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  1. Just looked it up. That looks like a cool extension. Vivaldi (currently using, just moved my tabs to the side to check) also can do the tabs on the side. Granted, it doesn't look nearly as full-featured as TreeStylesTab, but they can go on the side. And I do like the tab stacks (why I went vivaldi in the first place). I may need to try firefox again and see what that extension can do. As long as it doesn't use all my memory like it used to

  2. Re:How can I get in on this? on Homeland Security Cuts Causing Extreme Delays And Missed Flights (chicagotribune.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't know; competition very often produces much better results for a better price. If the private security contracter charges more for a lower quality product, Phoenix won't continue using them. Simple as that. And if they work better and faster than the TSA, why would Phoenix continue to use the TSA?

    As for how to "get in on this boondoggle" try this

  3. Whatsapp should have given it to them on WhatsApp Blocked in Brazil for 72 Hours Over Data Dispute (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    [hands over the (encrypted) chat logs]
    'Here you go, your honor, these are all the requested records that we have access to'

    But in all seriousness, what kind of court thinks it can compel companies or individuals to produce something they have never had access to? The United States, Brazil, what is this world coming to??

  4. Re:I've seen Mission Impossible... on India Installs 'Laser Walls' At Border With Pakistan (nbcnews.com) · · Score: 1

    I imagine the laser would be scattered more like a barcode scanner and less like a Mission Impossible security, but who knows...

  5. This seems really convenient... on Top FBI Attorney Worried About WhatsApp Encryption (usnews.com) · · Score: 1

    In fact, a lot of the recent FBI announcements seem much too convenient.

    You are telling me that a spokesman for a spy agency is publicizing to both criminals and non-criminals alike an effective method to make it harder for them to catch criminals, knowing full well that the non-criminals either don't care very much or will side against him if they do care (and understand)?

    The end result being ciminals knowing how to hide or non-criminals learning what is important and then turning against him.

    Something is telling me that the FBI really wants encryption to happen. "Don't throw me into the brier patch, no!"

  6. Re:News for Nerds? on 10-Year-Old Muslim Boy Probed For 'Terrorist House' Spelling Error (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    [claps]

  7. Having zero knowledge about encryption's really not effective anyway. Advocating for there to be education about it is wonderful!
    [/sarcasm]
    I wish...

  8. And nobody's surprised on New Anti-Piracy Law In Australia Already Being Abused (abc.net.au) · · Score: 1

    Did anybody not expect this? The real question now is whether this will get worse or whether judges and lawmakers will grow brains

  9. Running android on my phone, I notice that there are a lot of very buggy apps. Even assuming the apps all worked perfectly, I imagine it'd be way hard, but with buggy ones...

  10. Girls don't like star wars? on Hour of Code 2015 Star Wars Tutorial: Spare the IF Statement, Spoil the Child? · · Score: 1

    As a university student, it has seemed to me that among my friends, there are more girls excited/talking about the new star wars movie coming out than guys.... Maybe this just applies to millenials? I mean, my 5 year old sister likes disney princesses, but....

  11. Gambling falls under gambling laws on Fantasy Sports Sites Ordered To Stop Taking Bets In New York State (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Of course it is gambling, and so should be subject to gambling regulation. If these regulations are unfair, argue against those. But fantasy sports definitely qualifies...

  12. I am taking a signals class right now, and we are learning about filtering noise.

    This sounds like a way noisy signal. It is super cool that they think they can still gain useful information

  13. Re:Using your advertised space != Abuse on Microsoft Cuts OneDrive Storage Limits, Citing Abuse (onedrive.com) · · Score: 1

    Don't advertise as unlimited if uploading 70TB of data is too much..

    That's why they are changing it. Duh.

  14. Re:Vivaldi is Opera on Vivaldi Hits Its First Beta (vivaldi.com) · · Score: 1

    It's chromium-based, so Blink. (So yeah webkit...)

  15. Re:Herp Derp. on Vivaldi Hits Its First Beta (vivaldi.com) · · Score: 1

    So it's a new browser that brings tab stacking back to the table!

    We used opera 12, which was before opera dropped the tab stacks. You should try them sometime; they are super nice.

  16. Re:Privacy policy on Vivaldi Hits Its First Beta (vivaldi.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Privacy policy? https://vivaldi.com/privacy... What exactly are you looking for?

    Adblocker? I am currently running Vivaldi with Adguard Adblocker, although many others are available. It runs chrome extensions, so.... yeah.

  17. When faced with a court order for information, apple can say "sure can do, just give us a quantum computer and 300 billion years"

  18. Re: Don't or Won't support Prime Video? on Amazon Follows Through: Drops Apple TV, Chromecast · · Score: 1

    If you still want to watch bob Ross, twitch is streaming all of the joy of painting for the next week or so www.twitch.tv/bobross

  19. It's Twitch. I don't know if you've been there, but you don't go there to do useful things, you go to do fun things. And this looks like it will be pretty entertaining

  20. Re:How do they enter an enter? on Twitch Viewers Will Try To Collaboratively Install Arch Linux (twitchinstalls.com) · · Score: 1

    From the twitter feed:

    Instructions
    Avaliable commands:

    Letters
    Most special keys
    'space'
    'enter'
    'backspace'
    'system_reset'

    So to have a space or enter, you actually have to type it out.

  21. Good business practice? on Siri Won't Answer Some Questions If You're Not Subscribed To Apple Music · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I think it is very interesting (and faulty reasoning) that apple decided that this would make more people subscribe to apple music, instead of making them get really annoyed at siri and possibly start looking for alternatives.

    Most of my friends that have iphones never use siri at all because whatever she can do, they have to repeat themselves enough that they can do it manually faster.

  22. Re:Machine learning is for cows. on Google 'Rethinking Everything' Around Machine Learning (itworld.com) · · Score: 1

    A neural network with cows as nodes would actually be pretty awesome...

  23. Re:Fix the bloody short limits first ... on An Algorithm For Better Password Checking (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    * Tell us _which_ characters are allowed and which ones aren't !

    Yes, please. It will make the search space so much smaller!

    Implying that that would be good for attackers. If this is the case, why have the restriction in the first place?

  24. The whole planet is struggling to keep up with energy demands and you think it's acceptable to waste 90% of the energy you use?

    Yes

  25. Re:I would compare it to a house on Appeals Court To Test How the Law Looks at Shared Accounts and Unauthorized Access (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    It really depends on what you are protecting and how important it is to you, if it's that important don't grant physical access to a relative stranger.

    Yes, as a prevention to be a victim, I won't be STUPID, but even if I am stupid this doesn't give them the right to do whatever they want.