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  1. Re:There's an add-on for that.. on Firefox 44 Deletes Fine-Grained Cookie Management (mozilla.org) · · Score: 2

    Most of the cookie add-ons used FF's built-in functionality; they just made it easier to interact with...

    I'm a little pissed off at this.

  2. Re:The Internet Archive is a poor backup on Link Rot Rx: 'Amber' Add-on For WordPress and Drupal · · Score: 1

    Are there not 'evil' crawlers which ignore robots.txt, serving the public interest? That is a kind of disappointing.

  3. My use case is usually I forgot to set the DVR. Or ITV (UK) has already run all the episodes.

  4. Re:Can a Hillary supporter step up and explain? on Perfect Coin-Toss Record Broke 6 Clinton-Sanders Deadlocks In Iowa (marketwatch.com) · · Score: 1

    Careful, Citizen! President for Life Hillary can't really support this kind of childish nonsense. I highly recommend you tone it down just a touch, if you know what's good for you. We're all in this together. It takes a village to raise a child.

  5. I'm detecting high concentrations of naivete... on Why Does Twitter Refuse To Shut Down Donald Trump? (vortex.com) · · Score: 2
    FTFA:

    Twitter is certainly obligated to apply the rules that they do have in an evenhanded manner.

    "Obligated?" Is this the very first case of self-interested hypocrisy you've ever encountered?

    In grown-up land, individuals (and corporate individuals, naturally) don't have to enforce their rules. Governments can be sued to act, but individuals don't have such an affirmative obligation; suits are filed the other way; that is, if Trump felt he was being censored unfairly, he might have a course of action, but YOU do not have such a remedy when YOU want a term-of-service applied to someone else.

  6. Re:This model excludes tacit conspiracies on Math Says Conspiracies Are Prone To Unravel (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    After all quite a large number of the general population believed that the NSA was snooping on its own citizens, but there was no supporting evidence for it.

    I'd say there was no direct evidence, but plenty of circumstantial evidence including historical disclosures of obseleted wiretapping programs. It was really a thought-experiment how deeply everything was being tracked, not the mere fact of the tracking.

  7. Re:I am surprised on Google Paid $1 Billion To Keep Search On iPhone (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Startpage, dog. Startpage.

  8. I see what you did there...

    ...and it makes me want to talk about how creating a "Book of Law" propagated the "Rules Lawyers", how publishing a 'zine and charging mimeograph money was a better environment for creative play than selling a million copies and having it adopted as some kind of standard, and maybe how rules meant for fair war gaming between equivalent sides really have no place in a roleplaying game...

    ...but that's kind of depressing, so never mind.

  9. Hobbittier?

    Hobbeardier?

  10. Re:And... on Game Historian: Gygax Swiped Fantasy Rules From a Forgotten 1970 Wargame (blogspot.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Headline is pure bait: the blog poster makes no generalization such as "swiping", as wargaming rules were in constant flux, even from session to session.

  11. Re:Congratulations, guys! on Adblock Plus Blocked From Attending Online Ad Industry's Big Annual Conference (arstechnica.co.uk) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    who's going to generate revenue for the companies behind these websites?

    how do you propose reddit generate revenue? all those aggregator sites?

    Revenue isn't a fundamental right. The network was better when it was all hobbyists & researchers.

  12. I may not agree with the frostiness of your piss, but I will defend to the death your right to stream it!

  13. Re:Crashing to the ground into a crowded street... on Preparing Countermeasures For Terror Attacks Using Drones (remotecontrolproject.org) · · Score: 1

    there are no flying IEDs. The whole idea is terminally stupid - there are so many better ways to deliver explosives.

    I'm fairly certain they all involve math, though.

  14. "Kentucky Bill. Junior." on Kentucky Bill: Wait an Hour Before Posting Injuries To Social Media (kentucky.com) · · Score: 1

    We named the dog "Kentucky"...

  15. Re:Treaty will have it on CFR China Expert: US Tech Firms Should Worry About Beijing's New Anti-Terror Law · · Score: 1

    Seems unlikely in practice, until you remember how precisely how stupid & lazy people are, myself first & foremost. That kind of govAPI, though, would hopefully kick more than just me & the Estonians awake.

  16. Re:Oh hell no ... on Google Announces a Router: OnHub · · Score: 1

    My openwrt router does that, my phone does that, and my laptop does that.

    And do they send these statistics anywhere?

  17. Re:No web interface? on Google Announces a Router: OnHub · · Score: 1

    It's 2015 and you're on Slashdot. Are you publicly admitting to not being able to emulate Android?

  18. Re:Oh hell no ... on Google Announces a Router: OnHub · · Score: 2

    the Google On app and your OnHub do not track the websites you visit or collect the content of any traffic on your network

    Well, that's two Alphabets down...

    Also (from your link),

    OnHub gathers information about your wireless environment. Your OnHub scans for other routers in the area and collects their MAC addresses and network names.

    The real point is that all of this data goes somewhere, making it discoverable by... well, I'll leave it to your imagination.

  19. Re:Why is anyone still running Firefox? on Multiple Vulnerabilities Exposed In Pocket · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why is anyone still running Firefox?

    I haven't met a privacy concern I can't address yet with Firefox, whereas with Chrome I can only cover about 50% of the issues. I don't agree with the Set of Recent Distraction Additions, but with Firefox I can at least get robust control over every bit of my browsing experience. [NoScript, Cookie Whitelist, uMatrix, +hosts blacklist, in case you were curious. No Adblocker required.]

  20. Re:"Over-Fishing" in Advertising on Is Advertising Morally Justifiable? The Importance of Protecting Our Attention · · Score: 1

    I would order my marketing department to insist that any TV commercial from my company must not appear during the same commercial break as a product from a competing company.

    This is actually supposed to happen; adjacent spots are supposed to be non-compete. You'll never see, for example, Mercedes & BMW commercials in the same national break.

    Nor would I allow my commercials to appear within 15 minutes of another commercial break advertising products from a competing company.

    15 minutes is an eternity, but you're more than welcome to buy all the spots to achieve this.

  21. Cause? on Interviews: Ask Dr. Temple Grandin About Animals and Autism · · Score: 1

    Dr. Grandin, thank you for taking the time to review these topics with us.

    My question is in regards to what you might think the underlying cause of the sensory differences which manifest in young children which fall under the umbrella term autism could possibly be.

    I have two boys who have been diagnosed on the spectrum, and each is very different. One is now 13 and falls under a more classic "Aspergers"/PDD/NOS classification. He seems to respond to light medications for managing his anxiety; he plays the violin and is branching into screenwriting and the computer animation necessary to realize his dreams. He is mainstreamed in school, with only one "special" elective. His younger brother is twelve, and is markedly different. Although he is rather close to nonverbal, he has a much easier time socially than his brother, because he doesn't manifest the social anxiety of his brother. He is physically active, sometimes to the extreme, climbing trees as high as they go, running track in middle school, and being generally boyishly adventurous. Yet he is barely literate, and undergoes physical discomfort when asked to read, even for a short time. He is in the "ILC" center for most of the school day.

    Having watched these two very different brothers very close in age grow over the past 13 years has given me a great curiousity as to how their differences are expressed. With your attention here, I wondered if you might have any biological theories as to what the differences are in the various manifestations of Autism Spectrum Disorder.

  22. Comfort vs. Discipline on Interviews: Ask Dr. Temple Grandin About Animals and Autism · · Score: 1

    Dr. Grandin, thank you for taking the time to review these topics with us.

    My question is regarding the notion that some behavior therapists have with respect to never taking a child out of their comfort zone; that is, some therapists seem to explicitly avoid emotional discomfort, "work" etc. I would ask you whether or not your experiences would support this type of therapy, or whether you see some benefit for children undergoing therapies to be pushed and challenged outside of their comfort zone?

  23. ABA Behavior Therapy on Interviews: Ask Dr. Temple Grandin About Animals and Autism · · Score: 1

    Dr. Grandin, thank you for taking the time to review these topics with us. My question is regarding Applied Behavior Analysis therapy for children diagnosed with autism: what is your opinion of the benefits of these techniques?

  24. Re:I prefer Google TV! on Chromecast Gets a Hardwired Ethernet Adapter · · Score: 1

    It appears to be mostly designed for people who have collections of movies stored locally, or on a NAS. If I'm missing something, let me know, but that is what I saw.

    On the contrary, it is mostly designed to install additional 3rd party "channels" by which you can stream anything from any of the various quasi-legal sources across the entire internet, including live news & sports.

    The local network file playback is merely a small subset of what can be done with the right add-on to Kodi.

  25. Civilian Robots? on Japanese and US Piloted Robots To Brawl For National Pride · · Score: 0

    Civilian Robots

    *Yawn* Wake me when it's over.