If you use hosts based blocking you end up nuking 99% of what you hit with using a typical browser. Best of all it also stops crappy little ads in apps, reduces your phone's data usage, and no need for extensions.

Yeah I too have always wanted a browser that makes me go and install endless additional shit every time I open up a new website.

Actually with a push of a button my Galaxy S5 will switch to a dumbphone with limited features available which extends it battery life to 14days standby. Better than any dumbphone I've ever had.

Best of all with a push of a button I can switch it back again.

Then become a Sikh, and stop boring us with this nonsense.

I happen to think dogs are great too, but that doesn't mean I should want to become a dog.

MechaStreisand, you are an unpleasant person. Your comments almost always refer to other people as "retards", "idiots" or "morons". It's a little bit unseemly for such a stupid sonofabitch to be doing that. It's really no way to go through life.

Then become a Sikh, and stop boring us with this nonsense.

Here is your commenting history on Slashdot.

http://slashdot.org/~MechaStre...

You might not be the best person to be telling others not to be boring.

Would you be more worried about what atheists thought, or what Sikhs would think if they knew you didn't belong to their religion?

Atheists think a lot of different things, and I'd like to think that most atheists aren't actually offended by the fact that religious people exist. That would be a pretty horrible way to go through life.

If there is a specific religious significance to the headwear, I wouldn't want believers to think I was denigrating their beliefs.

I'm old school in that I don't believe in being offensive without good reason.

American Justice is about having a penalty so severe that the risk/reward ratio makes doing the crime a bad idea. Unfortunately, many, many people today have a problem with thinking very far in the future.

No, American Justice is about keeping enough poor people incarcerated that revolution can be avoided.

The ridiculous percentage of Americans that are incarcerated has more to do with politics than it does crime.

He's a Sikh not a Muslim you idiot

The Sikh people I've met are some of the best people on the planet. They're the opposite of whatever Fox News muslim stereotype that AC was talking about.

Plus, as musicians, they rock: https://youtu.be/Wfzp4cdcuYc

https://youtu.be/ZFTBPuuc8PU

https://youtu.be/RzMpfOCVTmU

People don't fear motorcycles because of the accident rate. People fear motorcycles because of the survival rate in an accident caused by someone else.

That is a constant between motor vehicles and it doesn't matter how skilled of a driver you yourself are, there's a lot of other's out there which can cause problems on the road for you. There's simply no arguing that you'll be safer inside the monster truck than under it.

Or are you suggesting that turbans are only for "brown" people?

Nah, I'm just concerned that there is a religious significance to the turban that would offend people if I wore one. Like the time grew payot and wore a shtreimel while I was front man for a Christian death metal band, The Fifth Horseman.

All of them. Smartphones have much bigger batteries than their dumber counterparts.

You mock, but it exists. Samsung Galaxy S5 and S6.

With the push of a button you're in ultra power saving mode. Black and white screen. SMS and Calling only. No background software, no other foreground apps other than your contact list. 12+ days of battery life. WiFi and 3G off. etc. It's quite good for a short trip of a few days where you want to preserve battery life and still receive calls (about the only thing a dumb phone is good for).

I hope this isn't taken the wrong way or offends anyone, but I think turbans are extremely cool. I play music with a Sikh dude and always envy his headgear. If you think about all the cultural & religious headwear for men in the world, why are white American men so badly shortchanged? I can either wear a Carhartt mesh back trucker cap and look like someone who pimps out his little sister for meth or a flat-brim baseball cap and look like a gangbanger. Or, I can wear a fedora and look like some skeevy YouTube PUA or a knit skully and look like a hipster. Bowler hats or top hats are not really me, you know? What's left? A North African kufi hat is kind of slick, but what I really want to wear is a turban. I've dug them since I was a kid and saw stuff like this:

https://youtu.be/uE_MpQhgtQ8?t...

or this...

https://youtu.be/pIye64B519s

or this...

https://youtu.be/WWB9ZXMsMDY

There's a rich history of cool musicians wearing turbans. Dr Lonnie Smith, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, even Professor Longhair was known to show up in a turban. I once saw the Fabulous Thunderbirds live and harmonica player extraordinaire Kim Wilson came out in a pair of RayBans and an electric blue turban. Dammit, I want to wear a turban too.

[I hope I didn't offend anyone with this comment, because I sincerely didn't mean to. If someone can offer better headwear alternatives for a white American guy, please do. ]

Not just learning to delete objects out of scope though. shared_ptr and unique_ptr also provides exception safety--using a bare new/malloc'd pointer is going to cause problems unless you're absolutely sure an exception will never throw in a given scope. In practice, that leaves the only place to use bare pointers in class members, and even there unique_ptr would be better. In my code, the rule is absolutely zero bare pointers, ever. If you're going to return allocated memory, use a unique_ptr which you can then assign to a shared_ptr. It avoids the overhead of shared_ptr while still having the convienience of automatically cleaning up, and also being moveable.

I don't care how greatly exaggerated the risk. If it happens, it'll probably happen to me.