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  1. Re:Booo, hissss on Mozilla Plans Major Design Overhaul With Firefox 25 Release In October · · Score: 1

    I like having a forward/back dropdown so that I can see where I am in my back/forward history and select how far forward or back to go next. I had to install the addon Backward/Forward History Dropdown 0.2.4 to get this functionality back.

    You can right-click, or left-click and drag down on the back/forward arrows to bring up the history.
    (In case you didn't know and are not just using the addon because of preference.)

  2. Re:Business cards aren't going anywhere on Business Cards the Latest Internet Casualty · · Score: 2

    The problem I have with QR is the information IS NOT encoded in the code itself. Instead, a QR code is a pointer to some other (commercial) entity that is holding the information hostage, usually for a fee. So yes, you can have your own personal QR code - except you have to pay someone to hold the information for you. How about a 2D bar code that actually has the information in it and is directly readable? This can easily be done, it just isn't because QR is a really great business opportunity for the QR code vendor.

    Umm, what?

    The QR code simply contains data. Text, URL, image, vCard, email address, whatever. Where did you get this " QR code vendor" thing from?

    I would also say that you have no idea what you are getting with a QR code. With a business card and a scanner you know what you are getting and it is all useful information.

    You know exactly what you are getting since the QR code reader software displays it.

    Did you ever actually use a QR code or are you just repeating some bullshit you read on the internet?

  3. Re:Is that what I think it is? on Hungary's Needy Given Money to Burn · · Score: 1
  4. Re:Am I missing something. on $350 Hardware Cracks HDMI Copy Protection · · Score: 5, Interesting

    That's not how it works in practice. The TV doesn't have a specific chip for decoding HDCP.

    This $8 chip disagrees with you.
    Load it up with some keys and you get the unencrypted audio/video stream on the output pins.

  5. Re:No With Even More Suck! on Firefox 8.0 Released · · Score: 1

    Well Aurora is a pretty nice browser :)

  6. Re:About friggin' time... on Windows 8 To Reduce Memory Footprint · · Score: 1

    In Windows 7:
    1. Open the Task Manager by pressing Ctrl-Shift-Esc
    2. Select the Performance tab
    3. Check the Memory and Physical Memory sections.

    4. Bonus: Click the Resource Monitor button and select the Memory tab to get a nice colored bar graph with mouseover tooltip explanations.

  7. Re:Creeeps on Europeans Needed To Create Broadband Performance Measure · · Score: 1

    You would expect average people to configure SNMP on their routers?
    Plugging in two cables seems more user-friendly.

    I bet it is hard enough to find participants to this study already.

  8. Re:Creeeps on Europeans Needed To Create Broadband Performance Measure · · Score: 1

    OK, Mr. Coward, how would YOU implement a way for the box to detect when the line is idle so that speed measurements can be made without interference from other network traffic?

  9. Re:Pointless Apple-bashing on Apple Finally Removes DigiNotar Certs In Safari · · Score: 1

    The current supported versions are 3.6.22 and 6.0.2

  10. Re:Please.... on Airship Company Gets First Civilian Customer · · Score: 1

    It's steampunk

    You mean gaslamp fantasy

  11. Re:Maybe it's more than that; it's their CA on Microsoft Training May Have Helped Tunisian Regime To Spy On Citizens · · Score: 2

    There is nothing "fishy" about it, Firefox just doesn't include the issuing CA in its certificate store.

    Unlike Chrome (and obviously IE), Mozilla software doesn't use the certs supplied with Windows.

  12. Re:Untrust Diginotar on Dutch Government Revokes Diginotar Certificates · · Score: 1

    If it is revoked, you get a "sec_error_revoked_certificate" error.

    If it isn't, the page loads normally.

  13. Re:Untrust Diginotar on Dutch Government Revokes Diginotar Certificates · · Score: 1

    Mozilla already released updates to Firefox (3.6.21 and 6.0.1) to distrusts all DigiNotar certificates.

    Test here: https://www.diginotar.nl/

    Firefox: sec_error_revoked_certificate

  14. Re:But on Windows 8 Desktop 'Just Another App'? · · Score: 2

    Isn't this just disabling the auto-load of explorer.exe

    No. Explorer.exe is a lot more integrated into the OS.

    This is more like giving you a phone OS in which the desktop OS is an app.

    Open the task manager and kill explorer.exe

    You lose the desktop icons, the taskbar and any open Explorer/Control Panel windows, but the OS keeps on working, you can switch between open programs with Alt-Tab and open new programs from the task manager.
    Explorer.exe is only a few UI parts, I can imagine that Win8 wil load/unload it on demand, when an "old style" program is started or the user wants to switch to the "regular" desktop.

    When done with this experiment just start explorer.exe again and everything is back to normal.

    (Tested on Windows 7)

  15. Re:This Doesn't Make Sense on Anonymous Claims Responsibility For WikiLeaks Attack · · Score: 1

    Also, 4chan is basically the birthplace of Anonymous... Why would they attack it?

    For the lulz.

  16. Re:The title lies! on UCLA Develops Stretchable OLED Display · · Score: 1

    It is a 1x1 pixel resolution 1 bit color display with variable aspect ratio.

  17. Re:Too late on Diginotar Responds To Rogue Certificate Problem · · Score: 2
  18. Re:Scunthorpe problem again on A Custom Objectionable Word List Ate My Homework · · Score: 1

    Clbuttic!

  19. Re:That was late... on Australian 'Electronic Pigeon Hole' Could Replace Gov't Snail Mail · · Score: 1

    Not a Dane either, but according to this it is a real one-time pad with 148 codes. When they are used up a new card is snail-mailed. Apparently the card will be replaced by a hardware authenticator eventually.

  20. Re:"Speeds up to ten megabits per second..." on The FCC Says ISPs Aren't Hitting Advertised Speeds · · Score: 1

    In my experience people think their connection is slower because browsers display download speed as kiloBYTES/sec.

    It is really "fun" when both the prefix and the unit are ambiguous.

    PS:
    AFAIK HDDs were originally measured by how many 8-bit ASCII characters they could store. So a 1 MB drive was advertised as "able to store 1 million characters".

  21. Re:"Speeds up to ten megabits per second..." on The FCC Says ISPs Aren't Hitting Advertised Speeds · · Score: 1

    This post is about Internet connection speeds, and as the linked article states:

    # In Telecommunications, use of the correct SI definition of the unit is standard.

    Therefore network connections are rated as you wrote in your first post.
    So what exactly were you trying to say, except stating the obvious?

  22. Re:Well, have fun with bug reports ... on Mozilla To Remove User-Facing Firefox Version Numbers · · Score: 1

    Dear User,

    Please type "about:support" into the location bar, press Enter, click the "Copy to clipboard button" and paste it into here.

    Thank you for giving as far mode debug info than a simple version number ever could.

  23. Re:"Speeds up to ten megabits per second..." on The FCC Says ISPs Aren't Hitting Advertised Speeds · · Score: 1
  24. Re:Rolling Releases on Mozilla Firefox 6 Released Ahead of Schedule · · Score: 3, Informative

    6 is released, 7 is in beta, 8 is testing (Aurora), 9 is trunk development (Nightly).

    6 weeks later:

    7 is released, 8 is in beta, 9 is testing, 10 is trunk development.

    etc.

  25. Obligatory xkcd on Breaking the Codes In Oslo Terrorist's Manifesto · · Score: 1

    My chemo has worked

    https://www.xkcd.com/931/