BESTouff - Slashdot User

Comment Re: Seriously? (Score 1) 374

by BESTouff on Tuesday March 11, 2014 @06:17AM (#46453177) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How Can I Prepare For the Theft of My Android Phone?

#4 doesn't work on all phones (does it on some ?) and would prevent you from upgrading your rom (so no security fixes) #10 is stupid on many points on flash-based devices, which smartphones are

Comment Re: In other news.. (Score 1) 192

by BESTouff on Sunday February 23, 2014 @10:47AM (#46315783) Attached to: Delayed Fatherhood May Be Linked To Certain Congenital and Mental Disorders

Just leave your kids to their grandparents, so you can still see them as often as you wish. Best of both worlds.

Comment LWN (Score 4, Informative) 361

by BESTouff on Wednesday February 05, 2014 @06:12AM (#46160559) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Online News Is Worth Paying For?

http://lwn.net/ is the only news source I'm paying for.

Comment Re: Sign the petition (Score 1) 277

by BESTouff on Monday February 03, 2014 @07:28PM (#46145647) Attached to: Australia OKs Dumping Dredge Waste In Barrier Reef

The problem I see is that fines will darken the water, and coral has a symbiotic algae that obviously needs sunlight to survive and feed its host. No light = dead coral.

Comment Re: Not Culture (Score 1) 314

by BESTouff on Saturday December 28, 2013 @06:58AM (#45804265) Attached to: France's 'Culture Tax' Could Hit YouTube and Facebook

Do you have a reference for that ? I'm genuinely interested.

Comment Re: wow, thanks Timothy (Score 1) 75

by BESTouff on Sunday November 24, 2013 @05:28PM (#45509477) Attached to: Tapping Data From Radio-Controlled Bus Stop Displays

She's in Europe. Have no fear (for her).

Comment Re: Competition is more than performance (Score 1) 103

by BESTouff on Monday November 04, 2013 @03:45AM (#45323117) Attached to: Intel Open-Sources Broadwell GPU Driver & Indicates Major Silicon Changes

mod parent up !

Comment How about Linux support ? (Score 1) 325

by BESTouff on Tuesday February 15, 2011 @11:29AM (#35209956) Attached to: AMD Sale to Dell Rumored

The only thing I'm interested in, is how about the linux support ? AMD has been quite good lately, Dell has been so-so. With Dell buying AMD, I'm fearing linux support will go down.

Comment Re:Sell sell sell (Score 1) 479

by BESTouff on Friday February 11, 2011 @11:10AM (#35174312) Attached to: Nokia and Microsoft Make Smartphone Alliance

People seem to follow your advice :)

I've been watching the stock plummet since this morning. Now it's at -13%, steadily going down. http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/q?s=NOA3.DE

Comment Re:Time to switch I guess (Score 1) 479

by BESTouff on Friday February 11, 2011 @09:36AM (#35173032) Attached to: Nokia and Microsoft Make Smartphone Alliance

I think I'll stay with my N900 for a while yet. It works very well for my uses, it starts getting community updates. Maybe I'll try NITDroid when it's working a bit more. Afterwards, well ... how about a GTA04 ? Or some kind of android phone if one appears to be open enough.

Comment Re:Blood wars (Score 1) 119

by BESTouff on Thursday February 10, 2011 @06:31AM (#35160322) Attached to: See How Tough Your Immune System is With "Blood Wars"

You should definitely enter this contest.

Comment Re:Stupid Floating Headers (Score 1) 2254

by BESTouff on Wednesday January 26, 2011 @02:41AM (#35005108) Attached to: Slashdot Launches Re-Design

This ! I want a mode with *only* content on the page.

Comment Re:Stupid fixed-position crap (Score 1) 2254

by BESTouff on Wednesday January 26, 2011 @02:40AM (#35005098) Attached to: Slashdot Launches Re-Design

Not that practical to do on my phone. Please oh please can I have a close button on that stupid sidebar ? Thanks you.

Comment Re:BluRay? Why? (Score 1) 419

by BESTouff on Friday January 07, 2011 @11:27AM (#34791232) Attached to: Star Wars Coming To Blu-ray In September

Go to your friend's Bluray Player and click "zoom" on the picture. It brings-up details in the movie you can't see on DVD or Upconverting DVD. (Zooming on dvd just shows a blur of MPEG2 artifacts.)

Oh yes ! Because I like very much stopping and zooming on movies. In fact I always do that each 5mn, so I can watch details, *that* is really much more entertaining - even if my GF disagrees.

Thanks you for proving it's bullshit.

Comment Speak their language (Score 1) 312

by BESTouff on Monday January 03, 2011 @06:25AM (#34742260) Attached to: How Do You Prove Software Testing Saves Money?

However you prove the need for a test suite, express it on a shiny powerpoint. That way, even if the people to whom you'll show it are techs, they'll be able to pass it to their PHB and have him understand just what's needed: allocated time slots for tests.

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