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  1. Re:Seriously though... on Twitter Bomb Joke Case Rolls Back Into UK Courts · · Score: 1

    It's not really about that tho, it's about being able to joke without being arrested.
    Imma kill all presidents of the world!
    then next morning im arrested. that .. doesn't make any sense.

    and then we get history lessons about how 200 years ago people got jailed, fined, and/or killed for a yes or no from more powerful people.
    it didn't change all that much.

  2. Re:Windows = Easy + User Friendly on Ask Slashdot: Why Not Linux For Security? · · Score: 1

    To be honest Windows is reasonably user friendly.
    That's a little too typical maybe but my mum has been a mac user all her life. shes uses OSX. She's always asking me simple stuff like where the preferences for an app is gone (yeah, preferences are always in the same menu, but hey, it's mum)

    I put her in front of Windows 7 a couple of times and she does just fine. She'd ask where the option menu is from time to time but that's it. She even says she likes it. The UI is faster and the menus attached to windows are less confusing. (she finds the start menu confusing, but once she got it it was fine)

    So yeah. Reasonably user friendly IMO.

  3. Re:Fine, I'll bite on Ask Slashdot: Why Not Linux For Security? · · Score: 1

    That's not entirely true. Securing Linux with the tools you mention, while not extremely hard, ain't easy. Mr joe-webdev won't understand *anything* of it and he's usually the one to decide (oh yeah!)

  4. Re:What's the problem with building self-sustainin on Neil Armstrong Gives Rare Interview · · Score: 1

    Or maybe because even most scientists (actual scientists, not armchair commentators on slashdot) can't find an actual utilitarian reason to build a moon base other than juvenile delight at living out their sci-fi fantasies?

    Apart from that, sex and food what else motivates humanity?

    Making money (which seems to be what *everyone* wants to do) is just to get more food, and sex time anyways. Oh and moon bases, ferraris, whatever.
    So yeah. Good enough for me

  5. Re:Meh... on Mozilla Leaves Out Linux For Initial Web App Support · · Score: 1

    Meh, Firefox runs better in Linux than Chrome for me.
    Chrome web store are not webapps they're just extensions or native code via nacl.

    Won't judge mozilla market place before ive seen it running, but can certainly judge the devs that though supporting linux was not important. and I judge them bad.

  6. Re:What's special about this version? on New Firefox For Android Beta Released · · Score: 2

    This is the Android native version. The old beta was the XUL version.
    It is very different from the last beta in almost all regards.

    XUL:

    - XUL UI
    - Electrolysis (one process per tab and uses a lot of memory)
    - Supports all XUL addons
    - No flash
    - Native as in NDK

    Android Native:

    - Android UI
    - Asynchronous UI and renderer (gecko), much reduced memory footprint with many tabs
    - Flash
    - Native as in Android UI native, Gecko is still using the NDK.
    - Needs specific addons.

  7. Re:That's because it isn't usually done on Facebook Co-Founder Saverin Gives Up U.S. Citizenship Before IPO · · Score: 1

    "Some" money in this case is quite a shit load of money.

    Doesn't make it any more moral of course. If I was American and getting a few billions I'd happily pay the taxes. But for some people that's not enough, obviously. They need more because they want more power.

  8. Re:why not just modify your host table? on Unblocking The Pirate Bay the Hard Way Is Fun · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Or not. It will become *accepted*.
    When that mean won't be technologically sufficient, since the blocking will have been *accepted* (we blocked for 10 years already! etc.) they will change the mean to be stronger.

    They're actually smart. It wouldn't work any other way. Smart but disgusting.

  9. Re:Okay, maybe it is about time to fork it... on Mozilla Ponders Major Firefox UI Refresh · · Score: 1

    What about F1/ FF Share? ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/firefox-share-alpha/ )
    "Firefox Share is made by Mozilla Labs."

    This is the kind of project that makes it into regular Firefox after a while and it is exactly that, a twitter button. I don't actually like that one too much and hope it'll stay an addon.

  10. Re:Just for a change on Mozilla Ponders Major Firefox UI Refresh · · Score: 1

    Or they will release an "all platforms integrated UI" before Firefox.. oh wait I forgot if Firefox releases too slow or too fast now. Damn, what to blame?!

  11. Re:Just for a change on Mozilla Ponders Major Firefox UI Refresh · · Score: 1

    What's the bug #?
    I get timeouts sometimes and it works.. ?

    Besides, version numbers aren't major anymore since version 5

  12. No SNI, thats very truth worthy of a study on SSL Pulse Project Finds Just 10% of SSL Sites Actually Secure · · Score: 5, Interesting

    So I tried my SNI enabled domain, which redirects to a dummy domain if you don't support SNI.

    And https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest doesn't work with the SNI domain, thinking my certificate is invalid.

    So a few things:

    * It's sponsored by Qualis, I don't see how that's trustworthy. You see that only once you do the actual validation. They're here to make money like any other corporation. Nonprofit stuff? Bitch please.
    * It doesn't work with SNI so there's million domains wrongly counted as invalid
    * Their cert isn't even an EV cert

  13. Re:Finally on Firefox 12 Released — Introduces Silent, Chrome-like Updater · · Score: 1

    Firefox nightly doesn't load the tabs on startup anymore. Not sure at which version this happened. It means with 1000 tabs open that people don't use theres no slow down or use of memory. It loads when you click it.

  14. Re:Finally on Firefox 12 Released — Introduces Silent, Chrome-like Updater · · Score: 1

    Never had a plugin update issue.
    Maybe you're talking about addons. Never had one of those either, but it certainly happened to many in the past.

    If you don't want Mozilla to update your browser, uncheck auto-update.

  15. Re:You can disable auto-updates on Firefox 12 Released — Introduces Silent, Chrome-like Updater · · Score: 1

    Actually there is an interest you should have, running the latest version or the ESR version ensure users have no known security vulnerability ;-)

  16. Re:It's not just like chrome... on Firefox 12 Released — Introduces Silent, Chrome-like Updater · · Score: 1

    I think you're pretty dumb. Every time you installed Firefox you gave "root" (its called Administrator in Windows btw) access. That's right. Every time.
    Every time you install a game or what not, you're giving "root" access.
    That doesn't mean they or Mozilla has access to your pc. They don't.

    Oh hey here's a better one. Microsoft has root access to your Windows. WAIT WAIT. Linus Torvald has root access to your Linux box! That's the very exact same logic. Heck, Postfix, ntpd, OpenSSH, etc have root access to your Linux box. Quick, Panic!

    Guess that changes your world all of a sudden?

  17. Re:Auto-update Windows Only? on Firefox 12 Released — Introduces Silent, Chrome-like Updater · · Score: 1

    Services are actually there exactly for such purposes. How'd you think Windows updates itself by the way?
    Updaters don't take code from the outside, connect only to pinned SSL sites (pinned means they only accept those very certificates) and install only signed files.

    Pretty damn hard to exploit that, that's why you have never seen a Windows update exploit in W7. The attack surface is extremely small.

  18. Re:They've lost their focus on Firefox 12 Released — Introduces Silent, Chrome-like Updater · · Score: 1

    You can turn off auto-update if you don't like auto update. Then you don't have to tolerate anything. Ain't life wonderful? (and yes there's a setting to turn it off)

  19. Re:What's best on Firefox 12 Released — Introduces Silent, Chrome-like Updater · · Score: 3, Interesting

    A: Firefox doesnt do silent updates, IT SUX I SWITCH TO CHROME I hate dialogs!

    Weeks later:

    B: OMG Firefox does silent updates like Chrome PFF WHY NOT USE CHROME THEN!

    Well, sounds rather dumb.

  20. Re:What's best on Firefox 12 Released — Introduces Silent, Chrome-like Updater · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What exactly do you want, 25 years support and that no one else is allowed to release new features, oh, except chrome?
    Let me see how hard it is... I'll google "firefox extended support release". Oh, first match:
    "Where can I download Mozilla Firefox ESR?

    You can download Mozilla Firefox ESR here."
    *Clicks*

    http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/all.html

    Oh.

  21. Make sure you don't put the URL that matter in the article!
    That could be thousand of ads prints for missed !

    The link is http://www.anonpaste.tk/

  22. Re:Just turn off the car? on Mandatory Brake-Override Proposed For All Cars · · Score: 1

    if they can't put car to neutral and brake they shouldn't have their license.
    either that either fully automated cars. if you don't know how to stop a 100mph vehicle, i mean, WTF are you driving it? It's not a freaking bicycle and a license has ALWAYS been required for THIS kind of reasons.

    And that has nothing to do with computers.

  23. Re:Firewalls on Mosh: Modernizing SSH With IP Roaming, Instant Local Echo · · Score: 1

    Does not make sense tho.
    They use UDP to bypass the buffering delays of TCP
    If you tunnel UDP in TCP, well.. while you get local echo and state saving.. you might as well type ssh blah.com screen -rd. autossh also auto reconnect 'n stuff. kitty.exe on windows.

  24. Re:Missed from summary on Mosh: Modernizing SSH With IP Roaming, Instant Local Echo · · Score: 1

    note that ssh does that too and you can configure the amount of time, and/or turn it off entirely (which has its advantages, if connection breaks and comes back you don't lose the session at all. if you change ip, it takes however forever to figure that out)