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Goodbye Firefox Its Been Fun, Hello Chrome My Cool New Friend.
Authored by: SilverWave on Sunday, December 02 2012 @ 05:48 PM EST
Goodbye Firefox Its Been Fun, Hello Chrome My Cool New Friend.

Its been Firefox for me for a *long* while but time to move on.

There is a list of cool extensions linked from the post as well that could be helpful for any one else doing the same.

Oh and a bit of a train wreck in the comments :-|

The main enabler for me was a new extension "Sidewise Tree Style Tab".

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RMS: The 4 Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions

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Manamana. (nt)
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, December 03 2012 @ 08:26 AM EST
 

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IRS = Why Strike Debt’s Rolling Jubilee Puts Borrowers at Risk
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, December 03 2012 @ 10:37 AM EST
The short version is that Strike Debt maintains that there is no risk here, when as we will demonstrate, the outcome is not knowable at this juncture (yes, that is unsatisfying, but welcome to the world of tax). It’s possible that things will work out just fine for the Rolling Jubilee. But if not, the ramifications to Strike Debt and the borrowers whose debt was cancelled would be significant. Thus, to dismiss this very real possibility is irresponsible.

Tax issues are nerdy. You need to be prepared to read this entire post, carefully. Go get some coffee or a cola. I’m planning to box readers about the ears if they raise issues that were addressed in the post.

Susan Webber, writing as Yves Smith, Naked Capitalism

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Oracle vs. Google, and rangeCheck: an experiment
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, December 03 2012 @ 11:06 AM EST
So, I happen to be in charge of teaching Java to a set of first year university
students (undergraduates). I needed to set a coursework question on throwing
exceptions, and being a Groklaw reader, I thought "well, I think I've seen
something like that before...". So I extracted an approximate spec for
rangeCheck from its code, wrote it in the form of a question, and gave it to the
students to see what would happen; it happens to make for a particularly good
example (being a real-world example of a useful function).

Setting the question itself was interesting. In particular, when writing the
documentation for the function, I found it very hard not to duplicate what
Oracle had written when describing the parameters; there's only one sensible way
to talk about the index of the first element of a range in Java documentation
style. The question ended up a little awkwardly worded due to my attempt to copy
only the API, not the actual code. (There were also a couple of small changes to
the function due to the constraints of the sort of question I wanted to set, but
nothing that significantly changes the nature of the problem.)

The results were interesting. I'd say about half the students wrote a correct
solution. The other half had mostly made arithmetic or logic errors in deciding
when to throw the exceptions; it's very easy to fail to catch a particular
combination of range endpoint versus array endpoint. For the students who'd got
it right, the actual content of the method tended to fall into two patterns; one
was the one Oracle used, and the other can't be used while keeping 100%
compatibility (but was more common, because my spec was slightly different from
the Oracle version).

So my conclusions: rangeCheck is a little less trivial than I thought it was,
and the scope for mistakes is why it was a good idea to bundle it up into a
method in the first place, but it's still very easy to write.

Oh, and it's not worth nearly as much as Oracle claimed it was :)

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Copyright Troll Case Tossed For 'Fraud On The Court' After Abbott & Costello-Worthy Hearing
Authored by: artp on Monday, December 03 2012 @ 02:06 PM EST

You really have to read this! It's hilarious!

On Techdirt:

Copyright Troll Case Tossed For 'Fraud On The Court' After Abbott & Costello-Worthy Hearing

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Userfriendly on WGA server outage:
When you're chained to an oar you don't think you should go down when the galley sinks ?

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Ericcson filing patent infringement suits against Samsung
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, December 03 2012 @ 07:17 PM EST
Yeah!

Ericcson - which has thousands of FRAND patents - is filing suit against
Samsung in the United States for REFUSING to pay its FRANT patents. It has
also filed suit against Samsung for an injunction against the sale of Samsung
devices in the United States.

This is going to be very interesting since Samsung is playing the same game
against Apple.

However, while Apple is very willing to pay a FRAND fee for FRAND patents,
Samsung is refusing to do so.

Samsung looks like the evil one in this scenario.

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Ericcson seeks import ban against Samsung's entire product line
Authored by: celtic_hackr on Monday, December 03 2012 @ 09:06 PM EST

Well, I can't say for sure they seek to ban every product, but they did list every product line of Samsung's electronics, and i saw no list of devices. So maybe one or two devices don't allegedly infringe.

Here's the link http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/443591/ericsson_wan ts_us_import_ban_samsung_products/

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