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batraton Apple Loses German Top Court Case on Swipe-to-Unlock Patent

Don't know the technical terms but how is "unresponsive to input" when you can interact with the lock screen. For example swiping/expanding notifications, change songs, etc. For me "unresponsive to input" to a state of "responsive to input" would be the power/home button let's you interact with the screen.

batraton Open Letter to Microsoft’s CEO: Don’t Roll Back the Clock on Choice and Control

Seriously Mozilla, get over it. I know I use chrome and everybody I know uses Chrome. This is like a little kid who wants a candy every single day although he doesn't deserve it.

Every single time I hear about windows/IE/Edge I hear about Firefox/Mozilla too. What is this? Want a slice of that stake? Work for it.

batraton Streams: Mail 3.0 concept

The only thing that makes email useful is "everybody has this thing that accepts stuff and they get notified when new stuff shows up." That's all.

Also notes, contacts, file transfers, reminders and more.

Spam? Spam is everywhere and if it is not now, is because it's not popular. Once it gets to the level of "email", they will make sure you are getting spammed.

What bothers me is that people look for alternatives to make us more "locked" aka "safe" instead of trying to educate. We, devs/sysadmins, have to find ways to make sure that people know how to use and protect themselves not to hijack the tools they use/work/need just because we like to be EDGY.

batraton The real scars of Korean gaming

Injuries? Every sport has them, some even worse(MMA, boxing, fighting sports in general). From time to time this articles pup up about pc gaming. Its like any other sport, people should get over it.

batraton Websites Prep for Google’s ‘Mobilegeddon’

All pages are mobile friendly, and 90% of mobile user all they do is facebook and instagram...

batraton Doctors Perform the First Successful Penis Transplant

Circumcision is done very early(between 2-6). If you are doing after, is either because some medical problem or you are moving to Islamism.

batraton Windows 93 in JavaScript

Virtual box is awsome :< http://imgur.com/4Lwd9ro

batraton An $89 remanufactured Ubuntu workstation

10/100 Ethernet... why not GbE port? i would love to have something like this in my homelab, but the Ethernet port (for me) is rather limited.

batraton How did that program manage to pin itself to my taskbar when I installed it?

The only programs I know that pin themselves are Chrome and Firefox(?!). IMO all apps should have a pin to taskbar at the end of installation. I like them to be there, same as OSX.

batraton Ticket to Dine

Paying to book a restaurant? Probably just for an event. Otherwise I don't see people paying for it. Also, what is more easy? making a simple call or using an app/website, enter payment methods, accounts, etc....?

I know there is an app for everything, but making a call is 1000 better than using any app at the moment.

batraton 0h h1 – A little logic game

Same here. Can't see what i'm doing wrong. Nice to have the rules on the side or a button to press to show them.

batraton Operator of Silk Road 2.0 Website Charged in Manhattan Federal Court

So what? 100 more will arise. And this time not US based. You close 1 100 more will appear.

batraton Show HN: A database for browsing and discovering movies

I love it! So awesome. Great job.

batraton Your brain makes decisions while you sleep

Isn't the same study? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8306849 (6 days ago)

batraton A JavaScript clone of Nu Pogodi, a Soviet hand-held game

Yep we had the same thing here in Romania (ex communist) in the 90's. From what i can remember it was a clone of this but the implementation was the same as you said.