When will they fix the bug that's slowly turning Firefox into a crappy clone of Chrome?
I think that particular cancer has it has gone malignant and spread to far already. I think I am going to jump ship to sea-monkey if this keeps up, I mean, I already use Firefox and Thunderbird, and they have crammed webIDE into Firefox anyway so I may as well have it all in one piece. I will probably wait for my biannual OS version bump, But that may change to now too, as Ubuntu has jumped aboard the systemD titanic on the next LTS version.
Is is just me or has the whole software world lost its mind.
Windows is trying to go full panopticon and you pay a subscription for it. Linux distros are going batshit crazy and slapping a tablet UI on desktops and putting immature, kitchen sink crap-ware as their init android is trying to kill external storage as unlimited dataplans are killed off. Mobile has killed the idea of fallowing open standards and you need separate apps for every network so you can talk to everyone Skype, face book messenger, google hangouts/voice/chat/mail/talk, snap-chat, whatsapp,... when previously I could just use pidgin and talk to everyone. Cloud storage everything, when storage has never been cheaper. And Mozilla's insanity from lets clone chrome to making Firefox a catch all when it was meant to be just the browser, and wasting resources on building their own os.
And they didn't lose a single life in the process? No property was damaged? No 'consumables' (like weapons, chemicals, food etc) were used? Really?
Oh right - they did lose lives and property. So they lost, arguably less than the British though. We're back to the OP's point - war: everyone loses, it's just a question of how much.
What your ignoring is what they gained which most everyone including themselves is valued as worth more, freedom, liberty amoung the intangables as well large amounts incredibly valuable land, free trade and lower taxes in the concrete.
yeah but you do that and we will start electing wwe wrestlers and no one wants that. hell they are probably the only people other than rappers that would be worse that the politicians we already have
a true leader of its people will do everything to keep them out of war, because nobody wins wars, everybody loses, it's just a question of who loses worse
I believe that there are 13 former British colonies that would like to know how exactly they didn't win that war for independence, or the rematch to stay that way several years latter. They are quite sure that they are no longer British subjects and are wondering what happened if they did not win exactly?
let me get this straight Mr Chamberlain So Chinese and the Japanese couldn't come to a compromise in ww2 about whether or not China had a right to exist and own land/resources that Japan wanted. Are you saying china should have what, given them half of Asia and executed their people as a compromise rather than go to war? Trying to compromise with people with extremist views and demands is wrong and should not be done. And some thing just cannot be compromised on in good conscience.
Or maybe your right, maybe we should have just compromised and let the fascist take Poland and Czechoslovak... then we could have avoided that war.
Uh,you do realize Ubuntu (for one simple example) is loaded with applications that use telemetry.
And that is first thing i take care of when i install ubuntu just type "apt-get purge zeitgeist" along with replacing the window manager/desktop environment
I am going to disagree with that. Possession of marijuana is still a Federal crime even though states may have legalized it. This means that if the next President feels like it, he or she can just seize the rolls of customers from the medical dispenseries and transaction logs from the toke joints, round the customers up and throw them all into prison for life.
Marijuana isn't going to be 50 states legal anytime soon, and it won't be legal in Colorado after 2017 when the new CIC decides to put brakes on the party.
If the next president does decide to do that, there will be a major amount of rioting in the legal states and senators/congressman governors will get shit canned if they didn't take action on it. What will happen is the DEA will go make arrests/seizures and the governors will then immediately pardon everyone and tell the feds to fuck off, fallowed by the congress/senators raising a shit storm in DC. No president will do that because of the bad plublicity it would generate when the whole left coast is riotings.
Depends on which side of the desk you are on. There are some "software" developers that would consider antivirus malware.
lets see if it looks like malware extorts me to buy the next better version, - so adware at the least eats ram eats proccesor hides itself in installers for other programs, hard to remove and removing can break the host system when doing so looks like malware to me.
In other news, you can still buy buggy whips, dial-style telephones, and vinyl records, too.
Nostalgia and straight-up Luddite-like behavior are enough to keep almost anything going at some level -- no matter how low its actual utility as compared to more recent replacement tech may be.
Hell, I own a vacuum tube stereo system made by Scott in the 1950's -- my father bought it when it was new, it's been with the family ever since, and now it is mine. I'm really quite fond of it in the "I actually use it" sense, though considered in the light of my home theater system, it's neither particularly functional or particularly high quality (though in its day, it absolutely was The Shite.) Still, it glows in the dark in a most pleasing manner.:)
I keep it in my office and enjoy listening to it regularly. My physical book collection, however... several thousand volumes... in boxes in the basement. I am a total convert to e-books. Textbooks, fiction, reference material... all right in my pocket, 100% accessible 100% of the time in 100% of the places I go (unless I'm diving or swimming, but hey. And I could get a waterproof, good to X-depth case for my phone, and then...:)
No not nostalgia, I can read copy of the latest Dresden Files book while outside while walking my dog and not have to turn up the screen brightness to read in the sunlight then run out of battery. I don't worry about Amazon deciding to delete copy of 1984 because I bought my copy from a publisher from New Zealand. - see Amazon 1984 deletion débâcle. I can also loan my a my copy of A Canticle for Libowitzs to my sister to read without being sued for sharing. I can underline highlight annotate without having to illegally break the DRM the publisher decided to "protect" my copy of my textbook with. I can resell my physical books/ I can don't have to choose between breaking the law to format shift and break the DRM on my books or rebuy my books when my new reader a a few years no longer supports the old format or when the servers for DRM verification goes down. I can buy my dead tree book second hand cheaper. I can donate paper books to the local library. My physical books don't enter legal limbo when I die and my beneficiary inherits my stuff.
Are ebooks convenient yes. Are they a replacement to my physical books? a resounding no. I have many ebooks I have many physical books both have their place.
And because this is Slashdot, let's all pretend people use Bittorrent for things besides piracy.
...I actually do torrent linux distros... occasionally virtual machine images. And I haven't downloaded any movies/music over bit torrent for years now. Most of the time you can find them via http stream or download.
Netflix Hulu Amazon prime if all else fails search video linking sites for a stream be sure to have enough script blockers to keep the malaware away. Don't feel secure doing that use tor as well it will be slower but even less likely to be caught. want it to watch later use a video downloader (or just hard link to the file in your temp directory on nix systems (haven't tried windows) )
If you really must torrent though try using something like tribler and set to use anonymous download(it is a beta feature but probably better than nothing like vanilla bit torrent).
I do wish though that the pirates would all move to something like freenet or i2p or tribler. decentralized anonymous and censorship resistant they would be the perfect tools but no many don't even offer magnet links.
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There's always Palemoon, which I think forked far enough back that it's missing all the stuff I'd currently call bullshit.
does it have a linux port and 64 bit support?
When will they fix the bug that's slowly turning Firefox into a crappy clone of Chrome?
I think that particular cancer has it has gone malignant and spread to far already. I think I am going to jump ship to sea-monkey if this keeps up, I mean, I already use Firefox and Thunderbird, and they have crammed webIDE into Firefox anyway so I may as well have it all in one piece. I will probably wait for my biannual OS version bump, But that may change to now too, as Ubuntu has jumped aboard the systemD titanic on the next LTS version.
Is is just me or has the whole software world lost its mind.
Windows is trying to go full panopticon and you pay a subscription for it. ... when previously I could just use pidgin and talk to everyone.
Linux distros are going batshit crazy and slapping a tablet UI on desktops and putting immature, kitchen sink crap-ware as their init
android is trying to kill external storage as unlimited dataplans are killed off.
Mobile has killed the idea of fallowing open standards and you need separate apps for every network so you can talk to everyone Skype, face book messenger, google hangouts/voice/chat/mail/talk, snap-chat, whatsapp,
Cloud storage everything, when storage has never been cheaper.
And Mozilla's insanity from lets clone chrome to making Firefox a catch all when it was meant to be just the browser, and wasting resources on building their own os.
what the hell.
Clearcase, Git, Sourceforge, or CVS?
Obviously not source-forge, because if it had been source-forge the car would have had ad-ware and third party toolbars installed.
And they didn't lose a single life in the process? No property was damaged? No 'consumables' (like weapons, chemicals, food etc) were used? Really?
Oh right - they did lose lives and property. So they lost, arguably less than the British though. We're back to the OP's point - war: everyone loses, it's just a question of how much.
What your ignoring is what they gained which most everyone including themselves is valued as worth more, freedom, liberty amoung the intangables as well large amounts incredibly valuable land, free trade and lower taxes in the concrete.
yeah but you do that and we will start electing wwe wrestlers and no one wants that.
hell they are probably the only people other than rappers that would be worse that the politicians we already have
humans have really poor social skills
a true leader of its people will do everything to keep them out of war, because nobody wins wars, everybody loses, it's just a question of who loses worse
I believe that there are 13 former British colonies that would like to know how exactly they didn't win that war for independence, or the rematch to stay that way several years latter. They are quite sure that they are no longer British subjects and are wondering what happened if they did not win exactly?
let me get this straight Mr Chamberlain
So Chinese and the Japanese couldn't come to a compromise in ww2 about whether or not China had a right to exist and own land/resources that Japan wanted. Are you saying china should have what, given them half of Asia and executed their people as a compromise rather than go to war? Trying to compromise with people with extremist views and demands is wrong and should not be done. And some thing just cannot be compromised on in good conscience.
Or maybe your right, maybe we should have just compromised and let the fascist take Poland and Czechoslovak... then we could have avoided that war.
Nixon committed a war crime in 1969 when he made it the standard rifle for the U.S. Army. He should have been put in prison for that.
war is not a criminal act as such that is not a reason to put him in jail but as we are talking about Nixon there are plenty of others.
The seats were narrow, the aisle was narrow, you were relieved of coats and other encumberances because there was no room in the cabin for them.
So in other words, everything that commercial airlines dream of.
Pack those cows in! YOU ARE ALL COWS! MOOO!
Probably the only time that moo mime is appropriate on thus site.
hides itself in installers for other programs,
???
referring to anti-virus software in the parent post
Uh ,you do realize Ubuntu (for one simple example) is loaded with applications that use telemetry.
And that is first thing i take care of when i install ubuntu just type "apt-get purge zeitgeist" along with replacing the window manager/desktop environment
I am going to disagree with that. Possession of marijuana is still a Federal crime even though states may have legalized it. This means that if the next President feels like it, he or she can just seize the rolls of customers from the medical dispenseries and transaction logs from the toke joints, round the customers up and throw them all into prison for life.
Marijuana isn't going to be 50 states legal anytime soon, and it won't be legal in Colorado after 2017 when the new CIC decides to put brakes on the party.
If the next president does decide to do that, there will be a major amount of rioting in the legal states and senators/congressman governors will get shit canned if they didn't take action on it. What will happen is the DEA will go make arrests/seizures and the governors will then immediately pardon everyone and tell the feds to fuck off, fallowed by the congress/senators raising a shit storm in DC. No president will do that because of the bad plublicity it would generate when the whole left coast is riotings.
Depends on which side of the desk you are on. There are some "software" developers that would consider antivirus malware.
lets see if it looks like malware
extorts me to buy the next better version, - so adware at the least
eats ram
eats proccesor
hides itself in installers for other programs,
hard to remove and removing can break the host system when doing so
looks like malware to me.
most people though don't think a used pinto should be a million dollar car
Sir Isaac is rolling over in his grave. And I'm sure the coffin is counter-rotating. :)
then can we attach it to a alternator and use it to generate power?
i'm all for nuking mars.
wasn't aware there might be an upside until now, but really, who doesn't think nuking mars is an awesome idea?
Might warm it up or cause nuclear winter on what is already a ball of frozen rock.
<SithMindTrick>This really is the hope and change you're looking for.</SithMindTrick>
ftfy
And what reasons do you have for not running a Tor node yourself?
Lack of bandwidth mostly, though I used to run a freenet node.
And yet physics cannot explain consciousness
Nor should it. Consciousness is a human invention, something we tell ourselves that we have even though it only exists in our minds.
wait a minute...
something we tell ourselves that we have
who is telling who? We (our consciousness or sense of self) tell us that we exist. = Cogito ergo sum. so for so good.
even though it only exists in our minds
and exists in what? itself...?
You are saying our mind is a fiction that only exist in our mind?...?
You do see the contradiction there right?
What are you talking about? We have the Cows guy, the Golden Girls guy, the lone remaining GNAA troll, APK, roman_mir, ... the list is endless!
You left out the mycleanpc bot.
If your Win10 device starts to melt, don't worry. That's just the CPU compressing/decompressing as fast as it can.
<joke> PV=RT don't worry the decompression will absorb the heat generated compressing it. </joke>
You won the internets today
In other news, you can still buy buggy whips, dial-style telephones, and vinyl records, too.
Nostalgia and straight-up Luddite-like behavior are enough to keep almost anything going at some level -- no matter how low its actual utility as compared to more recent replacement tech may be.
Hell, I own a vacuum tube stereo system made by Scott in the 1950's -- my father bought it when it was new, it's been with the family ever since, and now it is mine. I'm really quite fond of it in the "I actually use it" sense, though considered in the light of my home theater system, it's neither particularly functional or particularly high quality (though in its day, it absolutely was The Shite.) Still, it glows in the dark in a most pleasing manner. :)
I keep it in my office and enjoy listening to it regularly. My physical book collection, however... several thousand volumes... in boxes in the basement. I am a total convert to e-books. Textbooks, fiction, reference material... all right in my pocket, 100% accessible 100% of the time in 100% of the places I go (unless I'm diving or swimming, but hey. And I could get a waterproof, good to X-depth case for my phone, and then... :)
No not nostalgia,
I can read copy of the latest Dresden Files book while outside while walking my dog and not have to turn up the screen brightness to read in the sunlight then run out of battery.
I don't worry about Amazon deciding to delete copy of 1984 because I bought my copy from a publisher from New Zealand. - see Amazon 1984 deletion débâcle.
I can also loan my a my copy of A Canticle for Libowitzs to my sister to read without being sued for sharing.
I can underline highlight annotate without having to illegally break the DRM the publisher decided to "protect" my copy of my textbook with.
I can resell my physical books/
I can don't have to choose between breaking the law to format shift and break the DRM on my books or rebuy my books when my new reader a a few years no longer supports the old format or when the servers for DRM verification goes down.
I can buy my dead tree book second hand cheaper.
I can donate paper books to the local library.
My physical books don't enter legal limbo when I die and my beneficiary inherits my stuff.
Are ebooks convenient yes. Are they a replacement to my physical books? a resounding no.
I have many ebooks I have many physical books both have their place.
If RIAA really wanted to they should go after TCP/IP, I hear virtually all online piracy uses it.
don't go give them any ideas. I don't want to regret getting rid of the token ring nix or the IPX gear tossed when cleaning out my parts box
And because this is Slashdot, let's all pretend people use Bittorrent for things besides piracy.
...I actually do torrent linux distros... occasionally virtual machine images.
And I haven't downloaded any movies/music over bit torrent for years now. Most of the time you can find them via http stream or download.
Netflix Hulu Amazon prime if all else fails search video linking sites for a stream be sure to have enough script blockers to keep the malaware away. Don't feel secure doing that use tor as well it will be slower but even less likely to be caught. want it to watch later use a video downloader (or just hard link to the file in your temp directory on nix systems (haven't tried windows) )
If you really must torrent though try using something like tribler and set to use anonymous download(it is a beta feature but probably better than nothing like vanilla bit torrent).
I do wish though that the pirates would all move to something like freenet or i2p or tribler. decentralized anonymous and censorship resistant they would be the perfect tools but no many don't even offer magnet links.