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  1. Re:The End on Big Changes From Mozilla Mean Firefox Will Get Chrome Extensions · · Score: 1

    Now that you're properly informed, do you have any legitimate complaints?

    Yeah, how do I get rid of the tabs? In the current FF it's still possible through XUL extensions, but once that is eliminated I'm stuck with this UI abomination. I want my pages opening in new windows, as it is supposed to be.

  2. Re:And yet, no one understands Git. on 10 Years of Git: An Interview With Linus Torvalds · · Score: 1

    Imagine if you made a word processor and people found it difficult to understand, and you said, "It's easy once you understand that the words in the text are stored in a hash map along with a structure with various flags that encode things like whether it's italic or not."

    You mean exactly like every advanced WordPerfect user used to work (with reveal codes on)?

  3. Re: Antitrust on Google Apps License Forbids Forking, Promotes Google Services · · Score: 1

    You can't legally get Google's apps on AOSP anymore.

    My CyanogenMod phone sporting a complete suite of Google apps calls bullshit on that.

  4. Re:Easy! on CCC Says Apple iPhone 5S TouchID Broken · · Score: 1

    Actually, many people have up to ten fingers. Personally, I use my big toe.

    RMS, is that you?

  5. Re:A fervent defense of Apathy on According To YouGov Poll, Snowden Support Declining Among Americans · · Score: 1

    America is where a Jew and an Arab can live next to each other in peace, not brainwashed from birth to destroy each other because of some argument between scruffy goat-herders hundreds of years ago. America is where a Catholic girl can marry a Muslim guy simply because they love each other, and not be bred into fervent hatred because of the faiths of their families.

    You got it confused. This place is called "Europe", not "America". America never was this tolerant to begin with. The whole "land of the free" mantra comes from the times where it was relatively new to have country without explicit LAWS against the above. The lack of laws mandating intolerance however never had any bearing on the intolerance of the society itself, which was and is the norm.

  6. Re:#1 reason to use Android on Motorola Is Listening · · Score: 1

    Not on Moto you can't. Locked bootloaders all along (except some developer units), which means the only thing you're able to boot is one of the vendor-delivered signed kernels. This has been circumvented somewhat by chain-loading, but it still means vendor kernel is started first and can setup whatever spyware they damn please, even if you're on (unofficial) CM.

  7. Re:And still no Windows sandboxing on Firefox 20 Arrives With Per-Window Private Browsing, New Download Manager · · Score: 1

    Look up New Tab, New Window extension that forces Chrome to open any new tab in new window instead. You'll still have the ugly tabbar above and the window title is therefore not shown fully (limited by tab with), but this can't be helped without changing source, I guess.

  8. Re:unworkable? care to elaborate, corporate world? on UK Privacy Watchdog: 'Right To Be Forgotten' On the Web Unworkable · · Score: 1

    And so on. No man is an island.

    Except the Isle of Man.

  9. Re:Why? on NASA's 'Inspirational' Mars Flyby · · Score: 1

    What's the point of a manned ballistic fly-by?

    To make Mars flight controllers spill their coffee, of course.

  10. Ladies and gentlemen... on Tour of the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Lab · · Score: 1

    ...welcome to my underground lair.

  11. Re:I can see it now on Star Wars Live-Action Show Could Still Happen · · Score: 1

    "Two students enter their first year at the academy. One wants to be a storm trooper, the other a Rebel pilot;

    And together, they fight crime!

  12. Re:Damn... on No More "Asperger's Syndrome" · · Score: 5, Funny

    a parking spot would be nice though.

    It's Howard spot now. You don't even drive, Sheldon

  13. Re:Double strandards on Android 4.0 Upgrade For Sony Xperia Smartphones Opens a Pandora Box · · Score: 1

    Let's come back to this discussion once you'll have upgraded to the new MAJOR version of the OS. No, 7 to 7.5 wasn't that.

  14. Would be an exercise in uselessnes on Intel's Plans For X86 Android, Smartphones, and Tablets · · Score: 2

    I bet everybody think about Android Market and all the cool stuff there. Well, don't do that unless your Android runs ARM.

    I've got recently my hands on a Android MIPS phone. Extremely frustrating experience -- two of every three downloads from the Market simply refuse to install, because they have some tiny snippet or library compiled to ARM native code. Unless Intel heavy invests in app developers recompiling their works for Android/x86, it will be barely usable outside of the base system.

  15. Serious? on Time To Take the Internet Seriously · · Score: 1

    The internet is for porn!

  16. Re:Seriously... on xkcd, Devotion To Duty · · Score: 1
  17. Re:Ooh a sequel! on New Riddick Movie Made Possible By Games? · · Score: 1

    Yeah, this "prequels are even better" rule worked wonders with Star Wars.

  18. Re:One copy... on a floppy! on Windows Patch Leaves Many XP Users With Blue Screens · · Score: 1

    It's "should we get off your lawn, SIR"!

  19. Re:Correction - we let the japs off the hook on Why Counter-Terrorism Is In Shambles · · Score: 2, Insightful

    "Rooted out the entire German ruling class"? Get back to your history book. Yes, the top level tier was tried and sentenced, but middle- and low-level nazi party officials not only remained mostly untouched, but kept their offices and roles well into the 60s, changing only the facade (which was one of the major points of the revolt of '68 in Germany).

  20. Re: easier to have a webmail address on Does a Lame E-Mail Address Really Matter? · · Score: 1

    > Complete lack of reliance on mail provider and ISP is the only way to be sure.

    You, my good sir, are wrong. The only way to be sure is obviously nuking the entire site from the orbit.

  21. Re:The one that isn't Sony on Which eBook Reader is the Best? · · Score: 1

    cbr/cbz have little sense on the monochrome device.

    I recently got my Nokia N800, pretty nifty with hires (800x480) color LCD. And with 4" screen fits easily in the pocket.

  22. Re:bravo, well said on The Pirate Bay, Featured in Vanity Fair · · Score: 1

    Watch Lord Of The Rings? What, three movies about people walking?

    Remember, there is only one Return, and it ain't of the King, it's of the Jedi.

    -m.

  23. Now comes the funny part... on Teens Don't Think CD Copying is a Crime · · Score: 3, Informative

    And the funny part is: making low number of copies for close friends or relatives or personal use, as well as copying a borrowed CD for your personal use IS LEGAL. In most of Europe.

    Land of the free, indeed.

    -m.

  24. Re:Anyone have on Internet Explorer 7 Beta 3 Reviewed · · Score: 1

    The word "professional" has this funny meaning of doing something as a profession. That usually means "for money". So as a professional, you listen to needs of the
    people with money, because that's what you do for a living.

    -m.