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  1. Re:What a fscking disaster on How Firefox Will Handle DRM In HTML · · Score: 0

    Thanks, please mod parent up

  2. Re:Translation: on How Firefox Will Handle DRM In HTML · · Score: 1

    Are you repeating what I said?

    go to vimeo with a Windows 7 Firefox or Linux with GStreamer plugins and it will play without plugins

  3. Re:Translation: on How Firefox Will Handle DRM In HTML · · Score: 1

    Firefox already support h.264, go to vimeo with a Windows 7 Firefox or Linux with GStreamer plugins and it will play without plugins

  4. Re:What a fscking disaster on How Firefox Will Handle DRM In HTML · · Score: 1

    Youtube uses EME for 1080p streams, no EME and you only get 720p or lower

  5. Re:PS+ and DLC on Wretched Ride: PS4 Driveclub Game Rental Tied To Paid Subscription · · Score: 3, Informative

    Looks like they fixed the offer

    UPDATE: Our priority for DRIVECLUB is to enable you to play and enjoy everything it has to offer and PlayStation recognises that the prior plan for DRIVECLUB entitlement for the upgrade to the PS Plus edition was not appropriate. As a result, we have adjusted the PlayStation Plus terms for DRIVECLUB.

    Now, If you intend on downloading DRIVECLUB PlayStation Plus Edition, and upgrading to the full game experience, you will have access to the full game even if your PlayStation Plus subscription runs out.

  6. Re:PS+ and DLC on Wretched Ride: PS4 Driveclub Game Rental Tied To Paid Subscription · · Score: 1

    Interesting, then they only need to sell the base game for like 10$ and problem solved. Let's see if this is fixed, It is somewhat torelable to ignore a small 5$ DLC, but not a 50$ one if you close your PS+ subscription

  7. PS+ and DLC on Wretched Ride: PS4 Driveclub Game Rental Tied To Paid Subscription · · Score: 3, Informative

    This is standard on PS+, if you get a "free" game via PS+ (all games received for "free" are tied to your subscription, PS+ discounted ones aren't) and you buy DLC for it, the DLC becomes unusable if you end your PS+ subscription. Sony tells you that when you hit the download button for one of those "free" games. You can buy the base game later if you don't want to continue paying for the PS+ subscription, and then your DLC will be usable on that game. I am a PS+ subscriber, I avoid to buy DLC for the "free" games for this reason, but everything is perfectly clear on the store when you buy.

  8. Re:Thanks RMS on Richard Stallman Answers Your Questions · · Score: 1

    You and me are probably near the same side, being balanced in our needs for freedom and commercial software to succeed, but I think that for every extremist, from jailed devices, data miners, etc. we need the other kind of extremist like Mr. Stallman. It is the only way to have balance.

  9. Re: This sounds more like incompetence... on Some Users Find Swype Keyboard App Makes 4000+ Location Requests Per Day · · Score: 3, Informative

    download files without notification: dictionary updates
    read contacts: suggestions
    modify or delete contents of USB storage: I don't know why it needs this one, store dictionary outside private app directory?
    view accounts on the device: suggest your email address

  10. Re:The build process is still shyte (?) on C++ and the STL 12 Years Later: What Do You Think Now? · · Score: 1

    When I was trying to learn a more system level languages from higher level ones like Smalltalk, I found Makefiles to be archaic. I was delighted when IBM introduced what they called Configuration files on VisualAge C++ (PDF) (see Chapter3. An introduction to configuration files). It was easy to manage and the integration with the IDE was great (one of the first C++ IDEs I really liked). But the configuration files were hated by the people used to the Makefiles, it wasn't well received. As an newbie at that time with C++, I loved them, today I can tolerate Makefiles but they are more archaic now than before.

  11. Re:But what does an actual physicist think? on How Japan Plans To Build Orbital Solar Power Stations · · Score: 1

    “Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.”
      Jules Verne, Around the World in Eighty Days

  12. Re:Viable Replacement? on Dyn.com Ends Free Dynamic DNS · · Score: 4, Funny

    dyndns.org

    Recursion found!

  13. Danger on Will Living On Mars Drive Us Crazy? · · Score: 1

    Will their lives be in danger every second, simulating a real hostile world with a the delay to save them taking months to arrive? If that isn't simulated I don't see them being stressed enough to get some kind of madness, living in closed quarters is not enough to make people go crazy

  14. Re:Only benefits smaller devices on .NET Native Compilation Preview Released · · Score: 2

    Well, the ART preview native compiler on Android 4.4 is on device so it could compile to native on the device, but I expect Google will accelerate that step precompiling on their servers taking into account device characteristics. Microsoft could do that too if they want

  15. Re:ZRAM on Linux 3.14 Kernel Released · · Score: 2

    Android 4.4 KitKat is using ZRAM on low memory devices, apparently they managed to get good results out of it to use it on final production devices

  16. Re: Perfect on Microsoft Launches Office For iPad: Includes Word, Excel, and PowerPoint · · Score: 1

    You don't activate airplane mode before a presentation? How rude!

  17. Re:Remote display across network? on XWayland Aiming For Glamor Support, Merge Next X.Org Release · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yes, XWayland can be compared to an X Server running on Windows or over OS X, it translates X to the native display, in this case Wayland

  18. Re:A painful transition, but worth it (barely) on Google Android Studio Vs. Eclipse: Which Fits Your Needs? · · Score: 1

    I don't know why you had to reimport your projects. I have an Eclipse workspace from the 2.x era, that have never been replaced by a new one, every Eclipse update is pain free with my settings, plugins need to be updated if they aren't compatible, but the workspace with the imported projects have never been a problem for me

  19. Re:Good...? on Ubuntu To Switch To systemd · · Score: 0

    Jolla Sailfish OS use systemd

  20. Re:What Google apps _do_ people really care about? on Google Apps License Forbids Forking, Promotes Google Services · · Score: 1

    The Play Store, it is the #1 application OEMs need, unless you are a Chinese OEM where you have a big market with established alternative stores. And Android device without the Play Store is like a Windows Phone without applications. Amazon store is a joke for OEMs because it is only available in selected markets and with the current economics of hardware manufacturing, you win money only at large scales, selling only on Amazon markets will not work for them

  21. Simple technical solution on California Bill Proposes Mandatory Kill-Switch On Phones and Tablets · · Score: 1

    Simple technical solution implemented in my country without insecure remote kill switch: force telephony providers to share stolen phone IMEI numbers, and block those phones on their networks. Changing IMEI number is possible, but it is beyond most thiefs knowledge, and if they know how to change it for a particular phone model, they will now how to remove the killed flag on the phone

  22. Re:For crying out loud ... on Adobe Flash Remote Code Execution Flaw Exploited In the Wild · · Score: 1

    Do you think your browser is secure? every Firefox and Chrome feature releases contain critical security fixes and I don't hear people giving them the same treatment Flash get. I am not a Flash fan, but It is not fair how browser vendors are not blamed too for their bugs with the same emotion people talk about other technologies. Every time a Slashdot post talk about a new browser release never mention the security bugs, only the nice things

  23. Re:GPL and BSD give uses the same freedoms on FSF's Richard Stallman Calls LLVM a 'Terrible Setback' · · Score: 1

    There is no reason to assume he/she said that iostream.h is GPL as an hypotheses because he was affirming that there is no way to use GCC and create non GPL programs. It was a bad example and wrong assumption not an hypotheses

  24. Re:GPL and BSD give uses the same freedoms on FSF's Richard Stallman Calls LLVM a 'Terrible Setback' · · Score: 1

    No. I said "wrong" because his assumption is wrong:

    For example if I write a hello world program in C++ and iostream.h is GPL. Then hello world can't be released unless it also is GPL. See the problem?

    After using GCC and linking against libstdc++, your binary nor your code becomes GPL

  25. Re:GPL and BSD give uses the same freedoms on FSF's Richard Stallman Calls LLVM a 'Terrible Setback' · · Score: 1

    Do you want all the code of Sourceforge to be compatible with your code?, stop requesting other people to adapt to you, Its their code, its their license, the same way you choose your preferred license