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  1. Re: In other news, networking still a shitshow on Oracle Releases Major Version 6.0 of VirtualBox With Many New Features · · Score: 1

    It's pretty trivial to set that up. Perhaps you should try a reasonably recent version, such as 5.x.

  2. Re:Iran and North Korea on Facebook Is Developing a Cryptocurrency for WhatsApp Transfers, Report Says (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    ...or even worse, laundering money to Russia. Man, would that play well...

  3. Yeah, this will last until the first news story hits about Facebook being used to launder money to Iran and North Korea. It doesn't matter if Facebook is legally responsible, the PR implications will cause their collective heads to spin.

  4. distributed responsibility on Uber Resumes Testing Self-Driving Cars Nine Months After Deadly Crash (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    This is textbook distributed responsibility. The likelihood of any agent acting to address a problem is inversely proportional to the number of agents who are responsible for a problem.

  5. Good riddance to Tata and InfoSys.

  6. Re: TOUCH GREP UNZIP FINGER MOUNT FSCK UMOUNT on Debian's Anti-Harassment Team Is Removing A Package Over Its Name (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    Lulz so hard.

  7. You should generally avoid three letter commands due to conflicts. There's only one global namespace of commands. In addition WOB has the implication it's going to be dealing with printers as it's used in other commands to mean white-on-black.

  8. There are only so many commands on Debian's Anti-Harassment Team Is Removing A Package Over Its Name (phoronix.com) · · Score: 1

    Commands are in a global namespace and should be kept short, with minimal non-alpha characters for usability. There simply aren't that many options. This decision is fucking stupid.

  9. Re: Worry about the message, not the messenger. on Chinese Billionaire Jack Ma Says the US Wasted Trillions on Warfare Instead of Investing in Infrastructure (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Your attempt to pretend to understand the definition of a koan is feeble.

  10. Re: The power of constraints on We Should Replace Facebook With Personal Websites (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    The larger barrier to entry on Wikipedia is knowing something relevant and being able to find citations. The actual Wikicode was trivial in comarison. Not so when sharing pictures of your cat.

  11. Re: Curious how they tell legitimate from illegit on Google Working on Blocking Back Button Hijacking in Chrome (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    The reality is you are probably experiencing this history rewriting on tons of sites without even realizing it, but you don't have a problem with it because it works "as expected".

  12. Re: Worry about the message, not the messenger. on Chinese Billionaire Jack Ma Says the US Wasted Trillions on Warfare Instead of Investing in Infrastructure (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    If you drink a glass of water, was the water just an illusion? Your comment is nonsense.

  13. Re:Worry about the message, not the messenger. on Chinese Billionaire Jack Ma Says the US Wasted Trillions on Warfare Instead of Investing in Infrastructure (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    "Afghanistan will always be a backwards, tribal s**thole country riven by warlords and violence"

    What the fuck are you talking about? Afghanistan was a safe, relatively progressive place for decades. Its strategic location unfortunately makes it a target for international adventurism from the likes of the British, Russians, and Americans. The reason the Taliban was able to take control is by winning the hearts and minds of Afghans who did not wish to be under foreign rule.

  14. Re: Curious how they tell legitimate from illegit on Google Working on Blocking Back Button Hijacking in Chrome (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Or those who aren't web developers don't know the internals well enough to make an informed opinion.

  15. Re: Curious how they tell legitimate from illegiti on Google Working on Blocking Back Button Hijacking in Chrome (zdnet.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That's fine when every click loads a new page, but If a click simply loads new content into the same page, it makes sense to tweak the history in those cases to make the back button work as expected.

  16. Re: Curious how they tell legitimate from illegiti on Google Working on Blocking Back Button Hijacking in Chrome (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Most likely, they will track the source of the history update and ignore it if isn't a click. Additionally, they will likely squash multiple history updates from a single click into one.

  17. Re: What does that mean? on Tumblr Blocked Archivists Just Before Starting the NSFW Content Purge (techdirt.com) · · Score: 1

    I had the same problem until I realized it should be "well, look at that!" Turns out punctuation is important, despite what Twits thinks.

  18. Re: Wha?? on Electron and the Decline of Native Apps (daringfireball.net) · · Score: 1

    Another good example is the notification icons (Windows "system tray", for example). Can't do that with a web app either.

  19. Re: Wha?? on Electron and the Decline of Native Apps (daringfireball.net) · · Score: 1
  20. Re: Isn't that blatantly on 'Google Isn't the Company That We Should Have Handed the Web Over To' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    There are so many improvements in AMD64 beyond the memory addressing. It is absolutely an upgrade.

  21. Because people draw a distinction between product ads and political ads. The law does too, for that matter.

  22. If you still use Facebook, you are willingly working for Putin. The very fact that your presence increases the network value means that you are providing material support to all the misinformation campaigns, whether you see them or believe them or not.

  23. Re: Isn't that blatantly on 'Google Isn't the Company That We Should Have Handed the Web Over To' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    32 bit? What is this, 1999? It boggles my mind how long it is STILL taking for Windows users to upgrade to 64 bit.

  24. Re: Isn't that blatantly on 'Google Isn't the Company That We Should Have Handed the Web Over To' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Ha! I think it's hilarious you don't think MS makes changes for the Chinese market to allow spying.

  25. Re: Isn't that blatantly on 'Google Isn't the Company That We Should Have Handed the Web Over To' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 0

    A better product than the competition. What is Google doing in Chrome that locks out MS from doing the same thing? This is about MS not being able to compete, because they can't get their shit together on why they even have a browser anymore. I'm sure the Chrome team (including open source Chromium) is massively larger than the Edge team. Just because MS can't or won't compete, doesn't mean Google is anti-competitive.