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  1. Not on by default on Firefox 34 Arrives With Video Chat, Yahoo Search As Default · · Score: 2

    Mozilla are throttling the chat feature.

    To enable, go to about:config, and set loop.throttled to false. Otherwise there is a one in ten chance of having the feature. Currently I think the servers are struggling. It's a new feature and as such needs to bed in whilst capacity is judged.

    HTH.

  2. Re:WTF ? on Ask Slashdot: Making a 'Wife Friendly' Gaming PC? · · Score: 1

    Indeed, everything is fine in moderation. Though, you know, there are far worse things he could be doing, at least this guy isn't in a bar chatting some other woman up. She should be pleased that he's home at least.

    On the other hand, perhaps she has identified that he's not making the most out of life, perhaps he should take up some other hobby for a bit that they can do together, or just sit in the living room and read a parenting book or talk about how her day was.

    Personally, I've never had any long runs of gaming, they get boring, but I still find computing itself to be quite absorbing and perhaps the mrs doesn't like this. So, from own experience don't spend more money on gaming hardware.

  3. Don't fight it on Ask Slashdot: Making a 'Wife Friendly' Gaming PC? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Your wife just wants to make the house more kiddie friendly. Get a laptop.

  4. Re:Hmm on Scientists Develop "Paint" To Help Cool the Planet · · Score: 2

    That'll be the Walkie Talkie building

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-e...

    The problem isn't reflectiveness alone, the shape of the building played a part too.

  5. Re:ISPs may not have the same objective on Cameron Says People Radicalized By Free Speech; UK ISPs Agree To Censor Button · · Score: 1

    it's hard to believe he is as idiotic as he has been made out to be

    You don't know Cameron very well then.

  6. Re:What's the name of the drug? on Human Clinical Trials To Begin On Drug That Reverses Diabetes In Animal Models · · Score: 1

    Yes, that's not healthy if you're diabetic. The opposite, having a high blood sugar for too long will cause major issues, blindness, gangrene etc.

  7. Re:UK = shithole on British Spies Are Free To Target Lawyers and Journalists · · Score: 1

    Orwell made it quite clear where his inspiration came from [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four]. What makes you think he was writing about the USSR?

  8. Click bait... on Users Can't Distinguish Scams From Facebook's Features · · Score: 1

    Click here to turn off Beta

  9. Re: Does it use systemd? on Trisquel 7 Released · · Score: 5, Informative

    It will run systemd, in 2015/2016.

    If you don't like that, then do as I does:

    # apt-get install sysvinit-core && reboot

    or, for Ubuntuers:

    $ sudo apt-get install sysvinit-core && sudo reboot

    you choose.

  10. Re: Thank you! on OpenBSD 5.6 Released · · Score: 2

    By current off the shelf standards no, 8G isn't particularly unusual. However, I've run OpenBSD on *much* less. Heck, I even have ZFS running on less, it's just not that much fun when you have to retune it because of memory hogging. Would be good if this aspect could be resolved then I'd use it more frequently.

  11. Re: Thank you! on OpenBSD 5.6 Released · · Score: 2

    I admit that ZFS has some impressive features, but it also requires oodles of RAM. Don't discount openbsd for not having it, there are some instances where ZFS is more of a hinderance than an advantage. Small network routers being one of them, for that OpenBSD is perfect with its feature-full pf (freebsd lags a few versions behind, though that version is also quite capable).

  12. Re:Systemd? on OpenBSD 5.6 Released · · Score: 2

    If something works, what like gas guzzlers? Yeah, time has changed, it *is* possible to get more than 15mpg. However, systemd sucks right now.

  13. Re:Can you be compelled to disclose which finger? on Virginia Court: LEOs Can Force You To Provide Fingerprint To Unlock Your Phone · · Score: 1

    I think it is standard practice to go go through all the digits.

  14. So use two methods on Virginia Court: LEOs Can Force You To Provide Fingerprint To Unlock Your Phone · · Score: 1

    Fingerprint for normals... then passphrase the dirty things you don't want people to look at... Sucks for things like the address book, but maybe if you purge call history and keep a protected address book then you'll be fine ... Lacks convenience though.

  15. Re:How big a fuss is it, really? on How Apple Watch Is Really a Regression In Watchmaking · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The watch should keep good time. If the battery requires a recharge, then should one forget and pull an all-nighter, does the timepiece become less accurate?

    I don't see why some of the functions could be sacrificed to provide longer battery. That'd suit most people I imagine. I welcome the day when all smart phones can go upwards of two weeks with normal use before needing a charge. The Moto G can go most of the week between charges and I use it a fair bit to ssh to my mail server to check mail, irc, web logs etc. So why should a simple watch require more frequent charging?

  16. Re:OpenBSD! on OpenBSD Drops Support For Loadable Kernel Modules · · Score: 1

    Lightweight Portable Security, http://www.spi.dod.mil/lipose.... perhaps? Might be a good place to start, but I don't know if you're aware of this one already.

  17. Re:SYSTEM-D SUCKS! on OpenBSD Drops Support For Loadable Kernel Modules · · Score: 2

    Since it's a script, you can do what you want with it. run-parts style, if you like. It's a script, bring your own fun. Quite the opposite of systemd, if you will.

  18. Reminds me of... on Quake Meets Minecraft in FPS Construction Kit Gunscape · · Score: 1

    The video on that page reminds me of Rise Of The Triads. Anyone else get that nostalgia feeling? Probably shouldn't really though in this day and age, things should be AMAZING in comparison. The build your own game thing thought doesn't seem that different to DooM's mod files.

  19. Re:No Fuckign Thanks on Google Announces Inbox, a New Take On Email Organization · · Score: 2

    Agreed. After I don't know how long I've been using email, both GUI and CLI clients, I've found the only feasible way to do it without clutter is to use mutt. When something stupid comes in that can only be read with a HTML client as it has no text/plain part I can funnel it through lynx. I've not found any web client to help at all helpful when it comes to processing a mail inbox. Sorry, call me grumpy but snooze feature is no different to me setting a flag. I'll be surprised if anything beats mutt this decade.

  20. Re: Yikes on Windows 0-Day Exploited In Ongoing Attacks · · Score: 1

    Yes, tones of people do that already, it's called TeX or LaTeX. It probably takes about as long to learn as Word does anyway. The huge benefit of using LaTeX is that its fairly backward/forward compatible, unlike Word. Want a text based visio replacement? Try dot. Powerpoint? Don't know, don't care, make a multipade LaTeX document and just page up/down the output pdf/dvi. I don't really care much for powerpoint. Get started with LaTeX now.

  21. Not surprised on Kickstarter Cancels Anonabox Funding Campaign · · Score: 1

    What do you expect when the Washington Redskins come after you.

  22. Re:Why not KDE on Debian Switching Back To GNOME As the Default Desktop · · Score: 1

    What you're saying is mostly right. However, there is nothing wrong with livecds, what they install, maybe. Debian was just right in the lenny days. I don't know why they're now targeting GUI users who want a kitchen sink install.

    Why systemd/gnome3 were the choice of late I don't know, I think this was a bad move for the distro. Systemd is a dependency now, which is *REALLY BAD*. It should have been agnostic towards upstart/sysv/systemd etc allowing the user to pick and choose between each.

  23. Re:Update to Godwin's law? on Obama Administration Argues For Backdoors In Personal Electronics · · Score: 1

    I think this is targeted at the encrypted file system level, rather than deliberate encryption of documents through PGP. Companies should be using multiple layers of encryption on top secret documents. Or just use airgaps for that sort of thing.

  24. Re:Exploit depends on not validating input? on Remote Exploit Vulnerability Found In Bash · · Score: 1

    er, env -i is what i meant

  25. Re:Exploit depends on not validating input? on Remote Exploit Vulnerability Found In Bash · · Score: 1

    blessed are the pessimist for they set -i.