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  1. Re:Too little too late on Windows 8.1 RTM Trickling Out, With Start Menu and Boot-to-Desktop · · Score: 1

    What if I don't know the name of what I am looking for? I just want a text editor damnit!

  2. Re:Unisys has history as a system house on Intel, Unisys Partner On New Range of Servers · · Score: 1

    I ran my Unisys ALR 6x6 (6 ppro's) for years. It was an fun machine and served its master well

  3. How is it played in smart appliances? on Netflix Comes To Linux Web Browsers Via 'Pipelight' · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I was under the impression that Bluray players and smart TVs (especially samsung) run an embedded linux. How are they able to stream netflix?

  4. Re:It's all cats on Germany: Bitcoin Is "Private Money" · · Score: 1

    At this point, I *think* you would pay capital gains tax if you converted them to local currency, and be liable for sales tax on anything you bought with bitcoins

  5. Re:Missing a step on Aging Is a Disease; Treat It Like One · · Score: 1

    The irony is that these rich that can afford the treatment will be killed by the peasants to take that toy

  6. Re:Rock and a hard place on Microsoft: Xbox One Won't Require Kinect To Function · · Score: 1



    The point is moot because IRI and AC Neilson sell their database to anyone that will pay. That is their business. MS MAY sell RESULTS of data analysis to a consumer, but it isn't in the business of selling databases

  7. Re:What's new? on Elementary OS 0.2 "Luna" Released · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You mean like Ubuntu to Debian?

  8. Re:Texting on the other hand... on Talking On the Phone While Driving Not So Dangerous After All · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Because then you look down to make sure it transcribed properly. Then you start screwing with the thing because it actually typed out "exclamation point". A pedestrian and a family of lawn gnomes later, you tell the cop in handcuffs "I wasn't doing anything wrong!"

  9. Re:Of course! And you never need more than 640K RA on Hybrid Hard Drives Just Need 8GB of NAND · · Score: 1

    An SSD in your desktop is for the OS. A sane person has a spinning rust device for actual storage

  10. Re:Will we finally get a replacement for hard disk on Forget Flash: Resistive RAM Crams 1TB Onto Tiny Chip · · Score: 1

    I absolutely beg to differ

  11. Re:Will we finally get a replacement for hard disk on Forget Flash: Resistive RAM Crams 1TB Onto Tiny Chip · · Score: 1

    You MAY be able to convince me that I could use something eventually that replaces what the mouse currently does. However, you will never get rid of the keyboard. I can type faster than I can talk by a multitude, sometimes even faster than I can think

  12. Re:Not enough on Microsoft Cuts Surface Pro Price By $100 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nice try, Microsoft PR guy

  13. Re:Multi-Monitor Support in 2013?!? on Ask Slashdot: Hardware Accelerated Multi-Monitor Support In Linux? · · Score: 0

    Even Windows took a step back with XP. In 9x, you were able to use any mix of video cards for each monitor. With XP, the driver model changed and you had to have the same card (or similar cards, but the drivers themselves had to have the support)

  14. Re:What problem is this solving? on British Porn-Censoring MP Has Website Defaced With Porn · · Score: 1

    Just throwing this out there. My household browses on incognito mode, but there is still some way "they" connect your IP to a "person" and ads all over the place are affected. I visited an adult site on my computer, and my kids computer began showing "related" ads on a lot of sites. Then I noticed that I was getting ads on my machine that were related to what my kids have viewed. However, I took the time and added adblock software, so regardless the ad, I HOPEFULLY resolve most of the problem.

    While I would appreciate some kind of 100% solution, legislation is probably the worst way to approach it

  15. Re:No wonder ... on The Book That Is Making All Movies the Same · · Score: 1

    I don't know what movie you watched, but the Transformers I watched has a plot. Not like Fast and Furious where I genuinely was unsure what the plot was (let's save the professional thieves from getting shot by their trucker victims?)

  16. Re:fourth amendment vs. first amendment on EFF Sues NSA, Justice Department, FBI · · Score: 1

    Like driving

  17. pfSense plugin? on Open Source Tortilla For Tor To Be Released At Black Hat · · Score: 1

    Twould be nice if this could be turned into a pfSense plugin/filter

  18. Re:Benchmarks please on Wayland 1.2.0 Released With Weston · · Score: 1, Interesting

    For starters, me and many others wanted an accelerated desktop for the Raspberry Pi. Through the shitty documentation and poor ass code structure, I couldn't come close to figure out how to write a video driver for X. In Wayland, you have a reference implementation (Weston) to build one. That alone is a huge advantage

  19. Re:Whole Trial is bullshit on Skype Overload Interrupts Zimmerman Trial · · Score: 1

    and even if he had confronted Zimmerman with the threat of force, was justified in his actions

    No, sir. That is called assault.

  20. Re:Hope she's learned something on Google Science Fair Finalist Invents Peltier-Powered Flashlight · · Score: 1

    Ok, so you have a better design?

  21. Re:This is mostly outdated service on Microsoft To Shut Down TechNet Subscription Service · · Score: 1

    Resource View isn't even available in Express editions, so you can't even edit a dialog.

  22. Re:why? on Firefox 23 Makes JavaScript Obligatory · · Score: 1

    ActiveX was dangerous, because you were loading a full blown executable (albeit technically a DLL, it is simply loading semantics) . In IE6, there was no sandbox. It was running with privileges equal to the current users. In those days, that was almost always one with Admin privileges.

  23. Re:Why? on D.C. Awards Obamacare IT Work To Offshore Outsourcer · · Score: 1

    If this ends up being like their programmer outsourcing, you will pay 10 people to do the work of one over here, then you will still have to fix it when the work comes back

  24. Re:Multiple Displays? on Xfce, LXDE, GNOME3 Desktops Running On Ubuntu Mir Via XMir · · Score: 1

    It was the way things were done in win9x. Moving to Win2k was a slap in the face when this was no longer supported

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/182708

    "The video adapters that are installed in your computer do not have to be identical. Each video adapter and monitor combination is separately enumerated by Windows; you can configure each combination to use different screen resolutions and color depths. For example, you can set the primary adapter to 1024 X 768 pixels with 256 colors and the secondary adapter to 800 X 600 pixels with 32,000 colors. "

  25. Re:Why? on Quantum-Tunneling Electrons Could Make Semiconductors Obsolete · · Score: 1

    If things could travel faster than light, they would/do. Either we don't know how to see it happening, or it isn't/doesn't happen