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  1. Re:Only If You Have Liked Those Pages on Facebook Adds Ads To News Feed · · Score: 1

    But if I don't promiscuously "like" commercial organisation's pages, I won't get all the free sweet nothings they're offering.

  2. Your ideas on Eben Moglen: Social Networking "Creating Systems of Comprehensive Surveillance" · · Score: 3, Funny

    Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your facebook group.

  3. Tautology on Apple Patents Power Adapter That Recovers Lost Passwords · · Score: 2

    All hashes are one way because data is thrown away. You can't even reverse simple checksums like CRC32.

    This system doesn't store a plaintext password. It's like a secondary authentication system. Think SSH: You can authenticate using a password OR public key cryptography.

  4. Apple tax on Apple Patents Power Adapter That Recovers Lost Passwords · · Score: 1

    As if they need a technical restriction, when they're so heavy handed with the legislative restrictions.
    I'd never buy, for example a phone, that didn't have a micro USB charger, or a stereo that had a wacky propitiatory interface like an "ipod dock".

    It shouldn't be legal to block or tax 3rd party accessory makers, and what's needed is more forced standards for consumer screwing companies like Apple.

  5. Re:Test on Are Brain Teasers Good Hiring Criteria? · · Score: 4, Funny

    Two applicants apply for a job. One loves teasers and would happily work for the company forever for low pay but lies, and the other will flip out and murder you with corporate stationary and always tells the truth.

    What do you ask the water cooler that can only glug once for yes and twice for no about the applicants?

  6. How should an interviewee best handle... on Are Brain Teasers Good Hiring Criteria? · · Score: 1

    How should an interviewee best handle these questions?

    Soul sucking corporate culture ahead. Run away before they hire you.

  7. Re:But what use would I have for it? on FreeDOS 1.1 Released · · Score: 1

    Bit easier just to play Flash Doom

  8. Re:Chrome sucks anyways... on Google Punishing Chrome Results For 60 Days · · Score: 1

    What's crappy about Chrome's XHR support? Are you referring to this? http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=35705

    (Browser geek. Genuinely interested)

  9. You missed the point on IE6 Almost Dead In the US · · Score: 1

    The upcoming HTML5 features vastly expands the possibles of web browser.

    Now you could fall back to that argument that you only want your browser to display documents, so browsers are already good enough, but most people want more. That is the reason we have flash and a bunch of propitiatory phone environments.

    Implementing the finer points of HTML5 in a timely manner, will go a long way to ensuring the viability of web apps on the "open web".
    Or did you prefer walled gardens?

  10. Nope on IE6 Almost Dead In the US · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Since you got modded up so high, I think you also need to be taken down a notch.

    1. There is no way you'd say IE9 was on par with Chrome if you were a developer or even just peaked under the hood. Javascript performance is pathetic.
    2. "Security features" never amount to actual security. Sounds good in the marketing blurb though.
    3. HTML5 is not a tickbox. It's a collection of features, and IE has the worst support today.
    4. I suggest we pre-emptively hate it, because we're going to get STUCK with it.
  11. Wrong, IE9 sucks on IE6 Almost Dead In the US · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I posted a comment almost identical to yours this year praising IE9, but today IE9 is not a good browser.
    It's an old and crusty browser, because you know web stuff moves THAT fast.

    As usual IE is tightly bound to windows, and yet again particular versions of windows. IE9 supports some HTML5 stuff sure. It also supports canvas, but canvas is useless without requestAnimationFrame. Session history management, asyncronous external Javascript, native Regex form validation

    http://caniuse.com/ for the complete list of how embarrassingly old IE9 is.
    So sorry, but your comment is around 9 months out of date.

  12. Re:First show getting great reviews on China Trials Its First 3D TV Channel · · Score: 1

    The only three programs on Chinese television are dramas set in Ancient China, dramas set during the cultural revolution, and sappy Korean soaps.
    Although it's no worse than anyone else's programs.

  13. Won't work on Researchers Build TCP-Based Spam Detection · · Score: 2

    Even if the spam click-though rate is 0.0%, there are still enough suckers born every minute to buy the service of spammers.

  14. Gzip on Average Web Page Approaches 1MB · · Score: 2

    Don't feel too smug. Your page isn't even compressed.

  15. Developers should care on Average Web Page Approaches 1MB · · Score: 2

    40-60% of Yahoo!’s users have an empty cache experience and ~20% of all page views are done with an empty cache.

    http://yuiblog.com/blog/2007/01/04/performance-research-part-2/

  16. Re:Why don't they just kill it? on ASF Lays Out Its Plan For OpenOffice.org · · Score: 2

    There's nothing wrong with the name Libreoffice. OpenOffice dot org; now there's a ridiculous name.

  17. Prevoius story on Corporate Claims On Public Domain YouTube Videos · · Score: 2

    http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/07/28/0124213/better-copyright-through-fair-use-and-ponies

    Hasbro need to tweak their merchandising if they're to capitalize on the older fan base. Canonical ponies, and complete seasons on blu-ray with extras.
    No self respecting brony is going to buy a PINK Princess Celestia.

  18. You must wait 00:59 to read this comment. on Pop Artists Support Megaupload; Universal Censors · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Pay to be a Premium Reader:

    * Priority reading of comments.
    * Reading comments in parallel.
    * Astroturfing free comments.
    * Support for reading accelerators.

  19. Unity on GNOME 3 Wins Linux Journal's Readers' Choice Award · · Score: 1

    Unity - At least it's not GNOME shell.

  20. Do not call on Download.com Bundling Adware With Free Software · · Score: 1

    Can I put the 90s on my 'do not call' list?

  21. Rapidshare on Download.com Bundling Adware With Free Software · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Rapidshare, for that authentic 90s warez feel.

    Not hosting your own files, or torrents for larger stuff, looks about as professional as a hotmail address on a business card.

  22. Re:It Can Tell by the Pixels on How Photoshopped Is That Picture? · · Score: 5, Funny

    This looks GIMPED. I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few GIMPS in my time.

  23. Product placement on Amazon Denies Reports That Airport Scanners Ruin Kindle's e-Ink · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's a chef's pal! A dicer, peeler, grater, all in one!

    Slashdot often gives me the surreal feeling of contrived product placements. How many stories do we get where iphone did X, where actually any old phone would have done?

  24. Re:Sharing is piracy!!!! on Teaching Programming Now Emphasizes Sharing · · Score: 1

    Sharing is theft

    -- MPAA

  25. Re:Dilute the results on Google Starts Indexing Facebook Comments · · Score: 1

    Turn off Javascript and you (and google) will see only the highly moderated ones in full, with others abbreviated or hidden.

    A sensible approach.