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  1. Re: what? on Pwn2Own 2016 Won't Attack Firefox (Because It's Too Easy) (eweek.com) · · Score: 1

    But the People DO send negative feedback. Why do they take the efford? Because they are fucking annoyed by firefox.

  2. Women more, attention whores less? on Women Get Pull Requests Accepted More (Except When You Know They're Women) (peerj.com) · · Score: 1

    It seems reasonable to assume, that women write code with a quality quite similiar to men's code. So getting more pull requests accepted may be related to being women (bias). But when they make their gender more important than their code, they annoy people with "hey there, I AM A WOMEN" and get less pull requests accepted.

  3. Re:Agreed on Why Stack Overflow Doesn't Care About Ad Blockers · · Score: 1

    And fails to do so.
    Even without this feature, for example the easylist privacy contains unreasonable exceptions for fucking GOOGLE ANALYTICS on some sites. I guess they payed to be able to track their visitors while others cannot (because its a damn privacy list).

  4. Forget about adblock plus on Adblock Plus Maker Seeks Deal With Ad Industry Players (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you know this sedo parking sites? This phishing sites, which try to put many keywords from the legitimate domain on a typo domain? These sites were the first on the whitelist for acceptable ads. Since then ABP is dead for me.

  5. Re:Sexual Assault on Microsoft's Cortana Doesn't Put Up With Sexual Harassment (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    > Your premise is that sexual harassment of real humans is bad. We are agreed on this.
    And here the problem starts. Some see even looing to long as assault, others have nothing against some more serious assaults, because they see them as compliment. The real life implication is to be careful as long as you do not know somebody and that you may extend your bantering, when you know it's appreciated.
    With this premise, the management defines a standard, which it deems okay, instead of defining some personality for the robot, which adapts to the user. Thinking the other way around, the robot should try to be a good friend. Some people expect a lot of respect in the sense of distance from their friends, some expect their friends to understand all their crude humor. The good thing about a robot is, that it has no fixed personality, but can try to adapt.
    If reading the user's intentions is too hard, the easy way is to let him choose between lets say 5 robots. Write a short description of the character and let him choose between the business man, the playboy, the nice harmless women or the slut as his companion.

  6. Verbal abuse is the eye of the beholder. So there cannot be abuse to a computer program, because a computer is built to suit us and has no own emotions even when the programs try to mimic them.
    There is no harm in accepting the play and doing some dirty talk with the user, maybe even role playing or whatever, as far as the programmers thought of it. Mostly it just goes to some witty or snarky responses, because nobody really wanted to build a cybersex robot (and cannot do it realistically).

  7. Or stating things, we all now since a few days after the win10 release. Things we knew even in the beta, but hoped they would go away in the final version.

  8. Stop using docker on Docker Images To Be Based On Alpine Linux (brianchristner.io) · · Score: 1

    To use the potential of docker, you need to use prebuild images, otherwise it doesn't speed anything up. Prebuild images are just like "okay, somebody uploaded something, i execute it and feed my important data to it". No need to say, it's a bad idea.
    What to use instead?
    Use plain LXC. LXC works great, you can easily generate a template with debootstrap (it brings a script, which does that) from official debian packages.
    Then use ansible to install your stuff. An ansible file just looks like a Dockerfile, only that it has a reasonable function list like "apt: name=apache2 state=installed", which does not rely on writing your own commands "apt-get install apache2", so you avoid many pitfalls (for example quoting stuff with spaces and so on) and it uses jinja2 for templates. Read the docs yourself, it's a great tool to build environments or manage existing ones.

  9. Re:Why? on CFQ In Linux Gets BFQ Characteristics · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Sorry, but what it shows is that gnome terminal sucks.

    I know it's slow. And the startup time is not the biggest problem. It has tabs, if you want to.
    But let some text scroll fastly there and look at the cpu usage.

    Then use urxvt and compare startup time (instant) and text scrolling (almost no additional cpu, the program producing the text dominates).

    Thats the reason against gnome-terminal. When a low cpu program occupies a whole cpu core, because the terminal drawing the output sucks, youre doing it wrong.

  10. Re:"Maintained" on Firefox 44 Deletes Fine-Grained Cookie Management (mozilla.org) · · Score: 1

    It has, when you want to do all the breaking changes in the rest of your code and then try to avoid fixing the crashes you introduced.

  11. Re:The gun is pointing at the foot on Firefox 44 Deletes Fine-Grained Cookie Management (mozilla.org) · · Score: 1

    Nope, but here it's a proof of it.

  12. That's what swiftkey is great in. Two dictionaries, two layouts (switch by swiping the space key) and correct completion for both. Composite words are still a problem, as most keyboards assume a space between combined words, like the english language uses it.

  13. Fix the hyperlinks in the RSS Feed on Ask Slashdot: How Can We Improve Slashdot? · · Score: 1

    The links in the article are not linked in the RSS feed, which is quite annoying, when you do not want to load the full article, just to visit one of the links.

  14. Re:know your enemy on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Reduce Information Leakage From My Personal Devices? · · Score: 1

    > Block things like CRL lookups with your proxy.
    You think of OCSP. CRLs are downloaded once and then checked locally.

  15. Re:Don't Use One on Ask Slashdot: How Do I Reduce Information Leakage From My Personal Devices? · · Score: 1

    Or buy as used one with SIM on ebay

  16. Re:What the doctor ordered... on Running "rm -rf /" Is Now Bricking Linux Systems (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    Just try
    rm -rf $foo/*

    do not forget to set "foo" to a value before ... or else ...

  17. Re: How dangerous on iOS App Update Technique Puts Users At Risk (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    I think the ecosystem, the preinstallation and so on are asserting most users, that it's safe.

    On the other hand, most PC software from not too shady sources (even warez) are pretty safe, while mobile developers seem to build adware and/or spyware without any doubts by default. I think its a mixture of claiming a new software ecosystem, which doesn't have any rules yet and the typical mobile device users, which sees his phone/tablet as consumer device like a tv and not like a computer. Realizing that something read your private data comes later.

  18. Re:What is wrong with kde on Fedora? on Project Neon Will Bring Users Up-to-Date KDE Packages (cio.com) · · Score: 1

    till X.X.0

  19. Yep. the loopback address is just it. An IP on one interface, which just loops back.
    0.0.0.0 means ANY ip.

    try it. let a tcp server listen on 10.0.0.x (lan interface) and lets say port 8080 then do:
    $ nc 0 8080
    you get a connection. without specifing the interface or ip on the interface.
    $ nc 10.0.0.x 8080
    you get a connection again
    $ nc 127.0.0.1 8080
    no connection

  20. Everybody who configures a webserver decides if he wants a status page. Normally you disable it in production and with tor you disable EVERY feature you do not ABSOLUTELY NEED. Thats just common sense.

  21. Re:security indicators? who needs them? on WhatsApp Will Get Indicators To Highlight Encrypted Chats (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    iOS does not support encrypted messages, because they do not allow network traffic for apps in the background, except traffic routed via apples servers. So this cannot be encrypted. Whatsapp decided to send it unencryted, because otherwise they could just display "You have 3 unread messages, start the app to see who sent them".

  22. Re:Everyone's getting into the encrypted chat game on WhatsApp Will Get Indicators To Highlight Encrypted Chats (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    no, they are doing not. At least on android.

    I use XPrivacy there and i see what apps are doing. Whatsapp is one of the nicer apps, it literally just accesses, what it needs to function. Its concept makes it a requirement to access the phone book and your phone number and IMEI, but stuff like calendar, call information and so on was never accessed by whatsapp.

    Other apps do access stuff, like for example Quizduell, which reads all kinds of android IDs and contacts ad servers even in the premium version and graph.facebook.com even when you do not have a facebook app or touch any facebook integration there. There are a lot more black sheep, but whatsapp is up to now mostly harmless.

  23. Re:How dangerous on iOS App Update Technique Puts Users At Risk (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    So the problem is trust. And that's a problem of app stores. Both google and apple suggest, that everything from their app store is safe. If they would label it just like a typical download site, the people would mistrust a bit more. And stop installing all the legal adware and spyware, which is seen as normal on mobile devices.

  24. Why doesn't Twitter shut down snowden? on Why Does Twitter Refuse To Shut Down Donald Trump? (vortex.com) · · Score: 1

    Because they do not need to disrespect freedom of speech, just because somebody is calling somebody else out

  25. How dangerous on iOS App Update Technique Puts Users At Risk (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    A phone app can use an complicated technology to do something, which pc apps can do without any problems all the time.