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Comment Re:AT&T and Huawei (Score 1) 44

by imnes on Friday December 15, 2017 @02:54PM (#55747167) Attached to: China's Top Phone Makers Huawei and Xiaomi In Talks With Carriers To Expand To US Market

I've been happy with my Huawei Nexus 6p for several years :)

Comment Re:It depends (Score 1) 486

by imnes on Wednesday March 25, 2015 @01:33PM (#49337191) Attached to: No, It's Not Always Quicker To Do Things In Memory

It looks like they're creating 1,000,000 strings (from 1 byte, up to 1,000,000 bytes). Isn't that ~ 500GB of memory allocations and releases?

Comment Google Drive / Docs (Score 2) 343

by imnes on Tuesday February 17, 2015 @02:25PM (#49073907) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Version Control For Non-Developers?

If they are open using Google Docs, it supports multiple simultaneous editing, and does versioning of files.

Comment Re:Reasons for using CC (Score 1) 631

by imnes on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @01:31PM (#48252539) Attached to: Why CurrentC Will Beat Out Apple Pay

If they're willing to pass the 3.5% savings on to me, that would at least give me some incentive to want to use it.

Submission + - Amazon Support Instructs User to Access and Delete Another Users Account (ousbey.com)

Submitted by imnes on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @01:24PM

imnes writes: User is getting emails about purchases to their Amazon account. Realizes another user has created an account with his email address. User contacts Amazon to have it corrected, instead Amazon rep instructs user to log-in and delete the other persons account himself. Is this standard practice?

Comment Google Forms (Score 1) 104

by imnes on Tuesday October 21, 2014 @03:43PM (#48198301) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Event Sign-Up Software Options For a Non-Profit?

http://www.google.com/forms/ab...

More than just surveys
Plan your next camping trip, manage event registrations, whip up a quick poll, collect email addresses for a newsletter, create a pop quiz, and much more.

Submission + - The Malware That Duped Target Has Been Found (wired.com)

Submitted by imnes on Thursday January 16, 2014 @10:41PM

imnes writes: "The malicious program used to compromise Target and other companies was part of a widespread operation using a Trojan tool known as Trojan.POSRAM, according to a new report released Thursday about an operation that investigators have dubbed Kaptoxa."

Comment Re:Why always a back door (Score 1) 228

by imnes on Thursday November 14, 2013 @12:43PM (#45423441) Attached to: Court: Homeland Security Must Disclose 'Internet Kill Switch'

I believe when a judgement is rendered "without prejudice" the door is open for appeal. If a judgement is rendered "with prejudice" then it cannot be appealed.

Comment Re:Whistleblower Protection (Score 4, Informative) 622

by imnes on Friday October 25, 2013 @05:27PM (#45239925) Attached to: Feds Confiscate Investigative Reporter's Confidential Files During Raid

Oops wrong link should have been: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistleblower_Protection_Act

Comment Whistleblower Protection (Score 5, Interesting) 622

by imnes on Friday October 25, 2013 @05:24PM (#45239891) Attached to: Feds Confiscate Investigative Reporter's Confidential Files During Raid

I guess we'll get to see if the whistleblower protection program actually works.

http://www.whistleblowers.gov/

Comment ZDNet Article (Score 2) 143

by imnes on Thursday October 17, 2013 @10:56AM (#45152955) Attached to: Ubuntu, Kubuntu 13.10 Unleashed

Just me or is this a circular link?

Comment Re:vs gasoline cars (Score 1) 388

by imnes on Thursday October 03, 2013 @02:13PM (#45027583) Attached to: Tesla Model S Catches Fire: Is This Tesla's 'Toyota' Moment?

http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2013/06/18/chrysler-agrees-to-recall-jeeps-at-risk-fire/

Comment Re:unity (Score 1) 631

by imnes on Wednesday September 25, 2013 @12:38PM (#44949547) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Are We Witnessing the Decline of Ubuntu?

Want a stable, proven desktop that isn't being upgraded with useless flash and features? This works nicely on Ubuntu(s)

http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdesktopenv/

Comment Re:who remembers pinch to zoom before Apple? (Score 1) 110

by imnes on Tuesday July 30, 2013 @04:56PM (#44428349) Attached to: Pinch-To-Zoom Apple Patent Rejected By USPTO

"In the example of FIG. 1B, a user 16 has gestured by placing his fingertips on the display surface and moving them in an outwardly separating manner. As discussed in greater detail below, this particular gesture 17 is associated with a zoom-in command. When the computer 126 performs a zoom-in command, it directs the projector to provide 128 a closer, more detailed view of the displayed imagery. "

From the linked patent application http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=7,724,242.PN.&OS=PN/7,724,242&RS=PN/7,724,242

Comment Vetted Examples (Score 4, Insightful) 418

by imnes on Tuesday March 05, 2013 @03:24PM (#43082019) Attached to: Developers May Be Getting 50% of Their Documentation From Stack Overflow

With documentation you usually just get an API reference, and maybe a simple example. With community sites like Stack Overflow you get vetted examples and best practices from real world users. It's almost always more helpful than just a static reference.

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