riegel - Slashdot User

Comment Re:"That's the great thing about evercookie" (Score 1) 332

by riegel on Wednesday September 22, 2010 @11:46AM (#33663478) Attached to: Introducing the Invulnerable Evercookie

No, what he is doing is not wrong. What others might do with it may be wrong. Using your logic we should outlaw copiers as they might be used for copyright infringment.

I use web applications that I want to follow me from browser to browser, I want it to know who I am, and I want it to be convenient. Just because you see no positive use cases for this kind of thing doesn't mean anyone using it is using it for nefarious purposes.

I wholey agree that doing this sort of thing without someones consent or permission is wrong. That doesn't mean doing it is wrong.

Comment Re:oblig. Tanenbaum (Score 1) 298

by riegel on Thursday September 16, 2010 @10:23AM (#33599366) Attached to: Race Pits Pigeons Against Poor UK Rural Broadband

hurtling

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Comment Re:Is It Only Through iTMS Application? (Score 2, Insightful) 271

by riegel on Thursday September 02, 2010 @11:28AM (#33451228) Attached to: Ping Could Be Apple's Social Networking Backdoor?

Mostly agreed, except on the bonjour point. You really ought to learn about what it is and what it does.

Comment Re:How it works... (Score 1) 119

by riegel on Friday July 23, 2010 @06:51PM (#33009086) Attached to: Outlook Plug-In Keeps Tone of Your Email In Check

Sweet. I can disable em for myself, ... but how about the guy reading my code? Will it be disabled for him as he is reading it?

Comment Re:Cool, now can they make a grammar checker? (Score 1) 119

by riegel on Friday July 23, 2010 @08:59AM (#33001900) Attached to: Outlook Plug-In Keeps Tone of Your Email In Check

i think what you meant to say is "...grammar Nazis stating i can not...

I think what you meant to do was CAPITOLIZE the letter i.

I think you meant capitalize.

This kind of recursion could co on forever, the only way to terminate it is to have a grammatically correct response, that is spelled correctly, with correct punctuation etc. and without runon sentences and also following all the correct rues of the queens english etc. etc. etc.

Stop the madness.

Comment Re:How it works... (Score 1) 119

by riegel on Friday July 23, 2010 @08:46AM (#33001798) Attached to: Outlook Plug-In Keeps Tone of Your Email In Check

Awseome, now if you could also tell me how to disable it in all the 100,000+ other websites and programs and im clients and and and... Then I will refrain from stating that it annoys me.

Comment Re:Elation? (Score 1) 119

by riegel on Friday July 23, 2010 @08:32AM (#33001742) Attached to: Outlook Plug-In Keeps Tone of Your Email In Check

Like I'd settle for like an e-mail program that like just strips out the like all the like emoticons and LOLz and like makes people write like someone like writing, and not like someone like writing while simultaneously trying to like communicate body language.

Comment "a curated platform" (Score 1) 415

by riegel on Thursday July 22, 2010 @05:12PM (#32996144) Attached to: 'Bloatware' Becoming a Problem On Android Phones

Which curated platform would you like today Apple iPhone or google Android?

Comment Re:Well? (Score 1) 981

by riegel on Tuesday June 29, 2010 @07:41AM (#32728642) Attached to: The Tuesday Birthday Problem

(FF, FM, MF or MM)
FF is not possible
FM is not possible

Comment Re:Do no evil (Score 1) 348

by riegel on Friday June 11, 2010 @03:32PM (#32540370) Attached to: Google Researcher Issues How-To On Attacking XP

Yep, your right, and when it all blows up the guy who made those decisions WILL wisen up.

Comment Re:Do no evil (Score 1) 348

by riegel on Friday June 11, 2010 @09:32AM (#32534458) Attached to: Google Researcher Issues How-To On Attacking XP

No, it punishes Microsoft. Hopefully it will help to wisen up users and admins that use Microsoft.

Submission + - Flash has Arrived for the iPad (smokescreen.us)

Submitted by riegel on Thursday June 03, 2010 @03:26PM

riegel writes: smokescreen.us has developed a technology for taking existing flash and running it with html 5 and javascript.

From their website...

Unless you've been under a rock, you'(TM)re probably familiar with the fact that Adobe Flash doesn’t run on any mobile Apple device. Moreover, it looks like Apple is never going to let Flash onto the iPhone/iPod/iPad empire.

SO WE DID IT! AND NOW YOU'RE HERE" WELCOME!

We're putting Smokescreen out there as a preview right now. We look forward to adding support for more of Flash, fix bugs, and improve performance over time. This is just a start.

Comment Re:Google / or Apple ?? (Score 1) 396

by riegel on Friday May 28, 2010 @12:27PM (#32377504) Attached to: <em>Tetris</em> Clones Pulled From Android Market

You must know there is a difference between Apple pulling something because they don't like it, and getting a legal order to remove an application?

I agree there is a difference, and I agree it is a big difference. I guess my point wasn;t so much that se they do it too but the point that BIG corporations like to hold the keys so to speak.

Comment Google / or Apple ?? (Score 1) 396

by riegel on Friday May 28, 2010 @10:41AM (#32376108) Attached to: <em>Tetris</em> Clones Pulled From Android Market

"blah...blah... has notified Google/Apple to remove all blah... blah... from Android Market/the App Store. I am one of the developers of blah... blah... I have received an email warning that my blah... was suspended from Android Market/The App Store due to a violation of...

Did this get mixed up I thought Apple and the app store did stuff like this. I thought Google was open, free and...

Comment Re:Better Yet (Score 1) 111

by riegel on Wednesday May 26, 2010 @12:26PM (#32349876) Attached to: Busting, and Fixing, Frame Busting

Personally, I think the best solution that would allow all the use-cases I mentioned (most of which are hacks to get around flaws in browsers' Ajax implementations) would be to allow only pages that have been specifically declared to be frame-able to be put in frames.

Exactly. Can anyone think of a reason this would not work?

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