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Comment Re:"4 kinds of screws" (Score 1) 141

T25 was too loose and T27 wouldn't fit in one of the bolts. He also replaced one of the heads on it, and the special Torx driver from Snapon was more expensive than he paid for the used head!

Maybe those renegade torx were actually triple-square (m) heads? If you ever work on an audi, you'll be blown away at the odd assortment of sockets and devices you need to do actual work on them.

Comment Re:Next Comcast givaway ... (Score 1) 264

The last time I called them, I waited long enough in queue that I had managed to fix the issue myself *just* as my call got picked up (had moved, was 'moving' service) -- Told the tech that, heard rapid keyboard-clicking, and service went back out.

'We' then spent over an hour on the phone getting it working again...
He then politely asked if there was *anything else* he could do for me today...

"No sir, you've done enough".

Comment Re:Not the solution for roaming issues (Score 1) 108

"The whole situation is complicated, unfortunate for the customers affected, and still smells of simple greed from Verizon but at the end of the day, it's only cell phone service. People will figure it out and life will go on."

Applause. So happy to hear the priorities straight.

Comment Re: "the kernel is called Magenta." (Score 1) 129

And society as well! Aptly named license! We will share all our knowledge but we'll also throw a bunch of little tiny seeds in there that will grow one day to believe that the economic system we live in now is the best, America is the best place on earth, and that we have always been at war with the bad guys! (We've almost always been at war.)

It's the subtle little seedlings that do the heaving lifting. You just gotta give it time!

Comment Re: uhuh sure (Score 1) 179

This is the same 'US intel' which missed the collapse of the USSR, 9/11, the Boston Bombers, and were totally sure Saddam Hussein had WMDs, right, not another 'US intel' that's actually competent?

As for original comment, intercepting calls is vastly easier when they go to a central server and they have direct access to the decrypted data than when they go peer to peer with encryption.

Perhaps they used existing plans and (lack of) action to further an agenda that we're seeing swing into blatent in-your-face action right now? Ever think of that?

Piracy

Submission + - Russian eBookseller LitRes Gets Competing eBook Apps Booted from Google Play (the-digital-reader.com)

Nate the greatest writes: The developer of the popular Android app Moon+ Reader was surprised to discover this weekend that he is a filthy stinking pirate. Google informed him via an automated email that Moon+ Reader had been removed from Google Play because the app had switched to using pirate sites as the main sources of ebooks. Or at least, that's what LitRes claims, but when they complained to Google LitRes didn't tell the whole truth. What was really happening is that users of the app are enabling piracy, not the app itself. Thanks to the way Moon+ Reader is designed to let users share links to ebook sources some of the sources are indeed pirate sites (less than your average Google Search). In reality the app was no more a source of pirated content than your average web browser. What do you say when an ebook distributor's anti-piracy plan involves going after app developers rather than pirate sites? Something printable, IMO.

Comment Re:I actually tried, but I can't RTFA (Score 1) 165

Nexus 7 at my side does the same thing.
Back to that article about designing for mobile vs. just designing in general.

Some shitty formatted information on a smaller screen is better than a nice ornate pile of ... 'nothing' because you happen to be using a mobile device at the time you go to an address...

Keep this in mind!

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