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  1. Re:You guys should give it up on Peter Sunde: the Pirate Bay Should Stay Down · · Score: 1

    Cheers! That indeed works very fine.

  2. Re:You guys should give it up on Peter Sunde: the Pirate Bay Should Stay Down · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the suggestion, but I think even the app itself is region restricted (at least it says my S3, Xperia Z2 and 2013 Nexus 7 are all incompatible with it). And I'd reckon even if I'd sideload the app, the content would be locked away. A VPN might help there - but really, torrenting is just so much easier. Which is kind of my point.

  3. Re:You guys should give it up on Peter Sunde: the Pirate Bay Should Stay Down · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Sure. I'll do it the minute I'm able to subscribe to the content, digitally, and that the content is reasonably priced. Until then, arrrrr.

    (For the record between Neflix, HBO Nordic and Spotify I pirate very little. But for example Daily Show/Colbert - I used to be able to watch them from the web site. I even turned off my adblocker there as thanks. But now they block my country, so I torrent them. Viacom, get a clue)

  4. Re:You're stupid using paywalled sites on French Publishers Prepare Lawsuit Against Adblock Plus · · Score: 1

    "We're all wondering"? You and your side personalities? Glad you're finally coming to terms with it. You do realize, by the way, that by posting I can't mod in this thread. So I'm not the one modding you down. THEY are.

  5. Re:Wouldn't it be easier to just circumvent Adbloc on French Publishers Prepare Lawsuit Against Adblock Plus · · Score: 1

    Most (all?) ABP users use blocklists that are updated frequently, the plugin itself doesn't change that often. And you can naturally add your own (regex-based) rules. Sure, it might work, for a little while. But it is ultimately futile.

  6. Re:AdBlock = Inferior + 'Souled-Out'... apk on French Publishers Prepare Lawsuit Against Adblock Plus · · Score: 1

    Oh APK, I was wondering when you'd show up. So riddle me this. Getting around the paywall involves blocking specific JS files. That come from the same domain as rest of the content. So please, in your infinite wisdom, how would HOSTS file help?

  7. ABP is really a necessity in today's web on French Publishers Prepare Lawsuit Against Adblock Plus · · Score: 1

    There's a local (well, national) newspaper that I read frequently. They implemented a paywall (five free articles / month) few years ago - it's trivial to bypass, naturally, clearing out cookies or using "porn mode" does the trick, but why bother, a simple ABP rule works. However, in doing so the comments are hidden as well. Most of the time this is entirely positive, but I guess I have some masochistic tendencies; when there's a really controversial (or bound to wake up the retards) topic, I sometimes like to read them. Call it self-trolling (trollorbation?) maybe. And to do so, I use another browser (that I can just wipe clean as needed).

    And oh-my-$DEITY. It is absolutely horrible. We're not talking just about a few ads here and there. The entire page background can change. Popups that use position:fixed. Fucking animated ads. I do realize they have to pay for the content somehow. Some sites I frequent, I might even whitelist them. But as long as no ABP means being bombarded with ads, ABP it is.

  8. Re:This game has issues with both nVidia and Win 8 on Dragon Age: Inquisition Reviewed and Benchmarked · · Score: 1

    That's exactly what I'm saying. I want to be lazy at times. I still don't completely agree on the consolitis though, they dumbed it down on consoles as well (even from DA2, which was much more action-RPG-ish).

  9. Re:This game has issues with both nVidia and Win 8 on Dragon Age: Inquisition Reviewed and Benchmarked · · Score: 1

    I'm a "peasant" (or rather, can't be arsed to game on a PC as I already spend most of my waking hours in front of one, when I want to play something I prefer the comfort of my couch/HDTV/surround sound and not having to mess with driver updates and such, so sue me), but I don't think it's pure "consolitis". There are quite a few gameplay changes compared to previous versions WRT combat: only a limited amount of potions available, no changing equipment mid-battle and passive abilities no longer eat a portion of your stamina/mana but are more like permanent stat bonuses (and no longer need to be toggled on/off). I think they want the player to plan ahead how they'd like to take on a particular encounter, not to have a full toolkit available for you. And I think in any given skill tree the topmost ones are quite useless on higher levels.

    Now that doesn't mean that I totally agree with the design choice there, previously on consoles there was a limited amount of quick slots and the rest available via a menu which was better IMHO. But as that was how it was before, "consolitis" it is not, completely at least.

  10. Re:Now for the next apology on Ubisoft Apologizes For Assassin's Creed · · Score: 1

    ...you do realize DA:I is made my BioWare and published by EA? Although from what I've heard, yes, the PC controls are atrocious without a controller. It's terrific on a PS4 though.

    But OK, yes, Ubisoft should apologize for that too. And for the Nazis. And 9/11.

  11. Re:Yes! on HBO Developing Asimov's Foundation Series As TV Show · · Score: 1

    Asimov really didn't include (any that I recall) blatant sex scenes or sexual themes in his books, at least directly. It was always between the lines, as a means to advance the plot.

    While I'd say you are correct, there is what I consider to be his best novel that features your sex, of, well, the third kind. (seriously, if you haven't read it, do so)

    But on to the topic at hand, this sounds very good. Much better than Roland Emmerich adapting The Foundation as a movie trilogy, that sounded horrible.

  12. Re:Hey, MS, give them to people who will use them! on CNN Anchors Caught On Camera Using Microsoft Surface As an iPad Stand · · Score: 1

    Or you can run actual Excel... on an Android tablet!

  13. OK, here goes on Why Every Cardiac Patient Needs a Virtual Heart · · Score: 1

    <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

    (virtual hearts for cardiac patients)

  14. Re:Fentanyl on Incapacitating Chemical Agents: Coming Soon To Local Law Enforcement? · · Score: 1

    I thought so too. Nasty stuff, that - here in .fi, heroine is really quite rare. Opioid addicts usually use various synthetic opiates, and it seems almost without exception overdose deaths are caused by Fentanyl.

  15. Re:It's not the absolute values that matter on Which Android Devices Sacrifice Battery-Life For Performance? · · Score: 2

    But I'm really not sure what they're measuring with the arbitrary battery life score. As an anecdotal example, I have an Xperia Z2. I get a full day of heavy use out of it, or 2-2 1/2 days of moderate use. According to pretty much every review, Z3 has slightly better battery life. So, assuming the scale is linear (and my Z2 would thus score slightly lower than a Z3), OnePlus One should have a 4-5 day battery life? Which I really don't think it has.

  16. Re:Methinks there's more on Too Much Privacy: Finnish Police Want Big Euro Notes Taken Out of Circulation · · Score: 2

    While I'm not sure getting rid of the big notes would solve anything, I thought not minting 1c and 2c coins was brilliant. Just a trip to another Euro nation makes you remember why as your walled is stuffed with them.

    (The system works thusly: prices can be whatever, but when you pay the total it is rounded to the nearest 5c - it might be just a bit more or just a bit less than the total of your purchases, but it'll even out in the long run. If you're picky about paying the exact amount, use your card.)

  17. Re:Paradox. on Carl Sagan, as "Mr. X," Extolled Benefits of Marijuana · · Score: 3, Funny

    So eat your weed then.

  18. Re:Cannabis as addictive as heroin .. on Carl Sagan, as "Mr. X," Extolled Benefits of Marijuana · · Score: 1

    Sorry, I'll trust The Lancet more than Telegraph.

  19. Re:There's a lot of horse shit in this summary on Ubisoft Claims CPU Specs a Limiting Factor In Assassin's Creed Unity On Consoles · · Score: 1

    ...and you're missing the fact that Unity, on consoles, will be only on Xbox One / PS4. So yes, while theoretically the One will be able to calculate a bit more (given its slightly higher clocked CPU, were we only calculating), it will fall behind due to severely gimped GPU and memory bandwidth. Yet the consoles are at a parity. Funny thing, that.

  20. Re:Completely full of shit on Ubisoft Claims CPU Specs a Limiting Factor In Assassin's Creed Unity On Consoles · · Score: 1

    What happens when you try to make a cutting edge pretty 2014 game run 60FPS at 1080p on a four year old graphics card?

    This. But granted, that's a remake of a 2013 game.

  21. I already posted, but somebody mod this up.

  22. OK, so you work for Ubisoft, on to the topic at hand - Unity is not going to be on PS3 or Xbox 360. When we are talking about the current consoles (PS4 and Xbox One), they are basically the same - the difference being one has a slightly higher clocked CPU and a massively inferior GPU, along with much less memory bandwidth (yes, there's the "massive" ESRAM totaling a whopping 32MB), versus a slightly lower clocked CPU, much better GPU and a memory bandwidth in a totally different ballpark.

    Given these specs, how can you justify the parity? And in before the PC master race comes to claim their superiority: we bow to thee, not questioning that, I'd just like an explanation from an Ubi developer WRT current consoles. The backtracking the official PR has given so far has been amusing, but I'd like to hear if there's an actual technical reason.

  23. Re:Dislike Arch on What's Been the Best Linux Distro of 2014? · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I wouldn't use it an a production server, it's too bleeding edge for that and there is no such thing as LTS on Arch. But it's awesome as a dev system and as a general state of the art desktop/laptop.

    Very much this. We use some quite rapidly-developing technologies like node.js at work - the production servers are obviously updated very conservatively (and don't run Arch), but as a developer I can check out the latest version pretty much immediately after it is released and see if the updates cause some issues, or if there are new features that would benefit us in the future. And as said, works very well as a desktop.

    Also, I was pleasantly surprised a while back when this laptop had to be repaired for a while - I had an older laptop that I hadn't used / updated in over six months, and thought getting it up to date would cause a lot of pain (Arch had moved into systemd during that time - no, not getting into that debate here). All that was required in addition to a regular pacman -Syu was to alter my boot line a bit to use systemd.

  24. Re: "private browsing mode" on Tor Executive Director Hints At Firefox Integration · · Score: 1

    Among the first customizations I do in Firefox is to set browser.zoom.siteSpecific to false in about:config, I think the default value (true) is quite retarded.

  25. Re:Full Disclosure can be found on oss-security... on Remote Exploit Vulnerability Found In Bash · · Score: 1

    You're right, that wasn't patched until today. Now the result is

    /usr/bin/id
    cat: echo: No such file or directory