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  1. Great for portability on Gnome Goes JavaScript · · Score: 1

    Even if there are some gnome specific JS bindings, your basic code logic and flow should be easily portable to other new platforms all supporting JS as well. There are a ton of applications out there now, and while JS may have been supported before; this announcement will hopefully get some existing developers for other platforms to port their JS apps to gnome. Also anxious to see how jQuery will tie itself into this.

  2. Talk about the punishment not fitting the crime on Hacker Faces 105 Years In Prison After Blackmailing 350+ Women · · Score: 1

    People can get away with murder and face less time. Either the punishment for murder and violence needs to go WAY up or the punishment for things like this needs to go down. I'm all for this guy getting punished and put in prison, but up to 105 years for hacking and getting some naked pics of girls over a webcam seems excessive.

  3. So really they can barely handle 300 people on How EVE Online Dealt With a 3,000-Player Battle · · Score: 1

    What EVE does is just decides its going to slow everything down 10x so its only getting 1/10th the things happening over the same period of time. With this 3000 players are really effectivly only sending the traffic of 300 players operating at normal time. When you think of it like that, them being able to handle 3000 players without problems is not much of a boast, only that they found a way to simulate/force lag on everything. Its not a bad idea, but they are no more impressive than any of the other MMO's out there.

  4. Integrating is not the same as Data Mining on Facebook To App Developers: Good Idea, Now Stop Using Our API · · Score: 1

    Facebook Integration is intended to add to new things to facebook, or add some features to your sites from facebook such as authentication, adding like/comment type functionality, etc. I don't believe they ever wanted people to utilize the API to display facebook content on other sites or data mine the information just to provide an alternative interface to the same content. Facebook integration is great, it does all kinds of things and they have been pretty good with their API so far. A few people went too far and are rightfully being stopped. Do not make a big deal of this or they are likely to make changes to the actual API, instead of stopping the few people abusing the current one. Again , stop making a big deal out of this before you force Facebook to remove features from the API until nobody can abuse it (and at the same time making it a useless API for anything more than basic features)

  5. Good first step on New Secure Boot Patches Break Hibernation · · Score: 2

    I think this patch, while it probably wont be something we want in the kernel in the long run, at least is bringing attention to more people that we need to work on kexec and hibernation to better support the secure boot trust model. It offers a solution that does keep a system following the secure boot trust model, and once some people are able to keep a system following that model, they will to keep following the secure boot model but insist on all the old features working again. Hopefully there is enough of this type of push towards getting kexec and Hibernate improved so his patchs ultimately become obsolete.

  6. So will my isp stop dropping me when i hit a cap? on German Federal Court Rules That Internet Connection Is Crucial To Everyday Life · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm one of the many people who have a "high-speed" broadband account advertised as what to buy for streaming online media, but the ISP gives a 200gb cap and drops you as a client if you go over it for more than 2 months. Watching Netflix HD video only a few hours a day hits that cap in no time, making the account not actually usable for what its advertised. I hope the effects of this ruling eventually trickles down to my country and this type of dropping a user is made illegal. At the very least switching a user to a more throttled connection would be a good compromise. Oh the ISP that does this is ptd.net, but alot of ISPs have similar practices.

  7. Time for US to assist with democratic reform on Responding to US Gambling Law, Antigua Set To Launch "Pirate" Site · · Score: 4, Funny

    It sounds like a great time to install a pro-US democratic leader. Clearly the people are not being represented here by corrupt Antiguan monarchs and need our help. God bless America.

  8. Can they patent these features? on Samsung Amps Up Its Multi-Window Android Upgrade · · Score: 1

    Is there any potential for them to prevent other android companies from making similar changes to android? My worry here is they patent the modifications and prevent them from showing up in the main branch of android code if someone later on wants to add their own version of the same features to main android.

  9. Re:Women make up 16% of scientists in industry on Male Scientists More Prone To Misconduct · · Score: 1

    Going back even farther to the starting point of the comparison, women made up only 3% of the industry (gradually growing to the current 16%).

  10. Women make up 16% of scientists in industry on Male Scientists More Prone To Misconduct · · Score: 2

    This seems like a horrible comparison considering there are only 16% females in the scientific industry compared to men. Not only that but this is collected from data of known misconduct. I could easily see a female as being more likely to get away with scientific misconduct and thus they would not even be represented in this comparison. Used http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=2264&page=5 as reference for the 16% women scientist figure.

  11. Poster didnt bother reading the article. on Why You'll Pay For Netflix — Even If You Don't Subscribe To Netflix · · Score: 1

    Netflix is just putting some local servers at ISP's because the bandwidth requirements for superHD are too much, the only real way to do it is for isp's to have local copies of the movies.

  12. Everything on Ask Slashdot: What Practices Impede Developers' Productivity? · · Score: 1

    Documentation, Testing, Bosses differing ideas, Making interfaces idiot proof for that 1 person that cant figure out what to do no mater how simple or straight forward something might be to you

  13. So is 'App Store' safe to use now? on Apple Loses Claim For False Advertising Regarding Amazon "App Store" · · Score: 1

    So with this ruling does it mean its safe for the rest of us to use App Store or will we still have to worry about going up against Apple in court?

  14. Who cares? It's still his baby... on Linus Chews Up Kernel Maintainer For Introducing Userspace Bug · · Score: 1

    Sure its grown way beyond the scope of a single guy, but he played such a key role in linux's development that I think he's forever earned the right to be as picky as he wants with new code. That aside linux has grown widely adapted and any large new bug could effect countless systems.

  15. Project Divert Attension from TSA: Success!! on FCC Smooths the Path For Airlines' In-Flight Internet · · Score: 1

    This can't be an issue for most, and going by all the press over the last year this isn't the problem that most people are concerned with.

  16. Patent Reform or Doubling of Smart Device Costs? on LG Seeks Sales Ban of Samsung Galaxy Tablet In Korea · · Score: 1

    The recent patent lawsuits among the various smartphone companies are both high dollar enough and frequent enough to attract the attention of enough people (that matter) to push for changes hopefully as patent reform. Or if evil prevails then all of the big companies could just get together behind closed doors shake eachothers hands and agree on unilateral raising of prices and claiming its due to patents. Within a few years the price of mobile devices could double (at the same hardware level) for no reason all.

  17. Re:Passwords are a worse vulnerability on Lax SSH Key Management A "Big Problem" · · Score: 1

    You can add AllowUsers *@10.0.* root@1.2.3.4 in your sshd_config

  18. null route the ip being attacked? on You're Being DDOSed — What Do You Do? Name and Shame? · · Score: 1

    null route the ip being attacked?

  19. Zoodles on Ask Slashdot: Android Apps For Kids Under 12 Months? · · Score: 2

    http://www.zoodles.com/home/marketing/android Pretty good kid-mode for android. Disables most apps / buttons and provides its own kid interface to just what you enable.

  20. Re:32-bit is insecure on Mozilla Brings Back Firefox 64-Bit For Windows Nightly Builds · · Score: 1

    isnt chrome 32bit only ?

  21. 2000 E was the absolute coolest looking WM on After 12 years of Development, E17 Is Out · · Score: 4, Interesting

    E was left behind in the window manager wars but it was probably the one that first featured alot of the UI changes that sparked the UI revolution that was the last 12 years. Its good to see they are finally out with a new version and I hope it gains some ground but it would be hard at this point to become the #1 WM. Im sure many of the people who used E in the past will want to try it again but beyond that I dont see it being adopted much. I would probably rather E over Ubuntu's Unity any day (Although i'd take just about any WM over Unity)

  22. Yes for Large or Multi-Dev Projects on Ask Slashdot: Do Coding Standards Make a Difference? · · Score: 1

    When you have many people working on the same code base coding standards are very important. Its impossible to keep every line of code fresh in your memory so when viewing your code or someone else's, quickly identifying what each part of the code does is very important. Knowing even something as simple as a standard variable naming convention used in a program can make the difference between jumping into a block of code and accurately modifying it or butchering it.

  23. Way To Go Sen Wyden! on Net Neutrality Bill Aimed At ISP Data Caps Introduced In US Senate · · Score: 2

    This has been needed since netflix type video services started getting popular. You cant use internet video streaming without hitting a bandwidth cap pretty fast unless your ok with gameboy resolution in your stream. Movies simply dont look that good unless you view them at full resolution, and netflix at HD resolution is up to 2GB/hour. Leaving your internet tv streaming during the day will eat up most any bandwidth cap.

  24. Not true, for gripping and minimizing damage on Your Hands Were Made For Punching According To New Study · · Score: 1

    It seems the article is more saying that our thumbs have evolved in a manor that allows us to fold it into our hand like our other fingers to protect it (which happens to be useful when fighting). I suspect this evolution was more about being able to grip something than it was about fighting.

  25. What about clones as spare body parts on Human Cloning Possible Within 50 Years, Nobel Prize-Winning Scientist Claims · · Score: 1

    If we can build clones then we should be able to start using them to grow spare organs and limbs for people that need transplants or are injured. Does a clone have a soul?