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  1. Re:In their defence. on School Tricks Pupils Into Installing a Root CA · · Score: 1

    If porn turns you into a criminal, why societies tolerate porn?

  2. Re:In their defence. on School Tricks Pupils Into Installing a Root CA · · Score: 1

    We are taking about students circumventing internet filters. That means they don't give a shit about policies... Why would they turn in their phones?

  3. Re:Who Fucking Cares? on Ask Slashdot: Linux For Grandma? · · Score: 1

    I do hate when yahoo "hides" things? Have you recently tried to download an attachment in the webmail?

  4. Re:Not sure I see a problem on Mozilla Is Investigating Why Dell Is Charging To Install Firefox · · Score: 1

    Same argument can be made about MS Windows. It's... free.. you can download it anywhere, to any computer and use it.

  5. Re:Indeed. But how can they be "stolen"? on Bitcoin Exchange Flexcoin Wiped Out By Theft · · Score: 1

    It's an equivalent to knowing that ip xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx hacked you. (Welll you could extract more information with investigation... but who would fund it?)

  6. Re:App permissions on How Mobile Apps Are Reinventing the Worst of the Software Industry · · Score: 1

    You say that the normal user, who can press the "accept button" on the permissions form, couldn't understand that by unchecking a box, a particular permission is denied?
    Don't worry, put the scary check boxes on an "advanced" option, so that no app is broken by mistake.

  7. Re:Please Stop. on Does Relying On an IDE Make You a Bad Programmer? · · Score: 1

    If you started with vi, you where doing something wrong or, at the time it was the only option, no modern IDE existed.
    Either that, or you started with vim, that has all the things you say it's lacking and is the furthest you can get from a "basic thing" for programming.

  8. Re:my daughter on Who's On WhatsApp, and Why? · · Score: 1

    Do you use group chatting to communicate with european firends?
    The main feature is group chatting... It's not new, but's the first time i've seen it adopted widely, more than in facebook im.
    So you end with a chat group per each of your social groups. The groups are what incentive exchanging media assets.

  9. Re:spam or scam on Who's On WhatsApp, and Why? · · Score: 1

    IM as in instant messenger? That's what whats app is...
    or IM as in AIM? Do US people still use that?

  10. Re:my daughter on Who's On WhatsApp, and Why? · · Score: 1

    doesn't exchange (many) photos, or downloads photos and stuff when on WiFi at home.

    Althogh your analisys is correct, you crearly don't know how whats app is used...
    It's a multimedia private chatroom, so, like anything elese, is used for porn and lolcatz.

  11. Re:Something doesn't add up on WhatsApp Founder Used Unchangable Airline Ticket To Pressure Facebook · · Score: 1

    On the login protocol there is a credential expiration date.
    I do know of some users of alternative clients that couldn't log in after the expiration and had to pay.

    Of course it's a ridiculous fee compared to what some telcos charge for SMS, but in places where international CC aren't ubiquitous, it's a real pain in the ass to make electronic payments (Yeah, outside US not only SMS aren't free, you may live without a CC).

    So in whats app business model, you need to know if the person you are charging will be able to pay you even if he want's to.
    Despite their promise, eventually facebook will make the service free an merge it with facebook. At least that's what MS did with skype.

  12. Re:Something doesn't add up on WhatsApp Founder Used Unchangable Airline Ticket To Pressure Facebook · · Score: 2

    AFAIK only iShiny users have to pay for the app, the android one is free but you need to pay their subscription fee.
    Android users get a 1 year free subscription that can, under some circumstances, be extended also for free. If you pirate the iphone app, you also get the 1 year free subscription. If you don't pirate it, the subscription fee is included in the app price.
    Also I think this free / non free renovation is decided upon IP geolocation.
    You pay for the service, not the app. As your user id is your phone number, and other users find you by that id, after a year of use you are forced to pay. Otherwise you'd better use another service.

  13. Re:Finland? on Jolla Announces Sailfish OS 1.0 · · Score: 2

    Their phones, like every other, are chinese / (insert Asian semiconductor manufacturer of preference)

  14. Re:Not a replacement.. on Jolla Announces Sailfish OS 1.0 · · Score: 1

    No, the objective is to gain a critical mass of developers, and to provide a sort of beta tests for chinese manufacturers.
    That makes keeps you relevant (to the industry, not the users), and gives you a business chance with the chinese folks.
    The only reason it's so hard to port OS's , is because the binary drivers. Manufacturers shouldn't have that issue.

  15. Re:Merge window buttons and menu bar? on Ubuntu 14.04 Brings Back Menus In Application Windows · · Score: 1

    It's more usable, because it's quicker to press a special key (windows key, probably), and a random location on a BIG window, than testing your fine motor skills, positioning your mouse over the window border.
    It's also the only functional reason to have window decorations at all.

  16. Re:Linux is becoming the new Microsoft Windows... on Ubuntu 14.04 Brings Back Menus In Application Windows · · Score: 1

    I won't allow you that! gnome and kde started fucking their users before before it became mainstream.

  17. Re:What it's not about on Routers Pose Biggest Security Threat To Home Networks · · Score: 1

    Oh, if we just had something that allowed us to authenticate the update origin.

  18. Re:Sigh - what the heck ... on Routers Pose Biggest Security Threat To Home Networks · · Score: 1

    No, unless you have java or another shit like that... I can't think why a browser would need to open a listening port.

  19. Re:What is this horses#!+ on FLOSS Codecs Emerge Victorious In Wikimedia Vote · · Score: 1

    Yes, this is something I never understood...
    If google folks are so interested in pushing VP8, why I can't access the full youtube collection in that format? They 've had enough time by now.

  20. Re:How it happened: very encouraging for anti-swpa on FLOSS Codecs Emerge Victorious In Wikimedia Vote · · Score: 2

    The first issue can be solved by re-encoding the video on the Wikipedia side, a'la youtube.

  21. Re:Why call for a coup d'État on Venezuelan Regime Censoring Twitter · · Score: 1

    Well, to be fair, one way or another any presidential system has some sort of instrument to rule by edict in case of emergency... Some presidents respect it and only use it in case of emergency. Some don't give a shit about it and use it constantly.
    When Hitler was just elected, he wasn't a dictator yet... Then things got ugly.

  22. Why call for a coup d'État on Venezuelan Regime Censoring Twitter · · Score: 2

    Despite a progressive worsening of civil and human rights, governments of the world have shied away from directly labeling Maduro a dictator

    Why should they call an elected president, for incompetent he were, a dictator.
    In latin america we have had our own share of US sponsored dictators, they were no good but in that time we celebrated them. Now looking back to what happened, we know it can allways get worse.

    If you are in a parlamentary system, you disolve the government.
    If you are in a presidential system you wait for the next election...

    The damages of a destitution aren't worth for the people.

  23. Re:Not much longer? on Adobe Flash Remote Code Execution Flaw Exploited In the Wild · · Score: 1

    On firefox/linux you don't have mp4 codecs by default, so the "HTML5 experience" is limited to WebM

  24. Re: Your task: explain how Net Neutrality stops th on Is Verizon Already Slowing Netflix Down? · · Score: 1

    If by "this side of the pond", you ignore anything that's below Río Bravo, then you might be right...

  25. It's not the same. on Facebook Mocks 'Infection' Study, Predicts Princeton's Demise · · Score: 2

    Facebook's reply was even really stupid.

    Princenton article proposed a 'virus' model that fitted pretty well to Facebook growth and current decline, and made a prediction based on that, ignoring some social parameters, and made a prediction.

    Facebook's article is just extrapolating, and not being a virtual entity, the virtual presence of Princenton might not be an equally good indicator.