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by devx 13y ago
What fragmentation problem? PC games have graphics that scale. Problem solved.
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by devx 13y ago
At least as good as Adsense for me, but payments outside of US are horrifically slow. It can take even up to 4 months to receive the checks. It's like Amazon has never updated their affiliate program since they started it a decade ago.
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by devx 13y ago
It doesn't. That's just their excuse. If it did, they'd start removing Windows driver features, too, since they can't be found on the Linux driver, and therefore there's no feature parity.
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by devx 13y ago
Why are these latest NSA stories getting flagged so much? I don't like that PG has relaxed the flagging so much. You can probably flag even tens of stories a day now without having your flagging removed.
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Adobe Flash, The Spy in Your Computer(welivesecurity.com)
1 points by devx 13y ago|0 comments
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by devx 13y ago
Energy will be soon, too (within a few decades), once solar panels are wide-spread, much more efficient, and very cheap, and once we'll solve fusion. Once we can make "replicators" like in Star Trek, food will probably become
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by devx 13y ago
Wired's Chris Anderson wrote a great book called "Free: The Future of a Radical Price" and is relevant to this "post-scarcity" future. He has a speech here and the book is on Amazon: http://www.youtube.co
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by devx 13y ago
It's bad enough that governments are starting to restrict the Internet all over the world [1], almost in unison, why should the last bastions of freedom on the Internet fall so easily, too? I see the corruption of W3C (because that&#
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by devx 13y ago
Kind of both: 1) Firefox won't play DRM'ed content by default 2) Firefox could be the browser that allows you to go around all DRM'ed content through 3rd party plugins (they probably won't be able to condone the activity
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by devx 13y ago
Are you saying Firefox lost users because they refused to support h.264? That's bull. If they did lose users it was for completely different reasons. I remember being very disappointed with them for choosing h.264 in the end, but even
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by devx 13y ago
Upvoted because of the story, but I like NPR less and less these days. So far they've been mainly pro-government than pro-Snowden.
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Android is almost impenetrable to malware(qz.com)
5 points by devx 13y ago|0 comments
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by devx 13y ago
The problem is MPAA & friends will already see this as an "entitlement" and say those other browsers are "facilitating piracy", while the major ones from Google, Microsoft and Apple aren't. Something like that
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Luddites Are Almost Always Wrong: Technology Rarely Destroys Jobs(techdirt.com)
3 points by devx 13y ago|1 comments
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by devx 13y ago
I for one can't wait for this reveal: http://rt.com/usa/nsa-assassination-leaks-greenwald-514/
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by devx 13y ago
I don't know. It might've been worth a shot to send it in PDF format the second time, after he asked to deliver it digitally, just as a sign of protest. Didn't Twitter refuse to comply with a judge's order once, too?
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by devx 13y ago
Going 7 pages into it: "Wait...which line was I at again?!"
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by devx 13y ago
He's only received $50,000 so far, which seems pretty low to me for such an important case like this. If you can't/won't participate in protests against the mass surveillance and privacy abuses of the government, then a
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by devx 13y ago
And against patents: http://blogmaverick.com/2011/08/07/my-suggestion-on-patent-l... http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/31/mark-cubans-awesome-justifi...
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by devx 13y ago
Making DRM a web standard is bad enough on its own, but what worries is that these content companies will now think they can directly influence the web standards, and start having bigger expectations of what they can ask from W3C. It worrie
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Microsoft Accused of Lying in the Bing-It-On Anti-Google Campaign(news.softpedia.com)
1 points by devx 13y ago|0 comments
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by devx 13y ago
I wonder if this has anything to do with Intel's decision to stop supporting Mir. Might've set them back just enough so they won't be ready to ship it on time for 13.10.
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by devx 13y ago
This will actually make Flash go away faster, since now more devices and browsers can start ignoring supporting Flash.
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by devx 13y ago
What about this: > Other parts of the infrastructure used by Mir originate from Android. These parts include Android’s input stack[11] and Google’s Protocol Buffers.[12] An implementation detail in memory management shared with Android i
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by devx 13y ago
You might want to wait for Rust to be ready, because this way you can build an OS that truly made for the future (very optimized for multi-core). If you don't want to appeal to the general market, but more for a specialized market (lik
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by devx 13y ago
I don't know much about Wayland, but I know Mir is trying to be very efficient performance and battery life-wise even for smartphones, since it will be based on OpenGL ES 2.0. Can Wayland do the same?
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by devx 13y ago
It just means they will automate the spying more. Clapper already said he intends to use 90 percent fewer system admins. I wouldn't take this as meaning there's going to be significantly less spying or anything like that.
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by devx 13y ago
And I think that's the main problem with it. People think that it's actually a true replacement for a password, even though it's not.
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by devx 13y ago
Makes sense. Just like in a PGP web of trust, where that key is your unique identity, so will these fingerprints be. But it's a lot riskier to use them as your passwords (either against the NSA or other dedicated hackers).
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by devx 13y ago
I've been waiting for something like this to happen in books. Should be great for people who read at least one book per month.

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