Comment Well, no, since 2004 (Score 1) 198
I think this sums up Linux / open source scene right now.
Comment Bad Move (Score 1) 172
The KISS principle was, once again, not respected by the tech industry.
Reminds me the 32 to 64 bits architecture transition in the software industry, it was nothing but painful and still today we have issues with it but at least it's almost done - after decades.
Comment Re: Stupid (Score 1) 130
What? Are you serious?
They can sell you over and over and you're ok with it because they are making money out of it?
Is that even an argument?
Comment A funny pun in a Slashdot topic, on a Monday! Yeay (Score 1) 48
Comment Unsure about this (Score 4, Interesting) 112
Comment Re:What kids need (Score 1) 1293
Missed one point:
6) Kids should not have access to guns
Comment Re:The NRA has been saying... (Score 1) 1293
Comment Re:Oh no! Who will make fun or us nerds now? (Score 1) 441
That was the best. Loved the original CEO Denholm Reynholm until he jumped from the headquarters tower!
And what about the goth in the server room? Hilarious
First show to fit the whole internet in a box. xD
Comment Re:Netflix moves in small steps (Score 1) 184
The problem is that when a company get so big like Netflix it won't be easy for the market to react. It just can't pop up a new streaming company next day with a better offer and catalogue than Netflix. Same happens on many different areas like ISP's for example.
So, in this case, the idea of market competition and adjustment for customer benefit kinda sucks in capitalism.
Comment Like a Game (Score 1) 1445
Comment Re:No Patent (Score 1) 155
They could enforce it in popular hardware like smartphones, digital cameras, etc..
Some high profile websites (like image banks) could adopt it in a way to prevent others to seal their content.
Even Facebook can adopt it to stop people from using YOUR content which is now THEIRS.
Comment Been there, done that (Score 3, Funny) 26
Comment What? (Score 1) 301
I don't use random DNS servers and I don't trust Cloudfare at all. Why in the world should they choose that for me? I see so many problems (performance and security for starters) with this approach that find it hard to believe how this idea got this far.
This reminds me the time Network Solutions wanted to resolve all unknown hosts to his own IP's to show a friendly message (and maybe gather some data in the process).
Hope it's possible to change this behavior and sincerely hope Mozilla invest their resources in optimizing Firefox performance rather than this nonsense.
Comment This is just stupid (Score 1) 268
Why spend the resources of encryption (well put by @RichardStallin) in something that needs none as it's already public information.
The only point I see in Google doing this is that they're concerned about sharing the user navigation history with others since forcing https doesn't affect Google Analytics but may affect other services who get their stats based on packet inspection.