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  1. I don't remember what popcorn tasted like 30 years ago, but it doesn't taste that great nowadays so maybe Netflix could do something about that as well.

  2. Re:MozColonSlashSlashA is at it again! on Mozilla Acquires Pocket and Its More Than 10 Million Users (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Again, when was that ever one of Mozilla's goals?

  3. Re:MozColonSlashSlashA is at it again! on Mozilla Acquires Pocket and Its More Than 10 Million Users (recode.net) · · Score: 1

    Focusing on one thing only, in this case Firefox, is a sure way to the grave.

  4. Re:MozColonSlashSlashA is at it again! on Mozilla Acquires Pocket and Its More Than 10 Million Users (recode.net) · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Read The Mozilla manifesto
    Nowhere does it say anything about

    making a simple, secure, extensible browser

    In fact, it doesn't even say anything about a browser. Their mission is to promote openness, innovation & opportunity on the Web. Whether they are making any progress with that is up for debate, but it's silly to complain about the browser every time you see the word "Mozilla". Mozilla the organization is bigger than Firefox.

  5. Just another reason to not use social media.
    P.S. I don't even remember my FB password, on those rare occasions that I try to use FB from a new device I always have to go through the "forgot your password?" ordeal. But I don't expect border officials to be too sympathetic about that.

  6. What does it have to do with Mozilla? on Chrome Now Reloads Pages 28% Faster (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    So Mozilla helped Google make Chrome faster? It's not clear what Mozilla's role and benefit in all of this...

  7. Re:already exceeding expectations on Donald Trump Is Sworn In As the 45th US President (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    USSR suffered pretty bad casualties, but in the end it gained land - Finland lost 11% of its territory. Interestingly, Finnish concessions and territorial losses exceeded those demanded by the Soviets pre-war https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
    And there were a lot of consequences for the Soviet army - obviously, lot of problems were discovered and addressed in the following years just before the German invasion.

  8. Re:already exceeding expectations on Donald Trump Is Sworn In As the 45th US President (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Giving him Crimea without any protest

    Crimea is not for Trump to give. He may or may not agree to how it was *acquired* by Russia, but he can't *give* it.
    As for Finland, how could Putin possibly benefit from taking over it? You may call him evil and aggressive, but he's not irrational and I just don't see any benefit for Russia/Putin in going after a country whose population clearly doesn't want to be part of Russia. The same applies to the Baltic states - there is nothing to gain. No economic benefits, no political benefits - only major PITA.
    Crimea is totally different - most Crimeans are Russian and very patriotic about it, and it was always like that, even pre-2014.

  9. Re:already exceeding expectations on Donald Trump Is Sworn In As the 45th US President (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm just curious in what way did Lukashenko express this "freaking out"? I don't remember him chewing up his neck tie on camera like another well known personality.

  10. Re:already exceeding expectations on Donald Trump Is Sworn In As the 45th US President (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    You can't compare Crimea and Finland.
    Finland is populated by Finns - Crimea is populated (predominantly) by Russians. By Russians who endured 23 years of steady ukrainization and who are more patriotic about Russia than most Russians from the mainland.

  11. who else? on Congressional Report Claims Snowden In 'Contact With Russian Intelligence' (cnn.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Who else could guarantee his safety? If it wasn't for Russian intelligence he would probably have been kidnapped and taken back to the US in the trunk of a foreign diplomat's car. In one piece if he's lucky.

  12. eye popping design,

    You must be talking about some other phone :)

  13. It's not a choice between the iPhone and the Pixel, it's a choice between the Pixel and a cheaper Android phone, e.g. OnePlus3.

  14. I thought the whole point of the nexus devices was that they were reasonably priced (at first at least). Clearly, it's not the case any more (some could say it hasn't been for at least a year).

  15. So it can drain even more battery? on Facebook Messenger To Get End-To-End Encryption · · Score: 1

    Good try FB, but no, thank you. Maybe if you convinced smartphone makers to use bigger batterries, I'd think about, but not the way things work right now.

  16. Re:Does he actually own all of these companies? on Elon Musk's Tesla Plans To Acquire Elon Musk's SolarCity For $2.7B In Stock (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Or fraud and tax evasion.

  17. mostly white guys with deep math skills, and minimal extroversion

    OK, I get it - being a while guy is bad. But why is it bad to be competent and good at your job, which is what deep math skills means? Aren't they advocating for training more good programmers?

  18. Maybe that's the point? If you increase the cost of something while making that something mandatory (like legislate moving heavy industry in space) then someone will stand to make some serious cash.

  19. Simply being in top 10 doesn't make you a superpower.

  20. It's not just oil. It's natural gas and coal too, which our precious green oil bashing BC exports in large amounts. And no, it's not just AB and SK being affected, it's everyone in Canada benefiting from federal taxes paid by resource extracting companies and their employees.

  21. Canada's status as an "energy superpower"

    is just wishful thinking from a few years back when Harper was PM. What kind of "energy superpower" can't even export our "energy" resources to global markets? Something that doesn't exist can not possibly be threatened.

  22. Sucks just now? on Microsoft Needs To Fix Skype (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    "I'm not sure what Microsoft has done to Skype, but it sucks now," he writes.

    When did Skype NOT suck? Yes, at some point it was a fairly novel, affordable/free product "for the masses", but it was never a product that didn't suck in multiple aspects such as UI, stability, functionality just to name a few.

  23. more power generation on Climate-Exodus Expected In The Middle East And North Africa (phys.org) · · Score: 2

    More reasons to build thermal and solar power generation there.

  24. stating the obvious on DoJ Says Apple's Posture on iPhone Unlocking Is Just Marketing (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Give me a break. Who would be naive enough to think Apple would refuse to cooperate with the U.S. government in such a case? Yes, they'll "refuse" on public, get some headlines for "standing up for privacy" and then quietly do what they were told one way or another.

  25. Does Yahoo pay though?