Teese - Slashdot User

Ask Slashdot: Alternatives to Groklaw? 0

Submitted by

harryjohnston

on Wednesday February 08, @01:07PM

harryjohnston writes "Having been kicked off Groklaw a while back for "ignorance", i.e., having opinions differing from those of the owner, I'm looking for an alternative source of news/commentary about legal issues relating to technology — other than Slashdot itself, of course! Any suggestions?"

Rumors that next xBox wont' except used games-> 0

Submitted by

Teese

on Thursday January 26, @11:07AM

Teese writes "Here's the meat: "'ve heard from one reliable industry source that Microsoft intends to incorporate some sort of anti-used game system as part of their so-called Xbox 720."

There's no way MS can be that foolish, is there?"
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US Drone "Hijacked" By Iran Claims Engineer-> 0

Submitted by clm1970 on Thursday December 15, @02:48PM

clm1970 writes "An Iranian engineer claims the recent drone that crashed in Iran was actually hijacked by the military exploiting a well known weakness in GPS technology. It was as simple as reprogramming the coordinates to think it was landing in Afghanistan and not Iran."
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Comment: Re:OT: Whatever happened to Quantum ? (Score 1) 153

by Teese on Tuesday April 19 2011, @09:27AM (#35867736) Attached to: Samsung HD Unit Bought By Seagate

According to wikipedia, they where bought by Maxtor in 2001, then Maxtor was bought by Seagate in 2005.

Comment: Re:Has anyone found the original Tron on TV? (Score 1) 384

by Teese on Wednesday December 15 2010, @12:29PM (#34562888) Attached to: 'Tron: Legacy' Director Explains the Tron World

HDNet showed it a lot recently, but they show movies in cycles.

Comment: Re:Prequel, Sequel (Score 2, Insightful) 602

by Teese on Thursday October 28 2010, @10:05AM (#34050218) Attached to: BSG Prequel Series Caprica Canceled

Sooner or later you will have to let go.

He tasks me. He tasks me and I shall have him! I'll chase him 'round the moons of Nibia and 'round the Antares Maelstrom and 'round Perdition's flames before I give him up!

Comment: "Play"book (Score 4, Insightful) 184

by Teese on Monday September 27 2010, @05:00PM (#33717026) Attached to: RIM Announces BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet

Targeted at business users but called a playbook, eh? Seems like an odd name for that.

Comment: Re:The Slashdot Firefox Paradox (Score 3, Informative) 279

by Teese on Thursday September 09 2010, @04:03PM (#33527426) Attached to: Mozilla Unleashes JaegerMonkey Enabled Firefox 4

Ironically, the primary site for which I really need a faster Javascript engine is Slashdot. For a heavily-commented article I switch to Chrome.

Is chrome the only broswer that has problems with the idle.slashdot comment thread. It anytime I try to open a closed comment, it refreshes the page and only gives me the comment, it doesn't expand the comment inline like it does in a normal comment thread. I've always been to lazy to try other broswers.

Comment: Re:Closed captions, hello? (Score 1) 396

by Teese on Thursday July 29 2010, @02:23PM (#33074292) Attached to: HDMI Labeling Requirements Promise a Stew of Confusion

I second this. My closed captioning disappeared on me. It took a lot of time to find the secret hidden combination on my cable box to enable them. All because they don't pass CC info across the cable, or the spec, or something.

Comment: Sell it (Score 3, Insightful) 417

by Teese on Friday July 23 2010, @08:13PM (#33010282) Attached to: What To Do With an Old G5 Tower?

You'd be surprised what an older G5 desktop sells for on the used market. Any software dev that supports PowerPC apps needs testing machines, and dev boxes. Faster PowerPCs like G5s are in demand out there.