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  1. Re:Have done the same as a developer, sort of on Using a Tablet As Your Primary Computer · · Score: 1

    Does the iPad version of ssh support the -X (X Windows system) option?

  2. Re:...Good for you? on Using a Tablet As Your Primary Computer · · Score: 1

    has a 10hr battery life

    I use these esoteric, futuristic pieces of technology known as "electrical outlets".

    is fully functional without the keyboard

    How do I edit a LaTeX file without a keyboard?

  3. I think I've found your problem on Using a Tablet As Your Primary Computer · · Score: 1

    First, because they find the tablet operating system easier to learn and easier to keep free of fake antivirus and rootkits than Windows.

    I don't have such issues in Linux.

    Second, because laptops can't "do what [some people] want" because the author of a tablet application has the privilege not to make a Windows version.

    And if the author of an application chooses not to port it to iOS?

    Chase's check deposit application is available only for iOS through the App Store or for Android through Android Market, not for Windows and not for GNU/Linux.

    Thanks for the tip; I won't be banking with Chase.

  4. Another pedant point on Using a Tablet As Your Primary Computer · · Score: 1

    Also, "tablet" and "wall-mounted HDTV and a bluetooth keyboard and mouse" are not mutually exhaustive.

    Fixed that for you.

  5. Pedant point on China Telecom Companies Pledge To Stop Monopolistic Practices · · Score: 4, Insightful

    They are lowering their broadband costs by 35%, but what about their prices?

  6. Re:Cisco Inferno on Swiss Gov't: Downloading Movies and Music Will Stay Legal · · Score: 1

    With all the content passing through routers, shouldn't that be Cisco Inferno?

  7. Re:What he talks about on Video Game Consoles Are 'Fundamentally Doomed,' Says Lord British · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I knew the "shrill" part was wrong. Your accuser doesn't sound like the sharpest knife in the drawer.

  8. Berne Convention on Swiss Gov't: Downloading Movies and Music Will Stay Legal · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Interesting that one of the more famous copyright conventions is named after a Swiss city.

  9. Re:What he talks about on Video Game Consoles Are 'Fundamentally Doomed,' Says Lord British · · Score: 2

    Wouldn't that make you an MPAA shill? :-)

  10. Re:$27.63? on US Senator Proposes Bill To Eliminate Overtime For IT Workers · · Score: 1

    My understanding is this is to clarify a point about a law made at that time, where that law may have indexed the number to the then current minimum wage. IANAUSS (I am not a United States Senator.)

  11. Re:Language matters on Ask Slashdot: To Hack Or Not To Hack? · · Score: 1

    I termed it "cracking" because it isn't his system. That might not be enough to rule it out as hacking as well. The two terms may have some overlap.

  12. Re:Language matters on Ask Slashdot: To Hack Or Not To Hack? · · Score: 1

    If you break into a safe to get the antidote to save a poisoned baby, is it still not safecracking? Feynman did stuff like this at Los Alamos, and he called it safecracking.

  13. Re:Language matters on Ask Slashdot: To Hack Or Not To Hack? · · Score: 1

    It may be legitimate, but is it hacking?

  14. Re:How about... on Periodic Table To Welcome Two New Elements · · Score: 1

    Voldemortium?

  15. Re:I was holding out for.... on Periodic Table To Welcome Two New Elements · · Score: 1

    I think we all saw through that.

  16. Re:Real elements - or theoretical? on Periodic Table To Welcome Two New Elements · · Score: 5, Insightful

    There are no stable transuranium elements.

    Yet. Perhaps we will find a transuranium island of stability.

  17. Re:Real elements - or theoretical? on Periodic Table To Welcome Two New Elements · · Score: 2

    When did you hear this? We've known that atoms can be broken down since WW II (and somewhat before). I suspect that your instructors were not residents of Hiroshima or Nagasaki.

  18. Re:Rejected again! on Periodic Table To Welcome Two New Elements · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's Acmeium, not Ajaxium.

  19. Language matters on Ask Slashdot: To Hack Or Not To Hack? · · Score: 1, Informative

    Please don't call such activity "hacking". It is cracking. Learn the difference.

  20. Re:$27.63? on US Senator Proposes Bill To Eliminate Overtime For IT Workers · · Score: 1

    Another poster pointed out that "$27.63 per hour is 6.5 times the then minimum wage of $4.25 per hour

  21. Re:One of the advantages of Linux on Red Hat's Linux Changes Raise New Questions · · Score: 1

    For Red Hat, yes.

  22. Re:like linux needs more fragmentation on Red Hat's Linux Changes Raise New Questions · · Score: 1

    I've had an Averatec last 5 years. Ok the battery was shot at the end, but the rest was OK. Besides, what are the specs on a 5 year old Macbook?

  23. Re:One of the advantages of Linux on Red Hat's Linux Changes Raise New Questions · · Score: 1

    But then you are tied to Red Hat.

  24. Re:One of the advantages of Linux on Red Hat's Linux Changes Raise New Questions · · Score: 1

    Is there any reason to believe that Knoppix (or other Liveon CD distros) has a readJournalLog function?

  25. Re:Edison reaching out from beyond the grave on Are Data Centers Finally Ready For DC Power? · · Score: 1

    The way it the OP phrased it put Edison and Tesla on one side of the AC/DC question, and Westinghouse on the other.