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  1. Nothing to see here on Intel's ME May Be Massively Infringing on Minix3's Free Software License (ipwatchdog.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Intel paid for a license and the parties involved are under an NDA.

  2. Microsoft just needs to sell us a 3:2 small bezel normal-hinged laptop like they teased 3 years ago: https://twitter.com/sephr/stat...

  3. They didn't remove Ablock Fast on Samsung To Roll Out In-TV Ads To Legacy Displays Via Software Update · · Score: 1

    and, ironically, battling Android over its own AdBlocking technology

    That was Google, not Samsung. Samsung was upset when Google removed Adblock Fast (which isn't their own app, it's a third party dev's app) from Google Play, and actually reached out to Google to get them to reverse their decision.

  4. Re:I recommend the Helix 2 on Intel Core M Notebooks Arrive, Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro Tested · · Score: 1

    Sorry, apparently I was wrong. Apparently they do have a fan (though I'm not sure if it's actually used), according to the disassembly linked below.

  5. Re:I recommend the Helix 2 on Intel Core M Notebooks Arrive, Lenovo Yoga 3 Pro Tested · · Score: 1

    and unlike the Yoga 3 it is truly a fanless design

    The Yoga 3 Pro doesn't have any fans. What are you talking about?

  6. Re:Whats going to stop me from disabling it? on US May Disable All Car Phones, Says Trans. Secretary · · Score: 1

    Unless it's a Faraday cage (though may be tricky to get it clear for in the windows).

  7. Re:MSM has always been dual core on Qualcomm Ships Dual-Core Snapdragon Chipsets · · Score: 1

    Wouldn't it be handled by the GPU using OpenVG?

  8. Not Ajax on Proof of Concept For Ajax Without JavaScript · · Score: 2, Informative

    It's not asynchronous, as the "ajax" parts have to load a whole new page with a new request. Ajax without JavaScript or iframes is multipart/x-mixed-replace.

  9. Re:What NDA? on Is Gawker's "Apple Tablet Scavenger Hunt" Illegal? · · Score: 1

    Unless you work for Apple specifically and signed the specific NDA that I'm talking about in the main post, there was no NDA until Apple says there was. The point is that without telling me there is an NDA to begin with, I would take their legal threats with a grain of salt. You don't have to legally assume that you know what the rules of a specific NDA are or that it even exists. If you had to legally assume this, it'd be illegal to pay for tips of rumors, which many websites do.

  10. Re:What NDA? on Is Gawker's "Apple Tablet Scavenger Hunt" Illegal? · · Score: 1

    Your analogy would be closer to the scavenger hunt asking for the source code for the tablet's OS programs. My point is that Apple isn't even admitting that the tablet exists (or doesn't exist) so there's no harm in asking for something that doesn't exist according to Apple in the first place. The Coca-Cola company admits that they have a secret recipe that actually exists.

  11. What NDA? on Is Gawker's "Apple Tablet Scavenger Hunt" Illegal? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If this scavenger hunt is illegal, it would also be illegal for me to offer $10k to anyone who brings me the top-secret Microsoft Phone. For it to be illegal, Apple has to admit that there are specific NDAs stopping their employees from saying anything about their tablet. Without official confirmation of a specific NDA, there's no reason this should be illegal. I don't know that there could be NDAs for the Microsoft Phone, so why should it be illegal to offer a reward for it?

  12. Re:Plugins are Still the Answer on Questioning Mozilla's Plans For HTML5 Video · · Score: 1

    So plugins are always cross-platform now?! Plugins are programs for the OS which integrate with the browser. I think phantomcircuit and you are referring to (Firefox) add-ons, which are run by the browser and usually are cross-platform as they use XUL/XBL/JavaScript.

  13. Re:I thought DRM was the issue on Questioning Mozilla's Plans For HTML5 Video · · Score: 1

    No, I just mean most tests. Google search for various Theora vs H.264 comparisons. Many of them show Theora having higher quality for the same bitrate.

  14. Re:Eyes wide shut on Questioning Mozilla's Plans For HTML5 Video · · Score: 1

    That patent is probably invalid as a standalone video opened by a video viewing program usually auto-plays the video without the user needing to push play.

  15. Re:Plugins are Still the Answer on Questioning Mozilla's Plans For HTML5 Video · · Score: 1

    That is what we have codecs for..

  16. Re:I thought DRM was the issue on Questioning Mozilla's Plans For HTML5 Video · · Score: 1

    First of all, "Flash" isn't a codec. If you are referring to H.264; in most tests, it is beaten by Theora in bitrate/quality.

  17. Re:View this in Firefox 3.5 for best results: on Questioning Mozilla's Plans For HTML5 Video · · Score: 1

    I also forgot to mention, but <video>goatse</video> would just display the text, "goatse".

  18. Re:View this in Firefox 3.5 for best results: on Questioning Mozilla's Plans For HTML5 Video · · Score: 1

    <img src="goatse"/>

    Oh wait, I forgot, browsers don't have an AI that lets them block images/video/sound based on how offensive they might be to you.

  19. Re:Eyes wide shut on Questioning Mozilla's Plans For HTML5 Video · · Score: 1

    If Flash player was open source, then the same thing would be true for it. With openness comes choice.

  20. Re:Eyes wide shut on Questioning Mozilla's Plans For HTML5 Video · · Score: 3, Informative

    By default the user needs to initiate playing the video, but there is an optional autoplay attribute which can be used to auto-buffer and auto-play the video.

  21. Input page on Wolfram Alpha Launches Tonight, On Camera · · Score: 5, Informative

    The main page's search input area is still unusable for me and if it is for you, try http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/ instead. The "i" GET parameter is your search. For example: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=world+population

  22. Re:How to stop it on Controversial Web "Framing" Makes a Comeback · · Score: 1

    WTF are you talking about? This is an inline script. It's closer to 1st-party than a relative URL.

    I think you are thinking of 3rd party cookies, which are blocked very often.

  23. Re:How to stop it on Controversial Web "Framing" Makes a Comeback · · Score: 1

    The HTML comment got removed, at "(also don't use as they fuck up E4X:" it was supposed to say:

    "(also don't use <--comments--> as they fuck up E4X):"

  24. Re:How to stop it on Controversial Web "Framing" Makes a Comeback · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Wow, good idea! Let's just introduce two more global variables in some messy code! actually, how about we don't and we use something anonymous like this (also don't use as they fuck up E4X:

    <script type="text/javascript">
    if (top.location != location) {
    top.location = location;
    }
    </script>

  25. Re:GMail on Spam Replacing Postal Junk Mail? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It seems you think spam is always all caps. All-caps spam is a trademark of the makers of that lunchmeat: http://www.spam.com/about/internet.aspx