chromaexcursion - Slashdot User

Comment Sounds like Poloroid Vs. Kodak (Score 1) 228

by chromaexcursion on Tuesday February 07, 2012 @11:57PM (#38963137) Attached to: Honeywell Vs Nest: When the Establishment Sues Silicon Valley

Poloroid locked up all the patents for instant film. Kodak tried to break their patents, and lost. Honeywell has a competing systems, though not exactly the same. They still own the patents on the systems in question. This is not a public standard. Fair and reasonable licensing do not apply. Like it or not Nest is dead. The story itself is flamebait.

Comment Re:Curious (Score 2) 445

by chromaexcursion on Saturday February 04, 2012 @12:25AM (#38924287) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Are Daily Stand-Up Meetings More Productive?

You've missed the real problem. None of those scale. As complexity increases each of those techniques reaches a point where they fail, badly.

Yes, I do understand. People who have graduated college with a computer science (or above) degree know what Dijkstra's algorithm does. The people in the real world who understand its applications are applying it and not being fake-fuck blowhards. Agile. Extreme (pair) programmming. HAW. Silly fuckers.

Comment 10? I just got 13a (Score 1) 364

by chromaexcursion on Wednesday February 01, 2012 @08:32PM (#38898147) Attached to: Firefox 10 Released

Those of us on the Nightly channel got 13a today. 10? I got that a few months ago. Nightly still seems to be the only easy way to get a 64 bit build.

Comment Re:Why the Apple reference? (Score 1) 99

by chromaexcursion on Tuesday January 24, 2012 @01:18AM (#38801315) Attached to: How Much LTE Spectrum Do Big Carriers Have?

uh, vodaphone basically controls/owns verizon, and how big do you suppose they are in europe?

hint: huge.

So it's a question of market and inevitability of when it will happen, actually. And as noted, Sweden's been ahead of the game for a while, and I'd presume Japan too.

someone please moderate this as a troll. I've used my mod points. He is clueless.

Comment Gravity sucks (Score 1) 94

by chromaexcursion on Tuesday January 10, 2012 @02:17AM (#38647916) Attached to: What Does Sunset On an Alien World Look Like?

as any human viewer would be squashed into a fine film to possibly view this phenomena. Who cares?

Comment Re:"Free" (Score 1) 523

by chromaexcursion on Wednesday December 28, 2011 @09:53PM (#38521924) Attached to: Why We Agonize Over Buying $1 Apps

Not so free. every "free" app I've seen has ads, though some are fairly discreet. you're paying, subtitlely.

Comment Re:C. J. Cherryh (Score 1) 647

by chromaexcursion on Wednesday December 21, 2011 @12:16AM (#38444358) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: What Do You Like To Read?

I loved Cherryh's works, until recently. Her most recent stuff is terrible. Boring, repetitive, redundant, did I mention repetitive, tripe.

Comment Chrome is the default browser on Android (Score 1) 507

by chromaexcursion on Saturday December 17, 2011 @11:35PM (#38413424) Attached to: Chrome 15 Overtakes IE 8 For Top Browser Spot

survey NEVER took source machine into account! D'Oh!

Comment Re:Ownership of Spectrum is simply wrong.. (Score 1) 80

by chromaexcursion on Saturday December 17, 2011 @11:28PM (#38413382) Attached to: Spectrum Fragmentation Means Pricier Mobile Networking

You have no clue! Ownership of spectrum is absolutely required. It's called economics. No company will invest in infrastructure without it.

Comment Won't happen where there is competition (Score 1) 397

by chromaexcursion on Friday December 02, 2011 @11:28AM (#38237702) Attached to: Web Usage-Based Billing On Its Way

I can get broadband from different providers. My cable company, or FIOS from the land line phone company. Neither can afford the loss of customers if they go to metered billing.

Submission + - my bank is run by a bunch of idiots

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chromaexcursion

on Friday September 23, 2011 @11:42PM

chromaexcursion writes: "I can't use firefox or chrome to access this credit union's website. Each rejects it as a security risk.
I've sent several emails to the credit union, all ignored. I'm hoping a severe public outing will get a few idiots fired.
A good credit union (in the USA) is a good thing. Management that uses sites that have invalid SSL certs is abysmal.
How many other slashdot users have been faced with such profound idiocy?"

Patriot Act Extension By Autopen Raises Questions for Congressman 247

Posted by timothy on Friday May 27, 2011 @08:40PM from the great-and-powerful-oz dept.

Okian Warrior writes "Congress passed the [Patriot act extension] bill Thursday night, shortly before certain provisions of the Patriot Act were set to expire. However, Mr. Obama could not sign the bill right away in person, since he was in Europe for the G8 Summit. In order to sign the bill before the measures expired, he authorized the use of the autopen machine, which holds a pen and signs his actual signature. Republican Rep. Tom Graves of Georgia sent President Obama a letter today questioning the constitutionality."

Comment Re:There's a key difference here. (Score 1) 266

by chromaexcursion on Monday May 02, 2011 @03:46PM (#36003588) Attached to: Google Sued For Tracking Users' Locations

Then they can sue the store, not Google. Each app that uses location data has a red flag that is does in the app description. RTFM. Failure to do so may impair your right to sue.

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