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  1. Re:Ooops! Sorry on NY Comic Con Takes Over Attendees' Twitter Accounts To Praise Itself · · Score: 1

    The better solution is to allow the application to request a default list of permissions, and then give the user the opportunity to accept or modify them. The application would still work if the permissions are modified, though with limited functionality.

    If you take control of your device rather than allowing your service provider or the OEM to control it, you can do just that. On my rooted Android devices, I revoke any permissions that I don't want an app to have.

  2. Re: The government wants you to hurt. on Lockheed To Furlough 3,000 On Monday, Layoffs Also Kicking In · · Score: 3

    First, it was a joke. And second, your wired scenario is misleading, at best (Or simply a lie, depending on how you want it spun). Many government activities that sustain themselves rather than rely on appropriations (such as military base commissaries) have been closed simply to artificially increase the negative impact of the shutdown.

  3. Re:The government wants you to hurt. on Lockheed To Furlough 3,000 On Monday, Layoffs Also Kicking In · · Score: 2

    Oddly, Obama seems to have ensured one government site stayed up...

    https://www.healthcare.gov/

  4. Re:The government wants you to hurt. on Lockheed To Furlough 3,000 On Monday, Layoffs Also Kicking In · · Score: 1

    the US is a first world nation

    Uh, yeah. By definition.

    Do you even know what that means?

  5. Re:screen capture + URL shortener on Link Rot and the US Supreme Court · · Score: 1

    Heyooooo!

  6. Re:Why? on 3D-Printed Gun Bought and Displayed By London Art Museum · · Score: 1

    How about a shovel?

  7. Re:So the FBI hacked servers to find pedos? on FBI Admits It Controlled Tor Servers Behind Mass Malware Attack · · Score: 1

    I don't think a US court order granting permission to hack a computer in France is valid in France, and probably not in Ireland either.

  8. Re:Ok? How is this new, or a big deal? on $20 'Toy' Deactivates Cheap Home Alarms, Opens Doors · · Score: 1

    Possibly, but I think the more likely issue is that remote in question is balking at sending a continuous stream of all zeros.

  9. Re:Ok? How is this new, or a big deal? on $20 'Toy' Deactivates Cheap Home Alarms, Opens Doors · · Score: 1

    Used by which remote controls? Many cheaper universals can send only on the frequencies that are the most commonly used and cover about 95% of consumer IR devices, but it's not at all rare to find an IR remote-controlled device that operate a little outside those common bands, especially from smaller or newer manufacturers, and those universal remotes won't work with those devices. While a better (and more expensive) universal remote does. I have run into that myself, personally, with some obscure branded devices. A cheap universal I have couldn't learn their signals, while my more capable universal could lean them, as well as upload the hex codes for those IR signals to my computer for duplication on other capable remotes.

    And "keys versus macros" was simply an example of signal length and complexity. Cheap remotes often only handle short, simple sequences while more capable remotes can handle more longer and more complex signals, including pauses. Not that you need specific signals for this application... just an open keyline.

    So, the problem is simply that the IR signal involved is outside of the receive/transmit band of the specific universal remote he used. But that does not mean it is outside the receive/transmit band of every universal remote ever made, which the writer implies. The writer made an expansive, definitive statement based on a single example. If, by chance, the writer had used a better remote he might have made an expansive, definitive statement that universal remotes do work for this, and been equally wrong. Because some can work, and some cannot.

  10. Re:Ok? How is this new, or a big deal? on $20 'Toy' Deactivates Cheap Home Alarms, Opens Doors · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Cheap universal remotes have limited frequency bands and can only manage capture and send short signals (discrete keys, say, instead of macros).

    Good (and expensive, of course) universal remotes do not have these limits and would work fine.

    The writer erroneously made a definitive statement based on a single data point.

  11. Re:Ok? How is this new, or a big deal? on $20 'Toy' Deactivates Cheap Home Alarms, Opens Doors · · Score: 1

    He used the wrong universal remote. Rather than saying "a learning remote doesn't seem to learn the signal" he should have said "the one cheap learning remote with limited capabilities that I tested doesn't seem to learn the signal."

    If you use a capable, programmable remote that can capture very long strings of signals across very wide frequency bands (like my trusty old Pronto TSU-7000), it could work as well (or maybe even better) than that toy.

    Of course, since the toy is a far, far cheaper solution, use that.

  12. Re:you know hell has frozen over on NRA Joins ACLU Lawsuit Against NSA · · Score: 2

    Thank you so much for supporting my position so well...

    Of course all those notions of checks and balances, democracy, social contracts, rule of law and basic self-determination all existed prior to the common availability of firearms.

    The practice of those notions, unfortunately, was extraordinarily rare until firearms put the weak on equal standing with the strong. We have all those things today, things to be proud of, in great part due to guns.

  13. Re:Sic semper tyrannis on NRA Joins ACLU Lawsuit Against NSA · · Score: 1

    You definitely need to read it. Swamp boy should be able to give you a good link, since he's quoting it.

  14. Re:you know hell has frozen over on NRA Joins ACLU Lawsuit Against NSA · · Score: 1

    If you don't have the right to personally enforce your own rights, you have no guaranteed rights. The Second Amendment is the difference between having rights and having privileges.

  15. I never thought it would happen... on NJ Court: Sending a Text Message To a Driver Could Make You Liable For Crash · · Score: 1

    Finally! An end to telemarketing!

  16. Re:System may be working? on Members of Parliament Demand Explanation For Detention of David Miranda · · Score: 1

    If it looks like a duck... and quacks like a duck...

  17. Re:Happy President on Obama's Privacy Reform Panel Will Report To ... the NSA · · Score: 1

    On the leeward side, it seems like it sometimes.

  18. Re:some understanding of what ONR is on Navy Version of Expedia Could Save DoD Millions · · Score: 1

    Well, if you are going to take the position that the military is inherently immoral, you've already excluded yourself from any rational discussion.

  19. Re:Uh... CH Robinson? on Navy Version of Expedia Could Save DoD Millions · · Score: 1

    Yes, but everyone else read the article.

  20. Re:Perfect analogy for NASA on NASA's NEXT Ion Thruster Runs Five and a Half Years Nonstop To Set New Record · · Score: 1

    Well, first you have to survive whatever event renders the Earth uninhabitable without life-support systems. And you're not going to have them available to save you from catastrophe if you don't already need them for some other reason.

    The dinosaurs are extinct simply because they didn't have a space program.

    Not to mention, there's an awful lot more resources available in space than just vacuum and photons.

  21. Re:It's incredible to me on Bill Regulating 3D Printed Guns Announced In NYC · · Score: 0, Troll

    You seem to be confused if you think atheists are depriving people of their rights. Religious people are the ones that try to make everyone else give up rights to comply with their delusions.

  22. Re:Can't have it all. on Keeping Your Data Private From the NSA (And Everyone Else) · · Score: 1

    It's naive people like you that are the real problem, because you're happy to have no rights.

  23. Re:Making it harder to pirate? on Irish SOPA Used To Block Pirate Bay Access · · Score: 1

    .torrent files? How quaint.

  24. Re:Sod google reader on Slashdot Asks: How Will You Replace Google Reader? · · Score: 1

    Hmm... that's disappointing. I was going to check out www.ighome.com as an alternative to the dying iGoogle, but it seems that nobody ever told the people who run ighome that periods in email address are valid. Firstname.lastname@domain.net is not a valid address as far as they are concerned. Oh, well. Their loss.

  25. Re:And Unity Still Sucks on How Unity3D Became a Game-Development Beast · · Score: 2

    There still hasn't been a single AAA title developed with Unity 3D

    Meanwhile, games like Kerbal Space Program are far more compelling than any AAA title ever developed, and it's still in alpha.

    /shrug