Merk42 - Slashdot User

Comment Re:freedom 2 b a moron (Score 1) 1051

by Merk42 on Friday December 12, 2014 @02:13PM (#48583717) Attached to: Time To Remove 'Philosophical' Exemption From Vaccine Requirements?

what if GP has a child that can't get vaccinated due to an allergic reaction and therefore relies on the herd immunity?

Comment Re:They should've gone to 11 (Score 1) 171

by Merk42 on Friday November 21, 2014 @05:30PM (#48436979) Attached to: Windows Kernel Version Bumped To 10.0

That's Apple's move.

Latest version is 10.10.1. they seem rather reluctant to go to 11.

Comment Re:...Feeling (Score 1) 400

by Merk42 on Thursday November 20, 2014 @08:40AM (#48425021) Attached to: Firefox Signs Five-Year Deal With Yahoo, Drops Google as Default Search Engine

Negative, that's how you should feel.
{tech company} did something new? ARRRG change is bad!
{tech company} stayed the course? ARRRG it's stagnating!

Comment Re:Market Share in 2019? (Score 1) 400

by Merk42 on Thursday November 20, 2014 @08:38AM (#48425013) Attached to: Firefox Signs Five-Year Deal With Yahoo, Drops Google as Default Search Engine

I think AC is saying Mozilla is making Firefox work for the majority of its users which may not include you.

Comment Re:"Net Neutraility" a cover for regulating Intern (Score 0) 60

by Merk42 on Saturday November 15, 2014 @12:11AM (#48389979) Attached to: FCC Says Net Neutrality Decision Delay Is About Courts, Not Politics

Who would you rather control the Internet? Government or Big Business (who pays off Government)
I'm not saying one is better than the other, just that it's inevitable to be one or the other.

Comment Re:Gnome did the same thing to KDE, even worse (Score 1) 268

by Merk42 on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @03:14PM (#48362377) Attached to: GNOME Project Seeks Donations For Trademark Battle With Groupon

So as GNOME behaves in an antisocial manner that entitles Groupon to use their Trademark?

Comment Re:Can't wait for this! (Score 1) 327

by Merk42 on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @10:11AM (#48359309) Attached to: Mozilla Updates Firefox With Forget Button, DuckDuckGo Search, and Ads

They'd probably be fine with that. Those kind of users are self-entitled whiners who believe people should work on Firefox completely for free because gimme. Also that work is always wrong because it's either a change and change is bad, or it's no change and that's also bad because then they're clearly just wasting their time.

Comment Re:Gnome did the same thing to KDE, even worse (Score 2) 268

by Merk42 on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @10:06AM (#48359243) Attached to: GNOME Project Seeks Donations For Trademark Battle With Groupon

Did KDE have a registered Trademark for "Activities"?

Comment Re:the model for Tony Stark in the Ironman Series (Score 1) 111

by Merk42 on Thursday November 06, 2014 @12:00PM (#48325765) Attached to: Tesla Delays Launch of Model X Until Q3 2015

Not a Tesla, but Elon Musk did appear, as himself, in Iron Man 2.

Comment Re:Typical muslims (Score 1) 389

by Merk42 on Thursday November 06, 2014 @10:36AM (#48325117) Attached to: Terrorists Used False DMCA Claims To Get Personal Data of Anti-Islamic Youtuber

That won't solve all of it though, in every case of a person carrying out a violent threat, it's a human. We should just exclude humans from human rights.

Comment Re: Did he leave or was he invited to leave? (Score 2) 82

by Merk42 on Friday October 31, 2014 @02:43PM (#48281559) Attached to: Android Co-Founder Andy Rubin Leaving Google

Those settings in iOS, while they might not be the level of control you are looking for, are more than what Android offers. So that answers your orignal question of "In what way is Android playing catch up with iOS? Are they features people actually use or even know about?"

Comment Re: How about we hackers? (Score 1) 863

by Merk42 on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @09:46AM (#48250259) Attached to: Debate Over Systemd Exposes the Two Factions Tugging At Modern-day Linux

That's right, Linux is monolithic, but on the other hand--and this is a crucial difference--Linus is hugely concerned about preventing breakage. Of all the large packages I use, the kernel is the one that gives me the least worry when it comes to upgrade time.

L. Poettering, on the other hand, seems to relish in breaking things. He sure isn't big on commiserating with people whose systems his code has broken.

OK, well then let's do what Linus says is best. What's that? He has “[no] particularly strong opinions on systemd itself”? Systemd it is then!

Comment Re:That's An Ambitious name? (Score 2) 110

by Merk42 on Thursday October 23, 2014 @05:20PM (#48216097) Attached to: Ubuntu 14.10 Released With Ambitious Name, But Small Changes

Vivid Vervet

Comment Re:Good (Score 1) 81

by Merk42 on Friday September 12, 2014 @08:50AM (#47888599) Attached to: Net Neutrality Comments Surge Past 1.7M, an All-Time Record For the FCC

As a result of that - and NOT GOING FOR this campaign - you're going to end up with some sites performing fine unless you pay more. It'll be like Cable TV packages all over again. Well done, fucktards. The internet won't be what it is, in another ten or fifteen years. Just remember to look back over your shoulder and blame yourselves for it.

Comment Re:My opinion on the matter. (Score 1) 826

by Merk42 on Tuesday August 26, 2014 @10:13AM (#47756363) Attached to: Choose Your Side On the Linux Divide

Translation: "Anything new is bad. Once something 'works' it can never be improved upon"

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