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  1. Only 50% ? on Three Low-Tech Hacks for Phones and Tablets · · Score: 1

    Turn screen brightness to 40 to 50 percent. Turn on automagic brightness. Enjoy.

  2. Re:battery tip is great on Three Low-Tech Hacks for Phones and Tablets · · Score: 1

    Go to electronics or auto store. Get a Cigarette lighter to USB thingie. Get a battery holder big enough for a collection of nicads to deliver 12 volts. Rip apart and combine the two devices. If you are going on camping trip get solar-cell charger for nicads.

    Twenty, maybe twenty-five bucks. Never have problem again. Uh-oh. Unless you spend two weeks spelunking maybe.

    There is no perfectsolutions. After all the sun could stop shining

  3. Re:battery tip is great on Three Low-Tech Hacks for Phones and Tablets · · Score: 1

    Yes, it does depend on the phone. I see all these people decrying Apple because you can't remove the battery and replace it. Lol. Never needed to. Six days normal use, 2 days intense use. No battery fading within two years. So, people are not buying iPhones just so they can have this "battery problem? Caveat: I have only used iPhone 3S and 4S. But neither of these have had battery issues. Ever.

    If you want to maximise battery life the biggest offender is screen brightness, Mine is par.ked at 50% and then set to automatic adjustment. Same for volumes. Then I only have to worry about dodgy service that cuts in and out as the power needed to connect seems far more than that required to maintain a connection.

    I am not saying that there cannot be times when battery life is a problem but for most occasions it is the user's understanding of and interaction with the phone that is the issue.

  4. Horsefeathers. on Islamist Hackers Shut Down Egyptology Research Journal · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Christianity, Judaism Islam, they are all pretty much the same. The Abrhamaic God was a vengeful God. When you start with that basis you are going to have problems. Supposedly Christ's god was a loving God but his following was and is tainted by his predecessors.

    Why would any God worth his salt want to be "worshipped"? Any God I worship is going to have to be worthy of worship. I have yet to find one of those in any religion in the world.

    All religions are a threat. People may not like what I have to say but I do feel threatened when I hear national Catholic archbishops declare the "atheists are making war upon the church" in response to complaints about the handling of priestly pedophiles.

  5. Already there on Turkey's Science Research Council Stops Publication of Evolution Books · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I would consider Bhuddism fairly widespread. Paraphrasing the Dali Lama, where science disproves a bhuddist belief then it is Bhuddism that must change not science.

  6. Re:Very Good. on Congressman Introduces Bill To Ban Minting of Trillion-Dollar Coin · · Score: 1

    The song contains the line, IIRC, nineteen for you and one for me. The actual numbers don't seem that important to me. Just that taxation should asymptotically approach income.

  7. Re:No persuasion required on Ask Slashdot: Should Employers Ban Smartphones? · · Score: 1
    Ummm... What is the HIPAA fine per page? All I am saying that if people think that it is secure they are wrong. Very little is secured or can be secured. That is just a fact of life. Any body who talks a bout a secure server of a secured network is someone who you might want to reconsider hiring.

    Security is an active process that needs constant monitoring. Then who watches those who do the monitoring?

  8. Re:No persuasion required on Ask Slashdot: Should Employers Ban Smartphones? · · Score: 1

    What am I on about? Only that it is not secure and cannot possibly be. But then not much is secure of can be secured anyway.

  9. Re:Doesn't work on Indiana Nurses Fired After Refusing Flu Shots On Religious Grounds · · Score: 1
    Good Pun

    But No, they didn't. They did use peer pressure though.

  10. Very Good. on Congressman Introduces Bill To Ban Minting of Trillion-Dollar Coin · · Score: 1

    I point you to an old Beatles song, "Taxman". The Beatles at the time were being taxed at 95% but never the less is is reputed that they made a stack of five pond noted a mile high in that same year. None of them are pleading poverty.

  11. Doesn't work on Indiana Nurses Fired After Refusing Flu Shots On Religious Grounds · · Score: 1

    I once claimed to be a "Samsonite" christian to give my school grief about its "dress" code.

  12. Re:No persuasion required on Ask Slashdot: Should Employers Ban Smartphones? · · Score: 1

    Mature solution? Archaic and failed. You think this would save you from HIPA (for example)? Your imaginary regulators and auditors would be liable and carrying maximum exposure.

  13. Re:No persuasion required on Ask Slashdot: Should Employers Ban Smartphones? · · Score: 1

    BYOD is the corporate future. The safe, modern solution is to send "pixels, not files" to those devices, so there's no data at risk.

    'Scuse my why I laugh my arse off. You ever hear of a capture? You ever hear of reading software? You ever used scanner software with a convert to text option?

    Safe - No. Pixels don't even make it harder work.

    Modern? - No. Archaic in its simplistic assumptions.

  14. Re:No persuasion required on Ask Slashdot: Should Employers Ban Smartphones? · · Score: 1

    About half of humanity doesn't have one. Where do you think you came from?

  15. Re:One size does not fit all... on Ask Slashdot: Using a Tablet As a Sole Computing Device? · · Score: 1

    Dunno. My iPad is a lot faster doing stuff than the G4 macs I have left hanging around the place.

  16. Umm, no? on Ask Slashdot: Using a Tablet As a Sole Computing Device? · · Score: 1

    I thought they were 18 inch (Although I could be wrong). I bought three of them for my kids. Then they went 22 inch intel and now the big bastards. Stopped at an i5 though. They didn't need an i7.

  17. Re:One size does not fit all... on Ask Slashdot: Using a Tablet As a Sole Computing Device? · · Score: 1

    After forty years as a Unix sysadmin, course writer and lecturer, I would like to ask you exactly what is "not possible" or "not practical" on a tablet assuming you are prepared to by a USB keyboard.

  18. Re:Chromebook on Ask Slashdot: Using a Tablet As a Sole Computing Device? · · Score: 1
    Could you please further explain and document this? I have had no rendition problems with any browser I have installed. What has remained is Safari, Firefox and a covert browser.

    I am enough of a geek to not even like Linux (any variety) and prefer NetBSD and FreeBSD instead. But the only thing I use my desktop for nowadays is playing WoW. My iPad does everything I need including coding directly on it.

    I have an issue with an OS only device; yes, it means you could put the whole OS on ROM but I want ownership of my own data so the only thing I use the cloud for is data exchange.

    So I would like to know why you are having iPad problems and I am not. I would like to know why you think a chromebook has value. I have been retired for 15 years and I may have missed something.

  19. I call bullshit... on UK Government Mandates the Teaching of Evolution As Scientific Fact · · Score: 1

    You are granting the parents rights but making the child property. Children have rights too and one of those is/should be not to be lied to when they are too young to know the difference. I don't have trouble with legends and sweet baby jesus and the nativity, but they need to know these are fairy tales when they are old enough not have unrealties and false expectations of the world foisted on them.

  20. Re:good on UK Government Mandates the Teaching of Evolution As Scientific Fact · · Score: 1

    So marrying a partner who had diabetes and cancer prone genes wouldn't worry you? Oh, some eugenics is legally required in almost every place in the world. Even the United States. You cannot legally marry your sister can you?

  21. Strong;y disagree. on UK Government Mandates the Teaching of Evolution As Scientific Fact · · Score: 1

    It is indeed a matter of human rights. But should the rights of the parent exceed that of the child? I would say the opposite. From items I have read it seems that in many states children are regarded as property. It is indeed the parents job to raise and educate their children - but not to pass on their prejudices to another generation.

  22. Re:solution on Ask Slashdot: Simple Way To Backup 24TB of Data Onto USB HDDs ? · · Score: 1

    cp originally did one thing with a few options. Scrubbing it up to do the functions that cpio was written for could be regarded as system bloat.

  23. Under-appreciated? on Ask Slashdot: Most Underappreciated Sci-Fi Writer? · · Score: 1

    That would have to be H. Beam Piper. The SF community has been claiming that for a long, long time. But I am sure that Clifford Simak would get some votes too.

  24. Re:Astrolabe, Inc. v. Olson et al on Civil Suit Filed, Involving the Time Zone Database · · Score: 1

    You are both unnecessarily aggressive and downright foolish. I simply don't care. Yet you threaten me and my country with annihilation in your foolish paranoia. As for wiping out my 'piss-ant' country, well you already overturned our democratically elected government and replaced it with puppets in 1975. Not much more you can do. At least it wasn't violent. But so what. America will eventually collapse from its own internal rot as have all other "water" empires.

  25. Re:Astrolabe, Inc. v. Olson et al on Civil Suit Filed, Involving the Time Zone Database · · Score: 1

    Yes. In Australia and the UK and various other places lawyers can and are sanctioned for bringing frivolous actions.