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posted by janrinok on Saturday December 31 2016, @11:15AM   Printer-friendly
from the not-quite-so-flash dept.

Back in August Adobe reversed its decision to stop offering an NPAPI Flash plugin for Linux and promised that version 23 would come Penguinistas' way real soon now.

At the time the decision was greeted with surprise, because Adobe had not thought to update Flash for Linux since 2012's version 11.2. But the company decided that Linux users deserved a security upgrade to the infamously hole-ridden product.

It turns out the company fibbed, because it's now delivered version 24 of the plugin to Linux users, making this a thirteen-version jump between releases*.

That's the same version number offered to Windows and Mac users, but the new Linux version lacks features found on those other platforms. Linux users willing to put up with almost-certainly-insecure** will therefore have to put up with missing 3D acceleration from GPUs.


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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 31 2016, @06:54PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 31 2016, @06:54PM (#447910)

    You could NOT care less.
    Until you have it memorized, here's a wall hanging to remind you. [archive.li]

    For those who are weak on words and better with charts it's diagrammed here. [archive.li]

    -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 31 2016, @07:30PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 31 2016, @07:30PM (#447923)

    I could care less about your pedantic hangups, because I'm careless with language as long as it serves it's function of facilitating communication. Everyone knows what he meant, so quit trying to preserve "proper english" and all that bullshit when it doesn't matter at all.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 31 2016, @09:45PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 31 2016, @09:45PM (#447949)

      Don't come crying to me when you get burned by some vendor who put weird non-standard English in a contract because "everyone knows what he meant".

      There are reasons that standards exist.

      -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 31 2016, @11:43PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 31 2016, @11:43PM (#447971)

        Dear Sir or Madam:

        Your contracts are written in standard English? Boy do you have some disappointment coming up in your life. I don't feel sorry for you though, since you are spamming this forum.

        For those of you who have a low IQ: There is a huge difference between accepted society rules for an internet forum, standard English, phone text messages, doctorate papers, literature, office emails, and contract language. Source: I am not stupid and possess common knowledge.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 01 2017, @12:16AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 01 2017, @12:16AM (#447984)

        The persona non grata would like us to use contract language here everyone. What you are proposing is contra legem. Fucktart. Is that a word - or is it "Fucktard" or is the proper usage "Fuck-tard". Please correct my spelling here - I don't know words.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 01 2017, @02:07AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 01 2017, @02:07AM (#448015)

      because I'm careless with language as long as it serves it's function of facilitating communication. Everyone knows what he meant,

      Carelessness with language usually signals careless thought. I still don't know how much the original quasi-literal poster cares! Of course, even if we knew he (or she) couldn't care less, without knowing their own personal scale of caring, we could not know how much care that would be. But then, if they could careless, even if we knew what their lower terminus of care-ocity was, we could not even place the quantum of caring on a relative scale, making the entire idiom meaningless and incoherent. So it does matter, and your protestations are only evidence of your own lacunae when it comes to grammar, syntax, semantics, and interpersonal communication.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 01 2017, @10:39AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 01 2017, @10:39AM (#448085)

        Nah. They're evidence of a comment here not being something I pay attention to or care about. I know that for you, comments here is an important thing in your life so you do it carefully. Normal people just care about getting the message and understand there are no grammar rules here. Others of us don't look at the internet as a part of their social life. We also get laid a lot more. I took about 30s to type this with my thumb, while being in an elevator and talking to someone. It's simple: pressing the right floor button and my conversation with the cumbucket are more important to me than you not being upset about proper grammar.

        The text messages you send from your phone must be a thrill to read.
        girl - "wat r u up 2 l8r. wanna fuck?"
        you - Good afternoon. Please learn to capitalize the first word of a sentence. In fact, only 25% of the words in what you wrote are written correctly. Sincerely, ugly nerd loser. PS. Please do correct your grammar and resubmit. PSS. I honestly believe you don't know basic expressions so I am correcting them. PSSS. I don't have anything on-topic to say about this, since I am stupid, so I will grammar-check your message instead. PSSSS. pssssssssssss

        Oh who am I kidding. With your annoying personality (and likely bad, bad looks), I shouldn't've used "girl". Disgusting fat unibrow glasses-wearing unshaven disgusting animal that's willing to talk to you. I highly doubt you have anyone to send them to besides family and other people with your awkward lack of social skills and external beauty.

        U got some long-term Valium in your future bud. I love people like you. Their lives are so sad and unsatisfying, it makes me warm inside to enjoy their misery. When they try to rationalize their retarded bland lonely existence in response, it makes my whole day happy. Just knowing they have decades and decades of that suffering left.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 01 2017, @04:08PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 01 2017, @04:08PM (#448157)

        if they could careless

        Careless is an adjective. Care is a noun. What you want to say is "if they could Care Less." You cannot replace a noun with an adjective - it completely changes the meaning of you're sentence. Here, let me provide some references and diagrams online for you to read. If you don't understand from those references, you can use this thing I've discovered called a search engine. A search engine looks on the internet for sites matching a keyword. You should look up "looser" to find a picture of yourself. Sorry, I mean your mother.

        People who think comments on this site need careful thought are losers. Have you ever had sex with a girl others would find attractive? You can. Start saving up some money.

  • (Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 31 2016, @11:30PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 31 2016, @11:30PM (#447970)

    you idiot - different grammar and spelling rules apply to different things. you expect me to get everything right while I'm swyping on my phone on the toilet while paying attention to the movie dialog on tv. do you expect me to re-read what I wrote and correct spelling too? this isn't a legal document or newspaper loser. this is the comments section of a news aggregator. Everyone already knows your stupid corrections - your not on a nigger forum in da hood. the words slip up, and noone besides you cares enough to check and correct what they wrote while pushing out a log, and every one understands each other just fine. We just have lifes, ones which involve people and attractive girls, and travel and all kinds of shit. and our lives are not carefully typing comments.

    By the way, you're improperly finished your letter to me. Go spellcheck some more people's comments - I know that's what you do since you're on the ugly side and have no one to actually hang with. I'll stick to typing here while in toilets and on excavators.

    Sincerely,
    Your a fucking loser.

    Also - guess what retard. I am trilingual, speak a total of 5, and english is #2. et toi?

    • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 01 2017, @02:13AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 01 2017, @02:13AM (#448016)

      I am trilingual, speak a total of 5,

      Interesting, trilingual, but speak five, languages, I presume? But then, that would make you quintilingual, would it not? Or are you saying you speak five, but only tongue three? Not sure what that would mean, nor do I wish to find out.

      and english is #2.

      Do you know what that means, in English? A question from I.P. Freely.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 01 2017, @10:57AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 01 2017, @10:57AM (#448089)

        no moron. trilingual does not mean you speak only 3 languages. what I am saying is I speak 5, and I am trilangual. if you have trouble understanding what that means, it's your iq that's the problem. hint: taking a spanish course at whatever community college you got your education from does not make your retard ass bilingual.

        yeah moron - I know what number 2 means. unlike you, i don't get my jokes from simpsons reruns. you must be a kick at parties. lots of laughter around you at all times? I love it when idiots try to talk down. go look up what trilingual means and maybe you'll realize english is not my second language.

        no original thought, no original content - I see now why grammar is important to you on an internet forum. it's all you're able to do well.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 01 2017, @11:44AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 01 2017, @11:44AM (#448100)

        I have a story for you. This one is about my 2 brothers. My girlfriend at the time and I are at a party. My 2 brothers show up.

        2 brothers, on a wrestling team at the gym, tomatoes - and then aliens invade, from outer space - the aliens, and there was corn. Corn battles rage through the night while wrestling.. macho tomatoes with cabbage. from outer space - wrestling. At the corn battles, with 2 brothers.

        Anywise, so there is a dude at this party. He is one of those hipster idiots who usually looks the fool and says retarded things, but people don't correct him - they just smile. One of those guys who (we're all in our early 20s at this point) brags about his 50k salary, and everyone just quietly lets him do it, despite it being less than what most people in the room take home. In short - he is a fool, but has low self-esteem. In order not to get depressed, he creates a virtual world for himself where he is awesome. Because everyone recognizes him as a fool, they know there is nothing they can say to convince him to stop acting like a clown. People are laughing at how stupid something he says is, and he thinks they find him funny.

        Anywise, my brothers come in, and this guy talks to them for a while. Then my girlfriend and a couple of other bitches come by. Now, the douche has never met my brothers, or me, but he knows we're Russian. So does everyone else at the party, including the girls. He turns to my little brother and goes "Hey, what nationality are you guys". My brother, surprised, goes "Umm, we're all Russian dude." And then the douche goes: "Oh wow, your English is very good! Good job guys - I heard that Russians are very smart!" Everyone is laughing their ass off. Everyone in the room. In his mind he is the star of the party. He complements both my brothers' English as well as mine, several more times as the night progresses. The 3rd time people give him weird looks and don't laugh - they've stopped paying attention.

        Now mind you - while my little brother can kinda understand Russian, he doesn't actually speak any, nor has he been to another country besides hopping the bridge to drink in Canada before he hit 21.

        Later in the week I was hanging to 2 the girls who came by that night. While I was deep in thought trying to figure out why I have a girlfriend who gets fatter monthly, when I could instead be fucking these two flirty sluts, one of them asks me if that slow kid at whom we were all laughing got upset. She felt bad for laughing at him, but she was really drunk that night. I said the slow kid was fine - don't worry about it.

        The next party was great. That girl was so nice to the douche. Attentively listened to things he said, replied on topic, even asked him what he would like to eat - she'd bring him a plate. He made a joke that while he's not Thai he would love some cat meat. The joke was funny - the only reason she didn't get it is no one expects a joke like that from a retard. With 100% seriousness she explained to him the you can't order cat meat in the US - even at a Thai place. He thought that was a meta-type joke and started laughing. She looked confused.

        The guy later told me he thinks she's into him, and should he ask her out? I told him to definitely go for it. What sucks most is I don't know what happened after that. It must have been glorious though. I bet to this day that douche doesn't know most of the people at that party to this day think he has a mental disability. And that party being a small microcosm of the world, I bet this is a common thing in his life. A complete loser not realizing he is everyone's personal clown.

        If one day the virtual world he's built up around himself comes crashing down - when he somehow realizes the truth, that's when the guy's life is going to implode. And then more likely than not, substance abuse, depression, AA meetings, relapse, divorce.

        You can't order cat at any restaurant here bud. I'm serious. Don't even try.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 01 2017, @03:45PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 01 2017, @03:45PM (#448151)

        Good morning all and happy 2017!! Looks like 2017 starts with the famous Ironic Clown. The ironic clown does not know his own language very well and assumes people who do know it are foreign!! Ironic Clown 2017!!

        Look there guy. I'll explain it to you, since it is clear that not only do you not know the meaning of "trilingual", you still don't get the joke.
        1st gen Mexicans born in Dallas are bilingual. 9th gen Irish who take some high school Spanish are not.
        "English is #2". This thread is about shitty English being fine on a forum. Get it now Watson?

        But we have moved on from laughing at joke #1. That was last year. This year we are laughing at joke #1. That's you - get it? The kid who is not very bright and likes to make a fool of himself. If you're stupid and you know it and you really want to show it, if you really want to show it... just say or type anything. Anything at all will do.

        Maybe explain to me how that was out of a nursery rhyme and quote something bland from King of the Hill.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 01 2017, @05:45AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 01 2017, @05:45AM (#448055)

      Here's a video especially for you.
      "Weird Al" Yankovic - Word Crimes [youtube.com]
      Lyrics [genius.com]

      ...and the lot of you would do well to learn the difference between "pedantic" and "didactic".

      -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

  • (Score: 1) by EETech1 on Sunday January 01 2017, @07:35AM

    by EETech1 (957) on Sunday January 01 2017, @07:35AM (#448066)

    Here is everything you need to know.
    Courtesy of Weird Al.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc [youtube.com]

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 01 2017, @02:19PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 01 2017, @02:19PM (#448125)

      original poster here. now that it's exploded a bit and I've had my laughs, this is exactly what I do. I am not weird al though - I promise. I like to hurt people w/ my humor.

      I actually make a shitload of mistakes when I'm doing other things. If I'm watching something a word from the tv show will just slip in randomly into a comment. The grammar correcting people are guaranteed to reply for certain errors like this one though. your/you're also works great, and should of. sometime's these losers will correct it to "should have" instead of should've. Anywise, whatever their reply, it's really easy to make fun of them and put them down. I imagine that it bugs them and depresses them, and makes them feel like outcasts. And that makes me feel awesome, and I don't feel bad about it because they started it.

      You ever leave a phone on out and when the black kid comes to steal it you just beat the bloody shit out of him and take his wallet? It's great, and you're doing nothing wrong - you're defending yourself.