So you give yearly donations to Mozilla right? Is that why you are on your high horse?
Your browser is one of the most complex pieces of software on your computer. It took thousands of man-hour years to develop. It takes a team of hundreds of developers to maintain.
They need a constant source of revenue. Could they have handled this better? Of course, but considering all the good they have done to protect our privacy, I'm willing to cut them some slack here.
Exactly, for example static analysis is great at catching copy/paste errors and will often show you the suggested fix. If I write a script that takes these results and submits a pull request, it's no different than if I manually take those actions. I,the script author would take credit, not Coverity or PVS Studio. This guys is out to lunch, thinking his tool is sentient and has legal rights.
This is the Right Thing To Do! So many times the Goody Two-Shoes so called "white hats" take out the botnets but rather that do this and patch the hacked machines, they just try to disable the current botnet. And surprise, surprise within a few months all the hacked machines are back in a new botnet, more fault tolerant botnet.
It's almost like these researchers realize that doing what this unsung hero did would hurt there job security. We should all celebrate this Russian hero. We need more like him.
With VLC, I've been able to play any video file you throw at it, even if your smartphone, tablet, or Android TV box doesn't have high-end specs or updated software. VLC is open source so i trust it and it doesn't display any ads.
Has anyone here actually used MX? Sounds like a downgrade to me.
I have an SSD and it boots instantly. Apps and game levels are near instantaneous. Speed isn't my problem. With games taking up 100GB now, even my 500GB SSD is constantly running out of space. When I do upgrade, I'll get a fast replacement, but size, not speed will be my primary requirement,
As a liberal and libertarian, I'm fine with *ADULTS* having access to any kind of content they want. If they want to take the no censorship, high road they sure as hell need to clean up their age verification system. I play counter strike and BF4(non-steam) with my 15yo. niece and I've seen his game library, and I know damn well many of his games are supposed to be over 18.
First hit of google on how to work around steams age restriction:
I've been "upcycling" my SGS3 for years now using it as our family primary smart Music player in the living room. But this "upcycling" initiative really grids my gears, because Samsung has locked it's phones to ancient versions of Android, making them artificially obsolete and insecure. So on the one hand they're artificially making hardware obsolete, and on the other hand they're pushing their old hardware for stupid ideas like bitcoin mining. I know people that have a drawer of old smartphones and still wasted $50 on a Google Mini. Off the top of my head, can think of so many better uses than mining.
* Dedicated home VoIP phone * Home Music player * Home Media player * Google Mini / Echo Dot
Most old smartphone are perfectly capable of any of the above, especially if manufactures unlocked them to allow CyanogenMod/LineageOS
I'm writing this on Ubuntu 17.10 with a 1080p 13" monitor and 1.5 scaling that's perfect. How?
sudo apt install kubuntu-desktop
KDE's HiDPI scaling is as good as Unity's if not better. Also, why didn't you continue to use Unity? If you upgraded, Unity is still a desktop option, but my guess is that you are trolling or lazy.
I can run 30% more VMs on my Linux Host using 32-bit server images. I understand dropping desktop, but i686 for server still makes perfect sense. I have 30 512 VMs running with 16 GB of Ram. If I was forced to upgrade to x86-64 today, I could only run 21 VMs. Not sure Ubuntu was considering the wasted memory when they made this call.
Google sold Motorola at a $10 billion loss! Motorola had arguably better hardware design teams and arguably similar manufacturing capability as HTC. I've love to hear the argument from Google execs as to how and what they will do differently this time. And yes, I know Motorola was a patent play, but that still doesn't answer my question of how they will fix the mismanagement of the hardware teams.
So the same newspaper that broke Watergate, the same one that has won hundreds of Pulitzer, is somehow now become completely untrustworthy because they hired a columnists who happened to work for the DNC? Sorry but it doesn't work like that. If you really think they are lying about the facts, you need to show a systematic history of them misrepresenting reality. They have been around for over 100 years and you'd be hard pressed to find a dozen articles that are factually incorrect.
Go ahead, I dare you. Because if attacking a single contributing political columnist, is the best you've got you've only made me trust them more. If you really think they have a poor track record, try and prove it.
First of all, everything should be archived for future generations and researchers. Otherwise, it defeats the whole point of the project.
But for the general public, the robots.txt should be honored and content hidden with a few conditions. First of all, it should not be retro active. I've seen valuable information lost when domains have changed name and the new owner has blocked the contents with a robots.txt. Second of all, there should be a review system to override the robots.txt. For example, if a site is cited in Wikipeida, it the robots.txt should be ignored and hidden content unblocked.
And if you remove the pork barrel from the equation, with such fixed-price contracts, the NASA overhead costs drops to just 14 percent. This should be the main take-away.
This was exactly the problem. Maybe 1 in 10 threads was something other than insulting one of the actors or some form of trolling. Many of the threads are just spam or totally unrelated to the movie. I don't see why these couldn't just be removed.
These low quality are almost entirely by new accounts. It would have been much smarter for them to have some kind of moderation system than scrapping it all together. For example give mod rights to older accounts that have written reviews with good feedback. They should have tried some kind of crowdsourcing before totally scrapping it.
"Trying to power a low end device with Firefox, is more like trying to modify submarine to fly.
HTML and JavaScript were never designed for this purpose and it shows. After the browser wars, JavaScript has proven to be bloated and resource intensive. 100x slower then native apps. This is a stupid idea and doomed to fail."
Because we need a canvas-blocker add-on and a flash-blocker
And the problem is these "canvas-blocker's" don't exist yet. For nearly a decade, I was perfectly happy with the speed of my browser when I had flash set to click-to-play + an ad blocker. But all the flash haters got there way and "killed" flashed.
Congratulations! You replaced it with an inferior standard that's now built into HTML5, so it's no longer trivial to block. Good job people! Flash is back, more CPU demanding than ever, and even harder to block.
Four years we get to listen to his pedantic bullshit. And in four years, we have to sit through another goddamn election season where he's a candidate. I fully expect him to appoint every conservative wingnut he can find to positions of power. We're going to try trickle down economics one more fucking time. We're going to boot 20 million people off of their health care, and institute health savings plans instead (great if you live well enough above your means that you can afford to set money aside). We're going to ignore the Paris Climate Accords. The EPA will be left in tatters. We're going to waste half a trillion dollars building a fucking wall, to address an immigration problem that is nowhere near our top concern. We're going to defund the Department of Education. And on and on and fucking on. And I fully expect the Trump administration to be rife with scandals. There's a reason he didn't want to get into financial disclosures. He will use the office to further his investments. President Trump, the greatest shitshow on earth!
My Samsung SG S5 was the last Galaxy to have a user removable battery and will be the last Galaxy that I buy. Even today's top of the line phones only last about 4 hours when under heavy load like video calls and 3D gaming. And there's the fact that every charge cycles reduces the battery's capacity. The extra 1mm that having a permanent battery may shave off the thickness is not worth it. Never mind the fact that nearly everyone that drops $800 for a phone puts it in a fat protective case totally negating the slim argument.
So am I alone in taking pleasure from watching Samsung have to recall millions of phones for this idiotic move? I hope this serves as a reminder to Samsung that this was a terrible trade off for us consumers. And I hope it costs them more than the "planned obsolescence" will bring then in future profits.
If you want an accurate measure of the number of open source contributors, don't limit yourself to github. Google opened sourced their own source code management system, Monorail. Many of there projects are hosted there such as Chromium and Android. There also huge contributors to LLVM/Clang, which uses SVN and of course the Linux kernel which is also not hosted on github.
The article says"Prime members will now able to stream a rotating selection of more than 50 audiobooks." and proceeds to self-link to another prime fortune article . That's a blog spam trick and terrible reporting. As a prime member, I want to know what is available and how to stream it?
I don't know how much valid information has been wrongfully censored, but when I was doing school research for a movie, I noticed that some of my results had been blocked. So I followed the 'Chilling Effects' link and there was relevant, non-infringing content that had been blocked there. I was angry enough to start to file a counter complaint only to get stonewalled because I wasn't the original copyright holder.
The system is broken. The only fix is higher penalties and lower bar for enforcement on invalid DMCA requests.
I have changed my new "AI Bullshit Detector twice, but every time I show it this "story", it short circuits destroying my computer.
If this keeps up, "I might have to dismantle it".
If I had a net worth of 35.7 billion USD, then yeah. Until I make a bill, I'm just fine without any tape. I run Linux and keep my OS updated. Lot easier, more valuable targets out there.
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So you give yearly donations to Mozilla right? Is that why you are on your high horse?
Your browser is one of the most complex pieces of software on your computer. It took thousands of man-hour years to develop. It takes a team of hundreds of developers to maintain.
They need a constant source of revenue. Could they have handled this better? Of course, but considering all the good they have done to protect our privacy, I'm willing to cut them some slack here.
Exactly, for example static analysis is great at catching copy/paste errors and will often show you the suggested fix. If I write a script that takes these results and submits a pull request, it's no different than if I manually take those actions. I,the script author would take credit, not Coverity or PVS Studio. This guys is out to lunch, thinking his tool is sentient and has legal rights.
This is the Right Thing To Do! So many times the Goody Two-Shoes so called "white hats" take out the botnets but rather that do this and patch the hacked machines, they just try to disable the current botnet. And surprise, surprise within a few months all the hacked machines are back in a new botnet, more fault tolerant botnet.
It's almost like these researchers realize that doing what this unsung hero did would hurt there job security. We should all celebrate this Russian hero. We need more like him.
With VLC, I've been able to play any video file you throw at it, even if your smartphone, tablet, or Android TV box doesn't have high-end specs or updated software. VLC is open source so i trust it and it doesn't display any ads.
Has anyone here actually used MX? Sounds like a downgrade to me.
I have an SSD and it boots instantly. Apps and game levels are near instantaneous. Speed isn't my problem. With games taking up 100GB now, even my 500GB SSD is constantly running out of space. When I do upgrade, I'll get a fast replacement, but size, not speed will be my primary requirement,
As a liberal and libertarian, I'm fine with *ADULTS* having access to any kind of content they want. If they want to take the no censorship, high road they sure as hell need to clean up their age verification system. I play counter strike and BF4(non-steam) with my 15yo. niece and I've seen his game library, and I know damn well many of his games are supposed to be over 18.
First hit of google on how to work around steams age restriction:
https://steamcommunity.com/dis...
> You can buy games on Steam no matter what age you are as long as you set your age to over 18 when a store-page asks for you DoB
So it pains me to say this, but until they fix this gigantic loophole, they are in the wrong here.
I've been "upcycling" my SGS3 for years now using it as our family primary smart Music player in the living room. But this "upcycling" initiative really grids my gears, because Samsung has locked it's phones to ancient versions of Android, making them artificially obsolete and insecure. So on the one hand they're artificially making hardware obsolete, and on the other hand they're pushing their old hardware for stupid ideas like bitcoin mining. I know people that have a drawer of old smartphones and still wasted $50 on a Google Mini. Off the top of my head, can think of so many better uses than mining.
* Dedicated home VoIP phone
* Home Music player
* Home Media player
* Google Mini / Echo Dot
Most old smartphone are perfectly capable of any of the above, especially if manufactures unlocked them to allow CyanogenMod/LineageOS
I'm writing this on Ubuntu 17.10 with a 1080p 13" monitor and 1.5 scaling that's perfect. How?
sudo apt install kubuntu-desktop
KDE's HiDPI scaling is as good as Unity's if not better. Also, why didn't you continue to use Unity? If you upgraded, Unity is still a desktop option, but my guess is that you are trolling or lazy.
I can run 30% more VMs on my Linux Host using 32-bit server images. I understand dropping desktop, but i686 for server still makes perfect sense. I have 30 512 VMs running with 16 GB of Ram. If I was forced to upgrade to x86-64 today, I could only run 21 VMs. Not sure Ubuntu was considering the wasted memory when they made this call.
Google sold Motorola at a $10 billion loss! Motorola had arguably better hardware design teams and arguably similar manufacturing capability as HTC. I've love to hear the argument from Google execs as to how and what they will do differently this time. And yes, I know Motorola was a patent play, but that still doesn't answer my question of how they will fix the mismanagement of the hardware teams.
So the same newspaper that broke Watergate, the same one that has won hundreds of Pulitzer, is somehow now become completely untrustworthy because they hired a columnists who happened to work for the DNC? Sorry but it doesn't work like that. If you really think they are lying about the facts, you need to show a systematic history of them misrepresenting reality. They have been around for over 100 years and you'd be hard pressed to find a dozen articles that are factually incorrect.
Go ahead, I dare you. Because if attacking a single contributing political columnist, is the best you've got you've only made me trust them more. If you really think they have a poor track record, try and prove it.
First of all, everything should be archived for future generations and researchers. Otherwise, it defeats the whole point of the project.
But for the general public, the robots.txt should be honored and content hidden with a few conditions. First of all, it should not be retro active. I've seen valuable information lost when domains have changed name and the new owner has blocked the contents with a robots.txt. Second of all, there should be a review system to override the robots.txt. For example, if a site is cited in Wikipeida, it the robots.txt should be ignored and hidden content unblocked.
And if you remove the pork barrel from the equation, with such fixed-price contracts, the NASA overhead costs drops to just 14 percent. This should be the main take-away.
This was exactly the problem. Maybe 1 in 10 threads was something other than insulting one of the actors or some form of trolling. Many of the threads are just spam or totally unrelated to the movie. I don't see why these couldn't just be removed.
These low quality are almost entirely by new accounts. It would have been much smarter for them to have some kind of moderation system than scrapping it all together. For example give mod rights to older accounts that have written reviews with good feedback. They should have tried some kind of crowdsourcing before totally scrapping it.
"Trying to power a low end device with Firefox, is more like trying to modify submarine to fly.
HTML and JavaScript were never designed for this purpose and it shows. After the browser wars, JavaScript has proven to be bloated and resource intensive. 100x slower then native apps. This is a stupid idea and doomed to fail."
-Me on Slashdot Sept 15, 2012
https://slashdot.org/users2.pl...
Why is this so obvious to outsiders, yet so hard for Execs to see with 6 figure salaries?
Yes it can. Some of the Engineers at my office used to run SolidWorks 2012 on CrossOver. Looks like Wine runs it with some workarounds:
https://appdb.winehq.org/objec...
Because we need a canvas-blocker add-on and a flash-blocker
And the problem is these "canvas-blocker's" don't exist yet. For nearly a decade, I was perfectly happy with the speed of my browser when I had flash set to click-to-play + an ad blocker. But all the flash haters got there way and "killed" flashed.
Congratulations! You replaced it with an inferior standard that's now built into HTML5, so it's no longer trivial to block. Good job people! Flash is back, more CPU demanding than ever, and even harder to block.
Four years we get to listen to his pedantic bullshit.
And in four years, we have to sit through another goddamn election season where he's a candidate.
I fully expect him to appoint every conservative wingnut he can find to positions of power.
We're going to try trickle down economics one more fucking time.
We're going to boot 20 million people off of their health care, and institute health savings plans instead (great if you live well enough above your means that you can afford to set money aside).
We're going to ignore the Paris Climate Accords. The EPA will be left in tatters.
We're going to waste half a trillion dollars building a fucking wall, to address an immigration problem that is nowhere near our top concern.
We're going to defund the Department of Education.
And on and on and fucking on.
And I fully expect the Trump administration to be rife with scandals. There's a reason he didn't want to get into financial disclosures. He will use the office to further his investments.
President Trump, the greatest shitshow on earth!
My Samsung SG S5 was the last Galaxy to have a user removable battery and will be the last Galaxy that I buy. Even today's top of the line phones only last about 4 hours when under heavy load like video calls and 3D gaming. And there's the fact that every charge cycles reduces the battery's capacity. The extra 1mm that having a permanent battery may shave off the thickness is not worth it. Never mind the fact that nearly everyone that drops $800 for a phone puts it in a fat protective case totally negating the slim argument.
So am I alone in taking pleasure from watching Samsung have to recall millions of phones for this idiotic move? I hope this serves as a reminder to Samsung that this was a terrible trade off for us consumers. And I hope it costs them more than the "planned obsolescence" will bring then in future profits.
If you want an accurate measure of the number of open source contributors, don't limit yourself to github. Google opened sourced their own source code management system, Monorail. Many of there projects are hosted there such as Chromium and Android. There also huge contributors to LLVM/Clang, which uses SVN and of course the Linux kernel which is also not hosted on github.
So basically BS click bait article.
The article says"Prime members will now able to stream a rotating selection of more than 50 audiobooks." and proceeds to self-link to another prime fortune article . That's a blog spam trick and terrible reporting. As a prime member, I want to know what is available and how to stream it?
I don't know how much valid information has been wrongfully censored, but when I was doing school research for a movie, I noticed that some of my results had been blocked. So I followed the 'Chilling Effects' link and there was relevant, non-infringing content that had been blocked there. I was angry enough to start to file a counter complaint only to get stonewalled because I wasn't the original copyright holder.
The system is broken. The only fix is higher penalties and lower bar for enforcement on invalid DMCA requests.
I have changed my new "AI Bullshit Detector twice, but every time I show it this "story", it short circuits destroying my computer.
If this keeps up, "I might have to dismantle it".
If I had a net worth of 35.7 billion USD, then yeah. Until I make a bill, I'm just fine without any tape. I run Linux and keep my OS updated. Lot easier, more valuable targets out there.
Yes,
KDE fixes old bugs, while Gnome just lets the patches rot.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/sho...