Comment Re: Autocorrect :) (Score 1) 96

by tian2992 on Friday February 20, 2015 @08:43AM (#49093761) Attached to: How Machine Learning Ate Microsoft

"Ate" or "ad"?

Comment Re:Google more restrictive than Microsoft (Score 1) 194

by tian2992 on Sunday March 09, 2014 @06:41PM (#46441793) Attached to: Google Blocking Asus's Android-Windows "Duet"?

Chromebooks do allow you to install Linux http://www.chromebook-linux.co... just flip a switch.

Comment Re:Bad analogy (Score 1) 161

by tian2992 on Wednesday September 25, 2013 @06:10PM (#44953855) Attached to: LLVM's Libc++ Now Has C++1Y Standard Library Support

Or maybe because it might as well be built in the USA http://www.hondainamerica.com/manufacturing

Comment Re:Trending political procedures... (Score 1) 314

by tian2992 on Friday September 13, 2013 @01:21PM (#44842077) Attached to: NYC Is Tracking RFID Toll Collection Tags All Over the City

You still are tracked. Most bridges and toll booths have cameras.

Comment Re: Matlab and a few games (Score 1) 222

by tian2992 on Saturday August 31, 2013 @03:35PM (#44725803) Attached to: What percentage of the software you use regularly is open source?

You can install the same pepper plugin from Chrome into chromium.

Comment Chromebox / Chromebook (Score 5, Insightful) 418

by tian2992 on Tuesday March 05, 2013 @05:02PM (#43083619) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How Best To Set Up a Parent's PC?

Chrome OS just screams out for usecases like this.

Comment Why? (Score 1) 736

by tian2992 on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @12:19AM (#42879247) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Why Is It So Hard To Make An Accurate Progress Bar?

Why is it so hard to prove than NP = P?

Submission + - The Android SDK is longer free software. (fsfe.org) 1

Submitted by

tian2992

on Thursday January 03, 2013 @09:36PM

tian2992 writes: "The new terms for the Android SDK now include phrases such as "you may not: (a) copy (except for backup purposes), modify, adapt, redistribute, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, or create derivative works of the SDK or any part of the SDK" among other non-Free software friendly terms, as noted by FSF Europe's Torsten Grote. Replicant, a free fork of Android announced the release of Replicant SDK 4.0 based on the latest sources of Android SDK without the new terms."

Submission + - Microsoft: No Security Patch On Tuesday For IE6, IE7, IE8 Vulnerability

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 03, 2013 @05:59PM

An anonymous reader writes: Right on schedule, Microsoft on Thursday announced its usual advance notification for the upcoming Patch Tuesday. While the company is planning to release seven bulletins (two Critical and five Important) which address 12 vulnerabilities, there is one that is notably missing: a bulletin for the new IE vulnerability discovered on Saturday. For those who didn't see the news on the weekend, criminals started using a new IE security hole to attack Windows computers in targeted attacks. While IE9 and IE10 are not affected, versions IE6, IE7, and IE8 are.

Comment Re:USB OTG (Score 2) 87

by tian2992 on Friday October 26, 2012 @07:52PM (#41784889) Attached to: Ubuntu Now Available On the Nexus 7

OTG is supported, just drive automountig is not enabled.

Misc Slashdot Anniversary: Guatemala City, GT

Submitted by tian2992 on Friday September 28, 2012 @08:56PM

Get more information about the Slashdot Anniversary Party at Cafe Barista Roosevelt / FSM.

Comment Re:Does not make sense to me (Score 2) 140

by tian2992 on Saturday August 11, 2012 @04:10PM (#40959675) Attached to: Pixar Demos Newly Open-Sourced OpenSubdiv Graphics Tech

Did you read the MS-PL? The licence they are using to release it includes a patent grant, and a potential protection on patent suits.

Comment Yay? (Score 0) 155

by tian2992 on Tuesday August 07, 2012 @03:57AM (#40902793) Attached to: ReactOS Presented To Russian President Putin

Seriously, a russian guy presenting a semi-obscure OS is news today, seems like a really slow news day for slashdot.

Comment the problem is (Score 5, Funny) 125

by tian2992 on Saturday June 02, 2012 @12:35PM (#40194659) Attached to: Google Applies For Dot-LOL Domain

cats.lol does not have the same ring to it sadly...

Comment As always this was already done before (Score 2) 165

by tian2992 on Saturday June 02, 2012 @11:49AM (#40194427) Attached to: SSID As the New Community Bulletin Board and Yard Sign

I am surprised to see that much ruckus about this "OpenSignalMaps" when Wigle http://wigle.net/ already existed for a while, and has more than 61 million networks recorded around the world. I do know they don't have the fancy Web2.0 website, but they have been doing this before that even got popular...

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