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  1. Re:Response time and voice controls on Driver Study: People Want Fewer Embedded Apps, Just Essentials That Work Easily · · Score: 1

    No. They can't. They just require me to jump through hoops to click the thing I already knew I wanted 10 seconds ago.

    Having had both, I can assure you I am 10x more distracted now with the stupid knob.

  2. Re:Need to be able to use without looking at it on Driver Study: People Want Fewer Embedded Apps, Just Essentials That Work Easily · · Score: 1

    Yeah and if I HAVE to look at it, a touch screen (like the one in my old car) takes a single finger point, where that blasted knob clicker thing (in my new car) takes my attention away from the road for a long time trying to figure out how to click the thing I already looked at and know I want.

    Who's the idiot that thought that would be easier?

  3. Re: I never thought on Xanadu Software Released After 54 Years In the Making · · Score: 2

    Or ReactOS. Do they have their Windows 2000 clone out yet? No? Almost there?

  4. Re:Technological solution on High Frequency Trading and Finance's Race To Irrelevance · · Score: 1

    Just force people to hold a stock for at least 1 minute. Problem solved.

  5. Re:t-mobile on AT&T Charges $750 For One Minute of International Data Roaming · · Score: 2

    Don't worry. Sprint doesn't act like a bunch of jerks like AT&T and Verizon.

  6. Re:There may be some problems on AT&T To Use Phone Geolocation To Prevent Credit Card Fraud · · Score: 0

    All the more reason why bitcoin will succeed. Because it's international and anonymous by design.

  7. Re:No point encrypting if you're the only one... on A Year After Snowden's Disclosures, EFF, FSF Want You To Fight Surveillance · · Score: 4, Informative

    Gmail is working on it. And they're trying to get other e-mail providers onboard.

  8. Re:Horrible efficiency on Microsoft Confirms Disconnecting Kinect Gives Devs 10% More GPU Horsepower · · Score: 1

    Processing speech and images?

  9. Re:This has already happend to me on AT&T To Use Phone Geolocation To Prevent Credit Card Fraud · · Score: 1

    Why don't you just get a different credit card and drop the people who are treating you badly?

  10. Re:Or call your credit card company ... on AT&T To Use Phone Geolocation To Prevent Credit Card Fraud · · Score: 1

    But that could simply mean that, for instance, you bought a DLL from a developer in Moscow and he used his credit card system to process it. I got a charge like that once and the company was absolutely SHOCKED when I told them it was legit. They kept trying to get me to say it wasn't.

  11. Re:Or call your credit card company ... on AT&T To Use Phone Geolocation To Prevent Credit Card Fraud · · Score: 3, Informative

    ALWAYS have 3 credit cards from 3 different banks. (Preferably VISA, MC and either Discover or AMEX). Diversification is the only way to win.

  12. Re:Or call your credit card company ... on AT&T To Use Phone Geolocation To Prevent Credit Card Fraud · · Score: 1

    I had my main VISA card block me on Black Friday because "I was buying too much at once and it didn't fit my pattern." And I didn't answer my home phone number when they tried to call.

    And UNLIKE most people, I cancelled my card as soon as I got home and switched to another one. I put them on a 10-year ban. They went bankrupt and got bought by somebody else.

    I had another one block me from the Home Depot by my house where I spend at least $100 every 2 weeks or so (home ownership, ugh). They said, "We've had a lot of fraud at Home Depots." That might mean something if it were in Peoria or somewhere, but it's 2 blocks from my house and I got there every 2 weeks. How lame are your programmers? I cancelled them too.

    If a bank blocks you from your money, find another one.

    A lot of people are starting to put their money in bitcoin so they can actually have some control over it for once.

  13. Re:International roaming might be convenient ... on AT&T To Use Phone Geolocation To Prevent Credit Card Fraud · · Score: 1

    Vonage Extensions was more convenient. Yeah, I had to find WiFi, but I could talk as long as I wanted for free. Back home or in the country I was in.

  14. Re:Stupid on AT&T To Use Phone Geolocation To Prevent Credit Card Fraud · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Yet another reason to never do business with AT&T.

  15. Re:XBox Controller...what? on Microsoft Confirms Disconnecting Kinect Gives Devs 10% More GPU Horsepower · · Score: 1

    Unfortunately, it's getting to be nearly impossible to play any PC game with an actual PC gamepad anymore. My Logitechs are gathering dust except for the occasional MAME game (and even then only Player 3 since I have homemade arcade joysticks).

  16. Re:Poor experience for those that do have kinect on Microsoft Confirms Disconnecting Kinect Gives Devs 10% More GPU Horsepower · · Score: 1

    So, just for fun, you can yell "Xbox Off OK OK" in somebody's house when they're just about to finish something REALLY difficult? Good to know.

  17. Re:I guess I'll bite the bullet on Cinnamon on Linux Mint 17 'Qiana' Released · · Score: 1

    Honestly, I like this idea. Sounds a lot cleaner.

  18. Re:I guess I'll bite the bullet on Cinnamon on Linux Mint 17 'Qiana' Released · · Score: 1

    I've had 3 Ubuntu systems that upgraded themselves to a black screen. Twice it took hours to recover. The third time I quit using Linux.

  19. Re:Wow... this is actually pretty big on Pixar To Give Away 3D RenderMan Software · · Score: 5, Funny

    I am most assuredly NOT linkable as a shared library! ;)

  20. Re:A little story... on Local Police Increasingly Rely On Secret Surveillance · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but this is most likely a car with a radio parked down the street in a bust. You just got caught up in it.

  21. Re:Gs and stores. on Ask Slashdot: Do 4G World Phones Exist? · · Score: 1

    A "4th generation" (4G) network is a 4th generation network. Some nobodies making a list of minimum specs for one can safely be ignored because they don't matter. 4G LTE is really a 5th generation network. It should be 5G.

  22. Re:Not a phone, but... on Ask Slashdot: Do 4G World Phones Exist? · · Score: 1

    Verizon and Sprint have no SIMs.

  23. Re:I routinely get new 550MB/s 120GB SSDs for $60 on Crucial Launches MX100 SSD At Well Under 50 Cents Per GiB · · Score: 1

    I have a Kingston and other than the time that the room got up over 110 degrees F (and it lost all its data) it's been fine. Great, actually.

  24. Re:We've named the guy, now getting him? on Justice Dept. Names ZeuS Trojan Author, Seizes Control of P2P "Gameover" Botnet · · Score: 2

    Yeah, cause he helped the American people by... oh, wait, he's just a straight-up villain...

  25. Re:MUTANTS AMONG US! on Small Genetic Change Responsible For Blond Hair · · Score: 1

    What about their ability to star in movies and get everyone to help them everywhere my pretending to be dumb and helpless? (Source: my wife is blonde.)