Alter_3d - Slashdot User

Comment: Fishing URLs? (Score 1, Funny) 273

by Alter_3d on Tuesday May 14, 2013 @11:42AM (#43720661) Attached to: Microsoft Reads Your Skype Chat Messages

Damn you Microsoft, what is wrong with fishing?? after this probably hunting URLs will be frowned upon by skype

Comment: Re:Correlation vs Causation? (Score 1) 863

by Alter_3d on Tuesday April 16, 2013 @01:01PM (#43463481) Attached to: ZDNet Proclaims "Windows: It's Over"

Your "every 2nd Windows OS sucks" logic is flawed, since your list is incomplete. Here is, in my opinion, a more complete list:

Windows 3.0 - Kind of sucked
Windows 3.1 - Great
Windows 95 - Sucked until OSR2. Then it was pretty good.
Windows 98 - Sucked
Windows 98 SE - Great
Windows 2000 - Awesome
Windows ME - Im not even going to comment on this one
Window XP - Sucked until SP2. Then it was awesome
Windows Vista - Sucked and still sucks after 2 service packs
Windows 7 - Awesome
Windows 8 - Great OS underneath a nearly unusable UI

Comment: Re:A contrived test: old phone, old operating syst (Score 4, Informative) 155

by Alter_3d on Tuesday April 02, 2013 @05:07PM (#43342149) Attached to: Wiping a Smartphone Still Leaves Data Behind

The author used the last iPhone (3G) running the last iOS version (4) that would exhibit such behavior. It seems a contrived test. An upgrade to iOS 5 would fix the problem on the 3G. On newer phones the encryption key needed to access the data is destroyed, so the problem never would have occurred.

Sorry, but the iPhone 3G tops out at version 4.1.2. The 3GS, on the other hand, does have support for iOS 6, if I remember correctly.

Comment: Re:Cyanogenmod not on Galaxy S4 (Score 3, Interesting) 276

by Alter_3d on Tuesday March 19, 2013 @11:08AM (#43213355) Attached to: Galaxy S 4 Dominates In Early Benchmark Testing

Unfortunately that means you will be stuck with the Android version that comes with your device until Samsung and your carrier decide to upgrade it. That takes a loong time after Google releases updates. I have a Galaxy SII running the latest version of Android (4.2.2), but if I had not rooted it and switched ROMs, it would be running 4.0.4.

Comment: Re:An innocent question, please be gentle... (Score 1, Informative) 170

by Alter_3d on Monday January 07, 2013 @06:43PM (#42511413) Attached to: Kingston Introduces 1TB Flash Drive

Defragmentation doesnt affect flash drives, or SSDs. They access data randomly, not sequentially like a HDD

Comment: Re:How long before... (Score 0) 255

by Alter_3d on Saturday December 08, 2012 @08:54PM (#42229499) Attached to: Darling: Run Apple OS X Binaries On Linux

... Apple sues this developer into oblivion?

FTFY... when has trigger happy Apple required loopholes to sue?

Comment: Re:Greater Artist (Score 1) 376

by Alter_3d on Thursday November 29, 2012 @10:19AM (#42129361) Attached to: Critic Cites <em>Revenge of the Sith</em> As "Generation's Greatest Work of Art"

I once knew a kid who, whether through a mental disability or through general weirdness, liked to smear his poop around places in public. I would consider him a greater artist than George Lucas, except for the fact his works could be considered an imitation of Revenge of the Sith.

Michael Bay?

Oh, you said greater artist.... never mind

Comment: Re:What's the hottest running CPU? (Score 1) 447

by Alter_3d on Wednesday November 21, 2012 @09:45PM (#42062595) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Geekiest Way To Cook a Turkey?

I'm not sure what is the current champion, but probably the most infamous ones were the Prescott P4 and the Nvidia Geforce 5800 AKA Dustbuster

Comment: Re:Vote (Score 4, Funny) 707

by Alter_3d on Friday November 02, 2012 @05:31PM (#41858825) Attached to: In the 2012 U.S. presidential election:

Why not Zoidberg!?

Because Bender won

Comment: Some other logo (Score 4, Informative) 137

by Alter_3d on Thursday November 01, 2012 @10:54AM (#41842107) Attached to: Best reader-submitted /. logo of October 2012?

What, no mention of OMG Ponies???

Comment: Re:Tax records (Score 1) 344

by Alter_3d on Sunday October 28, 2012 @09:10PM (#41800435) Attached to: Journalist Arrested In Greece For Publishing List of Possible Tax-Evaders

Agreed, however most criminals aren`t going for a lot. If they can take a couple of LED TVs, basic jewelry and assorted crap, its worth for them.

Comment: Missing option (Score 3, Insightful) 618

by Alter_3d on Wednesday October 24, 2012 @10:42AM (#41752089) Attached to: Best Trek Captain?

Cmdr. Peter Quincy Taggart !!!

Comment: Re:Frustrations (Score 1) 460

by Alter_3d on Monday October 08, 2012 @05:30PM (#41590591) Attached to: Linus Torvalds Will Answer Your Questions

I was not attacking your question. I was poking a little fun a the whole Linux-GNU/Linux controversy, and remembered reading sometime ago on Wikipedia about Linus' opinion on the matter, where he said using the name GNU/Linux was "ridiculous".

Cheers!

Comment: Re:Frustrations (Score 3, Insightful) 460

by Alter_3d on Monday October 08, 2012 @12:57PM (#41587157) Attached to: Linus Torvalds Will Answer Your Questions

What frustrates you most in the GNU/Linux ecosystem?

I can answer that for him.

People who insist on using the name GNU/Linux
Naming controversy wars!!

Comment: Re:screw you guys... (Score 1) 196

by Alter_3d on Tuesday October 02, 2012 @03:41PM (#41529741) Attached to: Galaxy Tab Sales Ban Lifted, Samsung Sues Apple Over iPhone 5

Bonzybuddy is making smartphones?

Damn, my head hurts just to think about it..