I liked the simple yet configurable Gnome interface, then they took it away from me with Gnome 2.. but I got used to it somehow. Then they took that away from me with Gnome 3 and I've been using XFCE4 since. My "simple light working dekstop" preference hasn't changed much over the years, but the GNU/Linux desktops has. KDE today isn't like KDE 2 (which was usable), it's HUGE (but atleast I can configure it to be a simple desktop if I want). GNOME3? wtf. My preferences didn't change, GNOME did.

There's plenty of good browsers for GNU/Linux and GNU/Linux itself has a market share of perhaps 1%. I'm guessing Opera's got maby 1% of that and 1% of 1% isn't much. I think ditching GNU/Linux support does make sense from a business perspective if they only drop support for that. Focusing on Opera mini for Android and things like that probably makes a lot more sense. Regardless: I truly believe Opera is highly overvalued right now http://www.netfonds.no/quotes/... and it's much likely a good short at this price level. This is not investment advice, I'm just a guy who've had a 20%+ _monthly_ return on his portfolio the last 6 months (I only had 17% one month 7 months ago which ruined my streak) so use your own common sense. Just sayin that the it's got one very attractive downside at this price point.

Still using a Phenom II 3x *CPU* and it's fast enough for my GNU/Linux system so I see little reason to upgrade it - but if I decide to do so then I would very much like to buy a CPU, not a APU. Would it be so hard for AMD and Intel to offer actual CPUs again? Am I the only one who would like to buy one at some point? APUs are nice if you want a cheap system with alright graphics.. but why do they force us to buy one even if all we want/need is a CPU?

We have a bunch of free blog services. You can sign up and get a free blog and use it for the criminal activity until we notice or someone points it out to us. Do you really think it is fair take a domain with thousands of subdomains under it because it was " involved in actual criminal activity" at some point? You must really love fascism and the current governments in the "free world".

Expressen could have just disabled Disqus on their own site and they would have full access to IPs and e-mails of users commenting on their hatespeech site.

This should come as a surprise to nobody. It's a long well-known fact that the majority of the top editors at Wikipedia are paid to do so. Normal people can't compete with someone who's paid full-time to edit Wikipedia and this is the reason it can't be trusted - not even a little bit. And PR-Agencies aren't really the biggest problem - government employees are. Why do you think that Wikipedia is parroting the government line on all subjects where the government is presenting untruthful information through the mainstream media? Because Wikipedia is edited and administrated by the same people who write the government propaganda press releases for the mainstream media, that's why. Do your own research and thinking. You'll be amazed.

> I laugh at anyone who trusts Google with their data, or authentication.

Yes, I know Google is pure evil. Google Auth is based on an open standard & it is open source. As I wrote in parent post: This means that there is a whole range of implementations available. I use the Google Auth standard for auth at various Bitcoin exchanges but I do not use any Google software to do it, I use other implementations. You can use Google Auth without trusting Google with jack shit. (and yeah, I know they are evil, I've removed all the Google spyware / crapware from my phone, I don't have their appstore, etc)

If you want secure / two-factor today then you'll use Google Authenticator - which is what all bitcoin exchanges use. It's the standard. We don't need a new one. And it's open, so you don't need a smartphone, you can use a PC version like JAuth. This QR code thing is less smart as it would need you to actually have a smartphone - and that's a very dumb idea. The Google Authenticator standard does not, but you should use a another device (notebook computer, tablet, phone, whatever) for it since that's more secure. Anyway, this story is a yawn but that and censorship is what I've come to expect from Slashdot these days.

Censorship based on the use of common words is something that happens all over these days. I have a few websites with Google Adsense on them. Google sends spam e-mails about "adult content" on a poetry site I have regularly. It's mostly poetry from the 16th, 17th and 18th century on that site. Words like "lover" trigger their malfunctioning bot. Webmasters have the choice between censoring perfectly normal content, and in my case poems, that no human in their right mind would have a problem with. I'm not shocked or amazed that this is happening with ebooks, Google has been doing this for a long time now. It reminds me of the book 1984. I'm glad this is getting some attention here today - because this is far more common than most people realize.

Say you have a job and make $5.000 per month. Don't mind if you make more or less and that I just took a round figure out of thin air. That works out to $60000 per year. Five years go by and you've earned $300000. How much money is there in your account 5 years later? Do you likely have $300000 sitting there in your account at that point in time? OR did you perhaps spend each months paycheck paying for rent, utilities, food and other items? I don't know about you but if you are like most people then you probably do NOT have $300000 sitting there in your account after 5 years. You more likely spent everything you got last month and perhaps you have $2000 left of that last $5000 paycheck sitting there in your account. Think about this for a minute. The claim is that SR generated an income of 600.000 BTC. The price of a Bitcoin was $1-2 during SRs lifetime. It was less than $10 during most of SRs lifetime. Media story and popular opinion seems to be that Ulbricht never spent a single Bitcoin but somehow managed to pay bills and expenses anyway and that all bitcoins SR ever made therefore must be sitting in a wallet somewhere. I personally find that opinion highly unlikely.

Android based phones, tablets, consoles and even laptops and dekstops (yes, they are coming and they are getting better very very fast) all use a simple version of OpenGL. You'd have to kill that fast-moving train to kill OpenGL and that is not going to happen. Yes, AMD got a big win with it being the base of the new XBox and Playstation toys. That would have major implications a few years back. I'm not convinced it will make such a huge difference today. As I said, there are Android consoles for sale right now and more are coming. These android consoles won't have the horse-power of the new XBox / Playstation things, but it really won't matter. Also note that there will be one XBox and one Playstation but there are already dozens of Android consoles to pick from.

This will surely help tourism. I put USA on my list of not-safe-to-visit list after the 9/11 false-flag military operation in 2001. My sister asked me if I wanted to join her on vacation to the US a few years back. She's one of those people who never understood 9/11. Now even she refuses to visit that country.

yes, it's mostly propaganda - just like all the western "news outlets". The difference is that it's different propaganda and that's quite refreshing, it's one source of information which doesn't parrot the same garbage all the rest spew out.

This. I don't even have a TV. Everyone in my building got a IPTV cable box and it's got HDMI out, so I _could_ hook it up to my computer screen and stereo and watch TV channels .. but why would I? I think those sending traditional TV have lots a lot of customers permanently. I could go to the basement and get that TV box and hook it up, but why on earth would I bother with that?