blackpig - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Siri and translation (Score 2) 185

by blackpig on Tuesday October 18, 2011 @12:48AM (#37746994) Attached to: Google Improves Android Translator To Battle Siri

Google does not currently have an equivalent to Siri.

By "Google" I assume you mean 'Android'?

Speaktoit has been around for a while.

Do try to keep up.

Comment Re:Unisys was late to the GIF party (Score 1) 661

by blackpig on Thursday September 15, 2011 @10:24PM (#37416324) Attached to: Windows 8 Won't Support Plug-Ins; the End of Flash?

Dell no longer sells new Ubuntu PCs.

http://search.dell.com/results.aspx?s=gen&c=us&l=en&cs=&k=ubuntu&cat=all&x=0&y=0

Comment Re:Proxy wars (Score 1) 342

by blackpig on Thursday September 08, 2011 @04:21AM (#37337318) Attached to: HTC Sues Apple Using Google Patents

Congratulations... Nice Troll
7/10

Comment Re:That backfired. (Score 1) 325

by blackpig on Monday September 05, 2011 @11:31PM (#37312490) Attached to: Samsung Halts Galaxy Tablet Promotion In Germany

The September 2011 issue of 'Australian Personal Computer' also put the Galaxy Tab 10.1 ahead of the iPad 2 in a review of available tablets

http://apcmag.com/whats_inside_apc_this_month.htm

Comment Re:and what about N900? (Score 1) 148

by blackpig on Tuesday August 09, 2011 @09:34PM (#37039570) Attached to: Nokia Killing Symbian and S40 In North America

Just get an iPad, a keyboard case, and buy one of the MANY VNC / SSH applications for the iPad.

...and a great big pocket to put it in.

Comment Re:In Radio Terms, It's 1923 All Over Again (Score 1) 427

by blackpig on Thursday June 02, 2011 @04:50AM (#36317298) Attached to: New MacDefender Defeats Apple Security Update

But, it looks like the first party crasher is here, and now we wait to see how many friends he brought with him.

One such "party" site is drudgereport. On 2 occasions recently, drudgereport pushed that crap to my Mac. I promptly trashed it but that's sleazy of Drudge to do such a thing and I ain't goin' back no time soon.

Through ad servers?
In my recent experience a lot of this crap comes from there... no matter what platform you use.

Comment Re:Nostalgia never made sense to me (Score 1) 204

by blackpig on Saturday May 14, 2011 @07:15AM (#36125734) Attached to: Telehack Re-Creates the Internet of 25 Years Ago

I want a portable Unix workstation the size of a pocket calculator. I know it could be done.

Nostalgia makes sense to me.

Nokia N900!

Comment Re:Nostalgia never made sense to me (Score 1) 204

by blackpig on Saturday May 14, 2011 @05:39AM (#36125570) Attached to: Telehack Re-Creates the Internet of 25 Years Ago

In the mid nineties ('93 as I remember) I had a dial-in-terminal account with APANA (Australian Public Access Network Association, I think they're still around). I used the Terminal programme in Windows 3.0 on a 286 and logged in via a 1200 baud modem to a BSD box. I could use Usenet, E-mail, Archie, WAIS, FTP and Lynx for that newfangled WWW stuff. Cost was $100/year for access so not too expensive. At least we had a rudimentary menu system rather than just a prompt.

Comment Re:Ringworld (Score 1) 75

by blackpig on Sunday May 08, 2011 @09:59PM (#36067966) Attached to: Kepler May Uncover Numerous Ring Worlds

The 'Man-Kzin Wars' anthologies are all pretty good also. Even though not written by Niven, they capture the feel of Known Space very well.

Comment Re:To be fair, here is link with ads (Score 1) 124

by blackpig on Wednesday April 13, 2011 @08:34PM (#35813772) Attached to: A5: All Apple, Part Mystery

I bet you stay glued to the TV when the ads are on, right? That would be the ethical thing to do.

Comment Re:Not much and nothing? (Score 1) 370

by blackpig on Tuesday April 12, 2011 @01:02AM (#35789700) Attached to: Fukushima: What Happened and What Needs To Be Done

Silly Americans...
A sievert is a tad more than a furlong so a milisievert is probably no more than a chain of so. Or about a fathom to those nautically inclined on a Wednesday.

Comment Re:how about the opposite? (Score 1) 1200

by blackpig on Saturday March 12, 2011 @01:14AM (#35461152) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Worst Computer Scene In TV or Movies?

It is from 'Electric Dreams' that I learned that pouring champagne over a PC, as it's doing a data dump from a mainframe, will create Artificial Intelligence.

(I must be doing something wrong though.)

Comment Re:Windows Phone 7 (Score 0) 257

by blackpig on Friday March 11, 2011 @11:02PM (#35460428) Attached to: Apple vs. Microsoft: a Tale of Two Mobile Updates

I think he means warmed over Windows CE with a Silverlight skin...

Comment Re:It is slowly ramping up (Score 1) 492

by blackpig on Friday March 11, 2011 @04:03AM (#35450664) Attached to: Safari/MacBook First To Fall At Pwn2Own 2011

According to...

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=21097

"The attack also exploited poor coding in Apple's branch of WebKit, which features many bugs and security flaws. While Apple's WebKit branch, which powers its Safari browser, shares a certain amount of code with Google's WebKit browser Chrome, Google has added much more robust security layers and is less buggy."

So it looks like the exploit is Safari specific.

Comment Re:I heard (Score 1) 450

by blackpig on Thursday February 24, 2011 @07:54AM (#35298386) Attached to: Apple in Talks to Improve Sound Quality of Music Downloads

Please, one self absorbed bunch of wankers at a time.

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Debian is a western word meaning "Ubuntu coming soon!"

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