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  1. Re:FUD works! Who knew? on Apple's Revenge: iMessage Might Eat Your Texts If You Switch To Android · · Score: 1

    Yes terribly difficult by default. Setting -> Messages then right at the top iMessage to off. Stay away from programs that demanding.

    You see, it should do that automatically, if device for example breaks or is wiped. It seems it doesn't, because many people seem to have real problems with it. So, either it's a crappy product/service needing some fixing, or it's a crappy concept if it's unfixable.

    Anyway, I'm pretty sure you're also aware of this and are just trolling, so never mind...

  2. Re:FUD works! Who knew? on Apple's Revenge: iMessage Might Eat Your Texts If You Switch To Android · · Score: 1

    No what doesn't help here is people too stupid to make a PHONE CALL. But yeah keep believing that you need to text in order to communicate with someone.

    Now this has gotta be an anti-Apple troll... If you don't understand the value of reliable, non-intrusive text message communications, then the problem is at your end. I'm not even saying you yourself need to find it valuable, I'm just asking you to understand that many people think that's very very valuable.

  3. Re:FUD works! Who knew? on Apple's Revenge: iMessage Might Eat Your Texts If You Switch To Android · · Score: 1

    Thanks for proving my 2nd issue with Apple. Unless you are an anti-Apple troll, which I kind of hope you are, actually.

    The problem (based on all the other comments here) seems to be, it can sometimes be really hard to notify (or find out how to notify) this particular service to stop doing it's thing... I indeed steer clear of those kind of services.

  4. FUD works! Who knew? on Apple's Revenge: iMessage Might Eat Your Texts If You Switch To Android · · Score: 1

    Hmm. I've got a spare iPhone available, and I was thinking of giving it a test drive. It's soon time to change phones, and I've never had an iPhone.

    Sounds like I better steer clear of iPhone after all, to avoid nasty surprises. FUD worked! Except sounds like this is actually true, and all these Apple fans saying people with this problem are stupid, that doesn't help here.

  5. Re:Seems somewhat predictable ... on How Predictable Is Evolution? · · Score: 1

    I always wondered about how insects and mammals both have legs, or insects and birds wings. Even though they did not have any of those when their spieces parted ways.

    That's only because of the broad, vague meaning of "leg" and "wing". The examples you list are vastly different structurally and functionally.

  6. Where will this end? on Russia Bans US Use of Its Rocket Engines For Military Launches · · Score: 1

    The sanctions and bans clearly will not work to defuse the Ukraine crisis.

    Without something concrete, consequences such as those sanctions and bans and threat of them becoming more and more severe, Russian tanks would most likely have already rolled to Eastern Ukraine. Whether that's helping to eventually defuse the crisis, or just helping to prolong it by preventing Russia from ending it in SU style, that's matter of opinion.

  7. Re:imagine what we will *know* tomorrow... on What Caused a 1300-Year Deep Freeze? · · Score: 2

    The science is working, if the scientific knowledge keeps enabling new revolutionary technologies (genetic engineering, nanotechnology, metamaterials, energy storage technology, quantum computers...) like it has been doing for as long as scientific method has been applies in large scale (radio, electricity, plastics, advanced alloys, computers, telecom, crude genetic engineering, satellites...).

    That's a pretty good benchmark really. Just being able to read opinions of all the anti-science people proves science works, because if it didn't, they'd be restricted to climbing on shoebox and shouting.

  8. Re:Let's not have 9 billion people in 2050, mmkay? on Scientists Race To Develop Livestock That Can Survive Climate Change · · Score: 1

    And just like the industrial nations "stopped" population growth without instituting a ban on pregnancy, stopping it elsewhere is neither impossible nor does it require a police state or worse.

    Stopped, or just temporarily slowed down? Evolution is based on this pesky tautology, that those who are most resistant to factors reducing number of offspring will have most offspring and spread this resistance. Resistance can take many forms, such as being susceptible to religious beliefs which endorse many childern, being forgetful or careless with contraceptives, having fetish for normal heterosexual copulation, having really strong maternal/paternal instincts... Whatever enables having more childeren than average.

  9. Re:Spinning and expansion on Space Telescope Reveals Weird Star Cluster Conundrum · · Score: 1

    What I was referring to is Centrifugal force.

    There's no centrifugal force, only centripetal force caused by mutual attraction. Except if you do funny and unnecessarily complex coordinate transformations. Which you possibly couldn't do if you happened to be tied to a human-sized centrifuge and about to be squished by those forces.

  10. Re:I use it in spite of him on Richard Stallman Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    Who said anything about ideology?

    You did, you implied it when you said he's a big part of why you became a GNU/Linux user

    Taking inspiration from a person, even a famous person one does not know personally, does not imply ideology. And at this age of most dominant Linux not having GNU software, specifying GNU in front does not imply ideology either. It just means Linux with the usual GNU userland.

  11. Re:And Now on Microsoft/Nokia Deal Closes · · Score: 1

    Well, I'm close to a "city" which has seen maybe a thousand, maybe 2-3 thousand (hard to say with all the subcontracting companies needing to lay off people too) Nokia jobs disappear over a few years. And as far as I have seen, transformation from stagnation to new opportunities has gone as well as one can hope. Then again I live in a "socialist" (from American point of view) economy where people have some time to find new work before being financially ruined, and while some end up relocating, there's perhaps no such urgency, as in countries like US where people are more on their own (this perhaps also answers your "free market" jab).

  12. Re:And Now on Microsoft/Nokia Deal Closes · · Score: 1

    That should be ok. Quality people will find new work, in places where they can actually get things done. The underlying engineering force which brought about the Symbian world dominance is still there. And looking at how wages go up in places like China and India, without overall quality/cost ratio not really keeping up (and I don't mean ability of individual engineers, I mean the whole overhead of outsourcing), while wages aren't really going up in places like Finland, this is going to be a very competitive work force, hungry to take on new challenges.

    Let the layoffs begin, indeed!

    Wouldn't it be ironic, if by some stroke of fate, Jolla would manage to become "next Nokia", built up partly by the same people who were there buidling up Nokia in '90s and early '00s

  13. Re:So.. on Russia Wants To Establish a Permanent Moon Base · · Score: 1

    Does anyone have the time to tell Capt.PutPut that the USSR, and the Space Race are over?

    Why would these be over? I mean, I'm all for telling him that just for fun, but he'll just respond "not yet, but soon, mwahahaha", or equivalent thereof.

  14. Re:This seems plausable on NSA Allegedly Exploited Heartbleed · · Score: 2

    I challenge anybody to review it and find (or notice) the bug.

    Wasn't this a plain and simple using un-sanitized data from packet received from the adversary (for code review purposes, all network data comes from an adversary)? Anybody doing serious code review should know to check for this and study code until sure all such values are handled safely, or reject change if code is too obfuscated to be sure. Anybody missing this should not be given any code to review responsibility without more experienced supervision.

  15. Re:The question remains why this extension? on Heartbleed Coder: Bug In OpenSSL Was an Honest Mistake · · Score: 2

    UDP does not have keep alive. TCP over TCP is an inherently broken combo so a VPN would prefer UDP. In crypto, it's necessary to hide nature of packets to make traffic analysis harder, which is probably why there is all that length stuff (did not check RFC, if it explains reasons).

  16. Re:Well, his software career's ruined on Heartbleed Coder: Bug In OpenSSL Was an Honest Mistake · · Score: 1

    It was probably modded down, because it is as clear a troll as they come. That last paragraph is a dead giveaway.

  17. Re:Terrible summary on Scientists Solve the Mystery of Why Zebras Have Stripes · · Score: 1

    Like most science this brings up more questions. Additionally why didn't Zebras evolve longer hair if the flies can't get through that as well, apparently other animals did evolve long hair and not stripes. Maybe for different reasons, maybe none of the explanations are any good. Isn't science fun!

    Well, I'd think longer hair also has some disadvantages. It's maybe more of a case of zebras evolving shorter hair after stripes made that possible.

  18. Re:Dwarf-like? on Small World Discovered Far Beyond Pluto · · Score: 1

    What will be LOADS OF FUN is the hilarity which will ensue if their hunch is correct that the orbit of this new dwarf planet and Sedna hint at the existence of a planet further out which is several times the mass of Earth.

    Are dwarf planets supposed to be BIG?

    The hypothised big planet would probably be a planet, not a dwarf planet, considering how it is hypothized it is herding these smaller bodies.

  19. Re:The Challenge on Can Science Ever Be "Settled?" · · Score: 1

    There's one big difference to illogical arguments. When you bolt something extra to a scientific "argument", it has to apply to everything already tested too. When arguing with an ex, there is selective application of everything.

  20. Re:Do you really need to change to Linux? on Ask Slashdot: Linux For Grandma? · · Score: 1

    Maybe not the same way, it may be until MS releases a how-to in a form of a patch to still supported OS, and XP has same vulnerability.

    Also, are you suggesting that all XP bugs have been found?

  21. Re:Do you really need to change to Linux? on Ask Slashdot: Linux For Grandma? · · Score: 1

    There are probably a bunch of XP remote exploits in the hats of black hats, just waiting for the time when the vulnerabilities stop being patched. Installed base is stilll quite big, big enough for a serious worm infestation, which will spread to every XP that remains exposed.

  22. Re: Another mobile operating system on Jolla Announces Sailfish OS 1.0 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Does it have an ssh client available to use in said console?

    So far on Android the best I've found is ConnectBot. Honestly the screen real estat sucks, even on my Nexus 4.

    I suppose for Linux console you'd use OpenSSH, as usual. You can build it yourself if you wish, or you can find a ready-made .rpm package.

    It's a "real" Linux, you know. And by "real" I mean, much like a mainstream PC Linux distro.

  23. Re:No model? on Supernova Secrets Seen In X-Rays · · Score: 2

    I Think it means, no working model, which would match observations. In current models supernovas do not happen reliably, the stars fail to actually go supernova. Is it a supernova model, if there's no supernova happening according to the model?

  24. Re:law of energy in a VR on Mathematician: Is Our Universe a Simulation? · · Score: 1

    the tree could very well still make it sound because it is useful for the simulation.

    Or, due to chaotic nature of the simulation, AKA "the Butterfly Effect", the tree not making a sound would end up changing everything.

  25. Re:Choosing between evils on Google's Definition of 'Open' · · Score: 1

    But is it evil? I'm not sure. Anyway, BB is not even on sale in my country I think, or at least I've never seen one. Then there's Jolla of course, but I think it's definitely not evil, so not in the running for evil things to choose from.