Elbart - Slashdot User

Comment Re:This is going to end so well for them! (Score 1) 147

by Elbart on Thursday August 14, 2014 @02:20AM (#47668881) Attached to: T-Mobile To Throttle Customers Who Use Unlimited LTE Data For Torrents/P2P

"unauthorized tethering"
Land of the free!

Comment Re:Sure... (Score 2) 267

by Elbart on Thursday August 07, 2014 @03:09AM (#47620649) Attached to: Skype Blocks Customers Using OS-X 10.5.x and Earlier

and would pay for itself in power savings within a year.

Your math is way off.

Comment Re:Easy As 1 (Score 1) 136

by Elbart on Saturday August 02, 2014 @03:02AM (#47587655) Attached to: Georgia Tech Researchers Jailbreak iOS 7.1.2

Why is this rated -1?

Comment Re:Why? (Score 0) 136

by Elbart on Saturday August 02, 2014 @03:01AM (#47587651) Attached to: Georgia Tech Researchers Jailbreak iOS 7.1.2

Why buy a device with a broken OS which you have to fix yourself?

Comment Re:NIH, or once-bitten twice-shy? (Score 1) 129

by Elbart on Wednesday July 16, 2014 @03:05AM (#47464463) Attached to: Mozilla Doubles Down on JPEG Encoding with mozjpeg 2.0

WebM?

Comment Re:Mozilla doesn't build hardware (Score 1) 89

by Elbart on Sunday June 22, 2014 @04:06AM (#47292059) Attached to: Mozilla Is Working On a Firefox OS-powered Streaming Stick

The only things missing now are buyers and users.

Comment Re:I don't get it (Score 1) 79

by Elbart on Friday June 06, 2014 @02:36AM (#47177489) Attached to: Web Browsing Isn't Copyright Infringement, Rules EU Court of Justice

They've also shot down the data retention directive recently, so it's really two for three.

Comment Re:WTF? (Score 1) 79

by Elbart on Friday June 06, 2014 @02:35AM (#47177481) Attached to: Web Browsing Isn't Copyright Infringement, Rules EU Court of Justice

Probably for the same reason they want to get cash from Google for registering their sites for Google News: Greed.

Comment Re:Talk about timing... (Score 1) 187

by Elbart on Tuesday June 03, 2014 @02:15AM (#47152663) Attached to: Windows 8.1 Finally Passes Windows 8 In Market Share

They disabled nothing, upcoming patches will just require 8.1u1.

Comment Re:Price a bit steep for lowest end platform (Score 1) 109

by Elbart on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @03:54PM (#47112287) Attached to: Firefox OS Powered Flame Available For Pre-order; Ships Globally

This gotta be the third or fourth developer-focused FirefoxOS-device. When are there going to be some consumer-focused devices?

Comment Re:Expensive (Score 1) 109

by Elbart on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @03:53PM (#47112275) Attached to: Firefox OS Powered Flame Available For Pre-order; Ships Globally

The more important question is: Why would you develop for FirefoxOS in the first place?

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

by Elbart on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @01:02PM (#46695613) Attached to: Apple: Dumb As a Patent Trolling Fox On iPhone Prior Art?

Last time I checked the iPhones had a home-button.

Comment Re:Now let's not be too hasty in whitelisting (Score 1) 119

by Elbart on Saturday March 22, 2014 @04:53AM (#46549899) Attached to: Some Sites That Blue Coat Blocks Under "Pornography"

I'm definitely having a "prurient interest" right now.

Comment Re:use this extension when you cannot stand austra (Score 1) 256

by Elbart on Friday March 21, 2014 @04:46AM (#46541437) Attached to: Firefox 29 Beta Arrives With UI Overhaul And CSS3 Variables

Must be a nice feeling for companies knowing that you can rely on self-imposed unpaid slaves working in their free time to fix their very own screw-ups.

Comment Re:New UI? (Score 1) 256

by Elbart on Friday March 21, 2014 @04:41AM (#46541427) Attached to: Firefox 29 Beta Arrives With UI Overhaul And CSS3 Variables

Just shows the inefficiency of the whole organisation.
Same thing with the downloadpanel mentioned below.
First mockups in 2010, Safari released in in 2011, and it got added in Firefox sometime in 2013.

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