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  1. Sounds like old news... on The Death of the Click (axios.com) · · Score: 2

    Most of the click metrics tools (I use CrazyEgg.com) will give you the "heat" area of the pages too (according the scroll). Correct me if I misunderstood the subject.

  2. In the other side, on Google Plus... on LinuxQuestions Users Choose Their Favorite Distro: Slackware (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    At Google Plus, which is actually a good nerd social network (Linus post content often), number of users in communities: Ubuntu 279,044, Arch 51,344, openSUSE 29,849, Mint 24,378, Fedora 19,694, RedHat 12,244, CentOS 9,924, Slackware 3,075.

  3. You're covering just one side of the problem (virus detection). Let's ignore that Windows Defender is really effective (it's close to the paid alternatives). The other side is about not raise so many false positives. Most of paid AVs raise so many false alarms that average Joe will tend to ignore the alerts or just uninstall the AV at all. Windows Defender, at the end of day, works because it has a good compromise of detection and low false alarms.

  4. If it's a sucess, nobody is required to admit on It's Time To Admit Apple Watch Is a Success (imore.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If it's a success, nobody is required to admit, we'll see it everywhere and in the press, like iPods (in the past) or iPhones today.

  5. What is the relation between a former developer opinion about anti viruses and one of the products of the organization he worked? You're saying that if you don't agree with the memory model of Firefox, the opinion of the former developer is wrong, which is totally unrelated. Attack the message, not the messenger.

  6. I wish it includes the mobile fake virus alerts on Google Bans 200 Publishers From Its Ad Network (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    I wish it includes the mobile fake alerts that keep saying your mobile has viruses and keep vibrating.

  7. Re:Who's buying this stuff. on Worldwide App Downloads Grew 15% and Revenue Soared 40% in 2016 (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 2

    Answer: China. It's in the article.

  8. Do you run Linux in any station? If yes, which distro? Which pros and cons about Linux desktop distros?

  9. What I usually hear about it... on Minecraft Has Now Sold Over 25 Million Copies on PC and Mac (neowin.net) · · Score: 1

    Old gamers always ask "how is this fun?". Like all new technologies and its relation throw generations, give it to a child, and you'll see how amazing it can be!

  10. I always remind this sentence... on Leaked Files Reveal Scope of Cellebrite's Smartphone-Cracking Technology (zdnet.com) · · Score: 2

    "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety" (Benjamin Franklin)

  11. So, if having multiple USB ports are source of problems, now with only a tiny one, do you think this will be better? (I.e., a smaller one being used more often because it's just one, used with several different adapters).

  12. So, 8% of 25 millions at 9.99 is U$ 19,980,000. In four days. I'm sure this is much more then stupid microtransaction model.

  13. This totally breaks the rendering speed. on Slashdot Asks: Why Are Browsers So Slow? (ilyabirman.net) · · Score: 4, Informative

    I agree with the summary. Basically, we have faster engines for rendering for HTML and JS, but the UI is really slow. IE family is the worst in this aspect.

    On Firefox (my default browser), a nice boost in tabs rendering is made turning off the tab animation: changing "browser.tabs.animate" to false in about:config.

  14. Re:Maybe we should mimic civil engineering on Slashdot Asks: Are You Ashamed of Your Code? (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 0

    And how they know they building will not fall? That electric structures will remain up? Testing. If I go to any electric company building for larger projects, you'll see a pretty large testing camp. Some stuff running over one year, to make sure they'll not break in the next 5 years. You know any software company that test their software for one year? Even software like a bank, that runs, in some cases, for 40 years. No, QA is not planned, not allowed to run more then 1 week. It's pretty lame.

  15. Maybe we should mimic civil engineering on Slashdot Asks: Are You Ashamed of Your Code? (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 2, Informative

    In civil engineering, when any project is bigger then a certain amount, it's required to have a civil engineer signing the project, responsible for all the stuff. Sometimes I wonder if we need a similar regulation in software. By example: if it's covering something sensible to life, like medical, airport, etc, law should require a software engineer signing the project and responsible for it.

    Like on civil engineering, probably this will force software people to really invest in QA (until current days, QA is really, really bad in software).

  16. Re:If all you have is a hammer... on MongoDB CEO Claims They're Luring Customers From Oracle (diginomica.com) · · Score: 2

    using a schema-based database brought a lot of problems to the table

    Pun intended?

  17. Re:Another reason I love my Lumia on Second Chinese Firm In a Week Found Hiding a Backdoor In Android Firmware (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    Yeap, let's hail the privacy hero, Microsoft!

  18. This news is about the non upgradable SSDs. Additionally to RAM (which is 16GB only in 15" MBP, not the entire family of Apple notebooks). Additionally to the battery. Additionally, now, to the storage.

  19. Re:teaching to the test on VW Admits Audi Automatic Transmission Software Can Change Test Behavior (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure in US laws, as the lawyers can win with stupid arguments like this. But in most of European countries, they're clearly cheating the tests and fucking the law goal, which is to not allow vehicles polluting more than required by the specs to run.

  20. ... until I get a call saying why I can I run this game

    This is the reason why I install it. They'll use to browse web and Facebook. They're not allowed to install stuff. This give me peace, as there is no Windows formatter guy able to bloat the machine with crapware.

  21. I'm fine if the reference is my timezone and everybody else in the world has to adjust to me.

  22. Can it run proper porn VR?

  23. Hard to find apps on Google Moves To Upgrade App Store, Aims To Help Developers Bolster Revenue (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What they should do is really try to remove shovel apps that try to use any new popular app with a similar name to get installed. If tomorrow an app called Pork Pig started to get news coverage, I'll search in Google Play and find several similar apps, like Pork Pig Guide, Pork Pink, etc, etc.

  24. Re:Was always a zero-sum game - working as designe on Google Moves To Upgrade App Store, Aims To Help Developers Bolster Revenue (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly. On PC, Microsoft wants the hardware to be as cheap as possible, so users will spend on their software. On Android/iOS, Samsung and Apple want that people spend in hardware, with software as cheap as possible. Same applies to Google, as they want more users as possible, to fetch user data.

  25. PS4 Pro is not about Scorpio on Mark Cerny, Chief PlayStation Architect, Explains the PS4 Pro (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    It's about loose gamers to PC. Sony already said that. Young people don't play anymore on TV. They play on mobile. Hardcores on PC. Microsoft realized this trying to offer the same Xbox experience on Windows. Nintendo realized this and it's releasing a hybrid portable/console. Sony has only the PlayStation platform. If hardcores start to move that much to PC, they're doomed.