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  1. Re:I've forgotten too on 82% of Kids in 'Netflix Only' Homes Have No Idea What Commercials Are (exstreamist.com) · · Score: 2

    Aye. Everytime we visit family, The Television(s) are rarely off. I can barely stand it. Even before we got rid of cable - 95%+ of our TV viewing was DVR'd and manually skipped commercial breaks.

  2. Google Play Music Family on Pandora Debuts Premium On-Demand Music Tier (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    Too little too late Pandora. Google Play Music Family is $14.99 including ad-free YouTube Red.

    Up to 6 users can download music to up to 6 of thier devices. No mobile-streaming charges. No stupid skip-limit. Replay ad-nauseum.

  3. Re:Don't scare me like that. on Developer Proclaims Death of Cyberfox Web Browser (ghacks.net) · · Score: 1

    I ran it briefly (also Waterfox), back before I found that Firefox had native x64 builds for both Firefox Aurora (Developer) and Nightly. Why use slower-updated forks?

  4. Re:We keep getting faster processors... on AMD Offers Full Details and Performance of Zen-Based Naples Server Platform (hothardware.com) · · Score: 1

    If the outlying cities really think its a good deal, they should contract EPB for service. If providing the service required infrastructure, then the cities could likewise contract EPB to build it out.

  5. Re:What about Amazon Prime? on For the First Time, More US Households Have Netflix Than a DVR (variety.com) · · Score: 1
    The problem is Amazon mixes 5 different types of videos in the same lists, with nearly no way to filter them:

    1) Free, Gratis with Prime
    2) Partially Free, some seasons are available; current season becomes free 6+months after the air date. 3) Taster Sampler, a few free shows, must buy remainder of the season.
    4) Time-Limited Rental.
    5) Highly overpriced older films (10-20+ years) for $10 - $20.

    At least Amazon's "Fire" device searches now also return results for Hulu, but not Netflix.

  6. Re:Not available in the oficial Mozilla site on Mozilla Firefox 52 Released As ESR Branch, Will Receive Security Updates Until 2018 (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1
    I've been on Nightly and Firefox Developer (Auora) for 3 - 4 years. All of the necessary Add-ons work just fine. I got rid of all of QuickSaver's extensions as he pre-announced that he wasn't going to support them any longer due to the upcoming FF 57.

    Activity Stream (Mozilla)
    Copy All Tab Urls WE
    Enpass Password Manager
    Greasemonkey
    Multiple Tab Handler
    Page Shot (Mozilla)
    Session Manager
    SnoozeTabs (Mozilla)
    Stylish
    Stylish-Custom
    Tabhunter
    Test Pilot (Mozilla)
    Tree Style Tab
    uBlock Origin
    uMatrix
    Vertical Toolbar

  7. Re:Too Bad Google Just Abandoned Them... on Apple Losing Out To Microsoft and Google in US Classrooms (macrumors.com) · · Score: 1

    The Pixel Chromebook. The overpriced $1500 cloud pc. Not Chromebooks. I assume the rest of your post is a FUCKING JOKE, just like your premise.

  8. Re:I JUST WANT A NEW NEXUS 5 LIKE PHONE! on Google Will Release a New Pixel Phone this Year (engadget.com) · · Score: 1
    Nokia is the new Nexus. 1/3rd the price of a Pixel phone.

    If you want the best "pure Google" Android phone and prompt software and security updates and you're willing to pay flagship smartphone prices, you can get a Google Pixel. But what do you do if you want those things but don't want to pay out the nose?

    The answer to that question might just be "get a Nokia 6." The company's throwback feature phone probably got more press coverage, but the Android-based Nokia 3, 5, and 6 all look really promising. The phones' manufacturer, HMD, is promising a "pure, secure, and up-to-date" lineup that gets prompt monthly security updates and quick updates to new Android versions. And we came away impressed by the Nokia 6's build quality and specs, given that it costs about a third of what a Pixel will run you.

    Nokia and HMD will still need to prove that they can actually follow through on their big talk about software updates and support, but for now, HMD is at least saying the right things.

    from: Ars Favorite phones from 2017's MWC

  9. Re:Rich are winning class war [Re: Bull] on 'Robots Won't Just Take Our Jobs -- They'll Make the Rich Even Richer' (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Look at the Union-busting that went on in Wisconsin. The government and "news" outlets convinced the general public that teachers making 50,000 / year are overpaid.

  10. Few are considering the Blackberry's $549 price to be reasonable though, especially when the phone is clearly within it's competitors mid-range offerings. A $200 - $300 premium for a keyboard with a near square screen and sub-par hardware isn't overly appealing.

  11. Re:Wow, 10 million users! on Mozilla Acquires Pocket and Its More Than 10 Million Users (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Or you could learn how to use search, a google search for: firefox "disable pocket", gets 1210 results.

  12. Re:"Police found Purinton 80 miles away at Applebe on Garmin Engineer Shot And Killed By Man Yelling 'Get Out Of My Country!' (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Guns kill easiest. Guns kill efficiently. A car and machete are tools that have many uses. A gun is a weapon, and has a single purpose. It kills. It kills well.

  13. But can they track it? on $10K Package Of Super Nintendo Games Finally Found By Post Office (eurogamer.net) · · Score: 1

    If they can actually track the package and after 1-2 hours on the phone don't tell you something like:
    -- "Your postal worker wasn't working today."
    Ok, but it was supposed to be delivered yesterday, the tracking says it was yesterday.
    -- "We'll look into it, here's a case #"

    Later that same day, a neighbor stops by with a package that was delivered to her two days ago. I do not waste another hour+ on the phone notifying the Post Office.

    < 5 days later >
    --"Our investigation shows no trace of your package. We don't know where it is."

  14. Re:So it has... on LG's Latest Battery Is Also a Phone (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    As the original LG Power (Released September 2016) is currently ~$99.

  15. Re:So it has... on LG's Latest Battery Is Also a Phone (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    The $200 - $300 price range sounds about right, as the original LG Power was "price rank 5.0" (GSMArena), with the LG Power 2 being an iteration step mostly.

    The Endgadget review is pretty much garbage, they are comparing a $175 - $250 phone to "flagship devices" ($600 to $1000).

  16. Re:Might want to move providers... on Website Builder Wix Acquires Art Community DeviantArt For $36 Million (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Wix doiesn't need to "reword" it. They bought DeviantArt, and are going to incorporate "Wix into DeviantArt"... the "Service" remains the Service...

  17. Re:Might want to move providers... on Website Builder Wix Acquires Art Community DeviantArt For $36 Million (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2
    16. Copyright in Your Content

    DeviantArt does not claim ownership rights in Your Content. For the sole purpose of enabling us to make your Content available through the Service, you grant to DeviantArt a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to reproduce, distribute, re-format, store, prepare derivative works based on, and publicly display and perform Your Content. Please note that when you upload Content, third parties will be able to copy, distribute and display your Content using readily available tools on their computers for this purpose although other than by linking to your Content on DeviantArt any use by a third party of your Content could violate paragraph 4 of these Terms and Conditions unless the third party receives permission from you by license.

  18. ~$270 on iPhone Owners in US Spent $40 Each on Apps in 2016 (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    $270. Project-Fi with 2 - 3GB of data used outside of WiFi.

  19. The only "Intel inside" that were allowed in our house are in the wife's Macs... I'll buy Intel when they are the only option left.

    AMD 8088, AMD 386, AMD K6-2, Athlon S754, Phenom II X2 560 Black Edition, FX-6300 Black Edition, an AMD A8 and A10-8700P laptop.

    All but the first three are still in working order. Looking forward to building a new Ryzen desktop later this year.

  20. Re:Why is income equality necessarily good? on The Only Thing, Historically, That's Curbed Inequality: Catastrophe (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    So they can spend it, and support the economy. And Rent.

  21. Re:A piece about content... without content. on The Death of the Click (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Google came "onto the scene" in 1999...So they've been here almost the whole time.

  22. Re: My company doesn't allow us to... on Should International Travelers Leave Their Phones At Home? (freecodecamp.com) · · Score: 1

    Sorry.

  23. HTC the next RIM on HTC To Stop Making Budget Android Phones This Year (neowin.net) · · Score: 1
    HTC Sales:
    2010: 24M, 2011: 156M ...2015: 62M
    HTC just unveiled one of the best Android phones of 2016, but you can’t have one -- The HTC 10 EVO is only available on Sprint.

    Also throughout 2016, there were numerous reports that claimed HTC would stop selling Flagship phones in America completely.

  24. Re:In other words... on Mozilla Will Deprecate XUL Add-ons Before the End of 2017 · · Score: 1

    In other words, Moz://a will remove the #1 reason we started using Firefox in the first place.

  25. Re:What does this mean, exactly? on Mozilla Will Deprecate XUL Add-ons Before the End of 2017 · · Score: 1

    Quicksaver has five extensions, four of which are Featured by Moz://a

    1) Findbar Tweak, 2) OmniSidebar, 3) Tab Groups, 4) Beyond Australis, and Puzzle Bars.

    All of them will be gone with Firefox 57. I highly doubt Piro will be able to continue Tree Style Tab and co either.

    Firefox users are fucked.