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Comment Re:Software Issue (Score 1) 26

It depends. They are very useful when you control both the site where the iframe is and the site inside the iframe, when you want to integrate content from these two sites in a simple way (and remember again, you have control of both sites).

The problem arises when you want to load into the iframe the content of a site over which you have no control and where you can't even trust the author of the site in question, then you're going to have problems.

Comment Re:Consoles are pointless (Score 2) 24

Uh. These days you can play on the couch with a PC if you want, just get a wireless controller (I even use a controller that's actually for Nintendo Switch) and connect your PC to a TV with HDMI. As an example, I have a secondary computer in my living room connected to a 52-inch TV that is a movie player/music player/console (multiple, both native pc and emulation) that I operate with a wireless keyboard and a Nintendo switch pro controller.

Comment Re:As a side note... (Score 1) 175

Thanks. And oh boy... I believe you've seen an Egyptian mummy, right? Despite the dry appearance of mummification, it is easy to see that it is something organic, a body. This "alien body" that the guy displayed in the photo looks like a poorly made body model of someone trying to imitate a body (badly) with modeling clay.

Comment Re:So much for NoSQL (Score 1) 102

You are correct regarding Mongo (and other noSQL databases). The problem I see is that there are many newbies believing that noSQL "would be the solution to all the problems in the universe" when noSQL is actually only useful in the niche it was made for (thousands of small, simple operations).

Comment Re:Not just Greed, Stupidity Too! (Score 2) 207

This. They are making more and more stupid decisions about GUI elements that have already been good for a long time. As you wrote they are changing GUI elements only to say they changed and without having the slightest competence for the new element to be at least as good as the old one. It's as if the designers who knew what they were doing were retired and replaced by chimpanzees.

Comment Thinking about the children you are not (Score 2) 181

Someone needs to explain to UK lawmakers that in an end-to-end encryption model the company responsible for the app cannot see the content of messages even if they wanted to.

And the last thing they're thinking about is the kids. What they want is easy industrial espionage and keeping everyone who doesn't agree with the government under surveillance.

Comment Government tried this decades ago in Brazil... (Score 1) 38

... and the result was the population having to buy shit for its weight in gold from "local manufacturers" (who only put a local label in the garbage they imported). Needless to say, it was a dark era for the country's information technology sector and that it delayed the development of the area by decades.

Comment It's easy to explain (Score 3, Informative) 22

It is easy to explain the success of this model. Many of those users sharing passwords were friends or family of the account holders, and Netflix just gave them the option to have an "official sharing" for a reasonable price for each additional sharing (which here is actually less than a regular account, as long as it's associated with a someone's regular account, usually a family member or friend).

Comment Re:The only true answer it can come up with... (Score 1) 197

Everyone remembers this answer, but it's good to also remember the reason for it: Where DeepMind explained it would be the only answer to a question as vague as "ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything".

Maybe we should improve the question so we can have an answer.

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