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Comment: Re:CNN! (Score 1) 426

by vsync64 (#37250254) Attached to: When Did Irene Stop Being a Hurricane?
Here is a video I took from Hot Club in Providence RI right next to the hurricane barriers. No danger, people standing around chiling (the bar we were at remained open and we were able to get nice rums and beers and enjoy the drizzle and light breeze), and this clearly irritated the CNN anchor for the threat to the narrative she was pushing

Comment: only problem in this regard is Motorola themselves (Score 1) 384

by vsync64 (#36331444) Attached to: Motorola CEO Blames Open Android Store For Phone Performance Ills

That's funny, I have a Droid 2 Global and it's great. Well, once I disabled as much of the crap that Motorola bundled with it and removed their terrible widgets. Suddenly I stopped having problems booting the shell and my battery life literally doubled.

Know what caused the worst CPU and power consumption? The RSS reader. A technology literally designed for occasional checking and low bandwidth consumption.

Magically, I can install a dozen widgets from other random third party vendors with no problems. Foursquare? Twidroid? Reddit is Fun? All fine, all on my home screen and auto-updating. Yet Motorola, with the ability to do literally months of integration testing, can't make an app that would be an easy exercise for any first-year CS student without FUBARing it all up. I don't even know why they bothered because Android comes with a news app ANYWAY that actually works. Pathetic.

Comment: Facebook asked for this (Score 1) 259

by vsync64 (#35059330) Attached to: Facebook-Deprived Man Sues For $500K
I would scoff at this guy if not for Facebook insisting on becoming integrated into every Web site and application possible. Positioning themselves as a trusted authentication broker, and banning alternate accounts, puts them in a position of a bottleneck for access to information and services. Honestly, I'd try to find - in addition to friends and family - a business that he had authenticated with using Facebook, and then sue them for tortious interference of contracts, or whatever the legal jargon is.

No amount of genius can overcome a preoccupation with detail.

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