trentblase - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Unnecessarily complex? (Score 1) 453

by trentblase on Friday May 20, 2011 @10:56PM (#36198702) Attached to: How Today's Tech Alienates the Elderly

This is it, end of thread. When I don't know what some ui element does, I push it to see. Usually, when my mom asks for help doing something on her computer, I don't really know the answer in advance. Instead, I explore the menu system very quickly until I see the right option and to her it looks like I knew what I was doing all along.

Comment Re:This is a good thing (Score 1) 434

by trentblase on Wednesday May 18, 2011 @12:34AM (#36162378) Attached to: How Windows 7 Knows About Your Internet Connection

Actually, hating on MS is so 2000's. In the coming decade, the hipsters will hate on Apple.

Comment Re:Wow (Score 1) 423

by trentblase on Tuesday April 12, 2011 @05:29PM (#35799682) Attached to: <em>The Hobbit</em> Filming at 48fps

Isn't that why new TVs do 120Hz = 5*24 = 4*30

Comment Re:One day I'll start actually reading headlines.. (Score 1) 332

by trentblase on Thursday March 31, 2011 @04:30PM (#35682296) Attached to: Former Truck Driver Reconstructs A-bomb

One day I'll start actually reading posts, not just flicking over them with my eyeballs on autopilot. I read "I read 'Former Truck Driver Reconstructs A Bomb'" and thought "So what? Isn't that exactly what the headline says?"

Comment Re:Wow, what will THAT outlet look like? (Score 1) 335

by trentblase on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @11:32PM (#35582464) Attached to: Experimental Batteries Charge In Minutes

jigga what? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frIA7tuBqqY)

Comment Re:too late for wikipedia (Score 4, Funny) 160

by trentblase on Monday March 14, 2011 @09:30PM (#35486884) Attached to: 3TB Hard Drives Square Off Against Everything Else

I ignored your comment due to: Lack of notoriety, lack of proper citation, inconsistency with the style guide, and of course my severe aspergers.

Comment Re:So who is he really? (Score 1) 586

by trentblase on Friday March 04, 2011 @01:18PM (#35381110) Attached to: Student Sues FBI For Planting GPS Tracker

On the flip side, the FBI wouldn't have been sued unless they did something wrong. Right?

Comment Re:First (Score 1) 175

by trentblase on Tuesday March 01, 2011 @11:14PM (#35353960) Attached to: Futureproofing Artifacts: Spacewar! 1962 In HTML5

I wish they would have just future proofed java by porting it to html5. Then they wouldn't have to rewrite their pdP-1 emulator. Plus, according to inception the whole thing would end up running faster.

Comment Re:Nutron Star? (Score 1) 145

by trentblase on Friday February 25, 2011 @02:43PM (#35314936) Attached to: Frictionless Superfluid Found In Neutron Star Core

So the conclusion is a stretch? Cool, thanks for the info.

Comment Re:Nuke it from orbit (Score 2) 376

by trentblase on Thursday February 17, 2011 @05:33PM (#35237314) Attached to: Confidential Data Not Safe On Solid State Disks

The headline should just read "Confidential data not safe on unencrypted disk"

The headline should just read "Confidential data not safe"

Comment Re:Three horse race (Score 1) 142

by trentblase on Thursday February 17, 2011 @05:02PM (#35236848) Attached to: Nokia Plan B Was Just a Hoax

With no meaningful transition (for both customers and developers) from Symbian to WP, why would anybody buy a high end Symbian device today ?

Why would anybody have bought a high end Symbian device a month ago? I doubt most honest responses include "meaningful transition to next OS"

Comment Re:Wow (Score 2) 601

by trentblase on Saturday February 12, 2011 @12:16AM (#35183456) Attached to: After MS-Nokia Pact, Many Nokia Workers Walk Out In Protest

Not really, they used their flextime. More like "nokia employees got benefits"

Comment Re:why no one time pad with index lookup (Score 1) 399

by trentblase on Thursday February 10, 2011 @09:39PM (#35169628) Attached to: Google Adds Two-Factor Authentication To Gmail

Sure, but how does the phishing work, exactly? You're going to send an email to their hotmail account asking them to login to their gmail account? You're going to typosquat at fmail.com?

Comment Re:why no one time pad with index lookup (Score 1) 399

by trentblase on Thursday February 10, 2011 @07:49PM (#35168732) Attached to: Google Adds Two-Factor Authentication To Gmail

Actually, there will be backup codes, which is similar (no index):

Backup codes can be used to sign in if you lose your phones or otherwise can't receive codes via SMS, voice call, or mobile app (via Google Authenticator). Each code can be used only once. Keep these codes in a safe place -- if you lose access to your phone, these codes will be the only way to sign in to your account.

Comment Re:If you'd Read TFA ... (Score 4, Interesting) 374

by trentblase on Wednesday February 02, 2011 @10:52PM (#35087004) Attached to: Statistician Cracks Code For Lottery Tickets

Of course he applied economics only halfway. He could have sold the algorithm to someone with lower opportunity cost. Someone who makes $100 a day should be willing to split the $600 with him.

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