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Submission + - Firefox Will Soon Block Third-Party Cookies (webpolicy.org)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 23, 2013 @04:11PM

An anonymous reader writes: Stanford researcher Jonathan Mayer has contributed a Firefox patch that will block third-party cookies by default. It's now on track to land in version 22. Kudos to Mozilla for protecting their users and being so open to community submissions. The initial response from the online advertising industry is unsurprisingly hostile and blustering, calling the move 'a nuclear first strike.'

Comment Re:Wrong market - Wrong target audience (Score 1) 202

by TheMaskedMan on Wednesday January 12, 2011 @11:43AM (#34848776) Attached to: Wireless GeForce Graphics Card Announced

If only there was some kind of "remote desktop" software we would be all set...

AMD To Shed 10% of Its Workforce 276

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday April 08, 2008 @01:53PM from the hitting-the-streets dept.

stress_life writes "Recent rumors about AMD firing 5% of its workforce proved to be understated. AMD just announced that the company is going to deliver pink slips to 1600-1700 workers, or around 10% of its employees. AMD needs revenue of $2 billion per quarter, but Q1'08 is expected to come in around $1.5 billion. These firings have to be complete by Q3'08, the quarter by which Hector Ruiz promised to be profitable." We most recently discussed AMD's struggles in February.

Comment Re:In A Related Story... (Score 0) 471

by Doom Ihl' Varia on Sunday January 09, 2005 @12:55PM (#11304307) Attached to: SMS Text Messaging & Youth Debt One

Most Americans are mediocre? Shocking! Next you'll say that all people are mediocre! We can only hope you do not go as far as drawing a bell curve!

Comment Invites (Score 1) 693

by TheMaskedMan on Friday June 18, 2004 @09:57PM (#9469669) Attached to: Gmail in the News

Send Gmail invites to: themaskedman@gmail.com

kthx. ;-P

Comment svn (Score 1, Informative) 181

by XtAt on Tuesday December 30, 2003 @02:08PM (#7836779) Attached to: Pragmatic Version Control Using CVS

who uses cvs anymore? *giggle*

By the way, backports.org has a wonderful woody backport of subversion.

Journal Journal: Hm.

Journal by TheMaskedMan on Monday July 07, 2003 @05:44PM

I didn't realize my Slashdot account came with a journal. I've been keeping a LiveJournal which I update fairly regularly. If you know me then you should check it out.

That's all for now.

Journal Journal: h4 h4 wrelcom3 to /. 1

Journal by XtAt on Friday May 02, 2003 @08:12PM

h4 h4 wrelcom3 to /.

Comment Re:If only my kites would fly... (Score 1) 183

by Sheyala on Thursday November 14, 2002 @11:11AM (#4668235) Attached to: Kite Aerial Photography

You might want to check out the GWTW forums. Alot of the Seattle folks post there, plus there's lots of friendly regulars to answer stupid qestions. :) I love my stunt kites.

Comment Re:The Entitlement Generation (Score 1) 674

by Dr. Device on Thursday July 27, 2000 @08:30AM (#902431) Attached to: Napster Shut Down Until Trial

Where there are no more CD's to buy (as you assert that music should be free), how do I support the artist if I want to? Remember, my closet is too full of t-shirts, and almost all of the musicians I like do not tour, or live overseas, or at least on the east coast. Send them money! If you really want to pay the artists, pay them yourself. $5 for all the songs from a cd is better than what they would be getting paid now by the record companies. Or, you could pay them a dollar or two per song that you download. Even though not everyone who downloaded their songs would do this, they would still make a profit. They would only need about 1 in 41 people to actually pay for the cd to make just as much as they would from distributing their music through record companies

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