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  1. Re:Check the Cables on LED's Efficiency Exceeds 100% · · Score: 2

    To be fair, you pretty much had to miss about an entire week of news around the internet to have missed out on the loose cable story. People tend to take their light-speed limits pretty seriously these days.

  2. Re:Worst? on Facebook Denies Accessing Users' Text Messages · · Score: 1

    Wow, I rescind my previous statement, LBE is basically exactly what I want. And it doesn't crash things. Thanks. This right here should be built-in functionality.

  3. Re:Worst? on Facebook Denies Accessing Users' Text Messages · · Score: 2

    Yes, but most apps are written incorrectly (they don't ask for permissions in a try/catch block), so for example when I told my ROM not to let Facebook access my GPS, the Facebook app would simply crash on opening.
    This will only really work if it's a standardized OS-wide feature.

  4. Re:Homeland Security's gonna love this... on Qu8k Rockets Above the Balloons · · Score: 1

    It's possible to do SMD by hand, but it's also possible to cut your lawn with a pair of scissors.
    If you are going to be doing much surface mount work, it's probably in your best interest to at the very least get a hot air reflow station.

  5. Re:Steve Jobs is Dead on Autism Traits Prove Valuable for Software Testing · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Sorry they were 3 minutes late for you.

    Steve Jobs Dead At 56
    Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday October 05, @05:01PM

  6. Re:Avoid SGC on Gamers Piece Together Retrovirus Enzyme Structure · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Clearly you missed out on an entire decade of First-Person-Shooter games.

  7. Re:C++ version on What Is the Most Influential Programming Book? · · Score: 1

    Yes, I found it nice to learn C from the guy who actually invented C.

  8. Re:simulating zero gravity on Ugandan Seeks To Build Backyard Space Shuttle · · Score: 0

    But there's no wind inside that airplane.

  9. Re:Here's an idea. on Social Media a Threat To Undercover Cops · · Score: 5, Informative

    They already do. It is, however, a bit hard to get to.

  10. Re:OT: Google: Android's Archiles heal? on Google+ Registers 25 Million Visitors · · Score: 1

    There are two common ways around this:

    One is two create a "dummy" Google Account that you use only to access things like the Android Market and Contact Sync.

    Alternatively you can skip using a Google Account altogether, and get your apps from something like the Amazon Appstore. You won't have an automatic backup of your app and contact data at that point, but from there you can always root the phone and then install something like Titanium Backup.

  11. Re:Permissions on 8% of Android Apps Are Leaking Private Information · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This functionality is available in CyanogenMod ROMs already.
    http://slashdot.org/story/11/05/25/1221225/Cyanogenmod-Puts-Users-in-Control-of-Permissions

  12. Re:Why hasn't it clicked yet? on ISP Refuses To Block the Pirate Bay · · Score: 1

    This reminds me of George Lucas' staff as seen in the Phantom Menace review.

  13. Re:CFO's glad they didn't take the next step on Google Bid Pi Billion Dollars For Nortel Patents · · Score: 1

    by what factor is C proportional to r?

    You could at least tell us non-math-degrees...

  14. Re:Yes, please make a good party game for the cons on A Plea For Game Devs To Aim Higher · · Score: 1

    I got your new Jack right here.

  15. Re:Better he use Google than watch House M.D. on Just Months After Jeopardy!, Watson Wows Doctors · · Score: 3, Funny

    Only because you lied to him about something !

  16. African Liberation Day on Happy Towel Day! · · Score: 3, Informative

    It's also African Liberation Day / Africa Day (And has been since before Towel Day).

  17. Re:On an unrelated note: English names are stupid on Volcano Erupts In Iceland · · Score: 1

    Colbert - It's French, Bitch.
    (Also, by video.)

  18. Re:It's dying? on Tech Experts Look To Help Save the Postal Service · · Score: 1

    You also have to scribble out any visible barcodes so that the machines spit it out instead of automatically rerouting it back to you. It makes letters look ugly but it's the only way to be sure.

  19. Re:Not only graphics on How the PC Is Making Consoles Look Out of Date · · Score: 1

    Call of Duty: Black Ops is actually the first major Xbox game to allow you to turn off auto-aim.
    Ever since the original Halo, every other Xbox game has had what many call a "sticky reticle." It does help you aim in some instances, but in my experience people are frustrated with is just as much as it helps (it consistently pulls your sights away from your target when someone else runs between you).
    In Black Ops, I've watched people do horrible with the sticky aim on, and top the scoreboard with all aim assists completely off. It really doesn't provide that much of an advantage.

  20. Re:Because consumers are stupid on Activists Seek Repeal of Ban On Incandescent Bulbs · · Score: 1

    You should probably go see the eye doctor.

  21. Re:How is that hypocritical! on Steve Jobs Health Worries Escalate · · Score: 1

    He's on facebook under his real name; somebody hacked the privacy settings and leaked a bunch of his stuff once. News of this even made it to slashdot.

  22. Re:Microsoft ignores her requests... on Xbox Live Labels Autistic Boy "Cheater" · · Score: 1

    Why, so you could add emphasis to your words?

  23. Re:VZW handling the load on Loophole Means Unlimited Data For AT&T iPhone · · Score: 1

    The <i> tag didn't work for me before either... I always had to use <em> on slashdot...

  24. Re:Usual bullshit... on Microsoft Sues TiVo · · Score: 1

    Engadget HD had an article not all that long ago comparing Windows Media Center to the newest TiVo, and it is conveyed that Microsoft has actually had a very strong history on the software end of the DVR world.

  25. Re:er on Firefox 4 Beta 9 Out, Now With IndexedDB and Tabs On Titlebar · · Score: 1

    Well then, it would seem that it was self-explanatory after all.
    You have figured out exactly what it means.
    And by the looks of the rest of the comments, most of Slashdot is "mightly pissed."