Merk42 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:A win for freedom (Score 1) 1330

by Merk42 on Tuesday July 01, 2014 @08:50AM (#47359047) Attached to: U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Religious Objections To Contraception

Not having sex at all prevents the implantation of an embryo. Think of all those virgins committing abortions every day!

Comment Re:Users make the final decision ... (Score 1) 406

by Merk42 on Monday May 19, 2014 @03:01PM (#47040323) Attached to: Did Mozilla Have No Choice But To Add DRM To Firefox?

You really think people will stop using Netflix rather than stop using Firefox?

Comment Re:Not denying something is different from forcing (Score 2) 406

by Merk42 on Monday May 19, 2014 @01:07PM (#47039413) Attached to: Did Mozilla Have No Choice But To Add DRM To Firefox?

I think this is key, people are conflating "Mozilla is allowing the option of running a separate, external, close sourced, plugin" (which as you point out is no different than Flash/Silverlight) as being "OMG Mozilla is closed source now and ever single webpage has DRM now!!11"

Comment Re:Not denying something is different from forcing (Score 1) 406

by Merk42 on Monday May 19, 2014 @12:41PM (#47039151) Attached to: Did Mozilla Have No Choice But To Add DRM To Firefox?

Just like how Google was going to drop h.264 in favor of pushing its WebM

Comment Re:Big deal (Score 1) 138

by Merk42 on Wednesday May 14, 2014 @08:53AM (#46998229) Attached to: Can Google Influence Elections?

I thought the GP's premise was people saying "We're going to talk about this unrelated issue rather than the current one". I made no calls as to the importance of either.

Comment Re:Big deal (Score 1) 138

by Merk42 on Tuesday May 13, 2014 @11:46AM (#46990119) Attached to: Can Google Influence Elections?

I think GP's point was people will continuously talk about something from over a year and a half ago and completely ignore whatever the current topic was. Kind of like what you just did.

Comment Re:did you checked the video? (Score 1) 688

by Merk42 on Tuesday April 29, 2014 @02:39PM (#46870633) Attached to: Firefox 29: Redesign

Internet Explorer doesn't look like Chrome.

Comment Re:Seems pretty different, not a gesture (Score 1) 408

by Merk42 on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @08:37AM (#46692731) Attached to: Apple: Dumb As a Patent Trolling Fox On iPhone Prior Art?

because it's ~on a phone/computer~

Comment Re:Depends (Score 1) 650

by Merk42 on Monday April 07, 2014 @11:48AM (#46684375) Attached to: Should Microsoft Be Required To Extend Support For Windows XP?

Except for the part that some of the code in XP isn't Microsoft's to relinquish.

Comment Re:And if your business model depends on ad revenu (Score 1) 303

by Merk42 on Thursday April 03, 2014 @10:43AM (#46649181) Attached to: Ad Tracking: Is Anything Being Done?

So the only websites that should exist are ecommerce ones?

Comment Re:Do not overreacht please (Score 2) 187

by Merk42 on Friday March 14, 2014 @10:20AM (#46482361) Attached to: Google Blurring Distinction Between Ads and Organic Search Results

It's not increasing the number of ads, just how they are displayed.

Comment Re:People are weeping from poor decisions (Score 1) 85

by Merk42 on Monday March 10, 2014 @10:02AM (#46444993) Attached to: Autodesk Says It's Killing Softimage Development, Support

Because FOSS projects never get abandoned, or go through major compatibility and/or UI changes...

Comment Re:Windows 7 (Score 1) 860

by Merk42 on Wednesday March 05, 2014 @12:43PM (#46409329) Attached to: Microsoft's Attempt To Convert Users From Windows XP Backfires

If Windows 8(.1) were the problem, then all these XP users would have upgraded to Windows 7 when it came out or shortly thereafter. They didn't.

Comment Re:Mir? (Score 1) 63

by Merk42 on Wednesday March 05, 2014 @10:23AM (#46407583) Attached to: Canonical Ports Chromium To The Mir Display Server

...and in some alternative universe Ubuntu is using Wayland and people are complaining that Canonical is using someone else's work.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Comment Re:Good to see them working together (Score 2) 105

by Merk42 on Friday February 28, 2014 @03:23PM (#46369659) Attached to: Open Source Initiative, Free Software Foundation Unite Against Software Patents

Good job being an example of the infighting that GP is talking about.

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