Black LED - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Typo: Digital Rights Management (Score 1) 371

by Black LED on Tuesday May 12, 2015 @08:23PM (#49677925) Attached to: Firefox 38 Arrives With DRM Required To Watch Netflix

You are incredibly naive if you believe that.

Comment Re:Get cracking (Score 1) 371

by Black LED on Tuesday May 12, 2015 @07:45PM (#49677725) Attached to: Firefox 38 Arrives With DRM Required To Watch Netflix

Don't forget that uninstallable "Pocket" add on that Mozilla has snuck into Firefox to sate their greed. That thing is a real piece of shit.

Submission + - Why We Can't Have Nice Things. (theverge.com)

Submitted by westlake on Monday May 11, 2015 @02:16PM

westlake writes: The Verge and others are reporting that Google has temporarily shut down Map Maker after being overwhelmed by a toxic flood of spam — most notably the adolescent Android-pissing-on-Apple gag recently posted by one of its regular contributors.

Submission + - Google deleting YouTube channels for all Google+ holdouts.

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 11, 2015 @02:16PM

An anonymous reader writes: Recently my YouTube channel of almost nine years has disappeared and according to information gathered from the YouTube Google Group, there is no way to restore the channel unless the user creates a Google+ account. Numerous others have reported on the same issue.

Google has remained silent, however a "Top Contributor" to the Google Groups has alleged that this was a software glitch that only affected certain users, conveniently users who either hadn't ever created a Google+ account and users who had deleted their Google+ accounts.

Submission + - Google Shuts Down Map Maker Following Hacks (techcrunch.com)

Submitted by Errorcod3 on Monday May 11, 2015 @01:27PM

Errorcod3 writes: After a series of spam attacks and other obscene edits, Google has temporarily taken its crowd-sourced map editing tool Map Maker offline. The online tool has, for years, allowed those in countries without detailed maps to be able to add various details and points of interest to Google Maps, like new roads or parks, for example. But in more recent months, the tool has been instead used by some to upload inappropriate content to Google Maps – like the recent prank which added an image of the Android mascot urinating on the Apple logo, for instance.

Comment Re:Think about this (Score -1, Offtopic) 145

by Black LED on Wednesday October 29, 2014 @09:20AM (#48259851) Attached to: Verizon Launches Tech News Site That Bans Stories On US Spying

Anyone who wasn't born via c-section has fucked their own mother.

Yup.

Comment Re:Just buy a CRT (Score 2) 167

by Black LED on Wednesday August 27, 2014 @10:43PM (#47771595) Attached to: Old Doesn't Have To Mean Ugly: Squeezing Better Graphics From Classic Consoles

I like what can be done with an hqx filter in an emulator (in my case, Nestopia).

Comment Re: Why not MP4? (Score 1) 126

by Black LED on Wednesday August 27, 2014 @09:10PM (#47771107) Attached to: GOG Introduces DRM-Free Movie Store

Or feature set.

Comment Re:Feel for you... (Score 1) 131

by Black LED on Friday August 22, 2014 @10:14PM (#47734499) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Where Can I Find Good Replacement Batteries?

Onite makes good batteries for various phones. I have a stock LG battery and two Onites for my phone and they work great, as good or slightly better than the official one.

Comment Re:Not sure I believe him... (Score 1) 135

by Black LED on Friday August 15, 2014 @07:59PM (#47682353) Attached to: The Man Responsible For Pop-Up Ads On Building a Better Web

LOL!

Comment Re:Not sure I believe him... (Score 1) 135

by Black LED on Friday August 15, 2014 @03:51PM (#47680727) Attached to: The Man Responsible For Pop-Up Ads On Building a Better Web

Are you saying Hitler used pop-up ads then?

Comment Re:Not sure I believe him... (Score 1) 135

by Black LED on Friday August 15, 2014 @01:36PM (#47679253) Attached to: The Man Responsible For Pop-Up Ads On Building a Better Web

So do the Red Cross, NASA and cancer research centres.

Comment Re:Some people... (Score 1) 457

by Black LED on Friday August 15, 2014 @01:09PM (#47679007) Attached to: Web Trolls Winning As Incivility Increases

It's a pointless, unproductive waste of time, and the fact that people get jollies out of deliberately aggravating other people bespeaks of a certain level of sociopathy.

Feeling pleasure from the misfortune of others is common in humour. Being the dominant, accepted form of humour in most societies, it's the opposite of sociopathy.

Comment Re:From the greatest... (Score 1) 701

by Black LED on Sunday July 20, 2014 @01:12PM (#47495029) Attached to: Favorite "Go!" Phrase?

"Stroll on!" --Sergeant Major Zero

Comment Re:Youtube Comments (Score 1) 238

by Black LED on Tuesday July 15, 2014 @10:59PM (#47463589) Attached to: Pseudonyms Now Allowed On Google+

Ever since the Google+ marriage to YouTube if I click on a comment to see what it was in response to, it opens up a new tab and still doesn't show me the parent post. I'm using the latest version of Chromium and have YouTube whitelisted in my JavaScript blocker, so I don't know what the problem is.

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