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  1. Re:Yes they did. on Ask Slashdot: Does Your Employer Perform HTTPS MITM Attacks On Employees? · · Score: 1

    They don't and that became a problem. The new law actively permits users to be on facebook in company time using company resources. And for that part I'd love to smack the face of whoever thought that up.

  2. Re:Yes they did. on Ask Slashdot: Does Your Employer Perform HTTPS MITM Attacks On Employees? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    And how legal is this over there?

    This January, here in Portugal, things like that just became totally illegal, punishable with prison sentence.

  3. Re:Permenant Beta on Google Won't Enable Chrome Video Acceleration Because of Linux GPU Bugs · · Score: 4, Interesting

    to me this all sounds like a lame excuse for the lack of quality of their own software. I mean it's true that there are bugs in the kernel and everywhere on X and alike, but all other apps play nice. only chrome is playing the "poor little guy" part. all other software rants and complains when they find a bug, but they still manage to work it out and to help everything get better. Linux is not the only platform having frustrating bugs that can cripple any piece of software. but it's the easy prey for anyone preparing to become a competitor.
    this is the typical tactic of making people "dependent" on their software, then complaining that some of the platforms it runs on doesn't have as much quality to be excused for a poor performance so they can make it work worse and then they have another excuse to impose a bit more of their own platform like the one running on chromebooks or something else about to be launched.

  4. Re:No matter, GNOME, no thank you on Official Wayland Support Postponed From GNOME 3.12 · · Score: 1

    Not accusing you of hating Gnome 3, your comment just reminded me of that.

  5. Re:No matter, GNOME, no thank you on Official Wayland Support Postponed From GNOME 3.12 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I really don't get all this hate against Gnome 3. It's quite different, for sure and maybe it messes up someone's workflow, but at some point it will always be impossible to evolve without messing up at least some of the workflow and without making some people get used to different paradigms. I adapted quite well to Gnome 3 and am a happy Gnome 3 user. The new flow actually made me quite more productive.
    Not trying to impose anything on anyone, but most of what I've seen so far borders an exagerated misguided fundamentalist rage and a lot of the comments I've read come from people that claim missing features that are actually part of Gnome 3 - so, maybe they are blidingly judging a book without even looking at its cover?
    I believe many people get legitimately annoyed and frustrated by the changes. I mean, it takes a while to automate a workflow and to get used to something and then sometimes it's back to the begining. But, sorry to disagree, I didn't feel that bad and now I would never go back. I like it quite a lot, to be honest.

  6. Re:This is surprising on Official Wayland Support Postponed From GNOME 3.12 · · Score: 2

    I don't believe that by adding Wayland support they were going to - at least immediately - remove X support... But I was rather anxious to see Wayland support in it and test it in our distro.

    On a different off-topic matter, it would be fun if they named it Wayland & Yutani, instead of Wayland & Weston.

  7. Re:Boon for the robotics industry on How To Take Apart Fukushima's 3 Melted-Down Reactors · · Score: 1

    Big bucks following...

  8. Re:As Frontalot says on Ask Slashdot: Do You Still Trust Bitcoin? · · Score: 1

    You can never be sure than an exchange will not get hacked or that there won't be any type of access to their network (physically) that allows stealing your cryptos. The most secure way to do so is still to use cold storage. Either use paper wallets or gadgets like Trezor or (my two cents, self-pub warning) the Pitbull Wallet to help you manage them.

  9. Re:Sure on Supreme Court Ruling Relaxes Warrant Requirements For Home Searches · · Score: 3, Insightful

    precisely, and that's the problem. this is going to end up badly in so many ways.

  10. Oh the wait is a lie on Portal 2 Beta Released For Linux · · Score: 1

    Been waiting for this for a longe time.

  11. Re:Sure on Supreme Court Ruling Relaxes Warrant Requirements For Home Searches · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What happens if the occupant that consents has no legal rights over that house? I mean, what if is only a visitor or has even forced himself inside the house?

  12. Re: No on Does Relying On an IDE Make You a Bad Programmer? · · Score: 2

    I don't think so. An IDE is not supposed to help you discover a language or a framework, but rather provide you with a workflow that makes you as productive as possible.

  13. Re:Oh Oh on Ray Kurzweil Talks Google's Big Plans For Artificial Intelligence · · Score: 1

    For about 10 or more years, there have been three companies I've been afraid of, Google, Apple and Akamai. Apple because fashion makes people by shitty stuff and the other brands follow the trends and put out worse products. Google and Akamai because both of them could easily make one company disappear from the net with the flip of a switch. Back then, Akamai pretty much had a monopoly on content serving...

  14. Re:Well duh? on US Carriers Said To Have Rejected Kill Switch Technology Last Year · · Score: 2

    Wouldn't it be comparable to fencing stolen goods? I'd think it would be equally as illegal...

  15. Re:That's a great plan... on US Carriers Said To Have Rejected Kill Switch Technology Last Year · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It's not like it couldn't be done already, at least up to some point. Don't forget that the baseband chip on the cellphone "blindly" trusts the cells.

  16. Re:Won't somebody please think of the tinfoil hats on TSA: Confiscating Aluminum Foil and Watching Out For Solar Powered Bombs · · Score: 1

    TSA needs the aluminum for their own tinfoil hats. Either that or their reselling it. Around here it's the copper their after.

  17. Re:Can't wait for the iTesla on Elon Musk Talks Tesla, Apple, Model X · · Score: 1

    Just awesome. Robin Williams, is that you?

  18. Re:Apple rent part of Tesla's factory? on Elon Musk Talks Tesla, Apple, Model X · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    If Apple starts putting cars on the roads, I'll get out of them. I'll take my chances with the subway.

  19. Re:Pidgin on Microsoft Axing Messenger On March 15th · · Score: 1

    Still, there is one. I didn't say it worked perfectly. And he said there wasn't. There is. Might be useless, but there is.

    Anyway, even the native Skype client for Linux is crap. Crashes frequently, sometimes it hangs on 100% cpu usage and has to be killed and looks like a surgery made with a jackhammer.

  20. Re:Pidgin on Microsoft Axing Messenger On March 15th · · Score: 1

    You must have checked a long time ago. There is, indeed, a Skype plugin for libpurple-based messengers which includes Pidgin.

  21. Maybe a 3d printer? on Ask Slashdot: Gifts For a 90-Year-Old, Tech-Savvy Dad? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Perhaps it's a bit expensive, perhaps it's not, depends on your bugedt, but he most likely would enjoy it as a nice addition and compliment to his projects.

  22. Re:Well, of course... on Ask Slashdot: 2nd Spoken/Written Language For Software Developer? · · Score: 1

    wrong. Portuguese is spoken in Portugal, Angola, Mozambique, Guinae Bissau, Cape Vert, Brazil, Macau and probably more places. And no, spanish does not have the advantages of Portuguese. Both the vocabulary and the sound diversity of spanish are quite reduced when compared to Portuguese.

  23. Re:Well, of course... on Ask Slashdot: 2nd Spoken/Written Language For Software Developer? · · Score: 1

    and I specifically suggest European Portuguese because the brazilian Portuguese is, sound-wise, quite different. They have a very reduced set of sounds compared to the european version, basing themselves mostly on open consonants.

  24. Re:Well, of course... on Ask Slashdot: 2nd Spoken/Written Language For Software Developer? · · Score: 2

    My recommendation would be European Portuguese. Portuguese is one of the languages with most sounds (if you master it, you will be able to learn other languages much more easily), it's a very "mathematic" language (there are few exceptions in the language, the rules are very intuitive and predictable and once you get the hang of it, you can guess words you've never heard or read) and is considered by a lot of experts as one (if not the) of the most advanced languages. The fact that it is a very mathematic language makes it easy to learn especially for someone in the fields of exact sciences. There is also a lot of portuguese-written complimentary documentation (a lot of it from brazilian people).

  25. Re:ZFS on Ask Slashdot: Best File System For Web Hosting? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Why hasn't anybody mentioned JFS?

    Since the demise of ReiserFS, that's what I've been using everywhere. It's fast, really stable and has the lowest CPU usage of all. So, why not JFS?