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Re:The PocketLab – Wireless sensor for STEM education
on Friday August 14, 2015 @08:35PM (#10063811)
You may deem me off-topic, but I hate any page that has auto-play set, that too with volume! I visited your page in Firefox with NoScript and it was playing audio right away even without the video loading. Sorry, that's bad design!
Re:Boffins reveal password-killer 0days for iOS and OS X
on Wednesday June 17, 2015 @09:10PM (#9736209)
There is a difference between "has zero security flaws" and "not fixing a security flaw for 6 months after being made aware"
Re:Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox
on Friday February 13, 2015 @01:09PM (#9045912)
You do realize that Chrome is different from Chromium, the open source browser, right?
Re:Patent reform advocates are launching a ‘super-coalition’ to whack ...
on Thursday January 15, 2015 @08:47PM (#8896801)
It's not just patent trolls (shell firms with no products of their own) that are the plague on this world. There are also the extortionists (IBM, I'm looking at you), and the litigants (Apple - threatening to kill VP8 by using MPEG-LA)!
Re:Google Glass sales halted
on Thursday January 15, 2015 @08:28PM (#8896735)
Ya, it's so useless it's one of the best selling gadgets on Amazon!
Not saying you're lying, but to rule something out as "useless" just because it doesn't work for you (and the closure of your acquaintances) just makes you look stupid!
Re:Alan Eustace Jumps from Stratosphere, Breaking Felix Baumgartner’s ...
on Friday October 24, 2014 @04:20PM (#8505748)
May be he went up to get permission from Steve for some other hire!
Just making a joke. This sure is remarkable and I admire this. Wish I could do it one day myself.
Re:Phablet reviews: Before and after the iPhone 6 Plus
on Tuesday September 23, 2014 @05:58PM (#8358593)
It's always been 1984 with Apple. They deride anything that competitors do until they turnaround do it themselves. And then, it's the most awesome thing. And the fans always agree with it. It was true of Intel architecture (from Power PC) then, and it's true of Phablets now.
Re:Sebastian Thrun Has Left His Role as Google VP and Fellow
on Tuesday September 23, 2014 @04:10PM (#8357830)
That's not all. There are other parts being shutdown too - Robotics apparently https://twitter.com/AshleyFen/status/513392391467048960
Re:Corporate America Hasn’t Been Disrupted
on Friday August 08, 2014 @07:52PM (#8155731)
Kind of agree. The author arbitrarily took 1 year as "startup" and any business longer than 1 year as "establishment". It was probably possible to start and sustain a small business in 1 year earlier, perhaps. But now the world is integrated, and the probability of survival by serving people of your neighborhood or city, is much less. IOW, a business has to grow big and hence it takes longer than 1 year to succeed. So by author's definition, Blockbuster being disrupted by Netflix doesn't count any more because it's establishment displacing establishment.
Re:Mitro Releases a New Free and Open Source Password Manager
on Friday August 01, 2014 @07:07PM (#8123316)
I'm in the same boat (KeePassX and Dropbox), but I have been thinking about a peer-to-peer sync option. I don't need it to sync on WAN, just LAN sync is probably good enough for me. If it syncs between my couple of laptops and my phone, that's good enough for me. I have to see if BitTorrent Sync helps me do this.