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  1. Re:Just switch to USB on Reports Say Apple Is Shrinking Its Docking Connector With iPhone 5 · · Score: 1

    Bullshit, my HTC and other devices can output HDMI via USB you insensitive cod

  2. Re:The Incredibles 2! on What's Next For Superhero Movies? · · Score: 1

    Um, in case you were living under a rock, its due out next year (2013 in case you needed that too)

  3. Really, really? on What's Next For Superhero Movies? · · Score: 2

    Can they stop re-making movies already. Everything in theaters this year other than two or three movies are all remakes. Why not take some other short story and mold it into the next Bladerunner or something?!?!

  4. Re:No, it'll just be an OPTION on Will Speed Limits Inhibit Autonomous Car Adoption? · · Score: 1

    Awesome point. Wont this cut down on the number of traffic tickets they can write, since the cars will drive themselves? How will this get passed -- auto driving cars if the police force looses its best source of income?

  5. Re:Pop-up scroll bars on Apple Wins Mobile Patent On Displaying Lists, Documents · · Score: 1

    If parent is true, then Android is one of the things this patent targets. You see, it does this too. However, it does it better in some instances allowing you to have a bigger "finger dragger" thingy pop up allowing you to crunch through 500 pages fast and easy

  6. Better displays? on New Nanodevice Creates a Near Perfect Electron Stream · · Score: 1

    We can make better displays with this right - now one electron wide pixels!

  7. Re:Any mix for -18 to 38? on Is Our Infrastructure Ready For Rising Temperatures? · · Score: 2

    In some parts of minnesota and wisconsin I've seen it tweak -40'F to 110'F in one year...

  8. Re:Nothing new on Is Our Infrastructure Ready For Rising Temperatures? · · Score: 1

    This actually was occured near my house as I live in Chippewa Falls :)

    The two roads HW53 and HW29 buckled about 3 times each. Not something fun to drive on.

  9. Re:Why do users pin? on Why Microsoft Killed the Windows Start Button · · Score: 1

    Office bar for "office xp" or whatever did it right. They let you put folders that'd pop out so you could group Office programs into a quick little menu on your quick launch bar that popped up with the others. It worked great. I wished they'd just throw all the UI designers into one room and kick their ass if one decided that they'd change something drastically for one generation of microsoft products.

    Windows 7 + Office 2007 + Exchange 2007 all have way different interfaces. lets not get into IE8 or things like sql studio or visual studio. some do some things wonderfully right, while others painfully do it wrong.

  10. Maybe I missed something... on Why Microsoft Killed the Windows Start Button · · Score: 1

    But when we put the newest beta on a bunch of tablets we got for testing here, no one could figure out how to open the "Start Screen" without using a stylus. We googled and figured out how to "alt+tab" with a swipe but who is going to be able to figure out how to use Win8 without reading a book first?

    FYI I work in IT and we used Win8 on the desktop a while. The start button would make this a no-brainer. I think their target group must be on bath salts or something.

  11. Re:which OTHER ati card should I buy? on AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition: Taking Back the Crown · · Score: 1

    That problem went away in the 5000 series, since they made it all one unit. Sure, some cards are faster at one thing than others, but basically anything after the 5000 level of cards is wicked at both along with open cl

  12. Re:Erm... on Aussie Online Retailer Impose IE7 Tax · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Mod parent up to infinity. It still feels slow, still asks 99 questions to launch the first time, x64 / x86 versions on 64-bit windows are fubar and have plugin compatability problems or issues opening any pages at all, and its ugly. I think microsoft gave up around IE5, to be honest. It was the last time I liked IE.

  13. Re:This is going way too far on Patent Granted on Mandatory Digital Keys to Prevent Textbook Piracy · · Score: 1

    Oh, I get it. This is to stop used text book sales!

  14. This is going way too far on Patent Granted on Mandatory Digital Keys to Prevent Textbook Piracy · · Score: 1

    The only hope is that this ends up like a professor at the U of M --

    He wrote his own book and students had to either print it off themselves at home or take it somewhere to have it printed for $6.

    It was 100% relivant to the class so no wasted book or money. Beats paying $150 for a book 80% of classes dont use.

  15. Re:Quite obvious for security reasons on Why Your IT Department Needs To Staff a Hacker · · Score: 1

    That's not a hacker, but instead a "hack" who is good at bitch work.

    I was just following tradition and not RTFA

  16. Only for the chat on Meebo Discontinuing All Services Except for Meebo Bar · · Score: 1

    The bar sucked, and I think most people used it for the chat. However I think they gave up on trying to support it as it kept getting worse until it stopped being improved. It had some glitches, facebook chat didnt work anymore, and my biggest gripe - the app for android blew because it didnt let you log in with the same account, total fail.

  17. Quite obvious for security reasons on Why Your IT Department Needs To Staff a Hacker · · Score: 1

    One cannot fix what they do not know how to break, or how it breaks.

  18. Hands on beats make believe learning on Why Kids Should Be Building Rockets Instead of Taking Tests · · Score: 0

    Hands on, meaningful critical thinking and hands on learning (applied science vs book learning) will teach kids and grab their attention far more than 500 math problems that have no relation to their lives.

    I can remember many times peers asking "what does this have to do with my life" -- well, if we can build a catapult and show physics and geometry and other sciences applied, people may start to get their gears turning and think of how can I use this /somewhere else/ instead of "i dont get why i need to learn this"

  19. Re:No offense, but... on Ask Slashdot: Provisioning Internet For Condo Association? · · Score: 0

    I came here to say this. About half of the questions can only be answered by the people or committee you're supposedly on as it depends on a lot of things. Wired or wireless? Depends on how much you want to spend putting cable into everyones space or just in the common areas. Or depends on what people want. Maybe they want both.

    As for what providers they are and how much they cost, we cant help unless you give us an address as this varies per neighborhood. Try using google.

  20. Not that bad, so far... on Red Hat Will Pay Microsoft To Get Past UEFI Restrictions · · Score: 0

    Looks like its a $99 fee that goes to getting a signature to prove that its legit software. This should keep people like those at adobe from writing to the boot sector and crapping up enterprise windows computers, something we cannot get away from until something else like reactos or linux steps its game up and becomes serious enough to live under a budget of time and money for a 1 man IT shop...

  21. Re:100Mbps? I'd settle for 10! on German Cable ISP First To Deliver 4700Mbps Internet Connection · · Score: 0

    Weird, I have 100Mbps Charter at my home and get an average of 85Mbps to the fastest place I can test.

    What that means in reality is downloading at 5-10MB/sec

  22. Re:ISP should warn them on Paul Vixie: 100,000 DSL Modems May Lose Their DNS On July 9 · · Score: 0

    Or even better, the ISP could set up a fake route to their own DNS server so no one notices anything infected or not.

  23. Re:I have never used more than 800meg each month on Verizon To Kill All Unlimited Data Plans · · Score: 1

    I too was ready to throw in the towel for phones but I was happy to talk to an alltel provider who was happy to sell me unlimited everything. This included their USB cell modems, so it was an easy choice to switch to them and keep having a cell phone.

    My fiance had verizon and her phone was so locked it wouldnt even let you download pictures it took, compared to mine which was the same model. I was disgusted by cell phones.

    Then VZW purchased them and its been going south ever since. The only reason I have a phone is because its an android, i can hack it if i want to, and I have unlimited data which is fair for the price i'm paying. I get 100Mbps cable for less than my phone gets 1.5Mbps

    Take this away and I feel like you're screwing me harder for phones that now come with crapware, keep installing more crapware, and your support shoots me in the face when my phone overheats and dies in front of you because i have "done bad things to my phones software" which they cannot prove.

  24. You wouldnt download a car on DVDs, Blu-Rays To Show 20-Second Unskippable Govt. Warnings · · Score: 0

    You wouldn't steal a baby. You wouldn't shoot a policeman. And then steal his helmet. You wouldn't go to the toilet in his helmet. And then send it to the policeman's grieving widow. And then steal it again! Downloading films is stealing

  25. Maybe its how its installed on Why You Can't Dump Java (Even Though You Want To) · · Score: 0

    Or clearly the author hasnt used java in the real world where you install version 1, and then it wants to update to version 2. So when you install 2, it leaves 1 installed as well. So on and so forth, and finally you have 7 versions of java installed, some updated and most not.

    This is where the attack vector occurs -- the software can target the holes in the old versions and get right in.