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  1. Re:Teamviewer on Ask Slashdot: Options For FOSS Remote Support Software? · · Score: 1

    "join remote control session" is for controlling or viewing the remote desktop - i.e. you. The other end (the person whose desktop you need to control to help him in this scenario) still needs to download an executable and run it.

  2. Re:That's fine because I plan to bypass... on You Can't Bypass the UI Formerly Known As Metro On Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    The extinguish phase external target in this case is Linux.

  3. Re:no way UEFI lock down will come soon on You Can't Bypass the UI Formerly Known As Metro On Windows 8 · · Score: 1

    Companies do not need to buy computers with XP to install XP (even W2K). They can either buy an OLP license that allows them to install XP or they can buy a computer with W7 Pro OEM license which also allows them to install WXP.

  4. Re:No way. Too late. SSDs already cheap enough on Are SSD Accelerators Any Good? · · Score: 2

    This guy is saying - for a $200k i can buy a Ferrari. You are saying - hey, you can get a perfectly good combine harvester for less money.
    Hard disk gigabyte price vs SSD gigabyte price is not the issue discussed here - performance is.

  5. Re:Forced Upgrades? on Why We Love Firefox, and Why We Hate It · · Score: 1

    Apple doesn't allow that? Just try searching Chrome in the app store.

  6. Re:Your sig... on Google+ Account Suspended? You Won't Find Out Why · · Score: 1

    Really? 32" monitor under $599? Or you are talking about a TV?
    Anyway please post prices on all your equipment you are posting here - "laptop, 32" monitor, wireless keyboard/mouse, mixer board, 5.1 speaker system, and much more". I would really like to see how this adds up to less than $599

    Apple is not expensive for what it is. There are other reasons to bash Apple, but price isn't it. Apple just does not produce low end plastic things. If you take a computer, phone, whatever with comparable specs, it will usually cost the same if not more from another manufacturer. And no - i don't consider CPU to be the most important spec in a laptop. Build quality and materials are just as important.

  7. Re:This sounds awfully familiar. on Firefox OS Will Win Big With Developers - Mozilla · · Score: 1

    Erm... no. Firefox Mobile OS is not what you think it is. It is not a "web browser IS an OS" thing. It is an operating system for mobile devices that runs all its userspace programs in HTML5. It is scheduled to launch nex year with several phone manufacturers already promising devices with it. When you buy a phone with it, you are not going to say "my phone runs The Internet", you are going to say it runs "Firefox Mobile OS" (unless they change the name).

  8. Re:This sounds awfully familiar. on Firefox OS Will Win Big With Developers - Mozilla · · Score: 2

    Firefox os they are talking about here will run on mobile devices. It is not meant to run specifically software out of the cloud. The HTML5 apps might be local and probably many (if not most) of them are. After all, there are plenty of situations where you want to use your mobile device in a disconnected environment. For example listening to music in an airplane. Or taking notes in a forest. Etc.

  9. Re:Buying Windows does some good in the world! on Melinda Gates Pledges $560 Million For Contraception · · Score: 1

    The only problem i see with his best side is that many of the projects end up generating more money to people involved. By chance some common causes are nudged ahead too, but still. http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/living-in-dialogue/2012/07/the_gates_foundations_leverage.html

  10. Re:Cool tech, but on LG Aims To Beat Apple's Retina Display · · Score: 1

    Isn't the current iphone display produced by LG? So - essentially the news is - "LG will produce a display with even higher resolution than a previous LG display!" But that doesn't sound so sensationalist as "LG takes on Apple" approach?

  11. Re:mac on Ask Slashdot: How To Shop For a Laptop? · · Score: 1

    Please show me a thinkpad with comparable specs and half the price of either $999 air or $1199 mbp.

  12. Re:Is she? on Is Siri Smarter Than Google? · · Score: 1

    Hmm. Tried: libssl.so.0.9.8: cannot open shared object file +centos
    says:
    No results found for libssl.so.0.9.8: cannot open shared object file +centos.
    Results for libssl so 0.9 8 cannot open shared object file centos (without punctuation - Learn more)

    It seems it considers + to be just punctuation - as there are definitely pages that do not contain term "centos" in the results.

    And the hits themselves are totally different than using:
    libssl.so.0.9.8: cannot open shared object file "centos"

  13. Re:Is she? on Is Siri Smarter Than Google? · · Score: 1

    Slashdot ate the tags. I meant tags like: ireallymeanusethiswordasitis and /ireallymeanusethiswordasitis

  14. Re:Is she? on Is Siri Smarter Than Google? · · Score: 1

    Try putting "" around proper nouns - putting them in quote tells it to treat the word "as is" instead of trying to figure out what it means (i.e. synonym expansion, etc).

    I have been doing this. But its a pain in the ass to type. In the old days i could just type 2-3 words and press "I'm feeling lucky". Then you needed + in front (one keypress per word) to get some sensible results, now you need apostrophes (2*(shift+keypress)*word) - and the results are getting worse and worse at the same time.
    What next? I suggest putting tags like around every word.

  15. Re:Is she? on Is Siri Smarter Than Google? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    For me, google has got progressively worse in the last year or so. It treats everything i write as a typo and all words as optional by default. Just yesterday i got 0 relevant results on the first page (query: insync uninstall osx).
    And I don't get this natural language thing at all - i find it much easier and faster to type two-three words (google *used to* give me relevant results) than to form full sentence. Speaking with a computer is even more cumbersome and a sentence takes even more time than typing a couple of words even if the computer gets it right.
    But maybe i am just becoming obsolete and google is not meant for searching obscure commands or error messages at all.

  16. Re:I patched sshd to log attempted passwords on The Optimum Attack Rate For SSH Bruteforce? Once Every Ten Seconds · · Score: 1

    Here's an idea - route port 22 back to the connecting host. Then it will do a recursive bruteforce.

  17. Re:Get past the wanking stage on Ask Slashdot: What Are Your Tips For Working From Home? · · Score: 2
  18. Re:Holy self-reference! on Bing Now Nearly As Good As Google — Says Microsoft · · Score: 1

    Considering the duckduckgo "first page" is endless, how much did you scroll to get that answer? I don't see any microsoft answers in the first couple of hundred results?

  19. Re:Holy self-reference! on Bing Now Nearly As Good As Google — Says Microsoft · · Score: 1

    If you spell "kinect" wrong, then its no surprise that Google stands out by being the only one getting a relevant hit in the first page. Lately google has been considering almost everything a typo and does what he likes with your string ("corrects" it before the actual query). This micght work 99% of the time, but for me that is actually an annoyance, because that often gives me totally wrong results. I have been forced to put every word in quotation marks several times to get anything relevant out of google. I do not have any examples at hand, but i will try to write it down next time.

  20. Re:Unusual Road Conditions ???? on California To Join Nevada With Rules For Autonomous Cars · · Score: 1

    Why would a computer handle things worse than a human? It has far better reaction time, more information to make a decision from (sensors, infrared, etc), more control. I drive a Subaru and i see its current - rather modest - computer straighten up the car on ice before i could even start to make corrective actions. I would like to see a human break one spinning wheel out of four in in kess than a second for less than a second. While powering the orher three.

  21. Re:Liability mitigation is the crucial rule on California To Join Nevada With Rules For Autonomous Cars · · Score: 1

    I live in a country with 4 months of ice and snow. I will choose my metal-studded winter tires + ABS over a "friction created by a small pile of snow" in a heartbeat.

  22. Re:Yes it's totally software, but on Intel Relying On Ice Cream Sandwich For Tablet Push · · Score: 2

    I tried to use several types of PDAs etc for a decade in business environment. It was always more trouble than it was worth. Until iphone came along in 2007.

  23. Re:Do no evil indeed on Google Caught Misbehaving By Kenyan Startup · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That is the 20 year head start thing again. To do so, helps Google gain market share NOW. Come back with this talk in 20 years. My prediction is, that by 2020 we hate Google more than we hate msft now.

  24. Re:Not vapourware! on Raspberry Pi Has Gone To Manufacturing · · Score: 1

    Maybe its worth mentioning that Pi is not x86. It is ARM

  25. Re:No on Do Slashdotters Encrypt Their Email? · · Score: 1

    Who says that SMTP connection between servers is unencrypted? All servers i have configured support SSL (well, TLS actually, but its basically same thing) and if the other server supports it as well, it will be negotiated. I see outgoing and incoming TLS SMTP sessions all the time in the logs so i'm not the only one. SSL encryption costs so little that i consider it a good policy. So e-mail traffic might be encrypted end-to-end. But of course you can't rely on it.