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  1. Just call the vomit-inducing situation a "feature" and be done with it. In fact, I can see this ushering in a whole new wave of quick-weight-loss VR!

  2. Re:Blackberry on Microsoft Convinced That Windows 10 Will Be Its Smartphone Breakthrough · · Score: 2

    No innovation? There's nothing else like them in the market.

    Because the market left that space years ago...

  3. good times on Microsoft Convinced That Windows 10 Will Be Its Smartphone Breakthrough · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...provide an experience very much like the desktop...

    Excellent! I always wanted my phone to BSOD in the middle of an important call!

  4. Re: noooo on 2014: Hottest Year On Record · · Score: 2

    Well some did try to ban the sales of inefficient (incandescent) light bulbs a few years ago and you see how some of the yahoos railed against that as anti-free-market.

  5. Re:Give me a break. on Supreme Court Upholds Most EPA Rules On Greenhouse Gases · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Uh, Big Business is doing a fantastic job of destroying the middle-class without the EPA even being involved.

  6. Re:"Please Put OpenSSL Out of Its Misery" on OpenBSD Team Cleaning Up OpenSSL · · Score: 1

    You do know that you can use the SAN environment variable to create UCC certs without having to modify openssl.cnf right? Its much easier to create multiple UCC certs that way.

  7. Re:3Mbps?!?? on Ask Slashdot: Managing Device-Upgrade Bandwidth Use? · · Score: 2

    Hell, I still think the FCC counts it as high-speed even now in their broadband reports.

  8. Re:Just one question on FreeBSD Removes GCC From Default Base System · · Score: 5, Informative

    Licensing.

    GCC in the FreeBSD base is stuck at v4.2.1 as that was the last version licensed under the GPLv2. As this is about 7 years old by GCC standards a newer compiler is a welcomed change and since CLANG is BSD-licensed it is more in line with the project's goals anyway.

  9. Re:zimmerman stalked the poor kid on Lowell Observatory Pushes To Name an Asteroid "Trayvon" · · Score: 1

    You try being followed by a stranger late at night in your neighborhood and see if you don't feel even the slightest bit provoked or concerned. Zimmerman followed when he shouldn't have and now someone's dead because of it.

  10. Re:He's right - Android is eating iOS's lunch on Larry Ellison Believes Apple Is Doomed · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sync directly with the bloatware and usability mess that is iTunes?

    (note that some consider this a significant benefit)

  11. Re:Try Zabbix, it's free on How To Build a Simple Open Source Server Monitoring Solution With Mobile Support · · Score: 1

    Seconded, Zabbix with the ZAX Android client works very well in my setup here (sometimes too well, I hate getting alerts at 3am).

  12. Re:The linked article says it's the last day in Ju on How Are You Celebrating National Sysadmin Day? · · Score: 1

    Should be the last FRIDAY in July

  13. Re:Have an untrusted network on Google Storing WLAN Passwords In the Clear · · Score: 1

    Anybody who wasn't already assuming that all networked devices for which you haven't personally reviewed all the source code are anything other than hostile network actors has way too much time on their hands.

    FTFY^2

  14. one better on Describe Any Location On Earth In 3 Words · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'll describe the entire Earth in only 2:

    Mostly Harmless

  15. Re:Great... on EA Is the Game Company Disney Was Looking For · · Score: 1

    Now all EA games will come with free misery AND a Force Choke...

    ...only if you preorder at Gamestop

  16. Of course it is! on Microsoft Azure Overtakes Amazon's Cloud In Performance Test · · Score: 5, Funny

    When no one's using the platform of course its going to be faster than the competition when shared resources are concerned.

  17. Re:Racism should be okay. on Website Calls Out Authors of Racist Anti-Obama Posts · · Score: 3, Insightful

    impeachment yes, assassination no

  18. and its down on Website Calls Out Authors of Racist Anti-Obama Posts · · Score: 2

    wow, site goes down right as its being discussed....

  19. Re:Cisco on June 6 Is World IPv6 Day 2012: This Time For Keeps · · Score: 1

    If you're relying on RAs or DHCPv6 for server networks then you have bigger problems, not unlike rogue DHCP servers in IPv4.

  20. Re:I'm not changing to IPv6 on a specific date... on June 6 Is World IPv6 Day 2012: This Time For Keeps · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It would be more constructive to use whatever energy needed to pressure legacy IPv4 holders to give-up their space to start planning a move to v6 or at least a dual-stack architecture. This is like people complaining there's still momentum left in the cassette tape when CDs have been around for years. Postponing the inevitable doesn't stop the inevitable from happening.

  21. Re:I'm not changing to IPv6 on a specific date... on June 6 Is World IPv6 Day 2012: This Time For Keeps · · Score: 1

    already done my friend

  22. what about Homeplug? on Ask Slashdot: DD-WRT Upgrade To 802.11n? · · Score: 1

    Not a answer to your question per se, but I ran into a very similar problem when I moved to a new apartment 2 years ago. Rather than upgrade everything to 802.11n (and suffer the whole issue of too many wireless cooks in the pot as everyone now has their own access point) I got two Homeplug v2 adapters and moved my router to my office. Cable modem connects to my coax, which is then plugged into a Homeplug. The 2nd Homeplug then goes to the WAN interface on my house router. Works like a charm and I can still use wired connections for all my workstations.

    Just a thought. I would have considered the 802.11n route but there's way too much activity in my area to make that feasible for 8+ machines (my 802.11g access point does work well for the 2-3 wireless devices I use regularly though, especially now that my access point is in my office and spaced further away from my neighbors' APs).

  23. Re:In other news... on Apple Moves To Stop Kids Racking Up iTunes Bills · · Score: 3, Informative

    To be fair, it isn't mentioned anywhere in the pamphlet you receive with the iPhone or iPod, its buried within the iTunes website terms-and-conditions (at least last time I checked). If there were a warning label you had to pull-off each new iDevice I'd be right there with you, but you really have to look for it to find the iTunes lockout timeout (at least you did before this story broke).

    That being said I'm generally not a believer of ignorance-as-a-defense, but I can certainly see why Apple would change this behavior and why the FTC would look into it.

  24. Re:Sounds like... on Apple Moves To Stop Kids Racking Up iTunes Bills · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No its not, its providing an ALTERNATIVE to what might become bad behavior.

  25. Re:No. Don't do this. on Ask Slashdot: Data-Only Phone, Voice Over WiFi? · · Score: 2

    VoIP over mobile is an entirely different beast than VoIP over wireline. The OP is right, there's a lot of kinks to be worked-out yet, particularly surrounding jitter/bufferbloat.