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by slowpoke 15y ago
Except - as multiple people already mentioned - this article is about the Firefox Nightly , which currently means Firefox 8. There are huge differences between FF 4 and FF 8 (or 4 and >5, for that matter).
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by slowpoke 15y ago
I'm quite acquainted with the general tenor of HN, thank you. I just don't have much nice words left for people who continue to spout lies, logical fallacies and also insult people to defend their failing business models. Your insults are m
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by slowpoke 15y ago
Oh dear, where do I start... First off, stealing . I don't give a crap how often you and others like you spout this bullshit, it doesn't make it any more correct. It's not stealing. It never was, it never will be. If you are unable to unde
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by slowpoke 15y ago
Well the people that make and distribute that content need information to make your experience better. If somebody wants my feedback, they can ask for it, and if I have the time and like/value their service, I will gladly comply. Si
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by slowpoke 15y ago
unless the top 5 percent just get pissed off and leave altogether. But this is exactly what will most likely happen. Assuming that at least a larger percentage of this top 5% are 'power downloaders', I can pretty much assure you tha
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by slowpoke 15y ago
And alternatives cannot gain ground because everybody uses paypal. It's a vicious circle. And one of my favorite examples for why monopolies are bad.
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by slowpoke 15y ago
You're right, I kind of miss-phrased that. And yes, I am aware that I'm part of a very tiny fraction of customers. My post shouldn't be understood as a demand or anything, I was just rambling. Oh, and for PSC: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by slowpoke 15y ago
For Paypal (and partially for Amazon): You might have heard of the shit they pulled with Wikileaks (freezing accounts, withholding money, kicking them out of the service for no reason etc). And that wasn't the first time they did something
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by slowpoke 15y ago
As awesome as this is, I'm quite bothered with the payment options. As it stands, I can't pay even if I wanted. I don't have a CC and all of Paypal, Amazon and Google are utter no-gos for me. It makes me a sad panda that options like PaySaf
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by slowpoke 15y ago
As sad as it may sound, I know some... let's call them pathetic individuals... who pay 0.01$ exactly because of this fact. But oh well, they are usually pretty laughable with their feeble attempts at trolling, anyways, so I stopped botherin
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by slowpoke 15y ago
It is often used as an offense, but at least in my case, it's simply an insult backfire (thanks for the compliment). I assume it's the same way for quite a lot of other people.
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by slowpoke 15y ago
What's bad about more knowledge?
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by slowpoke 15y ago
Reminded a bit of V for Vendetta's speech Well, guess where they got the masks from, amongst other things. Anonymous is pretty much V incarnate. He's their idol and inspiration. He's everything they aspire to be.
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by slowpoke 15y ago
Would you tell someone who fights, for example, poverty in the US that he or she could instead be focusing on fighting poverty in development countries? It's just trying to shift the blame by pointing out another problem. This doesn't make
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by slowpoke 15y ago
I truly think you are a brave person for doing this under your real name. I most likely couldn't do that. Godspeed, good sir.
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by slowpoke 15y ago
I'm gonna seed the fuck out of this. There's always place for knowledge on my HDDs, and there will always be bandwidth I can sacrifice for spreading that knowledge. I dare to say: For science!
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>Just because people are bound by the decisions of the majority doesn't mean it's centralized. That wasn't the point my grandparent was making. The first and foremost critical flaw of democracy is (and always will be) that the majority
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by slowpoke 15y ago
The problem is that, as others have mentioned, from openness results social pressure, and social pressure can severely affect your decisions. On the other hand, openness of course leads to transparency, and transparency prevents corruption
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by slowpoke 15y ago
Pretty much this. Call me an elitist or a backwards conservative[1] for this, but there is absolutely no way a GUI will ever be faster and more productive than using the CLI for pretty much all tasks I can currently think off (that don'
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by slowpoke 15y ago
I think the problem is less that C++ is too complicated, but rather that it is more complicated than it needs to be at almost all tasks where the major pros of C++ don't matter (eg speed) - you're better of using whatever choice of high a
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by slowpoke 15y ago
In addition to that, since the ID provider does not get any sort of information about which websites you visit with your ID, it would be impossible to know where exactly the ID is in use. At least that's how I understand it.
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by slowpoke 15y ago
Still doesn't make it less right.
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by slowpoke 15y ago
So, it amounts to firms relying on laws for their business model? Or, more accurately, the artificial monopolies created by said laws? That's doing it wrong. If you cannot stay in business without these laws, you shouldn't be in business
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by slowpoke 15y ago
Your just using ad populum here. That's not an argument. There is no benefit for anyone to be gained through domain seizures. It's just another gateway to censorship. Besides, you got the part about rights of individuals wrong. The right to
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by slowpoke 15y ago
Yeah, but no. If I want to make a home or specialty video and give it away to a few folks but not sell it, that doesn't give you any kind of moral right to take it and give it to the world. I can't take it. If, however, one of those perso
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>but if you write short functions Yeah, you should do that. You know that though because (I assume) you are a veteran programmer - or at least not a newbie, to whom this might not be as obvious as it is to you and me. Don't forget we ar
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by slowpoke 15y ago
It's not the point that the chance is low. The point is that there is any chance at all. No government should be allowed to seize domains. Ever.
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by slowpoke 15y ago
>A weapon is just a type of tool used with intent to harm. While that is correct, it can be extended to pretty much everything. In the end, weapons don't kill people, people kill people. And while this will probably will get me labeled
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by slowpoke 15y ago
Uh, since it's quite obviously a pun on "grammar-nazi" I fail to see your point. Even the description of the package makes it obvious: Annoying helper module that finds unicode/bytestring comparisions and other problems.
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by slowpoke 15y ago
It isn't. It's just people talking about things which they know next to nothing about. Move on, nothing to see here.

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