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  1. Re:Suits may be dismissed on Intel Hit With Three Class-Action Lawsuits Over Meltdown and Spectre Bugs (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    If you really get a 5%-30% decrease in performance, it wouldn't be crazy for users to expect some kind of compensation for this. I got a shiny new 8700 processor on black friday and definitely don't want the performance decline for my offline gaming rig.

    Give me a way to turn the new security features off, or give me a 5%-30% refund.

  2. always happens on WhatsApp Rings in the New Year with a Global Outage (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    i stopped using it to call relatives around christmas or new years. the servers get massive traffic and you can't get through. has happened for 3 or 4 straight years in a row

  3. Re:Make it stop.... on Firefox Quantum Is 'Better, Faster, Smarter than Chrome', Says Wired (wired.com) · · Score: 1

    why is noscript that important? most sites break without javascript, and having to whitelist each site you use that needs it is counterproductive. unless you always visit the same fixed sites every day i don't see the point.

    and as someone already told you, noscript is available right now. what i am missing is downthemall

  4. Re:FTFY on Microsoft and Canonical Make Custom Linux Kernel (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    It's easier than you think.

    You have a company that sells hosting and server time (cutely called "cloud services" by marketing).

    You have clients that want to run linux. Would you as a company in that market deny them and let them go to the competition? If not, would something change if your company is Microsoft?

  5. Re: Why Java? on IBM Open Sources Their Own JVM/JDK As Eclipse OpenJ9 (eclipse.org) · · Score: 2

    If you want to argue c is better than Java, argue on it's strengths... Performance, bare metal control, and platform support (a lot of very small embedded platforms don't have a Java runtime... or it's terrible). Java beats C hands down in portability.,

    Having C available on every platform is portability for some people. Regarding that metric, C beats Java easily.

  6. No android phone has been faster than an iPhone, for the simple reason of Java. Hardware itself is often superior on android, yet the software always drags it down. Current iphones are no slouchs either. And i say this as an android owner.

  7. DTA is the less needed extension of the lot. You can just install an external program (remember GetRight?) such as Internet Download manager or Jdownloader, and have the browser's MIME settings launch it.

  8. Re:Vivaldi is the new Konqueror on AskSlashdot: How Do You See Your Life After Firefox 52 ESR? (mozilla.org) · · Score: 1

    Konqueror invented KHTML, which eventually was the base of Safari and other browsers. Vivaldi is just leeching chromium, so the comparison isn't valid, because VIvaldi isn't creating a new browsing engine.

  9. you know you can go to a movie theater and just watch the movie without having to pig on food?

  10. still can't compete with such massive power output

  11. Venezuelan here. I know you are joking but there are still some of you that actually think Obama or anyone in the democratic party is a communist. You couldn't know the difference, and frankly "communist Obama" would be a godsend in a communist / socialist country such as mine.

  12. Re: Beta filesystem on Apple Releases First Public Beta Of iOS 11 for iPhone and iPad · · Score: 1

    I didn't say portions of the code couldn't be copied. I said that the whole implementation is done differently. APFS wasn't designed primarily for IOS, that's false. It is a generic filesystem that was released first as an alpha for Sierra, but of course it makes sense to use a similar codebase for all devices

  13. Re:Beta filesystem on Apple Releases First Public Beta Of iOS 11 for iPhone and iPad · · Score: 2

    if you believe the desktop implementation has been copy pasted from ios i have a bridge to sell you. even if that were true many bugs may arise, for example in the installer.

  14. Beta filesystem on Apple Releases First Public Beta Of iOS 11 for iPhone and iPad · · Score: 2

    Using a beta with a brand new filesystem. Nothing bad can come from that.

  15. Kind of what they did with Internet Explorer. History repeats itself.

  16. Re:countries with non-traditional alphabets on Chrome 59 To Address Punycode Phishing Attack · · Score: 2

    While you are right, i believe the sentiment of the statement is to point out that almost all websites use a restricted ASCII alphabet. And i say this as a spanish speaker.

  17. CPU use on Firefox To Let Users Control Memory Usage (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    I would rather have a fix so i wouldn't have to restart firefox once every few days because it eats 25%-35% of CPU without any tab running videos or animations. And this is with ublock installed.

  18. So far, doing good. I installed by mounting the iso and just upgrading.

    Some notable changes:

    1. win+x doesn't show control panel or command prompt anymore
    2. regedit shows full address of current key on top. Nice for copy and pasting
    3. Revamped installer. Allows you to disable some of the ads
    4. Speaking of ads, there are lots more to disable this time around. There's a helpful article over at howtogeek that explains how to do so
    5. You can actually uninstall onedrive now at it is listed under programs and features, no need to use the command line
    6. More windows update options are available
    7. Edge has some more features, and right now it's the better choice for Netflix (at least when using a browser)
  19. Re:Given that Venezuela's economy is tanking on Venezuelan Developers Are Using Bitcoin, Rare Pepe Trading Cards To Fight Against a Dismal Economy (cryptoinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    last part is false, Venezuela has still lots of friends, even powerful ones like China and Russia, because we send them cheap oil.

    Cuba defended us as recent as few days ago. Look it up.

    Granted, we have lost some friends, such as Peru, Chile, Brasil, Paraguay, Argentina and Colombia, since they have mostly switched to right wing governments. And we are going down the drain at an alarming rate, as yesterday the Supreme Court basically legalized a coup d'tat.

  20. Re:Hard to argue against Betteridge here on Will WebAssembly Replace JavaScript? (medium.com) · · Score: 2

    I take it that you don't know that WebAssembly is made by a joint team of all major browsers?

  21. Re:Analysis on Google Will Release a New Pixel Phone this Year (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Pixel was the first phone where Google had complete input over the design and feature spec. This didn't happen with the Nexus line.

    I really don't understand why the iPhone-like prices. They would have sold a lot more with a $400 price

  22. 499 bucks? How will this be 20-50% lower than Intel? Intel i7-7700 is around $362.73 according to pcpartpicker, which is still lower than the lower spec $399 AMD.

  23. Red Hat's developers work on almost every major open source project there is. They don't just work on the projects you listed.

    Without Red Hat's influence, Linux would be dead or several years behind.

  24. Re:Finally an iPhone that is better a Google phone on All Three New 2017 iPhones To Feature Wireless Charging, Says Analyst (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    Why such a feature is so important to you? It's not even true wireless charging, more like inductance charging (there IS a wire after all, just not in your phone)

    Also, there must be a loss of energy in the conversion, making "wireless" charging inefficient and more expensive than regular charging, but i can't prove this.

  25. Yes there is demand for it. The ribbon interface can actually be productive. If only the office 2007 developers had been employed to do the windows 8/10 start menu...

    And libreoffice's implementation seems to be quite flexible