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  1. Re:better solution: don't make cars network-capabl on BMW Patches Security Flaw Affecting Over 2 Million Vehicles · · Score: 1

    You can have most androids, and I believe apple phones too, "Auto Rotate" their screen. Flip it in your hands it so the screen is correctly oriented for your HUD reflection when subsequently laid flat, then carefully place it in the panel so it reflects as desired. When laid flat,the phone will wait for a threshold (more than 10 degrees in my experience) of further rotation before changing the screen again - giving you the result you wanted!

    I've done it with my Xperia Z Ultra and my Ford Transit EF-LWB - it works!

  2. Re:Funny on UK Arrest Over Xbox Live and Playstation Network Outages · · Score: 1

    So if I breathe hot choking cigar fumes in your face, from my fat, dirty cigarillo, that's not assault? After all, all I'm doing is sending massive amounts of particulates (traffic) to make you choke...

  3. 503 on Google Proposes To Warn People About Non-SSL Web Sites · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Did slashdot just die and silently come back up? I was getting 503's and "offline mode", logged in and out for ages, then suddenly its just working again. Anybody else experience anything like that?

  4. Re: The US Internet Shutdown Switch on Sony Leaks Reveal Hollywood Is Trying To Break DNS · · Score: 2

    Seriously, insightful?? Sarcastic, funny maybe, but I was definitely not being insightful! Next I'll be accused of having sock puppets!

  5. Re:Aerostat definitions on Army To Launch Spy Blimp Over Maryland · · Score: 1

    You need to move all of those tables and chairs, I am trying to land...

  6. Re:Diversity = Natural Order on A New Law For Superconductors · · Score: 1

    To really get the natural order you're suggesting, you'd have to nuke his mum in the past - requiring faster-than-light-travel - so your troll-biting comment isn't as off-topic as the resulting moderation would imply!

  7. Re: The US Internet Shutdown Switch on Sony Leaks Reveal Hollywood Is Trying To Break DNS · · Score: 2

    I really, really hope apk will come on and tell me how "manly" I'm looking these days!

  8. Re:Maybe there was something to it... on Curiosity Detects Mysterious Methane Spikes On Mars · · Score: 2

    What, so in your own words, Mars shows no signs of life, except for farting, and Venus is very stormy and no-one can touch (land on) her? Sounds about right!

  9. Re:First... on Ask Slashdot: Unlimited Data Plan For Seniors? · · Score: 1

    That is correct. A failed assumption that mine would be the first, and last post - which would have scored Insightful had it actually been first and only post, since he's searching for rocking-horse shit, as the ensuing discussion shows!

  10. First... on Ask Slashdot: Unlimited Data Plan For Seniors? · · Score: 0

    And last...

  11. Re:Graphics Card News on NVIDIA Launches Mobile Maxwell GeForce GTX 980M and GTX 970M Notebook Graphics · · Score: 1

    Does your "portable" LAN rig (including monitor) fit in a rucksack or panniers (bike rack)? Does it have decent h/k speakers and a meaty subwoofer built in for train journeys? Does it boot (and login) in under 30 seconds from power off, less than that from hibernate?

    These trade-offs alone, along with the ability to game or perform (I have an Edirol and portable 12V PA) for two hours without the mains, make the NVidia 9700M GTS seem quite impressive, actually!

    They're bigger because they contain more useful things...

  12. Re:Game/Set/Match on Ask Slashdot: Alternate Software For Use On Smartboards? · · Score: 1

    I only joked about being smug because of the game/set/match concept, I'm not that cruel, and yours really was a very constructive comment!

  13. Re:Game/Set/Match on Ask Slashdot: Alternate Software For Use On Smartboards? · · Score: 1

    Agreed, game / set / match, and helping him use the advice you have given to teach the class as well, earns you extra points.

    Even with points deducted for smugness...

    You win 1 internets.

  14. Re:What advice can I offer? on Ask Slashdot: Alternate Software For Use On Smartboards? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Believe it or not, I sincerely believe that this introduction was his way of eating the humble pie, in advance - prostrating himself at our altar and asking for help. We should give him a break!

  15. Re:fuck you and the bucket challenge on Taking the Ice Bucket Challenge With Liquid Nitrogen · · Score: 2

    I would mod you up, but my recent post count isn't good enough, and I'm not being allocated any mod points. This should solve the problem; though not for you, unfortunately! ;-)

  16. Re:If you could be GUARANTEED there would NEVER on Ask Slashdot: Would You Pay For Websites Without Trolls? · · Score: 1

    -1 Troll ;-)

  17. Re:Intense skepticism. Fraud? on New Battery Tech From Japan Could Supercharge EVs · · Score: 1

    PHP and most other server-side preprocessors can process html on the way out, too. Simple setting.

    Means script kiddies like you won't look too hard at hacking... after all not much there to hack if you think it's all just straight html...

  18. As Species Decline, So Do the Scientists Who ... on As Species Decline, So Do the Scientists Who Name Them · · Score: 1

    ... Name Them...

    And so does the number of people commenting on such things.

  19. Re:Like downloads *don't* have DRM?! on Sony Warns Demand For Blu-Ray Diminishing Faster Than Expected · · Score: 1

    What gives here - downloadable media most certainly does not have DRM, my torrent client says otherwise! Please go and read about "prohibition" and "designed obsolescence". Thank you.

  20. Re:Blank Media on Sony Warns Demand For Blu-Ray Diminishing Faster Than Expected · · Score: 3

    If you have a good product, with fixed costs,that is too expensive, that nobody is buying, you are losing money. Sony et al. know this only too well, it's why the DVD industry followed the pattern it did.

    If you reduce the price and get SOME customers, and they tell other people "Hey this works, it's good." you'll get MORE sales, with LESS margin - but this is much better than no sales at all!

    Also, drives aren't proper backup, unless they're offsite, and these discs pack 50GB each, more than enough for most discrete items on your 3TB drive (what do you need that for anyway, HD porn?)

  21. Re:Contracting? on Sony Warns Demand For Blu-Ray Diminishing Faster Than Expected · · Score: -1, Troll

    Physical media most definitely did not, does not fail. You sound like a shill for the cloud industry.

    I'll leave everyone else to regail you with their tales of what media they use, but physical media most definitely is alive and kicking. When blank DVD's were a pound each, and hardly anywhere had them, seeing them in 100 packs in the main 24/7 supermarkets wasn't even a twinkle in my eye...

    Roll forward 10 years, I look over at my media shelf... ASDA 100 DVD+R - about a tenner! If blank media were dead, nobody would be making it and nobody would be buying it, and ASDA wouldn't have it! Copyright Shill Begone!

  22. Re:Contracting? on Sony Warns Demand For Blu-Ray Diminishing Faster Than Expected · · Score: 5, Informative

    The problem has always been the price of burners and discs. Blu Ray seemed awesome when I first saw it, but I never could justify the cost, what with these cheap generic +R's and WinRAR to split stuff... oh not to mention cheap almost-disposable drives.

  23. Blank Media on Sony Warns Demand For Blu-Ray Diminishing Faster Than Expected · · Score: 5, Interesting

    They should re-tool all of their factories, embrace the inevitable, and minimize (or prevent) losses by marketing it for storage and reducing the price of the discs and drives. The only thing that can save Blu-Ray now is to re-purpose it.

  24. Re:Worst Video Ever on Computer Game Reveals 'Space-Time' Neurons In the Eye · · Score: 2

    As much as it's a rubbish summary and so forth, the game itself (eyewire.org) is actually quite compelling, at least on a par with those silly bubble saga things - and it gets human "mice" to map neurons for us science types!

    Please be more positive, the more we know about such things, the sooner I'll have my network socket... ;-)

  25. Re:Re:well then! on UK Government Pays Microsoft £5.5M For Extended Support of Windows XP · · Score: 1

    Hi, apk!