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  1. Re:Throw out the Republicans on Net Neutrality Rules Die on April 23 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    well, mixed up bear/bare in the second one..

  2. Re:Throw out the Republicans on Net Neutrality Rules Die on April 23 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    1) Yes because it is a constitutional right.

    It's a right "of the people to keep and bear Arms"*, so we'll just say that means only non-lethal weapons.

    Oh? Don't like that the defintion changed? OK, well then we'll make "bare arms" mean exclusively the 200+ year old muskets and rifles of the time.


    * it also mentions "A well regulated Militia" yet regulation is always seen as a bad word.

  3. For example, I have ME, also known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

    So do I tick the disabled box on the form?

    If Chronic Fatigue Syndrome is considered a disability, yes you tick the box.
    Someone with Epilepsy would say they have Epilepsy even though they aren't having a constant 24/7 seizure.

  4. Re:You can't automate everything on 'Tech Companies Should Stop Pretending AI Won't Destroy Jobs' (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Autonomous vehicles could handle a lot of that.
    However, even if they couldn't replace 100% of uses cases for 100% of jobs, they can still replace a number that is large enough to have catastrophic economic consequences.

  5. Re:Here's an idea. on Google Exposes How Malicious Sites Can Exploit Microsoft Edge (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    You could show/hide with checkboxes utilizing the :checked pseudo selector, but that's hacky.
    You could also use <details> and <summary> if your browser supports it.

    Any other DOM manipulation, say, getting only updated content via JSON and only updating that part of the page instead of a full page refresh, you're SOL.

  6. Re:Already done on Google's Next Android Overhaul Will Embrace iPhone's 'Notch' (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    "Already done" is a strange way of describing something that has already been done?

  7. iPhone previously showed the current time in the middle, and thus, had to be changed for iPhone X's 'notch'. Android doesn't show anything there to begin with, which is why phones like Essential, were able to have a similar, albeit much smaller, notch.

  8. Re:Listen to the users. Ask the users. on Firefox 59 Will Stop Websites Snooping on Where You've Just Been (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    When many, many, many Firefox users keep on reporting again and again and again that Firefox suffers from severe performance and memory usage problems, do you know what the Firefox developers should do? Focus on the performance and memory usage problems that the users are talking about!

    When many, many, many Firefox users keep on saying that they don't want their XUL extensions to break, do you know what the Firefox developers should do? Focus on not breaking browser functionality that Firefox users deem to be essential!

    What if the memory usage problems are from having XUL extensions?

  9. Re:For perspective on Microsoft Office 2019 Will Only Work on Windows 10 (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    As that time approaches I await another wave of "No one (else) will upgrade to Windows ${latest}, they'll switch to Linux, you'll see!", just like in 2014 when XP went EOL, and there was no huge uptick in desktop Linux.

  10. Window 10 is only the most popular because evil and or conspiracy!

  11. Re:Failure to RTFA; exclude domains from search on Google Chrome To Feature Built-In Image Lazy Loading (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1
    Which again, goes to what I said

    Same way you used to tell the Yellow Pages not to list business you don't want to visit.

    ...meaning Google, Yellow pages et al, are meant to be a listing of results matching a search term, not any sort of filtering based on the company doing a thing you don't like.
    If, somehow, you'd want Google to implement this feature, you'd have to consent to Google tracking you to figure out what particular things a website does that you don't like.

  12. Re:Failure to RTFA; exclude domains from search on Google Chrome To Feature Built-In Image Lazy Loading (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Now you're talking about ads on the Google (and others?) search results page itself , my how this goalpost has moved.
    But yes, people were allowed to advertise in the Yellow Pages, with those ads being of larger sizes if they chose to spend more.

  13. Re:Failure to RTFA; exclude domains from search on Google Chrome To Feature Built-In Image Lazy Loading (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    Now how should I tell a major web search engine which domains (plural) I don't want to visit so that it doesn't return them in search results that it presents to me? Google Search limits the number of -site:example.com terms that I can add to each query.

    Same way you used to tell the Yellow Pages not to list business you don't want to visit.

  14. Re:Wut about full-screen adverts that load first? on Google Chrome To Feature Built-In Image Lazy Loading (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    That's fine, you can either agree to the terms, or not visit the site.

  15. Re:Wut about full-screen adverts that load first? on Google Chrome To Feature Built-In Image Lazy Loading (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    I really hate going to a web site, wait for it to load and then suddenly BOOM! a full-page image is the first thing the appears before all the other parts of the web page. Where's the "X" so I can close it? Huh, it doesn't have one? Why can't I scroll past this? Oh, it's covering up the scroll bar.

    Sounds like that ad doesn't follow The Coalition for Better Ads standards, and as such, will be blocked by Chrome as of February 15th.

  16. If you're going to compare two different versions of LibreOffice you should compare two different versions of MS Office.

  17. Re:I'm not buying the Utopia angel on 'No Drones or Driverless Trucks', Demands Teamsters Labor Union (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    With a 90% unemployment rate and (presumably) no UBI, who will be buying the stuff being produced?
    There is no way it would be other rich people, at least to the level they'd want, since of course rich people do not spend money.

  18. Re:Clever, and it doesn't violate the FCC's rules. on New York Governor Signs Executive Order To Keep Net Neutrality Rules After FCC's Repeal (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    TWC and Charter merged to become Spectrum. Are "TWC Business Services LLC" and "Charter Communications LLC" even things anymore?

  19. Browser Article? on Firefox 58 Gets Graphics Speed Boost, Web App Abilities (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Time to talk about how Firefox/Chrome/etc are all bad and dumb and only I know how to make the one true browser that would make everyone happy!

  20. Re:Only 147 MB on Slack Now Available As a Snap For Linux (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    How is the first scenario "bloat" though? Maybe it just needs to be whatever size it is given its feature-set etc.

  21. Re: Only 147 MB on Slack Now Available As a Snap For Linux (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    This whole comment chain, "Only 147 MB", refers to the disk size, not its RAM, that's all.

  22. Re:Only 147 MB on Slack Now Available As a Snap For Linux (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Those articles don't have "bloat" mentioned anywhere in them.

  23. Re:Only 147 MB on Slack Now Available As a Snap For Linux (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Bloat always translates into being slow

    Large install size != bloat != slow

    MS Word or Powerpoint on a new machine takes many tens of seconds to load and render some pages whereas the version of that software from about 10 years back has most of the same functionality but screams on even low-end hardware you can buy today. Why? Laziness. Laziness that wastes my time when I'm trying to work.

    Of course, it coudln't be anything else like increased demand of other functionality from both the program and the OS, having to deal with more and more use cases than the one a decade ago, or any number of other reasons.

    It's also not a good idea to assume that the PC your crapware is being run on is the same 4k top-of-the-line workstation you're testing it on. I don't know if you've heard, but mobile device are all the rage these days. The thing that distinguishes mobile from laptop from workstation is power consumption. On a desktop workstation, you can throw around gigabytes and gigahertz like you don't care. On mobile devices you count milliwatts.

    Good thing there is a separate app for those mobile devices.

  24. Re: Only 147 MB on Slack Now Available As a Snap For Linux (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you not know the difference between disk space and RAM?

  25. Ugh! Pages are too slow! Just get me the content! Pages that do this should be penalized!
    Google Search Will Start Ranking Faster Mobile pages Higher
    Ugh! Google is so evil! Just tell me which page it is! Don't restrict what pages can do!