot put out installation instructions that are not deliberately obtuse and which prevent even an experienced user from bricking the phone cyanogen mod is not much different.

    I've tried to find a coherent set of instructions all on one page that does not brick the phone requiring a heimdall reinstall of the OS or actually sending it to someone who wants money to fix it.

    It's good that's Android is so open as Bionix works at least until you try the pre-installed 'one click lag fix" then it'll randomly reboot till you remove both the mod and the 'fix'. That is some amazing crapware.

  5. Re:The 90's called on Symbolic Violence Beats Lava Lamps All To Pieces · · Score: 1

    How about the 201x era where we throw molten lead?

  6. Re:The obvious first question... on Rare Earth Restrictions To Raise Hard Drive Cost · · Score: 1

    This is as marvelous as their other bone headed move with Taiwan. It will spur the development of MRAM and other technologies for SSDs. It will spur manufacturing to move to one of several hundred countries that are not psychically traumatized by a small island that sneered at them and went independent.

    Even Britain didn't go that loony over America they went loony over .. I'm not sure what.

  7. Re:Now all we need is for it to target the crimina on Santa Cruz Tests Predictive Policing Program · · Score: 1

    CRIMINAL WITHOUT CONVICTION â" PROSECUTING THE UNCONVICTED ARRIVING ALIEN UNDER. SECTION 212(a)(2)(A) OF THE....

    http://www.fletc.gov/training/programs/legal-division/the-informer/research-by-subject/miscellaneous/aliencriminalwithoutconviction.pdf

    I know I have my citizenship papers around here somewhere.

  8. Re:Long term Id fan here... on Rage and the Tech Behind id Tech 5 · · Score: 1

    Yea and this engine has been in development HOW long? And it's not owned by iD anymore but some corprat blob.

    I suspect Rage'll endup ForeverNuked.

  9. Re:Now all we need is for it to target the crimina on Santa Cruz Tests Predictive Policing Program · · Score: 1

    Election? Election! What fucking election? I say we kill the accused because we are GOVERNMENT GODS!

  10. Re:Now all we need is for it to target the crimina on Santa Cruz Tests Predictive Policing Program · · Score: -1

    You poor sissified constitutionalistic dogma spewing cretin! DIE!

  11. Re:Now all we need is for it to target the crimina on Santa Cruz Tests Predictive Policing Program · · Score: 1

    *squeeekily* erases that from the dictionary of jurisprudence and schedules anyone who disagrees with retroactive abortions!

  12. Re:Now all we need is for it to target the crimina on Santa Cruz Tests Predictive Policing Program · · Score: 1

    Blasphemer! Infidel! YOU are the criminal! DIE!

  13. Now all we need is for it to target the criminals on Santa Cruz Tests Predictive Policing Program · · Score: 1

    before they commit the crime.

  14. Re:In my experience it depends on what you want on Bing More Effective Than Google? · · Score: 1

    Google searches for the last few months have been full of poisoned results. Crap copy and respew sites that google does not or will not get rid of. If Bing were any good I'd go there but with google I at least can eventually find something relevant. I really miss Altavista.

  15. Re:ridiculous on Wall Street: Software More Valuable Than Oil · · Score: 1

    Find this, an oil company exec stated that they could shut off gasoline and diesel production, have less regulation, taxes and other red tape and make MORE money selling their products as chemical feed stock. They stated the only reason they had not gone that route was their existing customer base and the fear of political reprisal.

    I may have imagined hearing that but dimly recall it was not a big name oil company.

  16. Re:Uhm... DUH. on Anonymous Vows To Destroy Facebook · · Score: 1

    Yes but it's transitory and with some effort easily poisoned.

    Of the stuff which I'd allowed to be tied to me II had thought Usenet archives would store the stuff forever till Google got a hold of them.

    Now there's less than 10 percent of the stuff from the 1990s online and it's dwindling.

    I'm not sure if it's deliberate or that the scribblings are getting eaten by enough errors to cause the software to delete them or hide them.

    Soon I'll cease to exist pre-2000

  17. Re:End of an era? on Samba 3.6 Released With SMB2 Support · · Score: 1

    Try http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu/ Coda first it's a derivative of AFS2

  18. Re:Are they nuts? on Khronos Releases OpenGL 4.2 Specification · · Score: 1

    Slashdot should out anonymous posters that reach -1

  19. Re:everything for war on Build Your Own Camera, Launch It Like a Grenade · · Score: 1

    Add 6k for an original M79 grenade launcher and another 600 for the pistol grip (or about the same for an AR-15), or scrimp and buy a new one for 2k. Yes, the damned tax stamp is needed. I'd just shoot them from an unregulated (in some states) 37mm flare launcher.

  20. Re:Chicken and Egg? on Guide To Building a Cable That Improves iOS Exploits · · Score: 1

    You would think by now that there would have been schematics ala the old Howard W. Sams hack of disassembling it, desoldering the parts and running continuity tests after first getting as many oscope waveforms and voltages as possible.

  21. Re:Old hardware on Doom 3 Source Code To Be Released This Year · · Score: 1

    I never bought Doom3 for that reason among others. I'd never played the game. I just thought if they could not stick a light on a rifle and had to crank the light down it would suck. I had a friend buy it for me as a gift. It rocks.

  22. Re:That sounds useful on Chrome Extension Helps Find Noisy Tabs · · Score: 1

    I never get sounds out of Firefox. I never get shit starting up that I don't want. I tried Chrome and ripped it out within 15 minutes.

  23. Re:The youtube of... on Sharing Electronic Schematics · · Score: 1

    While the 50yr old is counting the digits on his bonus check for bringing the project to completion on time and under budget.

    Just had a clueless noob engineer not bother testing their CPLD solution to upgrade an old products hardware quite enough. It caused the first run of a product to be hastily recalled.

    Come to find out the 50yr old who retired early had a debugged solution sitting in the design files that used a couple of logic ICs, a clock generator, some capacitors and a transistor.

  24. Re:So what? on Astronomers Find Largest Known Extraterrestrial Water Reserve · · Score: 1

    We seek knowledge so we can FIND OR MAKE MORE FOOD so we can MAKE MORE PEOPLE. I want them to find the CHON floating around in the OORT cloud.

  25. Re:Version numbers on Standards Make Rapid Software Releases Workable · · Score: 2

    I've stopped proselytizing open source to any business or user. Mozilla's attitude is wide spread. Businesses and users want to get work done. They don't want proselytizers for the one true way who can't be bothered to understand their needs.

    Has the GUI prophets managed to get cut and paste working? Is sound working? Is 3D graphics working? Am I going to be forced to use firefox as this prophet dictates? How much of the usability I expect will be ripped out of some project this week?