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  1. Re:Good hearing aids are far more on Hearing Aid Business Under Pressure From Consumer Electronics · · Score: 1

    Thanks. Not needing one yet, but good to know.

  2. Re:Good hearing aids are far more on Hearing Aid Business Under Pressure From Consumer Electronics · · Score: 2

    I live in Mexico, and coincidentally I wondered about the crazy price of hearing aids when at Costco last week. 20,000+ .. 50,000+ which translates to 1.147 USD .. 2.867 USD. No idea how good those are compared to the USA.

  3. Re:Found a bug and fixed it. on Apple Releases iOS 9.3.1 With Fix For Unresponsive Links · · Score: 1

    "some apps including Booking.com were abusing this capability,". So yeah.

  4. Re:Use a passphrase on Ask Slashdot: How To Keep Keyfiles Secure, But Still Accessible? · · Score: 1

    Much better is to use a longer pass phrase that you can remember, for example "Silly AC ate a horse staple battery on Slashdot (/.) for breakfast after a severe asthma attack!". And no, that's not the phrase to access my luggage.

  5. M-Disc (Re:Optical Disk) on Ask Slashdot: How To Keep Keyfiles Secure, But Still Accessible? · · Score: 1

    M-DISC's design is intended to provide greater archival media longevity.[1] Millenniata claims that properly stored M-DISC DVD recordings will last 1000 years.[2] While the exact properties of M-DISC are a trade secret,[3] the patents protecting the M-DISC technology assert that the data layer is a "glassy carbon" and that the material is substantially inert to oxidation and has a melting point between 200 and 1000 C.

    Source: Wikipedia.

    But even ordinary CDs last (mostly) for 10-20 years in my experience, see my other comment

    .

  6. Re:Optical Disk on Ask Slashdot: How To Keep Keyfiles Secure, But Still Accessible? · · Score: 1

    I've been making images of old CDs over and the majority read without any problems (dvdisaster), even ones I burned back in the late 90's! The majority was older than a decade and of the +/-180 CDs only +/-10 had a single defective sector and 5 or 6 had multiple defective sectors. Most issues were with Sony Professional CDs (heh). Burning multiple copies on different brands of CDs good for a decade or even two, in my experience. And that's without additional error correction data (which dvdisaster can generate for you). Probably the biggest issue would be if you can still buy a reader in a decade or two.

  7. Re:The less I Use Iit, the More I Like It on Facebook's 'Closed Silos' Pose Challenges To Open Web · · Score: 1

    I follow a few active groups on subjects I like (scorpions, bromeliads, tillandsias, orchids) and I see mostly photos of stuff I like. Posts that I want to reread I save (grey down arrow to the right of the post, save). Also hiding posts you don't like is supposed to train the algorithm. OTOH Flipboard has a similar issue, I keep seeing that "Bedbug" post because people keep flipping it.

  8. Re:The less I Use Iit, the More I Like It on Facebook's 'Closed Silos' Pose Challenges To Open Web · · Score: 1

    Unfollow people who post too much crap.

  9. Re:WWVB on Ask Slashdot: Alternatives To "Atomic" Clocks? · · Score: 1

    In March 1960, the call sign WWVB was obtained by NBS for the 60 kHz station. The “B” in the call sign probably stands for Boulder, the site of the original transmitter. However, one interesting theory is that the “B” could stand for Brown. W. W. Brown, one of the designers of the Fort Collins station, was employed as a contractor by NBS when the call sign application was submitted. Perhaps not coincidentally, his initials were W. W. B.

    Source: http://www.nist.gov/pml/div688...

  10. ESP8266 based NTP Clock on Ask Slashdot: Alternatives To "Atomic" Clocks? · · Score: 1
  11. Just click on the link on Code.org Hacked, Emails and Locations Data of Volunteers Compromised · · Score: 3

    to unsubscribe and we will remove you within 24 hours, honestly!

  12. Re:KingofGNG on ScummVM, Update With a Bang (kingofgng.com) · · Score: 1

    https://slashdot.org/prefs.pl -> Discussions -> Disable Sigs. You're welcome.

  13. KingofGNG on ScummVM, Update With a Bang (kingofgng.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    self-promotes...

  14. Based on the number of phishing emails I see weekly I doubt people are ever going to learn. Stuff like this is done because it works and has been working for decades.

  15. Re:5 dimensions? on Data Written With "Superman Memory Crystal" Could Last Billions of Years (computerworld.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    "The information encoding is realized in five dimensions: the size and orientation in addition to the three dimensional position of these nanostructures,"

    IIRC orientation = phase

  16. Acorn RiscPC on Microsoft Patents A Modular PC With Stackable Components (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 2

    Custom plastic-based design with a 'slice' feature which allows extra case modules to be added to increase internal expansion space. Each slice adds 2 podule bays at the rear, and two drive bays (one 3.5 inch, one 5.25 inch) at the front

    source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    Images with multiple slices: https://www.google.com/search?...

  17. Re:Really? on Best Way To Mine Bitcoins - Allow Errors! · · Score: 1

    Yeah, so great that you published all those scientific papers. Thanks for your wonderful contributions to science!

  18. Re:Cockroaches and patent trolls on Apple And AT&T Sued For Infringement Over iPhone Haptic Patents (computerworld.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    samesung? licenseing fee's? should of?

  19. You have been trolled on Flat-Earth Argument Results in Rap Battle (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    And a day later FIRE was announced. To me this was just a nice troll to bring B.o.B. to everybody's attention. Heard about this guy before this week? No? Nor did I.

  20. Re:Old joke even more true.... on GNU Emacs Now Has Native Support For GTK Widgets (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    One has been able to send tweets from Emacs for years.

  21. Re: It's your own fault Apple on Nvidia Blames Apple For Bug That Exposes Browsing In Chrome's Incognito (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    I've tried this twice and it doesn't work. iOS 9.2, Chrome. This used to be an issue in 7, maybe 8? Even without the rotation.

  22. Re:Kindles can't do this on Ask Slashdot: Composing an e-Book With a Couple of Bells and Whistles · · Score: 3, Informative

    I own a Kindle touch and it can actually zoom, hold your finger on the image for a while.

  23. Lightning Charger? Bias Much? on Switzerland Moves Toward a Universal Phone Charger Standard (vice.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    There is no Lightning Charger, the charger has a normal USB connection. There is a Lightning cable, however. And to be honest I love it that for once I don't have to think which side goes up (or sideways). If this standard is any good it will use the new USB Type C standard.

    FWIW I rather pay a "premium" on a cable that will not fry my hardware and might burn my house down.

  24. Re:best graycale formats on Ask Slashdot: State-of-the-Art In Amateur Book Scanning? · · Score: 3, Interesting
  25. Re:Well duh on Merry Christmas - Be an Erector Engineer! · · Score: 1

    Good to hear, I thought you had a hard on for me, which is OK, but I am not a height challenged bald old man ;-). Still, as an old guy who likes to do things with his hands you might appreciate quilling.