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  1. Re: Mozilla has spent almost 10 years... on TechRepublic: Mozilla 'Is Desperately Needed to Save the Web' (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 1

    They can't rewrite because the functions no longer exist that said extension uses. Absolutely fucking useless.

  2. Re:Mozilla has spent almost 10 years... on TechRepublic: Mozilla 'Is Desperately Needed to Save the Web' (techrepublic.com) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Try Firefox 57. What's the matter? Afraid you'll like it?

    Considering it's continuing down the path of failure the mozilla has pumped out ever since it's australis UI redesign? Note how that for many people was the beginning of the end? Have they seen a resurgence of people switching to them? Nope. Have they listened to people or just talk over them because "they know so much better what they want it to be instead of you." See that user decline when they decided to start becoming a political lobby? Yep.

    There's a reason they've lost user marketshare hand over fist for the last decade. It's all their own doing.

  3. Re:in other words on 60,000 Germans Evacuate While Officials Try To Defuse a WWII Bomb (abc.net.au) · · Score: 2

    We have the same problem here in Canada from WWI and WWII. There's large stretches outside of bombing ranges where they still find munitions and such. Then you run into problems in places where they had munitions factories, Ingersoll, Ontario had one for WWI and WWII. The town itself was also used in training for house-to-house searches, when they were training people for D-day. So every once and awhile, in the older parts of town people will find booby traps in the walls(non-functional) and so on, when they do renovations, along with training landmines in their backyards and so on.

    Funny thing, was Ingersoll had a better layout compared to a european city then say Woodstock at the time, which is why the canuck military liked using it. Plus there were multiple rivers, streams, creeks, park areas, that all emulated european cities because the population had a lot of people who'd come over after WWI.

  4. Re:Area bombing civilians is immoral on 60,000 Germans Evacuate While Officials Try To Defuse a WWII Bomb (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    The practice is indefensible, regardless of what you think of the point of view of the people you are dropping the bombs on. What you are engaged in is justifying an immoral act by saying the other guy is worse. You're still immoral for defending the practice. Blowing up little children because their parents might be Nazis is bullshit and I hope that in your heart of hearts you know that.

    You're viewing this through the modern lens, that's why you don't understand why the practice was and in some regards still defensible. WWI was supposed to be the "war to end all wars." WWII proved that premise wrong, when one side crossed the line and indiscriminately targeted civilians all bets came off the table. What you should be happy with is that in today's age of terrorism, despite that terrorists directly go after civilians that we simply don't level entire towns and cities like we used to. We could and quite easily at it. The current state of western society hasn't had it's break moment where everything goes on the table in terms of doing what ever is required. This is likely because that terrorism while bad, people can't morally justify it. With luck, we won't. If we do, the first things that you'll likely see dusted off are low-yield nuclear weapons. Especially since that's what we're developing right now. And if we do, you can bet that the first targets wouldn't be some hole in Afghanistan, it would be some outlying city in Iran, Saudi Arabia or Qatar.

  5. Re:So what weight? on 60,000 Germans Evacuate While Officials Try To Defuse a WWII Bomb (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    That's because ARS sold out ages ago. And when they started pushing the "subscriptor" stuff, people started believing that because they paid for it, it made them better then anyone else around.

  6. Re:Well, about 15 troll comments so far on Police Allegedly Arrest UK News Photographer For Standing In A Field (wordpress.com) · · Score: 1

    "Comment Threshold +2"

  7. Re:Google? Or some middle manager? on Google Abused Its Power By Quashing a Report Critical Of Its Service, Reporter Says (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    Moot point. The idea that a multi-billion dollar multi national corp can be completely controlled by a small group of leaders is just silly.

    Really? You should check out some more multi-billion dollar multi-national corps like Walmart which had something similar going on. Then they handed off "day-to-day" to people lower down, which created things like "trendy upscale walmarts" to compete against places like whole foods, or grocery-only stores. Or the various attempts to pull of publix or kroger. They blew through money failing at all of these things until the head of the waltons turned around and saw the quarterly losses.

    Sure the CEO and board can steer the company in a given direction, but if some middle manager 10 steps removed from the c-levels decides to do something 'evil' (whatever that means) or at least morally questionable, they aren't going to find out until it hits the front page and lawyers are filing subpoenas.

    It generally works out more like a game of politics at companies of this size. The CEO sets the vision, plan, etc. Makes the proclamations of "more diversity, inclusive, etc, etc, etc." People down the chain follow those, and pick up on the trendy stuff that the CEO is pushing, and implement it. That middle manager 10 steps removed from c-level execs are pushing policies that those people above them say are "the great thing to be happenin' with right now."

  8. Re:Probably true. on Google Abused Its Power By Quashing a Report Critical Of Its Service, Reporter Says (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 4, Informative

    That board of directors doesn't have controlling stakes and don't have voting stake. Neither do the shareholders. Larry Page and Sergey Brin hold 56% and super voting stock. In other words, everything that's happening is happening because of them.

  9. Re:Meh. on Cummins Unveils Electric Semi Truck Before Tesla (autoblog.com) · · Score: 1

    Trucks have a "black box" that logs your hours.

    It takes less then 4 minutes to bypass those, just a FYI. They're used by some companies here in north america too, and you're still required to use a physical log book.

  10. Re:Meh. on Cummins Unveils Electric Semi Truck Before Tesla (autoblog.com) · · Score: 1

    You opinion doesn't matter. What matters are the numbers. At night in Ontario, along the 401 trucks are generally 1 length apart, during the day time the right-2 lanes are nearly bumper to bumper. The only time it slows down is during holidays, you really don't have an idea of just how busy the highway system is. Between Detroit and Windsor alone 8k trucks cross on a slow day, and that it's roughly $250-450m/day in trade at that single crossing.

  11. Re:Meh. on Cummins Unveils Electric Semi Truck Before Tesla (autoblog.com) · · Score: 1

    13hrs is standard, 14hrs happens, same with 16hrs. You can do more, if the company pays for it. This is the law here in Ontario. Something to keep in mind, that the distances that are traveled are vastly different between the EU and Canada/US. The busiest truck crossing in north america is detroit/windsor bridge(there's 2 others in the area not counting barge transit for hazardous goods) and another bridge system in Niagara Falls. The busiest highway system in the world is between Detroit, Michigan(Windsor, Ont is right across the bridge) and Hull, Quebec, right through Southwestern Ontario.

  12. Re:Meh. on Cummins Unveils Electric Semi Truck Before Tesla (autoblog.com) · · Score: 1

    It even looks stupid. Why build it in the shape of a classic US style "big rig" (I don't know the proper name), it's not like you need room for a huge motor under that front protrusion.

    Without a bunk it's all meant for local hauling. Thing is, with the range in North America, no one would buy it. 2x800km trips in the same day is considered normal for "local" hauling. My neighbor works for a local company that hauls between Woodstock, Ontario and Lansing, Michigan twice per day(around 1600km per day), even with nexus and pre-pass clearences for the trucks she's normally on the road 14-15hrs, which is legal as long as the breaks are observed properly -- or the company has paid the government a head of time to break the rules. A US trucker can pull the same or more depending where they're operating out of as well.

    Keep in mind that the difference between a bus and a truck is that you only have the weight of the bus+passengers. The truck has to pull itself, the trailer and whatever is in the trailer...which can be a lot. My guess? The NA design was easier to use to cover up the drivetrain and batteries then the EU models. Oh, and in a lot of places in North America, you can't obtain your truck license by driving a truck with a "flat front" design they simply don't allow it. Back in the 1990's they decided that it's too easy to hit pedestrians because the driver couldn't see down far enough. So everyone basically went with nosed trucks. So the sloped hood design is meant to allow the driver a wider range of view past the front of the truck, especially with the wide-angled mirrors.

    Don't forget that the flat-front trucks exist mainly because they were cheaper to make in soviet block countries and so on.

  13. Re:Also works great against depression on FDA Designates MDMA As 'Breakthrough Therapy' For PTSD (futurism.com) · · Score: 1

    4-10% is the general percentage in crime statistics, the UCR fucks it up though. That's not even touching on secondary things.

  14. Re:They are pretty bad with quality on Lawsuit Filed Against Logitech For Delaying Warranty Claims, Hiding EOL (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 2

    Logitech keyboards have been pretty mediocre for years. Their mice on the other hand have been pretty good. But it seems like very company that makes a name for themselves, then turns around and decides "well for an extra buck we can gut out of manufacturing costs, we'll make more money" and the quality crashes. The latest in that game was razer until the owner stepped in.

  15. Re:Good, nazis need to pay on UK.gov To Treat Online Abuse as Seriously as Hate Crime in Real Life (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    That's right Mashiki, demonize them some more. Scream your rage. As I said, their mere existence offends you.

    No demonetization required, they dug that hole all on their own. All on their very own, just like all extremist groups do.

    Oh my, Mashiki, the thing you need to do is ask yourself why you don't care what you write?

    The question you need to ask yourself is, why do you care so much? Almost sounds like you have an inferiority problem. Maybe you should try the "freedom of speech" path instead.

  16. Re:affordable housing for Millenials (yeah, right) on Bricklaying Robots and Exoskeletons Are the Future of the Construction Industry (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    That's why new housing starts have fallen through the floor, and we just saw a 10% decline in the US right? Similar in Canada, with at least 1 subprime lender having financially collapsed. The two are fundamentally out of balance, those high prices aren't causing new construction now. The market is tapped out in both directions, it's gonna be great here in Canada, because 25% of our GDP is dependent on it right now.

  17. Video like this is the "it's millinial's thus, hot shit in their demographic market" just like it was supposed to be for gen-xer's in 2002.

  18. Impossible. We need user tracking, built in shockwave support, 230 js vulnerabilities per 8000 lines of code, and a 1GB memory overhead to make it work. Also, PNG is not supported.

  19. Re:affordable housing for Millenials (yeah, right) on Bricklaying Robots and Exoskeletons Are the Future of the Construction Industry (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    By "most places" you of course mean "1% of places where everyone is dogpiling in, while 99% of places are cheap". Lot of land out there, even near cities.

    ~80% of Canada lives within 100mi of the US. If the land isn't crown owned, the chances of you being able to buy any because of *insert environmental restriction* or *insert indian land claim treaty* or *insert something else* is going to be pretty rough for you. A 20'x40' around here is $160k, and while I live in SW-Ontario, even heading out into the country, the land is likely going to be very close to the same price. Speculators have broken the housing and land price market.

  20. Depends on the country. In Canada, this is right up illegal under privacy laws(federal and provincial), and modifying a product to degrade it after purchase(consumer protection laws), or changing/modifying a product that doesn't represent actual advertised claims(consumer protection laws).

  21. Re:affordable housing for Millenials (yeah, right) on Bricklaying Robots and Exoskeletons Are the Future of the Construction Industry (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not just Canada...

    In parts of the US West Coast, housing speculation has skyrocketed, hard.

    Australia as well, we shouldn't forget them. And in the UK their largest subprime lender, just lost 75% of it's value. A subprime lender here in Canada lost 80% of it's market value a few months ago too.

  22. Re:Good, nazis need to pay on UK.gov To Treat Online Abuse as Seriously as Hate Crime in Real Life (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Even back in 2008, many Republicans turned a blind eye or condoned the nativist "know nothing" elements of the "Tea party". The "tea party" basically being the "heralds" of the modern "alt-right"

    So let's see if we can figure out the bullshit of the alt-right. We now have: It was created by the tea party, by 4chan, by 8chan, by gamergate, by MRA's, by /pol/ and I think two or three other groups.

    And you wonder why nobody except those in a media hysteria bubble take what's being said seriously? You've been crying wolf for over a decade.

  23. Re:Good, nazis need to pay on UK.gov To Treat Online Abuse as Seriously as Hate Crime in Real Life (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Apart from some trolls most of the people using the term "nazi" were warning the right that there were actual Nazis in their midst.

    You apparently don't know that democrats in the US have been using this as part of their playbook since the 1960's. So have leftist political organizations in the UK, and in Canada since at least the 1970's.

    Then Charlottesville happened and suddenly it dawned on people that the warnings were justified, and that there were actual Nazis and KKK wizards among them.

    What warnings were that? When people get swarmed, they'll defend themselves? Or that when people show up wearing face coverings all in black just like the KKK did, they'll violently assault people because they have a facade of anonymity and belief that no one will discover who they are. Strange how you don't seem to be concerned about the G20 protest that just happened in Germany, where thousands of those nice little antifa people decided to show up and riot, just for the sake of it. Hey remember what happened during the last charlottesville gathering? There were a whole 50 kkk members, who were swarmed by 500 people. How about in socal? When 5 nazi's were swarmed by 80 people? Multiple people were stabbed in both cases, and in both cases violence was started by the "counter protesters." Just like at Berkeley...3 times, twice in Seattle. You figure out why people are showing up to defend themselves yet?

    Or have the same belief that islamic extremists who've basically made terrorism a common occurrence in Europe, in the same group.

  24. Re:Was this inspired by the Rust community? on UK.gov To Treat Online Abuse as Seriously as Hate Crime in Real Life (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    The utterly dysfunctional "Rust Community" is an excellent reason to not touch this language at all.

    Should also be a shining example of why you don't let people who contribute nothing, write codes of conduct that will fundamentally fuck up your project so bad that not even fire can save it.

  25. Re:Good, nazis need to pay on UK.gov To Treat Online Abuse as Seriously as Hate Crime in Real Life (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    It's almost as bad as your hypocrisy, since you were wailing over the mere existence of BLM not even a year ago, and are still pretending that you are opposed to rioting and vandalism.

    You mean that organization that calls white sub-human, and caused the death of people? I can see why you'd post as a AC. Got a good idea who you are too, there's only 3-5 people on /. who have their panties so much in a twist over what I write.