Slashdot Mirror


User: PRMan

PRMan's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
4,531
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 4,531

  1. Re:Kickbacks? on Why Won't T-Mobile Let Us Binge On All Of It? · · Score: 1

    One guy tested T-Mobile by making his home music server work with their interface. He signed up for the Music plan just for himself and his family and they approved him. No money involved. The only thing was writing to the interface.

  2. Re:Kick backs? on Why Won't T-Mobile Let Us Binge On All Of It? · · Score: 2

    He's wrong. They are signalling the partner. This is the requirement to sign on to Binge On.

  3. Re:What is the AI advancement? on iPhone Hacker Geohot Builds Self-Driving Car AI (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Everyone keeps forgetting that it's not better because people in general (and programmers in particular) tend to be control freaks.

  4. Re:Start with trucks and RVs, not cars on iPhone Hacker Geohot Builds Self-Driving Car AI (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    It doesn't matter. HOS rules prohibit him driving longer even if he was asleep the whole time. The law will have to change first.

  5. Re:Something I don't understand on CISA Surveillance Bill Hidden Inside Last Night's Budget Bill (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Plus. Bills are walked as paper to the floor and dropped in the box. It is often immediately before this point that changes are made en masse.

  6. Re:Government acting in secret? No Way.......... on CISA Surveillance Bill Hidden Inside Last Night's Budget Bill (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    And people say the right-wing nuts are looney...

  7. Re:Learn from Putin on Go To Jail For Visiting a Web Site? Top Law Prof Talks Up the Idea (slate.com) · · Score: 1

    No, the Qu'ran made me believe that.

  8. Re:land of the the free ? on Go To Jail For Visiting a Web Site? Top Law Prof Talks Up the Idea (slate.com) · · Score: 2

    In the 20th century, the two highest murder rates were European (Germany and Russia).

  9. Re:land of the the free ? on Go To Jail For Visiting a Web Site? Top Law Prof Talks Up the Idea (slate.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    No Christian wants to turn America into a theocracy. That's the tiredest strawman that ever walked. But they do want to live their lives without being told what they are supposed to believe...

  10. Re:Send the prof a shortened link on Go To Jail For Visiting a Web Site? Top Law Prof Talks Up the Idea (slate.com) · · Score: 0, Troll

    Well, what do you expect from a bunch of ultra-liberals at U-Chicago? A reasonable reading of the Constitution? Not likely.

  11. Actually, many Conservatives believe that public schools ARE part of Satan's plan because of indoctrination of non-biblical beliefs.

  12. Bad summary, no hack involved on MacKeeper Discloses 13 Million Mac Users' Details With Poor Hash Protection (mackeeper.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    FTA:

    ‘The data was/is publicly available. No exploits or vulnerabilities involved. They published it to the open web with no attempt at protection,’ Vickery wrote in a Reddit post. He noted that Kromtech was alerted and was able to quickly patch the vulnerability.

    There was no need for a hack because it was published to the open web!

  13. Re:Does it still have Pocket? on Firefox 43 Arrives With 64-bit Version For Windows, Android Tab Audio Indicators (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    The first thing I do is Customize that crap right off the toolbar... Doesn't make it go away, though.

  14. No. But then again I ignore people that want to save IE6...

  15. There are security problems and plugins are constantly fighting with each other over the same resource.

  16. Re:Another year, another video codec... on Netflix To Re-Encode Entire 1 Petabyte Video Catalogue In 2016 To Save Bandwidth (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    But Netflix can't do this since most of the hardware consuming their movies has an x264 chip built in.

  17. Re:Another year, another video codec... on Netflix To Re-Encode Entire 1 Petabyte Video Catalogue In 2016 To Save Bandwidth (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    Pretty much...

  18. Re:Another year, another video codec... on Netflix To Re-Encode Entire 1 Petabyte Video Catalogue In 2016 To Save Bandwidth (variety.com) · · Score: 1

    They have. Mathematically, My Little Pony doesn't need 5.8 Mbps for 1080p. It can be done at about 1.5 Mbps because of the simple color palette.

  19. This isn't true and the article goes into great depth about how much easier it is than Avengers.

  20. Re:Not a safety hazard? My ass! on Boeing 787 "Blacklisted" From Some Air Traffic Control Services (flightglobal.com) · · Score: -1

    The abbreviation for nautical miles is knot or kt, not nm.

  21. Re:Not a safety hazard? My ass! on Boeing 787 "Blacklisted" From Some Air Traffic Control Services (flightglobal.com) · · Score: 0

    38 nanometers = 70 kilometers?!?

    I thought you Euros said this metric thing was easy!

  22. Re:Sony's problem is obvious: on Developer Claims 'PS4 Officially Jailbroken' (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Free to do whatever you want with it?

  23. Re:cracked in about two years. on Developer Claims 'PS4 Officially Jailbroken' (networkworld.com) · · Score: 2

    It was only about 2-3 months later...

  24. Re:So not really broken on Developer Claims 'PS4 Officially Jailbroken' (networkworld.com) · · Score: 1

    Especially Microsoft since XBox One Live is getting killed on being too expensive.

  25. Re:Model Airplanes/Rockets on FAA: Small Drones Must Be Registered By February (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    It allows an investigation to find the person responsible.