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  1. Re:Like this part on WebKit Developers Discuss Removal of Google-Specific Code · · Score: 1

    > implying, there is the #ifdef line

  2. Still does not teleport any goats on Firefox 20 Arrives With Per-Window Private Browsing, New Download Manager · · Score: 1

    Chrome can teleport many goats per second, firefox not even one.

  3. Re:Create something using a device while commuting on How Mobile Devices Kill Your Creativity · · Score: 1

    a laptop is fine, you can code python on it. But coding python on a tablet is no fun.

  4. And also the type of device used kills creativity on How Mobile Devices Kill Your Creativity · · Score: 1

    Devices like tablets are in direct competition with notebooks and in some situations even PCs.
    Now lets assume the typical slashdot poster, who is a hobby programmer.

    If he's sitting at his pc, and surfs on the web, he may interrupt it to do some coding. maybe he's annoyed by something on a website and writes a userscript to change it, or he just gets an idea for a cool script and can instantly switch to a terminal and write it.

    If he's surfing on his mobile device, he does not have a keyboard, and not even a system which does good multitasking (in the human sense, not in the multithreading sense). So if he's annoyed by something on a website, its likely, he just ignores it. Or maybe he tries to search for a userscript for his mobile browser, but its unlikely he starts writing one. And starting to program something more advanced on a touchscreen is even more unlikely.

    You do not need to be a programmer, to have this problem. Mobile devices, which lack proper input like mouse and keyboard are designed for consumption, they are not designed to create something.

  5. Re:Virtualization is kind of bullshit on A Glimpse of a Truly Elastic Cloud · · Score: 1

    kvm for example boots another kernel ... okay, with virtio it reduces some overhead, but its another kernel. other virt stuff is more lightweight ... but the first "virtualization" is just a multiprocess OS.

  6. Re:Virtualization is kind of bullshit on A Glimpse of a Truly Elastic Cloud · · Score: 1

    and thats an argument, to boot a full kernel, just to seperate the access to gcc?
    That just some "we have the ressources anyway" argument.

  7. Virtualization is kind of bullshit on A Glimpse of a Truly Elastic Cloud · · Score: 1

    when you virtualize in unix system, then you create a virtual machine to run multiple applications seperated from each other on a OS, which was invented to run multiple applications seperated from each other. Many applications do not really need a VM, but just a shell account and some own ip, where they are allowed to use privileged ports.

    other approaches are chroot/lxc/linux-vserver maybe openvz lightweight VMs.

  8. Best Way To Block Web Content? on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Block Web Content? · · Score: 1

    Close the Browser.

  9. other languages on Lamenting the Demise of Hangups · · Score: 1

    for example, in german the word hangup "aufhängen" was displaces by "auflegen" (to lay sth. down), like you did with the old telecom telephones with keys on one big block and a receiver to hold at your ear. Of course, you could try to implement this by an app, which hangs up when you lay down the phone ... but face it, you did not hang up or lay down your DECT mobile, as well.

  10. next step on Facebook Knows If You're Gay, Use Drugs, Or Are a Republican · · Score: 1

    the covariance of these properties.

  11. Re:Knows and Presumes are not the same thing on Facebook Knows If You're Gay, Use Drugs, Or Are a Republican · · Score: 2

    > Which is why I hit the "like" button for EVERYTHING!!!!!
    thats exactly wrong. Then facebook knows, whats everything for you. So they know all of your environment, because you clicked like on everything YOU saw, but of course not on things, you did not see.

  12. Re:Fuzzy searching on Developers May Be Getting 50% of Their Documentation From Stack Overflow · · Score: 1

    The other main difference:
    An API documentation is long and everthing seems as if it were of equal importance. Now read it, try to get started ...
    At stackoverflow (and other online communites, why this advertisment here?), the documentation is weighted by importance. You will get a lot more answers to the questions, which are propably the right questions, which keeps you on track doing it the right way.

  13. Re:Is there any reason on How Competing Companies Are Jointly Building WebKit · · Score: 1

    and the lgpl-part is, why companies like apple can use it without opensourcing their browser.

  14. Can Bettridges Law of Headlines ever be wrong? on Ask Slashdot: Can Quickoffice On Chromebooks Topple Microsoft's Office? · · Score: 1

    Can Bettridges Law of Headlines ever be wrong?

  15. Re:Online Advertising Response on Firefox Will Soon Block Third-Party Cookies · · Score: 1

    dells pages are just commercial, because you only can use them properly, when you have bought that machine, or when you want to.

    opensource on the other hand ... many people pay money to provide the hosting for free software. You would assume, when you do not get money for your software, you want at least some cheap hosting ... but no, its worth it to the authors of the software. Another reason, why you should donate to your favourite projects.

  16. Re:Not that simple (Re:Online Advertising Response on Firefox Will Soon Block Third-Party Cookies · · Score: 1

    but i never visisted ad.d*bleclick.net directly.

  17. Re:A nuclear first strike... on Firefox Will Soon Block Third-Party Cookies · · Score: 1

    with the user without these plugins as loser.

  18. Re:Online Advertising Response on Firefox Will Soon Block Third-Party Cookies · · Score: 1

    let them go "pay-for-content". Then they will see, what they are actually worth to the user. Which means better sites, and the bad ones just die because nobody pays.

  19. Re:Not that simple (Re:Online Advertising Response on Firefox Will Soon Block Third-Party Cookies · · Score: 5, Interesting

    then the question is, why not doing it the other way round: allow 3rd-partys to access their own cookies, but do not allow them to set a cookie, if they are not the 1st party at the moment.

  20. Bad move on Firefox Will Soon Block Third-Party Cookies · · Score: 0

    Think about it. If they call it a nuclear strike, they will start using some other technique. Flash-Cookies, DOM-Storage, E-Tags, whatever fits. And this is not so easy to block. So now, the default allowed their techniques and the advanced users could just uncheck it. then, we will need more advanced filters, because they use more advanced tracking.

  21. Re:Local police won't be much help on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With an Advanced Wi-Fi Leech? · · Score: 1

    no, it is not, even if you may wish so.

  22. Re:i like to limit my DHCP scope on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With an Advanced Wi-Fi Leech? · · Score: 1

    he wanted to filter the MACs, which get an ip via DHCP. Thats no protection, because i just pick some unused ip by hand.

    do not confuse his misleaded approach with MAC filtering on the accesspoint (a layer below IP)

  23. Re:Local police won't be much help on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With an Advanced Wi-Fi Leech? · · Score: 1

    as stuff like "a evil twin network" aren't really crimes ... why should they. Its a matter of perspective, if a twin-network is "evil".

  24. Re:i like to limit my DHCP scope on Ask Slashdot: Dealing With an Advanced Wi-Fi Leech? · · Score: 1

    why? Just pick a unused static ip from (or even not from) the dhcp-range.

  25. Re:Who cares? on You Can Navigate Between Any Two Websites In 19 Clicks Or Fewer · · Score: 1

    between two facebook profiles.