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  1. Re:This is a good thing on Firefox 49 Postponed One Week Due To Unexpected Bugs (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    If you've enabled Electrolysis (e10s), take a look in about:config for "dom.ipc.processCount". I saw a recommendation for a setting of dom.ipc.processCount = 10. It's possible FF uses more memory than without that setting, but its much more stable and responsive overall.

  2. Re:More details on the Bugs on Firefox 49 Postponed One Week Due To Unexpected Bugs (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    1. Australis enables you to have the Old-UI. Australis enables you to have a dozen extension toolbars if you want them. Australis enables you to specify *exactly* how you want the UI to appear.
    2. Your opinion? FF definitely uses less memory now (V49) than it did for V30+.
    3. Memory use as needed. Firefox is the only browser that can open hundred(s) of tabs like Opera used to - but even classic Opera can't do that any longer as it chokes on modern image sizes.
    4. No Comment, I use Opera on Android, when I infrequently need to browse to a page.

  3. uMatrix + uBlock on Firefox 49 Postponed One Week Due To Unexpected Bugs (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    uMatrix + uBlock Origin (both by Gorhill) will do everything that is handled by NoScript, Ghostery, AdBlock*|Request Policy.

  4. Re:A real comparison? on Steve Wozniak May Swap His Tesla For A Chevy Bolt (siliconbeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Tesla is the modern-day Saturn. Companies like that are worth supporting.

  5. Re:problems, lol on C Programming Language Hits a 15-Year Low On The TIOBE Index (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    No. We use our books by Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson.

  6. Re:I had no idea who Jonathon was... on What Jonathan Coulton Learned From The Technology Industry (geekwire.com) · · Score: 1

    Prefer Arlo Guthrie. Social commentary with incidental comedy a la Alice's Restaurant.

  7. The web still is "configurable by the user and browser". The problem is on mobile all the browsers are a locked down POS that you aren't allowed to do anything with.

  8. Re:Spoiled milk by any other name on Samsung Reminds Us That You Can't Make People Use an App They Don't Want (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Samsung should of teamed up with the American Milk Consortium, and run "Got Milk?" Ads. To the effect of "Got Milk? ... No not that milk. Samsung Milk Music.

  9. On top of Bing being more honest about how many actual results there are. You can still use FOO +BAR +BAZ instead of "FOO" "BAR" "BAZ".

  10. Except Google is lying to you. There actually aren't 1150 results for "botox" "cannabis" "dingbat"
    Click on page 15 of the results

    Your search - "botox" "cannabis" "dingbat" - did not match any documents.

    Suggestions:

    * Make sure all words are spelled correctly.
    * Try different keywords.
    * Try more general keywords.
    * Try fewer keywords.

    Search Results

    In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 129 already displayed.

  11. Re:Typical Chinese on China's Xiaomi Gearing Up For US Debut (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Considering it costs about 1/5th as much as an iPhone. Doesn't look like an iPhone, and everyone that I've shown the "Xiaomi Redmi 3 Prime" to - asks "what kind of phone is it?". I'd say no one but you thinks its an "embarrassing iPhone knock off".

  12. Re:More like 11 reasons to be depressed about tech on Eleven Reasons To Be Excited About The Future of Technology (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure that the feed for a single cow doesn't require 1,003,606 gallons of water.

    9 Gallons/day * 426d = 3834G.
    560lb*1799G - 3834G = 1,003,606

  13. Re:More like 11 reasons to be depressed about tech on Eleven Reasons To Be Excited About The Future of Technology (medium.com) · · Score: 1

    A fully grown 1100 lb cow (1000-1600lb, 560lbs of meat) drinks ~9 Gallons per day. Now considering it takes a little over a year (14 months) for a steer to get to ~800lb. It would take 307 years for that cow to drink 1 million gallons. 1,000,440 / 9 / 365 = 306.68

  14. Re:More like 11 reasons to be depressed about tech on Eleven Reasons To Be Excited About The Future of Technology (medium.com) · · Score: 1
    You get ~560 lbs of meat from a steer/cow. It seems pretty far-fucking-fetched to claim it takes a million gallons of water to raise one cow to slaughter.

    560 x 1799 gallons: 1,007,440

  15. 2009: Everyone Else 82%; 2016: Android 86% on iOS and Android Combined For Record 99% of Smartphone Sales Last Quarter (macrumors.com) · · Score: 2

    According to Statista's chart, in 2009 "others" were 82%+. iOS was 10-12% and Android was ~%6. iOS market-share looks like it hasn't changed much at all over the last 7 years.

  16. Re:It's bad enough that I have to deal with Origin on Facebook Teams Up With Unity To Create a Gaming Platform To Rival Steam (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Heh. Your UID is 140 higher than mine.

  17. Re:It's bad enough that I have to deal with Origin on Facebook Teams Up With Unity To Create a Gaming Platform To Rival Steam (betanews.com) · · Score: 1
    I've boycotted Origin, UPlay and pretty much anything published by Ubisoft. I almost faltered after reading (in the Steam Forums) that "Dawn of Discovery" (aka Anno 1404) no longer contained TAGÈS DRM... except if Ubisoft can't even be bothered to maintain their store pages on Steam Dawn of Discovery

    Incorporates 3rd-party DRM: TAGES

    3 machine activation limit

    Warning: This title uses 3rd party DRM (Tages)

    Which still to this day reminds you what a horrible horrible company Ubisoft has been. No. No. No. No. No. A polished turd is still a turd, and it still stinks.

  18. Re:Switch(true) on Ask Slashdot: What Are Some Bad Programming Ideas That Work? (infoworld.com) · · Score: 1
    I do something like that in some of my AHK scripts.

    while(A_Index==1||ErrorLevel)
    {
    ErrorLevel:=DoSomethingFun(A_Index)
    }

    Where, A_Index always starts at 1. ErrorLevel might have a prior value, but it doesn't matter, as the || (OR) is superfluous in the first iteration.

  19. Re:Please explain on NASA: July 2016 Was Earth's Warmest Month On Record (weather.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds about right. The 80's were cold. The 90's you started to see a warming trend - especially in the Atlantic Provinces. And except for a few outlier years, there hasn't been barely any appreciable amount of snow accumulation during the winter months since the early 90s.

  20. Re:And so continues.. on Facebook Rolls Out Code To Nullify Adblock Plus' Workaround (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm pretty sure, "advertising" is older than the oldest profession. Advertising, will also still be with us, long after Google is gone.

  21. Re:They disrupeed our plans! We want blood! on Reddit Tells Label It Won't Cough Up IP Address of Prerelease Music Pirate (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    AN IP address is not an identifiable to a person

    Not Yet. We just need to wait until IPV6 replaces IPV4.

  22. Re:And so continues.. on Facebook Rolls Out Code To Nullify Adblock Plus' Workaround (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    I've started using G+ -- mostly a handful of posts to the Friends + Family circles. G+ seems to offer decent controls, and the "circles" feature works well enough. It's been over two years since I've logged into FB.

  23. Re:Chinese island on China To UK: 'Golden' Ties At Crucial Juncture Over Nuclear Delay (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    You sure it doesn't belong to the Atlantic Provinces? Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, PEI and Newfoundland? ;)

  24. Re:Chinese island on China To UK: 'Golden' Ties At Crucial Juncture Over Nuclear Delay (reuters.com) · · Score: -1

    It's the South China Sea. If the Pacific Ocean was called the Western United States Sea - it would be pretty obvious whom should "control" it's waters..

  25. China's One-Child "guideline" on China To UK: 'Golden' Ties At Crucial Juncture Over Nuclear Delay (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    You can obviate China's "one-child-policy" by paying a fee|tax for the second+ child. I'm also fairly sure the fee is less than the hospital fees for a single child in an American hospital.