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  1. Re: camel camel camel on Amazon Jacked Up Prime Day Prices, Misleading Consumers, Says Vendor (foxbusiness.com) · · Score: 2

    I think CCC only picks up changes that affect an item's price for at least a day - most of those prime lightning deals are 4 hours max. A thing to keep in mind with those, if the item isn't a name brand, check it's competitors... frequently a lightning deal is a discount on a no-name-like product that is overpriced, and has competitors that sell an equal or better product at the same sale price (potentially less) every day.

  2. From what I can tell, after FF 57 - so long as you are running Nightly or what passes for Aurora now (Firefox Developer Edition, one version behind Nightly proper), you will be "allowed" to continue to use *Legacy Extensions for now.

    * Every single known Firefox extensions, not written by Mozilla for Test Pilot.

    Beyond that, Fuck Mozilla.

  3. Most of the world is hardly impressed with Apple. Pretty much just the 5 eyes (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States).

    0. 57% Japan

    Five Eyes:
    1. 48% G.Britain
    2. 46% Australia
    3. 43% USA
    4. 39% Canada
    5. 31% New Zealand

    Rest of the World:
    5. 24% France
    6. 24% EU5
    7. 20% China
    8. 20% Germany
    9. 16% Italy
    10. 13% Spain
    ...

    Sources:

    Apple regains top spot in New Zealand smartphone shipments
    Apple tops Samsung in Canadian smartphone market share: comScore
    iPhone market share grows 6.4% in USA, takes share from Android in most markets
    iPhone market share by country

  4. Courageous Crap.

  5. Re: How is an iPhone not a "Chinese phone"? on iPhones Are Priced 'High in the Extreme' But They're Worth It, Says Apple Co-founder Wozniak (scmp.com) · · Score: 2

    Battery life on my Xiaomi with a 4400mAH battery and MediaTek CPU was over 12 hours. The iPhone doesn't get anywhere close to that.

  6. Pretty much, just update your codecs periodically. MPC in all of it flavours (MPC, MPC-HC, MPC-BE, etc) have been rock stable for over a decade of releases.

  7. Re:Gawker burned to the ground, and good riddance on Free Speech vs Billionaires: Netflix Streams A New Documentary About The Gawker Verdict (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 0

    Sure. So why does Hogan sue Gawker instead of his supposed "friend" that watched, recorded and released said tape of Hogan fucking said friend's wife. Oh right, in America blame and SUE the messenger into oblivion.

  8. Re:You all presumably know why. on In Which Linus Torvalds Makes An 'Init' Joke (lkml.org) · · Score: 1

    Before SystemD, when I restarted a service|daemon, I would see a console message when the service stopped/restarted or failed. With SystemD I see absolutely nothing for success or failure. Improvement? Certainly fucking not. Needing to do a PS|GREP on the service is hardly an improvement over anything.

  9. Which is why you don't hear about this stupid bullshit occuring over on the Mozilla side of the fence.

  10. Mozilla has a community built around their browser and around the extension add-on repository. Chrome has an "addon-store of abandoned addons".

  11. No it's not. To release an updated extension it needs to be re-signed by Mozilla. You think they will re-sign an extension that does this? Right.

  12. Aye, but uMatrix with just a handful of default rules blocks 99%+ of what Ghostery & uBlock do.

    * * * block
    * * css allow
    * * frame block
    * * image allow
    * 1st-party * allow
    * 1st-party frame allow

    #Allow rules so stuff works, AND
    #If /. still used google or amazon ads, then I would still see some ads here.

    slashdot.org * cookie block
    slashdot.org * css inherit
    slashdot.org * image inherit
    slashdot.org fsdn.com * allow
    slashdot.org rpxnow.com * allow
    slashdot.org slashcdn.com * allow
    slashdot.org slashdot.org cookie allow
    slashdot.org slashdotmedia.com * allow
    slashdot.org doubleclick.net * allow
    slashdot.org doubleclick.net frame allow
    slashdot.org google.com * allow
    slashdot.org google.com frame allow
    slashdot.org googleads.g.doubleclick.net frame allow
    slashdot.org googleadservices.com * allow
    slashdot.org s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com * allow

  13. This is just one of the many reasons why you don't use Chrome as your primary browser. Firefox has had Mozilla-signed extensions for year(s) now to protect the non-developers.

  14. I've noticed a fair chunk of Javascript lately, is used to open|create websockets, and when a piece of that fails, due to inline-script block or similar, it causes the ad-block counters to run off the charts. Except when the websocket wasn't blocked? Firefox climed to 8GB of Ram in less than 30 mins.

  15. Re:Free shipping isn't free on Amazon Prime Is a Blessing and a Curse For Remote Towns (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Apparently NewEgg and Rosewill are owned by Hangzhou New Century Information Technology Co., Ltd..

    Open-box @ NewEgg is a blatant scam, and except for one purchase in 2016, I've been NewEgg free since 2012.

  16. WTF Are you Serious? on Ask Slashdot: How Do You Read Code? · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What competent programmer converts the abstraction of code to ENGLISH to grok it?

    generally translates to "for size T i equals zero, i less than item list dot size, plus-plus i.

    No it doesn't. It translates to, "Iterate 'itemlist'" , You're Welcome.

  17. Re:Modem F / M Comparison Chart on Enthusiast Resurrects IBM's Legendary 'Model F' Keyboard (popularmechanics.com) · · Score: 1

    Man... only a 2 key rollover on the Model M - that would be of no use whatsoever for me today.

  18. Re:Past the boiling point of water? on Iranian City Soars To Record 129F Degrees: Near Hottest On Earth in Modern Measurements (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    ...that goes up to -11.

  19. Re:Past the boiling point of water? on Iranian City Soars To Record 129F Degrees: Near Hottest On Earth in Modern Measurements (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    The Nest thermostat allows fractional (1/4, 1/3, and 1/2) F* temperature settings. You can easily feel the difference between 76.6 and 77.

  20. Re:What's the big deal? on Windows 10 Will Soon Protect Files and Folders From Ransomware (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    RUNAS USAGE:

    RUNAS [ [/noprofile | /profile] [/env] [/savecred | /netonly] ] /user: program

    RUNAS [ [/noprofile | /profile] [/env] [/savecred] ] /smartcard [/user:] program

    RUNAS /trustlevel: program

  21. Re:Pepperidge farms remembers on eBay Will Now Price Match Amazon, Walmart and Others On Over 50,000 Items (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    The only problem I've had on eBay were a few attempts to get a discounted Windows license. Every time was a scam. Never had an issue with an actual physical good.

  22. Re:Wonder... on Let's Encrypt Hits New Milestone: Over 100,000,000 Certificates Issued (letsencrypt.org) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Good Riddance. About time we get rid of the gouging "middle-man" to protect us from the man-in-the-middle-attacks.

  23. Re:One bad customs agent on Mozilla Employee Denied Entry To the United States (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Keep up AC! There is no Cuban embargo any longer.

  24. Re:Pepperidge farms remembers on eBay Will Now Price Match Amazon, Walmart and Others On Over 50,000 Items (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Still is. Got a Pioneer DEH-150MP car stereo for 20 bucks last week.

    Compared to Amazon, Ebay is a "pleasant" experience: faster page loads, better product filtering, more convenient "collections", etc. - with the caveat of generally longer delivery times.

  25. Re:This is *all* about GTA VI on GTA V Flooded With Negative Reviews On Steam After OpenIV Modding Tool Shuts Down (kotaku.com) · · Score: 1

    VI that too.