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  1. Re:How many users do you have? on Interviews: Ask Social Network Minds.com CEO and Founder Bill Ottman a Question · · Score: 2

    Latest number I've seen is about 2 million registered users. No idea how many are active.

  2. There is already one: qwant.com

  3. Canadian Salvation Army on Baltimore Police Department Is Still Using Lotus Notes (baltimoresun.com) · · Score: 1

    Canadian Salvation Army also still uses Lotus Notes for email.

  4. Re:USA. Now officially a dictatorship? on Trump Administration Tells Supreme Court To Wipe Out Decision Upholding Net Neutrality (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    If he refuses to go peacefully,

    I thought that was why Americans have the right to bear arms.

  5. Unblocked version of article on How Cheap Smartphones Siphon User Data in Developing Countries (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    Unblocked version on Toronto Star: https://www.thestar.com/busine...

  6. How long will it take the weeds to evolve to look like the crops?

  7. Re:Break up Tencent, Alibaba, and Baidu first on Tech Giants Like Amazon and Facebook Should Be Regulated, Disrupted, or Broken Up: Mozilla Foundation (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Ban them from operating in the United States unless they are broken up.

  8. Re:If only Mozilla didn't give up on Thunderbird on Is Microsoft Trying To Make Windows 10 Mail Worse? (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Thunderbird is being updated again. There has already been a new release. Even without that, it is light years ahead of Windows Mail.

  9. Re:walled garden on Everything New In the Android 8.1 Oreo Developer Preview (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Did you forget Oracle, or do you consider them, combined with the others, to be worse than Alphabet?

  10. Re:Tried the beta on Mozilla's 'Firefox Quantum' Browser Challenges Chrome In Speed (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    The Tree Style Tab addon is compatible with FF57

  11. Re:CBC is full of it. on Subway Sues Canada Network Over Claim Its Chicken Is 50 Percent Soy (yahoo.com) · · Score: 1

    Even if Subway wins this lawsuit, they'll lose the war.

  12. Re:This is Slashdot on Slashdot Asks: Windows 10 Creators Update Goes Live On April 11, Will You Upgrade? · · Score: 1

    Sin of omission.

  13. They should have called it Frank. Then at the end of each review they could say, "To be frank...", and give their synopsis.

  14. Thunderbird on Microsoft Will Stop Supporting Windows Live Mail 2012 (office.com) · · Score: 1

    Will this be an opportunity for Thunderbird?

  15. LibreOffice on Mozilla May Separate Itself From Thunderbird Email Client (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Would the LIbreOffice project be interested in picking up Thunderbird? After all Microsoft Office has Outlook.

  16. Language on NetHack Development Team Polls Community For Advice On Unicode · · Score: 1

    Use what your programming language supports. If it supports Unicode, use UTF8 as it saves space. UTF32 isn't "one character per 32 bits" so it's no easier than UTF8.

  17. Forth on Interview With Author of the First Spoof Language · · Score: 1

    Forth supports base 3, and any base from 2 to 36.

  18. Re:Programmed Obsolescence on Questions Arising On Mercury In Compact Fluorescents · · Score: 1

    All it takes is 1 company not to do this, and the rest of those who do are screwed. When you buy a "bulb" every 6 months, you'll ask me what kind I buy when I tell you that I've bought one in my entire life. Then every manufacturer will make their own socket to lock you in because the old socket is "inefficient".
  19. Re:What do you think? on Will ISP Web Content Filtering Continue To Grow? · · Score: 1

    Is this SMTP redirection based on the port number? Is there a standard for encrypted SMTP on random port numbers that would allow us to get around these ISP restrictions?

  20. Re:Internet is not TV on A New Way to Look at Networking · · Score: 1

    Seeing as you posted 45 minutes after the Slashdot story was posted, and the video is an hour and 21 minutes long, may I assume you didn't watch the whole thing?

    Your concern regarding everyone accessing the data at different times is dealt with in the video, and a lot of other interesting ideas are suggested as well.

  21. Re:No sweat off my nose.... on A Bad Week for Symantec · · Score: 1

    I used Avira Antivir (www.free-av.com or www.freeav.com) until I found Active Virus Shield from AOL.

    Benefits:

    1. It uses the better Kaspersky engine.
    2. It also checks for spyware so you don't need yet another scanner.
    3. It scans email in transit.
    4. It updates every 4 hours instead of every 24 hours.
    6. It doesn't have any popup ads.
    7. It doesn't open a window during scheduled scans.
    5. It will pause scheduled scans while the CPU is busy.

    Get it here: http://www.activevirusshield.com/

  22. Re:Pardon my ignorance... on Linux 2.6.16 released · · Score: 1

    Serial ports do not have 'baud'. Perhaps you meant 9600 bps. 9600 bps modems operate at 2400 baud.

  23. Re:Argh OS/2 Story... Must... Post... on Keeping the OS/2 Flame Alive · · Score: 1
    The WPS was always the biggest draw but IMHO IBM ruined it after OS/2 2.0 or 2.1. It was hideous in Warp 3 and later.
    Yes! I knew I wasn't the only one who felt that way.
  24. Re:Consumer reports says: on Failure Rate of PC Manufacturers? · · Score: 1

    IBM: I Blame Microsoft.
    IBM: Inferior But Marketable?
    IBM: I Broke Mine
    IBM: Infernal Business Machine
    IBM: Intentionally Brain-damaged Machinery
    IBM: It's Being Mended
    IBM: Inmense Ball of Muck
    IBM: I Believe in Memorex
    IBM: It's Better than Macintosh!
    IBM: Idiots Built Me
    IBM: Intense Bowel Movement
    IBM: I've Been Mislead
    IBM: It's Better Manually
    IBM: Infinitly Better Macintosh
    IBM: Indefinitly Boggled Machine
    IBM: I Bought a Mac
    IBM: I Bought Macintosh
    IBM: I'll Buy Macintosh
    IBM: I've Been Moved
    IBM: I've Been Mugged
    IBM: Incontinent Bowel Movement
    IBM: Identical Blue Men
    IBM: Idiotic Bit Masher
    IBM: Idiots Become Managers
    IBM: Incompatible Business Machines
    IBM: Incredibly Boring Machine
    IBM: Infernal Bloody Monopoly
    IBM: Institute of Black Magic
    IBM: Internal Beaurocratic Mess
    IBM: International Brotherhood of Magicians
    IBM: Intolerant of Beards and Mustaches
    IBM: It'll Be Messy
    IBM: It's Backwards, Man
    IBM: Itty Bitty Machines
    IBM: Itty Bitty Morons
    IBM: It Barely Moves
    IBM: I Buy Mainframes

  25. Re:WinSCP on Implicit SSL FTP Clients with Scripting? · · Score: 1

    > use WinSCP Scriptable?