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  1. Re:OpenAL? on 3D Audio Standard Released · · Score: 1

    Every electronic space/reverb algorithm I've heard just adds distortion and makes the original sound worse. I prefer to hear just the original instruments in as pristine quality as possible as if we were in an infinite volume room.

  2. Re:Aureal Vortex 2 on 3D Audio Standard Released · · Score: 1

    It seems to me that the 3d audio in every single fps (first person shooter) has been just fine for 20 years. I suppose having a standard is good though.

  3. Re:1 in 20 ApplePay transactions are fraudulent on Fraud Rampant In Apple Pay · · Score: 1

    I would bet the high percentage of fraud is because not many people are even using the system for legitimate purposes. Why mess with my phone when a credit card works fine?

  4. Re:The Clintons on Clinton's Private Email System Gets a Security "F" Rating · · Score: 1

    You forgot to include some hard drive corruption and accidental deletions.

  5. Re:People are creative on Mental Health Experts Seek To Block the Paths To Suicide · · Score: 1

    I haven't committed suicide, and I have yet to see life getting any better.

  6. Re:People are creative on Mental Health Experts Seek To Block the Paths To Suicide · · Score: 1

    Yes. I should (theoretically) continue to live in misery just so other people with happy lives won't temporarily feel bad.

  7. Re:Suicide: the planners and the spontaneous on Mental Health Experts Seek To Block the Paths To Suicide · · Score: 1

    I am one of those who don't want a gun precisely because it would make it way to easy for me to finally escape. I don't need the opportunity.

  8. Re:Maybe in a different country on Mental Health Experts Seek To Block the Paths To Suicide · · Score: 1

    To be fair, I don't recall seeing a news report about the friend of my coworker's two sons. They were playing playstation and their friend was twirling his gun around, and even dropped it. He resumed twirling the gun and then it managed to go off as it was pointed at his head. Luckily no one else was injured.

  9. Re:Could be. on Does USB Type C Herald the End of Apple's Proprietary Connectors? · · Score: 1

    Your link shows the cable having bending stress failures just past the plug. You can hardly blame the lightning connector for that.

  10. Re:Could be. on Does USB Type C Herald the End of Apple's Proprietary Connectors? · · Score: 1

    Per that article, that corrosion occurs when the end is wet. That actually happened to me as well when the end of a fairly stiff generic cord plopped itself into a cup of water. I somehow doubt a micro usb cable that is plugged in and falls into a glass of water will do any better.

  11. Re:Could be. on Does USB Type C Herald the End of Apple's Proprietary Connectors? · · Score: 1

    I have seen plenty of phones with broken micro usb ports. There is a flimsy little tab in the port than can easily get smashed up or down and prevent the port from working until it is pushed back into the middle. God help you if that plastic tab is broken off. The lightning connector has no little tab to break off so is immune from that failure mode. I can't quite tell, but it looks like USB c has a little plastic tab as well -- which is disappointing to me. At least it appears to be thicker this time around.

  12. Re:absolutely kill ... cloud computing business on Police Could Charge Data Center Operators In the Largest Child Porn Bust Ever · · Score: 1

    Good point. Going cloud is inconceivable when an entirely unrelated police action can destroy all of your servers and data.

  13. Re:Just buy Facebook on Google+ Divided Into Photos and Streams, With New Boss · · Score: 2

    Ok, I did a little research and you can get google hangouts to work on a second google account. You have to go into Chrome and add another user account that you would use your home login for and add google hangouts to that user session.

  14. Re:I used GTalk on the desktop on Google+ Divided Into Photos and Streams, With New Boss · · Score: 1

    Same here. I had to quit using gtalk just last week and I can't use google hangouts on my work pc because it doesn't support multiple accounts. Guess I'll have to find an alternative.

  15. Re:the solution on Schneier: Everyone Wants You To Have Security, But Not From Them · · Score: 1

    I just had to update my information with my employer's insurance broker. Among the info they needed was name, address, SSN, and mother's maiden name. Assuming you have health insurance, your info is out there.

  16. Re:Instilling values more important on Ask Slashdot: Terminally Ill - What Wisdom Should I Pass On To My Geek Daughter? · · Score: 2

    I agree 100%. Recording advice for specific situations is an Herculean task...

    What I would recommend is gathering up some good books and movies, or a list of them, that you would like to share with her. She can then watch or read them in her own time.

  17. Re:legal liability situation on FedEx Won't Ship DIY Gunsmithing Machine · · Score: 1

    They are not just avoiding a legal liability situation, but an ethical liability situation as well.

  18. RE: expression of a political preference on FedEx Won't Ship DIY Gunsmithing Machine · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Lol. If he just told the FedEx rep that he was shipping 1'x1'x1' aluminum mills, there would be no problem. This is what he gets for over sharing. It's like telling police officers you smoke weed.

  19. Re:Chinese Company With Spying on Lenovo To Wipe Superfish Off PCs · · Score: 1

    Do you have any links to back these assertions?

  20. Re: The lesson here on Lenovo To Wipe Superfish Off PCs · · Score: 1

    He probably has a lot of neighbors. Do you want him bankrupt?

  21. Re:not-a-bug; wont-fix on New Android Trojan Fakes Device Shut Down, Spies On Users · · Score: 1

    All you have to do is get it integrated into whatever tools someone uses to root their phone and it's installed.

  22. I'm pretty sure that all of those odd numbers can be divided by two just fine. Really, arbitrary mathematical constructs and theoretical physics impossibilities are two different things and should not be considered to have the same likeliness.

  23. I thought humans where a type of monkey and that humans have already turned out all the great books?

  24. Re:At Apple HQ... on Lenovo Allegedly Installing "Superfish" Proxy Adware On New Computers · · Score: 1

    So this is all a brilliant scheme by apple to discredit their competitors? I wonder if they are also responsible for Samsung putting crappy apps on their phones and tablets?

  25. Re:Nothing new. on Lenovo Allegedly Installing "Superfish" Proxy Adware On New Computers · · Score: 1

    I wonder how much money they made by selling out and compromising the systems of so many of their customers. If I was to rob someone of just $10, I would face court and hundreds if not thousands in fines. This society truly is set up to only punish poor people and their types of crime.