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  1. Re:Solution in extensions on Firefox 23 Makes JavaScript Obligatory · · Score: 1

    Get off my lawn. There's a difference between a document and an application, and I damn well would prefer that difference to remain.

  2. Re:Solution in extensions on Firefox 23 Makes JavaScript Obligatory · · Score: 1

    That's why they call the Eternal September eternal...

  3. Re:Agreed on Firefox 23 Makes JavaScript Obligatory · · Score: 1

    Stop panicking, someone reported that NoScript functions in the beta.

  4. Re:Solution in extensions on Firefox 23 Makes JavaScript Obligatory · · Score: 3, Informative

    Just sharpen the tip of the tines so they shine. You thought rusty was scary, but rusty but recently sharpened? That gives you a whole extra level to work with.

  5. Re:Solution in extensions on Firefox 23 Makes JavaScript Obligatory · · Score: 4, Insightful

    People seem to be forgetting that javascript can break a lot of accessibility readers. Everything about HTML, CSS, etc., was about separating content from layout. Javascript shits on that entire model, as does Java, ActiveX, and most other plugins.

    That's because it was a shit model. Clear, yes, simple yes, all that useful for doing stuff, not so much.

    You seem to forget that HTML, CSS, etc is for webpages, not applications.

    If you don't like what HTML, CSS, etc model and want your stuff to behave like an application... then write a fucking application instead! ... and get the hell off my lawn, too.

  6. Re:Why not promote motherboard manufacturers on FreeBSD Team Begins Work On Booting On UEFI-Enabled Systems · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure he is bitching about Secure Boot, not UEFI itself.

  7. Re:Well I'll be... on FreeBSD Team Begins Work On Booting On UEFI-Enabled Systems · · Score: 1

    It's a shim, you probably don't even have to go that far. Think grub legacy - once the stage is loaded and running, it can chainload to anything else.

  8. Re:Well I'll be... on FreeBSD Team Begins Work On Booting On UEFI-Enabled Systems · · Score: 1

    So you're saying the OEMs can install the keys, but the end-users can't?

    We're talking about folks installing Linux - if they could, they would have no problem installing their own keys.

  9. Re:Well I'll be... on FreeBSD Team Begins Work On Booting On UEFI-Enabled Systems · · Score: 1

    what they can do is sign another piece of secret claiming to belong to you, which is highly visible and obvious.

    How so? If you trust them (why bother having them sign if not?) then you would trust the replacement.

    Unless you check the KSN or fingerprint every time you establish a connection to be sure it hasn't changed?

  10. Re:Well I'll be... on FreeBSD Team Begins Work On Booting On UEFI-Enabled Systems · · Score: 1

    Strange, you speak as if "geeks" was a single person and not a wide reaching group of people with vastly varied tendencies.

  11. Re:Don't worry on Voyager 1 Finds Unexpected Wrinkles At the Edge Of the Solar System · · Score: 1

    They took that out to slay the ASCII-art trolls.

    Now, instead of just drawing dicks with symbols, they write up grand stories about them instead.

  12. Re:Maybe its the HARDWARE on Voyager 1 Finds Unexpected Wrinkles At the Edge Of the Solar System · · Score: 1

    It doesn't have to be proprietary - the only thing that gets you is privacy. Other than that - I'd have to agree with you!

  13. Re: XKCD on Voyager 1 Finds Unexpected Wrinkles At the Edge Of the Solar System · · Score: 1

    QUESTION! Possibly stupid, because I am a layman when it comes to this stuff.

    If cosmic rays get bent all around like this, why do we get such a sensible picture from lower energy stuff around visible light? (radio, infrared, visual, uv) I would expect the lower energy stuff to be even more affected.

  14. Re:Would you ride in one? on Jetstream Retrofit Illustrates How Close Modern Planes Are To UAVs · · Score: 1

    Redundancy, redundancy, redundancy.

    It does cost to implement, but building in redundancy or even just failover controls shoves that failure rate way down.

    I'll point out the FADECs in the F16 - there are two of them and they normally run in parallel. However, if one fails the other can fly the plane safely, just with reduced performance characteristics. That's in a tiny jet - you have plenty of space on the kind of platforms we are thinking about.

  15. Re:we ditched vmware for xenserver 2 years back... on XenServer 6.2 Is Now Fully Open Source · · Score: 2

    This is just a guess, but you're probably not offering enough pay.

  16. Re:Star cloning controversy on Mouse Cloned From Drop of Blood · · Score: 1

    DNA-based paternity tests only determine if someone might (or even probably) sired a child, it is not a certainty.

  17. Re:Rancid underholes on Mouse Cloned From Drop of Blood · · Score: 1

    Assuming it wasn't all the same jackass...

  18. Re: Sheeple follow their games on You Will Get DirectX 11.2 Only With Windows 8.1 · · Score: 1

    If I want to do video or image editing, that shit gets turned off even faster, if I don't just reboot into a real OS.

  19. Re:So it's going to be irrelevant on You Will Get DirectX 11.2 Only With Windows 8.1 · · Score: 1

    Supporting it is useless if by "supported" you mean "works, at 15 seconds per frame."

  20. Re:So it's going to be irrelevant on You Will Get DirectX 11.2 Only With Windows 8.1 · · Score: 1

    Let's be fair, DirectX is a hell of a lot more than just graphics. ... but still being fair, there are things like SDL that do the jobs OpenGL itself doesn't.

  21. Re:So it's going to be downvoted. on You Will Get DirectX 11.2 Only With Windows 8.1 · · Score: 1

    The only thing that certification certifies is that the vendor tossed some cash at MS.

  22. Re:So it's going to be downvoted. on You Will Get DirectX 11.2 Only With Windows 8.1 · · Score: 1

    I don't want a fucking tablet. I want a desktop.

  23. Re:How is this legal? on Employers Switching From Payroll Checks To Prepaid Cards With Fees · · Score: 1

    Tyranny is still tyranny, whether imposed by the masses or not.

  24. Re:Oh well, it was nice while it lasted... on Tennessee Official: Water Complaints Could be "Act of Terrorism" · · Score: 1
  25. Re:Innocent until blogged about on Security Researcher Attacked While At Conference · · Score: 1

    He could do a decent stand-in for one of those Judges from East Texas...