Comment Re:How do you protect your mobile phone (Score 1) 238
Yes but let's assume we aren't asking the question for the 0.00001% of humanity with no interest in being a part of society.
He was writing for the slashdotters, not humanity
Comment Re:nice try (Score 1) 99
Well, they can always "Ask Slashdot". There seems to be a lot of experts (at least on what MS should/should not do).
Comment Re:Sad, but interesting (Score 1) 227
Right, and it's much easier to do so when you control a huge percentage of the mobile space. Again, my post was wondering if Apple would be able to resist that temptation.
Well, in the past they did not accept into their store apps that offered alternative to they own products and services.
In the early days of its App Store, Apple rejected two Google applications - Voice and Latitude.
The company said that, in the case of Voice, it replicated one of the iPhone's core functions - something which broke the App Store's terms of use.
Apple's rules were later relaxed, following an investigation by the US Federal Communications Commission.
Comment Re:Recent convert from Firefox (Score 1) 308
It could be related to NoScript since I don't see the permanent spinner when using Opera.
Yes, if I do "Allow all of this page" the spinner goes away
Comment Re:Embracing a New Enemy (Score 1) 308
Microsoft was a bland bureaucracy that produced the worst sort of bloated corporate junkware. They were monopolistic pigs with contemptible table manners (think Ballmer here).
Do you seriously want to broaden MS critisism to Ballmers table manners? Somewhat weird on Slashdot
Submission + - Chess Champion Rybka plagiarized GPL programs (ilk.uvt.nl)
jira writes: The former Computer Chess Champion has been stripped of its title, as its programmer Vasik Rajlich has been convicted of plagiarizing two open source chess programs: Crafty and Fruit.
Rybka has been disassemled and its algorithms compared to those of Crafty and Fruit. The International Computer Games Association found the evidence strong enough to disqualify and ban Rybka from World Computer Chess Championships
Rybka has been disassemled and its algorithms compared to those of Crafty and Fruit. The International Computer Games Association found the evidence strong enough to disqualify and ban Rybka from World Computer Chess Championships
Comment Re:Recent convert from Firefox (Score 1) 308
> Upsized font - are you using a trackpad (e.g. on a laptop) and you happen to be holding the control key when the font blows up?
Nope. It's just started to happen with FF5. For example: You start FF - the page loads with larger fonts. You restart and it displays normally.
Comment Re:Recent convert from Firefox (Score 1) 308
Taking the opportunity to whine about Firefox.
Does anybody else have a problem with FF5 displaying pages in upsized font randomly? And sometimes it displays pages as without css styles applied. Also seemingly randomly.
Comment Re:Better than IE (Score 2) 308
> The __only__ positive thing about IE is that they have gotten better at supporting web standards.
But is is a pretty important one, no?
Comment Fonts messed up - as in FIrefox (Score 1) 154
So they have caught up with Firefox having the fonts messed up. One has to manually set gfx.direct2d to false in config editor to have readable fonts (at least on Windows).
The whole Mozilla suite seems to go downhill.
Comment Re:Eh? (Score 1) 133
It should be promoted as Swimming in Organic Water.
That would attract thousands
Submission + - Facebook removes activist groups pages (guardian.co.uk)
jira writes: According to The Guardian Facebook in the last 12 hour removed dozens of politically linked Facebook accounts.
Most notable among them "those for the anti cuts group UK Uncut, and pages that were created by students during last December's university occupations."
Most notable among them "those for the anti cuts group UK Uncut, and pages that were created by students during last December's university occupations."
Submission + - Google's Secret Class System 4
theodp writes: Back in 2005, a Slashdot commenter pointed out some prior art for Microsoft's badge color-based 'caste' system — Nazi concentration camp badges. Now, Google is taking heat as a terminated Google contractor shines a spotlight on Google's badge color-based 'class' system. According to Andrew Norman Wilson, full-time Googlers sport White Badges, interns are given Green Badges, and contractors wear Red Badges. But what really intrigued Wilson — and ultimately cost him his job — were the ScanOps workers with Yellow Badges who toiled for Google Book Search in Building 3.1459. 'The workers wearing yellow badges,' writes Wilson, 'are not allowed any of the privileges that I was allowed — ride the Google bikes, take the Google luxury limo shuttles home, eat free gourmet Google meals, attend Authors@Google talks and receive free, signed copies of the author's books, or set foot anywhere else on campus except for the building they work in. They also are not given backpacks, mobile devices, thumb drives, or any chance for social interaction with any other Google employees. Most Google employees don’t know about the yellow badge class.' Time for someone to update the official Google Books History?
Comment Correct title (Score 1) 2
Title should read: "Forget Google – it's Apple that is turning into the evil empire". I cannot figure out how to fix it.
Submission + - Forget Google - it's Apple that is turning into t (guardian.co.uk) 2
jira writes: "You may think you own your iPad or iPhone but in reality an invisible string links it back to Apple HQ" writes John Naughton writes in "The Guardian". And ads: "Umberto Eco once wrote a memorable essay arguing that the Apple Mac was a Catholic device, while the IBM PC was a Protestant one. His reasoning was that, like the Roman church, Apple offered a guaranteed route to salvation – the Apple Way – provided one stuck to it. PC users, on the other hand, had to take personal responsibility for working out their own routes to heaven."
