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  1. Future? on Russia Proposes Banning Foul Language On the Internet · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How is that not the present?

  2. Re:Gyros on GPS Spoofing With $3000 Worth of Equipment and a Laptop · · Score: 1

    Well if you're trying to follow the GPS going straight, and it leads you to the side, presumably more than just the gyros will indicate you're steering a little to the side, and the gyro is going to match up with that... compass too at least, I dunno too much about boats to guess at what else.

  3. I use robocopy on Windows for my 1:1 backup copy since it will use timestamps and file sizes to determine if a file needs to be synced or not. But I assume rsync does the same thing.

  4. Value on Ask Slashdot: How To Deliver a Print Magazine Online, While Avoiding Piracy? · · Score: 4, Informative

    In general, we think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem. For example, if a pirate offers a product anywhere in the world, 24 x 7, purchasable from the convenience of your personal computer, and the legal provider says the product is region-locked, will come to your country 3 months after the U.S. release, and can only be purchased at a brick and mortar store, then the pirate's service is more valuable. Most DRM solutions diminish the value of the product by either directly restricting a customers use or by creating uncertainty.

    - Gabe Newell

  5. Re:So shit tech then on Cell Phone Powered By Urine · · Score: 1

    I assume most battery tech started out bad and got better as improvements were made.

  6. Re:Everyone is in Luck on Network Solutions Hit With DDoS · · Score: 1

    Yes, we're in July already, try to keep up.

  7. MSE on Ask Slashdot: Light-Footprint Antivirus For Windows XP? · · Score: 2

    MSE was OK when I last tried it, but it made a footprint on a 1.8ghz single core proc machine. Of course anything will make a footprint on a low-enough-end machine. Previously I had used AVG which was also OK but the networking features tended to break Source engine games even if they were off (you had to deselect them entirely at AVG install time). Anyways not sure if the LATEST version of MSE supports XP still or not. You might be able to grab an older version that still does though.

  8. Re:uhh why does it have a browser extension? on Amazon One-Click Chrome Extension Snoops On SSL Traffic · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Here it is. Looks like it is a popup which displays various promos and has quick links.

  9. Re:Crap, not webkit ... on Google Updates Maps, Makes First Stable Chrome Release Using WebKit Fork · · Score: 1

    Chrome has always used Webkit, since its first release. Whatever you're complaining about is probably a Safari thing.

  10. Re:We need one that supports emulators. on Google Developing Android Game Console · · Score: 2

    You don't read Penny Arcade, do you? From what I've heard its store has a bunch of emulators on it already.

  11. Re:More options on Google Developing Android Game Console · · Score: 1

    The way I see it, if I can play the latest and greatest via Steam without having to worry about also using the same PC for web browsing and installing random programs that will just slow it down or make it unstable, that could be my next PC. My current PC would do just fine at being turned into my IRC/Trillian/Media/Web surfing PC.

  12. Sony has reacted on Microsoft Kills Xbox One Phone-Home DRM · · Score: 1

    They're one-upping MS. The PS3 is now always offline.

  13. What? on MS To Indie Devs: You Have a To Have a Publisher · · Score: 1, Interesting

    What about Minecraft then? Mojang surely is self-publishing that. I suppose it's just a case of MS not being THAT dumb to reject Minecraft...

  14. Re:HTTPS on iPhone Apparently Open To Old Wi-Fi Attack · · Score: 2

    I think the problem is that the iPhone will connect to an unsecure network automatically without alerting the user while the user believes they are on a different, secure network.

  15. Re:Couldn't you just make up any old equation... on Banker Offers $1M To Solve Beal Conjecture · · Score: 1
  16. 1GB for Vista? on Class Action Suit Goodies Await Tech Users · · Score: 1

    I was a bit confused since I was certain the minimum requirement was 512mb. Did some research and figured it out:

    • 512mb is the minimum for Home Basic (with 32mb graphics memory). 1gb is the minimum for the other editions (with 128mb graphics memory), which were the ones listed in the class action lawsuit.
    • The 1gb was shared between the GFX and RAM, so you definitely have a system that fails to meet the minimum requirements (1.25gb would have probably gotten them off the hook).
  17. Reddit threw the findings into doubt on Hacker Exposes Evidence of Widespread Grade Tampering In India · · Score: 1

    Looks like his observations might have been the result of standardizing the test scores... IE if you have a test that only scores 50 max and you scale it to 100 obviously you aren't going to have many odd numbers in the results.

  18. Re:Not-so-accurate source on BBC Clock Inaccurate - 100 Days To Fix? · · Score: 1

    You can use local time as an estimate of the time zone, since time zones are only in 30 minute or an hour increments.

  19. Re:Seems an unnecessary feature on Keyless Remote Entry For Cars May Have Been Cracked · · Score: 1

    Pretty sure they would. It's a nice reliable fallback.

    You can't tell that mine has a key because it's hidden inside the fob, you have to pull a little latch and the key slides out.

  20. Re:Seems an unnecessary feature on Keyless Remote Entry For Cars May Have Been Cracked · · Score: 1

    On the other hand, if a carjacker pulls me OUT of my running car and drives away (I keep my doors locked, but still)... the keyfob is still in my pocket and I can even hit the alarm for whatever good that will do (I don't know if the car shuts off if I get too far away, once I started it up to fill my tires but I never went too far), but more importantly he can't shut the car off or he can't start it again.

  21. Re:The big feature is rounded tabs on Mozilla Plans Major Design Overhaul With Firefox 25 Release In October · · Score: 1

    But they're moving the menu button!

    You totally needed an add-on to do that before.

    But yeah the last time I checked out the UX channel there was an awesome new Customize toolbar UI. It was broken at the time, but it looked like it would be great when they got it working.

    Also the XP theming support looks nice. Chrome doesn't even bother to go that far.

  22. Re:Finally looks exactly like Chrome on Mozilla Plans Major Design Overhaul With Firefox 25 Release In October · · Score: 1

    You can type in the address bar to search. :)

  23. Re:Finally looks exactly like Chrome on Mozilla Plans Major Design Overhaul With Firefox 25 Release In October · · Score: 1

    But seriously, Chrome did a LOT of stuff right. The menu button thing is still odd if you ask me Firefox's old choice was also valid) but now we have more room for tabs by using Chrome's method.

  24. Re:Finally looks exactly like Chrome on Mozilla Plans Major Design Overhaul With Firefox 25 Release In October · · Score: 1, Funny

    Don't worry you still have your separate useless search bar you never use and hide from the toolbar (well, I did).

  25. Re:But not to give them a chance to correct it fir on Google Security Expert Finds, Publicly Discloses Windows Kernel Bug · · Score: 1

    And by classified information, I mean like information about military systems, their configurations, hardware used, so on and so forth (as opposed to say, names of spies or whatnot. Not the right analogy).