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Comment Re:IPv6 Mess (Score 1) 551

Oh, I understand the issues just fine. It's DJB who clearly demonstrates he doesn't understand the issues. His argument derails in the second paragraph, where he appears to go by the assumption that at some point we flip a switch (he calls it "the magic moment") to go from ipv4 to ipv6. ipv6 was designed with the idea of it running alongside ipv4 and in fact all mainstream operatings systems and enterprise networking equipment are perfectly capable of this right now. Yes, transition will be messy in the upcoming few years, but that is for the most part not because of poor design choices in ipv6. That is caused by almost everyone worldwide putting their fingers in their ears and singing lalalalalala whenever the topic is brought up (some think NAT is the solution, others say we should just force some of the holders of /8 blocks to give those up). Had everyone gotten their acts together 5 years ago, we would be visiting most websites over ipv6 by now.

Submission + - NVIDIA Driver Developer Discusses Linux Graphics (phoronix.com) 1

An anonymous reader writes: Andy Ritger, who leads the NVIDIA UNIX Graphics Team responsible for creating drivers on Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris has answered many questions at Phoronix about the state of Linux graphics, gaming and drivers. Ritger shares some interesting facts such as the Linux graphics driver download rate is 0.5% that of their Windows driver downloads at NVIDIA.com, how the Nouveau developers are doing an incredible job, creating an AMD-like open-source strategy at NVIDIA would be time intensive and unlikely, and development problems for the Linux platform. Also commented on are new features that may come to their Linux driver within the next twelve months.
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MPAA Pushes Once Again To Close the Analog Hole 275

Tyler Too writes "The MPAA is once again trying to badger the FCC into approving Selectable Output Control, which would plug the 'analog hole' during broadcasts of some prerelease HD movies. MPAA bigshots met with seven staffers from the FCC Media Bureau last week, calling the petition a 'pro-consumer' (!) move designed to 'enable movie studios to offer millions of Americans in-home access to high-value, high definition video content.' At least the studios are now acknowledging that SOC would break the functionality of some HDTVs, an admission they were previously unwilling to make: 'What's interesting about the group's latest filing, however, is that it effectively concedes that the output changes it wants could, in fact, hobble some home video systems. "The vast majority of consumers would not have to purchase new devices to receive the new, high-value content contemplated by MPAA's" request, the group assures the FCC.'"

Comment Re:I pledge not to download it (Score 5, Insightful) 344

You clearly haven't worked with Fx3 yet. At first I was skeptical about the new smart bookmarks and address bar, but now that I've used it for a month or two (starting with beta 2) I'm quite pleased with it. The address bar basically does exactly the same as it always has, except now it actually does an on the fly substring search in your history instead of just giving an arbitrarily sorted list of previously visited sites. I would dare say this is one of the biggest improvements to the web browsing experience in the last several years.

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