Firefox has had its issues over the years but time and again it's proven to be the most stable, most user friendly browser over the long term.
I think I switched from Firefox to Chrome at around 2010. At that time, Firefox was definitely not the most stable or the fastest browser out there, chrome was.
Switching back hasn't really been something that I'm willing to invest the time in at the moment, as it's easy to just download chrome, log in, and then have all your extensions, bookmarks, etc. come back to you.
I understand Firefox does that now, but it still requires me to find extension equivalents and migrate the data which frankly isn't worth the time.
The problem with that is it's not "failing silently". The message is sending and the phone is just seen as off because it hasn't been disassociated with your Apple account.
Though, I'm sure there must be way to test for this...
There is a file called documents/My Clippings.txt if I'm not mistaken. Some time ago, I wrote a simple program (kindleclip — https://github.com/gwolf/kindl... ) that presents you highlights, bookmarks and comments, allows you to search, either by book or by date. It's a GTK2 project built with Glade however, and I have not yet ported it to use current alternatives, but at least I believe the source to be quite readable/followable. Hope you find it useful.
^ This. While that may be a little cumbersome to sync it all, I think that's the best you'll probably get with the Kindle.
The person was clearly listing out multiple steps to take. Use Calibre (to manage your ebooks, maybe with plugins to strip DRM). Root your Kindle (to prevent it from communicating with Amazon in ways you don't control).
The person listed steps, yes. But failed to communicate what doing that would actually solve as his problem wasn't DRM or the device communicating with Amazon...
In many cases, it is the rich who live downtown near a subway and then won't have to pay a darn thing. Meanwhile, it is the poor and middle class who live in areas where you need a car. It's just not a moral cause to take transit. We'd all take transit if we lived near it and our work was near a stop as well and we could get there in a timely manner. It's just many people don't and so they drive.
Wouldn't this problem you mention be solved by more funding for transit?
Honestly, I don't think that would have helped. I doubt it's much harder to gain control of someone's gmail, yahoo or hotmail account if they are as motivated as it sounds like his attacker was.
Once you gain control of anyone's email account, even if the attacker doesn't have custom domains to hold for ransom, they could easily threaten bank accounts, etc etc.
Who knows what came before this guy took the stage.
I was at the event and I think the laughter was mostly caused by a dramatic change in tone compared to the previous speakers. He was a lot more intense in a way that at first came off as a joke.
Make the comments wider and the stories on the front page a little easier to tell apart.
1) The comments are way too narrow. Look at a place like reddit. I think of slashdot as the more tech-oriented reddit where the empathizes is on commenting and reading the comments. Due to this, many people post long comments, having them all smashed just makes it harder to read. I don't come to Slashdot to read the articles, I come here to read the comments.
2) Right now on the front page it's difficult to glance and see each story because everything is the same color. Take a look at the current page - each story has a bright green line which makes them very easy to quickly scan and figure out which one you want to read.
no shit the browsers are not rock solid. They are ungodly complicated, probably 2nd only to games (which crash orders of magnitude more often) and they have to deal with copious amount of shoddy html and javascript all day long.
I understand.
However out of all the browsers I've switched between using on a daily basis Firefox is by far the most crashy. Hell, even IE 10 is more stable.
1999 Saturn SL, manual transmission, listed as 27MPG city and I think 35 MPG highway. I definitely averaged around 32MPG or so for my normal commute. And this was not the highest mileage commonly available auto out there.
You're comparing the mpg of a car to that of an SUV, of course you're going to get higher...
I initially thought this while reading the article, but then I realized that the people interviewed were people who lived in the apartments and thus parked in that lot every night.
I too would have my car towed to a dealership after this happened more than a few times - especially with a new car. A pirate radio station is so far outside of the realm of everyday possibilities of your car malfunctioning that even some basic troubleshooting would have completely missed this issue.
"instead of waiting 4-5 seconds to do something, i am interested in spending hours of effort to recreate/relearn it on a different platform"
Why not use the "agonizing eternity" of 4-5 seconds to reflect on life, maybe hum a song, or do anything that helps your mind relax before you develop ADD and can ONLY do math?
what karma? it's friday.
I suggest just getting a better calculator.
You tend to get used to something like a calculator with muscle memory and all of that. If you were out of school I would say go for the computer, but while you're in school, and subject to the restrictions of exams, it makes a lot more sense to just stick with using what you're always going to be using.
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Firefox has had its issues over the years but time and again it's proven to be the most stable, most user friendly browser over the long term.
I think I switched from Firefox to Chrome at around 2010. At that time, Firefox was definitely not the most stable or the fastest browser out there, chrome was.
Switching back hasn't really been something that I'm willing to invest the time in at the moment, as it's easy to just download chrome, log in, and then have all your extensions, bookmarks, etc. come back to you.
I understand Firefox does that now, but it still requires me to find extension equivalents and migrate the data which frankly isn't worth the time.
I don't think it's possible to make something "illegal tender", at least in the US.
They could always make it illegal to posses it, like illegal drugs. Though, I doubt it would go that far.
The problem with that is it's not "failing silently". The message is sending and the phone is just seen as off because it hasn't been disassociated with your Apple account.
Though, I'm sure there must be way to test for this...
> Dumb question: it's about the actions of the believers.
Except they aren't "believers".
They're just foodies that want better vegetables and cheese than your local "let them eat dirt" grocery chain will allow for.
They're just consumers in search of a better product.
The whole "believer" angle is just pure unadulterated nonsense.
Did you even read the rest of his post?
There is a file called documents/My Clippings.txt if I'm not mistaken. Some time ago, I wrote a simple program (kindleclip — https://github.com/gwolf/kindl... ) that presents you highlights, bookmarks and comments, allows you to search, either by book or by date. It's a GTK2 project built with Glade however, and I have not yet ported it to use current alternatives, but at least I believe the source to be quite readable/followable. Hope you find it useful.
^ This. While that may be a little cumbersome to sync it all, I think that's the best you'll probably get with the Kindle.
The person was clearly listing out multiple steps to take. Use Calibre (to manage your ebooks, maybe with plugins to strip DRM). Root your Kindle (to prevent it from communicating with Amazon in ways you don't control).
The person listed steps, yes. But failed to communicate what doing that would actually solve as his problem wasn't DRM or the device communicating with Amazon...
In many cases, it is the rich who live downtown near a subway and then won't have to pay a darn thing. Meanwhile, it is the poor and middle class who live in areas where you need a car. It's just not a moral cause to take transit. We'd all take transit if we lived near it and our work was near a stop as well and we could get there in a timely manner. It's just many people don't and so they drive.
Wouldn't this problem you mention be solved by more funding for transit?
Avoid custom domains for your login email address
Honestly, I don't think that would have helped. I doubt it's much harder to gain control of someone's gmail, yahoo or hotmail account if they are as motivated as it sounds like his attacker was.
Once you gain control of anyone's email account, even if the attacker doesn't have custom domains to hold for ransom, they could easily threaten bank accounts, etc etc.
The problem with this assumption is that Myspace's fall was a result of Facebook existing as its successor.
This.
I refused to use MySpace mostly due to the terrible "customization" that it allowed. I suspect that was the reason a lot of people switched over.
Considering how quick a misleading study by a top university could totally ruin their stock price, it was be stupid not to respond quickly.
The Starbucks app has much worse security problems; a photo of the 2D barcode cannot be revoked as a valid credential.
In the Starbucks app you can create a new card and then delete the old one. Or just go purchase another card and add it into the Starbucks app.
Considering they've ground-up rewrote Minecraft 3 times for iOS, Android, and XBox, I have a feeling that Minecraft may not always be in Java.
The system requirements of Windows 8.1 are identical to those of Windows 8, and they don't even differ noticeably from those of Windows Vista.
This is not entirely true. I have at least one machine that refuses to install because it's missing an instruction set that was made a requirement in Windows 8.1 (CMPXCHG16b) Link: http://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-confirms-some-older-amd-processors-do-not-support-windows-81
The processor is almost 10 years old which I guess is a good run, however.
Who knows what came before this guy took the stage.
I was at the event and I think the laughter was mostly caused by a dramatic change in tone compared to the previous speakers. He was a lot more intense in a way that at first came off as a joke.
I wonder if you said the same thing about Windows 95 when XP came out :)
Not to mention Panera internet (at least for me) is very slow compared to Starbucks and Panera also blocks VPN.
Make the comments wider and the stories on the front page a little easier to tell apart.
1) The comments are way too narrow. Look at a place like reddit. I think of slashdot as the more tech-oriented reddit where the empathizes is on commenting and reading the comments. Due to this, many people post long comments, having them all smashed just makes it harder to read. I don't come to Slashdot to read the articles, I come here to read the comments.
2) Right now on the front page it's difficult to glance and see each story because everything is the same color. Take a look at the current page - each story has a bright green line which makes them very easy to quickly scan and figure out which one you want to read.
This sounds interesting. I could see this going poorly depending on the way the company approached It though.
Most of my professors upload all of their slides to the school CMS for all students to download. So if you really need it, you can already do this.
no shit the browsers are not rock solid. They are ungodly complicated, probably 2nd only to games (which crash orders of magnitude more often) and they have to deal with copious amount of shoddy html and javascript all day long.
I understand.
However out of all the browsers I've switched between using on a daily basis Firefox is by far the most crashy. Hell, even IE 10 is more stable.
I have Skype on my 9930. Haven't tried phone calls but the messaging works fine.
Yeah, I don't entirely understand why apple is having such a rough time getting basic time keeping and scheduling working...
1999 Saturn SL, manual transmission, listed as 27MPG city and I think 35 MPG highway. I definitely averaged around 32MPG or so for my normal commute. And this was not the highest mileage commonly available auto out there.
You're comparing the mpg of a car to that of an SUV, of course you're going to get higher...
I initially thought this while reading the article, but then I realized that the people interviewed were people who lived in the apartments and thus parked in that lot every night.
I too would have my car towed to a dealership after this happened more than a few times - especially with a new car. A pirate radio station is so far outside of the realm of everyday possibilities of your car malfunctioning that even some basic troubleshooting would have completely missed this issue.
"instead of waiting 4-5 seconds to do something, i am interested in spending hours of effort to recreate/relearn it on a different platform"
Why not use the "agonizing eternity" of 4-5 seconds to reflect on life, maybe hum a song, or do anything that helps your mind relax before you develop ADD and can ONLY do math?
what karma? it's friday.
I suggest just getting a better calculator.
You tend to get used to something like a calculator with muscle memory and all of that. If you were out of school I would say go for the computer, but while you're in school, and subject to the restrictions of exams, it makes a lot more sense to just stick with using what you're always going to be using.