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  1. Re: ... or, you know ... on YouTube Might Finally Get An Incognito Mode (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 2

    This is called the frequency illusion or Baader Meinhof phenomenon. Basically, selective attention - it was going to be there regardless, but because it's something you've seen or discussed elsewhere recently it is more easily noticed.

  2. Re: ... or, you know ... on YouTube Might Finally Get An Incognito Mode (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 2

    And then have to log in again because the content requires you to prove you are 18+, so I have heard.

  3. Re:Verifying breach status on Smarter People Don't Have Better Passwords, Study Finds (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    9GB for every project is a bit much.

  4. Verifying breach status on Smarter People Don't Have Better Passwords, Study Finds (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    verifying if the password is also listed in previous public breaches

    So does NIST recommend maintaining an offline archive of every breach ever or are they recommending you transmit the password in cleartext to a 3rd party?

  5. Re:Not everyone needs $1900 Core i9 on Intel's First 10nm Cannon Lake CPU Sees the Light of Day (anandtech.com) · · Score: 1

    It's slower because the majority of what they produced got binned. There are more low-end, half-disabled CPUs coming off the line than fully functioning.

  6. I had this with the ATI All-in-Wonder Pro back in the late 90's. Granted, it was cable TV and not streaming video. But I've been trying to get this feature back for the last 20 years. It's not like hovering the window or clicking it can't bring back some context or controls. But I only have room for one 4K monitor on this desk and it still feels cramped if I try to use a browser tab for video. I still hate using the Netflix app. I use video in the background as a way to not lose focus entirely while working on mundane work.

  7. So we should never advance technology until the 3rd world has caught up? That argument doesn't even make sense.

  8. Window border, scroll bars, single tab wasting space, address bar row, bookmarks bar. Lots of wasted screen space. And then the video playing site would waste more space with its own UI. Plus, no always-on-top option.

  9. Re:What an abomination of an idea. on Chrome Tests Picture-in-Picture API To Show Floating Video Popups Outside the Browser (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Netflix, Youtube, Google Play, all allowing video separate from your browsing window with no space wasted on tabs. Back in the 90's, I accomplished this with an ATI All-in-wonder card and a coaxial cable tv connection. The TV app was an always-on-top window and could be set to have no borders and resized as small as you want.

  10. I would ask for this. They actually broke an extension that used to provide this. I had to install the Netflix app to put video in the corner when it was easier to just use the browser. That old extension let you put video always-on-top in its own window with no UI.

    Of course, it should be fully opt-in without even so much as a request prompt being possible by the vendor, much the same way that casting from the browser works now.

  11. Re:Well, bye. on Google Employees Resign in Protest Against Pentagon Contract (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    One man's stigma is another man's ideal qualification.

  12. Re:National Defense is Critical -- Cannot Deny It. on Google Employees Resign in Protest Against Pentagon Contract (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    In national defense, we've been falling backward (in relation to Russia and China) for the last few decades. Our main battle tanks are two generations behind Russia's and their air defense systems are also greatly enhanced. Iran successfully took over one of our most sophisticated drones and captured in, a couple years ago, using electronic warfare... Although we have the F-22 and the F-35 jets, we are falling in most other areas and are even behind in some.

    Also, the cost of war is very prohibitive for us as Congress requires subcontractors in virtually every state to fund any new project. Both potential enemies can easily outlast us in a protracted war, financially.

    The answer to this is to de-privatize defense. It's obviously just a money sinkhole and spending more won't fix it. Our own military has enough people with advanced degrees that actual military members can create next-generation technology. The only contractors needed might be for construction labor - but those can be employees, not giant firms. That would also help avoid creating another huge bureaucracy.

  13. Re:Better just to kill everyone? on Google Employees Resign in Protest Against Pentagon Contract (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't understand the objection to precision drone strikes.

    Because it's a terrorist activity.

  14. Re:Of course on Google Employees Resign in Protest Against Pentagon Contract (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    which are pseudo-intelligent at best, not real Artificial Intelligence

    Pseudo, fake, artificial. That's what artificial means.

  15. Re:I can not do that. on Stephen Hawking Service: Possibility of Time Travellers 'Can't Be Excluded' (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not called POSTUS in this timeline.

  16. Re:Ozone? The conservative pollutant? on Illinois To Sue EPA For Exempting Foxconn Plant From Pollution Controls (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Have you ever breathed in ozone? It hurts.

  17. Re:So where's the "Honda crashes into bus!" storie on Days After A Fiery Crash, a Tesla's Battery Keeps Reigniting (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    I was only responding to the person who said that the car being considered "expensive" means that you're bad at budgeting. Whether you can afford it in your budget or not isn't the point at all.

    Also, totally not the point of the original post which was about disproportionate coverage of Tesla compared to other similarly priced vehicles (and far disproportionate compared to less expensive ones).

    Doesn't really matter. I wasn't responding to your original post.

  18. Re:This scam was pulled on me, on Man Allegedly Used Change Of Address Form To Move UPS Headquarters To His Apartment (npr.org) · · Score: 1

    the post office acknowledged it happened, then absolutely positively refused to do anything about it despite it being a pretty big federal offense.

    Right. Because if they draw more attention to how insecure the change of address process is, they would have to actually change their process.

  19. Re:So where's the "Honda crashes into bus!" storie on Days After A Fiery Crash, a Tesla's Battery Keeps Reigniting (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 2

    I think you have that entirely backwards. An important part of budgeting is not wasting money.

  20. Re:Duh: drain the batteries ... on Days After A Fiery Crash, a Tesla's Battery Keeps Reigniting (mercurynews.com) · · Score: 1

    The part where you gave an AC solution to a DC problem.

  21. Re:Meanwhile, in the real world on Should Calls From Google's 'Duplex' System Include Initial Warning Announcements? (vortex.com) · · Score: 1

    You're required to own a car for what now?

  22. Inevitably, these systems ask for the account number verbally, but never hint at the fact that you can key in the number instead - even though it does work.

  23. Re:I can't even imagine... on Apple Scraps $1 Billion Irish Data Center Over Planning Delays (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    My guess is that the "green" energy is legitimizing their old tax shelter.

  24. Re: Also, now with ads on Firefox Moves Browsers Into Post-Password Future With WebAuthn Tech (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    It's mostly semantics. It happened on what is now called the Internet before it was called the Internet (ARPANET).

  25. Re: Long term: Bad for the web on Firefox Moves Browsers Into Post-Password Future With WebAuthn Tech (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Digital radio requires a proprietary receiver--that's all. Whether that's DAB+ globally or HD Radio (NRSC-5-D) in the US, there is no subscription or identity required. Satellite service is different, of course, but that's true of TV broadcasts (also digital) too.