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  1. Vonage app... on RIM Offering Free Voice Calling In Attempt to Remain Competitive · · Score: 1

    *Disclaimer I work for Vonage*

    The Vonage app allows you to call other app users over 3g/4g/Wifi for Android and iOS and make free calls to US numbers. So color me unimpressed.

  2. Re:First post! on Microsoft Releases Windows 8 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Posted using Windows XP Technology

    See if you were on Windows 8! Your computer would of ran faster and you would of gotten that first post!

  3. ... what? on DoJ Investigating Samsung For Patent Abuse · · Score: 5, Funny

    Samsung is 'using certain patents as a basis for improper legal actions that seek to block the sale of competitors' products.'

    Can Apple sue Samsung for using Apples business plan?

  4. How is this an exploit? on Steam Protocol Opens PCs to Remote Code Execution · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I do not get how exactly this is an exploit. You need to create a batch file on the intended system start-up folder first. If you can do that. Why not just have the batch file execute a command to download a malicious file and execute it?

    Not sure what the real issue is...

  5. Whats the problem? on SpaceX Launch Not So Perfect After All · · Score: 5, Informative

    The Falcon 9, as its name implies, has nine engines, and is designed to go to orbit if one of them fails. On-board computers will detect engine failure, cut the fuel supply, and then distribute the unused propellant to the remaining engines, allowing them to burn longer. This seems to be the case where that was required, and the computers came through. The engines are also built with protection to limit the damage in cases where a neighboring engine explodes, which appears to be the case here.

    Sounds like it did exactly what it was supposed to do.

  6. Micro USB? on Apple Now Shipping Lightning To 30-Pin Adapters · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Is there any real reason besides vendor lock in that the Apple connector does differently then Micro-USB?

  7. Re:I bet.. on World of Warcraft Character Becomes Campaign Issue · · Score: 1, Insightful

    god damn it Slashdot why is there no way to undo mods... posting to revert incorrect moderation change

  8. Re:Can you imagine... on Microsoft Disrupts Nitol Botnet · · Score: 2, Insightful

    they could have used a real security model, locked down the system, and there would be no malware, no virus, no antivirus, no UEFI, no nothing today.

    o boy..... what did I just read? I don't know whether to laugh or actually sigh that you somehow actually somehow believe that drivel that you posted.

  9. Re:Hand-customize app to meet all Mac screen sizes on Apple Announces iPhone 5 · · Score: 2

    . Things can't just scale with resolution on an iPhone, for example, as they do on a computer monitor, because a finger is not a precise pointing device like a mouse.

    ummm.... why not? That is how Android does it.

  10. Re:Thoughts... on Space Vs. Poverty Debate In India · · Score: 4, Insightful

    XKCD has an interesting write up on the topic, I found it fairly interesting.and recommend that people give it a read.

  11. Hands down best site.. on Cherry MX Mechanical Keyboard Switches Compared · · Score: 5, Informative

    Hands down the best set of information have ever seen about mechanical keyboards was this forum post on the topic it has everything you want to know about the subject.

  12. Direct X vs Open GL on Is It Time For an OpenGL Gaming Revolution? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The only issue is that they are claiming that Open GL version runs better then the Direct X version is we really do not know if they are the same graphic detail. The reason I say this is look at the TF2 Mac port that uses Open GL, its not in any regards the same graphic quality as the Direct X windows version. I am beginning to wonder if the same thing is why the Windows version is rendering using less fps. We don't have any screenshots of the differences, just one paragraph on a blog that is quite lite in details.

  13. Interesting note... on Giant Mech Robots From Japan · · Score: 4, Funny

    The robot can only be controlled by a small person such as a 12 year old girl with orange hair.

  14. Re:gun safe? on How a 3-Year-Old Can Open a Gun Safe · · Score: 1

    As they lack full-auto fire they cannot be assault rifles.

    So what you are saying is the M16, the main weapon for US military troops is not an assault rifle?

  15. Re:Even GPU costs more on Startup Aims For $99, Android-Powered TV Game Console · · Score: 2

    It also does not have a Tegra 3 — Quad-core processor, a controller., and Bluetooth support.

  16. Disney Dollar on A Cashless, High-Value, Anonymous Currency: How? · · Score: 3, Funny

    I have been waiting for the moment to happen, I have a large collection of Disney Dollars saved up for this moment!.

  17. Fan death on South Korea Surrenders To Creationist Demands On Evolution Textbooks · · Score: 5, Informative

    This is also the country that believes in death by sleeping in a room with a fan.

  18. Re:Turtles all the way down on 'Inexact' Chips Save Power By Fudging the Math · · Score: 1

    Wait we get DKP for posting on this site? How come I never got any loot?

  19. Midichlorians on Researchers Generate Electricity From Viruses · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Thee viruses convert the force

    I was thinking of Midichlorians, when I read it but I have no idea where I got it from I do not remember it any of the three Star War Movies.

  20. Re:Not perfect???? on Homeland Security: New Body Scanners Have Issues · · Score: 1

    Posting to undo a incorrect mod. /sigh I liked the old system where one misclick didn't instantly moderate a comment. Now, I have to post to undo 1 bad mod, and forfeit the other 6 posts I moderated.

  21. Re:Licensing costs on Windows 8 Won't Play DVDs Unless You Pay For the Media Center Pack · · Score: 2

    Does VLC pay those licensing costs? Is there some sort of "free software" exemption?

    For the United States the fear would be over the Libdvdcs , as it is how VLC plays DVDs. The library just uses a generated list of possible player keys, and depending on how you look at it could be violation of the DMCA, although it has not been tested in court.

  22. Re:The British are proud of their Pound on Microsoft Raises UK Prices By a Third and Can't Rule Out Future Hikes · · Score: 1

    The supply doesn't go down though, hence why when you download something its not stealing. You simply can not go and download a volume license. To me this is just a clear case of Occam's razor, that it is really just a price increase due to the British Pound.

    Yea, but there's a reason for Ewok pelts being "out of the world" in pricing. Is simply Jawas have better pelts, and are quite easy to kill. Leaving a piece of a droid over a bear-trap. Presto unlimited Jawas!

  23. Re:The British are proud of their Pound on Microsoft Raises UK Prices By a Third and Can't Rule Out Future Hikes · · Score: 2

    I find it curious that U.K. Spikes Pirate Bay [slashdot.org], and Microsoft raises prices. Coincidence? I think not.

    How is this +4 Interesting? They are raising the price on volume licensing. Can anyone show me on the TPB where I can download a volume license? Actually let me use that same idea. ...ladies and gentlemen of this Slashdot Site, I have one final thing I want you to consider, this is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about it; that does not make sense!

    Why would a Wookiee, an 8-foot-tall Wookiee, want to live on Endor, with a bunch of 2-foot-tall Ewoks? That does not make sense! But more important, you have to ask yourself: What does this have to do with this post? Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case! It does not make sense! Look at me. I'm a poster at Slashdot defending Microsoft , and I'm talkin' about Chewbacca! Does that make sense? Ladies and gentlemen, I am not making any sense! None of this makes sense! And so you have to remember, when you're in the story moderating' and conjugatin' the Emancipation Proclamation, does it make sense? No! Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed site moderators, it does not make sense! If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must mark my post interesting.

  24. Re:To a bureaucrat on Google Apps Beats Office 365 For US Dept. of the Interior Contract · · Score: 1

    You are right: there are no essential features lacked by Open or Libre Office. By essential, I mean stuff needed to present information. Therefore, Government departments could easily mandate that only that feature set is used. But the Microsoft argument is that if "free" means it only does 99% of what expensive does, free is worthless (even if the 1% is unnecessary.)

    You really think it is only 1%? If you were trying to sell that Google Docs compared to Microsoft 365 lacked 1%, I would of believed you. I have tried many times to use Open or Libre Office, they are terrible compared to Microsoft Office sadly. I really would like to use something else, but for spreadsheets nothing compares to Excel and Word. People always say well its only missing 10% of the features that mos people don't use anyway. That is exactly the problem, most people WILL use at-least one of those missing features in some application. This makes it a deal breaker for most people.

    The other thing is the documentation is a train wreck, I remember looking up how I could have a spreadsheet link to another spreadsheet and auto-update every minute. Sadly even me specifically looking for a way to do it in Open Office only turned up how to do it in Microsoft Office. Looking at the forums for open office, many others have asked the same question not a single answer. If we went over to Microsoft's website there was a step by step guide on how to do exactly what I was trying. In the end it just wasn't worth it for me.

  25. Re:US its own worst enemy on Not Just Apple, How Microsoft Sidestepped Billions In State Taxes · · Score: 1

    Well they still do get State Income Tax and Property Tax .