Comment Re:Botanists did a thing (Score 2) 170
I will doubt your repentance until you also stop eating Girl Scouts without baking them into Girl Scout cookies first.
Comment Re:If I install open source ECU software.... (Score 1) 437
Since the cars will also be connected to the internet and each other, the **AAs that'll lead that charge will file a trumped-up charge that you tried to spread malware and cause a highway pileup. Your car will be towed and you'll be in solitary for Conspiracy To Commit Mass Vehicular Manslaughter, Threatening National Security, Copying Floppies, and Disorderly Conduct.
Comment Re:All I Have To Say Is (Score 1) 437
Also, it would have been a harsh and undue insult to retarded idiots.
You Might Rent Features & Options On Cars In the Future 437
cartechboy writes "These days, you go to a car dealership and you buy a car. If you want seat heaters, you might need to option for the cold weather package from the factory. Want the high-end stereo? You'll be likely be opting for some technology package which bundles in navigation. While some options are a la carte, most are bundled, and even when they are a la carte, they aren't cheap. What if in the future you could buy a car and unlock options later? Say the car came from the factory with heated seats, but you didn't pay for them. But later on, say in the middle of the freezing winter, you suddenly want them. What if you could simply pay a monthly fee during the winter months to have those heated seats work? Whether this model would benefit the consumer, the automakers, or both is yet to be seen. But automakers such as MINI are already talking about this type of a future. Is this the right road to be headed down, or are consumers going to just get screwed in the long run?"
Candy Crush Maker King.com Has Trademarked 'Candy' For Games 169
An anonymous reader writes ""King.com, owners of Candy Crush, have received a U.S. trademark on the use of the word 'candy' in games and clothing. Forbes thinks it is overly broad. 'One would think Hasbro, the maker of that venerable children's board game (which does have video game versions) Candy Land, would already have this trademark sewed up.'" According to an update on the story, the company also has a EU trademark on the same term, but (however much comfort this is) is enforcing its claims only selectively, as against a game called All Candy Casino Slots – Jewel Craze Connect: Big Blast Mania Land.
Comment Simple. Allow no competition. (Score 1) 324
It's simple: assure an ISP that any "competing" ISP that follows them will not offer prices, services, or data restrictions substantially better than theirs; et voila, cable and/or fiber.
Cartels and de facto monopolies are what seems to get them building these days.
Comment Re:Hipsters are killing (have killed?) SV. (Score 1) 205
I'm less worried about "hipsters" so much as mix-and-match executives. (Did that CEO do well in MegaBankConglom? Great, let's hire him for AuctionNet or PCMaker! Never mind that he has no tech experience, his ethics are both questionable and unfit for an internet company, and he was probably really brought in by MegaBank to turn them into a reality-TV producer and soften them for a future M&A all Elop-like...)
Comment Re:False equivalence much? (Score 5, Insightful) 518
Comment Re:So guys... (Score 2) 90
I don't mind my desktop or laptop hooked up via IPv6.
I do mind my fridge or power grid hooked up and controllable via IPvVERSION_NUMBER. I really don't need another reason to find my fridge doors suddenly full of ads, or my freezer's ice cube trays suddenly melted, or my bedroom suddenly ill-HVAC'd, or my Northeast US suddenly dark...yet again...
Comment Red Flag Linux (Score 2) 223
I thought this sounded like a dupe*, but Red Flag Linux is apparently not a Chinese government project as I began to think for some reason**.
*On China's part, not Slashdot's!
**Like, totally not because of the name or anything.
Comment Re:Change You Can Hope For (Score 1) 359
"Let me be perfectly clear, as clear as the frosted glass of your light bulb."
Comment Re:Biology workbook (Score 2) 770
We could probably replace Dan Patrick with Danica Patrick and still end up with a better system.
Comment GPLv3 (Score 3, Informative) 22
Comment Re:Class action lawsuit time (Score 1) 76
Enjoy your one-week domain name free-trial settlement coupons.
(Not transferable to other_registrar, of course.)
Comment Re:Here's hoping... (Score 1) 188
I liked Winamp because it looped audio (when playing a single track on repeat, of course, and if the file was made to loop in the first place) quite nicely (even certain mp3s, I think...this was back in my old ytmnd days so I may just be lying entirely; I know WAVs looped like a charm). Neither VLC nor Windows Media Player really bother to try to loop.* Also for playing around with the various visualizers (AVS, Milkdrop and such).
Granted, I actually got into the player pretty late, and some prefer the older versions for various reasons (less bloat, not AOL, the old skin, etcetcetc). But I liked it and its little about box 3D credits thinger.
*Sometimes I could actually hear the audio loop back for juuuuust so long in WiMP, but then the audio cuts to zero for about as long and the file starts over for real.
