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  1. Re:How important is "true" randomness, anyway? on The Android Lag Fix That Really Wasn't · · Score: 3, Funny

    The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.

  2. Re:Astroturfing on Symbian Sells Millions, Despite Nokia Pushing Windows Phone · · Score: 1

    I'm on Verizon. I've been waiting for the Lumina 920 and will buy one as soon as it is available. Where is it?

  3. Re:Really? Woz? on Woz Worries Microsoft Is Now More Innovative Than Apple · · Score: 2

    I'll have to try that. My experience with RDP is originating from Windows 8, I haven't RDP'd into it as I only have a few Windows 8 I dial into (Dameware, LogMeIn, Teamviewer). So for me it works great. I will test your issues. Thank you for bringing that to my attention. I also have an issue with NextPVR which needs to start full screen on a second monitor. I'd like to use Windows 8 but it is not yet supported because there is no simple "Boot to Desktop" switch without third party software. I guess Microsoft only cares about the ubiquitous tablet and phone environment and not the custom software application. You point out a legitimate issue. Nice post. I hope there is an easy workaround as it is an immature operating system, but this could be bad.

  4. Re:Really? Woz? on Woz Worries Microsoft Is Now More Innovative Than Apple · · Score: 1

    Negative. I have tried two Windows 8 Pro installations (TechNet) and neither of them bring up the photo metro app. My systems bring up Windows Photo Viewer, exactly like Windows 7. I could be wrong. I am accustomed to right clicking and selecting default programs so I may have chosen the default as the Windows Photo Viewer. It may have taken me all of 2 seconds as Windows 8 simplifies the default app selection well beyond Windows 7 for casual users.

  5. Re:Really? Woz? on Woz Worries Microsoft Is Now More Innovative Than Apple · · Score: 0, Troll

    I am neither a troll nor a shill. Believe it or not, I am an expert in computer related technologies and I get paid handsomely. I am frequently pissed off at network/system admins that don't know their ass from their elbow. Luckily I am in a position to fire them. Maybe someday you will work for me.

  6. Re:Really? Woz? on Woz Worries Microsoft Is Now More Innovative Than Apple · · Score: 1, Troll

    Yeah, no. I do not have your problems (I'm the parent post). I rarely search for apps as the executable name is not distinct (netwatcher, netview, netinfo, nettraffic, netmonitor), I have to actually think about what I need so I try to keep track of my programs right on the start screen or a custom toolbar. I rarely search for apps, I mainly search for files, so I do not have your difficulties. As for Metro Apps I don't use them unless I like them. They don't seem to interfere or take over so I ignore the ones I don't use. I've never experienced a "Flip" to metro mode. So here I am, not posting "anon." I am not a shill, but rather an experienced computer user who is sick of zealots demanding the same spoon fed shit being fed to the masses. Microsoft does things differently, which works for me, and everyone screams foul. Maybe "isn't as smooth as it could be" isn't good enough for you, but I beg to differ. It is the future. Would you have me believe that what works better for me is bad?

  7. The first rule about on Internet Providers To Begin Warning Customers Who Pirate Content · · Score: 2

    I'm using a VPN. I am very curious why they haven't complained about my bandwidth usage, which runs around 50 GB per month. Is that high or does it compare with Netflicks? I don't know, but my mkv goodness with no advertisements, censorship, or in-screen ads, is marvelous. I still go to the theatre but it feels like a total rip-off. My experience last month was the bright smart phone displays making it impossible to enjoy the film. You'd think they would fix that. Oh yeah, the popcorn at home costs about a nickel, with real butter.

  8. Re:Like he said on Microsoft Co-founder Dings Windows 8 As 'Puzzling, Confusing' · · Score: 1

    Or you could simply right click on the email and select Message Options.

  9. Yeah, maybe I was a bit harsh using the word crazy when there are other factors involved.

  10. If someone is crazy enough to believe in any type of god with no proof, aside from a book, what others tell them, intuition, or the voices in their head, no amount of reasoning will convince them otherwise. It is futile. We are mere animals. We just recently discovered fire. It is turtles all the way down. I see your Vishnu and raise you a noodly appendage.

  11. Re:Oh yeah? on Landmark Calculation Clears the Way To Answering How Matter Is Formed · · Score: 5, Funny

    How is this funny? Why would anyone mod this funny?

  12. Re:It happened to me... on Avira Premium Anti-Virus Bug Disables Windows Machines · · Score: 1

    You run Antivirus on a gaming only machine? With the firewall turned on how would you expect to get a virus?

  13. Re:Tables turn on Google Apps Beats Office 365 For US Dept. of the Interior Contract · · Score: 2

    I am not surprised you were modded up but it makes me sad. Since Windows 2003R2 Microsoft has included Interix, which is 100% compatible with POSIX standards. It was also available long before 2005. So, yeah, I guess they are not in compliance; they are only 100% compatible and conformant.

  14. Re:Hey Apple Users... on Game Theory, Antivirus Improvements Explain Rise In Mac Malware · · Score: 1

    I've seen two. RealSecure firewall (Blackice) had a destructive worm/virus (ICQ parsing) and Dameware had a worm/virus (buffer overflow, port 6129). Both on Windows. Third party software is a bitch.

  15. Re:A Story of "Getting Old" on Half Life of a Tech Worker: 15 Years · · Score: 1

    You should say it can represent up to 256 values. One byte can only hold one number, 1. It can have eight of them, though.

  16. Re:So out of curiosity, on Domain Theft-for-Ransom Hits css-tricks.com and Others · · Score: 1

    Wow. I have three domains with GoDaddy and I think I will switch. It is hard to resist the "No Bullshit" which is trademarked. Thank you. I have no problems with them running Google Analytics. Should I? Google will honor my robots.txt. Why should I care about Google Analytics? Anyone?

  17. Re:More important on Ask Slashdot: To Hack Or Not To Hack? · · Score: 1

    When at the cafe, have on a disguise, wear gloves, and pay in cash.

  18. Re:What's with all the music services lately? on Google Music Goes Live With Google+ Integration · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I don't get it either. I have my 30 or so albums that are worth listening to. I gave up XM radio because I don't listen to gospel or country. They had a ska station but they dumped it. The reggae is only so-so and not worth $80 a year. Regular radio mostly sucks so I listen to news on FM. I steal my music (don't talk about usenet) and if I like it I research the record company. If the company isn't a soul sucking parasite I go buy the album at Lou's Records in Encinitas (to support my awesome local music shop). Like Purple Feather Records by The Donnas. I listen to them (you probably do not) so I make it a point to go buy their CDs. I'll even buy two or more to support them rather than making copies. What is with people buying hundreds of songs for a dollar each? Is it a whim? is it because a dollar doesn't seem like much? Do they care where the money goes?

  19. Re:Angry Birds a real killer on A Cognitive Teardown of Angry Birds · · Score: 1

    That is a subjective view. This gives 2,700 lives raison d'etre per year!

  20. Re:Who was it? on Carbonite Privacy Breach Leads To Spam · · Score: 1

    No. I never have. Character is character. Integrity is not something people get because you spoke with them. Humans are animals and animals are motivated by greed. Integrity is when a human can use its self aware cognitive resources to make decisions contrary to what reptilian brain wants them to do, such as realize the greater good and envision long term consequences of short term actions. People gain these skills because they are smart, not because you spoke with them. If that were the case we would all be carrying smart sticks so we could have a talkin with all the spammers, just like the company that Carbonite won't throw under the bus.

  21. Bury him already on Rural Broadband to Replace POTS As Beneficiary of US Gov't Subsidies · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Steve Jobs is dead. Please bury him. He is starting to stink. FTFA: "the era of Steve Jobs and the Internet future he imagined." That is not the future I want. No Usenet, 99 cents for each morsel of low quality iCrap, all my posts getting deleted, all my devices resembling a iDildo, and buying my groceries on iTunes. Why not just have Bono run for president?

  22. Re:Firewire on Thunderbolt vs. SuperSpeed USB · · Score: 2

    If people believe that cheap, dumb, and easy is better, then you are completely wrong, and they do.

  23. Re:No kidding on Richard Stallman's Dissenting View of Steve Jobs · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Would never have happened? You make that sound like a bad thing? If Jobs hadn't convinced Woz to quite HP we would all be using an awesome computer called the WozPak. It would have RISC, SCSI, and the schematics in the box! As far as you know Steve Jobs set back computing by decades.

  24. Re:Poor old Microsoft on IBM Unseats Microsoft As Second Most Valued Tech Company · · Score: 1

    Do you really believe that dribble or are you trying to be modded up? You're saying their old products are so good no one is buying their new products? Do you know how much profitable software they sell besides OSs and Office? ERP systems are a huge market for Microsoft and still a small part of what they sell. Poor Microsoft indeed.

  25. Re:If you buy one of the CHEAP WiFi Detectors on Wi-Fi Cards Can Now Detect Microwave Ovens · · Score: 1

    This reminds me of my poor-man's EMI-RFI detector. Whenever someone asks me why their software threw an error I tell them it is probably EMI from the fluorescent lights or their improperly shielded power strip. When they call bullshit I grab the wand from my tone kit and presto! As it gets closer to the field it gets louder. They think I'm a genius and of course, I am! Also, they don't even know what a tone kit is so the genius bar isn't very high. I hope I don't get sued for using that term.