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  1. Re:Clever PHBs... on Code Reviews vs. Pair Programming (mavenhive.in) · · Score: 1

    Yeah but there is a definite downside - half the time your partner will be coding...

  2. Re:And will insert its own ads... on Former Mozilla CEO Launches Security-Centric Browser Brave · · Score: 1

    This is about creating his own ad network, and telling us it's for our benefit.

    So, just like Opera and Vivaldi then. Seems to be about what you get when you start with Chromium.

  3. Re:Unenforceable and stupid on Use Code From Stack Overflow? You Must Provide Attribution (stackexchange.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Maybe SO should require their own cadre of geniuses to attribute their submissions/answers - which themselves are scraped from W3C, wikipedia, etc. Or the questions that are "self-answered" - just so said person can answer a question...

  4. Zimbra was gawd awful - like a "native" Java program on crack. PostBox was ok - but it's just a reskinned semi-commercialized Firefox|Thunderbird - and it has a freaking conniption fit if you *try* to archive your emails. PostBox's update "policy" is pretty piss-poor as well.

  5. Re:But California wants to know... on The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Adhesive Tape (hackaday.com) · · Score: 1

    California doesn't make that distinction with it's signage. ""This product contains materials known to the state of California to cause cancer."" --- it's less than fucking useless. The signage is on almost everything. We bought pillow-animal toys (velcro attaches so they can stand) from Costco. Apparently cotton, and nylon causes cancer according to "California".

  6. UserScript (greaseMonkey) + UserCSS on How Big Was the Universe When It Was First Born? · · Score: 2
    Add this as a userscript for slashdot.org

    var writers = document.querySelectorAll('div.body > div.p > a[href^="/~"]');
    for (var writer of writers)
    {
    if(writer.innerHTML == "StartsWithABang")
    writer.parentElement.parentElement.parentElement.classList.add("HideThisCrap");
    }

    Add UserCSS, e.g. with Stylish:

    .HideThisCrap { display:none; }

  7. about:memory is about as useful as a wet dull stick.

  8. I'm sure you are correct. Yet if an extension uses memory - Firefox should know --- and when you close windows (and tabs) then that RAM should be released. Yet that is not the case. Unlike every other browser - that memory in use becomes nearly untouchable until you close and restart Firefox.

  9. Re:Regulate the infrastructure like a utility? on Marco Rubio and Other Senators Move To Block Municipal Broadband (theintercept.com) · · Score: 1

    Just political BS. That's how the system worked in many parts of Canada -- at least the Atlantic provinces for sure --- prior to cable internet. When the Internet was primarily dial-up and DSL, the telco's were required by law to share the lines at a reasonable price. IIRC additional laws were passed, or loosened to the point where the Telco's didn't have to offer|rent the line at a reasonable price, and the whole system went in a similar direction as the States.

    A few differences remain still though. The phone infrastructure is maintained across the country, and you'd have to really live in the deep boonies to not have at least 2 choices for internet service. It also seems I rarely (if ever) ever hear of any other first-world country, except for the US (and UK on "privacy|monitoring matters") that has public representatives that regularly talk about removing rights and choice from the serfs under them.

    Europe may not be the last bastion of civility, but when I hear what representatives in the European councils and legislatures have to say. It tends to be thoughtful, intelligent and likely has to do with the rights of the people --- not the corporate people.

  10. That would be lovely, now if only Firefox kept track of all that memory it uses, we might get somewhere.

    Try it out. Use Firefox for a day or so, check out the various system memory usages. Close Tabs. Hell close whole windows...
    Although it might freeze up for 1-10 minutes while it tries to figure out what to do now. The one thing it definitely wont do though is give up the precious ram.
    Yeah... still using 2.5 Gigs FF Developer (or Nightly) --- which has been available as 64 bit for more than a year.

  11. Re: Radiation... on North Carolina Town Defeats Big Solar's Plan To Suck Up the Sun (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    And the sun I-I-I-I-S-S-S-Z radiation.
    Consider that each letter is about 1/4 second; when capitalized like that it might also be akin to a word being bold AND italic.
    Emphasis Mine.

  12. Re:Pretty sure... on SHA-1 Cutoff Could Block Millions of Users From Encrypted Websites (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    Has nothing to do with Adobe not licensing to "most hardware manufacturers." You bought a smart-TV. It will most-likely never get a firmware update, and the DRM-scheme for Flash streaming was updated --- Flash "broke" on your "smart' TV... as it's not really "smart" --- its a locked content device.

  13. Re:the biggest problem was the vendor. on AVG, McAfee, Kaspersky Antiviruses All Had a Common Bug (softpedia.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    most traffic will grind to a glorious halt while its inspected, detected, and

    Don't you mean, "Injected, Inspected, Detected, Infected, Neglected and Selected."
    --- Arlo Guthrie.

  14. Re: Anyone else think she could be a plant? on Yahoo To Spin Off Everything That Makes It Yahoo (nytimes.com) · · Score: 0

    Yes I do think she rose to the top because she was brilliant. You don't get anywhere at Google by being a lackey. Period.

  15. Would of, could of, might of, must of on Microsoft To Open Source Chakra, the JavaScript Engine In Its Edge Browser (windows.com) · · Score: 1
    Would of, could of, might of, must of

    The mistake dates to at least 1837, according to the OED, so it has probably been infuriating pedants for almost 200 years. Common words spelt incorrectly provoke particular ire, sometimes accompanied by aspersions cast on the writer’s intelligence, fitness for society, degree of evolution, and so on. But there’s no need for any of that.

    Have a lovely day.

  16. Re:What Opera should of done on Microsoft To Open Source Chakra, the JavaScript Engine In Its Edge Browser (windows.com) · · Score: 1

    And the newfoundlander would just be like whaztch yewshay d'ar boooiii??

  17. What Opera should of done on Microsoft To Open Source Chakra, the JavaScript Engine In Its Edge Browser (windows.com) · · Score: 2

    Well that's kinda awesome. Too bad Opera ASA left their Opera legacy and mail client to rot into obscurity instead of letting the code free.

  18. Everything is being Recorded. on Racing a Real Car While Wearing an Oculus VR Headset (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    Everything is being Recorded --- that's the point. There will also be driver-less ("A.I." only) Nascar races. The data from these kinds of experiments is going to be extremely valuable. I would lay odds on Nascar being completely driver-less --- as far as having a physical driver in the car within the foreseeable future.

  19. Re:Bug for bug compat w/o conspicuous deprecation on The Top Programming Languages That Spawn the Most Security Bugs (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course. You can even have PHP4 and 5 installed and usable. I imagine many will be doing that with PHP7 to begin with.
    You also don't need to make "server-wide" enforced settings for PHP. Each server-client can have custom PHP.ini's.

  20. Re:I won't use a DBMS I cannot pronounce. on Why To Choose PostgreSQL Over MySQL, MariaDB (dice.com) · · Score: 1

    They should of made querying the DB with regex a first-class citizen, and called it PostGrep.

  21. Re:BS on SSDs Approaching Price Parity With HDDs (computerworld.com) · · Score: 1
    I think it's questionable if a pure spinning-disk HD or SSD is the "future". Consider that Media storage demands have escalated
    rapidly in a very short time. We also have a huge variance in display technology now.

    5120x2880 == 14745600 pixels
    1600x 900 === 1440000 pixels

    A sample png image with the dimensions 1600x900 takes up ~350KB on disk and 4.12MB in Memory.

    An image that fits the new screens will be at least 3.5MB. Camera resolutions are also up around that 5K monitor size.
    To display an image that will look decent on current portable devices you need to use images that are 4-10 times the size
    that you would of used even 5 years ago.

    So we will need nearly 10 times the disk-space that we did even 5 years ago.

    As other posters noted, Games have gone from 600MB to 50GB in 15 years, and it wasn't that many years ago when 5-10GB for a game would be considered outrageous.

    It will be interesting to see if either HD or SSDs can actually keep up before a new technology eclipses them both.

  22. PostBox Update Policy on Mozilla May Separate Itself From Thunderbird Email Client (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I've used PostBox, it has the same problems with Archive as GP mentioned.
    PostBox also has a complete BS update policy --- Updates within major versions included in your license.
    Except they don't update the major version?
    We purchased September 2014, and the version was from around June 2014 --- There were no updates for over a year (none, zero, zilch, not even a single security update).
    Yet this year (June) saw the release of PostBox 4 - including security updates. Buy Again. FU.

  23. That Elusive 7" E-Reader... on Ask Slashdot: What Single Change Would You Make To a Tech Product? · · Score: 1

    Here's an example: over the past several years, e-readers have standardized on 6-inch screens. For all the variety that exists in smartphone and tablet sizing, the e-reader market has decided it must copy the Kindle form factor or die trying. Having used an e-reader before all this happened, I found a 7-8" e-ink screen to be an amazingly better reading experience. Oh well, I'm out of luck. It's not the worst thing in the world, but I'd fix it immediately if I could.

    Oh well, if only you could find a 7-8" ereader. You must of scoured the earth.

    Display Size:
    5" (47), 6" (343)
    7" (24), 8" (1)
    10" (4)

    You must of searched heaven and hell for that 7-8" e-reader.

    eBook Reader Display Size
    Under 6 Inches (8)
    6 to 6.9 Inches (70)
    7 to 7.9 Inches (47)
    8 to 8.9 Inches (2)
    9 to 9.4 Inches 9 to 9.4 Inches (1)
    9.5 to 9.9 Inches 9.5 to 9.9 Inches (4)
    10 Inches & Above 10 Inches & Above (2)

  24. Re:PHP and CGI make it too easy... on The History of SQL Injection, the Hack That Will Never Go Away (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Interesting. Banshee includes many features that every other "CMS" require "extensions" for -- which winds up being mostly unverified third-party code from developers of possibly questionable skill. It would also appear that Banshee's source has undergone at least one external third-party security audit.

    I wonder how Banshee compares to ProcessWire...

    From the surface at least Banshee looks more "big-feature" complete|inclusive than ProcessWire.

  25. Re:Tree Style Tabs on Mozilla Is Removing Tab Groups and Complete Themes From Firefox (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Opera has something close (Tab Sidebar), but it's extremely basic atm, and has a few too many quirks --- especially when you have more than one window with Tabs.
    Chrome & Opera can use Sidewise --- which also has quirks since it is forced to run in it's own window, because Google.
    Sidewise does at least allow for TreeStyle pseudo-tabs, and suspended windows/tabs/sessions.

    So even with "Tab Sidebar" you still wind up needing at least one or more other extensions, and it still doesn't match FF's TreeStyleTab's functionality.