I don't use Chrome so I can't comment on that, but in Firefox having tabs on top means that you can't read the title of the page. That's at least an annoyance (and occasionally a problem) if you have multiple tabs from the same site open. Fix that and I'll agree that tabs on top is better.
Impacting the Earth and burning up in its atmosphere are not the same thing. Also even if the comet was fragmented small enough to ensure that none of it hit the ground, we'd still be looking at it dumping a huge amount of energy into the atmosphere, the effects of which would likely be rather unpleasant.
Well for one, my little home network is connected to the Internet but is wholly private; ditto the corporate network I use at work. Similarly, my house is part of London and is connected to a public street, but no one would consider it to be public.
Check in with FourSquare to become the mayor of burger king to get a 10% discount on your next piece of crap for lunch, and watch your insurance company make a silent note.
a) The only insurance I have is on my house and my possessions, not my health
b) There is insufficient information on my Foursquare profile to connect me to my insurance-buying aspect
Write on your wall about your cool new Nike Football shoes, and watch targeted advertising appear to you for other football related products.
a) I block ads; so what?
b) Even if I didn't, I'd rather see relevant ads than the random crap I'd get otherwise.
Nothing is free. What I gain from using Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare is worth more to me than what I pay to use them. Please continue to feel smugly superior though.
The term UFO was deliberately chosen by Ed Ruppelt of BLUE BOOK to avoid jumping to any conclusions about the origin of unidentified aerial phenomena and take the sightings purely at face value
That's as may be, but unfortunately if you say UFO to the average person they're going to think of flying saucers and little green men.
Let's change the question slightly - if I (in the UK) kill an American citizen, then travel to America and am arrested, where do you think I'd be tried? Can you really see it mattering that we were in the UK at the time?
Besides which I believe that the US Constitution applies to all American citizens regardless of location, and I'm pretty sure the right to life is at least implied...
Slashdot is about as reflexively leftist as could be imagined. I would say "mindlessly" but that would be redundant..
Is that why the prevailing attitude here seems to be decidedly anti-unionisation, anti-taxation, anti-socialist, etc?
No, this place is pro-sharing and anti-large-company (both of which really equate to "give me free/cheap stuff and let me do whatever I want with it"), but that's about as far left as it gets.
NASA is at least a long-standing, internationally-recognised acronym; you might not know what it stands for, but (in the developed world at least) you've almost certainly heard of them and have an idea of what they do ("space stuff, yeah?").
The word you're missing is "nostalgia". A lot of us grew up with this sort of game, myself included, and I'm definitely interested in seeing where this goes.
I believe that denying the Holocaust is illegal because it is essentially slander/libel - you are effectively saying that everyone who claims to have survived or witnessed it is lying. By making it a crime the State can sue the denier on their behalf, thus sparing them the stress of giving evidence as they have already suffered enough. (It also makes more sense than having hundreds or thousands of individual suits filed, especially in countries that don't have an equivalent of a class action suit).
That's what I was once told, anyway, and it makes sense to me.
I don't even know for sure that a Kindle has a (removable) SIM - they're used in phones so you can swap them around and the manufacturers don't have to make specific phones for specific providers, but the Kindle neither has nor requires either of those features. If anything they need to be remotely-updatable so Amazon can push them to a different provider in the future.
As for "...with no roaming", I suspect the GP meant no roaming charges.
Well I don't know the details of the proposal, but Xphile said that "They wanted Netflix to charge an additional fee"; that implies that Netflix couldn't simply eat the cost.
Microsoft were sued by Sun for a breach of their licence - they added their own classes in to the java.* package hierarchy. If they'd put them in com.microsoft.* they'd have been fine.
We know that the NSA has no back doors in a GNU/Linux platform because we have the source for everything.
Including your hardware? Oh, and do you have a complete chain of trust on the compiler suite you use? (If you've ever used a compiler you didn't compile yourself, then you don't, as you can't be sure what that compiler did to the binaries it produced.)
I'm being slightly facetious, but even if you personally inspect every line of source code you use, you don't know for sure that your systems are clean, you just increase your confidence level that they are.
RMS's version of free doesn't mean no cost
As the freedom includes the freedom to distribute the software you use then ultimately it does mean "no cost" as there is no artificial scarcity with which to maintain that cost. I'm not saying that's a bad thing, but FOSS licences act to push the cost of commodity software to zero, at least to the user. Support and bespoke software (and donations) is realistically where the money is to be made in that scenario.
Slashdot Mirror
I don't use Chrome so I can't comment on that, but in Firefox having tabs on top means that you can't read the title of the page. That's at least an annoyance (and occasionally a problem) if you have multiple tabs from the same site open. Fix that and I'll agree that tabs on top is better.
Impacting the Earth and burning up in its atmosphere are not the same thing. Also even if the comet was fragmented small enough to ensure that none of it hit the ground, we'd still be looking at it dumping a huge amount of energy into the atmosphere, the effects of which would likely be rather unpleasant.
And boys are immune to such psychological damage?
Einstein's "law" of relativity
It's called the Theory of Relativity, not law.
That has nothing to do with phones, and everything to do with people being inconsiderate twat monkeys.
Unless they started chopping down forests and just leaving the wood lying around.
For example, in the form of log cabins, fences, ships, etc?
Well for one, my little home network is connected to the Internet but is wholly private; ditto the corporate network I use at work. Similarly, my house is part of London and is connected to a public street, but no one would consider it to be public.
Check in with FourSquare to become the mayor of burger king to get a 10% discount on your next piece of crap for lunch, and watch your insurance company make a silent note.
a) The only insurance I have is on my house and my possessions, not my health
b) There is insufficient information on my Foursquare profile to connect me to my insurance-buying aspect
Write on your wall about your cool new Nike Football shoes, and watch targeted advertising appear to you for other football related products.
a) I block ads; so what?
b) Even if I didn't, I'd rather see relevant ads than the random crap I'd get otherwise.
Nothing is free. What I gain from using Facebook, Twitter and Foursquare is worth more to me than what I pay to use them. Please continue to feel smugly superior though.
The term UFO was deliberately chosen by Ed Ruppelt of BLUE BOOK to avoid jumping to any conclusions about the origin of unidentified aerial phenomena and take the sightings purely at face value
That's as may be, but unfortunately if you say UFO to the average person they're going to think of flying saucers and little green men.
Let's change the question slightly - if I (in the UK) kill an American citizen, then travel to America and am arrested, where do you think I'd be tried? Can you really see it mattering that we were in the UK at the time?
Besides which I believe that the US Constitution applies to all American citizens regardless of location, and I'm pretty sure the right to life is at least implied...
Slashdot is about as reflexively leftist as could be imagined. I would say "mindlessly" but that would be redundant..
Is that why the prevailing attitude here seems to be decidedly anti-unionisation, anti-taxation, anti-socialist, etc?
No, this place is pro-sharing and anti-large-company (both of which really equate to "give me free/cheap stuff and let me do whatever I want with it"), but that's about as far left as it gets.
NASA is at least a long-standing, internationally-recognised acronym; you might not know what it stands for, but (in the developed world at least) you've almost certainly heard of them and have an idea of what they do ("space stuff, yeah?").
And those of us who can perform simple maths in our heads will never ever need a calculator.
What's your point exactly?
The word you're missing is "nostalgia". A lot of us grew up with this sort of game, myself included, and I'm definitely interested in seeing where this goes.
I believe that denying the Holocaust is illegal because it is essentially slander/libel - you are effectively saying that everyone who claims to have survived or witnessed it is lying. By making it a crime the State can sue the denier on their behalf, thus sparing them the stress of giving evidence as they have already suffered enough. (It also makes more sense than having hundreds or thousands of individual suits filed, especially in countries that don't have an equivalent of a class action suit).
That's what I was once told, anyway, and it makes sense to me.
I don't even know for sure that a Kindle has a (removable) SIM - they're used in phones so you can swap them around and the manufacturers don't have to make specific phones for specific providers, but the Kindle neither has nor requires either of those features. If anything they need to be remotely-updatable so Amazon can push them to a different provider in the future.
As for "...with no roaming", I suspect the GP meant no roaming charges.
The chrome versions are cosmetic only. They still download all the crap
You or the author of chromeblock are wrong: Chromeblock. Apart from that I agree with you.
Justice will never give up.
This has nothing to do with Justice.
Well I don't know the details of the proposal, but Xphile said that "They wanted Netflix to charge an additional fee"; that implies that Netflix couldn't simply eat the cost.
That was my first thought; from what I've read, it was (or appears to have been) faster than c.
Microsoft were sued by Sun for a breach of their licence - they added their own classes in to the java.* package hierarchy. If they'd put them in com.microsoft.* they'd have been fine.
Entice is not pejorative.
what happens when your PHONE is stolen? Or you left it behind? Or you dropped it?
Never mind that, what happens when you forget to charge it (perhaps you're out all night and can't) and the battery dies?
The original point still stands - you own the copyright on your posts, photos, etc, and grant Facebook a licence as described.
You have not granted Social Intelligence Corp any licence at all, so unless Facebook have they are quite possibly infringing. (IANAL of course)
We know that the NSA has no back doors in a GNU/Linux platform because we have the source for everything.
Including your hardware? Oh, and do you have a complete chain of trust on the compiler suite you use? (If you've ever used a compiler you didn't compile yourself, then you don't, as you can't be sure what that compiler did to the binaries it produced.)
I'm being slightly facetious, but even if you personally inspect every line of source code you use, you don't know for sure that your systems are clean, you just increase your confidence level that they are.
RMS's version of free doesn't mean no cost
As the freedom includes the freedom to distribute the software you use then ultimately it does mean "no cost" as there is no artificial scarcity with which to maintain that cost. I'm not saying that's a bad thing, but FOSS licences act to push the cost of commodity software to zero, at least to the user. Support and bespoke software (and donations) is realistically where the money is to be made in that scenario.