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bygrege1
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Attached to: Some OnePlus 5s Are Reportedly Rebooting After Dialing 911
In the rest of the world on any GSM phone you can dial 112 and it will be redirected to the local emergency number. Does this work in the USA? Will it cause a reboot? It should certainly work in the UK. If it works it might at least be a workaround.
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17 @08:14PM
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Attached to: Ubuntu 17.04 'Zesty Zapus', Featuring Unity, Now Available To Download
Just install Ubuntu Gnome 17.04 and get a six to twelve month head start on everyone else.
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bygrege1
5 @07:50PM
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Attached to: Study: More Than Half of Psychological Results Can't Be Reproduced
All the major universities must have the prestige of staff who are published researchers. So there is this constant push to publish or lose your job. Not just Psychology, right across the board. The system creates a stream of mediocrity.
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bygrege1
2015 @08:40PM
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Attached to: Tracking Down How Many (Or How Few) People Actively Use Google+
Google Plus is not Facebook. Facebook is an endless stream of drivel. On Google Plus you can seek out and follow writers and organizations that you are interested in - a tailored stream of the news you want. It can very easily be passive and for a lot of people I bet it is just that. So not posting is not a valid criterion. That is using Facebook's reason for existence as a measure of success. Google Plus is different to Facebook and I am very pleased that it is what it is. I do post from time to time when it is relevant to the discussion, which is usually technical in nature. There are almost no "OMG look at my lunch" posts and that is a very good thing. With a bit of effort you can make Google Plus your own Slashdot with control over the content.
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bygrege1
013 @11:22PM
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Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Best FLOSS iTunes Replacement In 2013?
I also endorse Rocket Player. It has the simplest procedure for creating playlists and you can add more to an existing playlist any time. Or just play whole albums if that is your preference. I have tried many many Android music players and my Xperia Z has the Walkman app, but I always end up with Rocket Player.
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bygrege1
013 @02:37AM
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Attached to: Earth May Have Been Hit By a Gamma-Ray Burst In 775 AD
Perhaps you should have searched on "historical references to red cross in sky in 775AD"
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bygrege1
13 @07:27PM
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Attached to: Earth May Have Been Hit By a Gamma-Ray Burst In 775 AD
I did a search and this one is all over the Internet. Interesting correlation if nothing else.
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bygrege1
13 @07:15PM
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Attached to: Earth May Have Been Hit By a Gamma-Ray Burst In 775 AD
I think the red cross is mentioned in the "Anglo Saxon Chronicles". I have a copy but finding the reference might take a while.
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bygrege1
2013 @06:59PM
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Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Anti-Theft Devices For Luggage?
A sensible traveller does not take anything valuable with them. Buy some cheap clothes, a disposable watch etc and put in a cheap bag. Put important things like passport and credit cards in a money belt. Carry a small backpack as carry on luggage if you really must have a notebook or tablet.. Get a cheap pre-paid phone when you arrive.
If some fool steals your suitcase wander down to the nearest H&M and get another cheap case and fill it with cheap clothes. Claim the old case on insurance.
Easy. If you take nothing valuable then you have nothing to worry about and thus enjoy your holiday considerably more.
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bygrege1
2 @07:59PM
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Attached to: Google Distances Android From Samsung Patent Verdict
Google already maintain multiple branches. Plus a court could easily rule multi-touch as an essential patent. The USA hates monopolies, if the court grants Apple a monopoly the politicians will tear them down. A so we will go around again and again.
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bygrege1
012 @07:33PM
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Attached to: Ask Slashdot: I Want To Read More. Should I Get an eBook Reader Or a Tablet?
I cannot agree more. I have a Kobo WiFi and a Nexus 7 and a Xoom. 10" tablets are too heavy for serious reading. I have the Kobo app on my Nexus and the two sync. So I can use the Kobo in daylight for reading novels. The Kobo is light and runs for weeks and is easy on the eyes. I read a book on the Kobo faster than on a dead tree book. At night when every one else is asleep the Nexus is great because you can read it in the dark or in low light. The Nexus weighs more than the Kobo but is light enough. The Nexus wins hands down for reading magazines and technical books. Anything with pictures or diagrams and I use the tablet. The one big advantage to the Nexus is thet you can install Kobo, Google Play, Aldiko etc etc and buy books from all of them. Nothing like competition. And with Feedbooks and Calibre the whole universe of out of copyright books is available.
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2 @08:50PM
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Attached to: GNOME: Staring Into the Abyss
Troll? Really? Anyone with a different view of the world to you is a troll?
There is a simple retort to your silly jibe. If you live in the third world or in the middle of a desert then do not use Internet connected services. Xfce4 will serve you fine. But do not suggest that the rest of us should be reduced to the lowest common denominator. Those of us who live in big cities in the developed world and who have an Internet connection everywhere would very much like to move forward and use the applications of the 21st C. Anyone with an Android phone or an iPhone can configure that phone to be a mobile WiFi hotspot. If your provider does not allow this then change providers. Your own connection, locked down, everywhere. If you have a phone you are always connected. 3G accounts keep coming down in price. At home my ADSL 2+ never fails. Years and years of up time.
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bygrege1
@07:54PM
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Attached to: GNOME: Staring Into the Abyss
I use Gnome 3.4 every day and would never go back to the old ways.
Extension are a terrific idea and there is plenty of development in that area. The future of the desktop is as a seamless connection to the Internet, so that local apps and online apps are both available as if they are all installed locally. Queue the naysayers who will go on about what happens when you do not have a connection. That is why Gnome can be a mixture of local and remote.
You can stay stuck in the past with Mate, or move into the future. It does not bother me if you stay stuck in the past, but I look forward to the next generation of Gnome, and the one after that.
Lastly, there would not be a Unity or a Cinnamon without Gnome. Both are merely alternate shells to Gnome 3.x. But that is the strength of the new Gnome, you can make alternate shells.
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@06:51PM
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Attached to: How Steve Jobs Changed Google Plus
Google accepted advice from a man who declared Thermonuclear War against them.
Seriously?
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bygrege1
@08:20PM
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Attached to: RMS Robbed of Passport and Other Belongings In Argentina
It would not have mattered if his speeches were in Google Docs or one of the other cloud services. Borrow any computer and log in.
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