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  1. Re:Youtube Comments on Pseudonyms Now Allowed On Google+ · · Score: 1

    YouTube prompts if you want to use the site with your nickname or real name. You can also change this later in the channel switcher. I believe there has only been a short period of time when YouTube forced you to use your real name.

  2. TripAdvisor on French Blogger Fined For Negative Restaurant Review · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here's some TripAdvisor's reviews on that particular restaurant.

  3. Re:Barbara Streisand award on French Blogger Fined For Negative Restaurant Review · · Score: 4, Insightful

    When are these businesses going to learn that when you lawyer up against negative reviews, it suddenly becomes *newsworthy* and only makes the situation that much worse.

    How do you know? Maybe this is actually rare occurrence. Maybe there has been many other cases like this but the blog owner never brought the issue public.

  4. Re:So... on Comcast Customer Service Rep Just Won't Take No For an Answer · · Score: 1

    I would have just said "Look, you know that I want to terminate my contract, so if you keep going this way, I'm gonna end this discussion and just not pay your company's bills anymore. Is that really the way you want this to go, or can we do this properly?".

  5. Re:Windows 8 on Massive Job Cuts Are Reportedly Coming For Microsoft Employees · · Score: 1

    It looks like a hive mind to me.

  6. Re:Something is broken on OpenWRT 14.07 RC1 Supports Native IPv6, Procd Init System · · Score: 1

    Or an API that allows to implement third party apps. That would be an extremely tasty feature.

  7. Re:Windows 8 on Massive Job Cuts Are Reportedly Coming For Microsoft Employees · · Score: 1

    I am having a hard time figuring out if you are being sarcastic or if you just chose a bad example.

    Ok then, systemd would be another example.

  8. Re:So what? they can be tapped to. on German NSA Committee May Turn To Typewriters To Stop Leaks · · Score: 1

    So what? they can be tapped to.

    So fucking what? Almost no security concept is completely watertight. We have various tools in a security toolkit, and they do not all have to be completely perfect to still offer value. This method offers some benefits over doing the communication via electronic networks. That's the point.

  9. Re:GOOD on Massive Job Cuts Are Reportedly Coming For Microsoft Employees · · Score: 1

    Isn't that kind of the 1997 mindset?

  10. Re:Windows 8 on Massive Job Cuts Are Reportedly Coming For Microsoft Employees · · Score: 0

    She's responsible for this and the awful Office ribbon: perfect examples of graphic design stomping all over useability

    You are just a slashbot who has been programmed to repeat that the Ribbon sucks. Let me guess that you also think that Ubuntu's Unity sucks.

  11. Re:GOOD on Massive Job Cuts Are Reportedly Coming For Microsoft Employees · · Score: 1

    Why?

  12. Re:Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. on Massive Job Cuts Are Reportedly Coming For Microsoft Employees · · Score: 1

    Agree. The main reason for Nokia downfall was the extremely crusty Symbian OS with its laggy UI and constantly crashing software. The quality assurance was pretty much on par with Windows 95.

  13. Re:And on Leaked Build of Windows 9 Shows Start Menu Return · · Score: 1

    Heh, fully agree. I can't believe Microsoft put out something that simply looks so crusty.

  14. Re:Cashless can't happen, here is why ... on Predicting a Future Free of Dollar Bills · · Score: 1

    These coinbits would seem to solve all of these problems. They just need a catchier name.

    Well, you have the words "coin" and "bit" there, maybe shuffle things around, experiment with changing word order and things like that. It could work.

  15. Re:"overwrites all files" How Many Times? on Want To Ensure Your Personal Android Data Is Truly Wiped? Turn On Encryption · · Score: 1

    That might be it.

  16. Re:"overwrites all files" How Many Times? on Want To Ensure Your Personal Android Data Is Truly Wiped? Turn On Encryption · · Score: 2

    Simple: the need of multiple passes has just been a myth. People thought that it would be necessary, but it has now been proven that it isn't so.

  17. Pixel master race on Nano-Pixels Hold Potential For Screens Far Denser Than Today's Best · · Score: 1

    Pixel master race.

  18. They are gonna convince you on Slashdot Asks: Do You Want a Smart Watch? · · Score: 1

    Well, we'll see. People here have long lists of requirements that "would make them buy a smartwatch", and the lists even include things that are far away from reach of current technology.

    In reality, all it requires is some marketing.

    Add a Bitcoin app and show a short video clip Linus Torvalds says that "yeah, smartwatches are quite interesting area where Linux is used". Make it so that you can unlock the watch and SSH to it and do stuff. The nerds will arrive.

  19. Re:Smart Watch? on Slashdot Asks: Do You Want a Smart Watch? · · Score: 1

    How much would you pay?

  20. Re:Slashdot Asks v. Ask Slashdot on Slashdot Asks: Do You Want a Smart Watch? · · Score: 1

    "Given enough eyeballs, all advertisements are profitable."

    -- Dice Holdings, Inc.

  21. Re:Minimalistic smartwatch on Slashdot Asks: Do You Want a Smart Watch? · · Score: 1

    I want a smartwatch, that looks and feels exactly like my current watch (Casio WVA-470 with Titanium bracelet), but has notification features over bluetooth etc. Batterylife must be over 2 months with single charge and use solar and/or wrist movement for charging. Also the time needs to be synced automatically, through RF-waves atomclock or with the help of the mobilephone.

    We should be shooting for 1 week battery life for now, as the battery is small and it's running Android. I know you want 2 months but it most likely is not possible at least for a long time. Your other requirements do not seem unreasonable though.

  22. Re:No on Slashdot Asks: Do You Want a Smart Watch? · · Score: 1

    But then you have to pull the headphone from the pocket.

  23. Re:More details on Finnish National TV Broadcaster Starts Sending Bitcoin Blockchain · · Score: 1

    That's fine.

  24. Re:More details on Finnish National TV Broadcaster Starts Sending Bitcoin Blockchain · · Score: 1

    I just use "Nordic countries" these days to avoid confusion.

  25. Re:Satya Nadella is not just anyone! on New Microsoft CEO Vows To Shake Up Corporate Culture · · Score: 1

    Oh...