Mr. X - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Natural law? (Score 5, Informative) 96

by Mr. X on Sunday March 23, 2014 @12:07PM (#46557473) Attached to: Twitter Turns 8; May Drop Hashtags and @replies

It is harmonized with SMS already. The difference between 160 and 140 characters is to provide room for the username.

Comment Lazaridis is insane (Score 4, Funny) 118

by Mr. X on Friday October 11, 2013 @09:34AM (#45100695) Attached to: BlackBerry Founders May Try To Take Over the Company

Lazaridis is insane... why would he believe he could run BlackBerry any better today than he did before?

Comment Re:How (Score 1) 145

by Mr. X on Wednesday August 08, 2012 @12:26PM (#40919243) Attached to: Starbucks Partners With Square

Wi-Fi triangulation should be pretty accurate, since pretty much any Starbucks store is guaranteed to be broadcasting a Wi-Fi signal.

Comment Re: Not BES, and only India (Score 1) 164

by Mr. X on Thursday August 02, 2012 @09:53PM (#40863835) Attached to: RIM Agrees To Hand Over Its Encryption Keys To India

Are you saying that email sent via the Android GMail app isn't encrypted between the device and Google's servers? I can't believe that would be the case, since they made a big deal about forcing people onto SSL for web access to GMail quite a while ago.

Comment loopholes (Score 4, Insightful) 190

by Mr. X on Sunday April 22, 2012 @07:52PM (#39766549) Attached to: TSA Tests Automated ID Authentication

So it's taken the TSA over 10 years after 9/11 to attempt to close this loophole? Good work guys!

Comment Re:Seriously? (Score 3, Informative) 146

by Mr. X on Saturday April 07, 2012 @11:12PM (#39610325) Attached to: AT&T To Unlock Out-of-Contract iPhones

AT&T has always unlocked non-iPhones, but the news here is they finally are unlocking iPhones.

Comment Thanks! (Score 1) 1521

by Mr. X on Thursday August 25, 2011 @01:10PM (#37208474) Attached to: Rob "CmdrTaco" Malda Resigns From Slashdot

Thanks CmdrTaco! You built an amazing thing, and the world was better for it.

Comment Re:Not Published (Score 4, Interesting) 228

by Mr. X on Thursday June 09, 2011 @06:30PM (#36394496) Attached to: Why Apple's DUI Checkpoint App Ban Is Stupid

Aren't law enforcement agencies required to publish DUI checkpoints in the newspaper?

Comment Disappointed that they released w/o source code (Score 1) 150

by Mr. X on Tuesday May 25, 2010 @06:56PM (#32342718) Attached to: Secure Communication Comes To Android

However, the site claims "we will be making the source available for download and inspection shortly."

Comment Re:First rebellion (Score 1) 703

by Mr. X on Sunday March 14, 2010 @11:47PM (#31477896) Attached to: Obama Backs MPAA, RIAA, and ACTA

The % is not the important number. Our economy has grown tremendously since 1953. The pie has gotten bigger!

Wii Gets Price Cut To $199 320

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday September 24, 2009 @12:31PM from the keeping-up-with-the-softses dept.

After watching Microsoft and Sony drop the prices on the Xbox 360 and the PS3, Nintendo has decided to jump in with a price cut as well. Starting September 27th, the Wii will cost $199 in North America, a $50 drop from the previous price. Japan will be getting a slightly smaller price cut, but Europe seems to be left out of this change. Nintendo is hoping this reduction and the release of New Super Mario Bros. Wii and Wii Fit Plus in the coming months will boost slipping sales rates.

Comment love podtrapper (Score 4, Interesting) 207

by Mr. X on Monday June 22, 2009 @09:48PM (#28433139) Attached to: An Experiment In BlackBerry Development

I've been a PodTrapper user since this past January, and I have recently started looking into BlackBerry Development myself. As his write-up makes clear, Marcus at Versatile Monkey has to be one of the best developers I've had the pleasure with interacting with. I really appreciate the 'insider' view of developing for BlackBerry, and I'm sure his observations will be useful for my own pursuits.

Comment Re:FFS NO NO NO!!!! (Score 1) 429

by Mr. X on Monday March 23, 2009 @02:41PM (#27301839) Attached to: Universal Remote's Days Are Numbered

Phones are for PHONING!!!!! not texting, not taking pictures, nor playing mp3s, nor controlling radio controlled cars or anything else.. I hate having to learn to use my new nokias as it is, without piling in more crap. Whatever happened to "Do one job and do it well".. Seems nowadays it's lets cram as much crap into something that half works.

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