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  1. You do realize that ChakraCore is more standards compliant than the V8 that node uses, right..? From https://kangax.github.io/compa... es2015 features supported: spidermonkey=73%, v8=60%, ChakraCore=79%, Node 5=54%.

  2. It seriously wasn't. Linux was horribly difficult to work with, and get work done with, in 1993. Windows 3.1x was also horrid in 1993, and most people ran some version of DOS with memory extenders and various TSR programs (like Norton SideKick)

    In 1993 I owned a NeXTstation, and that was indeed a a lot better :-)

  3. Because ChakraCore is faster and more standards compliant than V8 (not to mention the version of v8 that node is using).

  4. Re:My big hope on Windows 10, From a Linux User's Perspective · · Score: 5, Informative

    Win + Break gets you to the link for 'Advanced system settings'. Works in at least win7, 8, 8.1, 10.

  5. Re:Just a question on Jira stability on Ask Slashdot: Best Test Case Manager Plugin For JIRA? · · Score: 1

    I've found Atlassian's products to be great, but the latency when used from Europe (at least Norway) is so bad that there is just no way for us to use it :-( It's not always slow, but at least for some hours of the day we're talking 4-20 seconds before a page refreshes. We have a confluence site up that nobody uses just because of this issue. I know we could host it ourselves, but I have neither the resources nor the patience (Jira seems to need a lot of tlc to keep running).

  6. Re:Missing in the Summary on How Did the 'Berlin Patient' Rid Himself of HIV? · · Score: 2

    you don't remember correctly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...

  7. Re:There is no incentive because they PAY for it! on Verizon Throttles Data To "Provide Incentive To Limit Usage" · · Score: 0

    "Unlimited" is a very easy word to understand, and I'm sure it has a definition in Webster etc. If they don't mean unlimited, then they should call it something else. If they call it unlimited, then you should be allowed to trust your understanding of the English language to know what you're buying. If you're planning on using 500GB/month and you only get 30GB/month, then the service they're delivering is clearly not what you bought. I don't understand why this is so difficult to understand.

  8. Re:correlation, causation on Ancient Skulls Show Civilization Rose As Testosterone Fell · · Score: 1

    There IS definitely a link between excessive testosterone and the lowering of sustained logic, reason and mental stability and order. (Just as there is similar evidence liking excessive estrogen with similar behaviors among women) What happens to people, both men and women when they are on steroids? That's been well established in the medical sciences for decades.

    Except that it hasn't. If you're thinking about the so-called "roid-rage" phenomenon, it is mostly media created and in any case has nothing to do with normal uses or levels of testosterone. Remember that people who use steroids to get bigger muscles use more than 10 times the replacement dosage(!)

  9. Re:Too specific? on OpenSSL Cleanup: Hundreds of Commits In a Week · · Score: 1

    Without looking at the code or the commits...

    ... you should probably not talk about things you don't know anything about..?

  10. not enough drugs to go around... on Star Trek Economics · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure there's not enough drugs to go around in such a society (leading to scarcity, etc. ad absurdum). Or perhaps you have a very unrealistic view of what people do when they have no constraints on their time?

  11. Re:This is not security!!! on Firefox's Blocked-By-Default Java Isn't Going Down Well · · Score: 2

    You obviously know what you're talking about. I would like to subscribe to your newsletter...

  12. Re:Genetically speaking... on Transgendered Folks Encountering Document/Database ID Hassles · · Score: 1

    Wikipedia might be enlightening http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex ...?

  13. Re:Apple and their lawyers were lucky on UK Court Sanctions Apple For Non-Compliance · · Score: 5, Informative

    According to the judge, what they added was false, misleading, and did not convey the intent of the order -- and he analyzes each added statement in depth. In addition they used too much time to comply when it came to newspapers, where the judge expected "earliest possible time" to mean the next couple of days and not a month. As a punishment they now have to pay _all_ of Samsung's legal expenses (i.e. not only legal fees), they have to keep the notice up for much longer, and they have to put on their home page that they lied in their previous attempt. You don't have to agree with a judge's order, but you do have to follow it. Judges tend to get pissed off if you try to worm yourself around an order -- not something that should be news for Apple's capable legal team.

  14. Re:Default Interface on Ask Slashdot: Seamonkey vs. Firefox — Any Takers? · · Score: 1

    [...] or WorldWideWeb on NeXT, which I believe was a 320x240 4000 color machine [...]

    The NeXT had a 17" monitor with 1120x832 pixels with 4 different shades of gray.

  15. Re:Remember the old addage on TypeScript: Microsoft's Replacement For JavaScript · · Score: 4, Informative

    Python 3.3 didn't add a "yield" keyword, it added a "yield from" construct. Python has had "yield" since version 2.2. Python also has type annotations that "don't do anything": http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3107/

  16. Affero GPL? on Opa 1.0 Released · · Score: 1

    If I'm reading it correctly, your source needs to be distributed if it touches the opa compiler...?

  17. Re:No problem on An HTTP Status Code For Censorship? · · Score: 1

    As far as I know, there is nowhere left in the world that is as free as the United States [...]

    I think I'm far more free in Australia than you are in the United States, and Norway has us both beaten. But perhaps we both have an unrealistic idea of what "free" means.

    Norway is great in many (most?) ways, but I do believe the US has us beat when it comes to real and/or legislative freedoms... I've lived in the US for 15+ years but only visited Australia, so perhaps you had something specific in mind? .. or perhaps I have an unrealistic idea of what "free" means ?-)

  18. Re:anti-customer decision? on Wikipedia Mobile Apps Switch To OpenStreetMap · · Score: 1

    Perhaps now they feel they've captured a significant enough portion of the market and decided to start capitalizing on it? That would be my (admittedly uninformed) guess[...]

    Google Maps API is still free to use as long as you don't charge for access to your website: https://developers.google.com/maps/licensing

  19. Re:Sorry, but this is bull on Feature Phones Make Java ME, Not Android, the #2 Mobile Internet OS · · Score: 5, Informative

    have access to a great deal of actual and current mobile usage data, and this is just completely at odds with reality.

    That is my experience too. Statcounter is more representative of what I'm seeing: http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_os-US-monthly-201012-201112

  20. Re:I hear... on Fix For Apache DoS Bug In the Pipes · · Score: 2

    Request-Range is also affected, better turn it off: RequestHeader unset Request-Range

  21. Re:Denyhosts on Ask Slashdot: FTP Server Honeypots? · · Score: 1

    Seconded! I've set it up so it only accepts one failed ssh login attempt from an unknown ip address before it denies _all_ access. (I need to be able to log in while I'm on vacation, so I can't turn it all the way off...)

  22. Re:The relevant bits on How Windows 7 Knows About Your Internet Connection · · Score: 1

    CLI is dead and has been for years. People don't want it and that's why the world runs on GUI.

    Two words: Windows PowerShell.

  23. Re:Frankly... on IMSLP Taken Down By UK Publishers Group · · Score: 1

    Anybody who would use GoDaddy as a provider must be fairly fucking stupid. Could a more disreputable outfit, with shittier customer service, ever be found?

    But they're cheap. And who needs customer service, it's a fucking domain registrar? Disreputable? If you think you only buy shit from reputable companies I've got a big fucking surprise for you.

    They should switch away from GoDaddy, so they don't have to share a server with 4000 other customers...

  24. Re:Why do these people keep pushing video?! on Verizon To Throttle High-Bandwidth Users · · Score: 1

    [...] In the case of bandwidth marketing, it has always been a lie, since dial up modems, companies always selling far more than they can actually provide.

    Living in the US, that's certainly true. It's not necessarily true in other parts of the world though. Where I'm at right now (http://goo.gl/PjjiL), I pay ~$120/month for 25Gbit up/down + a static IP address. I consistently get just over 3200 KB/sec, i.e. what I'm paying for plus a few extra bytes.

  25. Re:Quantity, not quality. on Chinese Written Language To Dominate Internet · · Score: 1

    To the extent that you agree with established fact, your statements contribute nothing. To the extent that you disagree with established fact, your statements simply are wrong. When you feel an urge to broadcast your opinions to the world, reconsider.

    Now that's quotable :-) ... yes, I know it doesn't hold in general, but how often does anyone talk to Mr. G. Galilei these days?