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  1. Because it's something in favor of Microsoft, and this is Slashdot.
    In here, Microsoft is always wrong and bad.

  2. Re:I just want my "disable Javascript" checkbox ba on Firefox To Let Users Control Memory Usage (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    Developer Tools > Advanced settings > Disable JavaScript ???

    Or use NoScript

  3. Re:How about... on Firefox To Let Users Control Memory Usage (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...there are forks, such as Palemoon, that retain the good features that Mozilla eliminated and avoid the useless crap and pointless changes that Mozilla seems to love so much.

    But since Palemoon has an even smaller marketshare, it is, by your logic, worse than Firefox.

  4. Re: Never understood the Ubuntu hate... on Canonical Founder Criticizes Free Software Developers Who 'Hate On Whatever's Mainstream' (google.com) · · Score: 1

    But isn't that the beauty of open source? We can have multiple attempts at solving a problem and the best one wins.

    Except one doesn't "win"

    So we're stuck with multiple solutions to the same problem, most of which incompatible with each other, leading to fragmentation.

  5. Re:Windows 10 Destroyer's Update on The Windows 10 Creators Update Is Now Available (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Makes sense, install that update and none of your Windows programs will work anymore. You'll probably lose all of your data too.

  6. "The Market" seemed to be adopting Cinnamon and MATE. Where's this "adopting GNOME 3" thing coming from?

    Maybe "The Market" means "Linux User" and not "Ex-Ubuntu User"?

  7. Is there anything Graphene CAN'T do? on Graphene-Based Sieve Turns Seawater Into Drinking Water (bbc.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes.
    Come to market.

  8. Re:What can Berners-Lee do here, really? on FSF Activists Want You To Call Tim Berners-Lee About DRM (boingboing.net) · · Score: 1

    I don't think that's what the possible DRM standard is though. I think it's more like the browser says "hey can I view this content?" and the website says "yes/no". How it figures it out is entirely up to the browser/websiter.
    It might be similar to where the spec doesn't specifically mention a format, or even a UI.

  9. Re:I lost 6 months worth of data on my Switch on Your Save Data Is Not Safe On the Nintendo Switch (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    6 months of data on a system that's hasn't even been out for 1?
    Are you from the future?

  10. Re:Sounds great! on House Approves Bill To Force Public Release of EPA Science (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    Anything that will need regulation will inherently be reproducible if it's not it's B.S. not science.

    Nice try.

    How about climate change?
    Do we need to reproduce an entire other Earth?

  11. Re:All this Glitz but it's still posessed... on Slashdot Asks: Windows 10 Creators Update Goes Live On April 11, Will You Upgrade? · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Okay, the Home edition still tries to prevent you from shutting off the crumy updates...

    Good.
    The average Windows user can't be trusted to ever run updates, so their computer ends up getting compromised.

  12. This is Slashdot on Slashdot Asks: Windows 10 Creators Update Goes Live On April 11, Will You Upgrade? · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    M$ is bad because M$!

    Did you see {thing} they did(not) do? It is bad because they did(not) do it!

  13. Re: Really, Microsoft? on Windows 10 Will Download Some Updates Even Over a Metered Connection (winsupersite.com) · · Score: 1

    If it's already installed for them, then there isn't anything more to learn than they'd have to learn with Windows 10 anyway.

    If it is already installed for them....that's a major hurdle. Finding something other than Windows (or macOS) pre-installed is nigh impossible*, the exception being Chromebooks which seem to do well.


    *yes I know of things like System76, or even the Dell computers, but the average person going into a Best Buy is not going to see them.

  14. " automatically tried and convicted for murder unless..."
    sounds like Guilty until Proven Innocent to me.

    Also, in Civil Court it is still Innocent until Proven Guilty, just that the bar to prove guilty is lower.

  15. It's not hard if camera video unavailable for any reason it should be no different than civil court if you refuse to produce records you assume they show things in the worst light possible.

    This means by law a fatal shooting without camera footage means the cops is automatically tried and convicted for murder unless other footage is available so show his innocence. Oddly they will start insuring their camera's work.

    Guilty until proven innocent?

  16. Re:Make it illegal to not turn them on on Can Technology Prevent Cops From Forgetting To Turn On Their Body Cameras? (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    If you show it to anyone who isn't concerned with solving the case I'll step on your balls while you're watching me do it, though.

    What if that's what turns me on?

  17. So it's okay when a Cuban does it?
    We've gone from sexism to racism here.

  18. If the article was about Google wanting to make information more proprietary and secret, you'd bitch about that too.

  19. Re:"Former" engineer - tells you all you need to k on Former Engineer Says Uber Is a Nightmare of Sexism; CEO Orders Urgent Investigation (susanjfowler.com) · · Score: 2

    ...My guess is this person lost their job for performance of incontinence reasons and is trying to create a shitstorm in order to extract revenge...

    So I'm guessing she won't succeed given her history.

  20. Re:TANSTAAFL on YouTube Will Kill Unskippable 30-Second Ads Next Year (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't think the 'micro' in micropayments is literally 'micro'.

    Point is, can you, or GP (if you're not the same person) name an example where Micropayments do work?

  21. Re:TANSTAAFL on YouTube Will Kill Unskippable 30-Second Ads Next Year (theverge.com) · · Score: 0

    "Video hosting costs money. Micropayments don't work."

    Hogwash. Nobody is even trying actual micropayments. Micropayments do work for the right values of "micro" and the right model.

    Can you name one? I'm curious.
    The only kind I can think of is mobile IAP, and lol at that model being used for YouTube. You can't watch any more videos for today, watch 5 more for $.99!

  22. BEEP BOOP on Mozilla Will Deprecate XUL Add-ons Before the End of 2017 · · Score: 1, Funny

    {company} did {thing}! {thing} is bad!
    It's still bad even though it may be something I complained they didn't do before!

    If only they listened to ME they would succeed!
    I won't tell them or make my own {software} lest I be shown that my needs aren't the needs of everyone.

  23. Re:Why not go the whole nine yards? on Woolly Mammoth On Verge of Resurrection, Scientists Reveal (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    This sounds like when a new version of {software} comes out.
    "They didn't do what I think is important, therefore all their effort is wasted."

  24. Re:No fall, no change on Michael Flynn Resigns As Trump's National Security Adviser (go.com) · · Score: 1

    His approval ratings almost certainly will change as people start to judge him on what he does...

    I honestly doubt this will ever happen, in either direction.

  25. Ugh Windows 10 is flat! What happened to Aero? This sucks!
    Ugh Windows 10 has stuff like Aero! It'll get in the way! This sucks!

    Never change, Slashdot