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  1. Wait what who? on Netflix, Amazon, and Hollywood Studios Shut Down Dragon Box (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Is this the same rampaging jackass Paul Christoforo of the PAX twitter from 2012??
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    https://www.engadget.com/2011/...

  2. Well as one of the killers of chatzilla was the lack of a file access method in the conversion to webextentions. (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1246236)

    chroot and jails (https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/jails-build.html) arent a new concept.I don't know what kinda overhead is involved in having each extension or page have a root based on its own namespace, but it doesn't seem impossible. However I do see a couple of things to abuse, filling up the file system with junk accidentally or on purpose, and does the browser dispose of the jailed files on quit, tab closure, some other criteria?

    Perhaps another alternative would be a filestore file, like a VM file. The app doesn't actually write to the file system it only commits to its own blob. I also wonder if this could be sufficiently done via the already built in DB engine, which IIRC FF uses SQLite.

  3. Re:Republicans BANNED By YouTube on YouTubers Will Enter Politics, And If They Do, They're Probably Going To Win (buzzfeednews.com) · · Score: 1

    Thats not how that works.

  4. New updates on YouTube is Down · · Score: 1

    I guess the new demonetization installation is having a snag

  5. "multiple views in a very short timeframe"

    Most ppl would understand this model of the term 'rental'

  6. I can't think of any other tech article in which a former exec is reference and the name not the submitted /. post. Of course in this case it was Ex-CEO Ellen Pao

  7. Re:You all agree with him you know on President Trump Says It is 'Very Dangerous' When Companies Like Twitter Regulate Own Content (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Net neutrality is about the transport method not the end point presentation method. But I guess that distinction gets lost in the series of tubes.

  8. Re:“Yeeeeah, we’re gonna need to go ah on The Man Who Was Fired By a Machine (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    Please report to the Aperture Science Extended Relaxation Center.

  9. TW tried this on me once. on Comcast Charges $90 Install Fee At Homes That Already Have Comcast Installed (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    So my landlady died, and her son (my boss at the time) took over. And all I wanted to do was to change the billing name. TW tried to tell me i had to pony up like $60 for a (something), and then tried to claim it was a state law. Of course that was a full on lie and I called the NY PSC and they straightend that out. This suprises me not at all.

  10. When you put this together with they Apple wants to make their own cpu line for all their HW this starts to make 'sense'. A new CPU, 64 bity only, all the old libs they dont need to convert support or shim. Again its another cog in the apple's 1 OS for all its devices masterplan.

  11. This remains another step in the inevitable end of "MacOS" as its currently known.

    Bringing a shared HW base to all lines of HW, along with a a integrated SW build base, and brinign iOS apps to the Mac Desktop https://appleinsider.com/artic...

    Brings closer the drive of moving to what the future of iOS will be, as opposed to the MacOS is. By bringing iOS apps to the 'Desktop' OS, it allows those apps to encroach on the otherwise conceptually separate desktop environment. Donig so also open up the changing of those apps to work better on a 'desktop' environment which is to really begin to work the semantics of the 'mobile' in with the less touch oriented uses. As time goes on the apps will dual target, until the HW platforms become no long different and the semantics are all interchangeable.

  12. Ric Romero reporting in... on People Were Asked To Name Women Tech Leaders. They Said 'Alexa' and 'Siri' (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Just like many other surveys regarding ppl who really aren't tuned into a particular segment of a thing.. they are gonna say whatever.

    Lets also contrast the names ppl said for men. Bill Gates (not really a tech leader anymore does philanthropy) Steve Jobs (IS DEAD), Elon Musk... literally currently in the news because rockets, and making a big PR thing about it. Mark Zuckerberg, in the news well its facebook, and everyday is a PR disaster there.

    So who'd currently in charge of MS or apple? Whos in charge of google? Is this more related to who makes (or is made into a big PR presence.

  13. Re:At least 28 years old on This Chinese Math Problem Has No Answer. Perhaps, It Has a Lot of Them. (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure that problem solving is really equivalent to Sherlock Holmes level ability to memorize obscure reference material.

  14. Palm Pre on Wireless Charging Nears Unification As Powermat Cedes To Qi (engadget.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It remains in a certain way unfathomable that we still are dickering on this back when in 2009 I had a charging touchstone for my Palm Pre. And it was a matter of changing the snap on back cover.

    Easy simple perfect.

  15. Re:Andy, another android emulator on The 'App' You Can't Trash: How SIP is Broken in Apple's High Sierra OS (eclecticlight.co) · · Score: 1

    This is the permissions for /Applications

      0 drwxrwxr-x+ 69 root admin 2346 Dec 26 09:05 Applications

    Please note the group permissions 'admin' and the file system permissions in octets.
    d - directory flag and then Owner (root) [RWX] Group (admin) [RWX] and Other [RX].

    Members of the admin group and hot write to /Applications. Users who are not in the admin group will get prompted for elevation.

  16. Re:Andy, another android emulator on The 'App' You Can't Trash: How SIP is Broken in Apple's High Sierra OS (eclecticlight.co) · · Score: 2

    Thus belies another issue with /Applications on macos. Being in the admin group you have permissions to access /Applications beyond that of a normal user. So to say that you dont 'usually need privileges' You do, you already have them. However this is really a problematic behaviro of MacOS, it really should be triggering a superuser exception for that folder.

  17. Because nothing says good journalism like gawking/

  18. Let the balkanzation begin. on Google Is Pulling YouTube Off the Fire TV and Echo Show as Feud With Amazon Grows (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Amazon took Twitch off of Roku, Everyone wants their own exclusive outlet.

    Ajit must be thrilled.

  19. If only on The No-GPS Road Trip (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    there was some kinda of paper navigation tool you could fold up and keep in the glove box. Or perhaps even a book of said previous things.....

  20. Re:FINALLY!! on Linux Is Not As Safe As You Think (betanews.com) · · Score: 2

    You mean like this?
    ITwire still faults Microsoft for not planning ahead, since in February 150 million people were still using Windows XP.
    https://www.itwire.com/open-sa...

  21. Re:stubborn? on Google Replaces Gchat With Hangouts Today (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    I am also using this plugin. Eion is also very responsive to any issues.

    Now for the gtalk side i had very good luck using app passwords when using pidgin.

    I don't know if the app passwords still work on the hangouts plugin. I had to do the handwaving to get the key to bind the plugin.

  22. Re:Yes, my personal experience. on A Colorado Group Wants To Ban Smartphones For Kids (apnews.com) · · Score: 1

    The plural of anecdote is not data.

  23. Re:Reasoning on Pirate Bay Is Infringing Copyright, European Court of Justice Rules (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Well I'd like to take this 'reasoning' even further.

    If you are an ISP that decides to get brain damage and not act like a common carrier.... and the ISP decides to "categorize downloads, block sites, and filter out certain types of content" for the purposes of protecting the copyright of a 3rd party (or if you are in the UK because your govt just hates pron), do you suddenly become 'directly infringing' if you aren't 100% accurate?

    It would appear that the argument being made is that if you do anything to the data, or even the meta data you are on the hook for its use by a 3rd party.

  24. 2013?

    Palm debuted the Pre at the 2009 .

  25. I only want to add the caveat that you have to have someone with some kinda clue how to evaulate the solutions your programmers are making.

    I've had a 'software developer' melt down because :
    1) The mere thought that the system java is updated because he need a very specific version, even tho he doesnt write aganist the system JRE
    2) The queries are to complex for jdbc/odbc and can only be done via the full Oracle client
    3) incapable of understanding that NTFS is the default file system for Windows XP, but is totally sure IT is taking away privlidges from user to write willy nilly to the file system.
    4) Apparently have never heard of environment variables, and demand make a world writable folder on all computers for temp files.

    These are the more egregious entries.