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  1. Civ 4 is rated Platinum in Wine on Thanks To Valve, More Than 1,500 Games Are Now On Linux · · Score: 2

    Civ4 doesn't run on Linux

    AppDB says otherwise. It's rated Platinum as of May 2015.

    I'd try Civ 5 - since they've splintered Christianity into 3

    Did they also split Islam into 2 (Gummi and LaBeouf)? Because I can think of a lot more than 3 divisions of Christendom: Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Baptist, Methodist, Jehovah's Witnesses, Latter Day Saints, etc.

  2. Wine is like running Qt apps on GTK based DE on Thanks To Valve, More Than 1,500 Games Are Now On Linux · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Apps that use Wine on a GTK-based X11/Linux system are conceptually no different from apps that use Qt on a GTK-based X11/Linux system.

  3. Look into Vulkan on Thanks To Valve, More Than 1,500 Games Are Now On Linux · · Score: 2

    Games for PlayStation 4 use Mantle, which forms the basis for Vulkan, which is OpenGL 5 in all but name.

  4. Collapsing a subtree on UrlHosted Experiment: Host Content Within the URL · · Score: 1

    If you're so dead-set against JavaScript, would you rather have to reload all comments to a Slashdot article every time you expand or collapse a subtree?

  5. Validate input on both client and server on UrlHosted Experiment: Host Content Within the URL · · Score: 1

    Client side input validators LOL.

    Where do you work?

    Presumably somewhere that realizes the value of validating input once quickly on the client and again securely on the server.

  6. Client application for which platform? on UrlHosted Experiment: Host Content Within the URL · · Score: 0

    You should write a client application.

    If this client application is developed for Windows, good luck running it on a Mac. Or if this client application is developed for OS X, good luck running it on a Lenovo. Not everybody has the money to maintain 14 different client applications, one for each platform, even if they do share some of the code.

  7. It's kind of hard to Google punctuation on UrlHosted Experiment: Host Content Within the URL · · Score: 1

    That someone on friggin' slashdot has no clue what the # in a url is, and thinks that asking it is easier than just friggin' googling it
    # is punctuation, and general-purpose web search engines have historically choked on queries not for letters or digits.

  8. Re: It will break the Internet!!?!?!?!?! on UrlHosted Experiment: Host Content Within the URL · · Score: 1

    Because there are plenty of other PDF Bibles on the Internet lawfully available without charge. There's the Project Gutenberg edition of the KJV, the World English Bible (an update to the ASV), the NET Bible, the New World Translation at JW.org, etc.

  9. Stuart Little on UK Researcher Applies For Permission To Edit Embryo Genomes · · Score: 1

    The other side where it's a mouse with human intelligence would be even more problematic. What do you do with it? Do you let it go to school and have rights?

    That depends. I didn't see the second Stuart Little movie. But perhaps Ted 2, Short Circuit 2, and Alvin and the Chipmunks might be helpful.

  10. Re:heh on One Day After iOS 9's Launch, Ad Blockers Top Apple's App Store · · Score: 1

    Ripped music is not another way of saying "stolen music".

    Depends on the country. In Great Britain, a law allowing private copying of CDs to computer hard drives was found not to meet the essential purpose of copyright, and ripping CDs is therefore illegal.

  11. Re:So for all the ad providers on One Day After iOS 9's Launch, Ad Blockers Top Apple's App Store · · Score: 1

    On the contrary, broken Wi-Fi means even more issues with ads, as all the ads have to go over your $10 to $15 per GB data plan.

  12. Re:If you don't buy the things in ads,you're a slo on One Day After iOS 9's Launch, Ad Blockers Top Apple's App Store · · Score: 1

    If you watch your content without buying stuff our sponsors promote, you're basically stealing free content.

    Then let them sign up with cpalead or another cost-per-action ad network, and let them drop out of rankings on reputable web search engines.

  13. Even the ads are classified on One Day After iOS 9's Launch, Ad Blockers Top Apple's App Store · · Score: 1

    I thought people didn't read classified ads because most people don't have a Secret or higher security clearance.

  14. Bob Scheifler, first to build X on NFL Commentators Still Calling Microsoft's Surface Tablets "iPads" · · Score: 1

    first to build X

    That would be Bob Scheifler.

  15. MaxiPad is the iPad Pro on NFL Commentators Still Calling Microsoft's Surface Tablets "iPads" · · Score: 1

    The Pocket PC was original the Palm PC, and Microsoft got in trouble with Palm for that. So I don't see Microsoft making a product whose name incorporates the entirety of Apple's iPad mark.

    The iPad Pro, on the other hand, now that's a MaxiPad.

  16. Re:They are the pirates on One Day After iOS 9's Launch, Ad Blockers Top Apple's App Store · · Score: 1

    It's hard to "decline to interact with the music industry" when grocery stores play major-label music over their PA systems when an announcement isn't being made.

  17. Re:a) he took $25,000USD b) money is a commodity on Bitcoin Trader Agrees To Work For Police In Plea Agreement · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Money is a fungible thing of value (commodity) that does not spoil

    Fiat money spoils. It's called inflation. Bitcoin, on the other hand, aims to be deflationary.

  18. DDR4 when there's GDDR5 on Intel Kills a Top-of-the-Line Processor · · Score: 1

    DDR4 is out now

    I thought DDR4 came out in 2000, and the PlayStation family was up to GDDR5.

  19. DRM (disambiguation) on AMD Confirms Vulkan Driver For Linux, But To Start Off As Closed-Source · · Score: 2

    Is it closed source because the Direct Rendering Manager driver has to enforce Digital Restrictions Management in order for things like Netflix to work?

  20. Re:and the government wants to lock these down.. on D-Link Accidentally Publishes Private Code Signing Keys · · Score: 1

    It's possible to lock the radio processor in this manner without locking the router processor in this manner.

  21. Re:Surely the GPL requires all source to build. on D-Link Accidentally Publishes Private Code Signing Keys · · Score: 1

    There is no requirement that code be correct, functional, or compilable.

    From GPLv2: "For an executable work, complete source code means all the source code for all modules it contains, plus any associated interface definition files, plus the scripts used to control compilation and installation of the executable." Are you arguing over whether the provided source code is "for" a particular work? And to what extent do "the scripts used to control compilation and installation" include signing keys?

  22. can you do work on [an iOS device]? Can you edit a Powerpoint presentation and forward it on to your boss's laptop for him to use at the next sales meeting?

    Keynote is $10 on the App Store. Is that close enough?

  23. Re:Quick poll on Apple's First Android App Makes It Easy To Move To iOS · · Score: 1

    After the Microsoft suit from the late 90's, early 2000's, anti-trust in computers is dead.

    In what country? The European Union applied more substantial penalties to Microsoft than did the United States.

  24. Re: Quick poll on Apple's First Android App Makes It Easy To Move To iOS · · Score: 1

    There's a difference between the user choosing to hold back an upgrade and the upgrade not even being available for a particular piece of hardware. The vast majority of PCs that shipped with Windows Vista or Windows 7 "will get" Windows 8.1 or Windows 10, so long as the CPU supports the NX bit and SSE2 instructions. The big difference is that Windows has a cost reason for "choosing to hold back an upgrade" from Windows Vista, which iOS and Android lack (except for early iOS upgrades on Wi-Fi-only devices while Apple was still deciding its Sarbanes-Oxley compliance roadmap).

  25. Re:Will never happen on APIs, Not Apps: What the Future Will Be Like When Everyone Can Code · · Score: 1

    why would you buy an iPad if you want to do programming?

    I was thinking of the case of someone who already owns an iPad and wants to start doing programming without having to spend hundreds on a new computer.