Yup. If I had mod points, they'd be yours. These mergers or consolidations NEVER result in a benefit to the consumer. Never, I've not seen it happen once in the last 40 years. It always means crappier service and higher prices.
We dropped all cable subscriptions and now only use Netflix...and it appears that nothing of value was lost. Honestly, 100 channels of crap we'd never watch and 20 more we might watch once a year (if that). As a result we get a little more time to spend doing stuff we like rather than mindlessly watching the current pop-culture fad. We may not be typical consumers of TV but we can't be the only ones who drop it and realize that we don't miss it a bit.
So this is more bloat in FF isn't it? It doesn't even solve what's a niche problem for those few people who insist on having so many tabs open they cannot read them. If you can't read them, you can't see which one to mute.
I typically have 3 or 4 browsers open with 5 ~ 10 tabs in each one...and being able to tell which tab has overstepped its bounds would be an extremely useful feature for me.
Indeed. Now if we could only get CPU/RAM usage as well!
Yes, yes, YES. Firefox slowly eats/leaks memory until it's using more than 3.5Gb on my machine...and then everything slows down, images don't load, etc etc. Yes, fix the damn memory issue before doing anything else.
That would include someone shouting atrocities through a megaphone outside your bedroom window.
No one ever said free speech came without consequences. You should be free to say whatever you like, but the consequences may not be to your liking. You can shout "Fire!" in a crowded theater, AND you may face various charges for doing so. But no law prohibits you from doing so.
Similarly, you can stand outside my window and shout atrocities if you like, but you may face penalties for doing so.
ALL speech should be allowed, and all speech should be subject to legal repercussions. But banning some opinion or writing that you personally disagree with is nothing more than old-fashioned censorship.
I too am frequently amused at how often these guys trip themselves up through sheer greed.
If they had just been willing to throttle it down a bit they'd be safely reaping their profits as we speak with no one the wiser, but now the hunt is on.
> your thoughtless, fundamentalist attitude is the cause of a lot of misery.
My "thoughtless, fundamentalist attitude" of not banning whatever speech YOU happen to find objectionable today? Got it. Brilliant, tgv, just brilliant.
> Its probably more exploitable due to age and lack of updates than a secured modern smartphone.
I sincerely doubt that. I can barely get it to connect to the Nokia site. And from what I can tell, java won't run on this dinosaur. If a hacker manages to crack my phone he deserves an award. Unfortunately all he's likely to get are some blurry pics of my driveway.
Never have I been so happy to have an old, old Nokia phone that can't load apps, doesn't run on iOS or Android, and is pretty much immune to all of this fancy hacker-bullshit. Yeah, maybe I'm a throwback, but at least I'm not worried about having my phone cornholed by some crap-ass company or hacker.
No, I can't watch movies on my phone (that's what I have a TV for, hello?) and no I can't find out the temperature on Mars, but guess what? I don't want to.
I want to 1) make calls, 2) take calls, and 3) maybe take a picture now and then. Trying to hack my phone would be an exercise in frustration, lol.:)
Then fuck you, you shit maggot. The kind of speech that we must protect is that which is most offensive to us, otherwise it means nothing.
Don't start with you fuck-ass rationalizations as to why certain kinds of speech should be "forbidden" or regulated. Let me guess- nothing YOU would ever say falls under "speech to be forbidden", right?
I've been a faithful reader for over a decade, but Slashdot has become actively offensive in terms of the ads and the effects on my browser and browsing experience. I can no longer ignore the bullshit I have to wade through to read stories here.
So yes, Adblock is now on and it will stay on. If I want to be pestered and annoyed as I browse the web, I'll go to 4chan or some other kiddie-crap site.
Email has become fairly unreliable because many of the larger providers simply drop any suspect email, and they do it silently. No bounceback, no indication that it was rejected, nothing. They just drop it without any indication whatsoever. You send an email and it never arrives, never comes back as undeliverable, it just disappears.
In the last few years I've seen this happening more and more and more, to the point that I sometimes have to call the recipient to see if they got what I sent.
Me. I do not love cats. And that position comes from previously having cats for almost a decade.
I just got tired of finding hair everywhere in everything- my food, my clothes, my laundry, my furniture, books, electronics, carpeting, kitchen, tools, etc etc etc.
And no matter what you may think or what anyone tells you, if you have cats, yes, your house smells. Trust me- anyone who walks into a home with cats knows that there are cats living there.
"but I have to wonder if he could actually tell which is which in a suitably blinded test."
He could not, and you and I appear to be among the few that are aware of this.
I'm considerably younger than Neil and if he can hear better than I can, I'll eat one of his Pono gadgets on live TV. It's utter bullshit. He's 69, and NO ONE who's 69 still has their full range of hearing. And CERTAINLY not a guy who's spent most of his life playing in high-noise environments.
No true Scotsman, huh? What's that, you heard the Pono and don't think it sounds great? Hmm,
you must not know what you're doing audio-wise.
^^^ THIS times one billion. If there's a more gullible group of people than self-described "audiophiles", I've never met 'em. Now if you'll excuse me, I gotta go buy some $400 wooden knobs for my amplifier (cuz, you know, they really help bring out the crossover tones, whatever the hell those are).
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Less competition, higher prices.
Yup. If I had mod points, they'd be yours. These mergers or consolidations NEVER result in a benefit to the consumer. Never, I've not seen it happen once in the last 40 years. It always means crappier service and higher prices.
... and it's still better than Comcast.
Being raped with a baseball bat wrapped in barbed-wire is better than Comcast.
We were looking at going with DirectTV to get away from AT&T, because AT&T sucks rotting puss-filled maggot carcases on a good day.
That's as accurate description of AT&T as I've ever heard. We refer to them as "an overflowing shit-bucket with a turd for a handle."
We dropped all cable subscriptions and now only use Netflix...and it appears that nothing of value was lost. Honestly, 100 channels of crap we'd never watch and 20 more we might watch once a year (if that). As a result we get a little more time to spend doing stuff we like rather than mindlessly watching the current pop-culture fad. We may not be typical consumers of TV but we can't be the only ones who drop it and realize that we don't miss it a bit.
So this is more bloat in FF isn't it? It doesn't even solve what's a niche problem for those few people who insist on having so many tabs open they cannot read them. If you can't read them, you can't see which one to mute.
I typically have 3 or 4 browsers open with 5 ~ 10 tabs in each one...and being able to tell which tab has overstepped its bounds would be an extremely useful feature for me.
Indeed. Now if we could only get CPU/RAM usage as well!
Yes, yes, YES. Firefox slowly eats/leaks memory until it's using more than 3.5Gb on my machine...and then everything slows down, images don't load, etc etc. Yes, fix the damn memory issue before doing anything else.
Okay, now THIS is a useful feature that almost every user will appreciate.
> That's rather contradictory.
No, it's not. You are not prohibited by law from saying anything, but your speech may have consequences.
That would include someone shouting atrocities through a megaphone outside your bedroom window.
No one ever said free speech came without consequences. You should be free to say whatever you like, but the consequences may not be to your liking. You can shout "Fire!" in a crowded theater, AND you may face various charges for doing so. But no law prohibits you from doing so.
Similarly, you can stand outside my window and shout atrocities if you like, but you may face penalties for doing so.
ALL speech should be allowed, and all speech should be subject to legal repercussions. But banning some opinion or writing that you personally disagree with is nothing more than old-fashioned censorship.
Whoooosh!
^^^ THIS.
I too am frequently amused at how often these guys trip themselves up through sheer greed.
If they had just been willing to throttle it down a bit they'd be safely reaping their profits as we speak with no one the wiser, but now the hunt is on.
...I feel terrible about having an ancient Nokia that can't download data-sucking apps that paw through my personal data in order to exploit me.
Oh, wait...
> your thoughtless, fundamentalist attitude is the cause of a lot of misery.
My "thoughtless, fundamentalist attitude" of not banning whatever speech YOU happen to find objectionable today? Got it. Brilliant, tgv, just brilliant.
I sincerely doubt that. I can barely get it to connect to the Nokia site. And from what I can tell, java won't run on this dinosaur. If a hacker manages to crack my phone he deserves an award. Unfortunately all he's likely to get are some blurry pics of my driveway.
Lol, I know, so shocking, isn't it?
"You mean the ADMIN account can do ANYTHING?? OMG OMG OMG!"
Never have I been so happy to have an old, old Nokia phone that can't load apps, doesn't run on iOS or Android, and is pretty much immune to all of this fancy hacker-bullshit. Yeah, maybe I'm a throwback, but at least I'm not worried about having my phone cornholed by some crap-ass company or hacker.
:)
No, I can't watch movies on my phone (that's what I have a TV for, hello?) and no I can't find out the temperature on Mars, but guess what? I don't want to.
I want to 1) make calls, 2) take calls, and 3) maybe take a picture now and then. Trying to hack my phone would be an exercise in frustration, lol.
First, I am not an advocate of 100% free speech
Then fuck you, you shit maggot. The kind of speech that we must protect is that which is most offensive to us, otherwise it means nothing.
Don't start with you fuck-ass rationalizations as to why certain kinds of speech should be "forbidden" or regulated. Let me guess- nothing YOU would ever say falls under "speech to be forbidden", right?
In closing, I'd just like to say, "fuck you".
Agreed. Plus, how hard would it be to submit DNA samples from random sources to build an array of false profiles that one could use?
Marketing done well is VERY honest with customers. You can lie in marketing but that doesn't mean marketing is nothing but lies.
LOL, now THAT'S funny! Thanks for the chuckle, sjbe.
^^^^^^^^^ This.
I've been a faithful reader for over a decade, but Slashdot has become actively offensive in terms of the ads and the effects on my browser and browsing experience. I can no longer ignore the bullshit I have to wade through to read stories here.
So yes, Adblock is now on and it will stay on. If I want to be pestered and annoyed as I browse the web, I'll go to 4chan or some other kiddie-crap site.
10 years? You can rape and/or kill someone and not get that much time. Pure insanity.
^^^^ This times 1000.
Email has become fairly unreliable because many of the larger providers simply drop any suspect email, and they do it silently. No bounceback, no indication that it was rejected, nothing. They just drop it without any indication whatsoever. You send an email and it never arrives, never comes back as undeliverable, it just disappears.
In the last few years I've seen this happening more and more and more, to the point that I sometimes have to call the recipient to see if they got what I sent.
Who does not love cats?
Me. I do not love cats. And that position comes from previously having cats for almost a decade.
I just got tired of finding hair everywhere in everything- my food, my clothes, my laundry, my furniture, books, electronics, carpeting, kitchen, tools, etc etc etc.
And no matter what you may think or what anyone tells you, if you have cats, yes, your house smells. Trust me- anyone who walks into a home with cats knows that there are cats living there.
"but I have to wonder if he could actually tell which is which in a suitably blinded test."
He could not, and you and I appear to be among the few that are aware of this.
I'm considerably younger than Neil and if he can hear better than I can, I'll eat one of his Pono gadgets on live TV. It's utter bullshit. He's 69, and NO ONE who's 69 still has their full range of hearing. And CERTAINLY not a guy who's spent most of his life playing in high-noise environments.
No true Scotsman, huh? What's that, you heard the Pono and don't think it sounds great? Hmm,
you must not know what you're doing audio-wise.
^^^ THIS times one billion. If there's a more gullible group of people than self-described "audiophiles", I've never met 'em. Now if you'll excuse me, I gotta go buy some $400 wooden knobs for my amplifier (cuz, you know, they really help bring out the crossover tones, whatever the hell those are).