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  1. Re:Spartan is to IE, as Firefox was to Netscape/Mo on In Addition To Project Spartan, Windows 10 Will Include Internet Explorer · · Score: 1

    I believe this is Mozilla Servo - it just takes awhile to start from scratch.

  2. Re:Only for the first year on Microsoft Reveals Windows 10 Will Be a Free Upgrade · · Score: 3, Informative

    From the announcement (as opposed to the silly article that slashdot linked which creatively quoted a few things for hype): "We announced that a free upgrade for Windows 10 will be made available to customers running Windows 7, Windows 8.1, and Windows Phone 8.1 who upgrade in the first year after launch." I hope that clarifies things for everyone.

  3. Re:One mile? on Parents Investigated For Neglect For Letting Kids Walk Home Alone · · Score: 1

    1.6

  4. Re:Have you ever noticed that ... on Google Sees Biggest Search Traffic Drop Since 2009 As Yahoo Gains Ground · · Score: 1

    That problem was solved, and there's a handy open source project aimed at full text indexing local source code for fast search based on it: http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/r...

    The original was kinda buggy for me, but this fork is working well: https://github.com/junkblocker...

  5. Re:Have you ever noticed that ... on Google Sees Biggest Search Traffic Drop Since 2009 As Yahoo Gains Ground · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Just case sensitivity and the ability to include symbols would be sufficiently disruptive for me.

  6. Re:Fire them. on Once Again, Baltimore Police Arrest a Person For Recording Them · · Score: 1

    I guess this is regional. At least in Canada you can be laid off (with reasonable compensation) fairly easily, but you cannot be fired for no reason at all - that's called wrongful dismissal and the employee can/will sue you and win.

  7. Service files are easy on Ask Slashdot: Can You Say Something Nice About Systemd? · · Score: 3, Informative

    Writing service files for my own daemons or modifying existing ones is pretty close to trivial. The files are short, easy to understand, and there isn't any risk of runaway child processes like there is with a sysvinit init script making them close to trivial to write and maintain. If anything I would say that's why so many distros are jumping on board.

    I had to write service files as an early adopter, but it would also be useful for anyone rolling out their own daemons or that needed to tweak the behaviour of an existing service for their own needs. I imagine it would also lead to fewer packaging bugs.

  8. Re:Bring back KDE3 on KDE Releases Plasma 5.1 · · Score: 4, Informative

    Trinity Desktop Environment isn't dead: when I wrote this the last git update was 5 minutes ago (https://git.trinitydesktop.org/cgit/). It's just very very niche, so don't expect much help from your distro.

    It's probably easiest to try out on Arch Linux: https://wiki.archlinux.org/ind...

  9. Re:Now I wish.... on Raspberry Pi Gameboy · · Score: 2

    Yes, it would have been interesting if he used at least some original game boy parts, but nope, all new hardware inside the case.

    Hopefully someone posts a followup where they actually rig up the original screen and inputs.

  10. Re:Noah's Ark Story on New Evidence For Oceans of Water Deep In the Earth · · Score: 1

    Curious if you have a citation for 'literally'. Not because I don't believe you, but because I'd really like to read the story.

  11. Re:Local LUG eats crow??? on Heartbleed Disclosure Timeline Revealed · · Score: 1

    Assuming he's referring to the speech to text exploit, the proof of concept works in Chromium as well. (http://guya.net/security/speech/)

    I haven't tested the earlier mic keeps listening after enabled bug.

  12. Re:Stop using JavaScript! on OKCupid Warns Off Mozilla Firefox Users Over Gay Rights · · Score: 1

    no, the problem with JavaScript is Date. :-)

  13. Re:How to you know Plasma Next will support Waylan on XWayland Aiming For Glamor Support, Merge Next X.Org Release · · Score: 2

    The actual article where he says Plasma Next will not (at least initially) support Wayland is: http://blog.martin-graesslin.c...

  14. Re:Offtopic: Are there any decent docs for the API on Enlightenment E19 To Have Full Wayland Support · · Score: 2

    He's not telling you to read the linux source code, he's telling you to read the "Reference" compositor. i.e. it is meant to be the example code.

  15. Re:I'm waiting for autonomous taxis being everywhe on Ford Self-Driving R&D Car Tells Small Animal From Paper Bag At 200 Ft. · · Score: 1

    Everyone already knows where the Toronto mayor buys his drugs.

  16. Re:Dumber and dumber on Ford Showcases Self-Parking Car Technology · · Score: 1

    My dad installed aftermarket cruise control for the first time because a drive that should have taken 5 hours took 3. It just use to be hard to maintain speed for a long time: some people always followed others, some people checked the speedometer all the time, some people drifted faster or slower, and maybe a tiny number actually managed to keep a more or less constant speed; but it certainly wasn't some skill that everyone use to have and now no one has. It was invented to overcome a shortcoming.

  17. More broken links on Come Try Out Slashdot's New Design (In Beta) · · Score: 1

    Whenever I click 'Load More Comments' I'm taken back to the main page - perhaps because I'm running NoScript? I can't post either.

    Also it's ugly, and the font choice for comments here (linux firefox) are not pretty. ;-)

  18. Re:I hope QT remains cleanly separate on Frameworks 5: KDE Libraries Reworked Into Portable Qt Modules · · Score: 1

    In the past features have migrated from KDE once they've gone beyond proof of concept and shown themselves to be more generally useful. I imagine that trend can/will continue. Having both so modular will probably make migrating components from KDE to QT even easier.

  19. Re:Go drive around in GTA V for a while on Myst Was Supposed To Change the Face of Gaming. What Is Its Legacy? · · Score: 1
  20. Re:Statistical fallicies on At Current Rates, Tesla Could Soon Suck Up Worldwide Supply of Li-Ion Cells · · Score: 1

    Thanks, very interesting. I wish they had cited their own sources, but at least it's a step in the search for a primary source.

  21. Re:Statistical fallicies on At Current Rates, Tesla Could Soon Suck Up Worldwide Supply of Li-Ion Cells · · Score: 1

    Citation please?

    I could certainly believe this is the case with natural gas, which is as the name implies naturally occurring comes out during extraction, and is still a very cheap form of energy.

    Gasoline on the other hand has to be distilled from crude, a process which I believe really only serve the purpose of producing gasoline. Gasoline is expensive, relatively easy to transport, and easy to burn, so I have a hard time believing they ever had an accidental surplus.

  22. Re:Hormone therapy? on Bradley Manning Wants To Live As a Woman · · Score: 1

    Probably because most violent offenders don't pick their targets randomly, or look for easy targets. Instead they go after people they have an existing conflict with like rival gang members, people who made fun of them, or that guy that slept with their sister and never called back. [citation needed]

  23. Re:This subject was adequately explored on The Dangers of Beating Your Kickstarter Goal · · Score: 1

    Unlike the producers, they won't lose if the game ends up wildly popular.

  24. Re:The point? on Ubisoft Hacked, Account Data Compromised · · Score: 2

    Weak case: MD5 is known to be insecure (very vulnerable to collision attacks), and presuming it was secure, this unsalted list of passwords was vulnerable to a rainbow attack. Similarly a short salt is still vulnerable to a rainbow attack. I understand that bcrypt and sha512 are popular these days. I personally like my salt to be the same length as the resulting hash and of course different for each password - I think this makes a rainbow list attack as complex as the birthday attack on average.

  25. Re:should of killed the DRM system on Ubisoft Hacked, Account Data Compromised · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I guess we lived in different 80s. The way I remember it there was a random list of things to look up and they had to be entered every game. I also remember on my Commodore 64 that most commercial game disks wouldn't copy (without hacking tools to copy bad sectors etc.), and wouldn't work on drives other than the 1541 because they relied on particular idiosyncrasies in that drive to enforce their protection.

    The only reason they didn't make you connect to their servers is that modems weren't common.