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  1. Re:"Ultimately, our users will decide" on Google Hopes To One Day Replace Gmail With Inbox · · Score: 1

    Google harps about getting my phone number every time I download a new app from their Play Store. The thing is, because it's a no-subscription cellphone number, they refuse to accept it.

  2. Re: The End-Users most of the time don't really ca on Openwashing: Users and Adopters Beware · · Score: 1

    Washing? RMS? His cat washes his beard when he sprinkles catnip in it.

  3. Re:How much of that is big data-driven? on Which Programming Language Pays the Best? Probably Python · · Score: 1

    You would have said that about tulip bulbs, too. And look where we are today. Tulip bulbs are worth a fortune. I sold some of my shares in one to buy my house.

  4. Re:Java/Javascript eh? on Which Programming Language Pays the Best? Probably Python · · Score: 1

    Java is the language Minecraft is coded in, and Javascript is what web 'developers' use to jumble the marked up content in HTML and make it slower for the web browser to display.

  5. Re:Deathtrap on Ben Harris Shows off the Electric Vehicle Challenge Simulator (Video) · · Score: 1

    No, the danger is increased for #random_someone# not #everyone#. Which sucks if you're the random someone. But let's not turn it into a fullscale social disaster.

  6. Re:Deathtrap on Ben Harris Shows off the Electric Vehicle Challenge Simulator (Video) · · Score: 1

    That's true of car maintenance in general, ever since price-competition became part of the equation (essentially since forever)

  7. Re:Converts gas cars to electric? on Ben Harris Shows off the Electric Vehicle Challenge Simulator (Video) · · Score: 1

    Filling the bed of a light truck with batteries will actually improve traction. It's common practice to put a bunch of bags of sand or gravel in the bed when winter hits. I use gravel and each spring supplement the driveway with a few more sacks of rock.

  8. Re:Hackers = Criminals on Celebrated Russian Hacker Now In Exile · · Score: 1

    I 'rooted' my phone a few weeks ago, and discovered that the Kindle books on it could be pulled out of the hidden directory onto my PC and converted to unlocked EPUB files using calibre.

    That borders on hacking, though it's really just script-kidding at the level I did it (easy to follow guides online.)

  9. Re:Snowden revenge? on Celebrated Russian Hacker Now In Exile · · Score: 1

    To spice it up, they could put Chelsea Manning in the apartment too.

  10. Re:Snowden revenge? on Celebrated Russian Hacker Now In Exile · · Score: 1

    The average US citizen doesn't do anything online that it would be worth the government surveilling them to detect. Most criminals and malcontents in the US engage in low tech offline crime. The online life of most USians is boring beyond tears.

  11. Re:FBI? on FBI Seizes Los Angeles Schools' iPad Documents · · Score: 1

    The Federal government most definitely has an interest in anti-corruption enforcement. A vested interest. They don't want other operators on what they regard as their turf.

  12. Re:ipads, chromebooks: the real lesson on FBI Seizes Los Angeles Schools' iPad Documents · · Score: 1

    They didn't need to be connected to the internet. They were connected to the real world that students lived in, by means of floppy diskettes from home.

  13. Re:IPad is an insult to technology on FBI Seizes Los Angeles Schools' iPad Documents · · Score: 1

    It also doesn't have the capability of being programmed to run user-created programs (by design Apple prohibits anything but pathetic toy sandboxes.)

    But you're right in a certain regard. An iPad is roughly equivalent to a modern laptop. Except with a modern Laptop all the capabilities to become a general purpose computer can be added.

  14. Re:no, racist asshat on FBI Seizes Los Angeles Schools' iPad Documents · · Score: 1

    Fox News wants to steal the soul of your child. No, I'm serious. They're evil. Yeah. Right.

  15. Re:FBI investigates John Deasy .. on FBI Seizes Los Angeles Schools' iPad Documents · · Score: 1

    That's right. It's still a battle between Apple and 'IBM' (Apple zealots persisted for years in referring to any MS-DOS machine as an 'IBM' machine- long after IBM had introduced the PS/2 and made themselves into the same sort of irrelevant proprietary hardware vendor as Apple)

  16. Re:Think of the (poor) children on FBI Seizes Los Angeles Schools' iPad Documents · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I think they meant the Fashion Industry, not the IT Industry. Their hardware sales far exceeds the revenue from, for instance, Coach handbag sales.

  17. Re:I just don't get it on FBI Seizes Los Angeles Schools' iPad Documents · · Score: 1

    The only consolation is that kids learn to hate Apple hardware early in their education.

  18. Re:IPad is an insult to technology on FBI Seizes Los Angeles Schools' iPad Documents · · Score: 1

    So what you're saying is you turned your iPod Touch into something you can shell into and run software, but the display and touchscreen are now inoperable. That reminds me of back when (probably still the case) NetBSD was supported on several models of PowerBook, but you could only shell into them over a serial console, because the keyboard and display weren't working.

    Closed hardware is kinda shitty. Especially when it's extremely closed by design.

  19. Re:Eliminating the bus driver is Pareto-stupid on The Driverless Future: Buses, Not Taxis · · Score: 1

    Please stop slapping around phrases like 'bottom quintile get 40%' because most people don't know what the fuck you mean but it sounds like a lot of people. Without meaning anything without a lot of further thought.

    No, it didn't make you seem smart to phrase it that way. It made you sound like you've read this book.

  20. Re:Eliminating the bus driver is Pareto-stupid on The Driverless Future: Buses, Not Taxis · · Score: 1

    But what to do with all the bodies of the people you've murdered to result in that 'fewer people' you mentioned.....

  21. Re:WTF ? on Ask Slashdot: Making a 'Wife Friendly' Gaming PC? · · Score: 1

    How would she know if he is or isn't?

    He would no longer secretly be one if she knew.

  22. Re:Projector? Recommendations on Ask Slashdot: Making a 'Wife Friendly' Gaming PC? · · Score: 1

    Pants Up Don't Loot!

  23. Re:Headphones? on Ask Slashdot: Making a 'Wife Friendly' Gaming PC? · · Score: 2

    They don't have to be headphones. Hearing protection devices can be obtained that look like headphones but contain nothing electronic. They will very nicely deaden the sound and his wife will eventually get used to wearing them.

  24. Re:Great, now let's talk filesystems on Windows 10 To Feature Native Support For MKV and FLAC · · Score: 1

    If Microsoft had ex3 and ext3 support, the cross-platform malware issue would explode. Do you REALLY want your Windows OS to have filesystem access to your Linux drives?

  25. Re:THIS is a Blackberry... on BlackBerry Will Buy Your iPhone For $550 · · Score: 1

    The only Android phones I have been able to find with a hardware keyboard are cheap gimped models. Virgin Mobile sells one in their lineup for $40. It's a terrible smartphone. Not because of the keyboard.