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  1. Re: In what way did that make any sense? on Web Apps: the Future of the Internet, Or Forever a Second-Class Citizen? · · Score: 1

    Not to forget that pretty much every native app that connects to the Internet loads up user data to company servers. Which makes the passive security arguments for native apps an uneducated suggestion.

    It really just boils down to performance and integration. If you need a 3d engine then yes, go as native as possible. Even the "new features that aren't supported by the embedded browsers" argument looses ground since you can implement hybrid apps with native blobs in many cases. But as always in the industry you have to also make due with the talent you have got. If you or you team are objective c ninjas the you will implement an ios app or have to ditch the team.

  2. Re:Uh... on The Web Won't Be Safe Or Secure Until We Break It · · Score: 3, Informative

    Which is something that people could do for a very long time with stuff like firefox.
    Hell, in the last years (don't recall when exactly) firefox even made it a "framework", prism or what it is called, so you can create stand alone applications out of websites. You can even set rules about where the browser can go!

    Am I missing something?

  3. Re:And this is why on Alan Cox to NVIDIA: You Can't Use DMA-BUF · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If it leads to vendor GPU drivers being developed in the open then I'm in!

    Why were you upset again?

  4. Re:Pay what you want? Not quite. on Humble eBook Bundle Lets You Pay What You Want For eBooks · · Score: 1

    No, not at all actually. People will ever only notice the big fat letters printed on the confirmation dialogue so as long that one is a decimal number you are sure that:
    A) people will be warned of the amount they are preparing to donate
    B) nerds will be reassured that their esoteric formula got actually accepted by the thick goggled accountant.

    Also if you had any success in that sort of stuff you learn to double check with insane donations, because that is the smart money way anyway.

  5. Re:Pay what you want? Not quite. on Humble eBook Bundle Lets You Pay What You Want For eBooks · · Score: 1

    No I don't. Sorry to burst your bubble there but what were you thinking about?
    Obviously you aren't dealing with that sort of data on the payment framework, everything is frontend. So where exactly lies the trouble?

  6. Re:Pay what you want? Not quite. on Humble eBook Bundle Lets You Pay What You Want For eBooks · · Score: 1

    IMO they should, as a nerd backed enterprise, have build at least a basic parser for simple formulas into the payment system. nothing fancy obviously you need to get a float to the payment op but doing some simple parsing and supporting predefined constants (pi,fi, e) can be easily done even from the frontend.

  7. Re:I'm a gamer at heart on Humble eBook Bundle Lets You Pay What You Want For eBooks · · Score: 1

    Because obviously Paolo Bacigalupi sucks sooooo sooo badly....
    Ah, slashdot cowards making me use the keyboard...

  8. Re:Hmmm... on Intel Debuts Clover Trail For Tablets, Launches New Atom Inside · · Score: 1

    Interesting. So since they went XXL on the die size anyway why didn't they again also upgrade the memory controller to finally support more than 2Gb of ram? I mean they dream of people using IDEs and whatnot on those tablets.

  9. Re:First of the many bogus patents by Google on US Patent Office Seeks Aid To Spot Bogus Patent Claims · · Score: 1

    Guys, stop nitpicking. It is obvious that the root of evil depends on encoding and character set!

  10. Re:Message to the intolerant on Pakistan's PM Demands International Blasphemy Laws From UN · · Score: 1

    For a moment I thought the goal was to make himself look like a fuzzy fuzzy fungus.

  11. Re:error correction on Mikko Hypponen's Malware Odyssey · · Score: 1
  12. Re:That this is patenteable AT ALL on Microsoft Patents Whacking Your Phone To Silence It · · Score: 1

    Yes, we got the landmines out this summer ;-)

  13. Re:And how will this on Huge Diamond Deposits Revealed In Russia · · Score: 3, Insightful

    3.1. Announce it woldwide and start frenetically building extraction mines
    3.2. Watch the prices of diamonds tumble while you build the extraction mines due to other providers making sellout contracts to insure buyers
    3.3. Buy an shitload of diamonds at reduced price and demolish the extraction mines
    4. sell the diamonds once prices get restored for a profit

  14. Re:What happened to freedom of speech on Google Blocks 'Innocence of Muslim' Video In Indonesia and India · · Score: 1

    Well, when has the US senate or any other form of government ever been correlated with honesty?

  15. Re:Good on Spoken Commands Crash Bank Phone Lines · · Score: 1

    I wasn't talking about randomly mashing the buttons, but just trying to find the menu that does what you want without any success because it doesn't exist. Leading to the aforementioned every possible combination

  16. Re:Visualizing The Scale on Australian Study Backs Major Assumption of Cosmology · · Score: 1

    It's pretty far also :-(

  17. Re:Aliens? on Australian Study Backs Major Assumption of Cosmology · · Score: 1

    42

  18. It's a hidden message! on Australian Study Backs Major Assumption of Cosmology · · Score: 1

    No, it just implies that you have to go 250MLY that way.

  19. Re:Aliens? Probably. on Australian Study Backs Major Assumption of Cosmology · · Score: 1

    ...an argument often, rightly made here on earth.

  20. Re:What happened to freedom of speech on Google Blocks 'Innocence of Muslim' Video In Indonesia and India · · Score: 1

    No, I don't. I didn't say anything about the author. How did you conceive of that one?

  21. Re:Useful power on The Passing of the Personal Computer Era · · Score: 1

    Didn't the Americans already have that electronics elections thing? Or was it electronic selections? Electric infections? Eclectic erections?

    Ah, never mind....

  22. Re:Good on Spoken Commands Crash Bank Phone Lines · · Score: 1

    On lots of the implementations I have seen either the menu loops indefinitely or it just disconnects you. To be honest though this is something I only have noticed in countries in the Mediterranean. So maybe it is somehow related to economic insolvency?

  23. Re:That this is patenteable AT ALL on Microsoft Patents Whacking Your Phone To Silence It · · Score: 1

    Anonymous Cowards have a reputation for not understanding such things

  24. Re:What happened to freedom of speech on Google Blocks 'Innocence of Muslim' Video In Indonesia and India · · Score: 2

    No, the violence started because some clueless religious fanatics:
    1. can't comprehend the idea of free speech
    2. would outrage even if they did understand

    It's a moebious strip really. The film exists because people exist that would organize mass violence about anything that puts their faith in bad light, which sort of is the film.

    I have to side with the fanatics on this one though; there isn't one redeemable thing to the film. Viewing it, even in order to teach people what not to do, could easily be classified as psychological torture.

  25. Re:Good on Spoken Commands Crash Bank Phone Lines · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Especially if after pressing all possible combinations and you finally get to the part where it says "I'll connect you to a human being" the while system blows up and you have to start over. Which in my experience happens approximately 100% of the time.