Comment Re:Seems dumb (Score 2) 125
Follower count for each would make each account look more popular. Follower count is used in some of the third party twitter searches to improve relevance... *fail*
Comment Re:Easy? (Score 1) 61
Seems to be a very small subset of users that would be affected. I wonder what % of Chrome users are using a different search engine... I'd bet its a pretty small# on just the first caveat.
Comment Great move by the XBMC team (Still a little sad) (Score 4, Interesting) 213
As a XBMC user on the old Xbox platform, I would like to say thank you to all the code monkeys out there who made that old junky hardware viable for nearly ten years even though it was not the purpose design for the hardware.
I see this as a great move for the project to disregard the limitations of the original hardware as they revitalize the project to better compete with some of the other Media Center software that has started looking more attractive in the last 2 years.
Good by Xbox, you had a good run!
Comment Re:All spoofing isn't bad (Score 1) 258
I think not, as the law is pretty clear about requiring
and since your Google Voice number is still a number belonging to you, I doubt it would be a crime to use it as your caller id.
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Ask Slashdot: Where bad ideas meet poor googling skills.
This would nicely eliminate any of the positive spooking incidents from violating the law.
Intent to deceive is required and would not qualify under the circumstances you mention.
Submission + - Will the Mobile Web Kill Off the App Store? (wired.com)
ScuttleMonkey writes: "Mozilla seems to be throwing more gas on the debate of whether mobile web browsing or native (or even cross-platform) applications will win out in the long run. With the impending release of their new mobile web browser "Fennec", Mozilla hopes to create a streamlined experience with javascript and html that isn't a performance nightmare. "Web proponents such as Mozilla and Google dream that internet standards will enable any app to run on any device, just as Java proponents touted a “write once, run anywhere” vision in the 1990s. Similarly, Adobe’s Flash emerged as a cross-platform environment for creating animations, games and apps for the web. But many consumers and developers have complained that Java and Flash exhibit bugs, performance problems and security vulnerabilities, among other issues. And Java’s promises of universality didn’t quite work out, because different implementations of the Java virtual machine (not to mention wildly varying hardware capabilities) mean that, even today, Java coders need to rework their apps for each target device.""
Submission + - SPAM: How-to install Broadcom Wireless Drivers in Ubuntu
timmy1980 writes: "This new screencast video tutorial I show you step by step How-to install and setup the Broadcom B43/BCM43xx Wireless Drivers in Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty or Linux Mint 7. I show how to use the Hardware Drivers application that comes with these Linux Operating System Distributions. You can also use the same program to install Nvidia or ATI Graphics Card Drivers."
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Submission + - Comcast in deal talks with NBC Universal (latimes.com)
schwit1 writes: "Cable giant Comcast Corp. is kicking the tires of NBC Universal.
Comcast, the nation's largest cable operator with almost 25 million subscribers, has been looking to increase its content holdings for several years. In NBC Universal it would get its hands on not only a big broadcast network and movie studio, but also several powerful cable channels, including USA, Syfy, CNBC, MSNBC and Bravo.
When is big, too big? Comcast is already playing hardball with DirecTV over Versus."
Comcast, the nation's largest cable operator with almost 25 million subscribers, has been looking to increase its content holdings for several years. In NBC Universal it would get its hands on not only a big broadcast network and movie studio, but also several powerful cable channels, including USA, Syfy, CNBC, MSNBC and Bravo.
When is big, too big? Comcast is already playing hardball with DirecTV over Versus."
Comment HIV from african monkeys? (Score 1) 360
Remember the theories about HIV coming from African monkeys. How does that square with this new-found immunity? Does it work by making the infected monkey just a carrier, without developing AIDS?
