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Comment Re:If Mozilla Foundation is corrupt, use Pale Moon (Score 1) 403

> Pale Moon has a 64-bit version. Firefox doesn't.
still wrong. Why is everybody still telling this?

$ file firefox
firefox: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.18, BuildID[sha1]=e06519b9e2b09c1b4e56b7ad11afc0d84e1b5aad, stripped

Comment Re:Corporate directed not volunteer direct ... (Score 1) 403

The problem: As long as other big players support DRM, the browser where "i can watch videos" will get more users, the others less.

One good thing would be to say: Fuck DRM, we are making a browser as we like it, if we're the only users thats no problem for open source software.

On the other hand, this would mean for users, who want to consume content, that they need to use other possibly even non-free browsers to do so. If mozilla supports this DRM, they may be able to influence it, i.e. force companies to accept a sandbox around the DRM. So they might help to keep the problem small.

So of course you can fork, but you will gain nothing. The sandbox for DRM does not hurt, if you do not use it. What hurts is, that all major browser support DRM now, so that the publishers can use it. Assume i.e. 75% of the browser market would not support DRM, then we might get a free web. But if 30% do not support it, the 30% will shrink as users will use other browsers, at least to watch videos.

So mozilla may be right about this. But they are wrong, as they should be a good example. But the next big opensource browser is chromium, which will support DRM, because google wants to use DRM (i.e. for play videos)

Comment What exactly is the right to be forgotten? (Score 1) 370

Is it there in reallife?
A right to be forgotten means, means by negation, there is no law, which forces people to remember you.
So, there IS NO such law, not online not in "real life".

You will be forgotten, online and offline. As long as you're not interesting. If you are, you will not be forgotten. Do you really think, snowden will ever be forgotten offline? You do not need to go to a newspaper archive in 20 years to remember snowden, this name will remain for long in our society, if not even in history books.
Was Barbara Streisand forgotten?

Just forget it. If you want to be forgotten, keep quiet. People may or may not forget you, but if you insist on being forgotten, you will be remembered.

Comment Why? (Score 1) 361

Firefox should stand for an open web. there are browsers like chrome, to support drm. The people firefox might lose, are not the people, who use firefox because they want an open web. Having the maximum of users isn't a neccessary goal for an opensource project, but only for a for-profit company. Firefox is no such company. Lets say google stops sponsoring firefox. Will it die? Of course not, it will continue to be improved by volunteers, maybe even with a better morale than now, not only regarding DRM.

Comment No, you cannot assign everything to one worker (Score 1) 343

everyone needs a little slack off during work to boost the productivty while working. assigning all the hard tasks to one person won't work out.
But telling everyone to cut an hour per day off and work the rest with max. power, won't work either. You need to be there to make sure you will pick up work again, when you feel like it. Its much more likely if you're browsing the internet than when you went home and come back at the next day.

Comment Re:Memories do decay (Score 1) 426

why shouldn't the computer have a decay? You can have read/write errors, you can compute a lossy encoding if you want to ... and i would just implement the brain so lowlevel, that the neurons are modeled. And how the decay in the signals between neurons works can be observed, and will be better observed in future.

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