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  1. Re:Google Keep on Slashdot Asks: What's Your Preferred Note-Taking App? · · Score: 1

    Are you kidding? Millions of people are still bitter about Google Reader.

  2. on whether or not you want your daughter to be allowed to attend school. Sure it might be optional now, but once a majority of uninformed parents get on board, they'll surely make it mandatory.

  3. Re:I have no idea... on Sony Fixes Flubbed Dash Download (sony.com) · · Score: 1

    My parents have one. The story is, on March 1st, every single one of these things broke, worldwide. They threw some kind of error about not being able to "download a dashboard" and wouldn't do anything but show that error. Apparently, three weeks later, now there's a complicated fix.

  4. Putting the tender in legal tender on Scientists Turn Gold Into Foam That's Nearly As Light As Air (www.ethz.ch) · · Score: 1

    I wonder if they will accept it for purchases at Dairy Queen.

  5. Education is not a zero sum game on Jeff Atwood NY Daily News Op-Ed: Learning To Code Is Overrated · · Score: 1

    This is a false dichotomy. We can teach computer skills as well as math and science and reading and all the rest. I agree that all students don't need to become master hackers, but I think a bit more computer literacy, taught young, isn't a bad idea. And I'm sure they can find time to squeeze that in without disrupting the other subjects.

  6. Duh on Apple Cleaning Up App Store After Its First Major Attack · · Score: -1, Troll

    This is exactly why development tools shouldn't be paywalled. Your fault, Apple!

  7. Re:That's OK on Delete, Dump and Destroy: Canada's Government Data Severely Compromised · · Score: 1

    A Conservative minority just means another election in a few weeks. Trudeau and Mulcair aren't going to work with Harper.

  8. I'm afraid to moderate on this post... on A Call To RICO Climate Change Science Deniers · · Score: 1

    ...so I might as well say something. I'm not a scientist, far from it in fact. And I'm not convinced that humans are responsible for everything going on in the world, climatologically. Something is definitely going on, but I'm not convinced that humans are the sole cause. I've read interesting things from both sides of the argument, often very interesting things, but none of them have convinced me one way or the other...I still feel there is a reasonable doubt. All this handwaving from one side, saying it's completely impossible, and all this handwaving from the other side, saying it's a foregone conclusion that I am too stupid to comprehend, has not affected me at all, except to make me more skeptical about both sides. The effects that we have seen are undeniable, but the cause is. Am I a racketeering corrupt organization now?

  9. Re:Why is everybody so upset with this kind of thi on Skylake Has a Voice DSP and Listens To Your Commands · · Score: 1

    My question is, so what? So what if the NSA is listening to everything? Let's assume the worst...that when I buy a Skylake PC, it can and does record everything that is said in my home and sends it to the NSA for storage and analysis. So what? For one thing, it'll be boring as shit, hours of me snoring, that sort of thing. Continuing the worst case, let's assume they can mine all this voice data perfectly, and can detect any time I talk about committing a crime or otherwise anti-government act. I'm a normal, boring, law abiding person. They won't find anything. I strongly suspect that 99% of the world is like me in this respect, too boring for the NSA to give a shit about.

  10. Why is everybody so upset with this kind of thing? on Skylake Has a Voice DSP and Listens To Your Commands · · Score: 1

    I don't understand it.

  11. Sooooooo on Wuala Encrypted Cloud-Storage Service Shuts Down · · Score: 1

    How is Dropbox doing lately? This is what worries me about "the cloud"...how to pick the winner to adopt before the end of the contest.

  12. Re:Disabling the UI on Windows 10, From a Linux User's Perspective · · Score: 1

    No, I actually meant this Live Tiles, and replacing the Start with Classic Shell. That's what a lot of people did (hell, that's what I did!), but it's not what a review should do.

  13. Re:Disabling the UI on Windows 10, From a Linux User's Perspective · · Score: 2

    Why does everyone assume "usable" is a synonym for "works exactly like the WIndows I am familiar with". The Windows 10 UI is perfectly usable, but not if you disable it before giving it a chance. This guy shut it all off on page one! Why review a new OS when all you're going to do is remove all the new features?

    It's like Phoronix trying to review Ubuntu by immediately uninstalling Unity and replacing it with KDE. That might be a fantastic idea for a user, but it's gonna make for a shit review of Ubuntu.

  14. Disabling the UI on Windows 10, From a Linux User's Perspective · · Score: 1

    Why do all these reviews disable the UI? This isn't a review of Windows 10, it's a review of Windows 7.

  15. Re:updates, updates, ... on Samsung To Push Monthly Over-the-Air Security Updates For Android · · Score: 4, Informative

    No, nobody remembers that time. I remember when Windows couldn't run more than a few days without crashing. I remember when getting a program to work required arcane knowledge and steps bordering on voodoo. I remember when getting a wireless card working on Linux was the realm of super hackers. I remember Sasser.

  16. Doesn't sound like it's complete on HardenedBSD Completes Strong ASLR Implementation · · Score: 1, Funny

    Perhaps they should call it "Getting Hard BSD".

  17. Penalty for whom? on Popular Torrent Site Disappears From Google After Penalty · · Score: 1

    This is just as much a punishment to Google's own users, as it is to Kickass's. People who type in the search query are obviously looking to get to the site, not whatever malware-ridden crap Google is serving up now. Google is making their own service shittier, just to punish somebody else...way to cut your nose off to spite your face.

  18. Acer Chromebox on Ask Slashdot: What Hardware Is In Your Primary Computer? · · Score: 1

    I use an Acer Chromebox. I upgraded it to 16GB RAM, 128GB SSD, and put Linux (first Xubuntu, now Mint, soon to be something else) on it. It's got a Celeron 2957u (Haswell; has Quick Sync in case I ever need it) and that's about it. Interestingly, it's about the same speed as my old Core 2 Duo setup, at a tiny fraction of the volume.

  19. Re:It's that damn cancer! on Microsoft Engineer: Open Source Windows Is 'Definitely Possible' · · Score: 1

    I rather expect Microsoft could find some leverage to use against manufacturers who don't want to release their driver source.

  20. Re:Dual Shock 3 at pawn shop on Sony Buys, Shuts Down OnLive · · Score: 1

    Not quite the same...Onlive controller has Android media buttons so I can use it to play/pause media while it's sitting on the table next to me, not being used to game. Also, DS3 doesn't always work with cheap Android tv boxes, which is what I plan to use it for. Thanks for the tip, though...if PC gaming was my main interest, your suggestion would probably be the way to go.

  21. Controller on Sony Buys, Shuts Down OnLive · · Score: 1

    So where can I get their Bluetooth game controller at a discount? It was the only thing they had that seemed good.

  22. Re:Why not run with it? on Star Trek Fans Told To Stop "Spocking" Canadian $5 Bill · · Score: 1

    I don't think we've ever had a commemorative bill circulating that wasn't part of an official set (like 1967). Coins, sure, they have a new design all the time, but not bills.

  23. Which department of Samsung do the prosecutors work for? Legal?

  24. Re:WebOS on Android 5.0 'Lollipop' vs. iOS 8: More Similar Than Ever · · Score: 1

    Well, first of all, I have to say that I haven't actually used Lollipop yet (Moto X 2013, so it shouldn't be too long a wait), and I am going off of reviews I have read. There are elements of the new Material Design that remind me a lot of WebOS. The biggest thing is the touch ripple, something I have never seen other than on my old WebOS HP Touchpad. The Lollipop lock screen notifications also look very familiar, and the new Overview function, with it's stack of cards, is practically ripped out of WebOS. Check out the screenshots in Ars Technica's Lollipop review, and I think you'll see what I mean.

  25. WebOS on Android 5.0 'Lollipop' vs. iOS 8: More Similar Than Ever · · Score: 1

    I think Lollipop was influenced much, much more by WebOS than it was by iOS. Makes it glaringly obvious why they made that patent agreement with LG a few weeks ago.