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  1. Re:Can't we just stop printing? on Regionally Encoded Toner Cartridges 'to Serve Customers Better' · · Score: 1

    I have always wondered how they managed that.

    I remember back when the iphone first came out att had to ship people their bills in boxes because they were so big.

  2. Re:Defendants have a clear defense... on Movie Studio Sues Individual Popcorn Time Users For Infringement · · Score: 2

    Reminds me of the time I discovered that lemonade tycoon would let you sell empty cups.

    They didn't sell very well but it was profitable enough that you could buy anything in the game in under the 1 hour trial.

  3. Re:Kwikset on Multiple Vulnerabilities Exposed In Pocket · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the information we use the kwikset classics. while that is worrying I don't think anything will be done about it until crooks go back to using doors.

    One of the business in town even had the doors stolen from the front of their building nothing else just the doors. http://www.sequoyahcountytimes...

    You can still see the boot print on one of our doors from when someone tried to kick it in a few years ago might have even worked to if it hadn't been sealed off after a car ran into it a few years prior.

  4. Re:Loved it when it was distributed on Wuala Encrypted Cloud-Storage Service Shuts Down · · Score: 1

    Same

    The storage sharing and the social features (groups) were the two killer features it had.

    I have yet to find any other working service that's doing distributed storage in such a way. The only one I know of similar in the works is storj.io

    I have yet to find anything to replace the groups functionality of wuala. I think DCC would be the closest thing I am aware of.

    I really hope someone makes something that includes both of the features.

    Wuala sure was a lot of fun though when they allowed storage sharing. after they stopped the community just kinda died more or less overnight.

    I wish I knew where everyone went.

  5. Already done in humans for COPD. on Mice Brainpower Boosted With Alteration of a Single Gene · · Score: 3, Interesting

    http://lungdiseasenews.com/201...

    "Roflumilast works by inhibiting the activity of an enzyme called phosphodiesterase 4B (PDE4B)"

    Maybe someone who's using it can tell us the side effects in humans.

    Its also known by its commercial name Daliresp.

  6. Re:Why is anyone still running Firefox? on Multiple Vulnerabilities Exposed In Pocket · · Score: 1

    Is there something wrong with kwikset locks I should know about?

    The last time I was broken into they cut through a double roof (it used to be a flat top) broke out a window and climbed through the bars to get out.

    He also broke the glass out of a unlocked display case to take one item.

    A few thousand dollars in damage for a $300 gun. Afaik the guy is still in jail. Although I don't think on that charge.

  7. Can it self restart? on Google Announces a Router: OnHub · · Score: 2

    The only thing I want to know about it is
    can it self restart when it locks up?
    Or is that something that no router co is ever going to fix?

  8. 8GB Minimum on Revisiting How Much RAM Is Enough Today For Desktop Computing · · Score: 1

    If I was buying a desktop computer for someone to run msft word on I would still get one that had a minimum on 8GB of ram.

    laptops 4GB absolute minimum do not buy less or windows updates will give you problems!

    As for myself any system I use on a daily basis always has the ram maxed out.

    Whatever happens to be the most that will fit in the machine.

  9. Re:Custom firmware on Ask Slashdot: Buying a Car That's Safe From Hackers? · · Score: 2

    But the manufacturers would prefer that you can't do anything like that. More drm.

    You don't own it you just have a lifetime lease.

    That they charge to repair.

  10. Re:Yeah, maybe we'll get hoverboards too on The Promise of 5G · · Score: 1

    The grandfathered plans are still around I can vouch I have one I greatly depend on.

    I used 150gb last month.

  11. Re: Bandwidth? on New Rules From the FCC Open Up New Access To Wi-Fi · · Score: 1

    Cookson hills electric company has run fiber between their electric substations but when I asked if they were going to run ftth they said their board had made the the decision to keep their business streamlined by only selling electricity.

    But yes they have the right of way and they could do it cheaper than anyone else but for whatever reason they don't want to do it.

    The city of sallisaw also looked into providing ftth service running on cookson hills poles but decided it was too expensive to run service with a pole rental agreement.

  12. Re:A "phone" is already obsolete. on Can Cuba Skip Cell Phone Connectivity? · · Score: 1

    Whats the population there for comparison?

    Sallisaw, ok has fiber ranging to 50/50mb for $157/mo.
    Thats with a population of about 8,600.

    Nothing but a wisp offering 10mb max for those outside city limits $100/mo.

    Unless you want to consider dialup/sat or lte in which case we are covered by verizon, att and sprint.

    But dialup is slow and sat's high latency makes secured websites slow and lte's high cost per GB highly limits what most people can or will do with it. So I don't like to consider them vaild options for broadband. The wisp doesn't even count if you need your connection to be stable.

  13. Sure they can. on Can Cuba Skip Cell Phone Connectivity? · · Score: 1

    That's why T-Mobile only has 2g service here they are waiting for the 5g equipment to become available.

  14. Re: Tired... on How to Quash Firefox's Silent Requests · · Score: 1

    Thats nothing have you seen what google does to the url in search results? now for the search "this is a test" I get

    "www.dramaticpublishing.com â Genre â Comedy"

    instead of

    "www.dramaticpublishing.com/p1532/This...Test/product_info.html"

    really google how does this help me?

    http://searchenginewatch.com/s...

  15. Re:Hulu does not target children with advertisemen on HBO, Netflix, and Amazon Targeting Kids · · Score: 1

    Wait just a second there are you saying the person paying the bill gets the finger while the kid gets ad free cartoons? WTF Hulu?

  16. Re:Darn! on Octopus Genome Sequenced · · Score: 1

    I personally like octopi because it sounds like cacti.

  17. Re:Free alternatives? on Former Employees Accuse Kaspersky Lab of Faking Malware · · Score: 1

    Thanks ill give it a try next time I run across an infected system.

  18. Profits. on Cheap, 3D-Printed Stethoscope Challenges Top-of-the-Line Model · · Score: 2

    Will the patients see any of this reduced cost?
    Or will it go straight to higher profits?

  19. Re:Pricing? on Robotic Lawn Mower Gets Regulatory Approval · · Score: 1

    Well I was hoping it was priced a bit less than a decent zero turn.

    I was also hoping the lawn stakes they are talking about would be fairly inexpensive like cheap enough that I can just buy one mower and then just switch it between lawns every few days.

    I suppose I could just move the stakes each time.

    Then again it might be to much to expect it to be able to do a full lawn every 3 days.

  20. Pricing? on Robotic Lawn Mower Gets Regulatory Approval · · Score: 1

    Has anyone been able to find any pricing on this?

    Or specs like battery life?

  21. Re:It's arms race on Will Ad Blockers Kill the Digital Media Industry? · · Score: 1

    I quit using yahoo search in 2004. I liked it better than google's search but when you are on dialup the extra crap is quite noticeable in the load times. After I got higher speeds I used google out of habit. Now its a rather moot point yahoo search is crap because there is no yahoo search anymore its just bing with a diffrent ui. And msn/live/bing is still crap.

  22. Re:How does that song go? on Will Ad Blockers Kill the Digital Media Industry? · · Score: 1

    Thats the one!

  23. Re:It's arms race on Will Ad Blockers Kill the Digital Media Industry? · · Score: 2

    Yeah have you seen yahoo news lately? its exactly like that.

    However more people comment on yahoo news than anywhere else i've found.

  24. How does that song go? on Will Ad Blockers Kill the Digital Media Industry? · · Score: 1

    You'll have to get your blood from somebody else now.

  25. Re:And so why not? on Breathalyzer Bike Lock Stops Drunken Cyclists In Their Tracks · · Score: 1

    I know you can be arrested on any type of motorized vehicle even a bar stool http://www.nbcnews.com/id/2997... However I believe drunk bicycling only qualifies as public drunk http://www.forwardedfunnies.co... Stupid but it won't get you in near as much trouble