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  1. Re:Bubblegram reaches 100 billion chucky tokens on Instagram Is Estimated To Be Worth More Than $100 Billion (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Simple, it is as with the stock value of an oil company, the reserves they have for future production is what's counted.
    Here it's as with anything infected with Facebook, Google or Twitter, the user is the product.
    Bloomberg figured out you can make this much money spamming the soon to be 2000 million idiots that have handed over their soul.
    That requires for the next few years on average US$50 of potential profit per subscriber, it'll be less for the Africans and Indians but more for the Europeans and North Americans.

    Not with me :)

  2. It's probably some Java Script going rogue.
    Install the JavaScript toggle and see if this still occurs with JS off.
    YEs it might disable the whole page...

  3. Indeed we use the mouse to switch tabs, how else to quickly jump from tab 14 to tab 48?

  4. Re: They also probably weren't expecting threats on GitHub, Medium Remove Public ICE Employee Data Repository (obsceneworks.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You don't seem to appreciate the difference between a common criminal and someone who attempts to give his children a better life by going to the USofA.
    The first tries to make a life at the expense of others, the latter tries to find a paying job and a safe place to live.

    Trump's administration can, awaiting their deportation, keep the families together, absolutely no need to separate them at this difficult time.

  5. Re:What a ridiculous premise. on McDonald's To Test Plastic-Straw Alternatives in US Later This Year (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    I partially agree, the problem isn't the plastic straws, it is the lack of collection and recycling.

  6. Hey youngster, we used...., guess what?


    Straw or reed straws!
    Yes, I know, hard to imagine.

  7. Re:The Left thinks Only Police Should have Weapons on Prosecution of UK News Photographer Collapses After Recording Disproves Police Testimony (wordpress.com) · · Score: 0

    I'm quite impressed by the dumb-asses who modded this drivel up.
    This happened in Scotland where only specially trained police officers need and carry guns, besides, where are guns mentioned in the article?
    Also, why would only leftist be against any idiot carrying?

  8. Re:I had no idea ... on Verizon's New Phone Plan Proves It Has No Idea What 'Unlimited' Actually Means (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If the USofA had English as official language you'd have a chance of suing them, but alas, without legal standing for English the word unlimited is just a random collection of letters.

  9. Re:New Model Army were right on Digital IDs Needed To End 'Mob Rule' Online, Says UK's Security Minister (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    For a first amendment you need a constitutions, something that is infamously lacking in the UK.

  10. The 's' was lower case because in German adjectives are not written with a capital.

  11. True, this (adjective+noun compounds) is in all Germanic languages with the exception of English.

  12. Don't forget Ford and General Motors who also did quite over the back of the German population.

  13. Thy are doing quite well, simply by staying out of politics.

  14. Correct observation, nothing troll about it.

  15. Re:Remember Brendan Eich on 'Why I'm Switching From Chrome To Firefox and You Should Too' (fastcodesign.com) · · Score: 1

    Boy do you live in a sick church!
    Kids (people) are not made homosexual, they either are or aren't, it is a genetic thing.
    Besides who cares, especially consenting adult homosexuals should have the same freedom a heterosexual has, parents should not meddle in the sexuality of their kids but teach freedom by example until they are grown up.

  16. Re:Remember Brendan Eich on 'Why I'm Switching From Chrome To Firefox and You Should Too' (fastcodesign.com) · · Score: 1

    It is very nice if people can stay together their whole life, I admire them.
    But it is very bad when they stay together to the detriment of themselves and especially the kids just because it is in their society (church!) not appreciated to recognise the truth
    If you want to avoid divorce, simply don't get married because it doesn't add anything except stress.

  17. Re:Honest question: is it a big deal? on 'Why I'm Switching From Chrome To Firefox and You Should Too' (fastcodesign.com) · · Score: 1

    Even if they don't personally look at you(r data), the huge amount of data they have gathered includes a risk of abuse, be it by a person or (malicious) AI.
    Remember Google lives of selling this data, one small slip-up and it is sold to the wrong.

  18. Re:um, Firefox sucks now on 'Why I'm Switching From Chrome To Firefox and You Should Too' (fastcodesign.com) · · Score: 1

    Let me quantify your experience; Bull.
    I'm a heavy FF user and it crashes maybe once per year, that's with configuration inherited since the advent of (K)ubuntu.

  19. Re:Remember Brendan Eich on 'Why I'm Switching From Chrome To Firefox and You Should Too' (fastcodesign.com) · · Score: 1

    Man, are you a sad specimen of mankind.
    Kids need to learn about the realities of life and that love can mend what hate is trying to break.
    Closing the curtains on the world is totally unfair to your kids.

  20. Re:same here, except... on 'Why I'm Switching From Chrome To Firefox and You Should Too' (fastcodesign.com) · · Score: 1

    I've always used Netscape/Firefox, it even uses Meta+N as keyboard short cut.
    Observing memory use I see no reason what so ever to ditch FF in favour of Chrome.
    There are a few sites that work better in Chromium, can't really put my finger on the why.

    But I do know certain sites can fill up memory till it's necessary to stop and restart FF.
    It is Java Script causing this memory leak and using the JS switch plug in stops the problem.

  21. Re:The how about... on Samsung Won't Be Forced To Update Old Smartphones (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    A good point, it is the seller we a consumer have a contract with.
    I bought my One+ phones directly from One+ and I must say, the One+3 was just updated to Android 8.0 a good two years after sale.

  22. Re:They should state an end date at purchase. on Samsung Won't Be Forced To Update Old Smartphones (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    That's the EU rule re. warranty, it is a minimum of 2 years, more for expensive items.
    Apparently the court was asked the wrong question so I see a new case coming.

  23. Re:The how about... on Samsung Won't Be Forced To Update Old Smartphones (bbc.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That's the strange thing with this ruling, it says 2 years as of time of introduction.
    But EU law stipulates a warranty for at least two years as of time of sale, that is different!
    Also, EU law says warranty has to be longer for expensive items and the top line phones are in that category.

    Now we only have to agree software (security) updates are part of the warranty.
    I expect a new court case.

  24. 3rd paty database on Oracle's Aggressive Sales Tactics Are Backfiring With Customers (lightreading.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Halliburton is regularly audited by the oil companies they work for and I assume they don't like the idea of having their sensitive information stored in a 3rd party database that is hard to audit.

  25. Re:Glad its GNOME and not KDE on Mystery Donor Pledges $1 Million To The GNOME Foundation (betanews.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It seems we use our computer differently and the advantage of Linux is we both find what we like.
    There is fairly good proof KDE is the more complete and better thought out desktop environment.

    The biggest problem of Gnome is it is not a system but a whole bunch of loosely connected (or not!) applications.
    The desktop sucks at calling those applications and looks bad without options to reconfigure it.
    side from the configurability one of the biggest advantages of KDE Plasma is the file manager Dolphin, it is based on good old Konquerer but has more useful plug-ins.

    Regretfully no amount of money can make Gnome catch up, it was broken from the start.