Recent content by martel80

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    Stop, Thief! Why Using an Ad Blocker Is Stealing

    I have blocked ads for Tom's Hardware because you had these annoying ads which kept scrolling with the article. It totally messed my browser up. It's your own fault for allowing crap like that on your site.
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    YouTube Considering Paid, Ad-Free Subscription Service

    Adblock is nice but it can be detected. There are sites which refuse to load unless you disable it. And once google offers paid ad removal, they are likely going to do the same. Or they can have their servers insert the ad into the actual clip you are streaming (it's a separate clip now, easily...
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    UK Cinemas Ban Google Glass in Theatres

    So did they ban them in cinemas or in theatres or both? :)
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    Yahoo! Finally Shutting AltaVista Down on July 8

    BB altavista.digital.com
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    Developer Says Facebook Banning Instagram Competitors

    Last time I checked, FB was a private company running a private service on their private servers. They can do whatever they (or shareholders) want. It's their own risk of losing customers for this. Monopoly? Just move to Google+.
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    Firefox Now Blocking All Plug-Ins Except Latest Flash

    Does it mean that I will have to explicitly enable adblock and flashblock for each site? I guess I'm going to disable the FF auto-updates until they wake up.
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    Sony Patent Details Method on Blocking Used Games

    For those worrying about broken console replacement and being unable to play your games... I guess it's not so hard to make the tag module inside the console removable/transferable. So they will just take it from the broken unit and insert it into the replacement unit.
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    The Pope Sends Out His First Tweet

    Great, yet another attention **ore. :)
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    Google Ordered to Change Privacy Policy

    EU laws do not automatically override laws of individual countries. EU does not entirely eliminate sovereignty of the nations. Once they pass some new law/regulation on the EU level, it usually needs to be incorporated into the law systems of individual countries before it becomes effective (in...
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    FBI Takes Down 3 Sites Hosting Pirated Android Apps

    Just set it up in Russia or China and say FU to FBI.
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    Mozilla Cuts Thunderbird Mail Client Development

    randomizerCasual users mostly use webmail now, and Outlook is embedded in the corporate world...Man, we're on IBM Lotus Notes and it sucks big time! :(
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    Carmack Not Impressed With Next-Gen Console Hardware

    The future are games with interactive/dynamic content which reacts to actions of the players (or AI-controlled NPCs), very unlike the crap that id Software keeps producing. Playing their latest games feels like playing Doom 1 (Rage felt even worse) - graphically proficient crap with boring...
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    Google Accuses Microsoft, Nokia of Patent Conspiracy

    Since when is this against the law? People are allowed to change their minds so why couldn't companies?