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  1. Re: Censorship through comment on Google Reinstating Some 'Forgotten' Links · · Score: 2

    "stan o'neil" site:bbc.co.uk returns the article. This is all hysterical bullshit.

  2. Re: What's the point? on Microsoft Opens 'Transparency Center' For Governments To Review Source Code · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Some of the most expensive IT failures in history have come from contracting it out to the amazingly efficient do no wrong private sector.

  3. Re:Good idea on Lawrence Lessig Answers Your Questions About His Mayday PAC, Part 2 (Video) · · Score: 1

    Damn those lefties and their workers' rights, rights for minorities and women, universal education and universal vaccination.

  4. Re: No, they're replacing. on If Immigration Reform Is Dead, So Is Raising the H-1B Cap · · Score: 1

    In which EU nations do you "just get handed citizenship"? I can't speak for other countries but here in the UK becoming a citizen is a long and quite expensive process.

  5. Re:Mod parent up. on Opera Releases a New Version For Linux · · Score: 1

    That really does suck. I'm not best pleased about that since it's totally unnecessary. My misunderstanding of your point was that I installed an extension (I had no idea there was a difference between that an app which I guess is obvious now I think about it) which didn't require my password. As soon as I followed your link and tried to install it asked me for my login details. That's really shit. The developer check box doesn't make a difference either.

  6. Re:Mod parent up. on Opera Releases a New Version For Linux · · Score: 1

    It's not really a monoculture when there are 4 separately developed rendering engines. IE isn't going away thanks to corporate users, Firefox is still going strong although nowhere near where it was, Apple have a strong market position that will not go anywhere in the near future and Google has forked Webkit to go their own way so I can't see any single browser dominance any time in the near future and I certainly haven't come across a single site that insists I use a particular browser like used to happen in the bad old days of IE5 and 6.

    I'll have to investigate the apps issue further because I'm not happy with them saying where I can install apps from. They don't do it on Android so why should they do it on Chrome.

    I'm not defending Google here by the way but people's fears of a return to the early 2000s IE only nightmare seem largely unfounded to me. Google have contributed a number of technologies to everyone - a long way from the One Microsoft Way of yesteryear.

  7. Re:RIP firefox, lean and fast on Mozilla Introduces Browser-Based WebIDE · · Score: 1

    Firefox uses Gecko, Opera and Chrome use Blink and Safari uses Webkit. That's 3 if you exclude IE.

  8. Re:Mod parent up. on Opera Releases a New Version For Linux · · Score: 1

    How is it a monoculture? Can you give examples of sites that only work in Chrome or say "this site works best in Chrome" a la IE6? I think it's unlikely website owners would annoy all the iDevice users who don't have access to Chrome.

    I didn't know you needed a Google account to install extensions so I just logged out and installed a random extension. It didn't ask me to log in again so I don't know if it was happy that I just exist in the Google world or whether they've taken that requirement out again in the latest version (35.0.1916.153 on Windows 8.1).

  9. Re:Prior Art on How Disney Built and Programmed an Animatronic President · · Score: 1

    That was my first thought when I read the headline as well.

  10. Re: Be honest about the US, world on ICANN CEO Wants To Make Progress On Leaving US Control · · Score: 2
  11. Re:Long-lived. on X Window System Turns 30 Years Old · · Score: 1

    Much like Windows XP. But try telling the geniuses around here who think it's just a matter of buying everyone a new PC.

  12. Re:Thyroid condition ? Doubtful. on EU's Top Court May Define Obesity As a Disability · · Score: 1

    Huh? Plants absorb nutrients from the soil.

  13. Re:No, we don't on Google Engineer: We Need More Web Programming Languages · · Score: 1

    Like what?

  14. Re:Good bye source compatibility on Apple Announces New Programming Language Called Swift · · Score: 1

    That happens on Android too. It's Slashdot that sucks. It tells me I've entered my password wrong when I haven't.

  15. Re:White Moto X on Apple Says Many Users 'Bought an Android Phone By Mistake' · · Score: 1

    Absolutely. If it works for you than that's fine. Android works better for me so that's why I use it. If the iPhone gave me an expert mode that would give me the freedom that I enjoy in Android then I'd probably have one of those instead because I'm well aware of the advantages of the iOS ecosystem.

  16. Re:Other way around on Apple Says Many Users 'Bought an Android Phone By Mistake' · · Score: 1

    Just tried it and clicking + fully maximised on every application but Chrome which for some reason has incremental sizing on it. What applications don't work for you?

  17. Re:White Moto X on Apple Says Many Users 'Bought an Android Phone By Mistake' · · Score: 1

    The fact that you don't have to rely on flaws in the OS just so you can use it in ways that you want to is a pretty decent advantage.

  18. Re:"By Mistake" on Apple Says Many Users 'Bought an Android Phone By Mistake' · · Score: 1

    Samsung has had a health app/kit for a while now.

  19. Re:Other way around on Apple Says Many Users 'Bought an Android Phone By Mistake' · · Score: 1

    What rules are there on a Mac that you can't live with?

  20. Re: Books to read on Ask Slashdot: What Should Every Programmer Read? · · Score: 1

    And abandon their horribly over engineered code to some poor fucker while they head off to new shiny land.

  21. Re: And.... on Game of Thrones Author George R R Martin Writes with WordStar on DOS · · Score: 1

    Yes he keeps loosing a new chapter every so often.

  22. Re: It is God. on Supermassive Black Hole At the Centre of Galaxy May Be Wormhole In Disguise · · Score: 2

    People would be killing each other over which flavours were the true flavours before you could say death to the infidel.

  23. Re:Ha, hot programming jobs on Ask Slashdot: Minimum Programming Competence In Order To Get a Job? · · Score: 1

    Contract COBOL programmers can make 250+ an hour, just so you know.

    Where is this? Not in Europe anyway.

  24. Re:next 50 to 100 years? on Study: Earthlings Not Ready For Alien Encounters, Yet · · Score: 1

    The Alcubierre Drive is theoretically possible. Would that lead to time travel?

  25. Re: Blank Media on Sony Warns Demand For Blu-Ray Diminishing Faster Than Expected · · Score: 2

    Especially in countries where the FBI has no jurisdiction.