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  1. Re:Oh good on France To Tax the Internet To Pay For Music · · Score: 1

    of course not
    its to cover "fair use" and other things
    and if it doesnt work the law will be rewritten til it fits (and that's not sarcasm, just the way it is)

  2. Re:Stunning on All French Nuclear Reactors Deemed Unsafe · · Score: 1

    Sometimes comments need to be above +5.
    Besides the earthquake and flooding of those facilities in france is near zero.

  3. Re:Another JavaScript boost on Firefox 9.0 Beta Available · · Score: 3, Informative

    that being said its now fast enough to have webgls game in browser.. to have gpg in browser.. to have linux boot in browser, etc hehe

  4. Obligatory conspiracy theory on The Stroke of Genius Strikes Later In Life Than It Used To · · Score: 2

    As we all know Einstein can't be wrong, and can't be wronged in the future either.
    But the Illuminaties figured that most physicists would stop working after their 30s since they were doomed to fail and not discover anything new.
    Therefore, the new age is 48. If that's not enough to get those lazy bastards to work, it'll be pushed back again later.

  5. Re:People also hated... on Ask Slashdot: Unity/Gnome 3/Win8/iOS — Do We Really Hate All New GUIs? · · Score: 1

    I like KDE4's GUI. It's not too weird like Gnome3/Unity/what-not.
    W7 GUI is ok too.

  6. Re:Closed hardware = limited audience on Mozilla Developers Testing Mobile OS · · Score: 1

    no, opera mini engine does not run on iOS

    its all remotely rendered.

    Mozilla is not allowed to have gecko on iOS. Pure and simple.
    They *are* actually pondering make a jailbreak-version-only

  7. Re:Closed hardware = limited audience on Mozilla Developers Testing Mobile OS · · Score: 1

    Closed software. You should know its not possible to make a Firefox for iOS. Only for jailbroken devices.
    Apple does not allow competing browser engines. They all use Safari's webkit and/or remote rendering to run on iOS.

  8. Re:Names on SSL Certificate Authorities vs. Convergence, Perspectives · · Score: 1

    im glad someone get that ;-)

    not every soul is lost.. yet!

  9. Re:Names on SSL Certificate Authorities vs. Convergence, Perspectives · · Score: 1

    because those are technical things, aka where it actually matters
    im sorry but perspective doesnt tell anything "god damn" thing. it could be a million of different things.

    Secure Socket Layers talks a lot more.

    Perspectives could be called Multi Perspectives Certificates instead (and abbreviated MPC). But that doesn't sound cool enough.

  10. Names on SSL Certificate Authorities vs. Convergence, Perspectives · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Can't people start using names that MAKE SENSE again?

    Who the hell cares how cool it sounds. It's a technical thing, the public doesn't care. Convergence. Perspectives. Seriously? How do one figures any of those name is related to security?

    Heck SSL was called Secure Socket Layer. That makes sense. Computer, is a thing that computes. Make sense.
    Keyboard is a board full of keys. TLS is Transport Layer Security. Goes on and on.
    Then bang, now you get "convergence" and such crappy names that means nothing. Annoying :(

  11. i used light for ages and didnt realize on Light Barrier Repels Mosquitoes · · Score: 1

    ive a certain type of light here that i use to repel mosquitos. ive done it for a while and it works very well. whenever i turn it on they all got away from the scope of the light.
    it seems that it needs to be a on certain light wave to work. it doenst need to be invisible to humans, but it helps sleeping i guess.
    I'm also guessing mosquitos adapt and eventually wander through the light. Some of them are at my place as ive been using it for a long time. its rare tho, but, i guess eventually more of them will adapt.

    i though it was more or less a common trick. if only i realized it was worth $1M. life sux!

  12. Re:/bin, /sbin had their functions on Fedora Aims To Simplify Linux Filesystem · · Score: 1

    its not just because of small disks. its for reliability and integrity.

    generally on good systems, /bin /lib and friends would be mounted on small yes, but separate, read-only drives (sometimes read-write).

    should stuff in /usr which is much much bigger fail, the system would still boot.

    this stuff actually saved me once when I was remote. but i agree, disks are much more reliable now and redundancy is done at another level.

  13. Re:Slashdot is posting blatant scams now? on 1 MW Cold Fusion Plant Supposedly To Come Online · · Score: 1

    Theres no "slashdot"

    Slashdot news system is regulated by.. you.

    you like a new you bump it up. you don't like a news you bump it down. it means enough people bumped this news up.
    on the large number of people that browse slasdot, it means most people are interested in this story. it means it'd be bumped up on any other news site working on the same model.
    So next time, bump it down if you dislike it. It will also be folded for free.

  14. Re:Overpopulation is not a problem on Earth Officially Home To 7 Billion Humans · · Score: 1

    yeah, lets blind ourselves and just decide current statistics says its going to resolve itself.
    Oh and also there's currently no one dying from hunger and here is enough for everyone alive right now. And we have so much land that we don't have to pay all our lives to get a few square meters to sleep and eat in, even in "developed nations".
    And we're absolutely not overproducing a ton of crap that last one year and goes to dust again (or most likely, piles up somewhere)

    Oh snap. There seems to be a problem after all. Good thing predictions says everyone is going to be above the poverty line soon. And that population will decrease. And also we'll all get a pink pony a birth.

    What's scary is that people actually believe this. Frightening kind of scary.

    Of course this is not all due to overpopulation, and in fact, overpopulation itself did not come on its own either. But still, wow. Stuff I can read sometimes.

  15. Re:How do we work this on Jobs Wanted To Destroy Android · · Score: 4, Funny

    Android preemptively copied the notification drop-down and that is outrageous!

  16. hes not entierely wrong on Ballmer Slams Android As Cheap and Overcomplicated · · Score: 1

    I have an Android phone - a SGS2. I had another one before that. It's probably the best you can get, if you don't want to be locked in iOS or the like, without being able to run whatever app *you* decide to run.

    But, it does feel cheap, as in, the experience is not consistent. It lags at times, gods knows why. It's not the hardware - they all do that, in fact, the SGS2 being the most powerful, its the one that lags the less often. Some things or settings are clumsy. Stuff like ad-hoc wifi is unreliable. That's cheap.

    And it does feel a little complex. Can you read the battery graph without being an engineer or any prior explanation? Takes a lot of guessing. Can you find your way int he settings without being a geek?

    I don't have a W7 mobile device neither tested one in hand, so I can't compare. It might be just as bad ;-)

    That said, the main incentive is always going to be (for me): am I going to be able to run absolutely anything I want, however *I* decide to? And generally only open-source guarantees that.

  17. Re:Don't Worry on EU Debates Installing a Black Box On Your Computer · · Score: 1

    As far as I'm concerned theres been more than one occurrence of such ideas actually being succesfull on the long run. I'd say do worry.

  18. Re:FUD Alert. FUD Alert on Android Source Code Gone For Good? · · Score: 1

    Excuse me, but Google also said that Android was truly open,and even made fun of Apple about that in public.

    Then 3 month later they released HoneyComb and we've never seen the source, and we'll never see it in fact.

    The fact is that Google will or will not release Android source (the non-GPL parts) whenever they feel like it, if they feel like it, and will stop releasing whenever they feel like it, if they feel like it. And that their "word" is not worth very much either.

    They will most likely release ICS source code because it would be rather bad for their marketing if they did not. But they'll probably try to close it again, whenever they decide the competition is too high (tablets were a whole "new" market back then and they probably had fear that WebOS/BB/etc could get Android's share here. Now it's pretty clear that its Android/iOS and all the rest is dead.)

  19. Re:Superhero saved my life on Real Life Super Hero Arrested · · Score: 1

    What the cop said is that no one should attempt to assist, just call the police, instead of assist (if they can) and call the police. I think the morale is wrong, and back it up with a real life example that has happened to me.
    Doesn't really have to dress funny to be a super hero of course. But guys who can take out many armed people to save another aren't exactly common - thus they're super heros to me.
    im pretty sure the 10 guys in the train i was in could have assisted too, specially together. But that's against the morales we have too. They didn't call the police either for that matter. They just went away. I can understand the reaction, but I can't say its the rightful one.

  20. Re:Funniest bit was on Sony on Google Employee Accidentally Shares Rant About Google+ · · Score: 1

    /getting cheesy again:I think its true for most things in life

  21. Re:Superhero saved my life on Real Life Super Hero Arrested · · Score: 1

    I'm happy that in my place those guys didn't have guns because they're hard to get by (and not legal) ;-)
    That said some people have them (for defense and for offense), but only the bad guys carry them around, concealed

  22. Re:Funniest bit was on Sony on Google Employee Accidentally Shares Rant About Google+ · · Score: 1

    agreed of course - but many who read the line will decide on zero security, which is, well, dumb of course, but that's how it is ;-)

    the password situation is a good example in my opinion where security "experts" have been overzealous and it went wrong. generally it doesn't make things a lot more secure and people still choose dumb passwords, they just add up "a1" at the end and the like. i hope we'll eventually do away with direct password authentication in the future. Id rather have a password protecting some digital keys. Don't need to change the password and don't need to remember more than one.

  23. Re:Superhero saved my life on Real Life Super Hero Arrested · · Score: 1

    No, they ran off and the police (or us) couldn't identify them

  24. Re:Funniest bit was on Sony on Google Employee Accidentally Shares Rant About Google+ · · Score: 1

    yes and no.
    dialing either to zero is dumb. its called the ying and the yang. the point is fine, but the demonstration is not very insightful.

  25. Re:Superhero saved my life on Real Life Super Hero Arrested · · Score: 1

    It's actually a true story. So no.