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  1. Re:Block Ads... on Mobile Ads May Serve As a Malware Conduit · · Score: 1

    I want to know if your "make my android phone a BT keyboard" will work on my phone, same goes for your 3d game, etc. No sense shelling out $5 until I know it will run.

  2. Re:It's biting off what I get ribbed on here for on Mobile Ads May Serve As a Malware Conduit · · Score: 1

    now what do you do when you run into the app that checks to see if it's ad network is in your hosts file(mind you only looks to see that it is there, not that it is set to something non-nonsensical)?

  3. Re:My preference and a follow-on question on Ask Slashdot: Which Multiple Desktop Tool For Windows 7? · · Score: 1

    I'd like to add that I use and have used linux on my own computers for around 15 years now as the primary OS, my home server also runs linux, both gentoo these days.

  4. Re:My preference and a follow-on question on Ask Slashdot: Which Multiple Desktop Tool For Windows 7? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    care to show me how to run solidworks and Inventor on linux without a VM or wine? (sorry a need to do real work with it, and I need real access to the workstation video card).

    I might be able to still get ProE, but thats a fair chunk of change extra over Inventor. Sorry but until Linux has a real cad program (with medium pricing), revit, and excel with VBA it is not going to be used at work no matter how good of a desktop it makes.

  5. Re:Why Should I Care? on Linux 3.3 Released · · Score: 1

    the panel in XFCE will be 100% if i tell it to. not annoying at all.

  6. Re:some parts are fine on Time to Review FAA Gadget Policies · · Score: 3, Insightful

    what about people reading the 2" thick hardcover book at those times?

    If it is about "not prepared to deal with an emergency", then all activities during those times should not be allowed, this includes reading newspapers, and looking out the window.

  7. Re:Why not? on Should Snatching an iPhone Be a Felony? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    To be fair, if the person taking the pictures is close enough for me to "snatch" the phone from his/her hand, it would seem to me that they are stepping over some line, harassment maybe? How much space around you can you reasonably expect? here in the midwest, I'd say at least an arms length.

  8. Re:it doesnt matter really on Should Snatching an iPhone Be a Felony? · · Score: 1

    I don't even want to run Autocad/inventor/solidworks/excel on a PC... I want a workstation.

  9. Re:it doesnt matter really on Should Snatching an iPhone Be a Felony? · · Score: 2

    Make that show up in the top of the RSS feed as well.

  10. Re:The excuse I needed... on US ISPs Become 'Copyright Cops' July 12th · · Score: 1

    i'm here in Minneapolis, i have 2 choices... centurylink and comcast. There are 1 or two others in nearby places, but those are the two i can get in my apartment complex.

  11. Re:Great! on Pay the TSA $100 and Bypass Airport Security · · Score: 1

    Aren't they merging trusted traveler and SENTRY?

  12. Re:Not new on Camera Gun Would Let Hunters Get Killer Wildlife Shots · · Score: 1

    It's called a monopod... same idea but you get to set it on the ground to steady your "shot"

  13. "As a quick tour of the device, please note the 8MP camaer on the front along with the battery cover. On the back you will see the screen and the 3MP rear camera." From that point on the manual would refer to the "screen side" as the rear, and the other side as the front.

  14. The bezel width is a functional aspect, the corners likely are as well, too small and they still seem square, too large and your device looks like a circle/oval. I'll give you the placement of the button and the rounded back(although that could be arrived at independently through testing which profile a test group found most pleasing to hold).

    No, a bus is not "mostly 2D" like the iPad or a sheet of paper, it is more like a squared of log with wheels.

  15. Re:Why does nobody on slashdot understand innovati on Meet The Man Who Designed a Tablet Computer 15 Years Before the iPad · · Score: 1

    So like black bezels as the best color choice for the market? as it doesn't show dirt, and pea green is unlikely to look as professional as piano black? or the square design because a triangle is just silly when all screens are already some sort of rectangle? or the fact that in order to make an open-able(by service) device with an Al back and glass front that you will just about have to have an Al border around the front?

  16. I would suggest that "the color black" and a "thin brushed AL edge around that black screen" are matters of form or normal consumer expectations.

    What color would you suggest, that looks "professional" doesn't show smudges/stains, and would be a viable color in the market place? Personally at this point I would use a very very very dark blue, simply to avoid apple. It would still look black in all but the brightest sunlight.

    How else do you propose that I affix the back to the screen in a durable way, that doesn't involve a crack/seam that would allow "crud" to collect in it? I guess i could wrap the screen glass the other way, but glass is known to chip where as brushed AL is much more durable in when at the thicknesses desired.

    The bezel width is also a matter of function, too much width and you are making your device larger (heavier/costlier) than it needed to be, make it too thin, and users will accidentally touch the screen too often.

    If it were simply a case of "anybody with a roundrect tablet is infringing," then Apple would have a lot more lawsuits - they don't yet, so it's clearly not the case that they're simply claiming "anything rectangular is ours. not the case yet, but having a win over samsung would certainly make it easier to pressure the rest of the players."

    FTFY

    Did you read Apple's suggestion list of how Samsung could avoid infringing? I did, and in my head i had a 3 sided device with pointed corners, that was pea soup green, and had half of the screen on each side, was unlocked with a physical key, and offered no apps as square icons in a grid, just a pile of randomally strewn triangles for each app that simply had the name of the app on them. There was also no AL, or glass to be seen. it was all plastic, and had no bezel around the screen whatsoever.

  17. Re:There needs to be a way to avoid the subsidy. on T-Mobile Exec Calls For End To Cell Phone Subsidies · · Score: 1

    link or it's not true. I was just looking on t-mobiles site for such a plan, get ready to pony up $55 for the 5GB plans.

  18. Re:There needs to be a way to avoid the subsidy. on T-Mobile Exec Calls For End To Cell Phone Subsidies · · Score: 1

    right, but we are discussing a 2 year time frame.

  19. Re:Only if they drop in price a bit more on Teaching Robot Learners To Ask Good Questions · · Score: 1

    I wonder how such a robot would deal with my kids "pretend" dishes (really one of those cheep dorm room dishes sets)? I don't really need it to wash all of those.

    It would be cool to have a robot that would awaken in the middle of the day, pick up the house (this is much much harder than it sounds, unless every item has some sort of tag defining it's correct location), collect and do the dishes, etc and then go back to sleep. all the fuzzy categories and overlapping ones it makes it hard.

  20. Re:Say goodbye to most coprocessors. on Chief Replicant Dev On Building a Truly Free Android · · Score: 1

    I still haven't figured out what i would do with that thing if i got one....

  21. Re:Say goodbye to most coprocessors. on Chief Replicant Dev On Building a Truly Free Android · · Score: 1

    wait it is succeeding? news to me if you want 3d performance or at least in gentoo the ability to use openGL from both 64bot and 32 bit apps. Not really a fault of nouveau, just a failing in general.

  22. care to tell me which video format supports all of them?

  23. Re:Cross functional standard that is driven by mgm on Server Names For a New Generation · · Score: 1

    depends, it is easier to read when on a shop print. No guessing is that an L a I or a 1...

  24. Re:Bugs? on Server Names For a New Generation · · Score: 1

    I tired that once for my desktop, named it "eudyptula" that lasted about 2 days, before it was renamed "Korora" well mostly, the LVM VGs are still named "eudyptula-home", "eudyptula-usr" and so on.

  25. Re:If I name my server "Coca~Cola" ... on Server Names For a New Generation · · Score: 1

    what if you put a AS server in a VM? does it become "VM-AS-Scorpion"?