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  1. SourceForge on Ask Toolbar Now Considered Malware By Microsoft · · Score: 3, Funny

    If Oracle removes Ask toolbar from Java Installer, can SourceForge provide us one version with Ask added back?

  2. Re:Yes & the sheer amount of existing code/fra on The Reason For Java's Staying Power: It's Easy To Read · · Score: 1

    You're mixing verbosity with understandability. Yeap, of course repeat the type of the object twice, the ugly diamond operators, use else if instead of elif, etc, produces verbosity, but this is not related to be easy or not to understand.

  3. They're missing the opportunity... on The Best Way To Protect Real Passwords: Create Fake Ones · · Score: 5, Funny

    We need a password managers manager!

  4. I've switched back to Firefox on Chrome Passes 25% Market Share, IE and Firefox Slip · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I switched back to Firefox few months ago.

    In Ubuntu, Chrome is a resource hog. I usually have several tabs opened at the same time. Just compared the RAM usage: 7GB in Chrome, 1.1 in Firefox.

    Additionally, Firefox is a bit faster (in UI), and it just respects my look and feel (colors, borders, font sizes, etc).

    And for address bar searches, Chrome privileges the google search instead of navigation history, which I really don't like (I usually visit the same sites, and even with several hits in a day for the same site starting with the same word, Chrome prefers, for few ones, to search when I type the word instead of display the known URL as first result).

    I just changed few settings in Firefox (increased scroll speed, click in URL behaviour to select the entire address), and voilà.

    Just annoying that every Google service keep suggesting to use Chrome until you dismiss this message.

  5. As you mentioned Ubuntu... on When Enthusiasm For Free Software Turns Ugly · · Score: 1

    I'm the only guy using Ubuntu in a couple of startup projects. It's interesting how people react to that. Windows users thinks I'm a communist. Other "True Linuxer(TM)" distro users thinks I'm like the typical image they associate to Mac users (a fancy guy that don't know about the existence of shell, etc, because a "True Linuxer(TM)" compile everything). And Mac users thinks I'm a smelly hacker.

  6. Re:Ouhhh, that hurts! on KDE Plasma 5.3 Beta Brings Lot of Improvements · · Score: 1

    Try Canonical Unity. I never liked Gnome, while I was OK with GTK programs. Then with Unity, I'm pretty fine. It has good defaults. I was a KDE user since version 2, loved 3, but I faced annoying bugs, even with the latest 4 releases (like systray icons leaking memory, every KDE upgrade disabling Oxygen theme, icon-only taskbar freeze issues, etc). Then, after Ubuntu started this own shell, I gave a chance in 12.04, which was fine, and a way improved in 14.04. I.e., while some people left Ubuntu due change to Unity, I started to use it for this reason.

  7. Re:If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It! on Linux Getting Extensive x86 Assembly Code Refresh · · Score: 2

    I have a degree in Computer Science, and I'm in software since 1998. If you do a proper refactoring, at the end of the day, you'll get a much better code, probably better performance, and now that you have more background in the subject, a smaller code. If you're using a code repository, so you'll never lose anything. And if you have a bug regression always coming back, you need a proper test/spec to cover that. So, refactor is really good when: you have a way improved background in the subject, code repository (i.e., history), and tests to cover the recurrent bugs and the main features.

  8. Nice try, but English got widely used after World War II, due the economical influence of USA over the globe. Like all the previous widely used languages. It's all about economics. Not being "that cool".

  9. Re:Too late on Firefox 37 Released · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I just did the opposite: switched to Firefox because Chrome was too resource intensive. And Firefox, at least in Linux, follows the system look and feel. For Youtube, I just disabled Flash (at all), so I have the same HTML5 player.

  10. Quoting Benjamin Franklin on New Bill Would Repeal Patriot Act · · Score: 2

    "Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one."

  11. Re:Never understood the PHP hate on Modern PHP: New Features and Good Practices · · Score: 1

    The core is broken. While you have namespaces and patterns to apply inr your code, PHP core functions still don't have namespaces, class, don't even have a pattern in their names/parameters (to not blame the real lack of classes for strings, by example). This only to start. If you want to get deeper: http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012...

  12. Re:And one single USB-C port on Apple Doubles MacBook Pro R/W Performance · · Score: 1

    But they said that after analysis of customer data, they've found most of users don't need all the letter in keyboard :P

  13. Re:Oh dear. on Microsoft Says Free Windows 10 Upgrades For Pirates Will Be Unsupported · · Score: 1

    I think you're wrong to suppose that an open source product will be bug free. What an open source software will provide is a high chance that bugs will be discovered soonner and in high number than the closed ones (as you'll have less people watching the code and most important, with less passion).

  14. The year of Windows on mobile... on Microsoft Convinced That Windows 10 Will Be Its Smartphone Breakthrough · · Score: 1

    ... will be the same year on Linux on desktop. I.e., it never comes :)

  15. Great for servers, not that much for desktops on Linux 4.0 Getting No-Reboot Patching · · Score: 1

    While the kernel can be live patched, still some fundamentals pieces will lack live patch in the desktop, like X.org and libc. Ok, reboot a desktop is not that terrible task and not inconvenient like for a server. But it'd be nice to have.

  16. Re:No we shouldnt on Should We Be Content With Our Paltry Space Program? · · Score: 1

    No. Modern aviation, satellites, all these were direct improved by NASA and could not came from other R&D projects.

  17. Re:No we shouldnt on Should We Be Content With Our Paltry Space Program? · · Score: 1

    Yes, and just to remind that a lot of modern devices and technologies we have in all places now came from R&D from space programs: wireless devices, technology that is now used in devices for detection of heart problems came from the water detection devices used by NASA, the current glass lenses manufacturing process, a lot of the modern aviation technology (including runway, the tower and the airplane), and some minor ones, like modern running shoes, infrared thermometer, the foam used in those "NASA pillows", drinking fountain, modern smoke detectors (that don't trigger with false positives), etc. So it's not "just that scientists want to science".

  18. Re:I'm at a loss. And I RTFA on The Missing Piece of the Smart Home Revolution: The Operating System · · Score: 1

    How will they feel when discover that government and anyone with low hacking skills can watch the baby too?

  19. Re:3D on Box Office 2014: Moviegoing Hits Two-Decade Low · · Score: 1

    Oh, right, sorry.

  20. Re:3D on Box Office 2014: Moviegoing Hits Two-Decade Low · · Score: 1

    Interesting, I was not aware of this. Next time I go to the mall (where most theaters are located now), I'll ask by it. Thank you for pointing me this! :)

  21. 3D on Box Office 2014: Moviegoing Hits Two-Decade Low · · Score: 1

    I'm not in all that hate for the movies. But my problem is with 3D. Every movie I can enjoy with the family is 3D. My wife has headache with 3D. And I have 2 small kids under 6 (not recommended 3D for kids below 6). Not to mention the popcorn prices in theaters. We even have (here in Brazil) some humor sketches when the couple is talking about get kids out of the school to pay for a popcorn in a movie.

  22. Related Terminator Quote on War Tech the US, Russia, China and India All Want: Hypersonic Weapons · · Score: 1

    "It's in your nature to destroy yourselves."

  23. Don't try to abstract a web page on MIT Unifies Web Development In Single, Speedy New Language · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This is fundamentally wrong: the're not only trying to abstract all technologies and flows involved in web page development. Most of these languages and frameworks want to provide the old desktop program flow. And the way web applications works is a way different than that. A good web programmer need to know all the flow and involved technologies.

  24. Director's Edition on Ars: Final Hobbit Movie Is 'Soulless End' To 'Flawed' Trilogy · · Score: 1

    Director's Edition will be the compilation REMOVING all the boring parts, presenting a 3.5 hours movie.

  25. Not little green men, or spiny insectoids on The Dominant Life Form In the Cosmos Is Probably Superintelligent Robots · · Score: 1

    ... but robotic little green men or spiny insectoids