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  1. Re:That's it? on Study: Ad-Free Internet Would Cost Everyone $230-a-Year · · Score: 1

    They cannot win. There are more people with the urge to block, than adblocker-blockers.
    The best they can get, is to lose the adblocking visitors.

    you followed the story about gmx, 1&1 and other united internet services, which called adblock a malware? Except from streisand, they got a very bad reputation in the media as well.

  2. Re:That's it? on Study: Ad-Free Internet Would Cost Everyone $230-a-Year · · Score: 1

    have a look at flattr. you pay a fixed amount anyway, whether you spend it or not. if you like something, you click a button, in the end of the month, your money gets distributed. that way, the click does not cost anything you don't pay anyway, so you can click without thinking about the cost.

  3. Re:$230 on Study: Ad-Free Internet Would Cost Everyone $230-a-Year · · Score: 1

    you do not need flashblock. just tell noscript to block flash on trusted pages as well and you have flashblock like placeholders.

  4. It's not possible on Study: Ad-Free Internet Would Cost Everyone $230-a-Year · · Score: 1

    As soon as you would try to make such a model, everyone would come, create some alibi website and tell the world, he needs one dollar of your 230 USD per year. If there is money, people get greedy.

  5. it will not work that way on Are Altcoins Undermining Bitcoin's Credibility? · · Score: 1

    sounds like he has a lot of bitcoins, so he wants to preserve their status.

    Altcoins are having success, even parody ones. Why? Because *coins are a ponzi scheme. Who comes first, gets more for less.
    Yeah, creators ARE premining. But nevertheless, the first users can do cheap mining as well, paid by the users who are joining later. Because of this effect you cannot tell people to boycott altcoins, when they have the opportunity to make a lot more money there than with bitcoin.

    So maybe there will not be mined more and more bitcoins, but for every coin-currency which is "used up", there will come a successor, which can be mined from start. So its a meta-coin, which does not work by hashing more and more transactions, but by creating new currencies, which will replace the old ones.

  6. Re:Welcome to 1999 on Leaked Documents: GCHQ Made Port-Scanning Entire Countries a Standard Spy Tool · · Score: 1

    People like you are the people, whose mailservers spam the rest of us.

  7. Fail on Web Trolls Winning As Incivility Increases · · Score: 1

    Next time use a rickroll video without GEMA blocking ;).

  8. Re:Define Troll on Web Trolls Winning As Incivility Increases · · Score: 1

    Its because cracker is a stupid word. First i think of cookies, then i think of people creating keygens. No, cracker is no word for "evil hacker".

  9. Who cannot deal with trolls on Web Trolls Winning As Incivility Increases · · Score: 1

    should not join discussions, online or offline.

  10. Re:Checking all messages' Received on Email Is Not Going Anywhere · · Score: 1

    your mailprovider does, using SPF and DKIM.

  11. Re:serious confusion by the author on Email Is Not Going Anywhere · · Score: 1

    wrong. because someone is the first user. Without friends using it.

  12. Re:Also, this is silly: on Writer: Internet Comments Belong On Personal Blogs, Not News Sites · · Score: 1

    Some people do not want a discussion (about their content). Look at all this blogs with moderated comments.

  13. Read only the comments on Writer: Internet Comments Belong On Personal Blogs, Not News Sites · · Score: 1

    On News sites with good comment systems, the comments add the real value.

    Examples:
    - reddit: Comments are dull, because everyone wants to be funny
    - Slashdot: Comments are often better than the article, some are just funny, others insightful and interesting.
    - Heise: Best* comment system, good threaded discussions, which add value even to the often very good articles.

    * look at the news forums. Some other Forums, like telepolisblogs, techreview, mac&i, ... are migrated to new forums, which are worse. If they really migrate all forums, their comments will decline, too.

  14. Re:hum on Netflix Now Works On Linux With HTML5 DRM Video Support In Chrome · · Score: 0

    No, because you change the UA and it works. So why should it be a problem for them?

    I guess the reason is, there are good screen records for linux, which can make lossless copies.

  15. Re:This is not the problem on Skype Blocks Customers Using OS-X 10.5.x and Earlier · · Score: 1

    there was recently a posting, that skype will disable old versions (at least on linux). I guess osx will get the same problem.

  16. This is not the problem on Skype Blocks Customers Using OS-X 10.5.x and Earlier · · Score: 1

    The problem is, they are banning old but working skype versions from their network. When you think of the beginning, where skype was p2p ...

  17. Re:address standards are a nightmare on Gmail Recognizes Addresses Containing Non-Latin Characters · · Score: 2

    just send a mail. if it fails, discard the pending registration or whatever, possibly via "not confirmed" timeout some days later.

  18. WTF? on Gmail Recognizes Addresses Containing Non-Latin Characters · · Score: 1

    Isn't this something, which was introduced years ago?

  19. Bullshit on Verizon Throttles Data To "Provide Incentive To Limit Usage" · · Score: 1

    Think of all the wasted data, greenpeace will hate you!

    Seriously. If its such a small percentage, which needs huge amount of data, they can provide it to them. There are a lot of people with unlimited data, who check their mail once a day. So the money is okay on average. Thats the whole idea of flatrates.

  20. Re:Looks like a fairly simple hack they did. on The FBI Is Infecting Tor Users With Malware With Drive-By Downloads · · Score: 1

    You can change the MAC, so you cannot see the real one in your ethernet frames. But a software can read the real MAC from your NIC without any problem.

  21. Bullshit on Do Apple and Google Sabotage Older Phones? What the Graphs Don't Show · · Score: 1

    When there are new phones, people start noticing, that the old ones got slow with the more ressource hungry apps and there is finally as fast one. And the developers start optimizing for bigger phones / not caring about low res ones.

    correlation does not mean causation.

  22. Re:Uh, sure.. on Ask Slashdot: Correlation Between Text Editor and Programming Language? · · Score: 1

    I do not think so. My first programming steps were with VBA [VB in Office] (own editor) and Batch-Files (notepad), then i tried really short qbasic (own editor) and continued with borland pascal (own editor). I used Java (NetBeans, JBuilder), I programmed perl [for CGI] with notepad ...
    When i really got started with linux, i used vim for many things, like perl, shellscripts, but python as well. I edit C++ and java in vim if its small or single file changes.
    At the moment i program with C++ at work and configured eclipse, because i wanted more completion.

    Some kind of correlation might be, that you use an IDE for complex languages and/or when there many functions you do not know by heart, and you can use pure texteditors for languages, which are intuitive.

    I would never want to go back to an editor without highlighting, though. But vim is no basic editor, but an advanced one, you should only know, that an advanced editor is still no IDE.

  23. Re: Question... -- ? on Exploiting Wildcards On Linux/Unix · · Score: 1

    rm -- --

  24. Re:"A man after my own heart" (Pascal) on Ask Slashdot: What Inspired You To Start Hacking? · · Score: 1

    yeah, i went to turbo vision and TWindow stuff for 16 bit win3.1 gui ... tried delphi but never used it very much. Did some stuff with visual C++ and MFC ... today i do mostly python for my hobby project.

  25. I wanted to make the computer do what i want on Ask Slashdot: What Inspired You To Start Hacking? · · Score: 1

    And so i started, a bit with batch-scripts, qbasic, VBA, until a friendly neighbor gave me 11 floppies with borland pascal and 10 kg of books. Then the real fun started with sound() and unit graph :).