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  1. Re:Interesting despite misleading title on Developer Proclaims Death of Cyberfox Web Browser (ghacks.net) · · Score: 2

    The problem is, XUL has been retired and old forks can't just make patches from firefox anymore. Expect more to come

  2. Re:Your CPU is running a backdoor right now on WikiLeaks Reveals CIA's Secret Hacking Tools and Spy Operations (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Thanks APK!

  3. Re:Have to rule out Chrome on Which Linux Browser Is The Fastest? (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I just block all outgoing traffic to the internet. Then chrome cant communicate with motherbrain

  4. Re:Uber is pursuing the wrong thing on 'Uber Is Doomed', Argues Transportation Reporter (jalopnik.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Their push to automatic cars destroys the very thing that made them popular to begin with. Uber isn't a car manufacturer, and not an automotive tech company.

    Google wasn't an OS or a phone company, either.

  5. What am I missing? on Google Discloses Yet Another New Unpatched Microsoft Vulnerability In Edge/IE (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Note: The analysis below is based on an 64-bit IE (running in single process mode) running on Windows Server 2012 R2. Microsoft Symbol Server has been down for several days and that's the only configuration for which I had up-to-date symbols. However Microsoft Edge and 32-bit IE 11should behave similarly.

    Ok, there is no information as to why this would affect any version other than the 64-bit IE that the guy tested. Especially since Edge *supposedly* uses a separate codebase, and this is an exploit in the MSHTML engine anyway

  6. Re: Left and further left on Twitter Announces (More) Hate-Speech Fighting Tools (Again) (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Really? So what I was taught and what my kids are being taught and all of those textbooks across the country are all wrong? All of these graphics and websites are wrong https://www.google.com/search?...

    Citation please

  7. Re: Left and further left on Twitter Announces (More) Hate-Speech Fighting Tools (Again) (cnn.com) · · Score: 0

    Right means conservative. Left means liberal. Conservative means "let's do the things we have always done." Liberal means "let's change how we do everything"

  8. Re:No love for Delphi? on GitHub Commits Reveal The Top 'Weekend Programming' Languages (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Delphi isn't free.

  9. Re:Netcraft confirms it: 2.2 Lives On! on Linux Kernel 3.18 Reaches End of Life (softpedia.com) · · Score: 2

    Something happened with the transition from 2.4 to 2.6. When distros started shipping with 2.6, linux stopped being the answer to using old hardware. It fell as slow and sluggish as any other OS would (except maybe DOS). My fathers Celeron 300A was a great illustration of such, as well as the Compaq laptop my nephew once owned.

    I think the bigger kicker was 2.6 wasn't drop in compatible to 2.4. A lot of things changed (like linuxthreads->NPTL) and with it, so did the libraries that shipped with it. Old applications (Kylix) were dead in the water

  10. "It's like people only do these things because they can get paid. And that's just really sad." --Garth Algar

  11. Re:Background per desktop? on KDE Plasma 5.9 Released (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd like the option to buy a cpu that doesn't have the circuitry to swap memory to disk

    That isn't how it works. The processor indicates it wants to access virtual address X and it is up to the OS to manage how that happens. Plenty of OS's have a virtual memory system without physical disk swap.

    Hibernation can be completely done in software

    Hibernation, by definition, requires the hardware to support that function.

    same as task swapping (see DOS 5 on pre-386 cpus as an example)

    And the context switching penalty was palpable.

  12. Re:How soon until it is included in ReactOS? on Wine 2.0 Released (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    Not on real hardware

  13. Re:Effects Truecrypt? on The SHA-1 End Times Have Arrived (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    SHA is a hashing algorithm, not encryption algorithm. SHA in this instance probably refers to the PKCS#5 password-based key derivation function

  14. Re:Funniest crowdfunding scam to date on The Mind-Reading Gadget For Dogs That Got Funded, But Didn't Get Built (ieee.org) · · Score: 1

    Where's the ball? Where's THE BALL?! BALL!

  15. It isn't a good deal on 'OLED TVs Will Finally Take Off in 2017' (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    How is $1800 for a 55" 4k TV a good deal?

  16. Re:And the next food craze starts on New Study Finds 'Mediterranean' Diet Significantly Reduces Brain Shrinkage (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    How, exactly, is milk harmful?

  17. Why would I want to connect a computer, be it a desktop, laptop, or a tablet (really?) into my television just to watch hulu or netflix, or listen to pandora or spotify? It is overkill, requires yet another device, and costs me more. It isn't any more convenient either.

  18. If they can get Windows running on this, then they could get Windows running on about any ARMv8 based device, given device specific drivers.

    And HAL

  19. Re:Oh, sweet! on FreeDOS 1.2 Is Finally Released (freedos.org) · · Score: 1

    MiniGL was only for WinQuake... which was a Windows executable

  20. Re:Oh, sweet! on FreeDOS 1.2 Is Finally Released (freedos.org) · · Score: 1

    DOS version of Quake didn't use OpenGL, so it wasn't accelerated. A different GPU will hardly matter. It is using the CPU to do all of the work

  21. Re:Would have bought it but for th 15 inch long wi on Nintendo Sells Nearly 200,000 Units Of Its Mini Retro Console (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1
  22. Re:I don't understand the reason for this on Fedora-based Linux Distro Korora (Version 25) Now Available For Download (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    It probably just installs "everything". I'd wager to guess (mere speculation based on decades of behavior), that it will ask you if you want a desktop or a server, and then install every last package it might think you could want to use

  23. Re:plenty of ways to waste your money. on Microsoft Officially Closes Its $26.2B Acquisition of LinkedIn (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    First it was Minecraft for billions, and its a great deal until you realize most people playing minecraft already gave their money to notch, and that theres no real way to monetize it

    Education contracts and HoloLens

  24. Except for the fact that these stupid "articles" never cause the price to go up

  25. Re:Should be obvious to everyone on New Study Shows Marijuana Users Have Low Blood Flow To the Brain (eurekalert.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There is a reason we are particularly squeamish about handing out legal medicine that works on brain chemistry

    I don't think so, bud. Tell your primary physician that you don't feel like yourself and are depressed a lot, and they have ABSOLUTELY NO PROBLEM giving you a antidepressant/re-uptake inhibitor. Hell, they even perscribe such to help stop smoking. That is just antidepressants. Make your way to a psychiatrist and there is no end to the antidepressants, mood stabalizers, antipsychotics, benzodiazapines, etc not to mention drugs like depakote that not only treat seizures and mania, but also migraines. Do you like coffee? Do you know how caffeine "works on brain chemistry"? Get your agenda straight here