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Comment Can the counterfeit chip be detected? (Score 2) 572

by jones_supa on Friday October 24, 2014 @09:53AM (#48220271) Attached to: FTDI Removes Driver From Windows Update That Bricked Cloned Chips

Is there a way to detect a counterfeit chip without bricking it? If that's the case, they could have just added a System Log message "FTDI device attached to system is not genuine! Driver will not start." Then the driver would return an error and Control Panel would show a yellow exclamation mark for the device.

Comment Re:Pictures and Logs Prove What Exactly? (Score 1) 64

by jones_supa on Friday October 24, 2014 @07:03AM (#48219503) Attached to: Tracking a Bitcoin Thief

But those are trusted pools, right? So we have no reason to worry about such attack.

Comment Re:Lol... (Score 1) 296

by jones_supa on Friday October 24, 2014 @03:57AM (#48219029) Attached to: How Sony, Intel, and Unix Made Apple's Mac a PC Competitor

Stability is still more important...although I fully agree with your package management point.

Comment Re:It helps to actually use the thing. (Score 2, Informative) 296

by jones_supa on Thursday October 23, 2014 @10:33PM (#48217809) Attached to: How Sony, Intel, and Unix Made Apple's Mac a PC Competitor

Pay no attention to the fact that Apple has sold an entry-level Mac Mini for $499 for the last 9 years.

They have sold the entry-level Mac Mini for $499 for 1 week. Before that, it was $599.

Comment Re:Tent! (Score 1) 269

by jones_supa on Thursday October 23, 2014 @10:09PM (#48217719) Attached to: We Need Distributed Social Networks More Than Ello

Tent protocol documentation comes quite close.

Comment Re:Frequent contributor, frequent disappointment (Score 2) 269

by jones_supa on Thursday October 23, 2014 @10:03PM (#48217689) Attached to: We Need Distributed Social Networks More Than Ello

please fucking stop with Bennett haselton blabber. why is this one person's opinion treated like scripture by dicedot?

I don't think Bennett is in any special position. His texts are published because he writes them. You can do that too.

Comment Re:Idiotic premise (Score 1) 269

by jones_supa on Thursday October 23, 2014 @09:54PM (#48217637) Attached to: We Need Distributed Social Networks More Than Ello

And yet - services like WhatsApp, HBO, Netflix, Dropbox, Evernote, Github, Skype, Rdio, and other services manage to survive without selling ads.

Also Reddit.

Comment Re:Read on for the rest (Score 1) 269

by jones_supa on Thursday October 23, 2014 @09:47PM (#48217601) Attached to: We Need Distributed Social Networks More Than Ello

How about Roland Piquepaille?

Comment Re:Lol... (Score 2) 296

by jones_supa on Thursday October 23, 2014 @09:35PM (#48217555) Attached to: How Sony, Intel, and Unix Made Apple's Mac a PC Competitor

Well, OS X gives you a UNIX of which desktop has much better QA than the Linux alternatives.

Comment Re:G+? (Score 1) 167

by jones_supa on Thursday October 23, 2014 @11:43AM (#48213241) Attached to: Ello Formally Promises To Remain Ad-Free, Raises $5.5M

Torvalds uses it occasionally.

Comment Re:Is it open source yet? (Score 1) 124

by jones_supa on Thursday October 23, 2014 @03:53AM (#48210767) Attached to: BitTorrent Performance Test: Sync Is Faster Than Google Drive, OneDrive, Dropbox

Is it open source yet? There's no real point in using it if you can't even trust it does what they say it does...

I can trust a company even if a program is not open source.

Comment Re:Environment Variables (Score 5, Insightful) 347

by jones_supa on Wednesday October 22, 2014 @05:37PM (#48207623) Attached to: The Classic Control Panel In Windows May Be Gone

Guys, this is a perfect opportunity to use the Windows Feedback tool.

Comment Re:This looks familiar (Score 3, Insightful) 347

by jones_supa on Wednesday October 22, 2014 @05:31PM (#48207551) Attached to: The Classic Control Panel In Windows May Be Gone

Me neither. Even the crusty-looking desktops of old UNIX workstations, such as 4DWM or CDE, begin to look professional and attractive when compared to Win10 and Yosemite.

Comment Re:No thanks. (Score 1) 173

by jones_supa on Wednesday October 22, 2014 @02:47PM (#48205765) Attached to: Google Announces Inbox, a New Take On Email Organization

You can use GMail with IMAP too.

Comment Re:After whast happened to Odroid-w, why? (Score 4, Interesting) 81

by jones_supa on Wednesday October 22, 2014 @01:07PM (#48204861) Attached to: Raspberry Pi Founder Demos Touchscreen Display For DIY Kits

Isn't it more important to do cool and interesting things with a computer rather than everything obsessedly being open source?

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