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  1. $1 per user/year and 1.5m users - wouldn't even pay for 10 active developers.

  2. Re:Making money is not a "moral requirement" on Citing 'Moral Requirement To Make Money', Pharma CEO Jacks Drug Price 400% (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I would lay odds that of the remaining 95%, more than half of the remaining pharmaceuticals do little more than treat the effects of the modern western diet:
    deep fried, packaged foods and over-consumption of carbohydrates & sugar.

  3. Re:38% seems nuts for an adaptor on Google Replaces Its USB-C Headphone Adapter With a More Expensive Version (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    OOps that's a AA battery, A D-Cell is probably 3-4 times that much... Still 1.5V though.

  4. Re:38% seems nuts for an adaptor on Google Replaces Its USB-C Headphone Adapter With a More Expensive Version (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    A D-Battery is 1.5V @ 2000 - 2500mAH. A Cell battery is 5V @ 3000 - 4400 mAH.

  5. Hire a small tech company to design print open-source circuit boards and replace the "guts." A tractor isn't that complicated - some lights a few moving "limbs" / threshers.

  6. Terms of Use | Fox News

    Company furnishes the Company Sites and the Company Services for your personal enjoyment and entertainment.

  7. Re:Google and Youtube are broken on The Flourishing Business of Fake YouTube Views (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Click on the Hamburger menu, select "Not Interested," click on "Tell Me Why," select an appropriate reason "Don't Like," or the last reason which is available 10-20% of the time, which are videos recommended due to some other Watched Video|Topic|Subscribed Channel.

    Do the same with a small section of your viewed History - it's not that difficult to fix if you bother.

  8. Re:Probably a good buy on Logitech Is Acquiring Blue Microphones For $117 Million In Cash (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Roccat's LEADR (wireless Tyon) beats every programmable multi-button Logitech mouse I've bought since the MX-518 from 2005.

  9. Re:Opera users, chime in. on Opera Browser Raises $115 Million In Its Stock Market Debut (cnet.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Opera used to be a Norwegian company with Norwegian developers and an active responsive community.
    Within the last 5 years, Opera ASA fired all of their Norwegian developers, outsourced to the Czech Republic and sold to a Chinese Consortium.
    There is little to no reason to continue supporting a closed source non-European "chromium."

    If closed source isn't an issue, then you might as well be using Opera's spiritual successor, Vivaldi -- created by the original founder of Opera (Jon von Tetzchner), whom also hired many of the fired Norwegian Opera dev's.

  10. Re:Why whould anyone want this? on Firefox 61 Arrives With Better Search, Tab Warming, and Accessibility Tools Inspector (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    For extensions like, Tab Mix Plus, Tree Tabs, Tree Style Tab, etc. If you don't install extensions that manage tabs then don't worry about it.

  11. Sounds like the kind of data that would be needed in a game save file to maintain the world state.

  12. Re:Fine, just make sure kids aren't buying this cr on Valve Will Stop Removing Controversial Games on Steam Unless They Are 'Illegal or Straight up Trolling' (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    One tenth of 316 would be ~32 not 7. So 1/5th as bad.

  13. Re:Fine, just make sure kids aren't buying this cr on Valve Will Stop Removing Controversial Games on Steam Unless They Are 'Illegal or Straight up Trolling' (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    There have been 316 fatalities from school shootings since 1998, of which 38 have occurred in the 5 months of 2018.
    Over half of those within the last 7 years.
    List_of_school_shootings_in_the_United_States

    2018 - 38
    2017 - 15
    2016 - 09
    2015 - 21
    2014 - 17
    2013 - 18
    2012 - 43
    2011 - 5
    2010 - 8
    2009 - 3
    2008 - 16
    2007 - 34
    2006 - 15
    2005 - 12
    2004 - 1
    2003 - 6
    2002 - 11
    2001 - 6
    2000 - 6
    1999 - 19
    1998 - 13

    Over the same period of time, Canada has had 7 school shooting fatalities (3 incidents), including 2 deaths which occurred outside of school grounds.

  14. Re:Turnabout is fair play on Microsoft Sticks With Controversial 'GVFS' Name Despite Backlash (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    Because it is so difficult for the technically inclined folks to phrase a proper search string ?

    Gvfs -GIT +Gnome
    or in Google-speak: Gvfs -GIT "Gnome"

  15. Re:Hulu is up for grabs on Comcast Confirms Plan To Buy 21st Century Fox and Control of Hulu (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Disney doesn't need Hulu, they already have a platform for their streaming service,

    Disney Acquires Majority Ownership of BAMTech

    The Walt Disney Company (NYSE: DIS) today announced that it has agreed to acquire majority ownership of BAMTech, LLC and will launch its ESPN-branded multi-sport video streaming service in early 2018, followed by a new Disney-branded direct-to-consumer streaming service in 2019.

  16. Re:What are good alternatives? on Google Launches YouTube Music Service With Creepy AI To Predict Listening Habits (audioholics.com) · · Score: 1

    Google Play Music, now known as YouTube Music :

    Pick an Album, Song or Artist, and choose "Play Radio",
    A perpetual queue will be generated based on that selection.
    The queue can be saved as a playlist. Playlists can be downloaded to your device.

  17. Re:Bill Gates daughter? ugh on Bill Gates Shares His Memories of Donald Trump (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Not really.
    Phoebe Adele Gates, 15-16.
    Jennifer Katharine Gates, 22
    Pretty much above average at least, depending on what you consider "attractive."

    Pretty wack to be so insulting to a teenager though. Guess you need to fill your day with something.

  18. Re:Remember when Microsoft was worse than Hitler? on Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin Wants Justice Department To Scrutinize Big Tech (cnbc.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Good Times. When Netscape was a 25MB download, we were on 5KB/s dialup, and you were potentially downloading it via IE, which couldn't resume interrupted downloads - so after an hour and a half, maybe your download completed or maybe you had to start over again.

    Of course a handful of people discovered Opera, which at the time was a 3-5MB download and had all of Netscape's features including a mail client.

  19. Re:Why has it been an annoyance? on Windows Notepad Finally Supports Unix, Mac OS Line Endings (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 0

    Compliant programs write UTF-8 files with a 3byte BOM (marker) at the beginning of the file.

  20. Re:It's the font that does the trick on Are Two Spaces After a Period Better Than One? (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I render slashdot, and many other newsy-sites in "Maiandra GD", and a 110% Zoom.

    * {
          font-size-adjust:0.696;
          font-family: "Maiandra GD";
    }

    .commentSub *
    {
            font-size-adjust:0.60;
    }

    article.fhitem.fhitem-story.article > aside > section div.grid_12 > span.c > h2
    {
            padding-right:0px;
    }

    article.fhitem.fhitem-story.article > aside > section div.grid_12 > span.c > h3
    {
            font-size:16px;
    }

    article.fhitem.fhitem-story.article > aside > section div.grid_12 > span.c > h2 > a,
    article.fhitem.fhitem-story.article > aside > section div.grid_12 > span.c > h3 > a
    {
            font-size-adjust:0.50;
    }

  21. Less than a third of the US even watch the News - it may even be closer to 10% than a third. The top cable news shows are Hannity and Rachel Maddow with ~3 Million viewers.

  22. Stackoverflow is Elitist by Nature. Just like over at Soylent News: You've talked a lot/answered questions in the past, so you will forevermore be ranked higher than everyone else.

  23. People on Stack Overflow are usually fair,

    Bull. I frequently happen upon Stackoverflow questions whose response was "this has been asked before." End of discussion. No link to where it might of been asked before, nor why this particular question is ranked higher in google than the supposed "asked before" question. Asked Before! Next!
    SO can go FO.

  24. Re:Pretty easy on Bookmark Syncing Service Xmarks Closes For Good On May 1 (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    I use Chrome and Firefox for different things, so I don't care that their bookmarks aren't jumbled together.

  25. Public Internet on Will GDPR Kill WHOIS? (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    WhoIS is public information - who owns a domain. What's next hide who owns a business because Europeans are special snowflakes?

    Why not just void all their domain registrations. Problem solved.