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Re:Relicensing Dolphin: The long road to GPLv2+
on Monday May 25, 2015 @11:53AM (#9600481)
IMO, GPL2 has all the stuff against tivoization already there (preferred form for modification -- if I can't modify it for actual hardware, it's not enough).
Re:Abstraction without overhead: traits in Rust
on Tuesday May 12, 2015 @01:26AM (#9529739)
Because they are enums done right. Enums in C and many other languages are often just a helpers to define integer constants (or abused in this way) and can be evil.
Re:On Mozilla's forced SSL
on Friday May 01, 2015 @12:49PM (#9472776)
IMO, before http is deprecated, we need public key in DNS support, bypassing the CA system. It would possibly be a lower level of security than CA cert, but would be good for many sites.
Re:Dependency Injection is Evil (2011)
on Sunday April 12, 2015 @12:21PM (#9363804)
Strongly agreed especially with your last sentence.
Re:Firefox’s adoption of closed-source DRM breaks my heart (2014)
on Sunday February 08, 2015 @01:50PM (#9018077)
DRM = SkyNet
Re:YouTube Ditches Flash, and It Hardly Matters
on Saturday February 07, 2015 @07:47AM (#9013807)
I notices Firefox sometimes starts busy looping on 2 cores while playing youtube (usually when "buffering"). IMO, they should really move the decoding threads into separate processes so they can be restarted easily (just like Flash was).
Re:Bringing SSD Performance to the DIMM form factor
on Wednesday November 12, 2014 @01:22AM (#8594265)
Or losing data on crash because load/save cycle is untested.
Re:Rust means never having to close a socket
on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @08:06AM (#8426440)
But it has to scan/mark all the objects, not just the the unused ones. This has large overhead in big-mem apps. Not to mention that usually this forces the whole app into RAM (makes swap useless) and also potentialy drains cpu caches.
And to amortize this it often has more memory overhead (up to 2x) than typical fragmentation in a manually managed app.
Re:Adobe Spyware Reveals Again the Price of DRM: Your Privacy and Secu...
on Wednesday October 08, 2014 @04:14AM (#8425807)
It seems like virtualization is about to become useless in the future and CPU-emulating+jit compiling systems are the future, because SGX can't be virtualized.
Re:iPhone 6 and 6 Plus not as bendy as believed
on Saturday September 27, 2014 @07:55AM (#8376758)
My HTC hero was pre-bent and more durable than any plastic Nokia... I'd love 40% magnification of it, it'd last a week too.
Re:Wayland in Gnome: two progress reports
on Monday August 25, 2014 @11:54AM (#8222290)
It's not a historic artefact. You can't trust the app to render in time... (that's also why client side decorations are worthless).
Re:Cross-platform Rust Rewrite of the GNU Coreutils
on Friday June 13, 2014 @02:12PM (#7890132)
Not that jailbreaks aren't a good thing, because I'd hate to be forced to use a locked (aka dumb) device.
Re:Cross-platform Rust Rewrite of the GNU Coreutils
on Friday June 13, 2014 @02:10PM (#7890125)
Agreed... I'm quite worried about unsafe code in libraries that I'd use.
Re:Mercedes Is Owning This Formula 1 Season
on Tuesday April 08, 2014 @11:10AM (#7553863)
This is the way F1 turbo/engine is specified to work. Not specific to Mercedes. Only the split turbine/compressor is Mercedes specific.
Re:EU votes net neutrality into law, abolishes mobile roaming charges
on Thursday April 03, 2014 @10:48AM (#7523167)
It's about time to progressively tax (VAT, not profit) companies in "monopoly" markets.
Re:Gnome 3.12 Released
on Thursday March 27, 2014 @01:16AM (#7478749)
+1 I have the same issue with alt+tab and have stopped using Gnome shell.
Re:The new Google Hangouts will not support XMPP
on Thursday May 16, 2013 @01:13AM (#5717038)
If they do that, people will migrate off Gmail too. I know I will.
Re:Add .txt As the Extension of Your Readme file
on Wednesday May 01, 2013 @08:55AM (#5637575)
IMO, using .txt extension is just fine and a good idea. But it will not help until MS fixes their notepad to handle standard Unix text files.