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  1. Thumbnail Results Are Useless on Axis, Yahoo's New Browser · · Score: 1

    Sorry, but unless the user is looking for a site that is media heavy or a site they would recognize from a previous visit, then the thumbnails are largely useless as they can't convey the page content.

  2. Examining Equipment? on MPAA Agent Poses As Homebuyer To Catch Pirates · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not only were Hollywood representatives taking part in the questioning, they also brought along investigators who were allowed to examine the equipment.

    Why on earth are they allowed to look at the equipment? Can company X allege something now against company Y in order to look through Y's internal files?

  3. Data Plans.... on Facebook Is Killing Text Messaging · · Score: 1

    Are more expensive than the text messaging plans anyway.

  4. Re:No bubble. on How Long Before the Kickstarter Bubble Bursts? · · Score: 1

    I received the Tell 'em Stevedave podcast on vinyl a few weeks back: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1507616740/tell-em-steve-dave-vinyl-cast

  5. In Good Faith? on Google Facing FTC Fine Over Safari Privacy Breach · · Score: 1

    As someone who has spent quite a bit of time dealing with quirks between the different browsers, it seems (barring evidence to the contrary) entirely possible that the developer may not even have just assumed they were working around a quirk.

  6. What we really... on MIT Researchers Invent 'Super Glass' · · Score: 1

    want to know is: Did it pass the finger smudge test?

  7. Call Me on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Out; Unity Gets a Second Chance · · Score: 2

    When you can disable global menus and move window controls.

  8. Admitting No Wrongdoing on Apple and Google Face Salary-Fixing Lawsuit · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The seven companies were also investigated in this connection by the U.S. Department of Justice, and they settled in 2010 while admitting no wrongdoing, but agreed not to ban cold calling and not to enter into any agreements that prevent competition for employees.

    Is anyone else sick of seeing this type of solution? Bank robbers aren't allowed to go free if they don't admit wrong doing but promise not to rob anymore banks in the future. There is no disincentive if the companies (and the people making these agreements) aren't punished for their behaviour.

  9. Derivative work of C/C++ on Oracle and Google Spar Over Whether Programming Languages Can Be Copyrighted · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Since Java borrows a lot of syntax from from C/C++ wouldn't that make it a derivative work ;)

  10. Co-Working Spaces on Ask Slashdot: What Are Your Tips For Working From Home? · · Score: 1

    You may want to investigate if you have any co-working locations nearby, I've been using one for about a year and there is something to be said for getting out everyday they can also be reasonable networking places.

  11. Re:Intel Compilers still backstabbing AMD on AMD: What Went Wrong? · · Score: 1

    Weren't they required to stop that in the settlement?

  12. Maybe They Should on Television Next In Line For Industry-Wide Shakeup? · · Score: 1

    talk to the cable/satellite providers who overly compress the broadcasts then.

  13. I hope you... on Samsung Reinvents Windows (Not the OS) With Touchscreen Display · · Score: 1

    like cleaning windows of smudge marks.

  14. Re:Wow, you are stupid on Ubisoft Has Windows-Style Hardware-Based DRM For Games · · Score: 1

    You can still sell console games and (as long as you have the hardware) you can continue to play them indefinitely (though multiplayer might go away)

  15. ImpulseDriven on Ubisoft Has Windows-Style Hardware-Based DRM For Games · · Score: 1

    This was where ImpulseDriven (Steam competitor started by Stardock) was nice, it would show the DRM used prior to purchase. Unfortunately this doesn't seem to be case since GameStop bought them out.

    Personally I don't buy DRM'd games, which unfortunately means most PC games.

  16. Re:I don't see the problem at all! Am I just dumb? on Twitter Comes Out Swinging Against Google's Personalized Search · · Score: 1

    The irony of course being they had nothing to do with Arab Spring, when net access was actually available in the countries under revolt Facebook was the site of choice.

  17. Re:huge installer on Firefox 9 Released, JavaScript Performance Greatly Improved · · Score: 1

    Firefox is 37mb installed, Chrome is 162mb (though there is a file labelled installer which is roughly half that)

  18. Re:Is it worth the risk? on Why the NTSB Is Wrong About Cellphones · · Score: 1

    I doubt all those children drive regularly.

  19. Its time... on Richard Stallman's Dissenting View of Steve Jobs · · Score: 2

    for ReadWriteWeb to find a new editor, one that doesn't pander to fanboys

    Steve Jobs was also in part responsible for a lot of bad, remember the Foxconn worker 'suicide'? Or how about suing journalists? Or hiring security that pretended to be police? Or requiring employees submit to searches or be fired?

  20. Re:Java still there on To Stop BEAST, Mozilla Developer Proposes Blocking Java Framework · · Score: 1

    Browser plugins ares automatically installed with the JRE, and maybe the SDK too so you may be using it and not be aware of it.

    I've been disabling / removing the browser plugins for years, there just aren't any relevant sites that rely on it anymore and for reference I write Java developer tools for my day job.

  21. Lack of tooling on The Rise of Git · · Score: 2

    The lack of decent tools is going to slow adoption of git, particularly in corporations. I've yet to see a tool that can handle even a simple daily workflow so I've stuck to cli, gitk and git-gui which are all clunky. egit has definitely improved it still feels out of place and I believe is missing features (does it even support autocrlf yet?)

    Corporate projects will almost certainly have a centralized repository and while git can deal with this, its possible to paint yourself into a corner where its painful to recover.

    For reference, I've been a daily git user for ~16 months both at the company I work for and as a committer at Eclipse.

  22. Why.... on How Journalists Data-Mined the Wikileaks Docs · · Score: 1

    Is this a link to (presumably) the submitter's blog, rather than the actual presentation available here: http://curiositycounts.com/post/6455747293/jonathan-stray-of-the-associated-press-on

  23. Re:Media consolidation..? on The Internet Is Killing Local News, Says the FCC · · Score: 1

    Exactly, if the US is anything like Canada, the big media companies bought all the local papers, killed them off and replaced them with rags running AP stories.

  24. Re:Very Small Inconvenience on Facebook Facial Recognition Raises New Privacy Concerns · · Score: 1

    Except that Facebook needs to know the specific John Smith. There are far too many people with the exact same names to be able to tag people without profiles. Sure, there is some hand waving about narrowing it by social circles, but look at how far reaching friend suggestions generally are.

  25. Blame it on IT on School District Hit With New Mac Spying Lawsuit · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Does it seem to anyone else that they're trying to shift blame onto the IT folks?

    While I know nothing about the details of the report, or really the case beyond what has surfaced on Slashdot.... I find it hard to believe that the IT folks would be the ones directing which students to take pictures of, it seems that this direction would come from their superiors, the administration.