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  1. Re:DYI on Is Your Email Address Holding You Back? (wsj.com) · · Score: 2

    Easier just to go to someplace like Zoho.com and host your mail there for free if you don't have much mail. Then use FreeDNS at afraid.org https://freedns.afraid.org/ to manage the domain for free. All it costs is the domain.

    Running your own mail server isn't as easy as that and you have to worry about protecting it from the Internet.

  2. Re:So what? on Is Your Email Address Holding You Back? (wsj.com) · · Score: 1

    What's worse is right above it they have the URL for the website at www.BobThePlumber.com. Just create an info@ or sales@ email account have have it forward everything to the gmail account if you really like it that much.

  3. Re:Who would back this company to begin with? on Struggling MoviePass Kills Off Its Annual Plan -- Even If You Already Paid For It (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    The backers were thinking nobody could possibly see the crap that Hollywood puts out every day of the month and lost.

  4. Re:If they give you a full refund on Struggling MoviePass Kills Off Its Annual Plan -- Even If You Already Paid For It (nypost.com) · · Score: 1

    And for the amounts of money in this case your lawyer will get your money back and charge you for the experience.

  5. Re:Is it? on It's Time to End the 'Data Is' vs 'Data Are' Debate (vice.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We're pretty sure but we need to wait until we have more data before we officially close the debate.

    When in doubt change the sentence so that you get around the tricky bit.

  6. Twitter isn't going to block you as you bring in too much money for them. They care more about the money than their principals.

  7. Here's another humdinger from the same article: "Instead, it will orbit the Sun, at a distance 1.5 million kilometers from Earth, three times farther from us than Hubble."

    No wonder it's been warmer lately!

  8. Re:More like some "clever" word juggeling. on Saint Louis University Is Outfitting Student Living Spaces With Thousands of Echo Dots (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    You're assuming that the transcription is 100% all go the time and that the person will always use the same service to retry the query instead of going to a web browser.

  9. Re:How does gmail's new "confidential mode" on Does Gmail's 'Confidential Mode' Go Far Enough? (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    If I get an email that says I have to go to a secure portal to read the message then I'm deleting the email. It's way too easy for the spammers to copy, especially for initial messages. I also hate using webmail interfaces. That's why I choose to use a mail client application. There is a good solution for sending secure messages that works in many mail applications. No, it doesn't prevent me for copying, pasting, forwarding, or printing but if you want to put DRM on a message to me then don't send me the message. I'll do what I like with it.

    The only exception to the rule above is a service I signed up to from Canada Post. Some companies and cities only send their electronic bills to the Canada Post service instead of having their own infrastructure. The way I see it I'd have to log onto a site to get the bill so it doesn't matter which one, the company or Canada Post.

  10. Re:How does gmail's new "confidential mode" on Does Gmail's 'Confidential Mode' Go Far Enough? (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    As long as you don't use Google email you do can do anything you want to the message including copying, pasting, forwarding, and pasting.

  11. Re:So Steve Jobs WAS Right!!! on Science Confirms That Women's Pockets Suck For Smartphones (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Not everyone wants a small tablet as a phone. I'm still on my iPhone 5s that I got a few months after it started shipping. I won't replace it until Apple delivers a small phone that has all of the features of the larger ones (or I'm forced to because my current one dies). But Apple won't do that because they know that there's a demand for smaller screens and it will kill much of their larger screen phone sales.They are doing this now by having some features only available on the Plus models. Some people would buy the smaller model to save money but not all.

    I, like some others, prefer a smaller phone because it's functionality meets our needs better. For others, such as yourself, the larger phone works better. At the start Apple made small phones and my group was served. Now they make large phones your group is taken care of. All I'm saying is that it would be nice is if Apple would produce phones that meet the requirements of both groups.

  12. Then don't complain when the foreign governments break into CNN, Fox, United Airlines, and other such companies because they are just doing their jobs too.

  13. Re:Caught in the middle with you on Apple Asked Developers To Adopt Subscriptions and Hike App Prices, Report Says (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    That's the problem. Apple, despite the cries of developers for years, has never come out with a way to deal with upgrades. Developers have tried to hack around it. For example they would include the original with the upgrade in a combo that was lower than the cost of both together.

    This is just Apple doing anything other than implementing a way to do proper upgrades.

  14. Re:Developer costs are not fixed, why should apps on Apple Asked Developers To Adopt Subscriptions and Hike App Prices, Report Says (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 1

    Because I cannot live forever on $10.

    Try selling more than one copy of the application!

  15. 9th Generation Processors on Intel's 9th Gen Processors Rumored To Launch In October With 8 Cores (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    with 5th generation bugs.

  16. Before they sink the ships everything dangerous is stripped out of them. At a minimum that means everything that could harm the environment. Depending on where they sink a ship they could also take extra precautions to ensure it's safe for divers to be around or go in.

  17. Unless Trump plays the "national security" card and just takes it for asset value of the parts of everything and not the stock price + premium. Those two words let you do a lot.

  18. Re:Why not use the USAF? on VP Pence Lays Out Trump's Vision For Establishing a US Space Force (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    You can't merge all the branches because then you couldn't justify all of those generals, colonels, and admirals they have. How else will they develop enough people to go into high-paying cushy jobs in the military-industrial complex that will have connections to selling to the military all of the things it doesn't need?

  19. But it's not like if being found guilty of breaching spending limits or any other referendum laws would actually matter. It's not going to nullify the result of the supposedly non-binding referendum.

    The Guardian has articles showing the Conservative Party also went afoul of the election spending rules for Theresa May's first election in charge and the previous one (Cameron) in vital ridings enough to change the outcome of the elections. If the illegal spending didn't happen then in all likelihood the referendum wouldn't have been called in the first place.

    Until something can be done about the illegal actions that change the outcome of elections / referendums that is more than a slap on the wrist for one or two of the people involved then parties will continue to do it. Right now the Conservative Party has done it three times in a row and it has helped them immensely.

  20. Re:Meanwhile in Finland... on How AT&T and Verizon Rip Off DSL Customers (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Have you tried any of the other ISPs? TekSavvy has been really good. You will continue to use the wires you already have. The difference is that from the first opportunity your data moves onto TekSavvy's network and off of Bell's or Rogers' (or whatever cable company it is). Worst cast is that you might save some money.

    The lowest DSL they offer is 6Mbps down/ 800 Kbps up, 200GB / month, modem included, $30/month for 12 months and then $35.

    Next up is 15/1-10 Unlimited for $40 going up to to $46.

  21. Re:How about trimming the top level MOD? on Scientists Stunned as Medical Non-Profit Group Abruptly Ends Research Grants (nature.com) · · Score: 1

    A dime seems a lot more than what it is because it's money. Lots of charities include something when mailing to ask for donations. Thinks such as a pen, a world map, a bunch of greeting cards are all probably more than a dime and certainly add more to the postage than a dime would.

    I wonder if there's some lucky person who collects a bunch of dimes from the discarded mailings at the recycling depot or later on in the recycling process.

  22. Re:Idiocracy on 'The Problem With Programming and How To Fix It' (alarmingdevelopment.org) · · Score: 1

    The problem isn't so much with the programming but with the lack of QA and Testing. All too often they are seen as a bad thing and only as an expense. Development makes the products but QA just holds back the releases and doesn't add anything of value.

    The attitude towards QA and Testing needs to change. They save the company money and embarrassment from downtime and errors.

    The practice of large companies of using the public as their testers needs to stop too.

    I say this as a developer.

  23. Re:What about the data? on Canada's Ontario Government Ends Basic Income Project (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    And now Ford setting up his little propaganda "Ontario News Now" social media news site because the journalists aren't covering him like he wants them to. Ontario needed a smart leader to get us out of the mess the previous government got us into. We got a Trump wanna be instead.

  24. Re:What about the data? on Canada's Ontario Government Ends Basic Income Project (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    The Ford government has been busy in it's first few weeks taking the axe to things that it (or Ford) doesn't like.
    - First to get the chop was a program to subsidize clean energy, home renovations to make them more efficient.
    - They reverted the sex-ed program that was introduced in the past couple years to the previous 20 year old one because the new one had things in they didn't want children exposed to.
    - They are wanting to cut the number of city councillors for Toronto (the provincial capital and largest city in the province).

    I believe that cutting the basic income project is just another idealogical cut and nothing to do with any data that may have been collected. I wouldn't be surprised to see many more programs cut because of ideology or just because the previous government started them.

  25. Re:What about the data? on Canada's Ontario Government Ends Basic Income Project (www.cbc.ca) · · Score: 1

    There isn't much data to release. The first payments started last October and the last participants started just a couple of months ago. It was supposed to last a couple (2 or 3) years so anything collected is pretty much worthless. You have at most 9 months of data on part of the sample. Even that is tainted because they were making plans and spending based on the original time. They would have behaved differently if they knew it was going to end now.