bl8n8r - Slashdot User

Comment None of this is worth crap until (Score 1) 223

by bl8n8r on Friday April 15, 2011 @03:36PM (#35832152) Attached to: Solar Breakthrough Could Provide Power Without Solar Cells

..It can be implemented main-stream, for less cost and be more efficient that current processes. Until then this is all just intellectual masturbation.

Comment Something looks a little fishy here (Score 3, Informative) 79

by bl8n8r on Friday April 15, 2011 @01:11PM (#35830476) Attached to: Skype For Android Can Leak Data To Malicious Apps

# ls -l /data/data/com.skype.merlin_mecha/files/jcaseap The dude is in as root (via adb shell?). note the '#'. I guess he's still got a point about 666 on private files. As long as you have execute perms on the directory, you can read files tagged o+r.

Comment I don't have a financial profile unless (Score 1) 301

by bl8n8r on Wednesday April 13, 2011 @10:21AM (#35807490) Attached to: Facebook To Be 'Biggest Bank' By 2015

"Screwed by the USA and it's Mortgage Racket" counts.

Comment Can symantec to catch up? (Score 1) 348

by bl8n8r on Tuesday April 12, 2011 @08:41PM (#35802118) Attached to: Windows Already Up and Running On ARM Architecture

No way I'd run it without antivirus.

Comment sales tax due on out of state purchases (Score 1) 705

by bl8n8r on Tuesday April 12, 2011 @05:57PM (#35800006) Attached to: Senator Wants to Tax Internet Shopping

been that way forever in some states. this is nothing new for some people.

Comment Kill it with fire (Score 1) 257

by bl8n8r on Wednesday April 06, 2011 @08:28PM (#35739804) Attached to: Mono Comes To Android

anything novell is offering is better suited for use as an example of what *not* to use. sorry, but someone please kill mono with fire, and while your at it, drive a wooden stake through the lump under the blanket next to it - silverlight.

Comment the internet doesn't 'promote' anything (Score 1) 585

by bl8n8r on Sunday April 03, 2011 @09:53AM (#35699118) Attached to: Vatican Warns That Internet Promotes Satanism

the vatican words this like the internet is some conscious body making decisions and choices of what people are or not doing. in reality, people are doing no less than exercising their free will. truth is, vatican, some people choose to do things the catholic church deems inappropriate. the internet is just a medium which peopleuse to represent whatever religeous viewpoints or perspectives they want to, without people getting burned or strung up for not complying with the dogmatic consensus. at least for now.

Comment just a bigger screen (Score 1) 231

by bl8n8r on Thursday March 31, 2011 @03:36PM (#35681554) Attached to: Android 3.0 Is Trickling In, But Are the Apps?

Add multiple screen support to your manifest file. 2.1 stuff seems pretty compatible so far, at least the stuff I've tried. Motorola and google only just released the honeycomb/xoom dev stuff a couple weeks ago. also, the price makes the xoom a bit out of reach for some.

Comment Could be intentional on Oracle's behalf (Score 1) 288

by bl8n8r on Monday March 28, 2011 @11:23AM (#35640022) Attached to: MySql.com Hacked With Sql Injection

Maybe create a little negative press for MySQL and in the process Oracle looks better.

Comment Authors like FOSS and Shareware authors? (Score 0) 617

by bl8n8r on Friday March 25, 2011 @09:35AM (#35610576) Attached to: MS Wants Laws To Block Products Made By Software Pirates

Microsoft has become a douche. In Microsoft's eyes, anyone *not* writing applications for the Windows platform is a "Pirate".

Comment Just like the US (Score 1) 366

by bl8n8r on Tuesday March 22, 2011 @04:47PM (#35578938) Attached to: China Starts Censoring Phone Calls Mid Sentence

Except the US is more sneaky about it than China. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_warrantless_surveillance_controversy

Comment seems like an awesome idea (Score 2) 172

by bl8n8r on Thursday March 17, 2011 @07:15AM (#35514404) Attached to: Ubisoft Announces Music Game For Real Guitars

it's really frustrating trying to learn guitar. Following finger positions is almost impossible at first because as you face the person everything is backwards and your brain wants your hand to move left, for instance, when you see the other person move left.

what's more is trying to learn guitar with guitar-hero and the like is like trying to learn sex through masturbation. You are kind of doing it, but there is way more going on with the real thing.

i 'll be checking this one out when it hits the shops!

Comment I'm sick of being handcuffed (Score 1) 239

by bl8n8r on Wednesday March 16, 2011 @07:00AM (#35501750) Attached to: No Contactless Payment System In Next iPhone

I wish I could feel better about apple. Every time I read abut how they are worried they are going to loose a niche, I feel like I'm getting bent over.

Comment not so much about the feds (Score 1) 323

by bl8n8r on Wednesday March 09, 2011 @01:35PM (#35432340) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Privacy Paranoia

when a future employer, coworker, s/o, insurance comgoogles me I don't necessarily want them to know everything about me.

Comment shareware isn't about the money (Score 2) 358

by bl8n8r on Wednesday March 09, 2011 @08:49AM (#35428434) Attached to: Trumpet Winsock Creator Made Little Money

Over the past 20 years i've written about a dozen pieces of shareware. Open sourced several programs too. The part that was important to me was that people find my software useful or fun. I do it because I enjoy the work, not because I want to get rich.

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