Frederic54 - Slashdot User

Comment: Re:And then posted .. (Score 1) 136

by Frederic54 on Thursday February 20, 2014 @12:20PM (#46295273) Attached to: How Jan Koum Steered WhatsApp Into $16B Facebook Deal

No don't worry, I have no clue what it is too, and paying 19B for something like this seems nonsense?!?

Comment: Re:Can't say I've ever seen it (Score 1) 285

by Frederic54 on Wednesday June 26, 2013 @10:08AM (#44111909) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Can I Cross US Borders With Legally Ripped Media?

I crossed the Canada-US border about 100 times in the last 10 years, by car/RV, never ever I had a question about electronic devices, cellphone, laptop, hard drive, etc. But always question on fruits, vegetables, meats, guns, $10'000 cash, firewood, etc.

Comment: Re:There's a reason nobody talks about it (Score 1) 404

by Frederic54 on Wednesday May 29, 2013 @12:09PM (#43851085) Attached to: Dao, a New Programming Language Supporting Advanced Features With Small Runtime

Eiffel maybe?

Comment: Re:Not enough (Score 1) 283

by Frederic54 on Wednesday March 27, 2013 @01:04PM (#43293735) Attached to: Real-Time Gmail Spying a 'Top Priority' For FBI This Year

Why there is no more people talking about this data center is beyond me...

NSA will save all internet packets, phone calls, credit card transactions, etc, for years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center

Comment: Re:Good. (Score 4, Insightful) 761

by Frederic54 on Tuesday March 26, 2013 @11:37AM (#43281421) Attached to: Man Who Pointed Laser At Aircraft Gets 30-Month Sentence

same for magnets, banned them because some people can eat them...

+ - Andrew Auernheimer (aka weev) sentanced to 4 years-> 0

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 18, 2013 @12:18PM

An anonymous reader writes "Andrew Auerenheimer has been sentanced to four years in prison, $73k in restitution, and 3 years of supervised release for violation of the CFAA. What was his crime? He visited a URL on AT&T's website."
Link to Original Source

Comment: Re:Definitely a game changer (Score 1) 267

by Frederic54 on Wednesday January 30, 2013 @02:04PM (#42739761) Attached to: RIM Unveils BlackBerry 10, Its Big Turnaround Hope

It was $150 in 2008...

Comment: Total Commander (Score 4, Insightful) 134

by Frederic54 on Monday January 28, 2013 @11:50AM (#42715553) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best Free and Open Source Apps For Android?

20 years ago I used NortonCommander aka NC in MSDOS, in Windows 3 I started using WindowsCommander, a NC clone running in Windows. It has been renamed TotalCommander years ago because of TM.

It is still being developped, and is avalaible for free in Android. Best app ever.

Comment: Michael Jackson? (Score 5, Insightful) 339

by Frederic54 on Tuesday November 13, 2012 @05:46PM (#41973915) Attached to: In Mississippi: 15-Year Jail Sentence For Selling Pirated Movies and Music

Let's say...
Sell a CD copy of Michael Jackson : 15 years in jail
Kill Michael Jackson : 4 years in jail

makes sense...

Comment: Re:The poll makes no sense whatsoever (Score 2) 211

by Frederic54 on Monday November 12, 2012 @01:06PM (#41957701) Attached to: The Last Thing You Read Was

> The poll makes no sense whatsoever

You must be new here :)

Comment: Re:No LTE, less space than a nomad (Score 2) 359

by Frederic54 on Tuesday October 30, 2012 @03:45PM (#41821711) Attached to: Google's Nexus 4, 7, 10 Strategy: Openness At All Costs

No one understood the reference to the first iPod by Taco?!?

Comment: Re:Signal isn't chaning, the noise floor is (Score 1) 615

by Frederic54 on Monday October 22, 2012 @09:34AM (#41727909) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Why Does Wireless Gear Degrade Over Time?

If I go up the window on my house with my laptop running inSSIDer, I can see more than 30 networks on 2.4GHz, most of them on channel 1.

If I switch to 5GHZ, I see only one network, mine :). I bought a half-mini pci ABGN wireless card for less than $20 on eBay, and a used Cisco E3000 for $60 (then installed TomatoUSB). I know have a network without noise.