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  1. Re:Missing the point... on Standards Make Rapid Software Releases Workable · · Score: 1

    HTML5 isn't a standard yet. This is all new things. If you need stability, stick with the older standards for a while. And nothing will break.

  2. Re:BS.. on Standards Make Rapid Software Releases Workable · · Score: 1

    A real standard is something which is widely used.

    So that is what big companies should use. The HTML4/CSS2/JS which is already out, what they've been using for quiet a while now.

    Wait a bit before the other things are widely used if you want/need stability.

  3. Re:So, If the browser functions to "standards", .. on Standards Make Rapid Software Releases Workable · · Score: 1

    I think what they mean is:

    If the big corporations stick to using browser-/webpage-features which are actual standards their code won't break.

    That means real standards: Things that are done, ready and _stable_.

    Not some new, shiny HTML5-/CSS3-effect.

  4. Re:This article... on Standards Make Rapid Software Releases Workable · · Score: 1

    Which has nothing to do with SSH, you need to use -no-remote if you want to use of different profiles at the same time with Firefox.

    -no-remote isn't a very good and clean name for it. But I think it came from Unix/Linux where it was used in the same with XMMS (Can I say WinAMP-like MP3-player ?). Where remote refers to talking to the existing running application and have it opening URLs, playlists and whatever with it or the alternative: start a new XMMS or browser-session/application every single time you run the command.

  5. Re:Version numbers on Standards Make Rapid Software Releases Workable · · Score: 1

    How do you test for Chrome ? How many updates does it get ? daily ?

    No, really, I want to know.

  6. Re:Version numbers on Standards Make Rapid Software Releases Workable · · Score: 1

    Why you would want to use a plug-in for Adobe Acrobat is something I've never understood.

    PDF and Java are the main malware attack vectors at the moment on websites. I would not use the plugin, don't automatically load what is on the page. Only open the PDF's you actually want to read.

    The first thing I do after each new Acrobat releases is to disable the plugin.

    That reminds me, I should look if there is a more general way to block it.

  7. Re:Just aim for standards? This meme needs to die. on Standards Make Rapid Software Releases Workable · · Score: 1

    Ohh, there is a really simple answer to your comment:

    Then why if you want/need stable do you target the newer technologies ?

  8. Re:Version numbers on Standards Make Rapid Software Releases Workable · · Score: 1

    Which is the whole point.

    Don't aim for one or a few browsers, aim for standards.

  9. Re:FF5 doesn't work for me at all on Standards Make Rapid Software Releases Workable · · Score: 1

    You don't have to wipe the old profile, just create a new profile and try that first and see if the problem remains.

  10. Re:Version numbers on Standards Make Rapid Software Releases Workable · · Score: 2

    You are right, it isn't the version numbers. What they do now have is a more rapid release cycle. But also they don't have security updates for Firefox 4 after the release of Firefox 5.

  11. Re:Contractors will get rich doing the rewrite on Facebook Trapped In MySQL a 'Fate Worse Than Death' · · Score: 1

    Why would I be ?

    I do however have no idea why people use it.

    But other people obviously found a use for it.

    Maybe I just don't see it as I'm in Europe. I know it's really, really big in the US.

  12. Re:Contractors will get rich doing the rewrite on Facebook Trapped In MySQL a 'Fate Worse Than Death' · · Score: 1

    Its probably better to give all investors and employees their money and kill the whole Facebook project. No one likes their privacy policies anyway.

  13. Re:And this opinion has nothing to do with the fac on Facebook Trapped In MySQL a 'Fate Worse Than Death' · · Score: 1

    Actually, if I understand it correctly he worked on Postgres, not PostgreSQL which came later.

  14. Re:Does this exist as a chrome extension as well? on Visualizing Behavior-Tracking Cookies With Firefox · · Score: 1

    You don't need to be firefoxless, pretty much anyone can install it. There is even a version for OS/2

  15. Re:How is this legal? on Visualizing Behavior-Tracking Cookies With Firefox · · Score: 1

    EULA's are pretty much illegal anyway, atleast in my country.

  16. Re:Hosts file on Visualizing Behavior-Tracking Cookies With Firefox · · Score: 1

    I've been using it for years. Although you pretty much need be a webdeveloper if you don't enable the pre-configured whitelist to know what and what not to enable.

  17. Re:Big deal, you think? on Visualizing Behavior-Tracking Cookies With Firefox · · Score: 1

    Look up Evercookie, I'm sure it still has some techniques that still work.

    How about E-Tag. I don't think any tracking company uses that right now, but it could be.

  18. Re:Impossible really means nobody knows how on Microsoft: No Botnet Is Indestructible · · Score: 1

    Is the Internet indestructible ? Or the planet ?

    Well, in a way yes.

    Because you'd need a pretty big disaster to destroy the earth.

    And if there is no planet, who cares ? I mean we'll probably not survive either.

    Anything which can 'destroy' the Internet is probably so big an advancement in technology that the Internet became useless or the above mentioned disaster and then not much survived either.

    So if the solution is to create a version of Windows which doesn't allow you to install any applications, kinda like the walled garden that Apple iOS is, then the solution isn't really killing the botnet, just making it irrelevant.

  19. Re:Uhoh on Microsoft: No Botnet Is Indestructible · · Score: 1

    I'm surprised the botnet makers haven't gotten rid of the central command&control systems. There has to be some botnet builders that can pay some smart russian to come up with code for that.

    Some P2P solution.

    Maybe this is because of NAT ? They don't have a simple way of connecting to every node because of it.

  20. Re:Learn Mandarin and buy Bitcoins on Why People Who Make Things Should Learn Chinese · · Score: 1

    Interresting how people think it is that simple, but agriculture is actually a big industry in the US, even when compared to the rest of the world.

    Although you could make a point about how it is very mechanicalized now, so atleast it is industrialized.

  21. Re:Learn Mandarin and don't fall for scams on Why People Who Make Things Should Learn Chinese · · Score: 1

    It depends.

    The rates fluctuate, sometimes wildly.

  22. Re:Fixing the issue isn't quite that easy. on NYT Update Breaks iPad App, Annoys Subscribers · · Score: 1

    That is one of the reasons many just use hybrid apps with webtechnologies and use HTML5-offline-cache.

    You don't update the app, just the part of the app that matters. And the developer decides when the update happends.

    easy peasy

  23. Re:Good job on behalf of the hacker on Hacker Exposes Parts of Florida's Voting Database · · Score: 1

    Verifiable != public

    You are funny. :-)

    Someone will always have access to it.

  24. Re:Fools on Anonymous Launches a WikiLeaks For Hackers · · Score: 1

    I don't really know much about .tk domains, what is the problem ?

  25. Re:keep the godaddy girl! on GoDaddy Sells To Investor Group · · Score: 1

    The original owner, Bob Parsons, is also staying. He is now the business manager, so not much should change.