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Comment Re:Blocking should still be possible (Score 1) 4

by AuxLV (#33226752) Attached to: The future of the web without Flash - will it be f
I think the best way to deal with such bad behaving parts of web is to have such tools built-in in browsers, especially for mobile devices which suffer the most. Somekind of run-time profiling should be inside too. Currently browsers only stop hanged scripts, this feature should be extended to analize and kill or de-prioritize bits of code which eat a lot of CPU without entirely blocking the web page.

Comment 200mbps fastest in the world? Haha! (Score 1) 179

by AuxLV (#27857909) Attached to: Virgin Media UK Pilots 200Mbps Broadband Speeds
200mbps? LOL! Kill me in envy anger, but here in Latvia ISP called Lattelekom currently tests new line which will bring unlimited 1GBit fiber-optics to home users quite soon. Currently some of my friends use this huge canal as a test customers. Currently speed is limited to 100mbps, at the end of year they plan to launch publicly available pilot at 500mbps and then move to 1gbps. And yes, latvians are quite used having 100mbps at home for 20-40 bucks/mo. You can start hating and killing me now :)

Comment Wine runs win apps? (Score 0, Troll) 354

by AuxLV (#26706499) Attached to: Apps That Officially Support Wine
>> Wine (the Windows not-an-emulator for Unix) runs Windows applications more often than not. (Certainly more often than Vista does.) Hahaha! If Wine was capable running more software then Vista does then everyone already moved to it! Guys, Wine can not run even simple audio player called XMPlay which runs on any Windows implementation from Microsoft just fine!
Media

Wonder Woman Gets a Woman's Point-of-View 210

Posted by Zonk from the just-a-bit-overdue dept.
theodp writes "Traditionally, comics have been by, for and about men. But more and more women are breaking into the traditional boys' club. Beginning with Wonder Woman #14, the superhero's tale is being told by Gail Simone. It's a break from nearly 66 years of being written for the most part by men. '[Her work as a blogger] led to a writing job for the all-female comic 'Birds of Prey' for DC--which became a short-lived, live-action TV series--and in turn won her the "Wonder Woman" job. Simone says she sees a change since she wrote her refrigerator rant 10 years ago. 'At that time, the trend was towards grim stories where female characters were killed,' she says. 'We only had a handful of female characters to look up to. Today we're not seeing those stories so much.'"
United States

U.S. House Says the Internet is Terrorist Threat 457

Posted by CmdrTaco from the so-is-my-chilli dept.
GayBliss writes "The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill (H.R. 1955) last month, by a vote of 404 to 6, that says the Internet is a terrorist tool and that Congress needs to develop and implement methods to combat it."

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