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  1. Re:I think there's something wrong... on Military Drone Lost Over Lake Ontario · · Score: 1

    You're not alone in reading the tag as Super Mango Tit

  2. Re:(plus one Infor8a7ive) on Stephen Colbert and the Monster Truck of Tivos · · Score: 1

    "Welcome to http://goat.cx/

    This domain been suspended, please use the Registration URL link to contact your registrar

    Error Connecting To Whois Server."

    The domain has been suspended/parked for a while. I don't know why you want us to see that. Don't bother changing to goat.se, the asshole's long gone, replaced with some goat info. Yes, it's domain parked too.

  3. Re:..or on Tor Usage More Than Doubles In August · · Score: 5, Interesting

    (e) botnets that use TOR for command and control stuff.

  4. Re:The best hangup on Lamenting the Demise of Hangups · · Score: 1

    Otterbox didn't save my HTC when the phone and other stuff fell off a table. The LCD was smashed, but the touch sensor and the glass were undamaged. Something managed to hit the back of the phone, right on the battery connector, which pushed into the LCD panel. A replacement panel, via Ebay, later and the phone is up and running again. The IQ isn't as good as the original one (blueish tint), but what the heck, replacement parts that aren't overstock are rejects that failed QC one way or another.

  5. Re:American made is not a selling point on CES: American-Made, Industrial-Strength Smartphone and Tablet Cases (Video) · · Score: 1

    I agree. One of the guys renting the space next to me used to work as a designer at Fjällräven (outdoor clothing/camping equipment) and he'd done several purcasing trips to China. He told me that Chinese manufacturers will meet your price point and always make money on the deal. Always. They won't care about the quality.

  6. Re:Well on Is Intel Planning To Kill Enthusiast PCs? · · Score: 1

    And modded to run in a dual mobo. At least 'til BP6 arrived.

  7. Re:Stupid to ask this on LiMux Project Has Saved Munich €10m So Far · · Score: 1

    I were dual booting my machine at work with CAD and accounting as the reason for keeping the XP installation. MS Office was dumped early on when there were no native support for PDF generating using macros. When I found Draftsight, an AutoCAD clone, the sole reason left was accounting. Fast forward to the day yet another nVidia based product died, this time the motherboard. (The GeForce 8500 died a couple of years earlier. Bad bumps.) After getting a cheap MB the computer was up and running again. Except if I wanted to keep running Windows I had to reinstall it (or upgrade to newer version based on available drivers) or I could keep on running Ubuntu, which I didn't had to change a thing to get it to boot. Decisions, decisions.

    I exported the db from the accounting software using wine and went for a web based system instead (FortKnox). The old software ran in wine, but printing didn't work. If I had upgraded to Windows 7, I would have to buy a new large format printer as well because HP dropped support for my old one after XP.

    So nowadays I don't have any Windows installations either at work or at home.

  8. Re:Inevitable on Samsung Hits Apple With 20% Price Increase · · Score: 2

    Last I heard, TSMC only manufactures ICs for companies; they don't do design work. Apple could potentially hire someone to design replacement microprocessors and build them at TSMC, but it could be an uphill battle with all of the patent landmines they could run into.

    If you had checked the list of Apple M&A, you'd found that Apple already owns P.A. Semi and plans to make their own chips at TSMC or GF (less likely).

  9. Re:No wonder it sucks! on James Bond Film Skyfall Inspired By Stuxnet Virus · · Score: 1

    No, it's a meme born on 4chan.

  10. Re:FARS? on Iran's News Agency Picks Up Onion Story · · Score: 1

    Fars actually means farce in Sweden.

  11. Re:Data on Apple Reportedly Luring Ex-Google Mappers With Jobs · · Score: 1

    There are three companies. Google (from streetview data), Tele Atlas (Nokia) and Navteq (TomTom).

    Every GPS provider runs to Nokia or TomTom for mapping data.

    In fact, for a period of time Google's maps were awful - the first when they switched from Navteq to Tele Atlas, and the biggest one happened around 2009-2010 when Google decided to dump Tele Atlas whereever possible and go with their own streetview data. Hilarity includes the traditional ones - typos in names (street, town/city), odd mismatched maps, etc.

    Of course, it's faster for Google to update their map data as they just have to update their maps directly. When they license Tele Atlas, they have to send the request to Tele Atlas and then wait for it to update (Navteq and Tele-Atlas only update once a quarter or so).

    Of course, Google STILL hasn't got my old house address up (never mind my new one), despite numerous attempts at requesting they fix it. (The streets are there, but they're unlabelled).

    The reason they are unlabelled is the they were added to the database from users sharing GPS information using Google's Location Services. When there is major road construction requiring the traffic to detour using temporary roads, Google's servers notice that most of those who uses Google Navigate makes a detour passing a certain spot, Google will update the maps with the new detour.

    I saw this happen when they built a new railway bridge over the E45 here in Gothenburg. The new bridge allowed them to straighten the four lane road. E45 made a S-curve, passing under the old bridge. (Nowadays they can make bridges with longer spans in places with unstable ground. The Göta River valley contains loads of quick clay, which become a liquid (liquefaction) if the clay is waterlogged and are subjected to vibrations. Land slides are the usual result.) When they were building the new bridge, they had to move the road between the pillars of the old bridge, which were still in use, and the pillars of the new one so the S-curve became sharper. A month later Google Maps had updated to match the temporary road. And when they opened the new stretch, Google Navigation expected me to turn sharp right and then sharp left.

    Also, it uses the same shared GPS data to place the numbering of the houses along the road correctly. My dad lives on number 8 on his rural little road so I enter number 8 when I navigate to his home. (I use Google Navigate to show traffic info for the route I've chosen) After a while Google Maps put the number at the place where I usually park my car when I'm visiting dad (and exits the navigation app). Which is the correct place, the driveway, the north corner of his property and not the east corner, that Navteq and Tele Atlas still believes is the proper corner.

    So there you have it, you'll have to wait until enough people have navigated into that part of the world and then exited the app in the correct place so Google can mine the data for the correct street names...

  12. Idoru on The Increasing Role of Predictive Analysis In Police Work · · Score: 2

    So they copied and automated an idea from "Idoru" by William Gibson. Colin Laney, a guy who earns his living by manually sifting thru data to find dirt on media personalities. He finds a woman who is about to commit suicide, if I recall it correctly.

  13. Re:LILO on GRUB 2.00 Bootloader Officially Released · · Score: 1

    Bah! Boot into MS-DOS and use CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT to run LOADLIN.COM

  14. Re:Drink holder on Why Apple's Next Revolution Should Be In Your Car · · Score: 1

    Volvo almost went under because of lack of cup holders. They didn't understand their second major market (USA).

    The XC90 were designed when Ford owned them.

  15. Precise with classic Gnome desktop on Code Name, Theming Update Announced For Ubuntu 12.10 · · Score: 2

    Just install gnome-session-fallback, log out and select Classic Gnome. To move or install indicators etc, alt+right click.

  16. Re:ATI on Open-Source Qualcomm GPU Driver Published · · Score: 1

    It was originally developed by a bunch of former demo scene blokes from Finland. ATI renamed it Adreno when they bought Bitboys OY. There might be some Radeon parts incorporated in Adreno, and vice versa.

  17. Mini Internet? on A Look At Microsoft's 'Mini Internet' For Testing IE · · Score: 4, Funny

    Does that mean they have only porn sites with midget porn? And a mini 4chan, populated with toddlers?

  18. Re:KOfffice on LibreOffice Developer Community Increasingly Robust · · Score: 1

    Krita is a very clever name, because the programmers went with the double association to drawing. Krita means crayon or blackboard chalk in Swedish. (Krita originates from the latin word for chalk, creta.) And with the habit of putting "K" in front of names in KDE it still rings true, rita means draw/sketch in Swedish.

  19. ...and it won't run down your battery. on New Car Anti-Theft Device Profiles Your Rear End · · Score: 1

    The only thing I want to know is how far away the lethal response anti car theft devices are.

  20. Re:Looks like a copy of someone else's work... on Researchers Build TCP-Based Spam Detection · · Score: 1

    The flood of spam from Yahoo accounts is because of "porn" or "warez" sites that loads an hidden iframe on Firefox. This iframe opens the user's Yahoo account and spam everyone in the address book. Only Firefox have that problem with hidden iframes and Yahoo mail.

  21. Re:Dihydrogen Monoxide on 88-Year-Old Inventor Hassled By the DEA · · Score: 1

    Together with hydroxyl acid

  22. Updated Google Earth .KMZ file on Canary Islands Eruption Could Create New Land · · Score: 1

    Updated the file to current and included all magnitude 1 quakes (+6400 events). I added time stamp data so you can play with the animate tool in Google Earth. Set the replay speed to slowest and the Start/Stop time to cover two days.

    http://www2.tripnet.se/~fredrik/hierro_2011-11-15.kmz

  23. Google Earth .KMZ file on Canary Islands Eruption Could Create New Land · · Score: 1

    I made a simple Google Earth Keyhole Markup file with all quakes this year with a magnitude of 2.0 or greater on the Richter Scale

    http://www2.tripnet.se/~fredrik/hierro.kmz

    The information were gathered from Instituto Geográfico Nacional's web page: http://www.01.ign.es/ign/layoutIn/volcaFormularioCatalogo.do

  24. Re:I Gave Up On Charities on Ask Slashdot: What OS For a Donated Computer? · · Score: 1

    Sounds like they are firmly stuck in the Microsoft swamp or they're going to sell the computers through their second hand stores. The demand for the original disks is probably something their lawyers have demanded to keep their asses covered in case of malware infections. They're trying to provide as little support as possible by not installing Linux on them. "Here are the original disks, use them and don't bother us when it doesn't work."

  25. Re:Linux vs XP on Ask Slashdot: What OS For a Donated Computer? · · Score: 1

    The last one was last supported on XP. The new one was last supported on Vista and won't work on Windows 7! The absolutely hilarious part about both of these is that both scanners use the same protocol that virtually all HP scanners use, and they won't work with newer versions of Windows simply because the driver SAYS they won't; they would probably work FINE if the driver didn't simply refuse to communicate with them.

    Planned obsolence. Just a more obvious variant, since they didn't bother to block them from working when using them with other OS:es.